From a biological perspective, it is important for scientists and the general public to understand that organisms do interact with their environment; in this sense, it often incorporates the terms ...

How does habitat diversity influence biodiversity and food webs? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how the number of ...

Wetland ecosystems represent a dynamic confluence of hydrological, biological and geological processes, offering critical habitat for waterfowl while supporting a broader array of biodiversity. These ...

image: Schematic figure illustrating the experimental design. The habitats 'Sandy beach,' 'Silty mud,' 'Cyanobacterial mats' and 'Ruppia meadows' were collected from shallow-water sediment ecosystems ...

It’s easy to look at a single species and forget the rippling impact that specific group of animals has on everything around it. Plants, animals, rocks, minerals and water make up the ecosystems that ...

As human development expands, birds are losing vital jobs in nature. This article explores what that means for ecosystem ...

Just under 3% of the world's land remains ecologically intact, with undisturbed habitat and minimal loss of its original animal species, a new study suggests. The research, published Thursday in the ...

You might be surprised to learn just how much of our world is shaped by animals doing unremarkable things like scratching, digging, eating, and pooping. Especially pooping. These activities are the ...

Global space for Asian elephant habitats has been in rapid decline since the 1700s, a new report reveals. More than 3 million square kilometers of the Asian elephant's historic habitat range has been ...

Conservation programs are often too focused on a single charismatic species, Hai-Tao Shi at Hainan Normal University in China ...