Drylands occupy 43% of the African continent and play an important role in global carbon cycle supporting local livelihoods. Understanding how dryland ecosystems respond to environmental changes, both structurally functionally, is great significance for sustainable management. In this article, we review current remote sensing-based knowledge on ecosystem dynamics main drivers changes. Global CO...

Wetlands are valuable natural capital and sensitive ecosystems facing significant risks from anthropogenic climatic stressors. An assessment of the environmental risk levels for wetlands’ dynamic can provide a better understanding their current ecosystem health functions. Different defined by considering categories probability severity each in environment. Determining provides general overview ...

Ecosystems are dynamic systems and the study of their functioning and evolution requires the development of dynamic biogeochemical models. A wide application and a pronounced development of this type of model has taken place during the last two decades due essentially, to the development of computer technology, which has permitted the handling of very complex mathematical systems, and also to t...

The fossil record has the potential to provide valuable insights into species response to past climate change if paleontological data are combined with appropriate proxies of environmental change. Here we use a novel, multivariate approach that combines a suite of geochemical proxies with high-resolution quantitative macroinvertebrate fossil data to study responses to early Toarcian warming (ca...

How landscape fragmentation affects ecosystems diversity and stability is an important and complex question in ecology with no simple answer, as spatially separated habitats where species live are highly dynamic rather than just static. Taking into account the species dispersal among nearby connected habitats (or patches) through a common dynamic environment, we model the consumer-resource inte...

Mercury has been well known as an environmental pollutant for several decades. As early as the 19501s it was established that emissions of mercury to the environment could have serious effects on human health. These early studies demonstrated that fish and other wildlife from various ecosystems commonly attain mercury levels of toxicological concern when directly affected by mercury-containing ...