Forest ecosystems are continually shaped by disturbances such as storms, fires, insect outbreaks and human interventions. The frequency, intensity and scale of these events constitute the disturbance ...
The study underscores the crucial role of microbes in maintaining coral reef health, akin to the human gut microbiome. Hurricanes and disease outbreaks affect coral reef water microbial communities, ...
Electric utilities nationwide face the challenges of climate change and natural ecosystem disturbances. Case in point: About 10,000 thunderstorms occur each year in the United States, according to the ...
Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the ...
The ForestNavigator consortium provides forest data and pathways to support forest policy towards EU climate neutrality ...
A ten-year-long examination of macroinvertebrate community recovery was conducted following a catastrophic spill of highly alkaline red sludge (pH >13) into lowland streams. T1: The section of the ...
Southern sea otters living along California’s coast are struggling in warmer seas, with new threats and changing food sources. They, like the other two sea otter subspecies, are classified as ...
Every morning, I rely upon the rising of the sun to slowly bring me back to consciousness. Every night, I am eventually coaxed back to bed with the darkening of the night sky. I move through the day — ...
A coral plagued wtih stony coral tissue loss disease on St. John, USVI. This highly lethal and fast spreading disease can be found among reefs in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Woods Hole, Mass– The ...