The movement of lizards around the Caribbean is forcing researchers to account for human activity in even their most basic ecological models. When Matthew Helmus was about eight years old and ...

In a new column called Green Thumbs Up, I’ll be exploring various environmental projects and ideas affecting green-friendly regions across the world. Cities and towns evolved from trading centers ...

Wetlands : an overview -- Flooding -- Fertility -- Disturbance -- Competition -- Herbivory -- Burial -- Other factors -- Diversity -- Zonation : shorelines as a prism ...

It is no secret that nowadays, there's a steady rise in attention paid by society to environmental problems, with various ecological crises haunting mankind more and more regularly. Modern society has ...

“Civic Ecology” by Marianne E. Krasny and Keith G. Tidball looks at communities across the world that have been affected by crisis or disaster. Civic Ecology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...

When disturbances upset the balance of a forest, field, or stream, ecologists practice ecological restoration to assist ecosystem recovery. In "Gut Microbiota and Human Health: Insights from ...

A series of laboratory exercises to supplement and illustrate lectures of 81.315. Field trips are an integral part of the course involving sampling and analysis of such ecosystem components as water, ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—An upcoming speaker at Western Michigan University will share her insights about how broadly applying ecological principles can lead to better-designed societies. In her talk, titled ...

ABSTRACT. Ecological restoration is becoming a main component in nature management; hence, its definitions and interpretations of the underlying principles are widely discussed. In Denmark, ...

Sixty-six-year-old master oven builder Alan Scott likes to claim that he was the first hippie in Southern Australia. The founder of Ovencrafters in Petaluma says his business is "guided by Gandhian ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recent catastrophes in environmental management, such as population collapses in oceanic fisheries, have led environmental activists and ...

I disagree with your advice to stop searching for universal principles in ecology (Nature 507, 139–140; 2014). It is fortunate that Darwin held no such view. And in this era of big data, big theories ...