If we lost all 4,400 species of roach, entire ecosystems would struggle to survive. Believe it or not, we'd have even worse troubles ahead since we'd face a serious poop problem without one of the ...

At the ecosystem level, the total growth of all plant species is termed primary production, and — as we'll see in this article — communities composed of different numbers and combinations of ...

Wetlands, rivers, lakes, and coastal estuaries are all aquatic ecosystems—critical elements of Earth’s dynamic processes and essential to human economies and health. Wetlands connect land and ...

Humans value natural systems in many ways. Should all of these values be expressed in economic terms? Or, do ecosystems have value independent of humans? Aa Aa Aa What is the value of an intact ...

These and all the other living things there make up the ecosystem. The jaguar, the monkey, the bananas, the butterfly and the trees are all part of one ecosystem. Some ecosystems like coral reefs ...

Just like buildings, ecosystems can come in all shapes and sizes, from a vast prairie to the miniature pond that forms in the center of a bromeliad plant. I like to think of that as a “tiny home.” ...