Ecology

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Bayesian hierarchical model to predict benthic oxygen demand from organic matter loading in estuaries and coastal zones 
  • A Bayesian network of eutrophication models for synthesis, prediction, and uncertainty analysis 
  • A Century of Turnover: Community Dynamics at Three Timescales 
  • A Hierarchical Bayesian model of wildfire in a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot: Implications of weather variability and global circulation 
  • A Laboratory Simulation of Foraging Behavior: The Effect of Search Rate on the Probability of Detecting Prey 
  • A Priestly Approach to Environmental Theology: Learning to Receive and Give Again the Gifts of Creation 
  • A Simulation Experiment to Quantify Spatial Heterogeneity in Categorical Maps 
  • A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO 2 
  • A clarification of pollen discounting and its joint effects with inbreeding depression on mating system evolution. 
  • A coupled terrestrial and aquatic biogeophysical model of the Upper Merrimack River watershed, New Hampshire, to inform ecosystem services evaluation and management under climate and land-cover change 
  • A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass. 
  • A dynamic leaf gas-exchange strategy is conserved in woody plants under changing ambient CO2 : evidence from carbon isotope discrimination in paleo and CO2 enrichment studies. 
  • A dynamical systems framework for crop models: Toward optimal fertilization and irrigation strategies under climatic variability 
  • A future for models and data in environmental science. 
  • A general model of litter decomposition in the northern Chihuahuan Desert 
  • A keystone ecologist: Robert Treat Paine, 1933-2016. 
  • A new contagion index to quantify spatial patterns of landscapes 
  • A novel approach to assess livestock management effects on biodiversity of drylands 
  • A novel method for comparative analysis of retinal specialization traits from topographic maps. 
  • A spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density for the Amazon 
  • A synthesis of current knowledge on forests and carbon storage in the United States. 
  • A test of the niche dimension hypothesis in an arid annual grassland. 
  • Ability of matrix models to explain the past and predict the future of plant populations. 
  • Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities 
  • Accelerate Synthesis in Ecology and Environmental Sciences 
  • Accounting for uncertainty in ecological analysis: the strengths and limitations of hierarchical statistical modeling. 
  • Albedo estimates for land surface models and support for a new paradigm based on foliage nitrogen concentration 
  • Allocation to sexual versus nonsexual disease transmission. 
  • Alternative Dynamic Regimes and Trophic Control of Plant Succession 
  • Amphibian Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Is Inhibited by the Cutaneous Bacteria of Amphibian Species 
  • An Evaluation of Management Objectives for Canada's Commercial Harp Seal Hunt, 1996-1998 
  • An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale 
  • An interview-based approach to assess marine mammal and sea turtle captures in artisanal fisheries 
  • An interview-based approach to assess marine mammal and sea turtle captures in artisanal fisheries 
  • Animal dispersal dynamics promoting dioecy over hermaphroditism. 
  • Annual cycles are the most common reproductive strategy in African tropical tree communities 
  • Anova for Unbalanced Data: An Overview 
  • Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide 
  • Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands 
  • Application of Risk Concepts to Wildlife Management: Special Issue Introduction 
  • Are plant populations seed limited? A critique and meta-analysis of seed addition experiments. 
  • Are we working towards global research priorities for management and conservation of sea turtles? 
  • Assembling Ecological Communities in Time and Space 
  • Assessing Africa-Wide Pangolin Exploitation by Scaling Local Data 
  • Assessing impacts of ecosystem engineers on community organization: a general approach illustrated by effects of a high-Andean cushion plant 
  • Associations among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and seedlings are predicted to change with tree successional status. 
  • Atmospheric CO2 enrichment facilitates cation release from soil. 
  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. 
  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants 
  • BIOLOGISTS TOOLBOX - IMAGING RADAR FOR ECOSYSTEM STUDIES 
  • Bacterial community responses to a gradient of alkaline mountaintop mine drainage in Central Appalachian streams. 
  • Benefit and cost curves for typical pollination mutualisms. 
  • Beyond neutral science. 
  • Bibliometric review of ecological network analysis: 2010–2016 
  • BioTAP: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Scientific Writing and Evaluating Undergraduate Theses 
  • Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives. 
  • Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring 
  • Biodiversity: climate change or habitat loss - which will kill more species? 
  • Biogeographic consequences of nutrient enrichment for plant-herbivore interactions in coastal wetlands. 
  • Biogeography of salt marsh plant zonation on the Pacific coast of South America 
  • Biological diversity: where is it? 
  • Biophysical and life-history determinants of hydraulic lift in Neotropical savanna trees 
  • Biotic interactions and plant invasions. 
  • Biotic interactions. Genomics and coevolution. 
  • Body Sizes of Animal Predators and Animal Prey in Food Webs 
  • Boechera, a model system for ecological genomics. 
  • Boom and bust carbon-nitrogen dynamics during reforestation 
  • Boom-bust dynamics in biological invasions: towards an improved application of the concept. 
  • Both life-history plasticity and local adaptation will shape range-wide responses to climate warming in the tundra plant Silene acaulis. 
  • Bottom-up and top-down human impacts interact to affect a protected coastal Chilean marsh. 
  • Building statistical models to analyze species distributions. 
  • Bycatch of marine mammals in U.S. and global fisheries. 
  • CHANGING THE GAP DYNAMICS PARADIGM: VEGETATIVE REGENERATION CONTROL ON FOREST RESPONSE TO DISTURBANCE 
  • CO2, nitrogen, and diversity differentially affect seed production of prairie plants. 
  • CO2-enrichment and nutrient availability alter ectomycorrhizal fungal communities. 
  • COMADRE: a global data base of animal demography. 
  • CONSEQUENCES OF EVOLVING RESISTANCE TO AIR-POLLUTANTS 
  • COST OF DEFENSE IN THE CONTEXT OF PLANT COMPETITION: BRASSICA RAPA MAY GROW AND DEFEND 
  • Can't See the Forest for the Stream? In-stream Processing and Terrestrial Nitrogen Exports 
  • Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally. 
  • Carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange in a warm temperate grassland. 
  • Cats are rare where coyotes roam 
  • Causal networks clarify productivity-richness interrelations, bivariate plots do not 
  • Causes and consequences of unequal seedling production in forest trees: a case study in red oaks. 
  • Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates 
  • Challenges in Interpreting the Lipid-Lowering Trials: Biology vs Ecology. 
  • Challenges to interdisciplinary research in ecosystem-based management. 
  • Changes in Biomass, Aboveground Net Primary Production, and Peat Accumulation following Permafrost Thaw in the Boreal Peatlands of Manitoba, Canada 
  • Changes in stable isotopic signatures of soil nitrogen and carbon during 40 years of forest development. 
  • Characterization and causal investigations of an alopecia syndrome in Australian fur seals ( Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus ) 
  • Characterization of infectious aerosols in health care facilities: an aid to effective engineering controls and preventive strategies. 
  • Clarifying the role of fire in the deciduous forests of eastern North America: reply to Matlack. 
  • Climate change disequilibrium of boreal permafrost peatlands caused by local processes. 
  • Climate change vulnerability of forest biodiversity: climate and competition tracking of demographic rates 
  • Climate change, disease range shifts, and the future of the Africa lion. 
  • Climate change, elevational range shifts, and bird extinctions. 
  • Climate change, predictive modeling and lemur health: Assessing impacts of changing climate on health and conservation in Madagascar 
  • Coastal Freshwater Wetland Plant Community Response to Seasonal Drought and Flooding in Northwestern Costa Rica 
  • Coastal ecosystem-based management with nonlinear ecological functions and values. 
  • Coevolution to the edge of chaos: coupled fitness landscapes, poised states, and coevolutionary avalanches. 
  • Coexistence of cycling and dispersing consumer species: Armstrong and McGehee in space. 
  • Community occupancy responses of small mammals to restoration treatments in ponderosa pine forests, northern Arizona, USA. 
  • Comparative hydraulic architecture of tropical tree species representing a range of successional stages and wood density. 
  • Comparative phylogeography of unglaciated eastern North America. 
  • Comparison of Soil Organic Matter in Created, Restored and Paired Natural Wetlands in North Carolina 
  • Competition and Tree Death 
  • Complex trait divergence contributes to environmental niche differentiation in ecological speciation of Boechera stricta. 
  • Conflicting selection in the course of adaptive diversification: the interplay between mutualism and intraspecific competition. 
  • Consequences of plant-soil feedbacks in invasion 
  • Conservation science: a 20-year report card 
  • Conserving large populations of lions - the argument for fences has holes. 
  • Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now 
  • Considerations of Environmentally Relevant Test Conditions for Improved Evaluation of Ecological Hazards of Engineered Nanomaterials. 
  • Considering other consumers: Fisheries, predators, and Atlantic herring in the Gulf of Maine 
  • Consistent, small effects of treefall disturbances on the composition and diversity of four Amazonian forests. 
  • Constrained Total Energy Expenditure and the Evolutionary Biology of Energy Balance. 
  • Constraints to species' elevational range shifts as climate changes. 
  • Consumer control as a common driver of coastal vegetation worldwide 
  • Contrasting germination responses to vegetative canopies experienced in pre- vs. post-dispersal environments. 
  • Contributions of North American endophytes to the phylogeny, ecology, and taxonomy of Xylariaceae (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota). 
  • Control Points in Ecosystems: Moving Beyond the Hot Spot Hot Moment Concept 
  • Control mechanisms of polyphenic development in insects: In polyphenic development, environmental factors alter some aspects of development in an orderly and predictable way 
  • Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning. 
  • Conversion of Tallgrass Prairie to Woodland: Consequences for Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling 
  • Coordination of leaf and stem water transport properties in tropical forest trees. 
  • Coordination theory of leaf nitrogen distribution in a canopy. 
  • Correctly estimating how environmental stochasticity influences fitness and population growth. 
  • Costa Rica's payment for environmental services program: intention, implementation, and impact. 
  • Costs and benefits of non-random seed release for long-distance dispersal in wind-dispersed plant species 
  • Crossing regimes of temperature dependence in animal movement. 
  • Culling and the dynamics of the Kruger National Park African elephant population 
  • Cumulative estimates of sea turtle bycatch and mortality in USA fisheries between 1990 and 2007 
  • Cyanobacteria dominance influences resource use efficiency and community turnover in phytoplankton and zooplankton communities. 
  • DEFINING A PLANT'S BELOWGROUND ZONE OF INFLUENCE 
  • DOES METABOLIC THEORY APPLY TO COMMUNITY ECOLOGY? IT'S A MATTER OF SCALE 
  • DOMINANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF TREE SPECIES IN UPPER AMAZONIAN TERRA FIRME FORESTS 
  • DROUGHT CYCLES AND LANDSCAPE RESPONSES TO PAST ARIDITY ON PRAIRIES OF THE NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS, USA 
  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin. 
  • Data archiving. 
  • Data archiving. 
  • Decoupling the effects of logging and hunting on an afrotropical animal community. 
  • Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity. 
  • Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 
  • Dental topography of platyrrhines and prosimians: convergence and contrasts. 
  • Detecting critical scales in fragmented landscapes 
  • Development and ecology in the time of systems biology. 
  • Development and evolution of adaptive polyphenisms. 
  • Developmental constraints in a wild primate. 
  • Did elevated atmospheric CO 2 alter soil mineral weathering?: an analysis of 5-year soil water chemistry data at Duke FACE study 
  • Diet selection is related to breeding status in two frugivorous hornbill species of Central Africa 
  • Diffuse selection on resistance to deer herbivory in the ivyleaf morning glory, Ipomoea hederacea. 
  • Direct and Indirect Effects of Dissolved Organic Matter Source and Concentration on Denitrification in Northern Florida Rivers 
  • Direct and Indirect Effects of Dissolved Organic Matter Source and Concentration on Denitrification in Northern Florida Rivers 
  • Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis. 
  • Disconnects in evaluating the relative effectiveness of conservation strategies 
  • Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem 
  • Dispersal of Amazonian birds in continuous and fragmented forest. 
  • Distribution and abundance of tree species in swamp forests of Amazonian Ecuador 
  • Distribution and abundance of tree species in swamp forests of Amazonian ecuador 
  • Diversity and host range of foliar fungal endophytes: are tropical leaves biodiversity hotspots? 
  • Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition. 
  • Do animals living in larger groups experience greater parasitism? A meta-analysis. 
  • Do circle hooks reduce the mortality of sea turtles in pelagic longlines? A review of recent experiments 
  • Do the energy fluxes and surface conductance of boreal coniferous forests in Europe scale with leaf area? 
  • Does climate variability influence the demography of wild primates? Evidence from long-term life-history data in seven species. 
  • Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates? 
  • Does hunting or hiking affect wildlife communities in protected areas? 
  • Domestic Policy Focus Highly Important For Protecting Primary Forests 
  • Downwelling spectral irradiance during evening twilight as a function of the lunar phase. 
  • Drag coefficient estimation using flume experiments in shallow non-uniform water flow within emergent vegetation during rainfall 
  • Drought-induced saltwater incursion leads to increased wetland nitrogen export. 
  • Dual impacts of climate change: Forest migration and turnover through life history 
  • Dynamic vs. static social networks in models of parasite transmission: predicting Cryptosporidium spread in wild lemurs. 
  • EFFECTS OF FREE-AIR CO 2 ENRICHMENT (FACE) ON BELOWGROUND PROCESSES IN A PINUS TAEDA FOREST 
  • EFFECTS OF HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE C 4 GRASSLAND/WOODLAND BOUNDARY IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS, USA 
  • ENVIRONMENTAL FORCING AND THE COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS OF A GUILD OF CACTUS-TENDING ANT MUTUALISTS 
  • ESTIMATING POPULATION SPREAD: WHAT CAN WE FORECAST AND HOW WELL? 
  • EXPLOITING TEMPORAL VARIABILITY TO UNDERSTAND TREE RECRUITMENT RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE 
  • Eco-hydrological controls on summertime convective rainfall triggers 
  • Ecohydrology of Terrestrial Ecosystems 
  • Ecological Thresholds: The Key to Successful Environmental Management or an Important Concept with No Practical Application? 
  • Ecological and evolutionary impacts of changing climatic variability. 
  • Ecological consequences of forest elephant declines for Afrotropical forests. 
  • Ecological context and the importance of body and gnathopod size for pairing success in two amphipod ecomorphs. 
  • Ecological dynamics of mutualist/antagonist communities. 
  • Ecological erosion of an Afrotropical forest and potential consequences for tree recruitment and forest biomass 
  • Ecological forecasting and data assimilation in a data-rich era. 
  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. 
  • Ecological genetics and genomics of plant defenses: Evidence and approaches. 
  • Ecological homogenization of urban USA 
  • Ecological networks and their fragility. 
  • Ecological transition predictably associated with gene degeneration. 
  • Ecology. Ecology for a crowded planet. 
  • Ecology. North Atlantic right whales in crisis. 
  • Ecophysiological variation of transpiration of pine forests: synthesis of new and published results. 
  • Ecosystem Consequences of Changing Inputs of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter to Lakes: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges 
  • Ecosystem engineering in space and time. 
  • Ecosystem engineers activate mycorrhizal mutualism in salt marshes. 
  • Ecosystem responses to water and nitrogen amendment in a California grassland 
  • Ectomycorrhizal fungal sporocarp diversity and discovery of new taxa in Dicymbe monodominant forests of the Guiana Shield 
  • Edge effects in tropical dry forests of Madagascar: additivity or synergy? 
  • Editorial, Disconnects in Evaluating the Relative Effectiveness of Conservation Strategies 
  • Education, Vulnerability, and Resilience after a Natural Disaster. 
  • Effect of land development and forest management on hydrologic response in southeastern coastal wetlands: A review 
  • Effects of Long-Term Water Balances on Fire Regime, North-Western Minnesota 
  • Effects of climate and atmospheric CO2 partial pressure on the global distribution of C4 grasses: present, past, and future. 
  • Effects of long-term rainfall variability on evapotranspiration and soil water distribution in the Chihuahuan Desert: A modeling analysis 
  • Effects of predation and nutrient enrichment on the success and microbiome of a foundational coral 
  • Effects of urbanization and urban stream restoration on the physical and biological structure of stream ecosystems. 
  • Elephant seasonal vegetation preferences across dry and wet savannas 
  • Elephant survival, rainfall and the confounding effects of water provision and fences 
  • Elevated CO2 enhances resprouting of a tropical savanna tree. 
  • Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity. 
  • Empirical estimation of dispersal resistance surfaces: a case study with red-cockaded woodpeckers 
  • Empowering 21st Century Biology 
  • Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests. 
  • Energy efficiency policies: A retrospective examination 
  • Engineered nanoparticles interact with nutrients to intensify eutrophication in a wetland ecosystem experiment. 
  • Enhanced root exudation induces microbial feedbacks to N cycling in a pine forest under long-term CO2 fumigation. 
  • Enhancing causal assessment of estuarine fishkills using graphical models 
  • Environmental controls on canopy foliar nitrogen distributions in a Neotropical lowland forest. 
  • Environmental management strategy: four forces analysis. 
  • Environmental science. Aging infrastructure and ecosystem restoration. 
  • Erratum to: Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges 
  • Erratum to: Interaction type influences ecological network structure more than local abiotic conditions: evidence from endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale 
  • Estimating parasite host range. 
  • Estimating seed and pollen movement in a monoecious plant: a hierarchical Bayesian approach integrating genetic and ecological data. 
  • Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction 
  • Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction. 
  • Estimating the uncertainty in annual net ecosystem carbon exchange: spatial variation in turbulent fluxes and sampling errors in eddy-covariance measurements 
  • Eurotiomycetes: Eurotiomycetidae and Chaetothyriomycetidae. 
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of a Safe Harbor Program for connecting wildlife populations 
  • Evapotranspiration and water yield of a pine-broadleaf forest are not altered by long-term atmospheric [CO2 ] enrichment under native or enhanced soil fertility. 
  • Evidence from individual inference for high-dimensional coexistence: long-term experiments on recruitment response. 
  • Evidence-Based Causal Chains for Linking Health, Development, and Conservation Actions. 
  • Evolution, interactions, and biological networks. 
  • Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics. 
  • Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics. 
  • Examining landscape factors influencing relative distribution of mosquito genera and frequency of virus infection. 
  • Experimental evidence that selection favors character displacement in the ivyleaf morning glory. 
  • FECUNDITY OF TREES AND THE COLONIZATION–COMPETITION HYPOTHESIS 
  • FOREST EDGES AND TREE GROWTH RATES IN THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT 
  • Factors affecting individual foraging specialization and temporal diet stability across the range of a large "generalist" apex predator. 
  • Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change 
  • Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees. 
  • Fences and artificial water affect African savannah elephant movement patterns 
  • Fine root dynamics in a loblolly pine forest are influenced by free-air-CO 2 -enrichment: a six-year-minirhizotron study 
  • Fine-scale habitat modeling of a top marine predator: do prey data improve predictive capacity? 
  • Fire and Climate Change During the Last 750 Yr in Northwestern Minnesota 
  • Focal Species, Community Representation, and Physical Proxies as Conservation Strategies: a Case Study in the Amphibolite Mountains, North Carolina, U.S.A. 
  • Foliage shedding in deciduous forests lifts up long-distance seed dispersal by wind. 
  • For ant-protected plants, the best defense is a hungry offense. 
  • Forest drought as an emerging research priority. 
  • Forest gradient response in Sierran landscapes: The physical template 
  • Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2 : a model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites. 
  • Frequency-Dependent Disease Transmission and the Dynamics of the Silene-Ustilago Host-Pathogen System 
  • Frequency-dependence stabilizes competitive interactions among four annual plants. 
  • Frequency-dependent pollen discounting contributes to maintenance of a mixed mating system in the common morning glory Ipomoea purpurea. 
  • From Vegetable Box to Seafood Cooler: Applying the Community-Supported Agriculture Model to Fisheries 
  • Frugivorous butterflies in Venezuelan forest fragments: abundance, diversity and the effects of isolation 
  • Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest across environmental gradients. 
  • GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL-AREA PROTECTION: MANAGEMENT RESPONSES AND RESEARCH DIRECTIONS 
  • GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN DUKE FOREST: MODELING SYNTHESIS OF CO 2 EXPERIMENT AND EDDY–FLUX DATA 
  • Generalized joint attribute modeling for biodiversity analysis: median-zero, multivariate, multifarious data 
  • Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution. 
  • Genetic Constraints and Selection Acting on Tolerance to Herbivory in the Common Morning Glory Ipomoea purpurea. 
  • Genetic Effects on Mating Success and Partner Choice in a Social Mammal 
  • Genetic Variation of Mantled Howler Monkeys (Alouatta palliata) from Costa Rica1 
  • Genetic basis and consequences of niche construction: plasticity-induced genetic constraints on the evolution of seed dispersal in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
  • Genetic effects on mating success and partner choice in a social mammal. 
  • Geographic song discrimination in relation to dispersal distances in song sparrows. 
  • Geographical distribution patterns of Carcharocles megalodon over time reveal clues about extinction mechanisms 
  • Geospatial web services within a scientific workflow: Predicting marine mammal habitats in a dynamic environment 
  • Global Mammal Parasite Database version 2.0. 
  • Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems. 
  • Global biogeography of autotroph chemistry: is insolation a driving force? 
  • Global biogeography of scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae): Evidence for Gondwanan vicariance and limited transoceanic dispersal 
  • Global biogeography of scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae): evidence for Gondwanan vicariance and limited transoceanic dispersal. 
  • Global desertification: building a science for dryland development. 
  • Global research priorities for sea turtles: informing management and conservation in the 21st century 
  • Global resorption efficiencies and concentrations of carbon and nutrients in leaves of terrestrial plants 
  • Google Haul Out: Earth Observation Imagery and Digital Aerial Surveys in Coastal Wildlife Management and Abundance Estimation. 
  • Governance and the making and breaking of social-ecological traps 
  • Graph models of habitat mosaics. 
  • Graph theory as a proxy for spatially explicit population models in conservation planning. 
  • Greater carbon allocation to mycorrhizal fungi reduces tree nitrogen uptake in a boreal forest. 
  • Greenhouse gas fluxes in southeastern U.S. coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land uses. 
  • HUMAN EFFECTS ON LONG-DISTANCE WIND DISPERSAL AND COLONIZATION BY GRASSLAND PLANTS 
  • Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges 
  • Habitat restoration affects immature stages of a wetland butterfly through indirect effects on predation. 
  • Half-Earth or Whole Earth? Radical ideas for conservation, and their implications 
  • Hand‐rearing twin Ruffed lemur Lemur variegatus: at the Duke University Primate Center 
  • Herbivore metabolism and stoichiometry each constrain herbivory at different organizational scales across ecosystems. 
  • Herbivores safeguard plant diversity by reducing variability in dominance 
  • Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient 
  • Hidden in plain sight: the ecology and physiology of organismal transparency. 
  • Hierarchical organization via a facilitation cascade in intertidal cordgrass bed communities. 
  • High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services. 
  • High-dimensional coexistence based on individual variation: a synthesis of evidence 
  • Historical biogeography and diversification of truffles in the Tuberaceae and their newly identified southern hemisphere sister lineage. 
  • Host traits associated with species roles in parasite sharing networks 
  • How Deep Is Soil? 
  • How Locally Designed Access and Use Controls Can Prevent the Tragedy of the Commons in a Mexican Small-Scale Fishing Community 
  • How are species interactions structured in species-rich communities? A new method for analysing time-series data. 
  • How to make more out of community data? A conceptual framework and its implementation as models and software. 
  • How wide is a stream? Spatial extent of the potential "stream signature" in terrestrial food webs using meta-analysis. 
  • Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-Being 
  • Hunting for common ground between wildlife governance and commons scholarship. 
  • INCORPORATING MULTIPLE SOURCES OF STOCHASTICITY INTO DYNAMIC POPULATION MODELS 
  • INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HERBIVOROUS FISHES AND LIMITING NUTRIENTS IN A TROPICAL STREAM ECOSYSTEM 
  • Identifying overlap between humpback whale foraging grounds and the Antarctic krill fishery 
  • Imaging Radar for Ecosystem Studies 
  • Impacts of Recreational Flow Releases on Macroinvertebrate Drift at Different Distances Downstream from Abanakee Dam, New York 
  • Impacts of certification, uncertified concessions, and protected areas on forest loss in Cameroon, 2000 to 2013 
  • Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis. 
  • Implications of nonrandom seed abscission and global stilling for migration of wind-dispersed plant species. 
  • Increased belowground biomass and soil CO2 fluxes after a decade of carbon dioxide enrichment in a warm-temperate forest. 
  • Increased water charges improve efficiency and equity in an irrigation system 
  • Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long-term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO₂. 
  • Independent and combined effects of multiple predators across ontogeny of a dominant grazer 
  • Individual Variation Decreases Interference Competition but Increases Species Persistence 
  • Individual variability in tree allometry determines light resource allocation in forest ecosystems: a hierarchical Bayesian approach. 
  • Individual-scale variation, species-scale differences: inference needed to understand diversity. 
  • Inferential ecosystem models, from network data to prediction. 
  • Influence of soil porosity on water use in Pinus taeda. 
  • Integrating bioassessment and ecological risk assessment: an approach to developing numerical water-quality criteria. 
  • Integrating quality and quantity of mutualistic service to contrast ant species protecting Ferocactus wislizeni. 
  • Integration of ecological-biological thresholds in conservation decision making. 
  • Integrative Approaches to the Study of Baleen Whale Diving Behavior, Feeding Performance, and Foraging Ecology 
  • Interaction frequency as a surrogate for the total effect of animal mutualists on plants 
  • Interaction type influences ecological network structure more than local abiotic conditions: evidence from endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale. 
  • Interactions between micro- and macroparasites predict microparasite species richness across primates. 
  • Interannual Invariability of Forest Evapotranspiration and Its Consequence to Water Flow Downstream 
  • Introduced Species, Disease Ecology, and Biodiversity-Disease Relationships. 
  • Invasion by extremes: population spread with variation in dispersal and reproduction. 
  • Invasion, competitive dominance, and resource use by exotic and native California grassland species. 
  • Invertebrate biomechanics. 
  • Is the change of plant-plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta-analysis of field results in arid environments 
  • LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY: A GRAPH-THEORETIC PERSPECTIVE 
  • LINKING BIOGEOGRAPHY AND COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: LATITUDINAL VARIATION IN PLANT–HERBIVORE INTERACTION STRENGTH 
  • Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics 
  • Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics 
  • Latitudinal patterns of magnitude and interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange regulated by biological and environmental variables 
  • Leaf hydraulic parameters are more plastic in species that experience a wider range of leaf water potentials 
  • Lessons Learned from Reconstructing Interactions Between Local Ecological Knowledge, Fisheries Science, and Fisheries Management in the Commercial Fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 
  • Leveraging Big Data Towards Functionally-Based, Catchment Scale Restoration Prioritization. 
  • Life history traits and functional processes generate multiple pathways to ecological stability. 
  • Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defence trade-off is the norm 
  • Limited hybridization across an edaphic disjunction between the gabbro-endemic shrub Ceanothus roderickii (Rhamnaceae) and the soil-generalist Ceanothus cuneatus. 
  • Linking deforestation to malaria in the Amazon: characterization of the breeding habitat of the principal malaria vector, Anopheles darlingi. 
  • Local adaptation and plasticity of Erysimum capitatum to altitude: its implications for responses to climate change 
  • Local and Regional Sediment Charcoal Evidence for Fire Regimes in Presettlement North-Eastern North America 
  • Local seafood: rethinking the direct marketing paradigm 
  • Logging concessions can extend the conservation estate for Central African tropical forests. 
  • Long-term CO2 enrichment of a forest ecosystem: implications for forest regeneration and succession. 
  • Long-term simian research sites: significance for theory and conservation 
  • Lotka's game in predator-prey theory: linking populations to individuals. 
  • Low demographic variability in wild primate populations: fitness impacts of variation, covariation, and serial correlation in vital rates. 
  • MODELING ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES ACROSS SCALES 
  • MOLECULAR INDICATORS OF TREE MIGRATION CAPACITY UNDER RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE 
  • Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales 
  • Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation 
  • Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview. 
  • Mammals and rainfall: paleoecology of the middle Miocene at La Venta (Colombia, South America). 
  • Managing the elephants of Kruger National Park 
  • Mapping Conservation Strategies under a Changing Climate. 
  • Marine resource management and conservation in the Anthropocene 
  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites. 
  • Measuring canopy loss and climatic thresholds from an extreme drought along a fivefold precipitation gradient across Texas. 
  • Mechanisms of surface litter mass loss in the northern Chihuahuan desert: a reinterpretation 
  • Mechanisms responsible for the positive diversity-productivity relationship in Minnesota grasslands 
  • Metapopulation extinction thresholds in rain forest remnants. 
  • Methylmercury in the environment: a review of current understanding. 
  • Microgeographic Patterns of Genetic Divergence and Adaptation across Environmental Gradients in Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae). 
  • Microhabitat Pattern and the Structure of Forest Bird Communities 
  • Mimulus is an emerging model system for the integration of ecological and genomic studies. 
  • Modeling Landscape Vegetation Pattern in Response to Historic Land-use: A Hypothesis-driven Approach for the North Carolina Piedmont, USA 
  • Modeling controlled burning and trampling reduction for conservation of Hudsonia montana 
  • Modeling daily flowering probabilities: expected impact of climate change on Japanese cherry phenology. 
  • Modeling plant composition as community continua in a forest landscape with LiDAR and hyperspectral remote sensing. 
  • Modeling population connectivity by ocean currents, a graph-theoretic approach for marine conservation 
  • Modeling seed dispersal distances: implications for transgenic Pinus taeda. 
  • Modeling the influence of genetic and environmental variation on the expression of plant life cycles across landscapes. 
  • Modelled photosynthesis predicts woody plant richness at three geographic scales across the north-western United States 
  • Modelling the biological significance of behavioural change in coastal bottlenose dolphins in response to disturbance 
  • Morphological characteristics of urban water bodies: mechanisms of change and implications for ecosystem function. 
  • Multilocus test for introgression between the cactophilic species Drosophila mojavensis and Drosophila arizonae. 
  • Multiyear drought-induced morbidity preceding tree death in southeastern U.S. forests 
  • Mutualism Denied? Nectar-Robbing Bumble Bees do not Reduce Female or Male Success of Bluebells 
  • Mutualistic interactions amplify saltmarsh restoration success 
  • Mycorrhizal and rhizomorph dynamics in a loblolly pine forest during 5 years of free-air-CO 2 -enrichment 
  • N2 fixation estimates in real-time by cavity ring-down laser absorption spectroscopy 
  • Native root xylem embolism and stomatal closure in stands of Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine: mitigation by hydraulic redistribution. 
  • Natural enemies govern ecosystem resilience in the face of extreme droughts. 
  • Natural hybridization between genera that diverged from each other approximately 60 million years ago. 
  • Natural regeneration of selected timber species in the Republic of Congo 
  • Natural soil microbes alter flowering phenology and the intensity of selection on flowering time in a wild Arabidopsis relative. 
  • Natural variation for drought-response traits in the Mimulus guttatus species complex. 
  • Navigating the complexity of ecological stability. 
  • Neighborhood environment and self-rated health among adults in Southern Sri Lanka. 
  • Nested species-rich networks of scavenging vertebrates support high levels of interspecific competition. 
  • New approach for capturing soluble root exudates in forest soils 
  • Nitrogen deposition in tropical forests from savanna and deforestation fires 
  • Nitrogen enrichment suppresses other environmental drivers and homogenizes salt marsh leaf microbiome. 
  • Non-neutral patterns of species abundance in grassland communities. 
  • Nonlinear root-derived carbon sequestration across a gradient of nitrogen and phosphorous deposition in experimental mesocosms 
  • Nutrient Cycles and H⁺ Budgets of Forest Ecosystems 
  • Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities. 
  • Nutrient-Use Efficiency: A Litterfall Index, a Model, and a Test Along a Nutrient-Availability Gradient in North Carolina Peatlands 
  • Olevi Kull's lifetime contribution to ecology. 
  • Olfactory Receptor Subgenomes Linked with Broad Ecological Adaptations in Sauropsida. 
  • Oligarchies in Amazonian tree communities: a ten-year review 
  • On Definition and Quantification of Heterogeneity 
  • On Models for Assembling Ecological Communities 
  • On Monte Carlo methods for Bayesian inference 
  • On population growth near protected areas. 
  • On the Risk of Extinction 
  • One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics. 
  • Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to assess sustainability. 
  • Optimizing stomatal conductance for maximum carbon gain under water stress: a meta-analysis across plant functional types and climates 
  • Origin, fate, and architecture of ecologically relevant genetic variation. 
  • Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity 
  • Overcoming Obstacles to Interdisciplinary Research 
  • POLLEN LIMITATION OF PLANT REPRODUCTION: ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES 
  • Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographical range and population density 
  • Participatory development and community-based conservation: Opportunities missed for lessons learned? 
  • Patch dynamics in a landscape modified by ecosystem engineers 
  • Performance of two Picea abies (L.) Karst. stands at different stages of decline : VII. Nutrient relations and growth. 
  • Phylogenetic host specificity and understanding parasite sharing in primates. 
  • Phylogenetic patterns differ for native and exotic plant communities across a richness gradient in Northern California 
  • Phylogeography of the Southeast Asian stone oaks ( Lithocarpus ) 
  • Phylogeography's past, present, and future: 10 years after Avise, 2000. 
  • Plant and animal endemism in the eastern Andean slope: challenges to conservation. 
  • Plant community change mediates the response of foliar δ(15)N to CO 2 enrichment in mesic grasslands. 
  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide. 
  • Plant nitrogen concentration and isotopic composition in residential lawns across seven US cities. 
  • Plant population dynamics, pollinator foraging, and the selection of self-fertilization. 
  • Plant responses to precipitation in desert ecosystems: integrating functional types, pulses, thresholds, and delays. 
  • Plant water use affects competition for nitrogen: why drought favors invasive species in California. 
  • Plants as reef fish: fitting the functional form of seedling recruitment. 
  • Pocosins: Hydrologically isolated or integrated wetlands on the landscape? 
  • Pocosins: Vanishing Wastelands or Valuable Wetlands? 
  • Population Viability Analysis for Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers in the Georgia Piedmont 
  • Population genetics of tandem trypsin inhibitor genes in Arabidopsis species with contrasting ecology and life history. 
  • Potential growth and drought tolerance of eight desert grasses: lack of a trade-off? 
  • Potential limits to anthropogenic mortality for harbour porpoises in the Baltic region 
  • Predicted correspondence between species abundances and dendrograms of niche similarities. 
  • Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve. 
  • Predicting canopy biophysical properties and sensitivity of plant carbon uptake to water limitations with a coupled eco-hydrological framework 
  • Predicting changes in the distribution and abundance of species under environmental change 
  • Predicting changes in the distribution and abundance of species under environmental change. 
  • Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: Is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? 
  • Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? 
  • Predicting species distributions in poorly-studied landscapes 
  • Predictive models for phosphorus retention in wetlands 
  • Prevalence and significance of an alopecia syndrome in Australian fur seals ( Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus ) 
  • Prevalence and strength of density-dependent tree recruitment. 
  • Primate population dynamics: variation in abundance over space and time 
  • Prioritizing protected areas in Madagascar for lemur diversity using a multidimensional perspective 
  • Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem processes under elevated CO2 in a warm-temperate forest. 
  • Projected drought effects on the demography of Ashe juniper populations inferred from remote measurements of tree canopies 
  • Prospects for carbon capture and storage technologies 
  • Protect the deep sea. 
  • Quantifying shorebird habitat in managed wetlands by modeling shallow water depth dynamics. 
  • REVIEW  Development of conservation strategies to mitigate the bycatch of harbor porpoises in the Gulf of Maine 
  • Range size and extinction risk in forest birds. 
  • Rapid conservation assessment for endangered species using habitat connectivity models 
  • Recipient of the 2014 molecular ecology prize: Johanna Schmitt. 
  • Recovery of tree and mammal communities during large-scale forest regeneration in Kibale National Park, Uganda 
  • Reexamining the science of marine protected areas: linking knowledge to action 
  • Regional management units for marine turtles: a novel framework for prioritizing conservation and research across multiple scales. 
  • Reid's Paradox of Rapid Plant Migration 
  • Relationships between a terrain-based hydrologic model and patch-scale vegetation patterns in an arctic tundra landscape 
  • Relative growth of the limbs and trunk in sifakas: heterochronic, ecological, and functional considerations. 
  • Religion, Nature and Modernization in China 
  • Resolving discrepancies between deterministic population models and individual-based simulations. 
  • Resolving mechanisms of toxicity while pursuing ecotoxicological relevance? 
  • Resolving the biodiversity paradox. 
  • Response of carbon fluxes to drought in a coastal plain loblolly pine forest 
  • Response to Kabisch and Colleagues 
  • Response to long-distance relocation in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): monitoring adrenocortical activity via serum, urine, and feces 
  • Responses of cetaceans to anthropogenic noise 
  • Responses of soil microbial communities to water stress: results from a meta-analysis. 
  • Restoring Rivers One Reach at a Time: Results from a Survey of U.S. River Restoration Practitioners 
  • Restoring diversity after cattail expansion: disturbance, resilience, and seasonality in a tropical dry wetland. 
  • Restoring the Garden of Eden: An Ecological Assessment of the Marshes of Iraq 
  • Return movement of a humpback whale between the Antarctic Peninsula and American Samoa: a seasonal migration record 
  • Revealing how species loss affects ecosystem function: the trait-based Price Equation partition. 
  • Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes. 
  • River and Riparian Restoration in the Southwest: Results of the National River Restoration Science Synthesis Project 
  • River restoration in the twenty-first century: Data and experiential future efforts 
  • River restoration: the fuzzy logic of repairing reaches to reverse catchment scale degradation. 
  • Roots and fungi accelerate carbon and nitrogen cycling in forests exposed to elevated CO<inf>2</inf> 
  • Rules of habitat use by elephants Loxodonta africana in southern Africa: insights for regional management 
  • SAP FLUX OF CO-OCCURRING SPECIES IN A WESTERN SUBALPINE FOREST DURING SEASONAL SOIL DROUGHT 
  • SEED DISPERSAL NEAR AND FAR: PATTERNS ACROSS TEMPERATE AND TROPICAL FORESTS 
  • Savanna elephant numbers are only a quarter of their expected values. 
  • Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna. 
  • Scale of inference: on the sensitivity of habitat models for wide-ranging marine predators to the resolution of environmental data 
  • Scaling-up Trait Variation from Individuals to Ecosystems 
  • Searching for Cryptic Prey: The Effect of Search Rate 
  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics 
  • Seasonal patterns of growth, tissue acid fluctuations, and 14CO2 uptake in the crassulacean acid metabolism epiphyte Tjllandsia usneoides L. (Spanish moss). 
  • Sediment–Water Surface Area Along Rivers: Water Column Versus Benthic 
  • Seed Banks in Savanna, Forest Fragments, and Continuous Forest Edges Differ in a Tropical Dry Forest in Madagascar 
  • Seed dispersal by a diurnal primate community in the Dja Reserve, Cameroon 
  • Seed dispersal by wind: towards a conceptual framework of seed abscission and its contribution to long-distance dispersal 
  • Seed traits, not density or distance from parent, determine seed predation and establishment in an Afrotropical forest 
  • Selection through female fitness helps to explain the maintenance of male flowers. 
  • Selection through male function favors smaller floral display size in the common morning glory Ipomoea purpurea (Convolvulaceae). 
  • Selfing, Local Mate Competition, and Reinforcement. 
  • Sensitivity of mean canopy stomatal conductance to vapor pressure deficit in a flooded Taxodium distichum L. forest: hydraulic and non-hydraulic effects. 
  • Separating the effects of climate and vegetation on evapotranspiration along a successional chronosequence in the southeastern US 
  • Separating the influence of resource 'availability' from resource 'imbalance' on productivity-diversity relationships. 
  • Setting Practical Conservation Priorities for Birds in the Western Andes of Colombia 
  • Sex and the Single Gametophyte: Revising the Homosporous Vascular Plant Life Cycle in Light of Contemporary Research 
  • Shared resources and disease dynamics in spatially structured populations 
  • Shoreline Development Drives Invasion of Phragmites australis and the Loss of Plant Diversity on New England Salt Marshes 
  • Signatures of nutrient limitation and co-limitation: responses of autotroph internal nutrient concentrations to nitrogen and phosphorus additions 
  • Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2 and temperature. 
  • Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium. 
  • Simulating the dynamics of primary productivity of a Sonoran ecosystem: Model parameterization and validation 
  • Size, sex and individual-level behaviour drive intrapopulation variation in cross-ecosystem foraging of a top-predator. 
  • Social fit of coral reef governance varies among individuals 
  • Social influences on survival and reproduction: Insights from a long-term study of wild baboons. 
  • Socioeconomics drive woody invasive plant richness in New England, USA through forest fragmentation 
  • Soil Chemical Change during Three Decades in an Old-Field Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taeda L.) Ecosystem 
  • Soil Diversity in the Tropics 
  • Soil Microbial Dynamics in Costa Rica: Seasonal and Biogeochemical Constraints 
  • Soil carbon losses due to higher pH offset vegetation gains due to calcium enrichment in an acid mitigation experiment. 
  • Soil carbon stocks in experimental mesocosms are dependent on the rate of labile carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to soils 
  • Soil heterogeneity and community composition jointly influence grassland biomass 
  • Soil nutrient availability and reproductive effort drive patterns in nutrient resorption in Pentaclethra macroloba 
  • Soil water balance and ecosystem response to climate change. 
  • Soil-plant-atmosphere conditions regulating convective cloud formation above southeastern US pine plantations. 
  • Solar radiation and ENSO predict fruiting phenology patterns in a 15-year record from Kibale National Park, Uganda 
  • Sound production behavior of individual North Atlantic right whales: implications for passive acoustic monitoring 
  • Spatial Patterns of Seed Dispersal by White-Faced Capuchins in Costa Rica: Evaluating Distant-Dependent Seed Mortality 
  • Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation. 
  • Spatial patterns of primary seed dispersal and adult tree distributions: Genipa americana dispersed by Cebus capucinus 
  • Spatial patterns of primary seed dispersal and adult tree distributions: Genipa americana dispersed by Cebus capucinus – CORRIGENDUM 
  • Spread of North American wind-dispersed trees in future environments 
  • Stabilization of Mixed-Mating Systems by Differences in the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression for Male and Female Fitness Components. 
  • Stable isotope ratios indicate diet and habitat use in New World monkeys. 
  • Stand structure and breeding birds: Implications for restoring ponderosa pine forests 
  • Standards for ecologically successful river restoration 
  • Steppe-Tundra Transition: A Herbivore-Driven Biome Shift at the End of the Pleistocene 
  • Steppe-tundra transition: A herbivore-driven biome shift at the end of the Pleistocene 
  • Stoichiometric controls on carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus dynamics in decomposing litter 
  • Strategies for analysing ecological health data: models of the biological risk of individuals. 
  • Stream Restoration Databases and Case Studies: A Guide to Information Resources and Their Utility in Advancing the Science and Practice of Restoration 
  • Stream Restoration Practices in the Southeastern United States 
  • Stream restoration strategies for reducing river nitrogen loads 
  • Strong feeding preference of an exotic generalist herbivore for an exotic forb: a case of invasional antagonism 
  • Strong specificity and network modularity at a very fine phylogenetic scale in the lichen genus Peltigera 
  • Structure and Organization of an Amazonian Forest Bird Community 
  • Suppression of Clostridium difficile by normal hamster cecal flora and prevention of antibiotic-associated cecitis. 
  • Surficial gains and subsoil losses of soil carbon and nitrogen during secondary forest development 
  • Survival of tree seedlings across space and time: estimates from long-term count data 
  • Synthesising bushmeat research effort in West and Central Africa: A new regional database 
  • Synthetic chemicals as agents of global change 
  • THE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF WESTERN ATLANTIC PATAGONIAN ROCKY SHORES 
  • THEORETICAL CONSEQUENCES OF HETEROGENEOUS TRANSPORT CONDITIONS FOR POLLEN DISPERSAL BY ANIMALS 
  • TOP-DOWN CONTROL OF SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA PRODUCTION BY PERIWINKLE GRAZING IN A VIRGINIA SALT MARSH 
  • TREE SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS IN AN UPPER AMAZONIAN FOREST 
  • Testing for environmentally induced bias in phenotypic estimates of natural selection: theory and practice. 
  • Testing the field of dreams hypothesis: functional responses to urbanization and restoration in stream ecosystems. 
  • The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges 
  • The Emergence of Access Controls in Small-Scale Fishing Commons: A Comparative Analysis of Individual Licenses and Common Property-Rights in Two Mexican Communities 
  • The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking 
  • The Precision Problem in Conservation and Restoration. 
  • The Report of the Ecological Society of America Committee on the Scientific Basis for Ecosystem Management 
  • The Role of a Professional Society in Broadening Participation in Science: A National Model for Increasing Persistence 
  • The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project. 
  • The Water Quality Consequences of Restoring Wetland Hydrology to a Large Agricultural Watershed in the Southeastern Coastal Plain 
  • The adaptive radiation of lichen-forming Teloschistaceae is associated with sunscreening pigments and a bark-to-rock substrate shift. 
  • The age of fine-root carbon in three forests of the eastern United States measured by radiocarbon. 
  • The capacity to adapt?: communities in a changing climate, environment, and economy on the northern Andaman coast of Thailand 
  • The challenges of incorporating cultural ecosystem services into environmental assessment. 
  • The compadre Plant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demography 
  • The contribution of abiotic processes to buried litter decomposition in the northern Chihuahuan desert 
  • The cost of reinforcement: selection on flower color in allopatric populations of Phlox drummondii. 
  • The ecological consequences of environmentally induced phenotypic changes. 
  • The ecology and economics of restoration: when, what, where, and how to restore ecosystems 
  • The ecology of spatial memory in four lemur species. 
  • The effect of acoustic harassment devices on harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Bay of Fundy, Canada 
  • The effect of elevated CO2 and N availability on tissue concentrations and whole plant pools of carbon-based secondary compounds in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda). 
  • The effect of phenotypic variation on metapopulation persistence 
  • The effect of salinity upon phototaxis and geotaxis in a larval crustacean. 
  • The effectiveness of the zoning of China's protected areas 
  • The effects of future urban development on habitat fragmentation in the Santa Monica Mountains 
  • The effects of plant pathogens on tree recruitment in the Western Amazon under a projected future climate: a dynamical systems analysis 
  • The emergent geography of biophysical dispersal barriers across the Indo-West Pacific 
  • The evolution of embryonic patterning mechanisms in animals. 
  • The evolution of intrinsic reproductive isolation in the genus Cakile (Brassicaceae). 
  • The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation 
  • The feeding biomechanics and dietary ecology of Paranthropus boisei. 
  • The first major primate extinction: An evaluation of paleoecological dynamics of North American stem primates using a homology free measure of tooth shape. 
  • The global atmospheric environment for the next generation. 
  • The hydrological niche and spatially structured species co-existence 
  • The impact of invasion and subsequent removal of an exotic thistle, Cynara cardunculus, on CO2 and H2O vapor exchange in a coastal California grassland 
  • The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States. 
  • The importance of an underestimated grazer under climate change: how crab density, consumer competition, and physical stress affect salt marsh resilience 
  • The looming crisis: interactions between marine mammals and fisheries 
  • The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts. 
  • The microecology of Clostridium difficile. 
  • The paradise of God renewing religion in an ecological age: renewing religion in an ecological age 
  • The porous media model for the hydraulic system of a conifer tree: Linking sap flux data to transpiration rate 
  • The potential of unmanned aerial systems for sea turtle research and conservation: a review and future directions 
  • The potential role for management of U.S. public lands in greenhouse gas mitigation and climate policy. 
  • The predictability of mosquito abundance from daily to monthly timescales. 
  • The putative niche requirements and landscape dynamics of Microstegium vimineum: an invasive Asian grass 
  • The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests 
  • The relationship between growth and mortality for seven co-occurring tree species in the southern Appalachian Mountains 
  • The role of harvest residue in rotation cycle carbon balance in loblolly pine plantations. Respiration partitioning approach 
  • The seasonal timing of warming that controls onset of the growing season 
  • The size of savannah Africa: a lion’s (Panthera leo) view 
  • The spatial structure of antagonistic species affects coevolution in predictable ways. 
  • The structure of food webs. 
  • The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services 
  • Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature. 
  • Threats to a rainforest carnivore community: A multi-year assessment of occupancy and co-occurrence in Madagascar 
  • Tidal landforms, patterns of halophytic vegetation and the fate of the lagoon of Venice 
  • To ping or not to ping: the use of active acoustic devices in mitigating interactions between small cetaceans and gillnet fisheries 
  • Total C and N Pools and Fluxes Vary with Time, Soil Temperature, and Moisture Along an Elevation, Precipitation, and Vegetation Gradient in Southern Appalachian Forests 
  • Toward a trophic theory of species diversity. 
  • Towards an integrated global framework to assess the impacts of land use and management change on soil carbon: current capability and future vision 
  • Trade-offs between three forest ecosystem services across the state of New Hampshire, USA: timber, carbon, and albedo. 
  • Trade-offs during the development of primary and secondary sexual traits in a horned beetle. 
  • Transitions and invasion along a grazing gradient in experimental California grasslands. 
  • Tree growth inference and prediction from diameter censuses and ring widths. 
  • Tree recruitment in an empty forest. 
  • Trophic cascades in rocky shore tide pools: distinguishing lethal and nonlethal effects. 
  • Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary 
  • Turnover of breeding bird communities on islands in an inundated lake 
  • Two Decades of River Restoration in California: What Can We Learn? 
  • Two statistical methods for the detection of environmental thresholds 
  • UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING THE EFFECTS OF SPARSE DATA ON DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSES 
  • USING MODEL ANALYSIS TO DESIGN MONITORING PROGRAMS FOR LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT 
  • Underestimating the damage: interpreting cetacean carcass recoveries in the context of the Deepwater Horizon/BP incident 
  • Understanding movement data and movement processes: current and emerging directions. 
  • Understanding strategies for seed dispersal by wind under contrasting atmospheric conditions. 
  • Unified representation of the C3, C4, and CAM photosynthetic pathways with the Photo3 model 
  • Using ecosystem engineers to restore ecological systems. 
  • VARIATION IN THE DEFENSE STRATEGIES OF PLANTS: ARE RESISTANCE AND TOLERANCE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE? 
  • VARIATION IN TIMING OF CONCEPTION BETWEEN POPULATIONS OF THE HARBOR PORPOISE 
  • Variability of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence according to stand age-related processes in a managed loblolly pine forest 
  • Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. 
  • Viral and bacterial abundance and production in the Western Pacific Ocean and the relation to other oceanic realms. 
  • Visual ecology of true lemurs suggests a cathemeral origin for the primate cone opsin polymorphism 
  • WATER BALANCE DELINEATES THE SOIL LAYER IN WHICH MOISTURE AFFECTS CANOPY CONDUCTANCE 
  • Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems. 
  • Water quality of pocosins and associated wetlands of the Carolina Coastal Plain 
  • Wetland restoration and hydrologic reconnection result in enhanced watershed nitrogen retention and removal 
  • When agendas collide: human welfare and biological conservation. 
  • When, Where, and How Nature Matters for Ecosystem Services: Challenges for the Next Generation of Ecosystem Service Models 
  • Where are Cultural and Social in Ecosystem Services? A Framework for Constructive Engagement 
  • White-sand Ecosystems in Amazonia 
  • Why Lions Form Groups: Food is Not Enough 
  • Why environmental scientists are becoming Bayesians 
  • Why species tell more about traits than traits about species: predictive analysis. 
  • Why trees migrate so fast: confronting theory with dispersal biology and the paleorecord. 
  • Woody Plant-Cover Dynamics in Argentine Savannas from the 1880s to 2000s: The Interplay of Encroachment and Agriculture Conversion at Varying Scales 
  • Yucatan seaweeds from the offshore waters of Isla Mujeres, Ouintana Roo, Mexico 
  • ‘New conservation’ or surrender to development? 
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