An ecosystem is a group of animals, plants and microorganisms that live together. The group of each type of living thing is called a community, and the place that they live is called a habitat.

The term "ecosystem" is typically associated with biology, and in that context it includes all of the living things (plants, animals, and organisms) in a specific area, their nonliving environment ...

The deep seafloor showed a flourishing ecosystem, and the team believes they may have discovered several new species during their research.

Fungi are difficult to study in both nature and under experimental conditions. This is because of many species’ microscopic ...

With wildfires becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change, ecosystems face greater challenges in recovery.

Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...

In the past, the North looked like an African savanna with herds of wild animals. It was based on mammoths. That was the largest ecosystem in the world. It stretched from the Kamchatka Peninsula ...