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Study Provides Conclusive Evidence that Ecosystem Decay is Pervasive

Leipzig/Halle. Biodiversity's ongoing global decline has prompted policies to protect and restore habitats to minimize animal and plant extinctions.

30 Jul 2020

Climate Change, Over-Cultivation Affect Biomass of Small Animals in Soil

Nowadays, life in the soil must contend with several problems at once.

29 Jul 2020

Shifts in Diversity of Soil Microbes Could Influence Carbon Use Efficiency

In what they believe is the first study of its kind, researchers led by postdoctoral researcher Luiz A.

29 Jul 2020

Study Sheds New Light on Ecosystem Services Provided by Cycad Plants

A study published in the June 2020 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Horticulturae shows that cycads, which are in decline and among the world's most threatened group of plants, provide an important service to their neighboring organisms.

28 Jul 2020

New Estimate Presents Important Milestone for Global Carbon Cycle Studies

Regional carbon budgets should be highly accurate to notify land-based mitigation policy and to track the progress in the mitigation path.

27 Jul 2020

Products Containing Sunscreen can Damage the Ecosystem

A Swansea University project exploring how to use algae to create the next generation of sunscreens has now teamed up with an award-winning skincare firm to help develop the idea.

27 Jul 2020

Extreme Weather can Disrupt Foundational Aspects of Arctic Ecosystems

Alaska is getting wetter. A new study spells out what that means for the permafrost that underlies about 85% of the state, and the consequences for Earth's global climate.

27 Jul 2020

New Study Could Offer Insights About Potential for Survival of Coral Reefs

Rising ocean temperatures have devastated coral reefs all over the world, but a recent study in Global Change Biology has found that reefs in the Eastern Tropical Pacific region may prove to be an exception.

24 Jul 2020

Rapid Climate Change Will Severely Affect Global Distribution of Biodiversity

All over the world, biodiversity is not uniformly distributed. A majority of the species live in the tropics and very few live toward the North and South Pole. But the fossil record reveals a completely different pattern during the period 252 to 247 million years ago.

23 Jul 2020

Various Aspects of Climate Change Influence Spread of Invasive Marine Species

What factors influence the spread of invasive animal species in our oceans? This question was the focus for a team of experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bangor University, and the University of Greifswald's Zoological Institute and Museum in the context of the DFG-sponsored Research Training Group 2010 RESPONSE.

23 Jul 2020