At the ecosystem level, the total growth of all plant species is termed primary production, and — as we'll see in this article — communities composed of different numbers and combinations of ...

Australia's ecosystems face an unprecedented crisis. From rainforests in the continent's north to the alpine bogs and fens of ...

If we lost all 4,400 species of roach, entire ecosystems would struggle to survive. Believe it or not, we'd have even worse troubles ahead since we'd face a serious poop problem without one of the ...

Wetlands, rivers, lakes, and coastal estuaries are all aquatic ecosystems—critical elements of Earth’s dynamic processes and essential to human economies and health. Wetlands connect land and ...

What powers life? In most ecosystems, sunlight is absorbed and converted into usable forms of energy via photosynthesis. These usable forms of energy are carbon-based. A primary example of this ...

These and all the other living things there make up the ecosystem. The jaguar, the monkey, the bananas, the butterfly and the trees are all part of one ecosystem. Some ecosystems like coral reefs ...

A broad definition of wetlands includes both freshwater and marine and coastal ecosystems, such as all lakes and rivers, underground aquifers, swamps and marshes, wet grasslands, peatlands ...

Today's petroleum ecosystem works by funneling people to centralized ... many Chinese cities are likely to go all-electric, banning internal combustion engines completely. And it is likely to ...

and tundra ecosystems. But all can be contained within three main categories:terrestrial ecosystems on land;freshwater ecosystems in rivers and lakes;and ocean water ecosystems at sea. Take a look ...