In a study tracking climate-induced changes in the distribution of animals and their effects on ecosystem functions, North Carolina State University researchers show that resident species can continue ...

Discover how a business ecosystem operates through a network of interconnected organizations, balancing competition and cooperation to deliver valuable products and services.

Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds ...

Land-use intensification can increase provisioning ecosystem services, such as food and timber production, but it also drives changes in ecosystem functioning and biodiversity loss, which may ...

Halting biodiversity loss is one of the great challenges of the 21st century, and if we want international conservation policies that work, we need to urgently re-evaluate how we think ecosystems work ...

Chapter 1 Importance of Benthos in the Trophic Structure of the Ichthyofauna of Los Frailes Reef, Gulf of California, Mexico -- Chapter 2 Marine Seaweeds of the Yucatan Peninsula: Diversity, Economic ...

Many alpine ecosystems are undergoing vegetation degradation because of global change, which is affecting ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. The ecological consequences of alpine pioneer ...

Ecologists have shown that efforts to restore prairies can have vastly different outcomes in terms of their biodiversity and functionality when the only variable is the year a prairie is planted.

What can fossil records teach scientists about ancient ecosystems and marine environments? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address ...

The Ecosystem Science Center (ESC) solicits student research grant proposals twice per year. This call is open to undergraduate and graduate students working with an ESC member on research related to ...