Linking the structure of communities to ecosystem functioning has been a perennial challenge in ecology. Studies on ecosystem function are traditionally focused on changes in species composition.

New study advocates the use of more than one million declassified images for ecology and conservation. The images can offer better insights into the historical changes of ecosystems, species ...

Scientists reviewing 85 million years of fish fossil records say that the basic structure of the ocean ecosystem – the ratio of fish compared to elasmobranchs such as sharks, skates, and rays – has ...

Scientists reviewing 85 million years of fish fossil records say that the basic structure of the ocean ecosystem – the ratio of bony fish compared to elasmobranchs such as sharks, skates, and rays – ...

Humans have been modifying natural environments for millennia, leading to a deep co-evolution between social and natural systems. As a result, areas ...

To understand the environmental pressures that shaped human evolution, scientists must first piece together the details of the ancient plant and animal communities that our fossil ancestors lived in ...

To understand the environmental pressures that shaped human evolution, scientists must reconstruct the ecosystems in which they lived. Because putting together the puzzle of millions-of-years-old ...