Ecology has a key role in our understanding of the benefits that humans obtain from ecosystems (i.e. ecosystem services). Ecology can also contribute to developing environmentally sound technologies, markets for ecosystem services and approaches to decision-making that account for the changing relationship between humans and ecosystems. These contributions involve basic ecological research on, ...

Cognitive ecology is a term that has been used in environments that are more tightly coupled and purposespecific than environments of everyday life. In this paper I consider cases from a cognitive ethnography of older adults. These cases show the analytical use of understanding the diachronic and synchronic cognitive ecology in which cognitive processes of everyday life occur. Specifically I di...

Abstract This paper offers reflections on the development and potential of a transformative teacher education project as one component Professional Development Programs (PDPs) at Faculty Education comprehensive Canadian university. The work our program is set in Vancouver utilizes lenses social ecology environmental diversity (or SEEDs) to examine roles teachers bringing an awareness local/glob...

0003-3472 2012 The Association for the Study of A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.031 The scientific study of frogs and toads as important systems in behavioural ecology traces its roots to an influential review published in this journal 36 years ago (Wells 1977a, ‘The social behaviour of anuran amphibians’, Animal Behaviour, 25, 666e693). In just 28 pages, Wells summarized the stat...