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 ...

New research has demonstrated the powerful impacts the reintroduction of predators can have on an ecosystem. The presence of ...

Fire is a natural, vital component of most western forest ecosystems. In dry forest types like ponderosa pine, fire was historically present as a frequent, low-intensity disturbance. Fire is necessary ...

I am an ecologist interested in the 1) preservation of natural systems and biodiversity and the 2) continued provision of benefits from nature to human well-being (i.e., ecosystem services) under ...

Although various plants and animals exist in an ecosystem, the specific types of flora and fauna matter: The wrong plant or animal can damage the ecosystem—even potentially destroy it. Therefore it's ...

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 third type of data center, colocation (or “colo”), is centered around interconnection to an ecosystem of digital communities. These are not as large as the massive, single-tenant hyper ...