The researchers set out to study both biodiversity -- plants, insects, vertebrates -- and changes in how food webs function -- biomass ... predation and relatively high numbers of plant feeding ...

Importantly, results from simple low-diversity food web models often stand in contrast to results from complex high-diversity food web models on the role that diversity and structure play in ...

Our results corroborate the hypothesis that high animal diversity should lead to increased intraguild predation, with large species at the top of the food web accumulating more biomass ...

The authors propose developing risk maps before the spatial planning of offshore wind farms to avoid harmful impacts on biodiversity ... the structure of marine food webs—from phytoplankton ...

Biodiversity makes soil function effectively, pollinates plants and ensures the functioning of the food system. But what's being done to support biodiversity and is it too little too late? As the ...

Producing food whilst preserving biodiversity Agricultural ecologists call for joined-up thinking for nature conservation Date: May 14, 2019 Source: University of Göttingen Summary: In nature ...

A gradual decline in biodiversity may have led to a more devastating ecosystem collapse during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, according to new research. Scientists recreated ancient food webs ...

Their model incorporated high resolution ... to ensure food security and to reduce agriculture’s environmental impacts,” Baldos says. Heading into a decade where biodiversity and climate ...

He is affiliated with the High ... biodiversity loss. The pursuit of global food productivity has also led to the homogenization of landscapes, replacing once-complex food webs with greatly ...

The researchers found that dishes made from ingredients like beef, legumes and rice encroaching on biodiversity hotspots with already very high agricultural pressure such as India end up having a ...

The researchers set out to study both biodiversity—plants, insects, vertebrates—and changes in how food webs function—biomass ... predation and relatively high numbers of plant feeding ...