As part of the Section on Biological Sciences, Dr. Peter Stiling was elected as an AAAS Fellow for distinguished contributions to the fields of global climate change, coastal biology, and biology teaching. Dr. Peter Stiling is professor and chair of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. from University College, Cardiff and joined USF after postdocs at Florida State University and a lectureship at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. His work in global climate change was the first to use a large scale field experiment to show how the effects of increased CO2 promote plant growth, reduce available foliar nitrogen, slow herbivore growth, and reduce herbivore densities. He published an influential review in Global Change Biology and was second author on a paper in Science which discussed effects of elevated CO2 on nitrogen fixation. He and his graduate students have worked extensively in coastal environments comparing the effects of plant genotype, local environment and natural enemies on coastal herbivores. He has published four editions of "Ecology: Theories and Applications" (Prentice Hall), and "Ecology: Global Insights and Investigations" (McGraw-Hill).