by admin | Mar 3, 2018 | Ecology
In 1976, Bruce Menge published a paper in Ecological Monographs reporting the results of his experimental and observation studies on the factors structuring the rocky intertidal community along the New England coast in northeastern United States. This paper, which... by admin | Feb 28, 2018 | Conservation, Ecology
In a paper published in The American Naturalist in 1988, Stuart Pimm, Lee Jones and Jared Diamond explored existing mathematical models and developed theoretical predictions about how risk of extinction would vary between species. Pimm and colleagues then put these... by admin | Feb 24, 2018 | Ecology
In 2008, Nathan Kraft, Renato Valencia and David Ackerly published a paper in Science providing field evidence that suggested that niche-based processes structured the plant community in an Amazonian forest. Kraft et al.’s study came at a time when there was a... by admin | Feb 21, 2018 | Evolution
In 1976, Stephen Stearns published a paper in the Quarterly Review of Biology that reviewed and organized the theoretical ideas, available at the time, about the evolution of life-histories, and provided a vision for future research in this area. This paper, which... by admin | Feb 17, 2018 | Conservation, Ecology
In 1998, in an invited paper in the journal Ecosystems, Simon Levin made a case for the value of viewing ecosystems as complex adaptive systems, in particular to understand the relative roles of the environment and self-organisation in determining system properties....