Citation Society for Experimental Biology, A Slow Trek Towards Starvation: Scott’s Polar Tragedy Revisited, Science Daily (29 June 2012) According to modern experience, the expedition’s calories and their distribution did not add up The Scott Expedition ended in death in 1912 because the men did not have enough to eat, according to a review of [...]
Categories: Medicine
Tagged: Antarctic, Captain Robert Scott, fat, protein, South Pole, starvation, trek
Sloppy wording hides the point — if there was a valid one The abstract in question says: Determining how climate change will affect global ecology and ecosystem services is one of the next important frontiers in environmental science. Many species already exhibit smaller sizes as a result of climate change and many others are likely [...]
Categories: Climate,Climate change,Science
Tagged: body size, David Bickford, ecology, ecosystem, food sources, Jennifer A. Sheridan, protein, response, shrinking, trophic