Identifying the factors modulating range expansion is essential to accurately predict changes in spatial distribution of populations. By preventing population growth after dispersal, Allee effects can lead front stops discrete space, called 'pinning' if permanent. However, other mechanisms, such as positive density-dependent have also been shown affect rate and generate discrete-space stops, al...

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Cultural ecology is today at a place of rapidly expanding interconnections with the growing number of human-environment approaches in geography and other fields. Productive interconnections are evidenced, for example, in the extensive debate and discussion within geography that surround the varied relations (e.g., theory, methods, roles of science and representation, scale and subject matter) o...

Modern research in ecology draws upon a wide range of different techniques and can offer fresh insights on how to tackle a range of challenges facing the natural world.

Understanding the factors that determine the geographic range limits of species is important for many questions in ecology, evolution and conservation biology. These limits arise from complex interactions among ecology and dispersal ability of species and the physical environment, but many of the underlying traits can be conserved among related species and clades. Thus, the range limits of spec...

The field of soil ecology has relatively few fundamental unifying principles that can be used to explain and predict patterns and processes in belowground ecosystems. Here we propose that a first step towards developing a more comprehensive set of unifying principles in soil ecology is to identify and understand the characteristics shared by a wide range of soils, the common mechanisms driving ...

Ecolinguistics: language and ecology delivers an overall view and a critical approach on ecolinguistic studies. This book is an excellent resource to students, researchers, linguists and those working in the area of discourse analysis as well as ecology. The book claims presenting a news course for ecolinguistics including a framework for understanding the theory of ecolinguistics, exploration ...

1 USDA-ARS, Rangel and Resources Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA; 2 Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA; 3 USDA-ARS Soil–Plant-Nutrient Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA; 4 Department of Soil, Water and Climate; and 5 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA; and 6 F...

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...