New research conducted by paleontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the CNRS (France) documents the earliest occurrence of a fossilized regurgitation ...

With CMCC’s contribution a new study and database provides scientists with an unprecedented resource for understanding how Earth's land systems store carbon and produce biomass, establishing a ...

Studies of aquatic–terrestrial ecosystem linkages explore the mechanisms by which components of one ecosystem, such as the aquatic insect community in a stream, directly affect components of an ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Freshwater environments cover about 1% of Earth's surface while accounting for more than 10% of known species. Like many marine and terrestrial ecosystems, however, they ...

Scientists are invited to submit their latest research to a new special issue focusing on the intersection of artificial ...

The nature of global change / B. H. Walker, W. L. Steffen -- The study of ecosystems in the context of global change / E.-D. Schulze, R. J. Scholes, J. R. Ehleringer ...

Plant species can fulfill different functions within an ecosystem, even if they are closely related to each other. This surprising conclusion was reached by a global analysis of around 1.7 million ...

Biological invasions are inherently linked to human activities, as the movement of species beyond their native ranges is largely driven by global trade, ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

Bernissart and the iguanodons : historical perspective and new investigations / Pascal Godefroit, Johan Yans, and Pierre Bultynck -- The attempted theft of dinosaur skeletons during the German ...