For predators like wolves, cougars and snow leopards, a cow or sheep out to pasture may make for an easy and tasty meal.
Saving Livestock by Thinking Like a Predator
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Study Traces How Farmlands Affect Bee Disease Spread
A new study on bees, plants and landscapes in upstate New York sheds light on how bee pathogens spread, offering possible clues for what farmers could do to improve bee health.
‘Hurricanes From Scratch’: FSU Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances Can Trigger Catastrophic Storms
You’ve probably seen the satellite images that show a hurricane developing: thick white clouds clumping together, arms spinning around a central eye as it heads for the coast.
UMD Researchers Seek to Reduce Food Waste and Establish the Science behind Date Labeling on Food Products
New study highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations to reduce global food waste due to date labeling, a growing research trend.
Pollinator-friendly Flowers Planted Along With Crops Aid Bumblebees
A new study reported this week by evolutionary ecologist Lynn Adler at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Rebecca Irwin of North Carolina State University, with others, suggests that flower strips – rows of pollinator-friendly flowers planted with crops – offer benefits for common Eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) colony reproduction, but some plants do increase pathogen infection risk.
Large Rockfish Leave Chesapeake Bay to Become Ocean Migrators; Smaller Fish Remain
New understanding can aid commercial and recreational fisheries management.
