This Spotlight Earth episode explores the intricate relationships between plants, animals, and their environment at the Virginia Aquarium’s Coastal River Room. You’ll discover how biotic and ...

While food-based sources of prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics have long been linked to improved health and reduced ...

2. Living Things in Ecosystems (a) Ecosystem. Concept of ecosystems to be explained: biotic and abiotic structures, organisms and species, populations, communities. (b) Habitat and ecological niche.

Driving along the Stuart Highway from Tennant Creek to Katherine in Australia's Northern Territory, you might be more aware ...

Gene cloning in wheat has long been hampered by its exceptionally large and complex genome, and long life cycle. Here, the authors report an optimized, high-throughput disease resistance gene ...

Plants, animals, and decomposers (bacteria and fungi) return CO2 to the atmosphere through respiration. The movement of carbon through biotic components of the environment is known as the fast ...

Si feedback has allowed our planet to maintain surface water and habitability for billions of years. The question is, can the Cb-Si cycle be understood in terms of a population of exoplanets? If it ...

Brown bears follow food sources rather than temperature, with climate change reshuffling their continental menu.

June 9, 2025 • The Dog Aging Project is a long-term nationwide survey on the health and lifestyles of U.S. dogs that launched in 2019. Today, the project has more than 50,000 canines and ...

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...