Some of the Southwest’s most iconic desert trees are running for their lives in what could be a grim harbinger for more temperate ecosystems across the West. A study in Functional Ecology offers ...

The forest ecosystem is just one of a number of unique ecosystems including prairies, deserts, polar regions, and great oceans, ... ranging from dry desert shrub land to large temperate rain forests.

Climate change is making historically wet and temperate areas behave more like deserts, a new study has found. By the end of the century, the researchers project that an additional global area ...

He said we need to know more about what happens in deserts. ... As a keen observer of ecosystems, he couldn't help but ponder the differences. ... "Plants in temperate or tropical regions, ...

More information: Ziyue Yang et al, Patch size indirectly influences the distribution characteristics of phosphorus fractions ...

In the United States much of the temperate grassland has been removed to grow cereals. In the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, bushmen traditionally live by hunting and gathering the produce of the ...

Learn what threatens this fascinating ecosystem and what you can do to help from National Geographic. 1 of 17. ... Deserts are part of a wider class of regions called drylands.

A forest biome community is a regional classification recognized by botanists and forest scientists. Discover the kinds of forest biomes of North America.

Natural ecosystems are critical to sustaining human societies by providing services that help to regulate the climate, recycle water and nutrients, create soil, pollinate plants, and replenish the ...

KS3/GCSE Geography. Temperate savannahs. Join Ferne Corrigan as she explains how plants, animals and people have adapted to temperate grasslands of America. Suitable for teaching Geography at KS3 ...