There is now mounting evidence that heritable variation in ecologically relevant traits can be generated through a suite of epigenetic mechanisms, even in the absence of genetic variation. Moreover, recent studies indicate that epigenetic variation in natural populations can be independent from genetic variation, and that in some cases environmentally induced epigenetic changes may be inherited...

DNA barcoding - taxon identification using a standardized DNA region - has received much attention recently, and is being further developed through an international initiative. We anticipate that DNA barcoding techniques will be increasingly used by ecologists. They will be able to not only identify a single species from a specimen or an organism's remains but also determine the species composi...

The ecological debt we’ve incurred is dire. We’ve precipitated climate change that’s within one degree centigrade of the maximum temperature in the past million years. Leading scientists say we have ten years at best to make a massive global shift, an extreme carbon makeover. It’s show-time. We’re entering a drastic period of creative destruction. We’ve already begun to trigger what some ecolog...

MOTIVATION We have created a suite of Java-based software to better provide taxonomic assignments to DNA sequences. We anticipate that the program will be useful for protistologists, virologists, mycologists and other microbial ecologists. The program relies on NCBI utilities including the BLAST software and Taxonomy database and is easily manipulated at the command-line to specify a BLAST cand...

Abstract This study details the results of a survey firms that was conducted to establish baseline for further understanding value arboriculture/commercial urban forestry (ACUF) sector New England Economy, during February and March 2022. The greatest percentage responses came from Massachusetts (45 percent) followed by Connecticut (about 15 Maine 9 percent). Respondents Hampshire, Rhode Island ...