They found that MNPs are widely present in terrestrial ecosystems. MNPs bioaccumulate across plants and the associated AG-BG biota, causing ecotoxicological effects at multiple trophic levels.

More recently, scientists have examined the importance of plant diversity for ecosystem stability in terrestrial ecosystems, especially grasslands where the dominant vegetation lies low to the ...

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

For example, plant population densities control the ... the biomass of herbivores usually increases with primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. Top-down control occurs when the population ...

Processes such as water retention and nutrient cycling play key roles in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Without soil, plants would have nowhere to root, farmers would have no crop to ...

In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...

A new study provides the first comprehensive global estimates of the amount of water stored in Earth's plants and the amount ... of water to move through the terrestrial water cycle.

An ecosystem is a natural environment in which animals, plants and organisms work to support life. This film explains the difference between biotic and abiotic, terrestrial, freshwater and ocean ...