It is impossible to encompass "Native American Ecology" in a single essay, or even, perhaps, in a single book. This is due in part to the vastness of the available literature and in part to the vastness of the topic-itself. It is also because there is no unitary or single "Native American Ecology"; given the nature of ecology; there are many Native American ecologies. I have therefore elected t...

The biosphere is increasingly dominated by human action. Consequently, ecology must incorporate human behavior. Political ecology, as long as it includes ecology, is a powerful framework for integrating natural and social dynamics. In this paper I present a resilience-oriented approach to political ecology that integrates system dynamics, scale, and cross-scale interactions in both human and na...

Background There is concern in the academic publishing community that it is becoming more difficult to secure reviews for peer-reviewed manuscripts, but much of this concern stems from anecdotal and rhetorical evidence. Methods We examined the proportion of review requests that led to a completed review over a 6-year period (2009-2015) in a mid-tier biology journal (Molecular Ecology). We als...

Network ecologists investigate the structure, function, and evolution of ecological systems using network models and analyses. For example, network techniques have been used to study community interactions (i.e., food-webs, mutualisms), gene flow across landscapes, and the sociality of individuals in populations. The work presented here uses a bibliographic and network approach to (1) document ...

E. COSYNS*, A. DELPORTE*, L. LENS† and M. HOFFMANN*‡ * Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 – S8, Ghent, Belgium, † Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, and ‡ Institute of Nature Conservation, Section Landscape Ecology and Nature Management, Kliniekstraat 25, B-1070 Brussels, Be...

Noelle G. Beckman*†, Claudia Neuhauser and Helene C. Muller-Landau Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA; Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota-Rochester, 300 University Square, 111 S Broadway, Rochester, MN 55904, USA; and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute...

Increasingly, companies use interorganizational information systems to conduct joint business processes, such as automatic replenishment systems and other supply chain initiatives, invoicing and payments, insurance claims processing and numerous other interorganizational processes. Inter-firm networking in turn increases the visibility of information generated and used by business partners. The...

Second Editioni-A popular college text, this book gives the student a clear picture of the interrelationships operating amonig plants. animals, microorganisms and his fellow man. It explains 'what nature "does" as vell as how she "looks."' Presentinig a well balanced synthesis of the entire field of ecology, the textbook combines the funtctional and the descriptive, the aquatic and terrestrial,...