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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get to know the Kunming-Montreal World Framework for Biological Diversity approved in December. Among its goals: restore 30% of ecosystems, reduce food waste by half, and invest at least $200 ...