Healthy ecosystems are essential for human well being, as they provide invaluable functions and services including sustaining living marine resources. The health of ecosystems is therefore not only ...

In a study tracking climate-induced changes in the distribution of animals and their effects on ecosystem functions, North Carolina State University researchers show that resident species can continue ...

Alpine treelines are the boundaries between more cold-tolerant, non-arboreal vegetation, and forested communities, influenced by temperature. The need to forecast land surface feedback to regional and ...

Keystone species play an outsized role in the ecosystem, affecting the natural balance in ways that cannot easily be replaced.