W. Thomas Boyce, Marla B. Sokolowski, and Gene E. Robinson School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada; ExperienceBased Brain and Biological Development Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada M5G 1Z8; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Dev...

We live in a culture of contest and protest. Our economic, political, and legal institutions are structured as contests. Our efforts to reform these institutions frequently are characterized by protest. This article examines the social and ecological implications of this culture of contest and protest. It begins by demonstrating that our economic, political, and legal institutions form an integ...

Keywords: association chinook salmon clustering foraging group living killer whale Orcinus orca prey social dynamics social organization For the majority of social species, group composition is dynamic, and individuals are interconnected in a heterogeneous social network. Social network structure has far-reaching implications for the ecology of individuals and populations. However, we have litt...

This study develops a research model that explains the continuance of corporate social network service (SNS) pages. In order to find antecedents that influence end users’ continuance intention, this study adopts communicative ecology theory frommedia and communication studies. Results indicate that the quality of social interaction is the most salient feature, as indicated by the fact that it h...

Daniel T. Blumstein,a,b Matthew B. Petelle,a and Tina W. Weyc aDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095–1606, USA, bThe Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, PO Box 519, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA, and cDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 956...

Schelling [Schelling, T., 1969. Models of segregation. American Economic Review 59, 488–493; Schelling, T., 1971a. Dynamic models of segregation. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 1, 143–186; Schelling, T., 1971b. On the ecology of micromotives. The Public Interest 25, 61–98; Schelling, T., 1978. Micromotives and Macrobehavior. W.W. Norton and Company, New York] considered a model with individu...

Ecology is a synthetic discipline benefiting from open access to data from the earth, life, and social sciences. Technological challenges exist, however, due to the dispersed and heterogeneous nature of these data. Standardization of methods and development of robust metadata can increase data access but are not sufficient. Reproducibility of analyses is also important, and executable workflows...

The assembly of ecological communities from a pool of species is central to ecology, but the effect of this process on properties of community interaction networks is still largely unknown. Here, we use a systematic analytical framework to describe how assembly from a species pool gives rise to community network properties that differ from those of the pool: Compared to the pool, the community ...

HELEN E. FOX,∗‡‡ CAROLINE CHRISTIAN,† J. CULLY NORDBY,‡ OLIVER R. W. PERGAMS,§ GARRY D. PETERSON,∗∗ AND CHRISTOPHER R. PYKE†† ∗Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, PO Box 1346, Kaneohe, HI 96744, U.S.A. †Department of Environmental Studies and Planning, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, U.S.A. ‡Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of the Environment, Univer...