Trees, grasses, corals, and oysters are foundational to the structure of an ecosystem while they are alive. But new research ...

We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like aeroplanes or human hearts ...

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Researchers studying ecosystems across the country found that the remains of foundation species such as oysters, corals and ...

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 ...