A new study published in Ecology Letters has uncovered the mechanisms underlying plant community assembly and biodiversity ...

An ecological theory may help to explain why segregation is so widespread and persistent in US cities, according to a new article. The new way of framing segregation's endurance may provide a useful ...

In light of these pressing global ecological challenges, there is a compelling need to develop ecological theories and applied technologies for understanding, managing, and conserving macroecological ...

In his Millennium Essay (Nature 408, 293; 2000), Jim Smith proposes that ecological theory is generally untestable, and therefore that ecology should concentrate less on theoretical explanation and ...

More than four decades ago, field ecologists set out to quantify the diversity of trees on a forested plot on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, one of the most intensively studied tracts of tropical ...

Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 45, No. 3 (March 2018), pp. 530-540 (11 pages) Sometimes, we stumble over literature revealing that well-known and groundbreaking theories have previously been proposed ...

Entropy and information theory offer a robust quantitative framework for decoding the complexity inherent in landscape patterns. By drawing from principles in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, ...

A general theory of ecology / Samuel M. Scheiner and Michael R. Willig -- Perspectives on the role of theory in ecology. Theory makes ecology evolve / Jurek Kolasa ; A general, unifying theory of ...

This article describes a process for integrating health behavior and social science theories with practice-based insights using participatory systems thinking and diagramming methods largely inspired ...