Hacker News with Generative AI: Ecosystems

Chicago-Sized Iceberg Hid Ancient Ecosystem, Scientists Reveal (gizmodo.com)
Scientists scrutinizing the seafloor beneath a calving iceberg found a remarkable array of living creatures, switching up notions of how the giant chunks of ice affect their immediate environs.

Science, Climate Change, Marine Biology, Icebergs, Ecosystems

40 points by rbanffy 12 days ago | 8 comments

A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems (quantamagazine.org)
Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions among species.

Ecology, Chemistry, Ecosystems, Biology

31 points by rbanffy 28 days ago | 4 comments

A new way to determine whether a species will successfully invade an ecosystem (news.mit.edu)
When a new species is introduced into an ecosystem, it may succeed in establishing itself, or it may fail to gain a foothold and die out. Physicists at MIT have now devised a formula that can predict which of those outcomes is most likely.

Ecology, Biology, Science, Prediction, Ecosystems

3 points by gnabgib 87 days ago | 0 comments

A 'Second Tree of Life' Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn (nytimes.com)
On Thursday, 38 prominent biologists issued a dire warning: Within a few decades, scientists will be able create a microbe that could cause an unstoppable pandemic, devastating crop losses or the collapse of entire ecosystems.

Science, Biology, Pandemics, Ecosystems, Biotechnology

60 points by michae2 112 days ago | 3 comments

The Yellowstone supervolcano destroyed an ecosystem but saved it for us (arstechnica.com)