The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

Forests cover about 30% of the world’s land area and play a crucial role in absorbing and releasing carbon. A key part of this process is soil respiration, which is the release of CO 2 from soil as ...

Our ecosystem is composed of both biotic and abiotic components. Both of these components have stark differences between them and it is important to understand to gain a better understanding of how ...

Although the ecological success of introduced species hinges on biotic interactions and physical conditions, few experimental studies—especially on animals—have simultaneously investigated the ...

Between 1989 and 1998, 3,504 rodents of the genera Dipodomys and Perognathus were collected from 4 permanent collecting sites on the University of New Mexico's Long Term Ecological Research station, ...