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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparative study of the non-acidic chemically mediated antifoulant properties of three sympatric species of ascidians associated with seagrass habitats. 
  • A host plant genome (Zizania latifolia) after a century-long endophyte infection. 
  • A keystone mutualism underpins resilience of a coastal ecosystem to drought. 
  • A test of the niche dimension hypothesis in an arid annual grassland. 
  • A trophic cascade regulates salt marsh primary production. 
  • Abiotic stress mediates top-down and bottom-up control in a Southwestern Atlantic salt marsh. 
  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity. 
  • Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources. 
  • Biological diversity. Species: would any of them be missed? 
  • Biomass responses to elevated CO2, soil heterogeneity and diversity: an experimental assessment with grassland assemblages. 
  • Brachypodium as a model for the grasses: today and the future. 
  • CO2 enrichment and soil type additively regulate grassland productivity. 
  • CO2, nitrogen, and diversity differentially affect seed production of prairie plants. 
  • Carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange in a warm temperate grassland. 
  • Characterization of a major cluster of nif, fix, and associated genes in a sugarcane endophyte, Acetobacter diazotrophicus. 
  • Climate and lawn management interact to control C4 plant distribution in residential lawns across seven U.S. cities. 
  • Comment on "A reservoir of nitrate beneath desert soils". 
  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe. 
  • Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning. 
  • Crab herbivory regulates plant facilitative and competitive processes in Argentinean marshes. 
  • Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 
  • Differences in wetland nitrogen cycling between the invasive grass Microstegium vimineum and a diverse plant community. 
  • Drought, snails, and large-scale die-off of southern U.S. salt marshes. 
  • Ecosystem carbon loss with woody plant invasion of grasslands. 
  • Ecosystem engineers activate mycorrhizal mutualism in salt marshes. 
  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. 
  • Facilitation cascade drives positive relationship between native biodiversity and invasion success. 
  • Fire cycles in North American interior grasslands and their relation to prairie drought. 
  • Flowering in grassland predicted by CO2 and resource effects on species aboveground biomass. 
  • Foundation species' overlap enhances biodiversity and multifunctionality from the patch to landscape scale in southeastern United States salt marshes. 
  • Frequency-dependence stabilizes competitive interactions among four annual plants. 
  • Geographical and interannual variability in biomass partitioning in grassland ecosystems: a synthesis of field data. 
  • Grassland species loss resulting from reduced niche dimension. 
  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. 
  • Hierarchical organization via a facilitation cascade in intertidal cordgrass bed communities. 
  • High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services. 
  • Impacts of climate change drivers on C4 grassland productivity: scaling driver effects through the plant community. 
  • Improved resolution of major clades within Tuber and taxonomy of species within the Tuber gibbosum complex. 
  • Invasion, competitive dominance, and resource use by exotic and native California grassland species. 
  • Life in science: seeds of doubt. 
  • Mechanistic analytical models for long-distance seed dispersal by wind. 
  • Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric CO(2). 
  • Patch size-dependent community recovery after massive disturbance. 
  • Plant community change mediates the response of foliar δ(15)N to CO 2 enrichment in mesic grasslands. 
  • Plant-soil feedbacks: a comparative study on the relative importance of soil feedbacks in the greenhouse versus the field. 
  • Potential nitrogen constraints on soil carbon sequestration under low and elevated atmospheric CO2. 
  • Predator diversity stabilizes and strengthens trophic control of a keystone grazer. 
  • Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? 
  • Regional contingencies in the relationship between aboveground biomass and litter in the world's grasslands. 
  • Role of sugars and organic acids in regulating the concentration and activity of the alternative oxidase in Poa annua roots. 
  • Scale-dependent interactions and community structure on cobble beaches. 
  • Seasonal exports of phosphorus from intensively fertilised nested grassland catchments. 
  • Soil C and N changes with afforestation of grasslands across gradients of precipitation and plantation age. 
  • Soil nutrient heterogeneity interacts with elevated CO2 and nutrient availability to determine species and assemblage responses in a model grassland community. 
  • Supporting Spartina: Interdisciplinary perspective shows Spartina as a distinct solid genus. 
  • The effect of hydraulic lift on organic matter decomposition, soil nitrogen cycling, and nitrogen acquisition by a grass species. 
  • The importance of an underestimated grazer under climate change: how crab density, consumer competition, and physical stress affect salt marsh resilience. 
  • The structure of turbulence near a tall forest edge: the backward-facing step flow analogy revisited. 
  • Transitions and invasion along a grazing gradient in experimental California grasslands. 
  • Variation in Plant Response to Herbivory Underscored by Functional Traits.