All animals and plants are important to their environment, but are some more important than others? Every ecosystem consists ...

For example, fish populations may migrate to ... The ripple effects of climate change on ecosystems extend beyond the natural world, directly impacting human communities. Those reliant on natural ...

People tasked with managing landscapes identified three key ingredients for constructing credible ecological scenarios.

"Climate change and its associated extreme events ... on just one stress – because it was easier to measure, for example – the ecosystem collapse may occur at stress levels you thought were ...

Many insects are at risk of extinction. But when it comes to mosquitoes and ticks it feels like there are more of them.

Habitat destruction has been the most common threat to endangered species in the U.S. since 1975. If the administration ...

For example, a deep blue sea will have ... changes in the types of phytoplankton present. Ocean ecosystems are finely balanced and any change in the phytoplankton will send ripples across the ...

An international team led by the University of Seville, La Sapienza University of Rome and the Institute of Nature ...

For example, they may be at the top of the ... Scientists use indicator species to determine a change in an ecosystem based on what they observe in the indicator species. Indicator species are ...

That doesn’t change.” Ecosystems are a little like ... might be able to take over some of the role that it plays, for example. But Roopnarine’s research into the fossil record also shows ...

When an ecosystem is pushed toward a tipping ... our research warns us evolution isn’t always a saviour. For example, evolutionary changes that increase the dependence, or impact, of one species ...