A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth re ...

In 1995, David Tilman and colleagues established 168 experimental plots in the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, each 9 x 9 m in size (Figure 3A), and seeded them with 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 ...

A recent study has unveiled a paradox across Eurasia: while vegetation has visibly flourished in recent decades, the ...

Groundwater input to coral reefs directly affects water chemistry and triggers a cascade of changes in the coastal ecosystem, ...

This film explains the difference between biotic and abiotic, terrestrial, freshwater and ocean water ecosystems and the importance weather has on the conditions of many different ecosystems.

A global cross-disciplinary team of scientists led by UNSW Sydney researchers has developed the first comprehensive classification of the world's ecosystems across land, rivers and wetlands, and seas.

With a little help from science, the once-endangered giant panda is making a comeback. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ... This research contributes to our understanding of terrestrial ...

The RSC is working to regain ecological function from degraded landscapes through restoration. Research projects span across terrestrial, wetland and aquatic ecosystems, and faculty are working on ...

The oldest ecosystem. Just like the species within them, ecosystems grow, evolve, and die over time. Due to their resilience, rainforests have withstood ice ages and persisted for at least 300 ...

They used a suite of computer models developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to assess how well eight ecosystem variables—including temperature, precipitation and snow depth ...