The philosophical andtheoretical approach discussed in this Element aims to explain thesefeatures of biological systems by appealing to their organization. Itaddresses classical and more recent issues ...

Integrative levels of organization allow researchers to describe ... to populations is most relevant (Figure 1). When units of biological material are put together, the properties of the new ...

Biological diversity, often shortened to biodiversity, is the variation of life at all levels of biological organization, referring not only to the sum total of life forms across an area, but also to ...

The framework of biological stoichiometry stitches together layers of biological organization from genes to ecosystems by connecting element cycling to the biochemical and physiological properties ...

At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because ...