For example ... and the vast majority of the biosphere where humans live (Figure 5). The challenge to landscape ecologists is to meld the ecology-centered spatial view with the society-centered ...

The Ecological Society of America is dedicated to the science and study of ecology. The society welcomes and encourages participation by all individuals regardless of age, culture, ethnicity, gender ...

A taxocene, for example, is a subset of species sharing ... and thereby have extremely important consequences for the ecology, adaptations, and evolutionary history of all organisms.

The study of succession was pioneered at the University of Chicago by Henry Chandler Cowles, who was also one of the founders of ecology as a discipline, as he studied the plants of the Indiana Dunes.

Ecologists also study many kinds of environments. For example, ecologists may study microbes living in the soil under your feet or animals and plants in a rain forest or the ocean. The many ...

Without a healthy biosphere, ecosystems would collapse ... of one could slow down or even halt ecosystem functions. For example, in forests where a single species of tree dominates, a pest ...

Research projects include studies of landscape and population genetics focused mainly on species of conservation concern. For an example of some of our work see https ...