Ecosystems have many moving parts – plants, animals, fungi and microbes; and the soil, air and water in which they live – that interact with one another in complex ways.

Ecosystems have many moving parts, such as plants, animals, fungi and microbes; and the soil, air and water in which they live, that interact with one another in complex ways.

More information: Improving forest ecosystem functions by optimizing tree species spatial arrangement, Nature Communications (2025).

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems ...

"Forests are my favorite ecosystem to be in," Reu said. "Without plants, nothing else in the food chain would work at all: it wouldn't exist. And that's why I find studying them especially ...

Gary M Lovett, Christine L Goodale, Scott V Ollinger, Colin B Fuss, Andrew P Ouimette, Gene E Likens, Nutrient retention during ecosystem succession, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Vol. 16, ...

Ecosystems have many moving parts – plants, animals, fungi and microbes; and the soil, air and water in which they live – that interact with one another in complex ways.