This Federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HLOC) map of Baltimore from 1937 illustrates patterns of segregation that accompanied discriminatory practices in federal policy and the real estate ...

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 ...

The study covered in this summary was published on medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. The factors pertaining to and the potential underlying causes for the underperformance ...

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 ...

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, ...

The “Field of Dreams” hypothesis is a premise that restoration ecologists use to support arguments in favor of restoring plant diversity in that doing so will also lead to the return of wildlife. The ...

A special issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment lays the foundation for pursuing structural diversity as a new research direction in ecology. The issue, funded by the National ...

1. Urbanization alters the environmental characteristics of aquatic ecosystems, often reducing the availability and quality of habitats for animals. Improving the condition of urban waterbodies is ...

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 ...