The loyal reader knows I am an organic gardener. My first book was on the soil food web and popularized the concept that plants produce carbon-based exudates designed to attract specific microbes.

The conversion of rainforest into plantations erodes and restructures food webs and fundamentally changes the way these ecosystems function, according to a new study published in Nature. The findings ...

Researchers invert a classical approach to modeling food webs. Instead of trying to replicate stable, complex ecosystems using simplistic representations of species interactions, the authors' novel ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

In the face of growing global challenges to agricultural sustainability, a new study has uncovered the critical role of soil micro-food web complexity in enhancing soil fertility and promoting crop ...

Sampling snapper on coral reefs to assess their role in complex reef food web dynamics. “When you dive on these beautiful Red Sea reefs, one of the first things that you’ll notice is these snapper ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...