A recent study has revealed that the evolutionary relatedness of trees within an ecosystem plays a crucial role in shaping ...

"A forest ecosystem can be defined at a range of scales. It is a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their abiotic environment interacting as a functional unit ...

Forests provide biodiversity, ecosystem functions, income and much more. How can these diverse and seemingly diverging demands be met? An international research team led by the University of ...

Highly productive kelp forests are being touted as a natural climate solution, but do we know enough to count them as such?

“The kelp forest and the beach are both highly ... climate shifts in ways that might change how the linked ecosystems perform their functions. “It’s related to the ability of these systems ...

A study in subtropical forests shows that dominant tree traits—not just species counts or terrain—drive productivity and ...

Documenting these forests from an ecosystem perspective often means ... Understanding the importance of biodiversity and how forests function is a critical part in creating that connection.

remote sensing and statistics is recording and analysing around 20 ecosystem functions and species groups in 11 forests in Germany.

are a type of agroforestry system that “mimic the structure and function of a natural forest ecosystem, but are designed to produce food, medicine, fiber, and other products for human use ...

But reducing a forest’s value to the single metric of carbon overlooks all the other crucial ecosystem functions performed by biodiverse forest environments. Aguirre-Gutiérrez studies the ...