Human enterprise is increasingly affecting biodiversity beyond outright species losses, causing changes in ecosystem functions and the services they deliver to human beings. However, few tools are ...

Our natural world is composed of a variety of ecosystems. Examples include forests, oceans, wetlands, prairies, scrub, deserts and lakes. Each manifests a combination of factors that influence what ...

Yellow River Estuary in Dongying, east China's Shandong Province. In recent years, Shandong Province has launched initiatives ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

IPBES experts cite importance of 'co-production' of information with indigenous people With the planet losing species 100 to 1,000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, international experts ...

Land use is at the heart of the many emergencies facing our world today: climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice ...