Microbial ecology is the ecology of microorganisms; that is, the study of the relationship among microorganisms and between microorganisms and their environment. Millions of dollars and countless hours are currently spent by enthusiast scientists, microbiologists and bioinformaticians from all over the world to elucidate the characteristics and biological mechanisms behind the ecology of microo...

Contemporary conservation science benefits from the perspectives of a variety of different disciplines, including a recent synergy with physiology, an interface known as 'conservation physiology'. To evaluate the degree of interaction between conservation and animal/plant physiology, we conducted three bibliometric analyses. We first pursued the use of the term 'conservation physiology' since i...

Patterns of animal activity provide important insight into hypotheses in animal behavior, physiological ecology, behavioral ecology, as well as population and community ecology. Understanding patterns of animal activity in field settings is often complicated by the need for expensive equipment and time-intensive methods that limit data collection. Because animals must be active to be detected, ...

a Palynology and Palaeoecology Lab, Botanical Institute of Barcelona (CSIC-ICUB), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038 Barcelona, Spain b Dep. of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Campus Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain c Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Scott Hall Room 108, 1090 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA d Department of ...

Thomas Chrobock*, Christiane N. Weiner, Michael Werner, Nico Bl€ uthgen‡, Markus Fischer and Mark van Kleunen Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, Switzerland; Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Z€ ahringerstrasse 25, 3012 Bern, Switzerland; Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biozentrum, University of W€ urzb...

Charles Darwin made numerous seminal contributions to the study of animal behavior over his long career. This essay places these contributions in the context of Darwin's life, showing his long-standing interest in psychological and behavioral issues encompassing all species, including humans. Ten areas are highlighted: natural history; communication; sexual selection and courtship; comparative ...

1 INRA, UR1197 NeuroBiologie de l’Olfaction, Jouy-en-Josas, France, 2 Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Polish Academy of Science, Jastrzebiec, Poland, 3 Adaptation Physiology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, 4 Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, 5 Department of Environmental and Health Studies, Telemark U...

synopsis. An understanding of interactions between the thermal physiology and ecology of ectotherms remains elusive, partly because information on the relative performance of whole-animal physiological systems at ecologically relevant body temperatures is limited. After discussing physiological systems that have direct links to ecology (e.g., growth, locomotor ability), we review analytical met...

About 10 years ago, reviews of the use of stable isotopes in animal ecology predicted explosive growth in this field and called for laboratory experiments to provide a mechanistic foundation to this growth. They identified four major areas of inquiry: (1) the dynamics of isotopic incorporation, (2) mixing models, (3) the problem of routing, and (4) trophic discrimination factors. Because these ...