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Water levels, plant life, and wildlife behavior shift constantly. What looks quiet on the surface often reflects ...

Antibiotics that escape into the environment are widely recognized as a growing threat to ecosystems, wastewater treatment ...

With feral horses gone, fragile alpine areas are no longer being trampled by hard hooves. But Kosciuszko’s landscapes will ...

Because predator species are animals that survive by preying on other organisms, they send ripples throughout the food web, regulating the effects other animals have on that ecosystem. Ecologists are ...

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