Biogenic reefs are naturally occurring structures formed by the collaborative activity of living organisms. These assemblages – often constructed by invertebrates such as polychaete worms – establish ...

Ecosystem engineers are important in shaping the composition of associated communities, including the abundance of species which exert additional influences on the ecosystem. Using an array of 28 ...

1. Multiyear precipitation "legacies" can have stronger effects on plant community composition than rainfall in the current growing season, but variation in the magnitude of these effects is not fully ...

The murky world at the bottom of the oceans is now a little clearer, thanks to a new study that tracks the evolution of marine sediment layers across hundreds of millions of years. It is a story of ...

Building a quantum future means thinking like a systems engineer — considering all potential parts of the field and the ecosystem and integrating them efficiently. That’s what the chief quantum ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Without maintenance from nature’s “ecosystem engineers,” many of the nation’s once multi-threaded streams also became ...

Dinosaurs were "ecosystem engineers," preventing dense forests from growing. Their sudden demise led to widescale ecological changes, according to a University of Michigan study, as represented here ...

Manufacturing is ubiquitous in modern life. Our computers, our cars, and many of the products we use daily are created using advanced manufacturing systems. To meet the future needs of manufacturing ...

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — In April, the Program Executive Office Soldier introduced its Architectural Assessment Tool, or AAT — a first-of-its-kind government-owned digital engineering ecosystem. The new ...