Wild animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world. Many also act as natural landscape engineers, reshaping Earth's ...

Pt. 1: Context. The ecosystem concept. Earth's climate system -- Pt. 2: Mechanisms. Terrestrial water and energy balance. Carbon input to terrestrial ecosystems. Terrestrial production processes.

With CMCC’s contribution a new study and database provides scientists with an unprecedented resource for understanding how Earth's land systems store carbon and produce biomass, establishing a ...

Underground, intricate networks of soil fungi underpin the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite their global importance, only 30% of global ecosystems have been sampled for these fungal ...

The terrestrial environment, a vast and complex reservoir, is experiencing an alarming influx of microplastic pollution, ...

Plant species can fulfill different functions within an ecosystem, even if they are closely related to each other. This surprising conclusion was reached by a global analysis of around 1.7 million ...

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The report also found that heat stress across 79 percent of satellite-monitored reef locations around Australia exceeded their once-in-a-decade threshold, more than any previous year in the 40-year ...

Prologue / Mingzhen Zhou -- Divisions of non-marine Mesozoic of China and the paleoclimatic implications based on paleobotanical data / Ge Sun -- PaleoecologiCal implications of the fishes and plants ...