With many ecology textbooks 15 or more years out of date, working new research findings into undergraduate courses requires ingenuity by professors, not new and improved textbooks. That was the ...

Ecology publishes articles that report on the basic elements of ecological research. Emphasis is placed on concise, clear articles documenting important ecological phenomena. The journal publishes a ...

Robert Ricklefs, one of the leading ecologists in the world, is featured Thursday, Nov. 13 in the Fall 2014 Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology colloquium series. Ricklefs, of the University ...

Introduction -- The soil factor : Importance of soil to plants ; Soil defined ; The parent materials ; The organic increment ; Soil organism ; Soil moisture and air ; Soil solutes ; Soil development ; ...

Identifying the relative importance of regional and local processes to local species diversity is a central issue to many questions in basic and applied ecology. One widely-used method is to plot ...