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This white paper was developed by the Infrastructure for Biology at Regional to Continental Scales Working Group (IBRCS Working Group) as part of an American Institute of Biological Science's IBRCS [...]

Four billion years of adaptation to Earth's physical environment, and to its increasingly complex biotic environment, have produced the stunning diversity of organisms with which we cohabit this small blue [...]

It is somewhat daunting to write a review of a handbook on scientific writing. A reasonable assumption might be that, if the handbook was well written, anyone reading it carefully [...]

Lynne D. Houck and Lee C. Drickamer, eds. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996. 860 pp., illus. $95.00 (ISBN 0-22635456-3 cloth), $34.95 (ISBN 0-22635457-1 paper). Foundations of Animal Behavior [...]

More than most fields in biology, population genetics has been deeply divided into an empirical branch and a theoretical branch, not unlike modern physics. Population genetic theory was created largely [...]

In June, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released a White Paper titled 'Advancing Research in Science and Engineering: Investing in Early Career Scientists and High-Risk, High-Reward Research.' With [...]

The editors acknowledge that 'seminal contributions critically reshape our thinking about natural order and the processes that account for natural pattern'. This book was designed to be a compendium of [...]

AIBS has released a report detailing recommended plans for developing and governing the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). This report, the second in a series of white papers associated with [...]

AIBS released a 68-page report titled 'IBRCS White Paper: Rationale, Blueprint, and Expectations for the National Ecological Observatory Network' (NEON) as part of the Infrastructure for Biology at Regional to [...]

With the National Research Council study of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) under way (see www.nationalacademies.org/neon) and the National Science Foundation's FY2004 budget request for NEON in the process [...]

The goal of the AIBS project on Infrastructure for Biology at Regional to Continental Scales (IBRCS) is to help the biological-scientific community determine the needs and means for increased physical [...]

The initial report of an AIBS project, Infrastructure for Biology at Regional to Continental Scales (IBRCS), will be released at a roundtable at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, [...]

Writing for Your Peers: The Primary Journal Paper. Sylvester P. Carter. Praeger Publishers, New York, 1987. Writing for Your Peers: The Primary Journal Paper. The book, by an associate editor [...]

Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences. Victoria E. McMillan. Bedford Books, Boston, 1988. Many texts on writing compete for space in the budgets and on the bookshelves of biologists and [...]

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper. Robert A. Day. Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ, 1988. Virtually all scientists have to write articles that describe what they've done and what [...]

We examined the effects of different types of collaboration on the citation rates of 837 research papers published in Oecologia from 1998 through 2000. Multiauthored papers had higher annual citation [...]

Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival. Bernd Heinrich. Harper-Collins, Ecco, New York. 2003. 368 pp., illus. $24.95 (ISBN 0060197447 cloth), $14.95 paper (ISBN 0060957379 paper). Bernd Heinrich, an emeritus [...]

The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life. Franklin M. Harold. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2003. 320 pp., illus. $17.95 (ISBN 0195163389 paper). The [...]

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis. Peter Turchin. Monographs in Population Biology 35, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003. 536 pp. $29.95 (ISBN 0691090211 paper). In the preface to this [...]

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Bjorn Lomborg. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001. 540 pp., $28.00 (ISBN 0-521-010683 paper). Bjorn Lomborg discusses a wide range [...]

Gerald T. Gardner and Paul C. Stern. Allyn & Bacon, Boston, 1996. 369 pp., illus. $48.00 (ISBN 0-205-15605-3 paper). Most people recognize that environmental problems are the result of human [...]

Angela Stafford and Graham Warren, eds. Open University Press, Buckingham, UK, 1991. 251 pp., illus. $90.00 (ISBN 0-335-15823-4 cloth), $45.00 (ISBN 0-335-15162-0 paper). Tsvi Sachs has been publishing papers on [...]

In 1975, Hans Krebs published his paper: The August Krogh Principle: For many problems there is an animal on which it can be most conveniently studied.' Krebs quoted August Krogh [...]

Pennycress does not look special. Squatting low to the ground, the perennial plant is just a fistful of green leaves with a few paper-thin white flowers peeking out. You would [...]

Remarkable Biologists: From Ray to Hamilton. Joan James. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 196 pp., illus. $46.99 (ISBN 9780521699181 paper). Ioan James is emeritus professor of mathematics at Oxford University, and [...]

A Critique of Silviculture: Managing for Complexity. Klaus J. Puettmann, Christian Messier, and K. David Coates. Island Press, 2008. 206 pp., illus. $30.00 (ISBN 9781597261463 paper). Hooray for A Critique [...]

Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds. David McFarland. Oxford University Press, 2009. 256 pp., illus. $15.95 (ISBN 9780199219308 paper). Any scientist who wants to investigate minds--our minds, [...]

Plant Breeding and Biotechnology: Societal Context and the Future of Agriculture. Denis Murphy. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 440 pp., illus. $60.00 (ISBN 9780521530880 paper). Agriculture is subject to evolutionary processes [...]

The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services. J. B. Ruhl, Steven E. Kraft, and Christopher L. Lant. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2007. 360 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 9781559630955 paper). Two [...]

Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy: The Life and Science of Ernst Mayr 1904-2005. Jurgen Haffer. Springer, New York, 2008. 474 pp., illus. $59.95 (ISBN 9783540717782 paper). Every evolutionary biologist has read [...]

Biodiversity has become a hot topic for the 1990s. Meetings and workshops have been convened, papers and books written, and legislation proposed. A conference on the subject held in 1986 [...]

Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think about Our Lives. David Sloan Wilson. Delacorte Press, New York, 2007. 400 pp., illus. $15.00 (ISBN 9780385340922 paper). [...]

Bioviolence: Preventing Biological Terrorism and Crime. Barry Kellman. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007, 390 pp. $28.99 (9780521709699 paper). In his book Bioviolence, DePaul University International Law Professor Barry Kellman [...]

People and Nature: An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations. Emilio F. Moran. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2006. 232 pp., illus. $30.95 (ISBN 9781405105729 paper). We certainly live in ecologically interesting times. […]

Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World. Brian Walker and David Salt. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2006. 192 pp., illus. $25.00 (ISBN 9781597260930 paper). Systems theorists have [...]

Dynamic Models in Biology. Stephen P. Ellner and John Guckenheimer. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. 330 pp. $99.50 (ISBN 0691118434 paper). Why should biologists be interested in mathematical modeling? [...]

Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From Specialization to Generalization. Nickolas M. Waser and Jeff Ollerton, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006. 445 pp. $45.00 (ISBN 0226874001 paper). Ecologists no longer expect that [...]

The Evolution of Animal Communication: Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems. William A. Searcy and Stephen Nowicki. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005. 270 pp., illus. $39.50 (ISBN 0691070954 paper). [...]

Hormones and Animal Social Behavior. Elizabeth Adkins-Regan. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005. 411 pp., illus. $45.00 (ISBN 0691092478 paper). Thirty years ago, while an undergraduate at Berkeley, I worked [...]

Species at Risk: Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands. Jason E Shogren, ed. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2005. 283 pp. $21.95 (ISBN 0292705972 paper). Many [...]

Ecological Paradigms Lost: Routes of Theory Change. Beatrix Beisner and Kim Cuddington, eds. Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA, 2005. 464 pp., illus. $79.95 (ISBN 0120884593 paper). The genesis of Ecological [...]

The Epistemology of Development, Evolution, and Genetics: Selected Essays. Richard M. Burian. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2005. 288 pp. $32.99 (ISBN 0521545285 paper). Richard Burian, although not as [...]

Nutrient Cycling and Limitation: Hawai'i as a Model System. Peter M. Vitousek. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. 232 pp. $35.00 (ISBN 069111580X paper). Peter Vitousek's Nutrient Cycling and Limitation: [...]

Sustainable Management of North American Fisheries. E. Eric Knudsen, Donald D. MacDonald, and Yvonne K. Muirhead, eds. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD, 2004. 281 pp. $69.00 (ISBN 1888569654 paper). Human [...]

A Primer of Ecological Genetics. Jeffrey K. Conner and Daniel L. Hartl. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2004. 304 pp., illus. $34.95 (ISBN 087893202X paper). The field of ecological genetics became [...]

The Sandwalk Adventures. Jay Hosler. Active Synapse, Columbus, OH, 2003. 159 pp., illus. $20.00 (ISBN 0967725518 paper). Toward the end of his life, Charles Darwin, author of the Origin of [...]

Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. Lester R. Brown. W. W. Norton, New York, 2003. 285 pp., illus. $15.95 (ISBN 0393325237 paper). It is [...]

Primate Life Histories and Socioecology. Peter M. Kappeler and Michael E. Pereira, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2003. 395 pp., illus. $30.00 (ISBN 022642634 paper). Life-history analysis involves [...]

Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture. Robert C. Brown. Iowa State Press, Ames, 2003.286 pp., illus. $74.99 (ISBN 0813822637 paper). Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest [...]

World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-by-Commodity Guide to Impacts and Practices. Jason Clay. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 568 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 1559633700 paper). Jason Clay, vice president [...]