The drought monitor report as of Tuesday, March 11th continues showing a deterioration in conditions. Stafford County and ...

The Soil Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America seeks to promote an understanding of the importance of soil biota among ecologists, soil scientists, and members of related disciplines, ...

For example, ecologists may study microbes living in the soil under your feet or animals and plants in a rain forest or the ocean. The many specialties within ecology, such as marine, vegetation, and ...

We hope that this work will help reverse the trend of soil degradation and ensure future food security. Richard Bardgett / Professor of Ecology, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences ...

Often conjuring images of dank, smelly, mosquito-infested wastelands, upon closer look, wetlands are actually biologically diverse and productive ecosystems. Home to a variety of plant life ...

Moss crusts, an advanced form of biological soil crusts, play a crucial role in stabilizing soil phosphorus levels in desert ...

This profound interdependence has proved difficult to model, and traditional summaries of fire’s ecology point instead to fire’s effects on plants, animals, soil, air, water, and so on.

Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

The Department of Ecosystem Science and Management (ESM) integrates four disciplines: rangeland ecology, hydrology/watershed management, soil science, and entomology. In ESM, our students learn not ...

I am a plant community ecologist working at the interface of ecosystem, landscape and population biology. My goal is to apply cutting-edge “usable” science to the challenges of restoration, species ...

Your studies take you to the places where ecological, social, and biotechnological aspects of natural resources combine, from stream restoration, to invasive species mitigation, to the properties of ...