An international study led by Flinders University has found a fertile area of inspiration to explain an important step in ...

Researchers at the Centre for Ecosystem Management (CEM), together with scientists from the Department of Fisheries and ...

Ecology is the study of interactions between organisms and their environment. It's a broad field, spanning biology, engineering, policy, and environmental management. There are numerous ecology ...

Functional diversity describes the range, value and distribution of biological traits within ecological communities and provides a mechanistic link between biodiversity and ecosystem processes. By ...

Forests and streams are separate but linked ecosystems, existing side by side, with energy and nutrients crossing their porous borders and flowing back and forth between them. For example, leaves fall ...

In light of these pressing global ecological challenges, there is a compelling need to develop ecological theories and applied technologies for understanding, managing, and conserving macroecological ...

In marine environments, host-associated microbiomes are key contributors to metaorganism homeostasis. They support essential ...

Many of today's artificial intelligence systems loosely mimic the human brain. In a new paper, researchers suggest that another branch of biology -- ecology -- could inspire a whole new generation of ...

Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded “regime shifts” ...

Organisms in their environments: the evolutionary backdrop -- Conditions -- Resources -- Life, death and life histories -- Intraspecific competition -- Dispersal, dormancy and metapopulations -- ...

Engert, Martin; Hein, Andreas; Maruping, Likoebe M.; Thatcher, Jason Bennett; Krcmar, Helmut. MIS Quarterly. Mar2025, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p91-122. Self-organization and ...