Decomposition is essential to all ecosystems, both on land and in the ocean. In marine environments, decomposition and ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are working to understand how warming affects the planet’s carbon cycle.

A research team reveals that temperature strongly reshapes the genetic machinery microbes use to process carbon in water ...

New research has revealed how the history of life can be distorted by the ways animals decompose and lose body parts as they decay -- and the ways in which decayed bodies ultimately become fossilized.

A science project at the College of Saint Mary is attracting the attention of the Nebraska Humane Society. Forensic students at the college are studying how animals decompose, using dead pigs to ...

Small animals that decompose fallen leaves in the forest form complex food webs and are essential to a functioning ecosystem. A study comprising over 80 forests in Germany and on Sumatra (Indonesia) ...

Ecological Bulletins, No. 32, Structure and Function of Northern Coniferous Forests: An Ecosystem Study (1980), pp. 401-409 (9 pages) The role of the mites Phthiracarus spp. and Rhysotritia ardua and ...