Mechanistic model can predict biological community development across ecosystems

Biological communities are rarely stable. Their composition is constantly changing, depending on the environmental conditions ...
Science Daily

Species are to ecosystems as cells are to the human body, according to a mathematical model

An ecosystem is like a great organism in that the species in it behave in a manner similar to the manner in which cells behave within the human body: the group forms a permanent entity, although the ...
Forbes

There’s A Model Ecosystem In Your Kombucha

Kombucha is fermented sugary tea by a Symbiotic Community of Bacteria and Yeast (SCOBY). When you take a refreshing and effervescent sip of kombucha, you’re actually ingesting the result of a complex ...
Forbes

How The Smartphone Ecosystem Model Will Disrupt Business Everywhere

It's possible to write a history of the platform and ecosystem model of business and never mention Apple or Google, yet it was Apple and Google that created amazement with the scale of their ...
Nature

Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

Ecosystem responses to rising CO 2 concentrations are a major source of uncertainty in climate change projections. Data from ecosystem-scale Free-Air CO 2 Enrichment (FACE) experiments provide a ...
JSTOR Daily

Decision-making for ecosystem-based management: evaluating options for a krill fishery with an ecosystem dynamics model

Decision-makers charged with implementing ecosystem-based management (EBM) rely on scientists to predict the consequences of decisions relating to multiple, potentially conflicting, objectives. Such ...
The Economist

Compared with climate, modelling of ecosystems is at an early stage

EVERY FEW weeks from June 1963 until July 1968, Robert Paine, a zoologist, made the journey from Seattle, where he taught at the University of Washington, across Puget Sound to the rocky shores of ...