Why do some places contain more species than others? Many patterns in the spatial distribution of species have been identified by biogeographers, and many mechanisms have been proposed to explain ...

Darwin, Wallace and the other 19th century naturalists who traveled widely were fascinated by the distribution of animals and plants in their habitats around the world. Why do the Galapagos ...

Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen ...

First someone had to conceive the idea of maps, then someone had to conceive the identity of ecosystems, and then someone ...

Although Friedrich Stromeyer is best remembered for writing one of the founding works in plant geography — the forerunner to modern-day biogeography — his contributions to chemistry should not ...

Microbial ecology, biogeochemical cycles, and plant-microbe interactions. Theoretical (modeling) and experimental approaches are used to study the ecology of microorganisms in natural and disturbed ...