Concepts

Introduction of natural enemies to reduce pest population density through environmentally friendly means

Ecological research projects that follow individuals or systems over extended periods, often spanning decades

Assumption that spatial differences in environmental conditions can predict temporal responses to environmental change

Student learning experiences that occur in nature, taking various forms from field laboratories to multi-day field trips and research internships

The near-surface environment where rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms interact and drive Earth surface processes

Study of how organisms obtain and use nutrients and how nutrition affects fitness

A series of sites of different ages since disturbance used to infer temporal changes in ecological processes

Study of how cognitive mechanisms govern decision-making by floral visitors and shape pollination and plant fitness

Scientific discipline focused on protecting and preserving species and ecosystems

Benefits that humans derive from ecosystem processes, including pollination, pest control, and decomposition

Abundance, Size, Number, Energy framework that uses ecological state variables to predict ecosystem structure functions

Four categories of biological explanation: proximate causation, development, adaptive utility, and evolutionary history

A theoretical model arguing that three social factors influence students' integration into the scientific community: scientific self-efficacy, scientific identity, and perceptions of alignment between...

Conservation strategies for protecting declining amphibian populations globally

Systematic observation and assessment of biological diversity over time to detect changes in species populations, community composition, and ecosystem health

Study of energy flow and energy dynamics in biological systems

Study of microbial communities and processes in constructed habitats and structures

Conservation strategy to preserve threatened or critically endangered species through maintaining reproductive populations in captivity

Study of organisms that transmit pathogens between hosts, particularly focusing on their distribution and abundance

The process of generating model-based, quantitative predictions of the future state and dynamics of an ecological system

Mathematical relationship among state variables that describes the system independent of how those values were achieved

Ensuring that fieldwork safety accommodates different identities and experiences, and that safety cannot be promoted except through explicit consideration of power dynamics and workers' identities

The study of how morphological structures relate to their function, in this case how syrphid pile density affects pollen capture