Yale Environment 360: Michael Pollan on What’s Wrong with Environmentalism

I don’t know exactly what percentage of greenhouse gas we would reduce if everybody planted a garden, but it would be a percentage and it would be a […]

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Firewood and Invasive Insects - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

New York’s forests are under attack from numerous invasive exotic insect pests. In years past, we have been hit with Chestnut blight, European gypsy moth, Dutch elm disease and Beech bark disease, all with devastating results.

One common way many of these insect pests are moved around […]

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Yale Environment 360: After Years Of Lax Protection Congress Expands Wilderness Areas

The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Congress has recently moved to designate a dozen tracts of land, totaling 2 million acres, as wilderness areas — the highest level of federal protection. The 2 million acres equals the total amount […]

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Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order

We explore the issues relevant to those types of ecosystems containing new combinations of species that arise through human action, environmental change, and the impacts of the deliberate and inadvertent introduction of species from other regions. Novel ecosystems (also termed ‘emerging ecosystems’) result when […]

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What is Ecosystem Structure?

MYSTER, RANDALL W.
Date: 2001

Caribbean Journal of Science, Vol. 37, No. 1-2, 132-134,

Ecosystems were originally defined as units of the earth’s surface, that is the whole system including the organisms and the physical factors that form the environment (Tansley, 1935). As the study of ecosystem ecology evolved, ecosystems came to be categorized […]

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