Species play essential roles in ecosystems, so local and global species losses could threaten the stability of the ecosystem services on which humans depend (McCann 2000). For example, plant ...

The biotic parts of the ecosystem, which include bacteria, flora and fauna, have a complex relationship with the abiotic components - changing one will lead to a change in the other.

The research team is working on building a long-term underwater laboratory that can carry three scientists and multiple devices into the deep-sea cold seep ecosystem for long periods of time to ...

As a diagram tool, food web has been approved to ... associations of species richness/diversity with food web complexity, ecosystem productivity, and stability. Molles, M. C.

U.S. Research Ecosystem is One of Our Greatest Strengths By Bill Gropp, NCSA Director ...