In advancing the understanding of ecological systems, tools and methodologies borrowed from physics offer powerful interpretative framework to unravel the complexity of the interactions between ...

Stochastic dynamics in population ecology examines how inherent randomness—arising from demographic fluctuations, environmental variability and other unpredictable factors—can profoundly influence ...

Organismal, population, evolutionary and ecological systems is a research area that investigates biological organization and processes from the level of individual organisms to interacting populations ...

Some of you may remember that the ship’s computer on Star Trek: Voyager contained bioneural gel packs. Researchers have taken us one step closer to a biocomputing future with a study on the potential ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographies." National Research Council. 2005. The Geological Record of Ecological Dynamics: Understanding the Biotic Effects of Future ...

Chaotic and non-chaotic population dynamics cannot be reliably differentiated by visual inspection of time series. In this random sample of chaotic and non-chaotic time series of insects, mammals, and ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler The modern environmental movement acquired many of its arguments from scientists who studied forests, ...

Global food systems face intertwined challenges of environmental degradation, malnutrition, rural poverty, and social inequity. Conventional agricultural ...

A pair of physicists at the University of Crete has found that some types of biological magnetoreceptors used by various creatures to navigate, operate at or near the quantum limit. In their paper ...