This perspective provides an overview to the Special Issue on Resurrection Ecology (RE). It summarizes the contributions to this Special Issue, and provides background information and future prospects for the use of RE in both basic and applied evolutionary studies.

Urban structures in the form of pontoons and pilings represent major coastal habitats for marine organisms and understanding the factors causing abundances of organisms to differ between these and natural habitat has been neglected in the study of coastal ecology. It has been proposed that composition of substrata explain differences previously described between subtidal assemblages of epibiota...

For more than 50 years, organic chemists have been interested in the novel chemical structures and biological activities of marine natural products, which are organic compounds that can be used for chemical defense and chemical communication by diverse marine organisms. Chemical ecology, the study of the natural ecological functions of these compounds, is an interdisciplinary field involving ch...

Community and Conservation Ecology Group, University of Groningen, P. O. Box 11103, 9700 CC Groningen, The Netherlands, email: [email protected]; Max-Planck-Institut für Limnologie, August-Thienemann-Str. 2, D-24306 Plön, Germany; Leibniz-Institute for Marine Sciences IFM-GEOMAR, Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Fishes, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D-24105 Kiel, Germany, Leibniz-Institute for Marine S...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Microbial ecology of the seas and oceans 2.1. Functional groups of marine microorganisms 2.2. Important biogeochemical cycles in marine environments 3. Microbial ecology of freshwater 3.1 Biodiversity of microorganisms in freshwater environments 3.2 Food webs in freshwater environments 4. Microbial ecology of lakes 5. Microbial ecology of running waters 6. Microbial ...

1 Ecology Department, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany, 2 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 3 Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 4 Research and Development Center for Marine, Coastal and Small Islands, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia, 5 Theoretical Ecology and Modelling D...

Agostino Merico*, Gunnar Brandt, S. Lan Smith and Marcel Oliver 1 Systems Ecology Group, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany 2 School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany 3 Marine Ecosystem Dynamics Research Group, Research and Development Center for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan 4 CREST, Ja...

Genomics-enabled applications are becoming increasingly common in conjunction with research in marine ecology. In this Theme Section, we review the success of cases where techniques used to profile gene expression have been used to gain new insight into 3 areas of research: symbioses in marine invertebrates, physiological responses to environmental conditions, and examining the determinants of ...