BESTMAP is hosting the project’s first Summer School on modelling policy impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity. The event will take place in Olomouc, Czech Republic on September 12–16, 2022 ...

Tipping points are the death of ecosystems. So scientists watch as warning signs gradually worsen until an ecosystem reaches the point of no return, when animal populations suddenly collapse. While ...

WWF and its partners announce the winners of a call for grants launched earlier this year to undertake research in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Modelling Scenarios. Better understanding the ...

Biological communities are rarely stable. Their composition is constantly changing, depending on the environmental conditions in the respective ecosystems—and sometimes this change is so vast that ...

The low-latitude highlands region of southwestern China experienced two major climate events in recent years: a severe ...

Researchers invert a classical approach to modeling food webs. Instead of trying to replicate stable, complex ecosystems using simplistic representations of species interactions, the authors' novel ...

The natural productivity of ecosystems, farming practices and mortality events drive the rearing density and growth of oysters in shellfish farming areas. The variability of these drivers, which can ...

Sea urchins climb onto kelp when their densities are so high they remove all drift kelp and then actively forage on attached, living kelp. (Credit: Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS) Tipping points are the ...

WWF, Swiss Re Foundation, EY and AXA Research Fund launch a call for proposals in the light of a brand new Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Scenarios Modelling Initiative that aims to improve ...