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.

• 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. PalmerEmerging indirect and long-term road salt effects on ecosystems / Stuart E.G. Findlay and Victoria R. KellyUrban biodiversity : patterns and mechanisms / Stanley H. Faeth, Christofer Bang and Susanna SaariAnthropogenic 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.

• 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. PalmerEmerging indirect and long-term road salt effects on ecosystems / Stuart E.G. Findlay and Victoria R. KellyUrban biodiversity : patterns and mechanisms / Stanley H. Faeth, Christofer Bang and Susanna SaariAnthropogenic 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.

• 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. PalmerEmerging indirect and long-term road salt effects on ecosystems / Stuart E.G. Findlay and Victoria R. KellyUrban biodiversity : patterns and mechanisms / Stanley H. Faeth, Christofer Bang and Susanna SaariAnthropogenic 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]