Digitally enabled ecosystems are a vital part of the modern business landscape. They open the door to new customers and markets, and broaden and enhance a firm’s value proposition through the seamless ...

Dying coral reefs, rainforests transforming into savannas, grasslands turning into deserts – these are ecosystem “tipping points”, boundary lines we’re desperate not to cross. In dynamic systems ...

The 19 th century was a time of accelerated ecological discovery. The New World, already plundered for trade and colonization, was opening to Europeans for scientific discovery. Now-famous ...

Measure of a population size. The quantity of individuals in a population or in a specific area (e.g., fishing grounds) as expressed in number of fish or in biomass. Abundance can be measured in ...

Methane — a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide — plays a major role in controlling the Earth’s climate. But methane concentrations in the atmosphere today are 150% higher than before ...

Despite being relatively neglected until the early 2000s, seagrass ecosystems are now recognized as critical habitats supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services including carbon sequestration, ...

Applied ecology has traditionally approached management problems through a simplified, single-species lens. Repeated failures of single-species management have led us to a new paradigm — managing at ...