Antibiotics that escape into the environment are widely recognized as a growing threat to ecosystems, wastewater treatment ...

Exploring the adaptive strategies and plant interactions of pyrophilous microbes—those selectively enriched after wildfires due to their metabolic ingenuity—can reveal how these organisms drive ...

Global warming has accelerated glacial retreat in high-elevation and high-latitude ecosystems, exposing new terrain that can undergo predictable patterns of ecosystem succession, especially in coastal ...

The vicuña, a wild relative of the llama, could help reestablish plants in barren areas where glaciers have melted, according to a recent study in the high Andes of Peru. As vicuñas tend to poop in ...

There are ways to accelerate 'ecological succession' and reap the benefits of a food forest in as little as 10 years. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, ...

The study and management of ecosystems represent the most dynamic field of contemporary ecology. Ecosystem research bridges fundamental ecology and environmental ecology and environmental ...