The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2010, Volume 1195

As anticipated for the series, this year’s volume contains a diverse collection of timely reviews on current problems in conservation biology and their scientific, policy, and management implications. The collection ranges from a careful review of the human impacts on native bee populations to examinations of excess nitrogen deposition in native plant communities, and of mercury in stream ecosystems. Other papers look prospectively at future human effects on the environment, including examining the potential advantages of biofuel production and describing a prognosis for tropical forests. Others examine the health and economic implications of environmental change, including reviews of invasive species and international trade, of emerging viruses, and of changing immune functions. The aim of the series is to put scholarly, authoritative reviews in the hands of a broad range of scientists, as well as those who manage the environment.

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The future of tropical forests / S. Joseph Wright

Impacts of biofuels on climate change, water use, and land use / Mark A. Delucchi

Nitrogen enrichment and plant communities / Elsa E. Cleland and W. Stanley Harpole

Bioaccumulation syndrome: identifying factors that make some stream food webs prone to elevated mercury bioaccumulation / Darren M. Ward, Keith H. Nislow, and Carol L. Folt

Habitat fragmentation, climate change, and inbreeding in plants / Roosa Leimu, Philippine Vergeer, Francesco Angeloni, and N. Joop Ouborg

Ecology of hantavirus in a changing world / M. Denise Dearing and Laurie Dizney

Ecology of avian influenza viruses in a changing world / Kurt J. Vandegrift, Susanne H. Sokolow, Peter Daszak, and A. Marm Kilpatrick

The effects of anthropogenic global changes on immune functions and disease resistance / Lynn B. Martin, William A. Hopkins, Laura D. Mydlarz, and Jason R. Rohr

The role of public information in ecology and conservation: an emphasis on inadvertent social information / Simon Blanchet, Jean Clobert, and Étienne Danchin

The conservation and restoration of wild bees / Rachael Winfree

International cooperation in the solution to trade-related invasive species risks / Charles Perrings, Stas Burgiel, Mark Lonsdale, Harold Mooney, and Mark Williamson

Richard S. Ostfeld is the editor of The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2010, Volume 1195, published by Wiley. William H. Schlesinger is a biogeochemist and the retired president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, an independent not-for-profit environmental research organization in Millbrook, New York.