From fossil dung, scientists reconstruct the rise of the dinosaurs
The research has shed light on the emergence of large dinosaurs and their geographic spread, as well as the role of environmental changes in their evolution.
Fossilized dinosaur feces and vomit help scientists reconstruct the creatures’ rise
Using fossilized feces and vomit samples, scientists have reconstructed giant food webs that provide clues about how and when the reptiles took over the planet.
Fossilized poop offers clues into the rise of dinosaurs more than 200 million years ago
Paleontologists at the University of Uppsala in Sweden studied more than 500 pieces of fossilized dinosaur poop to find out how dinosaurs evolved.
Fossilized dinosaur poop and vomit offer clues to how they rose to rule Earth
Feces, vomit, and fossilized food from inside stomachs have provided new clues into how dinosaurs rose to dominate Earth, a new scientific study revealed.
Fossilized poop reveals the diet of dinosaurs 200 million years ago
Discover how fossilized poop, or coprolites, unveils fascinating insights into what dinosaurs ate 200 million years ago.
Fossilized Dinosaur Poop Helps Explain 30-Million-Year Evolutionary Gap
Find out what dinosaurs ate and why it was important for their evolution as researchers analyze dinosaur poop.
Fossilized dinosaur poop reveals their dietary secrets
Jurassic Park may have the tourists, but Triassic Toilet serves up the science. The inner lives of dinosaurs are revealed in Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy, a study by Martin Qvarnström and others published in the journal Nature.
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Food Web: Concept and Applications
Food web is an important conceptual tool for illustrating the feeding relationships among species within a community, revealing species interactions and community structure, and understanding the ...
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University of Minnesota study shows zebra mussels tied to elevated fish mercury
The reason the researchers feel confident in this correlation between zebra mussel presence and elevated mercury levels is ...
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Adaptive Food Webs
Presenting new approaches to studying food webs, this book uses practical management and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem management decisions and the broader issue of ...
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Secondary Production, Quantitative Food Webs, and Trophic Position
To accomplish these objectives, I use a fictional food web that has been simplified from the more complex web of a riverine invertebrates found on submerged wood (Benke & Wallace 1997; Benke et ...
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Food chains and webs
Food chains show the feeding relationships between organisms. Food webs show how all the food chains in an ecosystem interact. A food chain shows the feeding relationship between organisms.
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The Hidden Role of Parasites in Food Webs
What would a world without parasites look like? Despite the ubiquity of parasites and pathogens in all ecosystems, our understanding of their significance in mediating predator-prey interactions, ...
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Food chains and food webs
Black-crowned night-heron. This predator is adapted to hunt at night. In the French Guiana this is one of the major night heron species with its cousin the Yellow-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax ...
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Spatial Food Web Ecology
We are particularly interested in how insect food webs are built from first principles: how (meta)populations of multiple species interact, and how species-specific characteristics blend with ...
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Game: Food web of life
In this activity, students play a food web game to predict and explain how the population of a species changes as its predator or prey population changes. By acting out different fictional ...