When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few think to look up. Yet the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, may be the largest habitat on the planet.

This area was targeted for habitat alteration through prescribed burning. Notice the mosaic created by the burn in the low-elevation areas, as well as burned timber pockets higher on the face to ...

I joined the rangeland ecology faculty in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management in summer 2007. My research interests lie in wildlife habitat ecology and restoration ecology with a focus ...

As flooding, wind and landslides from Tropical Storm Helene devastated lives and property across parts of Southern Appalachia, the storm also wrought ecological destruction. Biologists and other ...

Edge effects are the changes in biodiversity that occur inside the space surrounding the shared edge of two or more distinct ecosystems. This transitional zone rich in biodiversity is known as the ...

Habitat loss is a great cause of wildlife endangerment. You can help in your home garden by creating a wildlife habitat with ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A key shortcoming in our understanding of exotic species' success is that it is not known how post-introduction dispersal contributes to the ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. − As flooding, wind and landslides from Tropical Storm Helene devastated lives and property across parts of Southern Appalachia, the storm also wrought ecological destruction.

Most studies consider aboveground plant species richness as a representative biodiversity measure. This approach inevitably assumes that the partitioning of total plant species richness into above- ...