Plants need water to grow. So if there's water, shouldn't there be more plants? New research shows it's a lot more complicated than that. Plants need water to grow. So if there's water, shouldn't ...

Detailed livestock models are important for land-use planning, disaster relief and food insecurity. Researchers have used dung records to create high-resolution maps of herbivore distribution around ...

Large grass-eating mammals such as yak and ibex play a crucial role in stabilising the pool of soil carbon in grazing ecosystems that are a big part of the Earth’s land surface, new research shows.

For numerous taxa, species richness is much higher in tropical than in temperate zone habitats 1. A major challenge in community ecology and evolutionary biogeography is to reveal the mechanisms ...