A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean's smallest organisms interact. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

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The study shows that it’s possible to model how competition for resources, symbiosis or predation shapes the evolution and survival of species. Erin Malsbury The Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems ...

Animals are forming lasting social bonds with different species, engaging in cooperative hunting and peaceful companionship. Research suggests these cross-species relationships stem from cognitive ...

may have had a prior history of cohabitation in the tropical wetlands, which may have reduced the levels of interspecific competition necessary to establish a stable system of biotic interactions ...

Lead study author Ewa Merz conducts maintenance on a pump below the Scripps Pier, which brings seawater to the surface for sampling. A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters ...