Burrowing mammals such as prairie dogs, pikas, ground squirrels and other fossorial species play a fundamental role in shaping grassland ecosystems through their digging and foraging activities. By ...

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 ...

Ecosystem engineering in coastal marine habitats refers to the capacity of certain organisms to modify physical and chemical conditions in ways that create or maintain habitats for themselves and ...