Nonetheless, the concept of the plant community as an organism remains viable and useful in ecology and is the basis of much of the most progressive analysis of how to manage Earth for the successful support of large numbers of people.
Standard meta-analysis techniques have become an important and useful tool in ecology and evolution (Gurevitch and Hedges 1999).
A population ecology concept is r/K selection theory, one of the first predictive models in ecology used to explain life-history evolution.
Analyses of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes naturally occurring in animal tissues prove useful in trophic ecology investigations.
Recent theoretical (Morin et al. 2004) and empirical studies (Seddon et al. 2005; Narum et al. 2008) suggest that the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is becoming particularly useful in evolution, ecology, and conservation, especially with the accumulation of genomic sequence information in the past decades.
The symbiosis between Neotyphodium endophyte fungi and cool-season grasses is a useful model system in ecology and evolution, and it is a challenge for the management of agricultural systems.
Further, network analyses appear as a useful means to address fundamental subjects in ecology using environmental diversity inventories.
There are many analytical and field techniques which are useful in both conservation ecology and medical and veterinary entomology so that individuals with experience in one of these areas should not feel confined to their original field of research.
This technique has been useful in other microbial ecology studies, providing high classifier accuracy (Knights et al., 2011).
Further investigations into the environmental affinities of individual lineages and sub-lineages of B. anthracis will be useful in understanding the ecology of the disease at large and small scales.
