What We Are Reading Today: ‘Theoretical Ecology’ by Ryan Chisholm

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Updated 21 December 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Theoretical Ecology’ by Ryan Chisholm

Theoretical ecology explores the mechanisms that structure ecological communities using a variety of mathematical and computational tools.

“Theoretical Ecology” shows you how to translate ecological problems into mechanistic models using both mathematics and the programming language R. The book teaches key concepts and core quantitative skills while also devoting significant attention to the reasons for building mathematical ecological models.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Snakes of Australia’

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Updated 13 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Snakes of Australia’

  • It features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera

Authors: TIE EIPPER AND SCOTT EIPPER 

With more than 1,000 photographs, Snakes of Australia illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent’s species and subspecies—from file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids, and blind snakes.

It features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera. It also covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category.