Ecosystems

There’s more recognition that ecological restoration can be an essential tool in fighting climate change, and there are many projects aimed at restoring degraded forests to capture carbon. Still, the focus on forests ignores much of the land in the tropics that would not naturally be forested. A tea

El aumento de la temperatura y la disminución de la precipitación puede incrementar el potencial invasor de esta planta de origen sudafricano que ya ocupa zonas costeras templadas de todo el mundo.

Rising temperatures and decreasing levels of precipitation can magnify the invasive potential of this South African plant that has already taken over temperate coasts around the world.

In the waters of a river in Tabasco grows a population of red mangrove: a lost world whose origins can be traced back to the last glaciation.

En las aguas de un río en Tabasco, México, crece una población de mangle rojo: un mundo perdido cuyos orígenes se remontan a la última glaciación.

The effects of climate change, fire frequency and defaunation, acting together, negatively affect the structure and function of the Brazilian savanna.