A new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences sheds light on how parasites influence the intricate relationships between predator and prey populations. Researchers ...

Marine food webs are highly complex. Until now, researchers have been unable to understand exactly how they are affected by climate change, overfishing and other threats. Scientists at the ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London have developed a novel analysis to explore how factors like parasite virulence and infection probability ...

The ability of a biotic community to resist or adapt to external pressures is closely related to the level of web complexity, which depends on predictable energy supply 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.

Food webs, but most in general ecological networks, are often used to understand complex interactions in an ecosystem, providing insights about different ecological topics 1,2. Paradoxically, a ...

Sampling snapper on coral reefs to assess their role in complex reef food web dynamics. “When you dive on these beautiful Red Sea reefs, one of the first things that you’ll notice is these snapper ...