The purpose of this study was to use the Ecological Model of Health Promotion to explore policy, environmental, and individual factors influencing physical activity of middle- to older-aged ...

The Social Ecological Model attends to the aforementioned levels creating environments where the change and synergy needed to support sustainable improvement in health can occur. Change strategies are ...

The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales -- a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists ...

Dominant livelihood approaches focus on increasing incomes and trigger processes that disregard underlying social-ecological systems and often result in adverse social, economic and ecological ...

Traditional approaches to ecology have limitations that can sometimes be addressed with molecular techniques. For one, traditional ecological approaches have relatively narrow timeframes of ...

Triad Forestry Bob Seymour has promoted an ecological approach to forestry for more than three decades. In 1991 he and conservation biologist Malcolm Hunter, also of the University of Maine at Orono, ...

Assistant Professor Joan Dudney is named an Early Career Fellow of the The Ecological Society of America for her work on the ...

In this video from the National Park Service, Tim Watkins and Robert Boyd explore the Indiana Dunes, learning about its history as an important case study for the development of ecological succession ...

Can we repair some of the damage humans have done to ecosystems and biodiversity? Ecological restoration seeks to do just that, and restoration ecology is the science that underpins it. Aa Aa Aa ...

From richer biodiversity and benefits for pollinators, to carbon storage in soils, while balancing hay yields for grazing ...