New research has found that sharks retained high levels of functional diversity for most of the last 66 million years, before steadily declining over the last 10 million years to its lowest value in ...

Previous studies have shown that soil organic carbon (SOC) influences the provision of edaphic ecosystem services, making it a key indicator of soil health under sustainable land use management and ...

“We wanted to find out how large the temporal changes in functional diversity are across different regions of the Earth, and whether simple data collection methods can provide the information we need.

Using specimens collected off the coast of North Carolina, scientists have demonstrated for the first time that functional diversity can be accurately inferred from the marine fossil record.

Wheat is the most widely cultivated crop in the world; over 215 million hectares are grown annually. To meet the demands of a growing global population, plant breeders face the challenge of increasing ...

Researchers compiled a dataset of 209 crustacean and 155 mollusk species from 16 mangrove forests around the world. They found that mangroves, when compared with other ecosystems, are among those with ...