By Sonam Lama Hyolmo Cases granting nature and ecosystems legal rights are increasing worldwide, but perceptions of the rights of nature movement as a revolutionary ecocentric movement are too ...

Community ecology examines the multifaceted interactions among co‐occurring species and the processes that shape biodiversity and ecosystem function. At its heart, it investigates how species organise ...

Community ecology was traditionally an integrative science devoted to studying interactions between species and their abiotic environments in order to predict species' geographic distributions and ...

Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds ...

Ecological succession is the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time. Gradually, these communities replace one another until a “climax community”—like a mature ...

In this first of three papers we examine the use of niche concepts in ecology and especially in species distribution modelling (SDM). This paper deliberately focuses on the lack of clarity found in ...

Recurring themes. Nature and causes of variation / Susan J. Mazer, John Damuth -- Evolutionary significance of variation / Susan J. Mazer, John Damuth -- Natural selection / Daphne J. Fairbairn, Jeff ...