Economic growth models are profoundly inadequate because they ignore niche emergence

A group of evolutionary biologists, ecologists, economists, and complex system analysts proposes a new niche theory arguing that economics – like ecology – autocatalytically emerges and strongly depends on cooperation Jane Jacobs in “The Nature of Economies” wrote that “development without co-development webs is as impossible for an economy as it is for biological development”…

Biodiversity is 3-D

A new study sheds light on the relationship between diversity and 3-D space as a global ecological pattern [Italian version below] The species-area relationship (SAC) is a long-time considered pattern in ecology and is discussed in most of the academic Ecology books. Its implications are relevant for many ecological, evolutionary, conservation and biogeographic purposes. Conversely,…

Об экологических эффектах климатических изменений

On the ecological effects of climate change (video in Russian with English subtitles) Interviewed by Andrey Sokolov (for English subtitles – click on “CC”) Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (Associate Professor at Biological Institute -Biological Diversity and Ecology Laboratory and Researcher at Bio-Clim-Land Centre of the Tomsk State University, in Russia) explains what are the observed ecological…