Modeling drivers of woody cover change from historical ecology data sources can be a valuable way to plan restoration and enhance ecological insight into landscape change.
Many texts address important aspects of human-nature relations, and a good number of these demonstrate ecological insight.
The rapid miniaturization of technologies behind cameras, cellphones and wireless computers is allowing scientists to build innovative networks of small sensors that they say will produce a new era of ecological insight and, in time, help save the planet.
American corporate, imperial and military types try to demolish a tribal culture with brute force; the natives ultimately repel the invaders through guerrilla warfare and their superior spiritual and ecological insight.
For all their practical differences, climate and food are both cardinal examples of the ecological insight that made environmentalism possible: everything is connected, so what we drop into rivers, winds, or soil ends up in our bloodstreams.
Examining only average responses across populations obscures variability among individuals that may have important implications for management or provide new ecological insight.
