Ecology, the optimistic science

The New Science of Molecular Ecology

David Lambert was born in Toowoomba, Australia and his initial degrees were at the University of Queensland. He later studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for his PhD. He was appointed at the University of Auckland in 1980 and was, until recently, Leader of the Ecology and Evolution Research Group in the School of Biological Sciences and Director of Auckland University...

The Science and Values of Restoration Ecology

It has been 22 years since William Jordan III and the University of Wisconsin Arboretum published the first issue of Restoration and Management Notes, 16 years since the founding of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), and 10 years since SER published the first issue of its flagship journal, Restoration Ecology. In this short time, restoration ecology has become a leader in North Ameri...

Ecology And The Science Of Psychology.

The information science of microbial ecology.

A revolution is unfolding in microbial ecology where petabytes of 'multi-omics' data are produced using next generation sequencing and mass spectrometry platforms. This cornucopia of biological information has enormous potential to reveal the hidden metabolic powers of microbial communities in natural and engineered ecosystems. However, to realize this potential, the development of new technolo...

Urban ecology: advancing science and society

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America I proposing the ecosystem as an organizational framework, Tansley (1935) explicitly included the effects of humans. When asking, “Is man part of ‘nature’ or not?”, Tansley concluded that “human activity finds its proper place in ecology”. Nowhere is the human–nature interface more unmistakable than in urban ecosystems, and urban eco...