Department of Ecology and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø DK-2100, Denmark, Imperial College London, Grand Challenges in Ecosystems & the Environme...

Humans have a dual nature. We are subject to the same natural laws and forces as other species yet dominate global ecology and exhibit enormous variation in energy use, cultural diversity, and apparent social organization. We suggest scientists tackle these challenges with a macroecological approach-using comparative statistical techniques to identify deep patterns of variation in large dataset...

While food webs have provided a rich vein of research material over the last 50 years, they have largely been the subject matter of the pure ecologist working in natural habitats. While there are some notable exceptions to this trend, there are, as I explain in this paper, many applied questions that could be answered using a food web approach. The paper is divided into two halves. The first ha...

Abstract In each of four nearby city areas, residents orient to local centers collective activity in different geographic patterns. a “perimeter” neighborhood, and outsiders are drawn religious retail organizations located on streets that form rectangle. an “intersection” most visible other at agglomeration stores services where two high traffic cross. Residents “in-between” area travel socio-e...

Michael Behm, Ph.D., CSP, is an associate professor in the Occupational Safety Program at East Carolina University. He is an active member of NIOSH’s Construction Sector Occupational Research and Prevention Through Design councils. In 2011, Behm was awarded a research fellowship with the Singapore National Parks Board, Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology, to study safe design aspects of urban...

Parental investment decisions guide parental actions regarding children's productive work and are shaped by ecological context. Urban ecology enhances long-term payoffs to investment in human capital, increasing opportunity costs for work performed by children, and decreased workload should result. Using an embodied capital framework, self-reported data on urban and rural Indo-Fijian children's...