Ecosystems can temporarily bounce back when common ant species disappear. Other species may step in to perform similar roles.

Baleen whales shift huge amounts of nutrients, including nitrogen, from high-latitude feeding waters to tropical breeding ...

It’s often assumed that all soil organic carbon ultimately derives from recent vegetation, but researchers argue that carbon inherited from parent rocks can be important and deserves more focus.

The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales -- a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists ...

Agriculture is the most cited cause, but there are many others connected to it that are contributing to the huge die-off of ...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

Vulcanidris inhabited an ecosystem teeming with life ... Subterranean and litter ants help in soil health, and they may also ...

Despite its reduction to equatorial regions, rainforests still offer a rich ecosystem with four distinct ... from birds and mammals to insects and decomposers. The rainforest's intricate ...

The study results will be published in a series of comprehensive ISG Provider Lens™ reports, called Workday Ecosystem, scheduled to be released in September 2025. The reports will cover how ...

"Soil microorganisms regulate nutrient cycling, interact with many other organisms, and therefore may support successional pathways and complementary ecosystem functions, even in harsh conditions ...

The Karma Engine helps power this vision by giving every Shibizen a way to build and carry their reputation across the entire ecosystem. Whether you’re voting on proposals, joining a discussion, or ...

Changes in ecosystems have transformed the fishing industry, and that's bad news for whitefish in the Great Lakes. The fish is an important and popular commercial species, but its numbers in some ...