Native seeds are essential for maintaining healthy local ecosystems, sustaining biodiversity, and supporting wildlife, though ...

An analysis of 900 species over a 20-year period showed that biodiversity enhances ecosystem stability and helps safeguard natural communities in a changing environment.

Alongside climate change, biodiversity loss caused by human activity is one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time. A study conducted at the Research Center for Ecological Change, ...

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, SW7 2AZ, U.K. ‡ Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Morse Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, ...

Environmental scientists at Nottingham Trent University have identified exactly where coastal waters meet freshwater rivers, ...

Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine. Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of ...

The ecology of chemical defenses, communication, and biosynthesis. Subjects range from how available chemical resources affect ecosystem processes to how organisms produce chemical compounds. Research ...

published today in the journal Science by two dozen researchers from institutions in the United States, Europe and Canada, calls for increased scientific scrutiny of the 'top-down' ecological role ...

Parasites are crucial indicators of ecosystem health ... Schmidt College of Science and from Florida Oceanographic Society suspected that parasite levels in the IRL would be affected by these ...

CONWAY — After hearing a call to action from social media users, Mountain View Pet Waste Removal voluntarily cleaned dog waste off the MWV Rec Path last month to raise awareness that dog messes are a ...

Science, too, is built on details, on looking closer. Like photography, science requires examining an ecosystem through different lenses, focusing on different details, particularly as conditions ...