Introduction to the Symposium—Chemicals that Organize Ecology: Towards a Greater Integration of Chemoreception, Neuroscience, Organismal Biology, and Chemical Ecology

Introduction to the Symposium--Chemicals that Organize Ecology: Towards a Greater Integration of Chemoreception, Neuroscience, Organismal Biology, and Chemical Ecology.

Ecology as a process is shaped by biotic and abiotic influences. In some cases, a single type of chemical can have effects on an ecosystem, effects that are disproportionate to its relative mass, such that the ecosystem would organize differently in the absence of this type of chemical. The hallmark examples are those ‘‘molecules of keystone significance’’ (Ferrer and Zimmer 2012), such as the ...

Ecology and biology of chemoreception in polychaetes

Nervous system and sensory structure morphologies provide useful information for reconstructing phylogenetic relationships among the Polychaeta, Annelida, and Arthropoda. With the more common use of indirect immunocytochemistry and laser scanning confocal microscopy methods, the detailed information available from morphological studies has increased. Despite this wealth of information, developi...

Introduction to Watershed Ecology

Introduction to Watershed Ecology http://www.epa.gov/watertrain 1 NOTICE: This PDF file was adapted from an on-line training module of the EPA’s Watershed Academy Web, found at http://www.epa.gov/watertrain. To the extent possible, it contains the same material as the on-line version. Some interactive parts of the module had to be reformatted for this noninteractive text presentation. A self-te...

Towards a closer integration of environmental education and industrial ecology

Industrial processes are known to have different levels of impact on the environment and, as a result, there is a need to foster knowledge of the environmental consequences of industrial activities and check those against their benefits. One of the ways of achieving this is by applying the concepts of industrial ecology to industry’s day-to-day life. Another possible way of pursuing this goal i...

Integrating parasitology and marine ecology: Seven challenges towards greater synergy