The conservation and restoration of mangroves for their ecosystem services is a global ambition, but less emphasis has been placed on the conservation and restoration of the biodiversity of mangroves, ...

Metataxonomic studies of ecosystem microbiotas require the simultaneous processing of samples with contrasting physical and biochemical traits. However, there are no published studies of comparisons ...

Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded “regime shifts” ...

The retreat of the planet's glaciers is one of the most visible and dramatic indicators of the far-reaching impact of climate change on the world's ecosystems. Now, a new paper published in Nature ...