What does ecology have to do with me? Ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment; it seeks to understand the vital connections ...

Ecologists also study how temperature influences the ecology and evolution of species. Organisms generally slow down or freeze when conditions are cold, but overheat and lose function as ...

As any textbook in ecology will note, ecology is the study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and the relationships of organisms with their environments, which include other ...

“We were interested in bridging two subfields of ecology—organism ecology and biogeochemistry—in a way to make predictions about how food web structure can affect nutrient cycling,” first author Dror ...

Decades later, in the 1930s, American marine biologist Edward “Ed” Ricketts brought yet another new perspective to ecology, focusing not only on naming organisms, but on studying each habitat ...

The Program in Ecology and Evolution (PiEE) is an interdisciplinary doctoral program focusing on the scientific study of the relations between organisms and their environments. Research interests of ...

The ecology of chemical defenses, communication, and biosynthesis. Subjects range from how available chemical resources affect ecosystem processes to how organisms produce chemical compounds. Research ...

Unfortunately, the Natural History Notes series in Frontiers has now ended. However, you can still send short natural history papers to The Scientific Naturalist, published in our sister journal, ...

Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...

Ecology and evolutionary biology (EBIO) is the study of how organisms interact with and are formed by their environment. Students explore how organisms live and how they are constrained by ...

ecology and population biology, and environmental pollution. In addition to general major requirements, you'll take courses in plant and animal physiology and behavior, different kind of animal ...