In coral reefs throughout the world, visually striking bands of bare sand surrounding reefs are often visible in satellite ...

The African wild dog is one of Africa's most endangered predators. African wild dogs are highly elusive, avoiding human ...

Wissinger, S. & McGrady, J. Intraguild predation and competition between larval dragonflies: direct and indirect effects on shared prey. Ecology 74, 207–218 (1993). Wootton, J. T. Indirect ...

Dominant species are the most abundant species in a community, exerting a strong influence over the occurrence and distribution of other species. In contrast, keystone species have effects on ...

Using freshwater snails and their predators (e.g., crayfish, fish, insects) as a model system, the Hoverman Lab addresses the ecology and evolution of predator-prey interactions (i.e. inducible ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...

A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, responds to the calls of the túngara frog, Engystomops pustulosus, one of its preferred prey species. First, the bat hears the call of a single male ...

These two prey strategies have so far only been partially ... of aquatic food webs emerges from a few assembly rules, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02647-1 ...

6 In 1988, biologists of The Peregrine Fund set out to do something unprecedented—to study the ecology of the entire raptor community ... Crane Hawks rely less on speed to secure prey than on a ...

Late-instar larvae of the diamondback moth feeding on broccoli leaf. (Photo by Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org. CC by 3.0) Written answers, codes and graphs. Depending on the ...

2013 I started my career doing classic community ecology, asking questions related to plant-herbivore and predator-prey interactions. More recently, I have focused on bridging the gaps between ...

African wild dogs are carnivores always thought to hunt in packs. But new DNA analysis has found they also eat small birds and hares and may hunt alone.