Humans value natural systems in many ways. Should all of these values be expressed in economic terms? Or, do ecosystems have value independent of humans?

The identification of natural carbon sinks and understanding how they work is critical if humans are to mitigate global climate change. Tropical coastal wetlands are considered important but, so ...

Mass extinction events often result in the majority of species on earth disappearing. The planet in the throes of another ...

We first estimated the change in phosphorus and nitrogen demand from the modelled increases in vegetation and soil carbon stocks in natural ecosystems and croplands between 2000 and 2099.

The National Park Service is not just focused on helping people enjoy the outdoors, but also on conserving wild places.

Radical changes in ecosystems New method for detecting changes in ecosystems Date: October 30, 2020 Source: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Summary: Earth and all the living organisms on it are ...

For the past decade, José Ramírez-Garofalo, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources in the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, has ...

Slight changes in climate may trigger major abrupt ecosystem responses that are not easily reversible. Some of these responses, including insect outbreaks, wildfire, and forest dieback, may ...

By comparing this natural archive data with atmospheric Hg deposition data simulated by the GEOS-Chem model, the study illuminated how different ecosystems responded to changes in atmospheric Hg ...

If climate change continues unabated, nearly every ecosystem on the planet would alter dramatically, to the point of becoming an entirely new biome, according to a new paper written by 42 ...

Anticipating changes to ecosystems is often at best an educated guess, but what if there was a way to better tune into possible changes occurring? A team of researchers led by Grace O’Malley, a Ph.D.