False asphodel, a flower that grows in the high-altitude wetlands of western North America, gets much of its nutrients from eating insects. Western false asphodel has pretty white flowers and hairs on ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Ecological networks are representations of the interactions that occur between species within a community. The interactions include competition, mutualism and predation, and network properties of ...

Stable isotopes are alternative forms of elements with different molecular weights that are found naturally and do not decay radioactively. Stable isotope analysis of elements such as carbon, nitrogen ...

Adaptive behavior emerges from an ongoing interaction between the nervous system, the body which senses the environment and provides ongoing feedback to the nervous system, and the environment in ...