Figure 1: Graphical display of the results for the Chesapeake Bay food web with 45 taxa and weighted by interaction strength. Placement of a taxon indicates its role within its compartment. For ...

Researchers have identified the most critical plants needed to sustain food webs across the United States. Their study drills down to the top plants in each county and bioregion, illuminating a plan ...

Chances are, you’ve run into more than a few spiders in your life, perhaps hanging out in a web near your front door, or skittering across a plant in your yard. Spiders live in almost every habitat on ...

On a grassy hill near where I met the ecologist Jennifer Dunne at the Smithsonian National Zoo, a lion craned its shaggy head back to watch a helicopter fly over. It was a stark illustration of humans ...