A keystone in an arch's crown secures the other stones in place. Keystone species play the same role in many ecological communities by maintaining the structure and integrity of the community. The ...

The illegal trafficking of wild animals and plants has become a huge threat to the world’s biodiversity. Wildlife trafficking ...

What do bison, beaver, wolves and sea otters all have in common? They're keystone species. That means they have an outsized impact on their ecosystem. It took humans driving some of these to near ...

University of Delaware entomologist Doug Tallamy’s research has identified “keystone” plant species that make up the foundation of many U.S. ecosystems by producing food for native insects, thus ...

Florida’s wild icons—from panthers to butterflies—are vanishing fast, caught in the crosshairs of development and climate ...

New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as ...

Basic ecology uses simple diagrams to illustrate how biomass is distributed in ecosystems. These “ecological pyramids” lump all primary producers (plants) at the base of the pyramid. The second level ...

Aim: Climate change affects ecological communities via impacts on species. The community's response to climate change can be represented as the temporal trend in a climate-related functional property ...

Fairfax County recently released educational material on its role and responsibilities in working with its furry, four-legged ecosystem engineers on private property following the board matter ...

As Draman pointed out, "their population is increasing year on year," now competing with the groups that were already there ...

A new investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation claims to have exposed human rights abuses and ecological crisis ...