A new study shows that biochar, widely promoted as a climate-smart soil amendment, can significantly reshape the social lives ...

Yuchen Geng and Arpita Bose consider the invisible foundation of life, explaining why microbes must be included in ...

A new study published in Nature, led by ecologists from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), finds that intensifying El Niño events, driven by climate change, ...

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study ...

Microbial ecology is rapidly evolving with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning into the study of complex microbial ...

Every day, new areas of rainforests are converted into plantations, drastically changing tropical biodiversity and the way the ecosystem functions. Yet, the current understanding of the consequences ...

A recent study quantifies the impact of biodiversity loss on ecological functions by tracking energy flows within them. It found that declines in birds and small mammals have led to a significant ...

What influence do global environmental stressors have on the ability of an ecosystem to withstand these stresses and rebuild itself? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to ...