Ecology—the study of the relationships between living organisms and their environment—is a wide-ranging area of research. Technological progress and data sharing are increasingly enabling ecologists ...

Details of the first ecology experiment have been revealed by researchers who tracked down the manuscript from references in the works of Charles Darwin. The trials, first reported in 1824, helped to ...

Picking a question -- Posing questions (or picking an approach) -- Using experiments to test hypotheses -- Analyzing patterns and data -- Working with other people -- Communicating what you find -- ...

Diversity and nitrogen addition have positive relationships with plant productivity, yet climate-induced changes in water availability threaten to upend these established relationships. Using ...

In many experimental sciences, like particle physics or molecular biology, the proper place for establishing facts is the laboratory. In the sciences of population biology, however, the laboratory is ...