One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal Science. The researchers ...
The model scored and compared areas of healthy, continuous mangrove cover with areas where mangroves were degraded or cleared. It showed that mangrove ecosystems provide a significant natural defense ...
Experts predict 'catastrophic ecosystem collapse' of UK forests within the next 50 years if action not taken. Other threats to UK forests include competition with society for water, viral diseases, ...
Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly ...
New Delhi, Jul 27 (UNI) <br />Under the guidance of Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is undertaking large-scale ecological restoration of the ...
Forest structural complexity describes the three-dimensional arrangement of vegetation elements at multiple spatial scales, from leaf and branch distributions to canopy layering and gap dynamics. This ...