Wildfires may disappear from the landscape within weeks, but their hidden effects on the soil can persist for decades. An ...

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a structured framework to ...

Most animals move through their habitats focused on survival rather than construction. They eat, dig, travel, and reproduce ...

Did you know that it takes, on average, about 180 years to form 1 cubic centimeter of soil? That is 2.3 times the life expectancy for Americans – all to produce a small quantity of soil that fits in a ...

Wildfires may disappear from the landscape within weeks, but their hidden effects on the soil can persist for decades. An international research team ...

Soil stores large amounts of organic carbon, whose dynamic changes can cause huge impact on the global climate system. Forest succession is a long-term ecological process that can exert powerful ...

American forests are important sources of carbon sequestration, storing millions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. However, a unique experiment led by Peter Reich, University of Michigan professor ...

Preserving the diversity of forests assures their productivity and potentially increases the accumulation of carbon and nitrogen in the soil, which helps to sustain soil fertility and mitigate global ...

Some animals matter so much to their ecosystems that losing them is like removing the keystone from an arch—the entire ...

Cities are growing. Forests are shrinking. But what’s happening beneath our feet—in the soil of the very trees that line our ...