Species numbers alone do not fully capture how ecosystems are changing. In a global study, scientists analyzed long-term data ...

Plant species can fulfill different functions within an ecosystem, even if they are closely related to each other. This surprising conclusion was reached by a global analysis of around 1.7 million ...

INSTAAR will welcome its latest faculty fellow in January. Sisimac Duchicela is an ecologist, botanist and biogeographer. Her research investigates climate change, ecology and human-ecosystem ...

Almost 10 years ago, a Forbes BrandVoice article claimed that a six-hour plane flight generates over 240 terabytes of data—way too much for any human to process. You need sophisticated software to ...

Tropical forests are rightly regarded as important carbon sinks and crucial in the fight against climate change, but other tropical ecosystems have largely gone overlooked despite their carbon ...