The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2011, Volume 1223

As in past installments of "The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology" series, this year’s volume contains a diverse collection of timely reviews in conservation biology and scientific, policy, and management implications, including reviews in the following areas: ecosystem services provided by bats; emerging indirect and long-term road salt effects on ecosystems; environmental ethics and human ecology; environmental impacts of mountaintop mining valley fill operations for aquatic ecosystems of the Central Appalachians; urban biodiversity, patterns and mechanisms; anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems in Antarctica; understanding the role of co-factors in driving amphibian losses; tropical forest ecosystems and unsustainable hunting.

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Ecosystem services provided by bats / Thomas H. Kunz [and others]

The environmental costs of mountaintop mining valley fill operations for aquatic ecosystems of the central Appalachians / Emily S. Bernhardt and Margaret A. Palmer

Emerging indirect and long-term road salt effects on ecosystems / Stuart E.G. Findlay and Victoria R. Kelly

Urban biodiversity : patterns and mechanisms / Stanley H. Faeth, Christofer Bang and Susanna Saari

Anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems in Antarctica / Richard B. Aronson [and others]

The complexity of amphibian population declines : understanding the role of cofactors in driving amphibian losses / Andrew R. Blaustein [and others]

The empty forest revisited / David S. Wilkie [and others]

Richard S. Ostfeld is the editor of The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2011, Volume 1223, 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.