As the world confronts escalating climate impacts, biodiversity loss, and ocean degradation, islands stand as critical test cases—not just as sites of vulnerability, but as living laboratories of ...

As the world confronts escalating climate impacts, biodiversity loss, and ocean degradation, islands stand as critical test cases--not just as sites of vulnerability, but as living laboratories of ...

The existence of any prehistoric apex predators in the islands of the Caribbean used to be doubted. While their absence would have probably made it even more of a paradise for prey animals, fossils ...

Over the past 20 years, the team has poured much effort into terrestrial ecosystem carbon sequestration research, integrating data from systematic surveys of 14,371 sample plots across China's ...

Unlike other terrestrial ecosystems, these slow-moving rivers of ice do not have other large reservoirs of soil or ... The accumulation of toxic elements poses a significant threat to terrestrial ...

The initial chapters focus on categorizing the North Sea into distinct ecosystems and assessing their quality, drawing on various European data ... as also utilized for terrestrial ecosystems.

Notably, these include in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) and terrestrial ecosystem experiments. Related: Facts about China's Chang'e moon program The ISRU payload will be designed to melt lunar ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Pacific salmon can play a key role in transporting nutrients from marine to freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. In the past, Pacific salmon ...

Photograph and interpretive line drawing of the 150-million-year-old avialan theropod ... The discovery of the Zhenghe Fauna opens a new window into the Late Jurassic terrestrial ecosystem of the ...

Historically, protected areas have been designed for terrestrial ecosystems and their species ... “It’s a lot easier to draw a line around a piece of land or in the ocean than it is to ...

More information: Steven I. Higgins et al, Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends, Nature Geoscience (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-01114-x Journal ...