The biome concept organizes large-scale ecological variation. Terrestrial biomes are distinguished ... However, there is a lot of variability in desert types, with hot deserts, cold deserts ...

The second consumers (trophic level 3) in the desert food web include birds ... interactions among species in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems (Figure 4). In a study conducted near ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

including desert ecosystems;forest ecosystems;and tundra ecosystems. But all can be contained within three main categories:terrestrial ecosystems on land;freshwater ecosystems in rivers and lakes ...

The research, published in Science Advances, challenges the widely held view that terrestrial ecosystems suffered the same catastrophic losses as marine environments during this period.

Fossil evidence of a diverse plant ecosystem that thrived in a Chinese desert during the world ... discovered there was a “life oasis” for terrestrial plants in a region of the Turpan ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ... collection in the scorching desert heat. Credit: NIGPAS Tetrapod ...