
Volume 48, Issue 10
October 1998
Cover image
Cover image

Cover: Wild thyme (Thymus vulgaris). This
small, aromatic Mediterranean shrub is a
useful model system for studies of the
evolutionary dynamics of genetic polymorphisms.
See article beginning on page 805.
Photo: John D. Thompson.
ISSN 0006-3568
EISSN 1525-3244
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Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998
Editorial
Introduction
Rebecca Chasan
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Page NP, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioscience/48.10.NP
Departments
Policy Forum: Balancing the biocomplexity of the planet's living systems: A twenty-first century task for science
Rita Colwell
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 786–787, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313389
Features
Winners and losers in a changing world: Global changes may promote invasions and alter the fate of invasive species
Yvonne Baskin
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 788–792, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313390
Articles
Boreal Swamp Forests: Biodiversity “hotspots” in an impoverished forest landscape
Greger Hörnberg and others
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 795–802, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313391
Thirty-Five Years of Thyme: A Tale of Two Polymorphisms: Why so many females? Why so many chemotypes?
John D. Thompson and others
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 805–815, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313392
Ecology of Increasing Disease: Population growth and environmental degradation
David Pimentel and others
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 817–826, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313393
Departments
Professional Biologist: Standardizing with SI Units
Frank B. Salisbury
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 827–835, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313394
Special Book Article: The ideals and realities of science books for children
Elia T. Ben-Ari
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 837–841, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313395
Books
A lesson from the bottom of our planet
John C. Priscu
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 843–847, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313396
All About Moose
Dennis L. Murray
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 847–848, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313397
Did Adam Have a Navel?
Kevin Padian
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 848–851, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313398
The Latest on The Greatest
David B. Weishampel
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 851–852, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313399
Reuniting Economics and Ecology
Robert V. O'Neill
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 852–854, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313400
Making Lives Richer and Better
Marc Bekoff
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 854–855, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313401
A Landmark Book on Landmark Data
Miriam Zelditch
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 855–858, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313402
Right on Target with Environment and Behavior
Iver Mysterud
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 858–861, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313403
Science, Uncertainty, and Environmental Policy
Michael Kamrin
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 861–862, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313404
Textbooks
Interdisciplinary nature of ecology
Terry L. Derting
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 864–865, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313405
Evolving Approaches to Animal Behavior
Mohamed A. F. Noor
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 865–868, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313406
Books
New Titles
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Page 868, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioscience/48.10.868
Now Available in Paperback
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Page 868, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioscience/48.10.868-a
AIBS News
AIBS welcomes three new member societies
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 872–873, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioscience/48.10.872
Calendar
Calendar
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Page 879, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioscience/48.10.879
BioBriefs
BioBriefs
BioScience, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 1998, Page 880, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313409
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