As ecosystems around the planet undergo rapid transformations, policymakers and land managers are grappling with a pressing question: When is it time to stop resisting ecological changes and accept a ...

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 ...

Virtually all the worlds' ecosystem types have been the subject of restoration efforts, but particular attention has been paid to ecosystems most impacted by human activities, such as wetlands ...

For example, ecological studies have shown that fire plays a key role in maintaining healthy forest ecosystems in certain types of forests. This knowledge has encouraged more research to find ways to ...

The biotic parts of the ecosystem, which include bacteria, flora and fauna, have a complex relationship with the abiotic components - changing one will lead to a change in the other.

Over half of the world’s ecosystem types have not been mapped. And so, the other side of the coin is to actually to close that gap and to put unmapped ecosystems on the map so that we could ...