The removal of wolves thus led to the instability of riparian and other environmentally sensitive areas. After the United States Congress passed the original Endangered Species Preservation Act in ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...

Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the ...

A new study reveals the profound ecological effects of wolves and other large carnivores in Yellowstone National Park, ...

The plants once flourished in extensive riparian habitats in southeastern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, but have been reduced to several disconnected clumps in a handful of Southwest wetlands.

Riparian areas make up only 1% of the Southwest ... In 2016 the Service designated 13,973 acres of critical habitat in Arizona,New Mexico and Colorado — areas determined to be essential for protected ...

Riparian areas in the western US comprise a small portion of the landscape, but the study shows how valuable they are because ...