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Spatially organized distribution patterns of species and communities are shaped by both autogenic processes (neutral mechanism theory) and exogenous processes (niche theory).
Ecosystems around the world are already threatened by landâuse and landâcover change, extraction of natural resources, biological disturbances, and pollution.
Phenology is the study of recurring lifeâcycle events, classic examples being the flowering of plants and animal migration. Phenological responses are increasingly relevant for addressing applied environmental issues.
Understanding ecosystem resilience to human impacts is critical for conservation and restoration. The largeâscale dieâoff of New England salt marshes was triggered by overfishing and resulted from decades of runaway crab grazing.
We believe that conservation practice is sometimes inhibited by misguided respect for the cultural background in which conservation problems occur.
Ecological risk assessments are used by policy makers and regulatory agencies for balancing and comparing ecological risks associated with environmental hazards.
The opportunity exists to improve intensively managed landscapes (urban and agricultural areas dominated by human activities) through greater engagement of ecologists in the process of ecological landscape design.
As natural resource management and conservation goals expand and evolve, practitioners and policy makers are increasingly seeking options that optimize benefits among multiple, often contradictory objectives.
Environmental and ecological research has long been characterized as operating along a continuum, with âbasicâ â representing âinvestigatorâinitiatedâ research â at one end and âappliedâ â representing âmissionâinitiatedâ research â at the other.
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