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 ...

I like to think of that as a “tiny home.” Dramatically different ecosystems can even bump up against each other — imagine a watery oasis in the middle of the Sahara Desert. And, they can be ...

that even after centuries of exploring different ecosystems, describing species, and cataloguing them, the total number of species on planet Earth is still unknown. Estimates range from 5–30 ...