His book describing ecosystem insights from across the globe, “Why Ecosystems Matter, Preserving the Key to Our Survival,” ...

Population and ecosystem approaches in ecology -- The maintenance and functional consequences of species diversity -- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning -- Food webs, interaction webs, and ...

Ecology is the study of interactions between organisms and their environment. It's a broad field, spanning biology, engineering, policy, and environmental management. There are numerous ecology ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Parasites and competitors -- 3. Parasites and predators -- 4. Parasites and intraguild predation -- 5. Plant pathogens and parasitic plants -- 6. Parasites and invasions -- 7.

Agent-based models (ABMs) simulate interactions between autonomous agents in constrained environments over time and are often used for modeling the spread of infectious diseases. ABMs use information ...

What is ecology? The word “ecology” was proposed by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866. It means the study of the ...

1. Little is known about the interactive effects of multiple forms of disturbance – natural or anthropogenic – on plant population dynamics. This limits our ability to understand the drivers of these ...

ECOSYSTEM AND WHY IT ACTUALLY MAY BE DECLINING. >> THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT FEAR BATS. USUALLY WHEN PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF BATS, IT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THEM OR DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THEM ...

DURHAM, N.C. – The hunter-versus-hunted phenomenon exemplified by a pack of lionesses chasing down a lonely gazelle has been recreated in a Petri dish with lowly bacteria. Working with colleagues at ...

Biologists have challenged old notions that communities with mutualistic interactions -- where the presence of one species benefits another -- are unstable. Their model, instead, shows that such ...