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Milman summarizes in a highly readable style hundreds of recently published scientific papers, most pointing to the loss or reduction of insect populations around the world as a consequence of human activities. Chemical pesticides, introduced species, light pollution, and climate change follow as part of the array of insults our actions have inflicted on the insects of the world. [Extracted from the article]

. By Liu Yang and Chen Shuihua; translated and edited by Cai Shangxiao, Yang Ziyou, Liang Dan, Mu Tong, and Paul Holt. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $39.95 (paper). 672 p.; ill.; indexes of common names and scientific names. ISBN: 9780691237527. 2024. [Extracted from the article]

. By Lin Baldock and Frances Dipper. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press; Plymouth (United Kingdom): Wild Nature Press. $27.95 (paper). 287 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-691-24901-8 (pb); 978-0-691-25147-9 (eb). [Seasearch.] 2023. [Extracted from the article]

. By Eric J. Wagner. Salt Lake City (Utah): University of Utah Press. $44.95 (paper). xix + 379 p.; ill.; no index. ISBN: 9781647690878 (hc); 9781647690885 (pb); 978647690892 (eb). 2023. [Extracted from the article]

The chapters are grouped into four parts: Part I: Extreme Environments: Responses and Adaptation to Change (three chapters); Part II: Biodiversity, Bioenergetic Processes, and Biotic and Abiotic Interactions (three chapters); Part III: Life in Extreme Environments and the Responses to Change: The Example of Polar Environments (six chapters); and Part IV: Life and Habitability (two chapters). The two chapters in Part IV discuss aspects of astrobiology. Several chapters discuss extremophile microorganisms (viruses, archaeans, bacteria). [Extracted from the article]

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $100.00 (hardcover); $50.00 (paper). xiii + 221 p.; ill.; name and subject indexes. Edited by Maria Baker, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, and Paul Tyler. [Extracted from the article]

Washington (DC): Island Press. By Ignacio Jiménez. [Extracted from the article]

Mendel's was a data-led approach, in keeping with biometry, and so Weldon began thinking about the statistical tools that would deliver the trait distributions Mendel reported. Weldon died before he could achieve a statistical treatment of Mendel, and Pearson moved on to other projects. Weldon fully committed to a statistical approach to evolution, co-opting Pearson's methods to analyze crab dimension and mortality data. [Extracted from the article]

I envision this book may be used as an accessory reading in mainstream undergraduate courses in ecology or environmental sciences, and I can imagine it as the primary reading in a course for first-year graduate students. Tara Ivanochko's I Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science i can serve as a valuable accessory resource for both upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in ecological or environmental science to fill this gap and much, much more. [Extracted from the article]

In this way, Ackerman gives us a front row seat on the excitement of behavioral research, and insights into the ways in which the quirky personalities of bird behavior researchers are reflected in their science. Birdsong is repeatedly compared to language, cognitively complex birds are compared to five-year-old human children, and the stealthy sex habits of Arabian babblers are compared to human predilection for sexual privacy. [Extracted from the article]

Palm Bay (Florida): Apple Academic Press; distributed by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. By Xuhua Xia. [Extracted from the article]

By Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw; illustrated by Philip J. S. Stork. Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press. [Extracted from the article]

It is also important to note that neither philosopher claims that species or ecosystems have rights, nor that human and animal lives are morally equivalent. Ecosystem-Level Management It is not clear to me whether the author's use of the phrase "managed at an ecosystem level" is supposed to be distinct from the more usual term "ecosystem management." There is much that I could say about this, but Bradshaw takes this one step further when she notes: As this discussion suggests, there is no reason that "animal property rights" should be distinguished from "ecosystem property rights." If I say that "animals have a right to I X i ", I might mean: that someone has a duty to supply the animals with I X i (called a "claim right"); that animals have no duty to avoid I X i (called a "liberty right"); or that no one should interfere with the animals in their pursuit of I X i (called a "negative right"). [Extracted from the article]

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Donald C. Behringer, Brian R. Silliman, and Kevin D. Lafferty. [Extracted from the article]

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. By Michael J. Fogarty and Jeremy S. Collie. [Extracted from the article]

Taylor & Francis Group. By Philip D. Cantino and Kevin de Queiroz. International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (PhyloCode). [Extracted from the article]

Thinking through Climate Change: A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene. Having identified that thread in the history of the environmental crisis, Briggle calls for a return to a virtue-oriented conception of energy, one that allows for seriously considering degrowth, and that places the value of energy for lived human experience in the forefront. And Briggle's writing accessibly - even entertainingly, at times - demonstrates an impressive command of the discourse on climate and energy, from the sciences as well as the humanities, and from within and without the academy. [Extracted from the article]

Similarly, the excellent chapter by Andrikou et al. on excretory cells closes with an examination of the homology issue and its implications for characterizing cell types. But the rapid spread of scRNA-seq and related techniques has reinvigorated studies of the evolution of animal cell types and questions about whether seemingly similar cell types across phyla are homologous. For example, in their chapter on sensory and neural cell types, Leys et al. emphasize the importance of cellular context in constructing cell types, effectively arguing for an ensemble definition. [Extracted from the article]

The authors explain the importance of understanding the identification algorithms and the necessity of using site-appropriate training data for the algorithm. The critical importance of understanding the function of detection and triggering systems, and the effects of the recording environments on these systems is discussed comprehensively and in detail. Ever with an eye on integrity, Runkel et al. propose methods for reviewing the validity of automatically processed data to detect potential errors. [Extracted from the article]

For nearly half a century the author has been recognized as an expert on the ecology of Africa's mammals, especially white rhinos and greater kudu, and their interaction with savanna vegetation. Throughout the book, Owen-Smith's thesis is that I only i in Africa (as reflected in the title) could hominins have evolved. [Extracted from the article]

Quantitative analysis of ecological weighted digraphs often appears under the rubric of "ecological network analysis." What is missing in ecosystems can be very important to network dynamics and places limits on network efficiency in favor of reliability. Here Dale and Fortin treat the empirical side of building networks - important problems encountered during data sampling and inference as well as statistical considerations occasioned by necessarily large data sets. [Extracted from the article]

Some may find it an overstatement when Pyne asserts, "It's no longer good enough to pretend that fire history is a subset of climate history. Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University and the author of dozens of books on human and natural history, including a suite, I Here and There: A Fire Survey i (2018. There are many poets of place; Stephen Pyne is a poet of process, and his work is required reading for anyone who wants to understand wildland fire in today's world and into the future. [Extracted from the article]

Science concept learning occurs through engagement with modeling, explanation building, argumentation, and other so-called science practices. Scientists are no strangers to using evidence in their research, but in their teaching, too many resist evidence-based practices that are known to successfully address student performance and persistence disparities (M. Stains et al. 2018. McGlynn's guide is smart, thoughtful, and practical, yet it seems suited to a pre-pandemic world long passed, where the glaring inequalities of the world remained unseen, and faculty adoption of evidence-based practices was viewed as a good deed rather than a social and professional responsibility. [Extracted from the article]

For instance, he criticizes Platonic metaphysics with its unchanging idealist reality and, on the other hand, he criticizes Gross and Levitt and their book I Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science i (1994. This book is a series of short chapters (10-15 pages each) on a variety of topics related to science. For instance, he has chapter subheadings that proclaim: Some Scientists Are Good at Both Theory and Experimentation, Theory and Experimentation Are Both Necessary in the Sciences, and Scientific Progress Follows an Erratic Path. [Extracted from the article]

What does this tell us about the brain sizes and efficiencies of herring brains as opposed to human brains? The immediate inference is that Neanderthals were smarter than humans - after all, the human brain is hugely bigger than the brain of small, less intelligent vertebrates such as the shrew, let alone the sizes of invertebrate brain. If, in the natural course of things, a shrew can feed itself more efficiently than a human, what then does its smaller brain size signify?. [Extracted from the article]

Although some chapters are (perhaps inevitably) more accessible to novices than others, we found that the online resources that accompanied all of the chapters, most of them using the familiar and open-source R programming language, would be extremely valuable learning resources for novices, especially those who learn best by simply working through examples of new methods. In general, we found the overall coverage of the book, as well as the topics within its 16 chapters, to be quite comprehensive, especially about analytical methods that rely on relatively new techniques for data collection, such as GPS tracking and genome-wide sequencing. Some of the chapters are quite "friendly" to novices (which includes us in a few cases), in particular the chapters on model selection (Chapter 2), population genetics (Chapter 11), and estimating demographic rates using mark-recapture studies (Chapter 7), although Williams et al.'s I Analysis and Managment of Animal Populations i (2002. [Extracted from the article]

Recent and popular species distribution models for individual and multiple species are discussed, as well as the important distinction between correlative and process-based models. Their primary focus is hierarchical modeling of species communities, which falls within the general framework of joint species distribution models. [Extracted from the article]

Our guides are Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz, paleobiologists and Earth system scientists, and Julia Adeney Thomas, a historian. This is a productive tension, but it does suggest the very real possibility that the Anthropocene might be a different thing to an Earth scientist and a historian, or least require different conceptions of temporality for different disciplines. Nonetheless, the book's core, Chapters 2 to 6, explores the Anthropocene's geological, climatic, and biospheric context. [Extracted from the article]

The author's notion of EEP is that there are "potential" evolutionary events that need to be recognized alongside actual evolutionary events in the way the potential is recognized as "real" in other sciences (as in the case of potential energy). Levinson's treatment of potential fails to consider the work that has been written on potentiality in areas such as bioethics, which demonstrate that it is a fraught concept. Its focus is primarily on discoveries in molecular biology and how they might alter the concept of evolution, although Levinson also puts forward what he calls the "Emergent Evolutionary Potential" (EEP). [Extracted from the article]

The most beautiful mathematical theories will not halt the biodiversity crisis, nor bring back what is lost. Leinster proves that the diversity measures in this framework are the I only i measures satisfying certain fundamental properties (axioms) - indeed, many diversity indices in current use arise as special cases of this framework. To apply these concepts consistently across different mathematical contexts, Leinster ultimately turns to category theory, a "meta-mathematics" that formalizes relationships between mathematical fields. [Extracted from the article]

For intensely curious birders, Futuyma's birding moments will surely resonate, and this important contribution will greatly enrich anyone's experience observing and enjoying birds. Finally, Chapter 12 (Evolution and Extinction: The Future of Birds) is a bit of a whirlwind, just 10 pages on how bird communities are adapting (or not) to climate change. [Extracted from the article]

Some critics, such as Edward Adolph, dismissed homeostasis as unable to address the integrated, adaptability behavior of organisms, whereas others, such as Eugene Odum, embraced a holistic understanding of homeostasis. Second, in addition to construing homeostasis as just a feature of individual organisms, the author demonstrates how a number of theorists viewed homeostasis as operating at higher levels of organization. For Mayr, the genotype of a species is functionally integrated, preventing the emergence of new species except in isolate populations where such homeostasis is disrupted. [Extracted from the article]