Plant species can fulfill different functions within an ... but not to the majority of terrestrial ecosystems. The team of ...

More recently, scientists have examined the importance of plant diversity for ecosystem stability in terrestrial ecosystems, especially grasslands where the dominant vegetation lies low to the ...

Invasive species are prolific. For example, many invasive plants produce berries, which some birds eat. The birds then spread ...

Terrestrial plant and animal life flourished amid these ... Now, an international team has discovered an entire ecosystem ...

"We expected to see some greening, but I don't think we were expecting it on the scale that we reported here," researcher Tom ...

Climate Change has profoundly impacted the carbon cycle, particularly in terrestrial ecosystems, which play a critical role in sequestering atmospheric carbon. With rising global temperatures, changes ...

An ecosystem is a natural environment in which animals, plants and organisms work to support life. This film explains the difference between biotic and abiotic, terrestrial, freshwater and ocean ...