Pt. 1: Context. The ecosystem concept. Earth's climate system -- Pt. 2: Mechanisms. Terrestrial water and energy balance. Carbon input to terrestrial ecosystems. Terrestrial production processes.

Underground, intricate networks of soil fungi underpin the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite their global ...

Soil erosion is widely known for degrading land and reducing agricultural productivity. But new research shows it may also ...

In the Tibetan Plateau, organophosphate tri-esters (tri-OPEs) and di-OPEs in soil and biota of a typical terrestrial food ...

With CMCC’s contribution a new study and database provides scientists with an unprecedented resource for understanding how Earth's land systems store carbon and produce biomass, establishing a ...

Plant species can fulfill different functions within an ecosystem, even if they are closely related to each other. This surprising conclusion was reached by a global analysis of around 1.7 million ...

Forests, grasslands, and other natural areas around the world have access to about a quarter less nitrogen than previously estimated, according to a new study published in Nature. Coauthored by Sarah ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

Prologue / Mingzhen Zhou -- Divisions of non-marine Mesozoic of China and the paleoclimatic implications based on paleobotanical data / Ge Sun -- PaleoecologiCal implications of the fishes and plants ...