When I was a graduate student at Columbia University, I always carried Gregory Bateson’s book, Steps to an Ecology of Mind* with me. In several chapters, Bateson used what he called “Metalogues”, a ...
Postdoctoral scholar Patrick Milligan recently published a paper that he started during his doctoral studies and is continuing during his National Science Foundation fellowship in Elizabeth Pringle’s ...
Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways ...
A new study has found that the traditional method used to study ecological relationships between species numbers and land area is flawed. These findings will have a significant impact in the ...
Group size is a key component of sociality and can affect individual health and fitness. However, proximate links explaining this relationship remain poorly understood, partly because previous studies ...
A common way ecologists predict population counts may be an unreliable way of forecasting future bird counts in urban areas, meaning scientists may be overestimating and underestimating the losses of ...
Collection methods and diagnostic procedures for primate parasitology / Ellis C. Greiner and Antoinette McIntosh -- Methods of collection and identification of minute nematodes from the feces of ...
The inherent complexity of social—ecological systems (SES) can make them difficult to understand and manage, particularly with regards to human—wildlife issues such as poaching. This study uses an ...
What would you contribute to the world of ecology and evolution if you could access the combined wisdom of faculty from more than a dozen disciplines that span the earth, biological and computational ...