Restraining rivers through stop banks and channels transfers and heightens flood risks downstream. Allowing them to roam free ...

More importantly, parasites play vital roles in evolutionary and ecological processes. Parasites have been likened to ...

Landscape ecology is the study of the pattern and interaction between ecosystems within a region of interest, and the way the interactions affect ecological processes, especially the unique ...

Because metabolic rate depends predictably on both body size and temperature, we can estimate the magnitude of many ecological processes from the temperature and size of the organisms that affect ...

Matt McCary, assistant professor of biosciences at Rice University, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF CAREER Award ...

Sustainable agriculture takes many forms, but at its core is a rejection of the industrial approach to food production developed during the 20th century. This system, with its reliance on ...

Ecological processes are crucial to both human health and the economy Ecological processes are crucial for maintaining biodiversity, which in turn supports both human health and the economy. In ...

Ecological Applications publishes 8 issues per year; Ecological Monographs publishes 4 issues per year) Publication is online only ...