Economics and ecology are often presented as opposing disciplines. Both fields have strengths and weaknesses. A new transdisciplinary field, ecological economics, attempts to bring together the strengths of both disciplines with a vision for a sustainable future. In this paper, we focus on one particular concept championed by ecological economists, natural capital. In particular, our interest i...

Pieter A. Zuidema*, Eelke Jongejans, Pham D. Chien, Heinjo J. During and Feike Schieving Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands; Experimental Plant Ecology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Forest Science Institute of Vietnam, Dong Ngac, Tu Liem, Han...

Forest Carbon Accounting H. Balzter, C. Rowland, R. Milne, O. Stebler, G. Patenaude, T. Dawson and P. Saich Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Monks Wood Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, PE28 2LS, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1487 772400 Fax: +44 (0) 1487 773467 Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Edinburgh, Bush Estate, UK 3 University of Zürich-Irchel, Switzerland Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford...

Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, 105 Wilkeson Quadrangle, Buffalo, NY 14261, USA Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Rd., Falmouth, MA 02540, USA Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1...

Understanding ecological linkages between above- and below-ground biota is critical for deepening our knowledge on the maintenance and stability of ecosystem processes. Nevertheless, direct comparisons of plant-microbe diversity at the community level remain scarce due to the knowledge gap between microbial ecology and plant ecology. We compared the α- and β- diversities of plant and soil bacte...

After an initial lag phase dedicated to the sequencing of easily cultured saprotrophic fungi (among the first three published genomes were the models Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Neurospora crassa) and species of biomedical, agricultural or biotechnological interest, genomics is now poised to rapidly permeate the fields of fungal ecology and evolution. As regards myco...

Contemporary terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is being used widely in forest ecology applications to examine ecosystem properties at increasing spatial and temporal scales. Harvard Forest (HF) in Petersham, MA, USA, is a long-term ecological research (LTER) site, a National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) location and contains a 35 ha plot which is part of Smithsonian Institution's Forest...

Differences in Information Use and Preferences Among Recreational Salmon Anglers: Implications for Management Initiatives to Promote Responsible Fishing Vivian M. Nguyen a b , Murray A. Rudd b , Scott G. Hinch c & Steven J. Cooke d a Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada b Environment Department, University of York, H...

Q:1; 2; 3 phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant Q:4; 5; 6 functional traits in a neotropical forest Steven W. Kembel, Timothy K. O’Connor, Holly K. Arnold, Stephen P. Hubbell, S. Joseph Wright, and Jessica L. Green Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec a ̀ Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Q:7 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tu...

1 Plant-Soil Interactions, Agroscope, Institute for Sustainability Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland, 2 Department of Environmental System Sciences, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, 3 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 4 Landscape Ecology Group, Department of Environmental System Sciences, Institute of...