Behavioral Ecology Blog

I’m liveblogging a paper that should have been read a long time ago…. An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective on human-microbe mutualisms and disease from the October 18 issue of Nature. 1st, the abstract:
The microbial communities of humans are characteristic and complex mixtures of microorganisms that have co-evolved with their human hosts. The species that make [...]

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Is disgusting… Sign the petition to have it stopped.
Alaska is the only state in the nation where trophy hunters can gun down wolves from airplanes or chase wolves to exhaustion and then shoot them from the ground.
Alaskans have voted twice to end the state’s brutal aerial hunting program, but state officials continue to let [...]

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The Govenor of California has decided in his infinite wisdom to close 46 state parks and beaches… The ones that had the fewest visitors and generated the least amount if $$ will be closed..OK, does the governor really think that the value of a park is somehow tied to the amount of money it generates? What about [...]

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For FREE, at the NAS website. Here is the HTML table of contents.  While the more militant science bloggers will surely take offense by their “soft” statement on religion (”…the evidence for evolution can be fully compatible with religious faith. Science and religion are different ways of understanding the world”), this is not a [...]

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Welcome everybody to the 12th installment of Oekologie- a blog carnival dedicated to the sciences of ecology and the environment. This months edition is loaded with great posts from a diverse set of bloggers.. So here we go!
Jeremy starts us off with a post that describes the latest scare tactic to be implemented in religious [...]

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From Treehugger

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“Maybe” I suppose is the best answer I can give right now.. What we do know is that there is a strong correlation between industrial pollutants and shrinking polar bear dong’s. Now Ursids are not exactly “close relatives”, but they are mammals, and many of our physiological processes are identical… I bet the experiment [...]

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So remember that post from a week ago asking you to reveal your innermost toileting secrets?? Well please continue to vote- although I’ve moved the poll over to the sidebar…
How often do you flush the toilet?
Basically, I point out that the there are roughly 3.3 billion people using toilets on Earth. Each person urinates about [...]

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One of our favorite things to do on weekends is go to the beach, and as much as possible, we try to find new beaches every time we go out… This weekend, we drove down to Monterey, mainly to go to the Aquarium, but then to travel up Route 1 to visit a few beaches… [...]

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Water conservation is a big issue, given both the current drought afflicting the Southwest US, and more generally, given global climate change. While numerous methods have been prescribed by experts to control our use (abuse) of this valuable resource, many of them are limited in their application. For instance, irrigation of lawns applies [...]

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