Environmental changes have been rapidly increasing in the last decades, causing unprecedented shifts in biodiversity. The impacts of biodiversity changes on ecosystem processes depend on the traits of ...

Benthic ecosystems form the foundation of many marine and freshwater environments, providing essential services such as nutrient recycling, sediment stabilisation and habitat formation. Central to ...

Population and ecosystem approaches in ecology -- The maintenance and functional consequences of species diversity -- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning -- Food webs, interaction webs, and ...

A large international research team has identified three key indicators that together summarize the integrative function of terrestrial ecosystems: 1. the capacity to maximize primary productivity, 2.

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, ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms that fossilized remains of marine invertebrates can accurately reflect the functional diversity of past ecosystems ...

Halting biodiversity loss is one of the great challenges of the 21st century, and if we want international conservation policies that work, we need to urgently re-evaluate how we think ecosystems work ...

Shengjing Jiang, Yongjun Liu, Jiajia Luo, Mingsen Qin, Nancy Collins Johnson, Maarja Öpik, Martti Vasar, Yuxing Chai, Xiaolong Zhou, Lin Mao, Guozhen Du, Lizhe An and Huyuan Feng Nitrogen (N) ...

Ecosystems of California, a comprehensive reference on California’s remarkable ecological abundance, has won double honors in the 2017 PROSE Awards, the publishing industry’s top awards for ...

(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 ...