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 ...

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 ...

A primary example of this involves the energy currency in ecosystems, which is carbon. The amount and form of carbon present in different ecosystem pools — such as plants, animals, air ...

There are lots of different ecosystems on Earth:including desert ecosystems;forest ecosystems;and tundra ecosystems. But all can be contained within three main categories:terrestrial ecosystems on ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

or they need to adapt their model to accommodate the different environmental conditions. Because ecosystems are large and complex, constructing an ecosystem map runs the risk of becoming a tedious ...

The globe-trotting biologists are discovering an intriguing pattern: In many places, species appear to have emerged at the transition zones between different ecosystems, without ever being ...

Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's ...