The health of ecosystems is therefore not only essential to the environment, but also important to the existence and development of human society. As components of ecosystems, human beings and ...

An ecosystem is like a community and shows how all the living and non-living components are connected. These connections can be seen in a forest ecosystem where salmon is vital for the stability ...

The biotic parts of the ecosystem, which include bacteria, flora and fauna, have a complex relationship with the abiotic components - changing one will lead to a change in the other.

Resilience is a somewhat different aspect of stability indicating the ability of an ecosystem to return to ... Use Species diversity has two primary components: species richness (the number ...

[Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on predicting consistent patterns of interactions in different ecosystems in terms of the relationships among and between organisms and abiotic components of ...

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 ...