The article examines the definitions of concept “ecology” and its use in modern scientific thought practical experience. aim study is to investigate what meaning put this notion by first-year students MSCU who have not studied special environmental disciplines related construction architecture. During one control two experimental groups were formed. asked answer questions about concepts “ecolog...

Bush Honeysuckles, Lonicera maackii, L. morrowii, L.tatarica, and L. ×.bella, are invasive exotic shrubs naturalized throughout the midwestern United States, eastern United States and eastern Canada. Although most Lonicera populations can be traced to introductions starting in the late 1800’s (Luken 1991). Loniceras' radiation into native habitat has been known since the late 1700’s. In a 1791 ...

BACKGROUND Profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) are a complex range of disabilities that affect the general health and well-being of the individual and their capacity to interact and learn. METHOD We developed a new methodology to capture the non-symbolic signalling behaviours of children with PMLD within the context of a face-to-face interaction with a caregiver to provide anal...

Gillespie stochastic simulation is used extensively to investigate stochastic phenomena in many fields, ranging from chemistry to biology to ecology. The inverse problem, however, has remained largely unsolved: How to reconstruct the underlying reactions de novo from sparse observations. A key challenge is that often only aggregate concentrations, proportional to the population numbers, are obs...

This special feature results from the symposium 'Ants 2016: ant interactions with their biotic environments' held in Munich in May 2016 and deals with the interactions between ants and other insects, plants, microbes and fungi, studied at micro- and macroevolutionary levels with a wide range of approaches, from field ecology to next-generation sequencing, chemical ecology and molecular genetics...

To Darwin, parasites were fascinating examples of adaptation but their significance as selective factors for a wide range of phenomena has only been studied in depth over the last few decades. This work has had its roots in behavioural/evolutionary ecology on the one hand, and in population biology/ecology on the other, thus shaping a new comprehensive field of 'evolutionary parasitology'. Taki...

We define key research questions as a stimulus to research in the area of industrial ecology. The first group of questions addresses analytical support for green engineering and environmental policy. They relate to (i) tools for green engineering, (ii) improvements in life cycle assessment, (iii) aggregation of environmental impacts, and (iv) effectiveness of a range of innovative policy approa...

Actinomycetes, filamentous actinobacteria found in numerous ecosystems around the globe, produce a wide range of clinically useful natural products (NP). In natural environments, actinomycetes live in dynamic communities where environmental cues and ecological interactions likely influence NP biosynthesis. Our current understating of these cues, and the ecological roles of NP, is in its infancy...

Many important questions in developmental biology increasingly interface with related questions in other biological disciplines such as evolutionary biology and ecology. In this article, we review and summarize recent progress in the development of horned beetles and beetle horns as study systems amenable to the integration of a wide range of approaches, from gene function analysis in the labor...

Department of Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern Animal Ecology Group, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, U.S.A. Animal and Plant Sciences, Unive...