Latest Ecosystem Stories
According to the most recent Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), sea surface temperatures (SSTs) for 2012 in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem were the highest recorded in 150 years.
The water-filled pool within a pitcher plant, it turns out, is a tiny ecosystem whose inner workings are similar to those of a full-scale water body.
Researchers from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and the Natural History Museum, London (Thanit Siriboon, Chirasak Sutcharit, Fred Naggs and Somsak Panha) discovered many new taxa of the brightly colored carnivorous terrestrial snails family Streptaxidae.
A true ecosystem is a community of users coevolving together. Dallas, TX (PRWEB) April 10, 2013 Dynastack Inc., a Dallas based cloud ecosystems and IT
plant species making up an ecosystem are better predictors of ecosystem chemistry than environmental conditions such as terrain, geology, or altitude
A new study highlights the importance of plant biodiversity in protecting natural ecosystems against the perils of ecosystem breakdown.
Plants can adapt their demand for water depending on how much is available - However, this resilience has a limit, and prolonged drought conditions threaten the survival of plant communities, especially in more arid areas
Scientists have known that climate change affects the population dynamics of single species, such as reindeer or caribou, but the effects of such climate change at the community level have been much harder to document and quantify.
Understanding biological diversity has been the key to learning how ecosystems around the world function in a sustainable manner.
- A political dynamiter.