Traditionally, the impact of human activity on an ecosystem has lacked context when planning restorative ecosystem mitigation and management strategies. Multiple human activities over time and space, ...

As the total worldwide fisheries yield from exploitation of wild stocks has declined, the production from mariculture, defined as the cultivation of organisms in their natural marine environment, has ...

Food web is an important conceptual tool for illustrating the feeding relationships among species within a community, revealing species interactions and community structure, and understanding the ...

From deadly heat waves to unprecedented flooding, devastating wildfires to record-breaking droughts, extreme weather is ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...