1) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60607, USA (e-mail: [email protected]) 2) Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, 84 990, Israel (e-mail: [email protected]) 3) Department of Live Sciences and Mitrani Department of Desert Ecol...

A. C. Driskell, Lab of Analytical Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Inst., 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746 USA. R. O. Prum, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale Univ., Box 208105, New Haven, CT 06520 USA. S. Pruett-Jones ([email protected]), Dept of Ecology and Evolution, Univ. of Chicago, 1101 East 57th S...

the theory of urban ecology is based on explaining urban spatial structure, studying and describing the reciprocal relationship between human societies in the urban areas and the environment, as well as analyzing the circumstances of urban population segregation and production of everyday life spaces. to study and explain urban ecological structure of mashhad, the case study of the article, we ...

Jacopo Grilli, ∗ Matteo Adorisio, Samir Suweis, Gyuri Barabás, Jayanth R. Banavar, Stefano Allesina, 4 and Amos Maritan Dept. of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL 60637, USA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy “Galileo Galilei”, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Computation Institute, Unive...

Theo Gibbs, Jacopo Grilli, Tim Rogers, and Stefano Allesina 3, 4 Dept. of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL 60637, USA Centre for Networks and Collective Behaviour, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath. Claverton Down Bath BA2 7AY United Kingdom. Computation Institute, University of Chicago. Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern ...

For a time, I thought Conservation Ecology, by one criterion, would be the best but least read journal in the world. Our rejection rate for the first half-dozen submitted manuscripts was 100%. Now, a high rate of rejection is much treasured by science journals as testament to the rigor of their content -but 100%? Some of our rejections were clearly appropriate, but others seemed to reflect a ve...

iran contains 33 named endemic fish species, which together with undescribed taxa, approximates one-third of the ichthyofauna. endemism in relatively large species such as fishes, which are better known systematically than other taxa, can often serve to indicate areas in need conservation. an analysis of endemicity is given in terms of systematics, distribution and ecology.