Using mathematical modeling, researchers have discovered that rate-induced tipping, which can happen if an environment changes too fast, can happen even in Daisyworld, a simple daisy-filled ecological ...

Depending on others for something you need may feel like a risky proposition—and perhaps a human one. It is actually a survival strategy found in the microbial world, and far more frequently than one ...

Research shows the relationship between a species' age and its risk of going extinct could be accurately predicted by an ecological model called the 'neutral theory of biodiversity.' New research from ...

Introduction / by Gordon Bronitsky -- Ecology, economics, and evolutionary explanation in economic prehistory / by Donald L. Hardesty -- An economic model of settlement aggregation and dispersal / by ...

The modifications made to the environment by human activity have been anthropocentric, directed at adapting natural systems to human needs and wants. The scale and scope of human intervention in ...

An ad hoc committee will conduct a study and issue three reports that review the many different scientific initiatives underway to support the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan (EAHCP). The ...