Global change is altering the movement of materials across landscapes in ways that likely have major consequences for the functioning and stability of ecosystems. For example, the export of dissolved ...

Pt. 1: Context. The ecosystem concept. Earth's climate system -- Pt. 2: Mechanisms. Terrestrial water and energy balance. Carbon input to terrestrial ecosystems. Terrestrial production processes.

Over 80% of the world’s ice-free land is at risk of profound ecosystem transformation by 2100, a new study reveals. “Essentially, we would be leaving the world as we know it,” says a researcher who ...

Underground, intricate networks of soil fungi underpin the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite their global ...

Ivan Mammarella’s research helps to quantify the transport and exchange of energy and greenhouse gases in the biosphere-atmosphere system, and, to enhance knowledge and verification of ecosystem ...

Two recent international studies are poised to change the way scientists view the crucial relationship between Earth’s climate and the carbon cycle. These reports explore the global photosynthesis and ...

A large international research team has identified three key indicators that together summarize the integrative function of terrestrial ecosystems: 1. the capacity to maximize primary productivity, 2.

BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have revealed that plant growth is significantly limited by phosphorus supply in both the tropics and temperate regions and in all major types of ...

Over 80% of the world's ice-free land is at risk of profound ecosystem transformation by 2100, a new study reveals. "Essentially, we would be leaving the world as we know it," says Sebastian Ostberg ...

Ecosystems provide multiple services for humans. However, these services depend on basic ecosystem functions which are shaped by natural conditions like climate and species composition, and human ...