What could we learn from giant squid about neurology, evolution, ecosystems, etc.? As with most basic research, it is hard to know the benefits until the research is actually done; there is always a gamble in whether such discoveries will have practical rewards.
Given the rapid evolution of ecosystem services science, RESTS provides an adaptable framework to guide forest restoration decision makers toward tools that can help quantify ecosystem services in support of restoration.
Harsh conditions common to all desert dune environments present similar challenges to species that live there, but differences in their age, climate and geographic extent offer exceptional opportunities for understanding evolution and ecosystem structure and function.
The second working hypothesis is that one can use the difference in Zn geochemistry between the slopes of southern and northern exposition, exhibiting dramatically different temperature and soil depth conditions, as a proxy for Zn isotope evolution in ecosystem of Central Siberia under on-going climate change.
This situation could give rise to great uncertainty for the future evolution and ecosystem of H9N2 viruses in China.
Knowledge of diet is a foundation of consumer ecology and fundamental to empirical investigations of food webs, competition, consumer evolution and ecosystem dynamics.
However, intraspecific diversity on the phenotypic level, for example, morphological, physiological, behavioral, or life-history diversity, is ubiquitous in nature and central for contemporary evolution and ecosystem function.
The extents to which overfishing affects stock biomass, population structure, phenotypic plasticity, adaptive evolution, or ecosystem structure have important implications for recovery.
We use a flexible coding structure at the level of individuals and in addition we allow for the evolution of ecosystem based solutions using a spatial co-evolutionary setup.
Darwin himself also wrote about evolution and ecosystems as a "tangled bank".
