Nitrogen uptake in riparian plant communities across a sharp ecological boundary of salmon density
Recent studies of anadromous salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) on the Pacific Coast of North America indicate an important and previously unrecognized role of salmonid nutrients to terrestrial biota.

Hawaiian Plant, Thought To Be Newcomer, Actually Shaped Ecology Of The Islands From The Beginning
Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have discovered data that suggests one of Hawaii's most dominant plants, Metrosideros, has been a resident of the islands far longer than previously believed.

Movement Ecology: Unifying Theory Of How Plants And Animals Move From One Place To Another
Movement ecology is a developing academic pursuit, combining expertise in a variety of fields, including biology, ecology, botany, environmental science, physics, mathematics, virology and others.

City Ants Take The Heat
While Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, has generated greater awareness of global warming, most people remain unaware of the more rapid warming that has occurred within major cities.

Build Parks To Climate Proof Our Cities
Scientists looking at the effect global warming will have on our major cities say a modest increase in the number of urban parks and street trees could offset decades of predicted temperature rises.

Similarity Of Urban Flora: Plants In Towns And Cities Are More Closely Related Than Those In The Countryside
More plant species grow in German towns and cities than in the countryside, but those in towns and cities are more closely related and are often functionally similar.

Ecological Impact Of African Cities
African cities are growing faster than anywhere else in the world.

Antarctic icebergs: unlikely oases for ocean life
Icebergs have long gripped the popular imagination, whether as relatively run-of-the-mill floating hazards that cause "unsinkable' ships to founder or, more recently, as enormous breakaway pieces of ice the size of states or small countries.

Goats Can Be Too Much of a Good Thing for Pastures
It just takes a few repeat urinations by goats on the same spot of land to kill most of the vegetation and seriously pollute groundwater.

Down By The River: Riparian Habitats Preferred By Both Native And Exotic Species
As Rebecca Brown kayaked down the Nolichucky River in North Carolina one summer, she followed a path similar to many of her own study subjects. Seeds and other propagules often float downstream before settling along riverbanks.

Contaminants From Coal-Burning Byproduct Affecting Aquatic Wildlife
Ecologists at the Savannah River Site are finding high levels of heavy metals in animals exposed to coal fly ash left over from burning coal at the federal reservation

Nitrogen Oxide Pollutants Have Declined Over The Eastern United States Since 1999
Nitrogen oxides (known as NOx) emitted by fossil fuel combustion play a crucial role in producing ground level ozone

Changing Global Nitrogen Cycle Impacting Human Health, Says Colorado University-led Study
Despite greatly increasing food production for humans, the growing use of nitrogen as a nutrient is affecting people's health far beyond just the benefits of growing more crops

Ecological Restoration: A Global Strategy For Mitigating Climate Change
The Society for Ecological Restoration International issued a position statement on global climate change during its joint conference with the ESA “Ecological Restoration in a Changing World” held recently in San Jose, CA.

Global Warming May Warrant New Approaches To Ecosystem Restoration
Ecosystems behave in unpredictable ways and, because of this, restoration ecologists are often faced with unforeseen challenges.

Putting Ecology Back Into River Restoration
An ambitious plan is under way in the ecological community to agree a set of standards for ecologically successful river restoration.

Hurricanes Impact Carbon Sequestration By Forests
Hurricanes significantly lessen the capacity of US forests to sequester atmospheric carbon

'Live Fast, Die Young' Applies To Forests, Too
Forests provide humans with economically important and often irreplaceable products and services, and affect global climate by acting as sources and sinks of heat-trapping carbon dioxide.

Locomotor activity in common spiny mice (Acomys cahirinuse): The effect of light and environmental complexity
The present study tested whether the spatio-temporal structure of activity was also modified in illuminated compared with dark and complex compared with open arenas

Wildlife reintroduction: considerations of habitat quality at the release site
The habitat analysis was carried out to ensure that the island was capable of supporting the gibbons and the resident wildlife