====== Ecology ====== Ecology is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment. ===== Community Ecology ===== Community ecology is the study of the interactions among a collections of species that inhabit the same geographic area. ===== Ecosystem Ecology ===== Ecosystem ecology is the science of determining the fluxes of materials between different pools. ==== Soil ==== * [[http://www.timberpress.com/blog/2015/07/how-soils-form-and-age/|How soils form and age]] - Timberpress * [[https://discardstudies.com/|Discard Studies]] === Micorrhizal Networks === * [[http://www.functionalecology.org/view/0/virtualIssues/VI_MycorrhizalNetworks.html|What are Micorrihizal networks and how they interconnect and exchange nutrients with plants]] ===== Industrial Ecology ===== Industrial ecology is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. * [[http://www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/resources/compendia/INDEpdfs/INDEintro.pdf|Industrial Ecology: An Introduction]] - //Andy Garner and Gregory A. Keoleian// * [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15309290|The Journal of Industrial Ecology]] - //Yale University// * [[http://www.teaching.industrialecology.uni-freiburg.de/|Industrial Ecology Open Online Course]] * [[https://github.com/IndEcol/Dashboard|Inventory of FLOSS tools for industrial ecology research]] * [[https://is4ie.org/|Internation Society for Industrial Ecology]] ===== Population Ecology ===== Population ecology studies the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment. ===== Spatial Ecology ===== Spatial ecology studies the ultimate distributional or spatial unit occupied by a species. ==== Landscape Ecology ==== Landscape ecology is the science of studying and improving relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems. ===== Social Ecology ===== Social ecology studies relationships between people and their environment, often the interdependence of people, collectives and institutions. * [[https://webfiles.uci.edu/dstokols/Pubs/Est%20%26%20Maintain%20Hlthy%20Envts.pdf|Establishing and Maintaining Healthy Environments]] - //Daniel Stokols// * [[https://webfiles.uci.edu/dstokols/Pubs/Translating.PDF?uniq=-z4kp10|Translating social ecological theory into guidelines for community health promotion]] - //Daniel Stokols// * [[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T4mZDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false|Social Ecology in the Digital Age]] - //Daniel Stokols// * [[https://archive.li/20140711171835/http://socialecology.uci.edu/cse/cse.html|Conceptual Social Ecology]] - //University of California, Irvine// * [[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CueiTFXCRXQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Linking+social+and+ecological+systems:+Practices+and+Social+Mechanisms+for+Building+Resilience&hl=en&ei=zyjIS_reNc6nsAal-MyeCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|Linking Social and Ecological Systems]] - //Fikret Berkes & Carl Folke// * [[https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Joh0_7X5DHMC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Navigating+social-ecological+systems:+building+resilience+for+complexity&ots=0twEWQg6r7&sig=geggfAQPRu0g3RaalsN2v8yFSeU&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|Navigating Social-Ecological Systems]] - //Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding & Carl Folke// ===== Systems Ecology ===== Systems ecology is an interdisciplinary field of ecology that takes a holistic approach to the study of ecosystems. ===== Theoretical Ecology ===== Theoretical ecology is the study of ecological systems using theoretical methods such as simple conceptual models, mathematical models, computational simulations, and advanced data analysis. ===== Urban Ecology ===== Urban ecology is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms with each other and their surroundings in the context of an urban environment.