Climate change and other human-driven (anthropogenic) ... (reviewed by Ives & Carpenter 2007). Stability can be defined at the ecosystem level — for example, ...

Climate change is like a powerful storm that disrupts the delicate balance of ecosystems, causing significant imbalances in food chains. As temperatures shift, so do the distribution and abundance ...

For example, greenhouse gas levels will rise not just from pollution alone, but also from a lack of trees. It's estimated that trees absorb up to 16 billion metric tons of CO2 every year.

Accumulated Change Courts Ecosystem Catastrophe Date: October 12, 2001 Source: University Of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: Subjected to decades of gradual change by humans, many of the world's ...

These changes have an effect on ecosystems and the living conditions of the organisms within them. ... for example as caused by man-made climate change.

As one example, deforestation in one tropical region might turn a rainforest into a “savanna-type system,” which is a drier, grassier ecosystem with far fewer trees.

For example, a deep blue sea will have very little life in it, whereas a green color means there are ecosystems there, based on phytoplankton, plant-like microbes which contain chlorophyll.

Indicator species help scientists assess the state of an ecosystem. Explore 10 different indicator species and their habitats.

Climate change is affecting parasites, ... it’s not an exaggeration. Some can mind-control their hosts, for example, ... They were actually holding entire ecosystems together.

For example, evolutionary changes that increase the dependence, or impact, of one species on another species may speed up destabilisation, making tipping points arrive sooner than we’d like.