image: In the Cretaceous about 80 million years ago -- well after the end-Permian mass extinction -- the ocean floor was dominated by complex ecosystems that had largely displaced the simple ...

Scientists say the health of a terrestrial ecosystem can be largely determined by three variables: vegetations' ability to uptake carbon, its efficiency in using carbon and its efficiency in using ...

Paradoxically, the abundance of tight interactions among living species usually leads to disasters in ecological models. New analyses hint at how nature seemingly defies the math. Behind the beautiful ...