Many alpine ecosystems are undergoing vegetation degradation because of global change, which is affecting ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. The ecological consequences of alpine pioneer ...

The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) has succeeded for the first time in describing the complex relationships within an ecosystem in unprecedented detail. For their work, carried out ...

Biological soil crust (biocrust) is a composite of mosses, lichens, and bacteria that performs many important soil system functions, including increasing soil stability, protecting against wind ...

Researchers release a comprehensive viral genome database covering diverse ecosystems to advance understanding of viral evolution and ecosystem functions.

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 3 (March 2021), pp. 575-587 (13 pages) Diverse prokaryotic communities consume and transform a broad suite of molecules in the dissolved organic matter (DOM) ...

Imagine visiting a mangrove in the Caribbean and discovering a human as tall as Mt. Everest. Something like that happened to marine biologist Jean-Marie Volland — except instead of a human, he ...

Evidence links the gut microbiota and fertility to women’s reproductive health, influencing hormone metabolism, and conditions such as PCOS.