Most animals move through their habitats focused on survival rather than construction. They eat, dig, travel, and reproduce ...

Biogenic reefs are naturally occurring structures formed by the collaborative activity of living organisms. These assemblages – often constructed by invertebrates such as polychaete worms – establish ...

Ecosystem engineers are important in shaping the composition of associated communities, including the abundance of species which exert additional influences on the ecosystem. Using an array of 28 ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

The murky world at the bottom of the oceans is now a little clearer, thanks to a new study that tracks the evolution of marine sediment layers across hundreds of millions of years. It is a story of ...

Building a quantum future means thinking like a systems engineer — considering all potential parts of the field and the ecosystem and integrating them efficiently. That’s what the chief quantum ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 29, No. 3 (March 2023), pp. 395-408 (14 pages) Aim: Grazing intensity and fire patterns across the Eurasian steppes have changed dramatically over the past decades ...

Jay Dee Nichols stamped and packed stiff willow branches between maple wood posts, with muffled crunches. At 63, the ...

Manufacturing is ubiquitous in modern life. Our computers, our cars, and many of the products we use daily are created using advanced manufacturing systems. To meet the future needs of manufacturing ...

Dinosaurs were "ecosystem engineers," preventing dense forests from growing. Their sudden demise led to widescale ecological changes, according to a University of Michigan study, as represented here ...