Welcome to SEFS6 2009!

You are invited to participate in the Sixth Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS6) , which will be held in Sinaia, Romania from 17th to 21st of August 2009. The Romanian Ecological Society (RES) and the University of Bucharest, particularly its Department of Systems Ecology and Sustainability, have the pleasure to host it. As in the more recent cases, SEFS6 is convened by the European Federation for Freshwater Sciences (EFFS), in association with the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) and in collaboration with the European freshwater and limnological Associations federated Read more…

Ecology: Into the next 100 years

In celebration of the British Ecological Society’s centenary in 2013 the Society is delighted to be hosting the 11th INTECOL Congress.  The theme of the congress is “advancing ecology and making it count”.  This reflects the Society’s ambition to present world class ecology at a meeting that truly moves the science forward.     Make a note in your diary now for this key event and check the BES website (www.britishecologicalsociety.org/meetings/current_future_meetings/2013_intecol/index.php) to keep up to date with Read more…

Elements of regression applied in medical, life and Earth sciences

Alexandru I. PETRIŞOR 109 pp., Ars Docendi Publishing House – University of Bucharest, April 2009, ISBN 978-973-558-416-0 Born from the collaboration within the framework of research projects involving specialists in biology, ecology, geography, climatology, medicine, epidemiology, psychology, ethology, pedagogy and other disciplines, this work starts with the definition of regression (functional relationship between one or more correlated variables) in order to present the theoretical background of the statistical methodology used for the experimental design up Read more…

Fundaments of Conservation Biology

AGIR Publishing House, 2008, 668 pages Richard B. Primack, Maria Patroescu, Laurentiu Rozylowicz, Cristian Ioja The paper, appeared under the patronage of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, is dedicated to “professors teaching environmental sciences, biology, ecology, biodiversity, and whose concerns will inspire future generations in the effort of conciliating conservation biology with human needs.” Conservation biology represents a new complex science, with several major objectives, such as: studying the planet’s biological diversity, assessing human Read more…