Nonacademic Niches for Professional Ecologists

Epigenetics for ecologists.

There is now mounting evidence that heritable variation in ecologically relevant traits can be generated through a suite of epigenetic mechanisms, even in the absence of genetic variation. Moreover, recent studies indicate that epigenetic variation in natural populations can be independent from genetic variation, and that in some cases environmentally induced epigenetic changes may be inherited...

DNA barcoding for ecologists.

DNA barcoding - taxon identification using a standardized DNA region - has received much attention recently, and is being further developed through an international initiative. We anticipate that DNA barcoding techniques will be increasingly used by ecologists. They will be able to not only identify a single species from a specimen or an organism's remains but also determine the species composi...

nongenetic inheritance for behavioral ecologists

Avital E, Jablonka E. 2000. Animal Traditions: Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press. Burton FD. 1972. The integration of biology and behavior in the socialization of Macaca sylvana of Gibraltar. In: Poirier FE, editor. Primate Socialization. New York: Random House, p. 29–62. Curley JP, Champagne FA, Bateson P, Keverne EB. 2008. Transgenerational effec...

Systems Modelling: a Tool for Ecologists

This paper is designed as an introduction to the two papers that follow. It opens with remarks about the nature of systems ecology before discussing its principal technique, systems modelling. This is followed by two simple agricultural examples and a brief discussion of the potential of systems modelling in ecology. More comprehensive treatments can be found in Walters (1971), Patten (1971), a...

Quantitative Methods for Ecologists Fnr 693e