The development of urban agglomeration in aquatic areas is premised on ecological
security. The construction of ecological security network is an effective measure to reduce …

Background. Coastal river deltas provide multiple ecosystem services. Many deltas serve as
major centers of agriculture, industry and commerce. The annual economic benefits derived …

Pest insects pose a significant threat to food production worldwide resulting in annual losses
worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Pest control attempts to prevent pest outbreaks that …

The use of semi‐isolated habitats such as oceanic islands, lakes and mountain summits as
model systems has played a crucial role in the development of evolutionary and ecological …

This widely anticipated revision of the groundbreaking book, Ecological Understanding,
updates this crucial sourcebook of contemporary philosophical insights for practicing …

Forest ecosystem dynamics emerges from nonlinear interactions between adaptive biotic
agents (ie, individual trees) and their relationship with a spatially and temporally …

Social complexity and sustainability emerge from successful problem solving, rather than
directly from environmental conditions. Social complexity develops from problem solving at …

Mar Ecol Prog Ser 274: 269–303, 2004 how severely depleted some fish stocks are, and on
whether and how quickly they will recover, all agree that many stocks are overexploited …

Biocomplexity was introduced to most ecologists through the National Science Foundation's
grant program, and the literature intended to introduce that program. The generalities of that …

The concept of ecosystem services (ESs) is a relatively new scientific methodology, offering
a possible approach to the prevention of ecological problems caused by human action and …