Antibiotics that escape into the environment are widely recognized as a growing threat to ecosystems, wastewater treatment ...

Exploring the adaptive strategies and plant interactions of pyrophilous microbes—those selectively enriched after wildfires due to their metabolic ingenuity—can reveal how these organisms drive ...

Controls on terrestrial ecosystem processes: an historical perspective -- Species and biotic interactions as ecosystem drivers -- Aboveground-belowground interactions as drivers of ecosystem processes ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 430, No. 1/2 (September 2018), pp. 277-289 (13 pages) Aims Ecological forest succession can be influenced by plant-plant interactions that exert contrasting effects on early- and ...

There are ways to accelerate 'ecological succession' and reap the benefits of a food forest in as little as 10 years. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, ...

The boreal forest plays a critical role in regulating global atmospheric carbon dioxide and is highly influenced by wildfire. However, the long-term recovery of forest carbon (C) storage following ...

As a forest ecologist, I study the factors that structure ecosystems, such as landforms and climate, the structure of the ecosystems themselves, especially their vegetation and soils, and the ...