The common platform heralds a new era of global conservation and management policy applications. A global cross-disciplinary team of scientists led by UNSW Sydney researchers has developed the first ...

The state of an ecological system can often be judged by its biodiversity and health. Biodiversity can be viewed in terms of both the number of species present in an ecological system and the extent ...

A Colorado State University experiment spanning more than two decades has found that removal of apex predators from an ecosystem can create lasting changes that are not reversed after they return—at ...

Reliable estimates of the monetary value of benefits provided by marine ecosystems is key to balancing tradeoffs among ecological, social, and economic priorities. Marine ecosystems provide myriad ...

A new rapid communication tool takes a significant step toward ecosystem-based management of sustainable seafood. NOAA Fisheries is committed to ecosystem-based management as our most powerful tool to ...

Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded “regime shifts” ...

Dying coral reefs, rainforests transforming into savannas, grasslands turning into deserts – these are ecosystem “tipping points”, boundary lines we’re desperate not to cross. In dynamic systems ...