Healthy ecosystems are essential for human well being, as they provide invaluable functions and services including sustaining living marine resources. The health of ecosystems is therefore not only ...
In November 2017, the publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution of “100 articles every ecologist should read,” by Franck Courchamp and Corey JA Bradshaw, stirred the ecological community. The paper ...
In this unit, focusing on MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-3, students investigate matter and energy cycling through a vermicompost system and monitor the system using programmable sensor technologies. Students ...
In Yellowstone National Park — where gray wolves were reintroduced starting in 1995 — researchers have gone back and forth on whether the restoration of wolves has impacted the ecosystem. The idea is ...
DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado State University researchers spent over 20 years observing food webs and ecosystems in Yellowstone and concluded removing apex predators damages the ecosystem in a lasting way ...