While kelp forests persist along northern Maine’s rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern coast in recent decades. In its stead, carpet-like turf algae have moved in ...

Frauendorf, Therese C., Colón-Gaud, Checo, Whiles, Matt R., Barnum, Thomas R., Lips, Karen, Pringle, Cathy M., and Kilham, Susan S. 2013. "Energy flow and the ...

New research provides the latest evidence that climate change is having an impact on food webs in high-latitude ecosystems. Biologist Amanda Koltz of The University of Texas at Austin in the Alaskan ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A research group examined terrestrial reliance of 19 ...

Flathead catfish are rapidly reshaping the Susquehanna River’s ecosystem. Once introduced, these voracious predators climbed to the top of the food chain, forcing native fish like channel catfish and ...

In research published last week in the journal Nature Communications, U.S. Geological Survey biologist Dylan Gomes and a team of researchers looked specifically at the food web and how energy is ...

If marine heatwaves start to disrupt the carbon pump around India — just as seen in Alaska — then more carbon might stay near ...

The US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Argonne National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory will carry out demonstration projects to validate long-duration energy storage tech developed by German ...