A study by research teams at the National Museum of Natural Science and National Taiwan University has, for the first time, unveiled Taiwan's vanished Pleistocene ecosystem: a warm, arid savanna ...

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Savannas and grasslands in drier climates around the world store more heat-trapping carbon than scientists thought they did and are helping to slow the rate of climate warming, according to a new ...

Grassland provides many services for humans, animals and nature, such as feed production, carbon storage and recreation. Researchers spent two years investigating permanent grassland, its utilization, ...

Savanna ecosystems, spanning grasslands punctuated by scattered trees, are shaped fundamentally by the activities of large mammalian herbivores. Through grazing and browsing, these animals regulate ...

Too often, one ecosystem is overlooked in value and complexity in the workings of our planet. The images of a leveled forest or polluted waterway resonate much more strongly than the increasing ...

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study ...

Rupestrian grasslands form an ecosystem of extremes: covering a mere 0.8% of Brazil’s territory, they are home to 15% of the nation’s flora. Of the 5,700 plant species catalogued, 40% can only be ...

New research into centuries-old Marathi poetry is overturning a powerful myth about India’s landscapes, revealing that the country’s open grasslands are not degraded forests but ancient ecosystems in ...

For centuries, caravans crossing the grasslands of Eurasia carried silk, spices and porcelain. The one that rolled into Hohhot, in northern China, on Monday carried something less tangible: ideas ...