Plant diversity and soil aggregates

Plant diversity and soil aggregates

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Global greening

Global greening

Ecology Cartoon composed of three images; click the arrows for navigating Source: Zhu et al., Nature Climate Change DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3004 Scivit News – Visual Science More illustrations from Scivit More videos from Scivit Have a video abstract based on this...
Sharks waiting for prey

Sharks waiting for prey

Inverted food pyramids (more predator biomass than prey biomass) occur relatively frequently at least in pristine nature. In such cases predators have to cover their food needs from outside the local area. In most cases, therefore, predators have to engage in (costly)...
How can we measure forest performance?

How can we measure forest performance?

Forests are important natural habitats with relevance for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and for wood-production. How can measure forest well-being, the impact of climate change or of other human-caused disturbances? To answer this question, scientists from various...