How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

For decades, parasites were omitted from the study of food web ecology based on the assumption that they contributed negligible biomass to ecosystems. Measuring biomass, or productivity ...

Earth is a uniquely fire planet, and humanity a uniquely fire creature, and the ecology of their interactions is both ancient and profound. Fire is an ecological shape-shifter. As a reaction, not ...

From the Editors of E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What’s so bad about wood pellet biomass energy anyway? Isn ...

In an article featured in Science China Earth Sciences, researchers from Tianjin University elucidate the coupling relationship between soil fungi and reactive minerals in ecosystems by utilizing ...

The problem of “not seeing the forest for the trees” may have a solution with 3-D technology being used to estimate biomass ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 59, No. 1 (2014), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) Lake thermocline depth is likely to be altered with climate change. We assessed the response of crustacean zooplankton biomass ...