In any ecosystem there exists multiple interdependent relationships, niches, and environmental pressures. In all ecosystems there are food chains that convert energy from simple to increasingly ...

Healthy ecosystems depend on more than just having lots of species—they rely on the complex relationships between plants, prey and predators, according to new international research led by the ...

As you and your family and friends settle in for the winter holidays, it is a great time to consider all the gifts we get from nature and the environment and how they keep us healthy and happy.

Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded “regime shifts” ...

New research dives to new depths to advance our knowledge on coral reef ecosystems in a special issue of Bulletin of Marine Science. The Bulletin of Marine Science released a special issue of its ...

The state of an ecological system can often be judged by its biodiversity and health. Biodiversity can be viewed in terms of both the number of species present in an ecological system and the extent ...

You’ll find the Arctic at the northernmost part of our planet, consisting of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, the USA, Greenland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Iceland. The Arctic is a ...