EVERY FEW weeks from June 1963 until July 1968, Robert Paine, a zoologist, made the journey from Seattle, where he taught at the University of Washington, across Puget Sound to the rocky shores of ...

WWF and its partners announce the winners of a call for grants launched earlier this year to undertake research in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Modelling Scenarios. Better understanding the ...

Acacia longifolia, which is native to Australia, is a species which was cultivated in Portugal primarily to stabilize dunes and as an ornamental plant; now it has spread out uncontrollably in Portugal ...

Ecosystem services are a significant research and policy topic and there are many modelling and mapping approaches aimed at understanding the stocks, demands and flows of ecosystem goods and services ...

Ecosystem responses to rising CO 2 concentrations are a major source of uncertainty in climate change projections. Data from ecosystem-scale Free-Air CO 2 Enrichment (FACE) experiments provide a ...

Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results. Understanding tree traits and ...

BESTMAP is hosting the project’s first Summer School on modelling policy impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity. The event will take place in Olomouc, Czech Republic on September 12–16, 2022 ...