Ecology, like chemistry and physics, can be explained as the interaction of particles.  The particles in this case are individual plants and animals ( and I do include fungi and microbes ).  True, they do not look or act like billiard balls but they do have measurable properties that allow us to predict their behaviour… (read more)

I mentioned earlier that ecology is the science that looks at the sustainability of natural resources.  So far in this blog, I have mostly ignored ecology in favor of economics and evolution.  I mean to address that gap over the next couple of blog entries. Specifically, I want to give you a shorthand version of… (read more)