Scientific communities of practice: K–12 outreach model around organism responses to repeated hurricane disturbances by Kathleen M. Easley, Jess K. Zimmerman, Steven McGee, Randi McGee‐Tekula

“…Abstract Collaboration between ecologists and learning scientists can give rise to powerful models for scientific outreach within ecology. …”
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A historical contingency hypothesis for population ecology by Sarah R. Hoy, Rolf O. Peterson, John A. Vucetich

“…Those findings highlight the potential value of reconsidering the way that population ecologists traditionally attempt to explain phenomena. …”
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The Fuel Moisture Index Based on Understorey Hygrochron iButton Humidity and Temperature Measurements Reliably Predicts Fine Fuel Moisture Content in Tasmanian <i>Eucalyptus</i> Fo... by David M. J. S. Bowman, James M. Furlaud, Meagan Porter, Grant J. Williamson

“…Accurate determination of FFMC is laborious, hence managers and ecologists have devised a range of empirical and mechanistic measures for FFMC. …”
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Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions by Sutherland, W, Freckleton, R, Godfray, C, Beissinger, SR, Benton, T, Cameron, D, Carmel, Y, Coomes, D, Coulson, T, Emmerson, M, Hails, R, Hays, G, Hodgson, D, Hutchings, M, Johnson, D, Jones, J, Keeling, M, Kokko, H, Kunin, W, Lambin, X, Lewis, O, Malhi, Y, Mieszkowska, N, Milner-Gulland, E, Norris, K

“…We elicited questions from ecologists working across a wide range of systems and disciplines. …”

A Theocentric Environmental Ethic by Garrett J. DeWeese

“…An influential view among environmentalists and ecologists is that religion, in general, and Christianity, in particular, not only have nothing to offer to environmental ethics but are actually hostile to the environment. …”
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The use and mis-use of some ecological terms and concepts in epidemiology by Fernando D. Avila-Pires

“…Proper definitions are listed, with the intent of helping non-ecologists to use those terms and concepts correctly.…”
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Industrial Ecology / by Schramm, Georgette author 643827

“…Industrial ecology seeks to quantify the material flows and document the industrial processes that make modern society function. Industrial ecologists are often concerned with the impacts that industrial activities have on the environment, with use of the planet's supply of natural resources, and with problems of waste disposal. …”
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Rarefaction is currently the best approach to control for uneven sequencing effort in amplicon sequence analyses by Patrick D. Schloss

“…However, the diversity metrics used by microbial ecologists are sensitive to differences in sequencing effort. …”
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Hidden Markov models: Pitfalls and opportunities in ecology by Richard Glennie, Timo Adam, Vianey Leos‐Barajas, Théo Michelot, Theoni Photopoulou, Brett T. McClintock

“…This review is for ecologists and ecological statisticians familiar with HMMs, but who may be less aware of the problems that arise in more specialised applications. …”
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Collaborative Use of Sensor Networks and Cyberinfrastructure to Understand Complex Ecosystem Interactions in a Tropical Rainforest: Challenges and Lessons Learned by Philip W. Rundel, Thomas C. Harmon, Angel S. Fernandez-Bou, Michael F. Allen

“…Collaborations between ecosystem ecologists and engineers have led to impressive progress in developing complex models of biogeochemical fluxes in response to global climate change. …”
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Semi-Supervised Segmentation for Coastal Monitoring Seagrass Using RPA Imagery by Brandon Hobley, Riccardo Arosio, Geoffrey French, Julie Bremner, Tony Dolphin, Michal Mackiewicz

“…For our results, we show that FCNNs have comparable performance with the standard OBIA method used by ecologists.…”
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De l’équilibre naturel à la stabilité et à la résilience : désuétude et persistance by Olivier Delettre, Artemis Korniliou

“…However, while it was relatively popular among scientists in the 19th and early 20th century, the expression is no longer used by almost all the ecologists. In this article, we aim to show that this expression is not used anymore because it fell into disuse, not because of a refutation of the idea it covered. …”
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Distinti principi, conseguenze messe a confronto by Oscar Horta, Susanna Ferrario

“…In fact, among the positions traditionally defended as ecologists there are serious divergences. Some of them, biocentrists, in particular, can ally themselves with holistic positions such as ecocentrism on certain occasions.…”
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Biodiversity by Center for Natural Resources

“…It became popular in the 1980s and is not yet properly understood by all non-ecologists. Biodiversity refers to the variety and richness among living organisms and the ecological systems and processes of which they are a part. …”
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The essence of soil biodiversity by Loren B. Byrne

“…Abstract Soil ecologists and conservationists should focus on raising people's awareness of the essence of soil biodiversity: its complex ecological webs and emergent ecosystem services that support aboveground life and human well‐being. …”
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The Transformation of Environment into Landscape: The Historical Ecology of Monumental Earthwork Construction in the Bolivian Amazon by Clark L. Erickson

“…Although the Neotropics are recognized as a region rich in biological diversity, the origin, evolution, and maintenance of this phenomenon continues to be debated. Historical ecologists and landscape archaeologists point out that the Neotropics have a long, complex human history that may have been a key factor in the creation, shaping, and management of present day biodiversity. …”
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Using computer vision to identify limpets from their shells: a case study using four species from the Baja California peninsula by Jack D. Hollister, Jack D. Hollister, Jack D. Hollister, Xiaohao Cai, Tammy Horton, Tammy Horton, Benjamin W. Price, Karolina M. Zarzyczny, Karolina M. Zarzyczny, Phillip B. Fenberg, Phillip B. Fenberg

“…We then enlisted the expertise of limpet ecologists specialised in identification of species from the Baja peninsula to comment on whether the heatmaps are indeed focusing on specific morphological features per species/genus. …”
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Democratizing macroecology: Integrating unoccupied aerial systems with the National Ecological Observatory Network by Michael J. Koontz, Victoria M. Scholl, Anna I. Spiers, Megan E. Cattau, John Adler, Joseph McGlinchy, Tristan Goulden, Brett A. Melbourne, Jennifer K. Balch

“…This challenge inspired a working group of UAS‐using academic ecologists, NEON professionals, imaging scientists, remote sensing specialists, and aeronautical engineers at the 2019 NEON Science Summit in Boulder, Colorado, to synthesize current knowledge on how to use UAS with NEON in a mental model for an intended audience of ecologists new to these tools. …”
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How to generate accurate continuous thermal regimes from sparse but regular temperature measurements by Loke vonSchmalensee

“…Temperature fluctuates continuously in nature but is sampled at discrete time points, so how often should ecologists measure temperature to capture its variation? …”
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Recommendations for acoustic recognizer performance assessment with application to five common automated signal recognition programs by Elly C. Knight, Kevin C. Hannah, Gabriel J. Foley, Chris D. Scott, R. Mark. Brigham, Erin Bayne

“…Finally, we synthesized six general recommendations for ecologists who employ automated signal recognition software, including what to use as a test benchmark, how to incorporate score threshold, what metrics to use, and how to evaluate efficiency. …”
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