Take, for example, Water User Associations (WUAs), which are statutory bodies set up in different States since the 1990s to ...

Species play essential roles in ecosystems, so local and global species losses could threaten the stability of the ecosystem services on which humans depend (McCann 2000). For example, plant ...

Organisms within an ecosystem are organised into levels ... of all species remain relatively constant over time. In the example above the amount of grass, and the numbers of rabbits and foxes ...

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service ... scale impacts on whole ecosystems as well as the entire planet. For example, destruction of rainforests that hold a significant amount of ...

Primary consumers Usually eat plant material - they are herbivores. For example rabbits, caterpillars, cows and sheep. Secondary consumers Usually eat animal material - they are carnivores.