Beneath the surface of tidal flats and shallow bays, lugworms spend their lives swallowing sediment, digesting organic matter ...

Marine ecosystem ecology has advanced rapidly in recent decades, yet important knowledge gaps remain about how biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and ...

Africa’s ecosystems may look different, but new research shows they are becoming more alike as food webs converge across ...

Walk across a mudflat at low tide and you might notice small, neat mounds of sediment scattered across the surface.

There were significant differences in the key driving factors of aboveground biomass in different spatial degrees. The results of the mixed effects model revealed the effects of tree diversity, ...

Over the past twenty years, coral reef restoration has seen unprecedented growth worldwide. From Indonesia to the Caribbean, thousands of projects have been launched with the goal of “saving” coral ...

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

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 6, 2025) A study in Ecology Letters finds “severe degradation of ecosystem functioning in the form of loss of organic matter consumption and dramatic shifts in primary ...

As droughts become more frequent and intense, scientists need better ways to monitor how ecosystems respond. One of the most ...