A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

Currently, leading economic development theory holds “cluster initiatives” to be a prime example of effective innovation space. According to a recent Brookings Institute report, successful cluster ...

IPBES experts cite importance of 'co-production' of information with indigenous people With the planet losing species 100 to 1,000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, international experts ...

Ecosystem services (ES) are an increasingly popular policy framework for connecting biodiversity with human well-being. These efforts typically assume that biodiversity and ES covary, but the ...

Merging physics and environmental science, an interdisciplinary team including a University researcher recently published a paper examining how feedback loops influence ecosystem changes. The paper, ...

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 ...

If you don’t know what to look for at Crowberry Bog, you’re liable to miss something miraculous, ecologist Joe Rocchio says over the squish squish of his boots through peat on a gray May morning.

For years, experts in conservation and climate science have urgently pursued two parallel paths—one to interrupt a large-scale extinction event, the other to avert a runaway climate crisis. Now, an ...

D igital ecosystems aren’t just one of the biggest innovation trends to emerge in recent years. They are quickly gaining economic might. In fact, they could generate an estimated 30% of global ...

Modern agriculture and land-use practices may lead to major disruptions of the world's water flows, with potentially sudden and dire consequences for regions least able to cope with them researchers ...

Media reports around the world have brought the mass coral bleaching of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef into people’s offices and homes. Unfortunately, mass coral bleaching is just one example of a far ...