Ecosystem responses to global change are often nonlinear. Ecological thresholds are tipping points beyond which small changes ...

Grasslands, covering more than 40% of Earth's terrestrial surface, are key ecosystems for global carbon storage, biodiversity ...

MAMMALS come in all sizes from the largest of all, blue whales, to the smallest like the Least shrew. Whales are entirely ...

Grasslands occur naturally in many biomes and are also maintained in other areas by livestock grazing. A common but untested expectation is that nutrient enrichment causes biotic homogenization.

When water is scarce, increases in grassland productivity are more valuable because there isn’t as much around. Therefore, increasing grassland production in dry years could provide more available ...

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Contributed by Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe; received October 2, 2021; accepted November 9, 2021; reviewed by Dennis Baldocchi and Gabriel Katul ...

The tundra biome is the coldest and one of the largest ecosystems on Earth. It covers about one-fifth of the land on the planet, primarily in the Arctic circle but also in Antarctica as well as a ...

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