1 Ecosystem Functions, Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany 2 Department of Entomology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Hebrew University Rehovot, Israel 3 SPNI Society for Protection of Nature in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel 4 Centre of Methods and Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany 5 Research Ins...

1 Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands, 3 R&D Microbiology, Koppert Biological Systems, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Netherlands, Department of Soil Microbiology and Symbiotic Systems, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Granada, Spain, 5 Laboratory of Functi...

J. R. De Long (orcid.org/0000-0002-7951-4818)([email protected]), P. Kardol, M. K. Sundqvist, G. F. Veen and D. A. Wardle, Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83, Ume å , Sweden. MKS also at: Dept of Ecology and Environmental Science, Ume å Univ., SE-901 87, Ume å Sweden. GFV also at: Dept of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Inst. of Ecolo...

Arachnologists have uncovered tantalizing details about amblypygid behavioral ecology—the study of the fitness consequences of their behavior. Thus, it is the aim of this review to position Amblypygi as a useful system in which to investigate the principles of animal behavioral ecology. We synthesize amblypygid habitat preference and navigation modalities; predator, prey, parasite, parasitoid, ...

Aiming at the problem that traditional optimal operation of hydropower reservoir pays little attention to ecology, an optimal operation model of multi-objective hydropower reservoir with ecology consideration is established which combines the ecology and power generation. The model takes the maximum annual power generation benefit, the maximum output of the minimal output stage in the year and ...

Aim Invasion ecology includes many hypotheses. Empirical evidence suggests that most of these can explain the success of some invaders to some degree in some circumstances. If they all are correct, what does this tell us about invasion? We illustrate the major themes in invasion ecology, and provide an overarching framework that helps organize research and foster links among subfields of invasi...

We consider several ways in which a good understanding of modern techniques and principles in physics can elucidate ecology, and we focus on analogical reasoning between these two branches of science. Analogical reasoning requires an understanding of both sciences and an appreciation of the similarities and points of contact between the two. In the current ecological literature on the relations...

Teeth are central for the study of ecology, as teeth are at the direct interface between an organism and its environment. Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth in the use of teeth to understand a broad range of topics in living and fossil primate biology. This in part reflects new techniques for assessing ways in which teeth respond to, and interact with, an organism's environment. Long-te...

Introduction This progress report proceeds from a political ecology vantage point to explore the engagement by political ecologists with human health. Literature in political ecology, with an explicit interest in issues of health, remains a somewhat recent and narrow field of enquiry within the discipline. This paper explores this body of literature within its broader intellectual terrain along...

1 Department of Ecology, Bioscience Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3 Department of Biogeography and Global Change, BGC-Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, 4 Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology, Palacky University, ...