A new video series features the work of Princeton University graduate students and a postdoctoral researcher working in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park.

Kenyan plots show that termite mounds promote ecological health and may slow desertification.

Excerpt text goes here.These mounds, some 10 meters in diameter, hide a network of tiny galleries that rainwater occasionally passes through.

Researchers found that species without thorns thrived in areas favoured by carnivores because plant-eating animals deemed it too risky to graze at these sites.

Carnivores eat herbivores, and herbivores eat plants. So how do plants manage to thrive? Either by growing prickly thorns or by putting down roots in areas where carnivores are more likely to roam.

Diversity is key: Each plant-eating critter played a slightly different part in managing the noxious weed.

Conveying science to a broad audience in a way that is understandable, accurate and entertaining is an important — and challenging — task.

Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was once one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems.

Video series from naturalist Chris Packham, where he reveals the secrets of the natural world.

The regular 'polka-dot' arrangement of termite mounds in East Africa boosts ecosystem productivity, researchers say.

The African savanna has a cornucopia of majestic creatures — lions, elephants and giraffes among them. But behind the scenes, it is the tiny termite that fuels much of this diversity, a new study reports.

The insect, which forms huge states, has a significant impact on the ecosystem of the vast grasslands.

Controlled burning of excessive bushland would give broad-headed snakes the exposed rocky habitat essential for their survival, scientists from the University of Sydney and Stanford University say.

Simulating large mammal extinction, by experimentally excluding them from eating the trees, causes the ant-plant mutualism to break down

Relationships between plant and animal species can be far more complex than had been thought and that even seemingly benign interference can have devastating effects.

At first it may seem counter-intuitive: that preventing large African herbivores from browsing Acacia trees decreases their growth. This, however, is precisely what researchers report

Robert M. Pringle, a doctoral student at Stanford, and colleagues found that ungulate herbivores can cause trophic cascades - not just carnivores.