2008). Figure 1 shows a simplified food web in a desert ecosystem. In this food web, grasshoppers feed on plants; scorpions prey on grasshoppers; kit foxes prey on scorpions. While the food web ...

Micro/nanoplastics (MNPs), plastic particles and fibers with sizes ranging from nanometers (≥ 1 nm) to micrometers (≤ 5 mm) ...

In Maine's Casco Bay, volunteers are working with scientists to restore eelgrass, an essential plan that some deem a canary in the coal mine for the marine ecosystem. Maine Public's Molly Enking ...

While their impact on marine ecosystems has been widely studied, research on the effects of microplastics on land is lacking.