Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. While the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...

For example, two animal predators may ... have examined the importance of plant diversity for ecosystem stability in terrestrial ecosystems, especially grasslands where the dominant vegetation ...

Relatives of the llama are dropping dung as they venture into higher elevations in the Andes Mountains, providing a nutrient-rich environment for life to thrive despite glacier loss.

A group of researchers from Kobe University in Japan has recently conducted a study that reveals the potential of controlled ...

The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with grasslands and minimal tree densities. This wide-open landscape becomes a ...

The study provides the first experimental demonstration of the potential impacts of climate change on water movement through grassland ecosystems ... cause the plants to access water differently." ...

Investigating the plants and animals of temperate grasslands. The temperate grasslands biome is located on a world map and the climate of the biome described. Presenter Ferne Corrigan then ...

grasslands and other natural habitats will help address both.” All food and most medicines come directly from plants and animals. Species also form the building blocks of ecosystems, which purify air ...

On this western rim of the great dish that holds grassland to the heart of the ... and none replicate the full matrix of plant and animal life on original prairie sites. Protection of our ...

Grasslands in Asia and North America differ in their responses to drought, according to a paper in the journal Nature led by ...

These animals are best adapted to vast expanses of grassland with scattered ... to introduce students to the ecosystem of the tropical savanna and how people, plants and animals adapt to the ...