Ecology Archives – Page 9 of 14

Organic farming and conventional farming each have their own strengths and weaknesses that depend on application.

Animals are unable to tell us why they do the things they do, and curious scientists often want to find out. They set up experiments to see…

Nitrogen pollution is a big problem in standing water such as lakes and ponds. The nitrogen comes from many sources, often agricultural…

Plants have five basic needs – food, water, air, light, and space. Outdoors, plants get everything they need from nature and some…

A group of agricultural researchers at West Virginia University wanted to find out if it was possible to grow lettuce year round using high…

For several decades scientists have been interested in the ability of psychrophilic (cold- loving) microbial communities to degrade the…

Harnessing ‘people power’ to manage fisheries in the developing world has significantly benefited local communities and coral…

Birds that dive for fish while wintering in the Salish Sea, located between British Columbia and Washington, are more likely to be in…

Over the past two decades, the resident communities of birds that attend eastern North America’s backyard bird feeders in winter have…

The first comprehensive map of hummingbirds’ 22-million-year-old family tree — reconstructed based on careful analysis of 284 of…