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 ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic ...

A paper published in National Science Review highlights the role of China's natural terrestrial ecosystems (NTEs) as ...

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

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 ...

"Salamanders serve a vital function in forest ecosystems," explained David Miller ... Range-wide salamander densities reveal a key component of terrestrial vertebrate biomass in eastern North ...

Covering 31% of the global land area, forests are also home to most of Earth's terrestrial biodiversity ... But these forest ecosystems are in danger. Each year we lose 10 million hectares ...

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