While most research on the relationship between ecosystem diversity and stability has focused on species richness, it is variation in species composition that provides the mechanistic basis to ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a ...

In nature, ecosystems depend on stable climate factors like biodiversity, nutrient flow, and adaptability to thrive.

Researchers at MIT have recently devised a formula to predict the outcomes of species invasions based on experiments with ...

The variability among living organisms on the earth, including the variability within and between species and within and between ecosystems. Biological diversity, often shortened to biodiversity, is ...

Biodiversity includes two other components as well- genetic diversity and ecosystem diversity. While people are generally most familiar with multicellular organisms such as plants and animals ...

Thus, alongside unyielding ecosystem defense and tenacious endangered species ... mutual support to a plan to safely restore beneficial fires and conserve biological diversity in northern Arizona ...

In the natural world, certain species have an outsized influence on the health and stability of their ecosystems.

Species diversity is made up of two factors - the number of different species in an ecosystem and the proportion of each species in the ecosystem. These represent the richness of the species and ...