Healthy soil biodiversity provides crucial services. Pesticide residues in soil disrupt this biodiversity, affecting ecosystem functioning.

An ecosystem is not a still life. Even where everything looks stable—a woodland, a lake, the soil—the internal "bookkeeping" ...

Across Earth’s many landscapes and oceans, life has formed in patterns that might not be obvious at first. While it may seem like species are scattered randomly, a new global study suggests there’s an ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution of species. In the study, "Direct effects of mountain ...

You can know a lot of things about birds just by the shape of their wings. A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta ...

From species extinctions to shifting climate patterns, the Data Diversity Lab combines ecology, spatial sciences and collaborative research to tackle some of the planet’s most pressing environmental ...

A study published in Water Biology and Security has revealed the spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity in four taxonomic groups – fish, macroinvertebrates, zooplankton and phytoplankton – ...

Marine biodiversity in its global context. / M. Williamson -- Gradients in marine biodiversity. / J.S. Gray -- Pelagic biodiversity. M.V. Angel -- Biological diversity in oceanic macrozooplankton: ...