Among ecologists, historians of science, and environmentalists there is growing interest in the history of ecology. The editor of theJournal of the History of Biology therefore requested that I write a new bibliographic essay to supplement the one published in 1977. My earlier essay, which covered relevant writings from ancient to recent times, concentrated on general ecology and population eco...

Mansour Mesdaghi was born in 1941 in Ghazvin, Iran, where he completed his elementary and high school.After graduation from Gorgan Forest and Range school, he had been employed in Ministry of Natural Resources as a technician in FAO branch of United Nation in collaboration with Dr. D. L. Goodwin, the Range Scientist at Houmand Range Research Station. He received his B.A degree in Economics at T...

The science, this section-journal of Frontiers in Plant Sciences will be covering at great breadth and depth, aims at linking plant responses with the environment. The environmental influences are manifold and include both abiotic and biotic ones. The first include physical and chemical influences, the latter include plant–plant, plant–animal, plant–microbe (incl. virus) interactions. The plant...

Understanding and predicting the adaptive evolution of complex traits in variable natural environments are central problems in plant evolutionary biology that motivate much of Johanna Schmitt’s research. Her work, which integrates plant evolutionary ecology, physiological ecology, and ecological genomics, has made significant contributions toward understanding the genetic basis of ecologically ...

L. Song, X. M. Bao, X. J. Liu, Y. Zhang, P. Christie, A. Fangmeier, and F. S. Zhang College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions of the Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Urumqi 83...

1 Plant-Soil Interactions, Agroscope, Institute for Sustainability Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland, 2 Department of Environmental System Sciences, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, 3 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 4 Landscape Ecology Group, Department of Environmental System Sciences, Institute of...

1 Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, 2 Landscape Dynamics Unit, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 3 Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4 CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, 5 Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Man...