give examples of producers ... Studying kelp forest organisms will help students understand the role of biotic and abiotic factors that affect the kelp forest community, from sea otters to ...

Besides the constraint of the general life history strategy of a species, the shape of survivorship curves can be affected by both biotic and ... these three types. For example, survivorship ...

Cenotes in the Yucatán Peninsula are time capsules preserving remnants of Maya culture and fossils of extinct megafauna ...

Sparse sea ice, thousands of data points and samples, a surprising number of animals and hydrothermal vents—those are the ...

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Fungi don't have eyes or a brain, but their intelligent behaviors may surprise you. New research suggests that fungi may be able to recognize shapes.

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While her kit requires considerable accuracy, her ability to not only briefly incapacitate enemies but prevent them from being healed with Biotic Grenade can make all the difference in a fight.

Can organisms without a brain still show signs of intelligence? Researchers at Tohoku University and Nagaoka College had this ...

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UCSB Anthropology professor Steven Gaulin delivered a fascinating talk to our local Audubon Society group at the Museum of ...

Cowman, Peter F. and Bellwood, David R. 2013. Vicariance across major marine biogeographic barriers: temporal concordance and the relative intensity of hard versus soft barriers. Proceedings of the ...