Details of the first ecology experiment have been revealed by researchers who tracked down the manuscript from references in the works of Charles Darwin. The trials, first reported in 1824, helped to ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence ...

Picking a question -- Posing questions (or picking an approach) -- Using experiments to test hypotheses -- Analyzing patterns and data -- Working with other people -- Communicating what you find -- ...

Ecologists have measured plant-soil feedbacks for six perennial prairie grass species in a short-term greenhouse study, and say their findings do not match outcomes observed in long-term experiment ...

Diversity and nitrogen addition have positive relationships with plant productivity, yet climate-induced changes in water availability threaten to upend these established relationships. Using ...

In many experimental sciences, like particle physics or molecular biology, the proper place for establishing facts is the laboratory. In the sciences of population biology, however, the laboratory is ...