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Frontiers of Ecology JOHN N. THOMPSON, 0. J. REICHMAN, PETER J. MORIN, GARY A. POLIS, MARY E. POWER, ROBERT W. STERNER, CAROL A. COUCH, LAURA GOUGH, ROBERT HOLT, DAVID U. HOOPER, FELlClA KEESING, CHARLES R LOVELL, BRUCE T. MILNE, MANUEL C. MOLLES, DAVID W. ROBERTS, AND SHARON Y. STRAUSS cological research is entering a new era of integration and collaboration as we meet the challenge of underi...

Roundtable Carrying capacity and ecological economics en the tempest arose, "the mariners were afraid ...and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them" (Jonah 1:5 King James). This passage from the Book of Jonah anticipates a strategy many environmentalists recommend today. Nature surrounds us with lifesustaining systems, much as the sea supports a ship-a s...

THE ROYAL SOCIETY Evolutionary biology of language Martin A. Nowak InstztuteforAdcanced S t u 4 , Eznztezn Drzve, Prznceton, "27 08540, I'SA (nox~ak(~zas.edu) Language is the most important ebolutionary invention of the last few million years. It was an adaptation that helped our species to exchange information, make plans, express new ideas and totally change the appearance of the planet. H o...

Journal of Applied Ecology Review The fragility of ecosystems: a review CHRISTER NILSSON andGUNNEL GRELSSON Department of Ecological Botany, UmeB Universiy, S-901 87 Umed, Sweden Summary 1. The identification of species, communities, or ecosystems that are likely to be strongly damaged by human activities (i.e. that are fragile) forms an essential part of nature conservation management. We re...

emphasized by C. F. Lange and P. Kohn LJ. Biol. Chem. 236, 1 (196111. 1. The terms membrane carrier, carrier, and 11. R. K. Crane, Physiol. Rev. 40, 789 (1960); T. H. Wilson and B. R. Landau, Amer. J . transport system are used interchangeably Physiol. 198, 99 (1960). in this article to signify a system obeying saturation kinetics, which facilitates the move- 12. F. Alvarado, Biochim. ...

Thinking of Biology Environmentalism should include human ecological needs n his recent book, Norton (1991) argues that there is a consensus emerging among environmentalists concerning how we should be treating the earth. ( H e uses the term environmentalist in a broad sense t o mean someone who is concerned about the environment and enuironmentalism t o refer t o the overall movement that con...

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The Cultural Landscape as a Model for the Integration of Ecology and ALMO FARINA uman society and nature are the two main forces that shape landscape structure and drive landscape-level processes. Because two-thirds of the terrestrial surface of the planet is covered by agricultural land, livestock grazing areas, and managed forests, human activities clearly play an important role in creat...

Thinking of Biology Three theories from economics about the environment or most of its time on this planet, the human race has had t o deal with environmental problems in one form or another. The original concern was with the local scarcity of food, shelter, and other essentials provided at least in part by nature (Fisher and Peterson 1976). By the late eighteenth century, western philosopher...

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