Abandonment, Ecological Assembly and Public Health Risks in Counter-Urbanizing Cities

Antibiotic Resistance in Environment and its Public Health Risks in Iran

Predicting ecological connectivity in urbanizing landscapes

Nearly half the world's population lives in urban centers, and these areas are increasingly important components of regional and global land cover. However, their ecological attributes are often overlooked, despite the presence of species, ecosystem services, and risks associated with the spread of pests or threatening processes such as fire. Movement and dispersal of organisms contribute to sp...

Ecological Approaches in the New Public Health

In stark contrast to individual-level approaches to health promotion, ecological approaches target multiple influences of health behavior, because changing individuals and their behaviors may be temporary without corresponding changes to the environment in which they are embedded. Using an ecological approach, supportive environmental factors are considered when designing effective and sustaina...

The Application of Ecological Principles to Urban and Urbanizing Landscapes

gene sequencers through advanced computers and networking to global-observing satellites-coupled with keen scientific curiosity present an opportunity for unprecedented advances. Together, we can make ecological science a mainstay of sustainability. While pursuing that goal, we need to ensure that our best efforts are made available to society along the way. The time of science remaining in its...

Altered Ecological Flows Blur Boundaries in Urbanizing Watersheds

The relevance of the boundary concept to ecological processes has been recently questioned. Humans in the post-industrial era have created novel lateral transport fluxes that have not been sufficiently considered in watershed studies. We describe patterns of land-use change within the Potomac River basin and demonstrate how these changes have blurred traditional ecosystem boundaries by increasi...