These include growth and succession, carbon dioxide balance, water relations, soil processes and chemical cycling. Further chapters discuss comparative productivity, biomass and carbon metabolism.

The focus is on the influence of climate change on agricultural ecosystems and their relevance for agricultural biodiversity, material cycles, food security, and sustainable development. Forest ...

Students in the Forest Ecosystem Science program are drawn to natural and managed forest environments with a blend of curiosity and sense of responsibility. They seek both to understand forest ...

Therefore, CO 2 outgassing from inland waters is assigned to terrestrial ecosystem respiration ... grasslands and forests as the main land-use types. Inland waters are usually not considered ...

Thus, alongside unyielding ecosystem defense and tenacious endangered species protection ... Dead trees serve as important wildlife habitat and contribute to the nutrient cycle, and patches of dead ...

The Forest Ecosystem Science degree is based on a vision that combines professional competency in forest management skills with an enhanced understanding of ecological sciences. Students interested in ...

The study found that forest structures change significantly and DBH–height allometry varies between bamboo and trees in ...

Forests, which cover a third of Earth's land surface, are pivotal in carbon storage and the water cycle, though the full ... respectively. These ecosystems differ in their emissions and cloud ...

are essential for the human communities and wildlife that depend on this ecosystem. However, this delicate natural cycle is under threat. The forest faces many challenges but the most notable are ...