The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they ...

An international study, with the participation of INRAE and the CEA, has discovered that the majority of terrestrial carbon ...

Terrestrial carbon sinks grew by 30% from 1992 to 2019, with most carbon stored in nonliving pools, not forests, prompting a ...

In crisis situations, forests become an economic and food lifeline, providing up to 20% of family income in rural areas, guaranteeing healthy diets. But these ecosystems are in danger. We lose 10 ...

Covering 31% of the global land area, forests are also home to most of Earth's terrestrial biodiversity—the variety ... especially those living near and within forests. But these forest ecosystems are ...

To answer this important question, an international consortium of scientists, coordinated by INRAE and Bordeaux Sciences Agro, studied the growth of 223 tree species planted in 160 experimental ...

It is commonly assumed that as forest ecosystems age, they accumulate and store, or "sequester," more carbon. A new study based at the University of Michigan Biological Station untangled carbon ...

Recent studies have shown that carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems are increasing ... living vegetation, mainly forests; and nonliving carbon pools, including soil organic matter, sediments ...

nutrients and water in terrestrial ecosystems under a variety of human perturbations. In particular I am interested in understanding the impacts of urbanization, deforestation, forest fragmentation, ...

The analysis revealed that, taking into account gains and losses on a global scale, only around 6% of the total sequestered ...