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

Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 42, Supplement Issue: The Evidence for Policy and Environmental Approaches to Promoting Health (April 2015), pp. 8S-14S (7 pages) Efforts to change policies and the ...

This Federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HLOC) map of Baltimore from 1937 illustrates patterns of segregation that accompanied discriminatory practices in federal policy and the real estate ...

Global climate change threatens the structure and function of ecological communities in urban areas, including public and private gardens. An adaptation strategy was developed to accommodate the ...

Can we reliably predict the development of biological communities in different kinds of ecosystems? Using high-tech methods, Konstanz-based researchers expand upon and confirm an ecological model that ...

Scientists have developed an innovative planning framework that could help protect fragile ecosystems in cold regions while ...

The study covered in this summary was published on medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. The factors pertaining to and the potential underlying causes for the underperformance ...

Yesterday was World Mental Health Day. Businesses globally touted the importance of how much “mental health matters.” While awareness of mental health as an influential factor in health more broadly ...

An ecological theory may help to explain why segregation is so widespread and persistent in US cities, according to a new article. The new way of framing segregation's endurance may provide a useful ...