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 ...

All major components of our environment - land ... and biodiversity loss have detrimental effects on the very ecosystem services that support local communities, national economies, and overall human ...

[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 ...

At the ecosystem level, the total growth of all ... and Resource-Use Species diversity has two primary components: species richness (the number of species in a local community) and species ...