Much attention has been given to forecasting the likely effects of ongoing climate change on
biodiversity. A large and often contentious literature has developed about how changes in …

The spatial scale of animal space use, eg measured as individual home range size, is a key
trait with important implications for ecological and evolutionary processes as well as …

Skill Acquisition Theory accounts for how people progress in learning a variety of skills, from
initial learning to advanced proficiency. The scientific roots of Skill Acquisition Theory are to …

The Flexible Phenotype attempts a true synthesis of physiology, behaviour, and ecology by
developing an empirical argument that describes the intimate connections between …

Understanding stability across ecological hierarchies is critical for landscape management
in a changing world. Recent studies showed that synchrony among lower‐level components …

The phenomenon of a population increasing in response to an increase in its per‐capita
mortality rate has recently been termed the 'hydra effect'. This article reviews and unifies …

Environmental variation is a ubiquitous component of individual, population and community
processes in the natural world. Here, we review the consequences of spatio-temporally …

This paper explores the role of negotiation in teacher–student interaction and argues that
the negotiation of meaning, defined as a set of conversational moves which work toward …

Summary 1 Despite the accelerating global spread of urbanized habitats and its associated
implications for wildlife and humans, surprisingly little is known about the biology of urban …

Synchrony has fundamental but conflicting implications for the persistence and stability of
food webs at local and regional scales. In a constant environment, compensatory dynamics …