Fragmentação

• Hobbs, R.J. & Yates, C.J. 2003. Impacts of ecosystem fragmentation on plant populations: generalising the idiosyncratic. Australian Journal of Botany 51: 471–488.
• ARROYO-RODRÍGUEZ, V., PINEDA, E., ESCOBAR, F. and BENÍTEZ-MALVIDO, J. (2009), Value of Small Patches in the Conservation of Plant-Species Diversity in Highly Fragmented Rainforest. Conservation Biology, 23: 729–739. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01120.x
• Laurance,W.F.; Lovejoy, T.;Vasconcelos, H.L.; Bruna, E.M.; Didham, R.K.; Stouffer, P.; Gascon, C.; Bierregaard, R.; Laurance, S. and Sampaio, E. 2002.Ecosystem decay of Amazonian forest fragments, a 22-year investigation.Conserv. Biol. 16: 605-618.
• Bierregaard, R.O.; Jr.; Lovejoy, T.E.; Kapos, V.; Santos, A.A. and Hutchings, R.W. 1992. The biological dynamics of tropical rainforest fragments.Bioscience 42: 859 – 866.
• Murcia, C. 1995. Edge effects in fragmented forests: implications for conservation. Trends Ecol. Evol. 10: 58 – 62. doi: 10.1016/S0169-5347(00)88977-6.
• Ribeiro, C.M.; Metzger J.P.; Martensen A. C.; Ponzoni F.J. and Hirota M.M. 2009.The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation. Biol. Conserv. 142: 1141–1153. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.02.021
• LAURANCE, W. F. 2000. Do edge effects occur over large spatial scales? Trends in Ecological Evolution. 15:134-135.
• LEGENDRE, P. & FORTIN, M.J. 1989. Spatial pattern and ecological analysis.Vegetatio. 80: 107-138.
• MURCIA, C. 1995. Edge effects in fragmented forests: implication on for conservation.  Tree. 10: 58-62.
• SAUNDERS, DA., HOBBS, RJ. and MARGULES, CR., 1991. Biological consequences of ecosystem fragmentation; a review. Conservation Biology. 5:18-32.
• MARCELO TABARELLI & CLAUDE GASCON. Lições da pesquisa sobre fragmentação: aperfeiçoando políticas e diretrizes de manejo para a conservação da biodiversidade. MEGADIVERSIDADE 1: 181-188.

Teoria da ecologia

• Austin, M. P. 1999. A silent clash of paradigms: some inconsistencies in community ecology. Oikos 86: 170-178.
• Berryman, A. A. 2003. On principles, laws and theories in population ecology. Oikos 103:95–701.
• Brown, J. H., J. F. Gillooly, A. P. Allen, V. M. Savage, and G. B. West. 2004. Toward a metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology 85:771–1789.
• Cherrett, J. M. 1988. Ecological concepts—The results of the survey of members’ views. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 19:80–82.
• Colyvan, M., and L. R. Ginzburg. 2003. Laws of nature and laws of ecology. Oikos 101:649–653.
• Ginzburg, L. R., and C. X. J. Jensen. 2004. Rules of thumb for judging ecological theories. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:212–126.
• Dodds, W. K. 2009. Laws, theories, and patterns in ecology. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA.
• Hubbell, S. P. 2006. Neutral theory and the evolution of ecological equivalence. Ecology 87:1387–1398.
• Jordan, R., F. Singer, J. Vaughan, and A. Berkowitz. 2009. What should every citizen know about ecology? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7:495–500.
• Lange, M. 2005. Ecological laws: what they would be and why would they matter? Oikos 110:294–403.
• Lawton, J. H. 1999. Are there general laws in ecology? Oikos 84:177–192.
• Lockwood, D. R. 2007. Ecology is not rocket science. Emergence: Complexity and Organization 9:2–11.
• Margalef, R. 1963. On certain unifying principles in ecology. American Naturalist 97:357–374.
• Murray, B. M. 2000. Universal laws and predictive theory in ecology and evolution. Oikos 80:403–408.
• O’Connor, R. J. 2000. Why ecology lags behind biology. Scientist 14: 35.
• O’Hara, R. B. 2005. The anarchists guide to ecological theory. Or, we don’t need no stinkin’ laws. Oikos 110:390–393.
• Scheiner, S. M., and M. R. Willig. 2008. A general theory of ecology. Theoretical Ecology 1:21–28.
• Swihart, R. K., Dunning, J. B. and Waser, P. M. 2002. Gray matters in ecology: dynamics of pattern, process, and scientific progress. Bull. ESA 83: 149-155.
• Turchin, P. 2003. Does population ecology have general laws? Oikos 94:17–26.
• Wilkinson, D. M. 1998. Fragments of an entangled bank: do ecologists study most of ecology? Oikos 82: 393-394.
• Vepsalainen, K., and J. R. Spence. 2000. Generalization in ecology and evolutionary biology: from hypothesis to paradigm. Biology and Philosophy 15:211–238.

Ecologia Geral

• Agrawal, A.A. et al. (2007) Filling key gaps in population and community ecology.Front. Ecol. Environ.5, 145–152.
• Cavender-Bares, J., K. H. Kozak, P. V. A. Fine, and S. W. Kembel. 2009. The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology. Ecology Letters 12:693–715.
• Fowler, M.S. (2009) Density dependent dispersal decisions and the Allee effect. Oikos 118, 604–614
• Laakso, J., Kaitala, V. and Ranta, E. 2001. How does environmental variation translate into biological processes? Oikos 92: 119-122.
• Simberloff D. 2004. Community ecology: is it time to move on? Am Nat. 163(6): 787-99.
• Vellend, M. (2010). Conceptual synthesis in community ecology. Q. Rev. Biol., 85, 183–206.
• Wiens, J. J., and M. J. Donoghue. 2004. Historical biogeography, ecology and species richness. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:639–644.

Conflito entre os ecólogos empiristas e teóricos

• Cappuccino, N. 1993. What Might Be Wrong With Ecology.  Ecology 74:1907-1908.
• Fox, J. An empirical divide in ecology? July 26, 2011.
• Keddy, P. 1992. Thoughts on a review of A Critique for Ecology. ESA Bulletin 73: 234-236.
• Lawton, J. 1991. Predictable plots. Nature 354: 444.
• Lindenmayer, D. B., and G. E. Likens. 2011. Losing the Culture of Ecology. ESA Bulletin 92: 245–246.
• Shapiro, A. 1993. Thoughts on “Thoughts on a Review of a Critique for Ecology”. ESA Bulletin 74: 177-179.
• Tucker, C. and M. Cadotte. The Empirical Divide, July 25, 2011.
• White, E. Bridging, not building, divides in ecology, July 26, 2011.

História da ecologia

• Barbour, M. G. 1995. Ecological fragmentation in the fifties. Pages 75–90 in W. Cronon, editor. Un-common ground: toward invent-ing nature. (Abridged in ESA Bul-letin  77:44–51. 1996) Norton, New York, New York, USA.
• Nicolson, M. 1988. No longer a stranger? A decade in the history of ecology. History of Science 26:183–200.
• Noy-Meir, I., and E. van der Maarel. 1987. Relations between community theory and community analysis in vegetation science: some historical perspectives. Vegetatio 69:5–15.

Metacomunidade

• Altermatt, F.et al.(2008) Climate change affects colonization dynamics in a metacommunity of three Daphnia species. Global Change Biol.14, 1209–1220
• Amarasekare, P.et al.(2004)Mechanisms of coexistence in competitive metacommunities.Am. Nat.164, 310–326
• Cottenie, K. (2005) Integrating environmental and spatial processes in ecological community dynamics.Ecol. Lett.8, 1175–1182
• Cadotte, M.W. (2006) Metacommunity influences on community richness at multiple spatial scales: a microcosm experiment.Ecology 87, 1008–1016
• Calcagno, V. et al. (2006) Coexistence in a metacommunity: the competition–colonization trade-off is not dead.Ecol. Lett.9, 897–907
• Cottenie, K. et al. (2003) Zooplankton metacommunity structure: regional vs. local processes in highly interconnected ponds.Ecology 84, 991–1000
• Driscoll, D.A. (2008) The frequency of metapopulations, metacommunities and nestedness in a fragmented landscape. Oikos 117, 297–309
• Ellis, A.M. et al. 2006. Evaluating the long-term metacommunity dynamics of tree hole mosquitoes. Ecology 87: 2582–2590.
• Forster, M.A. and Warton, D.I. (2007) A metacommunity-scale comparison of species–abundance distribution models for plant communities of eastern Australia.Ecography30, 449–458
• Hunt, J. andBonsall, M.B. (2009) The effects of colonization, extinction and competition on co-existence in metacommunities.J. Anim. Ecol. 78, 866–879
• Jacobson, B. and Peres-Neto, P.R. (2010) Quantifying and disentangling dispersal in metacommunities: how close have we come? How far is there to go?Landscape Ecol.25, 495–507
• Kneitel J.M., and T.E. Miller. 2004. Dispersal Rates Affect Species Composition in Metacommunities of Sarracenia purpurea Inquilines. The American Naturalist 126: 165-172.
• Leibold, M.A.et al.(2004) The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology. Ecol. Lett.7, 601–613
• Leibold, M.A.et al.(2010) Metacommunity phylogenetics: separating the roles of environmental filters and historical biogeography. Ecol. Lett.13, 1290–1299
• Leibold,M.A. and Mikkelson, G.M. (2002) Coherence, species turnover, and boundary clumping: elements of meta-community structure.Oikos 97, 237–250
• Loeuille, N. and Leibold, M.A. (2008) Evolution in metacommunities: on the relative importance of species sorting and monopolization in structuring communities.Am. Nat.171, 788–799
• Logue J.B. et al. 2011. Empirical approaches to metacommunities: a review and comparison with theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 26: 482-492.
• Louette G. and L. De Meester. 2005. High Dispersal Capacity of Cladoceran Zooplankton in Newly Founded Communities. 86: 353-359.
• Mouquet, N. and Loreau, M. (2002) Coexistence in metacommunities: the regional similarity hypothesis.Am. Nat.159, 420–426
• Muneepeerakul, R. et al. (2008) Neutral metacommunity models predict fish diversity patterns in Mississippi–Missouri basin.Nature 453, U220–U229
• Ng, I.S.Y.et al. (2009) Hierarchical zooplankton metacommunities: distinguishing between high and limiting dispersal mechanisms. Hydrobiologia 619, 133–143
• Pillar, V.D. andDuarte, L.D.S. (2010) A framework formetacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure.Ecol. Lett.13, 587–596
• Presley, S.J. et al. (2010) A comprehensive framework for the evaluation of metacommunity structure.Oikos119, 908–917
• Urban, M.C. and De Meester, L. (2009) Community monopolization: local adaptation enhances priority effects in an evolving metacommunity.Proc. R. Soc. B-Biol. Sci.276, 4129–4138
• Urban, M.C. and Skelly, D.K. (2006) Evolving metacommunities: toward an evolutionary perspective on metacommunities. Ecology 87, 1616–1626
• Urban, M.C.et al.(2008) The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities. Trends Ecol. Evol.23, 311–317
• Venail, P.A. et al. (2008) Diversity and productivity peak at intermediate dispersal rate in evolving metacommunities. Nature 452, 210–215
• Venail, P.A. et al. (2010) Dispersal scales up the biodiversity-productivity relationship in an experimental source–sink metacommunity.Proc. R. Soc. B-Biol. Sci.277, 2339–2345
• Warren, P.H. (1996) The effects of between-habitat dispersal rate on protist communities and metacommunities in microcosms at two spatial scales.Oecologia105, 132–140
• Wilson, D.S. (1992) Complex interactions in metacommunities, with implications for biodiversity and higher levels of selection. Ecology 73: 1984–2000

Teoria do Nicho x Teoria Neutra

• Smith, T.W. & Lundholm, J.T. (2010). Variation partitioning as a tool to distinguish between niche and neutral processes. Ecography, 33, 648–655.

Conservação

• Moore, S. A., T. J. Wallington, R. J. Hobbs, P. R. Ehrlich, C. S. Holling, S. Levin, D. Lindenmayer, C. Pahl-Wostl, H. Possingham, M. G. Turner, and M. Westoby. 2009. Diversity in current ecological thinking: Implications for environmental management. Environmental Management 43:17–27.
• Wallington, T. J., R. J. Hobbs, and S. A. Moore. 2005. Implications of current ecological thinking for biodiversity conservation: A review of the salient issues. Ecology and Society 10:15.

Restauração ecológica

Invasão ecológica

• Simberloff, D. 2004. A Rising Tide of Species and Literature: A Review of Some Recent Books on Biological Invasions. BioScience 54(3): 247-254.
• Simberloff, D. 2013. Biological invasions: Much progress plus several controversies. Contributions to Science, Vol 9 (1): 7-16.

Ciência

Desenho experimental e estatística

Redação científica

Ética

• Ética e Integridade na Prática Científica. Relatório da Comissão de Integridade de Pesquisa do CNPq.
• Sobre a integridade ética da pesquisa (FAPESP).
• Aspectos Éticos, Legais e Morais Relacionados à Autoria na Produção Científica (UFRGS).
• RODE, Sigmar de Mello  and  CAVALCANTI, Bruno das Neves. 2003. Ética em autoria de trabalhos  científicos. Pesqui. Odontol. Bras. 17 (1): 65-66.
• CARNEIRO, Marco Antonio A.; CANGUSSU, Silvia D.  and  FERNANDES, G. Wilson. 2007. Ethical  abuses in the authorship of scientific papers. Rev. Bras. entomol. 51 (1): 1-5.
• Burks RL, Chumchal MM. 2009. To co-author or not co-author: how to write, publish and negociate  issues of authorship with undergraduated research students. Sci Signal. 2: 1-7.
• Bourne PE, Barbour V (2011) Ten Simple Rules for Building and Maintaining a Scientific Reputation.    PLoS Comput Biol 7(6): e1002108.

Cuidado com o plágio

• Nem tudo que parece é: entenda o que é plágio.
• O que é plágio. Combate ao plágio.
• Plágio em trabalhos acadêmicos.
• Orientações Capes – Combate ao plágio.

Ensino

• Revista: Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology.

• D’Avanzo, C. 2003. Application of research on learning to college teaching: ecological examples. BioScience 53:1121–1128.
• D’Avanzo, C. 2008. Biology concept inventories: overview, status, and next steps. BioScience 58:1079–1085.
• Dresner, M., and M. Elser. 2008. Enhancing science teachers’ understanding of ecosystem interactions with qualitative conceptual models. Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology 6: Research #1.
• Gardiner, L. F. 1998. Why we must change: the research evidence. Thought and Action 14:71–88.
• Grotzer, T. A., and B. B. Basca. 2003. How does grasping the underlying causal structures of ecosystems impact students’ understanding? Journal of Biological Education 38:16–29.
• Hmelo-Silver, C. E., and R. Azevedo. 2006. Understanding complex systems: Some core challenges. Journal of the Learning Sciences 15:53–61.
• Jacobson, M. J. 2001. Problem solving, cognition, and complex systems: Differences between experts and novices. Complexity 63:41–49.
• Knight, J. K., and W. B. Wood. 2005. Teaching more by lecturing less. Cell Biology Education 4:298–310.
• Wilensky, U., and M. Resnick. 1999. Thinking in levels: A dynamic systems perspective for exploring complexity. Journal of Science Education and Technology 8:3–19.

Banco de dados científicos

• Pfeifer et al.  2014. BIOFRAG  – a new database for analyzing BIOdiversity responses to forest FRAGmentation. Ecology and Evolution 2014; 4(9):1524–1537
• Debora Pignatari Drucker 2011. Avanços na Integração e Gerenciamento de Dados Ecológicos. Natureza & Conservação 9(1):115-120.
• Repositório de Dados de Estudos Ecológicos.
• Armazenamento e disponibilização de dados em ecologia utilizando o software Morpho.
• Abílio Soares Gomes e Simone Pennafirme Ferreira. Análise de Dados Ecológicos. Apostila UFF.
• PEZZINI, F. F., et al. 2012. The Brazilian Program for Biodiversity Research (PPBio) Information System. Biodiversity & Ecology 4: 265-274.
• Stephanie E Hampton, Carly A Strasser, Joshua J Tewksbury, Wendy K Gram, Amber E Budden, Archer L Batcheller, Clifford S Duke, and John H Porter 2013. Big data and the future of ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 11: 156–162