Integrated research across disciplines is required to address many of the pressing
environmental problems facing human societies. Often the integration involves disparate
disciplines, including those in the biological sciences, and demands collaboration from
problem formulation through hypothesis development, data analysis, interpretation, and
application. Such projects raise conceptual and methodological challenges that are new to
many researchers in the biological sciences and to their collaborators in other disciplines. In …

Integrated research across disciplines is required to address many of the pressing
environmental problems facing human societies. Often the integration involves disparate
disciplines, including those in the biological sciences, and demands collaboration from
problem formulation through hypothesis development, data analysis, interpretation, and
application. Such projects raise conceptual and methodological challenges that are new to
many researchers in the biological sciences and to their collaborators in other disciplines. In …