2024年12月18日 · Maintaining species richness in the biosphere ensures the productivity and stability of ecosystem processes, making it critical to monitor vegetation and wildlife health and prevent their loss. There are many human causes of biodiversity loss on Earth, including deforestation, agricultural development, urbanization, water and air pollution, and ...

2025年1月23日 · Data on vegetation health, primary productivity, evapotranspiration, forest structure, and ocean chlorophyll shed light on the health and productivity of the biosphere. NASA data can also be used to study the suitability of an environment for different species, as well as species distribution within a habitat.

2025年1月30日 · An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system. These biotic and abiotic components are regarded as linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. As ecosy

2025年1月17日 · Nutrient cycling is the repeated pathway of particular nutrients or elements from the environment through one or more organisms back to the environment. Nutrient cycles include the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the phosphorus cycle, and so on. Definition source: University of Buffalo

2025年1月22日 · The biosphere encompasses all life on Earth and extends from root systems to mountaintops and all depths ...

The biosphere encompasses all life on Earth and extends from root systems to mountaintops and all depths ...

Explore Learning Resources. NASA’s massive archive of Earth science data are free and open to any user for any purpose—but accessing, analyzing, visualizing, and applying these data requires a certain degree of knowledge about Earth observation data and how it is collected and optimized.

Water, snow, and ice are necessary for sustaining life on Earth and help connect the planet's systems. The terrestrial hydrosphere includes water on the land surface and underground in the form of lakes, rivers, and groundwater along with total water storage.

2025年1月23日 · The practice of conservation aims to manage Earth’s biosphere for long-term benefits to you, everyone else on Earth, and all future inhabitants of the planet. This might involve creating nature reserves, working to protect endangered species, and preventing deforestation.

2025年1月30日 · NASA’s Earth-observing instruments measure photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) to aid the study of vegetation, phytoplankton, and ecosystems.