They can represent either numbers of a particular organism or their biomass, which is living tissue. A pyramid of numbers approximately shows the numerical proportion of different organisms at ...

Earth is a uniquely fire planet, and humanity a uniquely fire creature, and the ecology of their interactions is both ancient and profound. Fire is an ecological shape-shifter. As a reaction, not ...

Integrating parasites into food webs also suggests that the classical Eltonian pyramid ... of food web ecology based on the assumption that they contributed negligible biomass to ecosystems.