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Ecology of Cities and Towns: A Comparative Approach by Mark J. McDonnell, Amy K. Hahs, and Jurgen H. Breuste, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2009.736 pp., illus. $72.00 (ISBN 9780521678339 paper). [...]

Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments. Theodore Garland Jr. and Michael R. Rose, eds. University of California Press, 2009. 752 pp., illus. $45.00 (ISBN 9780520261808 paper). Evolutionary [...]

Animal Osmoregulation. Timothy J. Bradley. Oxford University Press, 2009. 320 pp., illus. $60.00 (ISBN 9780198569961 paper). Animal Osmoregulation is the newest publication in the Oxford University Press Animal Biology Series. [...]

Seedling Ecology and Evolution. Mary Allessio Leck, V. Thomas Parker, and Robert L. Simpson, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 536 pp., illus. $63.00 (ISBN 9780521694667 paper). At some point, many [...]

Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology. David F. Westneat and Charles W. Fox, eds. Oxford University Press, 2010. 664 pp., illus. $49.95 (ISBN 9780195331929 paper). Several recent volumes address specific topics in behavioral [...]

The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited. Jonathan B. Losos and Robert E. Ricklefs, eds. Princeton University Press, 2009. 494 pp., illus. $49.50 (ISBN 9780691136530 paper). The Theory of Island Biogeography [...]

The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life. Jan Sapp. Oxford University Press, 2009. 448 pp., illus. $39.95 (ISBN 9780195388503 paper). We live on a microbial planet. Microbes [...]

Resource Strategies of Wild Plants. Joseph M. Craine. Princeton University Press, 2009. 352 pp., illus. $45.00 (ISBN 9780691139128 paper). We are currently in the midst of an exciting new synthesis [...]

Cognitive Ecology II. Reuven Dukas and John M. Ratcliffe, eds. University of Chicago Press, 2009. 384 pp., illus. $40.00 (ISBN 9780226169361 paper). In the 17 years since Les Real (1993) [...]

Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds. Steven Vogel. Princeton University Press, 2009. 328 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 9780691138077 paper). Steven Vogel has written a number of books on biomechanics, [...]

Bioinvasions and Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management, and Policy. Charles Perrings, Harold Mooney, and Mark Williamson, eds. Oxford University Press, 2010. 288 pp., illus. $70.00 (ISBN 9780199560165 paper). Bioinvasions and Globalization: [...]

Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History. Judith S. Weis and Carol A. Butler. Rutgers University Press, 2009. 216 pp., illus. $23.95 (ISBN 9780813545707 paper). Following in the tradition of [...]

Insect Species Conservation. Tim R. New. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 272 pp., illus. $69.00 (ISBN 9780521732765 paper). Professor Tim R. New, of La Trobe University, Australia, is an authoritative researcher [...]

A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Jim Endersby. Harvard University Press. 2009. 544 pp., illus. $18.95 (ISBN 9780674032279 paper). Originally published as a hardcover edition in the United Kingdom (2007), [...]

Invasion Biology. Mark A. Davis. Oxford University Press, 2009. 288 pp., illus. $55.00 (ISBN 9780199218769 paper). Over the past two decades, the literature in invasion biology has grown in much [...]

Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution. Scott F. Gilbert and David Epel. Sinauer, 2008.459 pp., illus. $49.95 (ISBN 9780878932993 paper). Scott Gilbert, professor of biology at Swarthmore, has [...]

I arrive in the RV Thompson's pilot house just in time. It's day six of the final month-long cruise of the Bering Sea Project, a six-year, $52-million, multidisciplinary program to [...]

Tropical peat swamp forest is a unique ecosystem that is most extensive in Southeast Asia, where it is under enormous threat from logging, tire, and land conversion. Recent research has [...]

Perched atop misty mountains, tropical montane cloud forests are one of Earth's most imperiled and neglected ecosystems. More than half of these forests occur in Southeast Asia; those in Malaysia [...]

Scott Dixon took on a short-term project the fall after finishing his PhD at the University of Toronto, and that brief postdoctoral fellowship, or 'postdoc,' reinvigorated his scientific curiosity and [...]

The US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program began in 1980 with the mission of addressing long-term ecological phenomena through research at individual sites, as well as comparative and synthetic [...]

Nonindigenous forest insects and pathogens affect a range of ecosystems, industries, and property owners in the United States. Evaluating temporal patterns in the accumulation of these nonindigenous forest pests can [...]

A reader will draw two inescapable conclusions from these two well-researched volumes about extinction: We know an impressive amount about human-caused extinctions, and we have done little to stop them. [...]

Climate change is occurring, and little is being done to mitigate, manage, or adapt to it. The international consensus, forged in the heady days of Rio and encapsulated in the [...]

Charles Darwin, who was married to his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, was one of the first experimentalists to demonstrate the adverse effects of inbreeding and to question the consequences of [...]

Europe and North America share a similar history in the extirpation and subsequent recovery of large carnivore and ungulate species. Both continents face challenges and opportunities for managing human-wildlife conflict [...]

Contemporary land-use pressures have a significant impact on the extent and condition of forests in the eastern United States, causing a regional-scale decline in forest cover. Earlier in the 20th [...]

The fitness consequences of inbreeding have attracted the attention of biologists since the time its harmful effects were first recognized by Charles Darwin. Although inbreeding depression has been a central [...]

In a world where 'security' has lately taken on great significance, it should come as no surprise that 'food security' is firmly established in the vocabulary of policy and science. [...]

Releases of greenhouse gases (GHG) from indirect land-use change triggered by crop-based biofuels have taken center stage in the debate over the role of biofuels in climate policy and energy [...]

Twenty-first century technology is addressing many of the questions posed by 20th-century biology. Although the new approaches, especially those involving genomic data and bioinformatic tools, were first applied to model [...]

The first lilac bloom is considered a harbinger of spring. One person's observation of a backyard flower may be lovely, but thousands of people's observations in myriad locations, recorded in [...]

Today, human behavior drives many extinctions and preserves some species. To help understand such behavior, we published a book in 1999 that viewed selected endangered species through the eyes of [...]

Metagenomics is a complex of research methodologies aimed at characterizing microbial communities and cataloging microbial diversity and distribution without isolating or culturing organisms. This approach will unavoidably engender new ways [...]

The wetland complex is the functional ecological unit of the prairie pothole region (PPR) of central North America. Diverse complexes of wetlands contribute high spatial and temporal environmental heterogeneity, productivity, [...]

A broad perspective on hydrologic connectivity is necessary when managing stream ecosystems and establishing conservation priorities. Hydrologic connectivity refers to the water-mediated transport of matter, energy, or organisms within or [...]

Changes in the timing and level at which genes are expressed are known to play an important role in evolution, but the mechanisms underlying changes in gene expression remain relatively [...]

Citizen science enlists the public in collecting large quantities of data across an array of habitats and locations over long spans of time. Citizen science projects have been remarkably successful [...]

The peer review model is one of the most important tools used in science to assess the relative merit of research. We manipulated a published article to reflect one of [...]

Cell division is necessary to the building of a soma from the single-celled zygote during development, as well as the sine qua non, in the form of meiosis, for the [...]

Constraints on the availability of freshwater and land plants and animals to feed the 9.2 billion humans projected to inhabit Earth by 2050 can be overcome by enhancing the contribution [...]

We examined the status of diadromous (migratory between saltwater and freshwater) fishes within the North Atlantic basin, a region of pronounced declines in fisheries for many obligate marine species. Data [...]

Bank erosion is integral to the functioning of river ecosystems. It is a geomorphic process that promotes riparian vegetation succession and creates dynamic habitats crucial for aquatic and riparian plants [...]

Biome-scale disturbances by eruptive herbivores provide valuable insights into species interactions, ecosystem function, and impacts of global change. We present a conceptual framework using one system as a model, emphasizing [...]

News media coverage of the controversy surrounding recent attempts to insert creationism into public school science curricula--this time in the form of "intelligent design"--has generated miles of copy and hours […]

This article outlines an approach, based on ecosystem services, for assessing the trade-offs inherent in managing humans embedded in ecological systems. Evaluating these trade-offs requires an understanding of the biophysical […]

New models of graduate education are emerging in response to the need to prepare students for careers involving not only research but also teaching, outreach, service, and interdisciplinary work. One […]