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Scientists are surprised to find lowlands may trap more carbon than steep slopes.
The invasive species also attacks the structures it lives on by releasing an acid that prevents anything from growing near where it lives.
A new study based on data collected over the last 100 years shows that many of the species unique to the Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia lack vital national-level protection.
A gallery of the rare species and ecosystems endemic to the Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia.
Even after 100 years, restored wetlands rarely equal their conditions of the past.
Climate change affects elk foraging, which affects the densities of plants, which affects the populations of nesting birds.
Marshes are being overrun by purple marsh crabs because their main predators, blue crab and finfish, are being overfished. So, the purple marsh crabs are free to gorge on healthy fields of cordgrass and once done feeding, they leave behind nothing.
Hundreds of non-native species thriving at expense of native ecosystems.
While investigating tiny larvae in cracks on the ocean floor, Dr. Diane Adams discovered that atmospheric weather patterns drive currents deep undersea. Isolated ecosystems inside hydrothermal vents may thus be affected by climate change.
By substituting one tortoise for extinct ones, scientists say they are healing an island.
The fight against Asian carp turns delicious.
Projects examining the effects of climate change on ecosystems will feature in Washington.
Molecular biologist Scott Santos and his team at Auburn University are studying an unusual and endangered ecosystem in Hawaii called Anchialine pools, as well as one of its legendary creatures.
Evidence is mounting that vines are becoming more abundant in tropical forests of the Americas, raising the possibility of major ecosystem change.
Invasive grass species out-competes natives grasses, destroys grazing land.
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