Editorial: Advances in Ungulate Ecology

Stopover ecology of a migratory ungulate.

1. Birds that migrate long distances use stopover sites to optimize fuel loads and complete migration as quickly as possible. Stopover use has been predicted to facilitate a time-minimization strategy in land migrants as well, but empirical tests have been lacking, and alternative migration strategies have not been considered. 2. We used fine-scale movement data to evaluate the ecological role ...

Advances in community ecology

It is rare that a book has a 25-year effect on a field, and this is especially true for an edited volume. However, the volume Community and evolutionary ecology of North American stream fishes (Matthews, W. J., and D. C. Heins. 1987. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma) did just that. That book was the result of a symposium of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) a couple of years pr...

Editorial: Nanotechnological Advances in Biosensors

A biosensor is a physicochemical or hybrid physical-chemical-biological device that detects a biological molecule, organism, or process. Because of the nature of their targets, biosensors need to be faster, smaller, more sensitive, and more specific than nearly all of their physicochemical counterparts or the traditional methods that they are designed to replace. Speed is of the essence in medi...

Editorial: Advances in Ascochyta Research

Editorial - Special issue on multimedia in ecology

The recent advances in digital cameras and sensors, as well as in network bandwidth and information storage capacities, have revolutionized our ability to capture multimedia data (sounds, images, videos, etc.) for environmental monitoring and are also greatly improving our ability to effectively manage natural resources. Sensors are used increasingly in a range of monitoring or exploratory appl...