In a study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed that the presence of critically endangered ...

Invasive species represent one of the leading drivers of forest ecosystem change worldwide, affecting structure, function and the services forests provide to people and biodiversity. Through direct ...

Temperate forests comprise complex networks of interactions among plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms that underpin ecosystem structure and function. Key processes include herbivory, predation, ...

Against the backdrop of global change—characterized by climate warming, shifting precipitation patterns, and intensified anthropogenic disturbances—the ...

Get up close with forest animals, including bears, koalas, moose and Tasmanian Devils. Forest Animals gets up close with bears, koalas, moose, wolves, weaver ants and Tasmanian Devils. This episode ...

Tropical forests populated with a diversity of seed-dispersing animals can accumulate carbon up to four times as fast as fragmented forests where these animals are absent or their movement is ...

Scientists from around the world are calling for urgent action to protect, restore, and sustainably manage one of the ocean's least known yet most important ecosystems: the Marine Animal Forests. The ...

Forests occupy one third of the total land area of the Earth and hold around 80 per cent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. It is estimated that nearly one third of the global population depends ...

We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like aeroplanes or human hearts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thinking through scenarios allows land managers to prepare for many potential outcomes. Benjamin Slyngstad via USGS In Sequoia and ...