Understand the basics of how energy moves through an ecosystem by learning about the food web and the different classifications organisms in the web.

The energy flow through the ecosystem of a typical Apatani village in Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India was studied. The energy and economic efficiency of the rice agro-ecosystem of this region ...

Plants obtain their energy from the sun. Other beings rely on eating to survive. Yet how does the energy flow inside ecosystems function and are there differences between ecosystems with many ...

R. L. Lindeman's empirically based generalizations that both progressive efficiencies and percent of energy lost due to respiration increase with trophic level appeared contradictory, because he ...

But scientists are now reporting the discovery of an ecosystem buried under the ice of one of these glaciers that stretches the definition of unusual well past the breaking point.

More information: Yuliya Vystavna et al, Predicting river flow dynamics using stable isotopes for better adaptation to climate and land-use changes, Nature Water (2024).