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Dynamic Ocean Management Could Help React Quickly to Protect Vulnerable Ecosystems

Ocean ecosystems around the world are threatened by overfishing, extensive shipping routes, energy exploration, pollution and other consequences of ocean-based industry. Data exist that could help protect these vulnerable ecosystems, but current management strategies often can't react quickly enough to new information, said San Diego State University biologist Rebecca Lewison.

13 Mar 2015

Researchers Report that Growing Periods of Vegetation Have Changed Worldwide

Are leaves and buds developing earlier in the spring? And do leaves stay on the trees longer in autumn? Do steppe ecosystems remaining green longer and are the savannas becoming drier and drier? In fact, over recent decades, the growing seasons have changed everywhere around the world. This was determined by a doctoral candidate at the Goethe University as part of an international collaboration based on satellite data.

9 Mar 2015

Trophic Coherence Could Help Solve the Mystery of Coexistence within Complex Ecosystems

Scientists from the universities of Granada and Warwick have published an article in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA) in which they suggest one possible answer for the enigma of stability in complex ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest or coral reefs. Many similar species coexist in these complex ecosystems without one of them prevailing above all the rest and displacing them.

6 Mar 2015

Plant-Eating Insects May Reduce Ability of Forests to Take up Elevated Levels of Carbon Dioxide

In a high carbon dioxide world, the trees would come out ahead. Except for the munching bugs.

4 Mar 2015

Conservation Organizations Must Be Bolder in Adaptation Efforts to Address Extent of Ecological Changes

Nature is on the move. As the impacts of climate change reveal themselves, species and ecosystems are moving in response. This poses a fundamental challenge to conservation organizations--how do you conserve something that won't stay still?

4 Mar 2015

Bird’s Nest Fern Plays a Critical Role in Maintaining Rainforest Ecosystems

Scientists from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) believe that the bird’s nest fern, a plant commonly found in many of our homes, has a critical place in maintaining the biodiversity and the ecosystems of the world’s rainforests.

28 Feb 2015

Study Reveals Soil Temperature Changes Can Have Unexpected Consequences for Lake Ecology

Rising soil temperatures significantly affect autumn leaves and consequently the food web, appearance and biochemical makeup of the lakes and ponds those leaves fall into, a Dartmouth College-led study finds.

26 Feb 2015

Study Results Help Assess Potential Impacts of Ocean Acidification

Next to global warming, ocean acidification is currently considered as the second major carbon dioxide problem. With the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere larger quantities of the gas are getting into the seawater, too. There it forms carbonic acid, which lowers the pH value of the oceans.

24 Feb 2015

Study Reveals Importance of Diversity of Species that Attack and Eat Parasite

Biodiversity, including small predators such as dragonflies and other aquatic bugs that attack and consume parasites, may improve the health of amphibians, according to a team of researchers. Amphibians have experienced marked declines in the wild around the world in recent decades, the team added.

24 Feb 2015

Climate Change Affects Flow of Organic Pollutants and May Affect the Marine Ecosystem

Regional climate change models predict an increased freshwater runoff into the Baltic Sea. This will result in increased inflow of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon.

23 Feb 2015

Ecosystems News

Dynamic Ocean Management Could Help React Quickly to Protect Vulnerable Ecosystems

Researchers Report that Growing Periods of Vegetation Have Changed Worldwide

Trophic Coherence Could Help Solve the Mystery of Coexistence within Complex Ecosystems

Plant-Eating Insects May Reduce Ability of Forests to Take up Elevated Levels of Carbon Dioxide

Conservation Organizations Must Be Bolder in Adaptation Efforts to Address Extent of Ecological Changes

Bird’s Nest Fern Plays a Critical Role in Maintaining Rainforest Ecosystems

Study Reveals Soil Temperature Changes Can Have Unexpected Consequences for Lake Ecology

Study Results Help Assess Potential Impacts of Ocean Acidification

Study Reveals Importance of Diversity of Species that Attack and Eat Parasite

Climate Change Affects Flow of Organic Pollutants and May Affect the Marine Ecosystem

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