(PhysOrg.com) -- Two ecological issues of increasing concern are the conservation of threatened and endangered species and the management of invasive species. A study by University of Georgia Odum ...

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Caspian terns feeding on young fish have a significant impact on runs of steelhead in the Columbia River, new research suggests. Caspian terns feeding on young fish have a significant impact on runs ...

The fossil record seems to indicate that the diversity of marine creatures increased and decreased over hundreds of millions of years in step with predator-prey encounters. For decades, there has been ...

A warming planet means a warming ocean. The seas soak up over 90 percent of the heat humanity traps on Earth. Last year, ocean warming reached a record high. "Unfortunately, I think we're going to ...

Night and day, oil tankers, yachts and cargo ships stacked with shipping containers ply the 80-kilometer (50-mile) waterway through the jungles of Panama between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean: ...

Parrotfishes are abundant herbivores that primarily graze upon algae, which may indirectly benefit corals by mitigating coral-algae competition. At a local scale, management efforts to increase ...

Researchers used a wide-scale acoustic mapping technique to track capelin, left, and cod populations. In the largest predation event ever recorded, researchers observed capelin shoaling off the coast ...