Special Topics in Ecology: Ecology of Greater Yellowstone

Disease Ecology and Wildlife Health in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Investigating the Microbial Ecology of Yellowstone Lake

Yellowstone National Park is well known for its geothermal features. Among microbiologists it is equally well known for its unique microbial ecology and extreme habitats associated with terrestrial hot springs, geysers, and fumaroles. Yellowstone Lake has also been shown to contain geothermal activity, and the presence of hydrothermal vents with water temperatures up to 120 ̊C have been reported...

Fractal Population Ecology Theory

Abstract Purpose - The aim of this paper is to describe the population ecology theory through fractal thinking, an emergent human operating system that is creative, adaptive, healthy, and evolutionary; furthermore, a parallel is drawn between the population ecology model and the fractal structure. Top-down hierarchies are typically characterized by command and control systems of the authority t...

Microbial Ecology and Energetics in Yellowstone Hot Springs

14(1) • Winter 2006 Yellowstone Science ANY ECOSYSTEM on Earth is comprised of all living things (plants, animals, etc.) and non-living things (rocks, soil, water, etc.) in a given geographic area. That area can be on the scale of a landscape, such as the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE, multiple states in size), to the local area around a single hot spring, to the area within some minute di...

Editorial - Special issue on multimedia in ecology

The recent advances in digital cameras and sensors, as well as in network bandwidth and information storage capacities, have revolutionized our ability to capture multimedia data (sounds, images, videos, etc.) for environmental monitoring and are also greatly improving our ability to effectively manage natural resources. Sensors are used increasingly in a range of monitoring or exploratory appl...