A new study suggests that the removal of predatory fish such as sharks from coral reefs may be a key factor driving outbreaks ...

The elks, in turn, devoured the vegetation, triggering a trophic cascade or ecosystem collapse. The loss of prey often forces predators to find new food sources, which can have unpredictable ...

The study illustrates the utility of using crown volume of stream-side shrubs as a key metric for assessing trophic cascades, potentially enhancing methods for studying riparian ecosystems in other ...

Despite being the second largest lizard in the country and having "considerable girth", they're able to navigate trees and branches using their sturdy limbs, making them a formidable predator in ...

Otodus megalodon has been revealed by new research to have occupied a higher position on the food chain—known as its trophic level—than any other ocean predator, living or extinct. That puts Megatooth ...

Visio in Microsoft 365 is a superb tool for creating custom diagrams to illustrate concepts that are difficult to explain through text. Here’s how to use it. It’s often much easier to convey ...

Eutrophication is a leading cause of impairment of many freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems in the world. Why should we worry about eutrophication and how is this problem managed ...

This important study uses a comprehensive observational dataset to provide solid evidence on how genetic diversity and species diversity differentially affect multiple ecosystem functions within and ...

In addition to being a runnable CLI tool, D2 can also be used to produce diagrams from Go programs. For examples, see ./docs/examples/lib. This blog post also demos a complete, runnable example of ...