Water quality is a cornerstone of aquatic ecosystem health, with implications that extend from local water management to global environmental policy. Recent technological advances have markedly ...

The consequences of climate change are evidenced, inter alia, by changes in biodiversity. A key task of biodiversity research is to record the current situation, study processes within ecosystems and ...

Productivity and stability of forest ecosystems strongly depend on the functional diversity of plant communities. Researchers have developed a new method to measure and map functional diversity of ...

Satellite remote sensing has transformed environmental law enforcers into clairvoyants thanks to an app on drinking water sources developed by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, People's Daily ...

The "Optical Remote Sensing of Water" team in Berlin-Adlershof develops algorithms for the interpretation of optical remote sensing data from coastal and inland waters for monitoring and assessing ...

The most common and accepted definition of permafrost refers to the thermal conditions of the subsurface earth. Permafrost is defined as soil, rock, and any other subsurface earth material that exists ...

This Research Topic is centered on the complex physiological processes plants undergo when responding to stress, which often occur at the organ and tissue levels. Traditionally, the focus has been on ...