Ten years after DNA barcoding was initially suggested as a tool to identify species, millions of barcode sequences from more than 1100 species are available in public databases. While several studies have reviewed the methods and potential applications of DNA barcoding, most have focused on species identification and discovery, and relatively few have addressed applications of DNA barcoding dat...

ecological destruction in human-dominated landscapes has significant impacts on environment sustainability internationally. landscape planning can play a role in mitigating the effects of human-related activities. one element of landscape planning involves the analysis of the biological, spatial and social arrangement of areas in an urban environment and identifying characteristics that are und...

A central theme of John Lythgoe’s book “The Ecology of Vision” (Lythgoe, 1979) was that of adaptation: the matching between an organism’s phenotype and its natural environment. In “The Ecology of Vision”, numerous adaptations of animal visual systems were identified, covering diverse aspects of life related to vision including ocular anatomy, visual physiology, biochemistry, behaviour, diet and...

1. Ecological immunology and disease ecology are two relatively young disciplines that apply ecological approaches and principles to traditionally non-ecological fields. In both cases, an ecological perspective has allowed new insights to emerge by focusing attention on variation over space and time, and by emphasizing the role of the environment in shaping individual responses and the outcome ...

Deep ecology is a relatively new and highly controversial environmental philosophy, laid out in eight basic principles as a guide for how human thought needs to change concerning the environment and the world around us. My project consists of a research paper which looks into what deep ecology is, how it has been received with society, including praises and criticisms, the role humans play in t...

Reviews the available literature on the ecology of the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), including its selection of and use of hibernacula, roost trees, and foraging habitat. An extensive list of published references related to the Indiana bat is included.

This special session emphasizes the dual roles of both theory and applications of dynamical systems and di↵erential equations to mathematical models in biology and medicine. Recent advances within mathematical ecology (including competition between species, predator-prey and cooperative systems, and evolutionary theory) will be presented alongside those for mathematical models in various fields...

The publication, in 1958, of Charles Elton’s book The ecology of invasions by animals and plants launched the systematic study of biological invasions. Invasion ecology has grown to become an important multi-disciplinary subfield of ecology with growing links to many other disciplines. This paper examines the citation history of Elton’s book using the Web of Science. We also examine Elton’s inf...

mycorrhizal symbiosis increase nutrient uptake and enhance plant growth by elaborating root system. the positive effects of mycorrhizal symbiosis on the growth, physiology and ecology of various plants have been recognized. the symbiotic relations between mycorrhizal fungi and date palm with regard to nutrient uptake by this plant have not yet been explored and studied in iran. this project was...

This article is addressed to researchers and students in theoretical ecology, as an introduction to “disordered systems” approaches from statistical physics, and how they can help understand large ecological communities. We discuss the relevance of these approaches, and how they fit within the broader landscape of models in community ecology. We focus on a remarkably simple technique, the cavit...