Researchers Put a Number on Animals’ Earth-Shaping Effects
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Wild animals expend 76,000 gigajoules of energy—the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of monsoons or floods—shaping our planet’s terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
Source: Eos
DOI: 10.1029/2025eo250113
Author: Carolyn Wilke
Language: English
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Life on land, Climate action
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408917291