The advent of ecosystem ecology has created great difficulties for ecologists primarily trained as biologists, since inevitably as the field grew, it absorbed c

In the early 1980s there were several published reports of recent, unexplained increases in mortality of red spruce in the Adirondack Mountains and the northern

This book presents an overview of the key debates that took place during the Economic and Social Council meetings at the 2007 High-level Segment, at which ECOSO

National and global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduce inequality. We must now confront these and other increa

Many terms often used to describe old-growth forests imply that these forests are less vigorous, less productive and less stable than younger forests. But resea