Evolutionary Ecology

1 International Conference on Human Ecology Manchester UK June 29 th to July 3 rd 2009 Jointly convened by the Commonwealth Human Ecology Council the Society for Human Ecology and the University of Manchester in cooperation with the German Society...  

Seventy-five posters designed by students in a biology course offered at Queen's will be on display in the Biosciences Atrium from Monday, Nov. 30 to Friday, Dec 4. The posters cover a wide range...  

Ecology Coatings, Inc., a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, advanced coatings, has developed UV-cured coatings specifically to address opportunities within the paper and packaging industry. These opportunities include the need for increased water and chemical resistance, along with solutions to important application and environmental issues, such as lower energy use, sustainability, solvent-free materials, and...  

Students to Travel to Study, Save Endangered Turtles. BY MOLLY MORRIS — DECEMBER 20, 2009. Students under Gloria Zakers' tutelage at Montessori School & International Academy venture near and far – from the local mangrove lagoons and ...  

One day each year, a group of bird-watchers fans out across the region to write a chapter in Western Pennsylvania's history. The Christmas Bird Count, a gathering that attracts as many as 130 birders, began more than 50 years ago as a hobbyists' holiday.  

Ankara. The European Union opens Monday official negotiations with Turkey on environmental problems, Turkish Huriet newspaper writes. Turkish newspaper defines the opening of the Ecology chapter as a new small step towards the accession to the EU ...  

Many collective human activities, including violence, have been shown to exhibit universal patterns1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. The size distributions of casualties both in whole wars from 1816 to 1980 and terrorist attacks have separately been shown to follow approximate power-law distributions6, 7, 9, 10. ... (Read on Source)  

Ecology: from Greek oikos ‘house’ + -logy. Economics: from Greek oikos ‘house’ in the form oikonomika referring to household management. It is a monumental irony that these terms, with their entourage of cognitive and practical meanings in mortal combat for our present and future world, have grown from the same root. The most basic conflict of [...]  

BUFFALO, N.Y., Dec. 16, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HIGHLIGHTS - Ecology and Environment, Inc., (Nasdaq:EEI) reported revenues for the first quarter of fiscal year 2010 of $39.5 million, up 17% from the $33.7 million reported in the first quarter of fiscal year 2009. Net income for the first quarter of fiscal year 2010 was $1.4 million or $.34 per share, consistent with the $1.5 million or $.35 per share reported in the prior year.  

Regarding Carolyn Guillot’s Nov. 19 letter (“Uncle Sam is out of control with cap and trade”), she’s terrified of cap and trade, probably the most effective program that actually reduces carbon dioxide emissions? Really? read more  

A Call to Integrate Faith, Ecology and the Global Economy To sign your organization on to this statement, letusknow To sign on to this statement as an individual, letusknow As hope-filled people, we stand in awe of Earth’s goodness and its capacity to provide abundant life for all God’s creation. We recognize our interconnection with Earth — with air, water, land, plants and other creatures. We recognize the dignity of the human person as an...  

Fisheries Management and Ecology journal presents international papers that cover all aspects of the management, ecology and conservation of inland, estuarine and coastal fisheries including:• Fisheries policy, management, operational, conservation and ecological issues• Fisheries managers' and ecologists' need for information, techniques, tools and concepts• Integration of ecological studies with all aspects of fisheries management• Promoting...  

From abstract: the sizes and timing of violent events within different insurgent conflicts exhibit remarkable similarities. We propose a unified model of human insurgency that reproduces these commonalities, and explains conflict-specific variations quantitatively in terms of underlying rules of engagement. Our model treats each insurgent population as an ecology of dynamically evolving, self-organized groups following common decision-making...  

'...a bit of bad logic has been faithfully repeated by intellectuals seeking power: the belief, as sincere as it is silly, that if you have the right ideas, you are by definition smarter than the system you are trying to control. That's Weishaupt's Fallacy. -- Systems theory was a victim of the same fallacy. Very few of the newborn institutions in the systems movement were self-funding, most of them subsisted on government grants, and thus...  

Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is a not for profit non governmental organization that searches for better outcomes, including new solutions, to the management of knowledge resources. KEI is focused on social justice, particularly for the most vulnerable populations, including low-income persons and marginalized groups. There are probably 5 billion people who live in the margins of the global economy, and an entire planet that depends...