Ecology

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Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology is an extensive, annotated bibliography of the most important concepts and ideas in the discipline. Ecology is a wide-ranging field that has its roots in the observations and writings of the early plant geographers, including of course Charles Darwin. As ecology has developed it has drawn from classical ‘hard sciences’ such as chemistry and physics, but has its own unique identity and today brings in modern aspects of many other disciplines including other areas of the life sciences, and geography, mathematics, computing and statistics. Ecology itself forms the underpinning of Environmental Science. And so, ecology has much to offer. For Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology, topics from all the relevant areas have been selected; these include articles on autoecology, population, community, and ecosystem ecology, the main biomes of the world, as well as articles related to the synthesis of ecology with other disciplines including human ecology, agroecology, and chemical ecology, for example.


A Bibliographical Introduction to Famous Ecologists

Ecology, the study of organisms and their interactions with the environment, stands as a discipline on the shoulders of its pioneering scientists. Explore this collection of 9 freely available bibliographies on famous ecologists, curated by the Oxford Bibliographies editorial team. Read More


Editor in Chief

David Gibson PhD, Fellow Society of Biology, is Emeritus Professor of plant biology and University Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. He is the author of Grasses and Grassland Ecology (OUP, 2009), Methods in Comparative Plant Population Ecology (OUP, 2014), Grasslands and Climate Change (CUP, co-edited with JA Newman, 2019), Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes (OUP, 2022), and over 175 articles in professional journals. He is former editor of the Journal of Ecology, a journal of the British Ecological Society which publishes papers on all aspects of the ecology of plants (including algae).

 


AREA EDITORS

University of South Florida
University of Amsterdam
Yale University
 
 

FORMER STANDING EDITORIAL BOARD

Arizona State University
University of Arizona
University of Oxford
Northeastern University
 

FOUNDING EDITORIAL BOARD

Arizona State University
University of Buenos Aires
University of Alberta
University of Arizona
Yale University
University of West Florida
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Washington State University
University of Guelph
University of Oxford
 

ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS

* = recently published

 

Autoecology

Linyi Zhang
Rice University
Scott P. Egan
Rice University
Diego A. Sotomayor
York University
Christopher J. Lortie
York University
Andrew C. McCall
Denison University
G.H. Walter
The University of Queensland
André Kessler
Cornell University
Ran Nathan
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David Shohami
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thomas W. Schoener
University of California, Davis
Patrick Abbot
Vanderbilt University
Glen R. Hood
Wayne State University
Scott P. Egan
Rice University
Graeme W. Nicol
Université de Lyon
James I. Prosser
University of Aberdeen
James Gilbert
University of Sussex
Michael D. Breed
University of Colorado Boulder
Duncan J. Irschick
University of Massachusetts Amherst
K. A. S. Mislan
University of Washington
Douglas Morris
Lakehead University
Robert S. Boyd
Auburn University
Nishanta Rajakaruna
College of the Atlantic
Ronald C. Ydenberg
Simon Fraser University
Andrew F. G. Bourke
University of East Anglia
Charles W. Fox
University of Kentucky
Frank J. Messina
Utah State University
Barry Sinervo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ashley Robart
University of California, Santa Cruz
David W. Kikuchi
Carleton University
David W. Pfennig
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dan L. Warren
The University of Texas at Austin
Nichole Bennett
The University of Texas at Austin
Angela Hodge
University of York
Ryan Calsbeek
Dartmouth College
Nathan G. Swenson
Michigan State University
Michele M. Skopec
Weber State University
Greg A. Barron-Gafford
University of Arizona
Sue Nicolson
University of Pretoria
Paul Barnes
Loyola University New Orleans
M. J. Jeger
Imperial College London
K. L. Stevenson
University of Georgia
L. V. Madden
The Ohio State University
Nicole E. Rafferty
The University of Arizona
Rob Kulathinal
Temple University
James Gilbert
University of Sussex
Mark K.J. Ooi
University of Wollongong
Simon Leather
Harper Adams University
Joseph Craine
Kansas State University
Joel L. Sachs
University of California, Riverside
Kelsey A. Gano
University of California, Riverside
Amanda C. Hollowell
University of California, Riverside
John U. Regus
University of California, Riverside
Michael J. Angilletta Jr.
Arizona State University
Michael J. Angilletta Jr.
Arizona State University

 

Biomes and Ecoregions

Anthony R.E. Sinclair
The University of British Columbia
Rene L. Beyers
The University of British Columbia
Laszlo Nagy
Instituto de Biologia
Roberto Bargagli
Università degli Studi di Siena
Ron Etter
University of Massachusetts Boston
Lee E. Frelich
University of Minnesota
Thomas E. Miller
Florida State University
Marina Lauck
Florida State University
Nancy Knowlton
Smithsonian Institution
David Ward
University of KwaZulu-Natal
John MacKinnon
University of Kent
Shaila Seshia Galvin
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Robert S. Boyd
Auburn University
Natasha Krell
College of the Atlantic
Nishanta Rajakaruna
College of the Atlantic
David J. Gibson
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Christoph Kueffer
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Donald Drake
University of Hawai'I at Manoa
José María Fernández-Palacios
La Laguna University
Neil Rooney
University of Guelph
Roy R. Lewis III
Lewis Environmental Services, Inc.
Laura L. Flynn
Lewis Environmental Services, Inc.
Christoph Kueffer
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Debra P.C. Peters
New Mexico State University
Stacey L.P. Scroggs
New Mexico State University
Jin Yao
New Mexico State University
Dale H. Vitt
Southern Illinois University
Dieter Piepenburg
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Manfred Bölter
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Michael J. Hill
University of North Dakota
Priya Davidar
Pondicherry University
John S. Richardson
The University of British Columbia
Lee E. Frelich
University of Minnesota
Frank S. Gilliam
University of West Florida
Simon A. Queenborough
Yale University
Bruce C. Forbes
Lapin Yliopisto
Curtis J. Richardson
Duke University
R. Scott Winton
ETH Zurich

 

Community Ecology

Dominique Gravel
Université du Québec à Rimouski
Otto Wildi
Swiss Federal Research Institute
Herman A. Verhoef
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jennifer A. Schweitzer
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Joseph K. Bailey
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
David W. Inouye
University of Maryland
Amy M. Iler
Aarhus Universitet
Matthew D. Therrell
Southern Illinois University
Christopher J. Lortie
York University
David Abson
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Thomas E. Miller
Florida State University
Casey P. terHorst
Michigan State University
Florian Altermatt
Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Sang-Hoon Lee
Michigan State University
Ashley Shade
Michigan State University
Lindsay A. Turnbull
Universität Zürich
David J. Gibson
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Oswald J. Schmitz
Yale University
Michael Rosenberg
Arizona State University
Corey Anderson
Valdosta State University
Jane Elith
University of Melbourne
Samantha M. Tessel
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kyle A. Palmquist
University of Wyoming
Robert K. Peet
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bryan Griffiths
Laurent Philippot
INRA Dijon
David J. Gibson
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Mark Vellend
Université de Sherbrooke
Jonathan B. Shurin
University of California, San Diego
Miguel De Cáceres
Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya
D.A. Tierney
New South Wales Government
M.J. Powell
New South Wales Government
C.E. Eriksson
Oregan State University

 

Conservation Biology

Jacob W. Brownscombe
Carleton University
Andrea J. Reid
Carleton University
Lana Dolgova
Ryan Pusiak
Carleton University
Bruce Laurich
Carleton University
Eric Denis Turenne
University of Ottawa
Aaron Zolderdo
Carleton University
Petra Szekeres
Carleton University
Andrew D. Moraga
Carleton University
Kim Birnie-Gauvin
Carleton University
Jill Brooks
Carleton University
Brittany Sullivan
Carleton University
Matt Ford
Carleton University
Shannon D. Bower
Carleton University
Joseph R. Bennett
Carleton University
Steven J. Cooke
Carleton University
L. Lens
Ghent University
H. Eggermont
Ghent University
David Coltman
University of Alberta
Rafael Poyatos
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Enrique Doblas-Miranda
Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona
Leah Temper
McGill University, Autonomous University of Barcelona Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA)
John Parminter
British Columbia Forest Service
Anthony Joern
Kansas State University
Edward J. Raynor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Yufang Gao
Yale University
Marian Chertow
Yale University
Reid Lifset
Yale University
Tom Yang
Yale University
Jonathan H. Grabowski
Northeastern University
Sean P. Powers
University of South Alabama
Steven B. Scyphers
Northeastern University
Andrew J. Felton
Colorado State University
Melinda D. Smith
Colorado State University
Philip Stephens
University of Durham
Anders Pape Møller
Université Paris-Sud
Timothy A. Mousseau
University of South Carolina
Sara G. Baer
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Thomas Brooks
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Lauren B. Buckley
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philip M. Fearnside
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Amity Doolittle
Yale University
Michael W. Strohbach
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Boris Schröder
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Ingi Agnarsson
University of Vermont
Jason Ali
University of Hong Kong
David S. Barrington
University of Vermont
Mark S. Boyce
University of Alberta

 

Ecosystem Services

Susan Ogilvy
Australian National University
Robert Costanza
Australian National University
Jasper van Ruijven
Wageningen University
Alejandra Echeverri
University of British Columbia
Kai M. A. Chan
University of British Columbia
Andrew H. Altieri
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Peter K. Manning
Northeastern University
Forest Isbell
University of Georgia
Michael Kearney
University of Melbourne
Franciska T. De Vries
Lancaster University
Richard D. Bardgett
Lancaster University
Justin Schoof
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

 

Ecosystems

Cédric Leo Meunier
Alfred Wegener Institute
Maarten Boersma
William H. Schlesinger
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Jürgen Bauhus
University of Freiburg
Kristin Baber
University of Freiburg
Jörg Müller
Universität Würzburg
Beth A. Middleton
United States Geological Survey
Paulo R. Guimarães Jr. Jr.
Universidade de São Paulo
Mehdi Cherif
Umeå universitet
James Elser
Arizona State University
J.C. Moore
Colorado State University
William S. Currie
University of Michigan
Mary I. O'Connor
University of British Columbia
Joanna R. Bernhardt
University of British Columbia
Natalie C. Caulk
University of British Columbia
Chuck Price
University of Western Australia
Sonia Kéfi
Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier
Nishanta Rajakaruna
College of the Atlantic
Robert S. Boyd
Auburn University
Matthew D. Wallenstein
Colorado State University
Amanda Carlson
Colorado State University
DeAnna J. Laurel
Colorado State University
Ezequiel Fernandez Tschieder
Colorado State University
Laurel Lynch
Colorado State University
Clay L. Montague
University of Florida
Mark Farrell
CSIRO
Lee A. Dyer
University of Nevada, Reno

 

History of Ecology and General Principles

Curt Meine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
University of Florida
Daniel Simberloff
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
John T. Murphy
University of Chicago
Frank S. Gilliam
University of West Florida
Sara Tjossem
Columbia University
Friedrich Recknagel
University of Adelaide
Mark Colyvan
The University of Sydney
Lev R. Ginzburg
Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Peter Taylor
University of Massachusetts Boston
Kevin MacDonnell
Rice University
Steve Mentz
St. John's University
Rafe Sagarin
University of Arizona
Joel Hagen
Radford University
Harriet Ritvo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kit Heintzman
Harvard University
David K. Skelly
Yale University
Nishanta Rajakaruna
College of the Atlantic
Robert S. Boyd
Auburn University
Malcolm Nicolson
University of Glasgow
Pamela McElwee
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares
University of Helsinki
Marian Ahn Thorpe
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kyle Powys Whyte
Michigan State University
Beth Rose Middleton
University of California, Davis
Kaitlin Reed
University of California, Davis
Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy
University of Victoria
Alysse Marie Moldawer
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Paul A. Keddy
Independent Scholar
Roy Turkington
University of British Columbia
Kevin S. McCann
University of Guelph
Alistair Seddon
University of Oxford
John P. Smol
Queen’s University
Exequiel Ezcurra
University of California, Riverside
David K. Hecht
Bowdoin College
Annette Voigt
Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
John Grim
Yale University
Russell Powell
Princeton University
Matthew T. Riley
Drew University
Tara C. Trapani
Yale University
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Yale University
Henry S. Horn
Princeton University
Thomas R. Wentworth
North Carolina State University
Florian Hartig
University of Regensburg
Laura J. Cameron
Queen's University
Daniel J. McGlinn
College of Charleston
Michael W. Palmer
Oklahoma State University
Kohmei Kadowaki
Kyoto University
Peter C. Mancall
University of Southern California
Michael P. Branch
University of Nevada, Reno
Johanna R. Landis
University of Nevada, Reno
William V. Lombardi
University of Nevada, Reno
Sarah Nolan
University of Nevada, Reno
Andrew B. Ross
University of Nevada, Reno
Sara Tjossem
Columbia University

 

Landscapes and the Biosphere

Les Firbanks
University of Leeds
Sofia Biffi
University of Leeds
Jaboury Ghazoul
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Kenneth R. Young
The University of Texas at Austin
Vladimir R. Gil Ramón
Catholic University of Peru
Gonçalo Ferraz
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Almo Farina
Urbino University
Martin Hermy
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Adam Clark
University of Minnesota
Nicolas Schoof
University of Freiburg
Rainer Luick
Rottenburg University of Applied Forest Science
Lindsey Gillson
University of Cape Town
Rhett L. Mohler
Kansas State University
John A. Harrington, Jr.
Kansas State University
Douglas G. Goodin
Kansas State University
Scott Franklin
University of Northern Colorado
Xiujuan Qiao
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhijun Lu
Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Managing the Biosphere

David A. Cleveland
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jonathan Padwe
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 
David K. Skelly
Yale University
L. Kealoha Freidenburg
Yale University
Barry D. Solomon
Michigan Technological University
Patrick Kangas
University of Maryland
Michael C. Dietze
Boston University
Colin Averill
Boston University
John Foster
Boston University
Kathryn Wheeler
Boston University
Miguel A. Altieri
University of California, Berkeley
Marcos Lana
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Karin Stein-Bachinger
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Johann Bachinger
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Nicole M. Ardoin
Stanford University
Alison W. Bowers
Independent Consultant
Danny J. Gustafson
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
Alexis Gibson
Land Steward Services
Sayd Randle
University of Southern California
Michael R. Dove
Yale University
Peter Alpert
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Louis W. Botsford
University of California, Davis
Meredith Root-Bernstein
Institut National de Recherche Agronomique
Peter M. Kappeler
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Robert Fritz Baldwin
Clemson University
Simon Leather
Harper Adams University
Lauren M. Schwartz
Karla L. Gage

 

Population Ecology

Frank N. Egerton
University of Wisconsin Parkside
Gregory C. Mayer
University of Wisconsin Parkside
Eva S. Lindström
Uppsala Universitet
David A. Vasseur
Yale University
Heinjo During
Utrecht University
Sarah E. Diamond
Case Western Reserve University
Michael A. Brockhurst
University of Liverpool
Kayla C. King
University of Liverpool
Priyanga Amarasekare
University of California, Los Angeles
Paul A. Keddy
Independent Scholar
James Cahill
University of Alberta
Tancredi Caruso
Queen's University Belfast
Richard S. Ostfeld
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Lennart Persson
Umeå universitet
Vincent Munster
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Seth Judson
University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Letko
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Patricia K. Townsend
State University of New York at Buffalo
Klaus Mehltreter
El Instituto de Ecología
Joanne M. Sharpe
Sharplex Services
Matt R. Whiles
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Gregory P. Cheplick
City University of New York
Christopher Earle
Gymnosperm Database
Jeffrey A. Harvey
Nederlands Instituut voor Ecologie
Marco A. R. Mello
Universidade de São Paulo
Susan Will-Wolf
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert Luecking
The Field Museum
Ilkka Hanski
Helsingin yliopisto
Cory Merow
University of Connecticut
Judith Bronstein
The University of Arizona
Baoming Ji
Indiana University
James D. Bever
Indiana University Bloomington
David W. Stephens
University of Minnesota
Andrew C. McCall
Denison University
Paul-André Calatayud
Université Paris Sud
Nicolas Sauvion
Université Montpellier
Denis Thiéry
Centre INRA de recherches de Bordeaux- Aquitaine
François Rebaudo
French Institute for Research & Development
Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly
INRA Versailles
John M. Fryxell
University of Guelph
Timothy C. Roth II
Franklin & Marshall College
Maria Thaker
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Ambika Kamath
University of California at Berkeley
 

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