Ecosystem

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'One physical system': Tansley's ecosystem as Earth's critical zone. 
  • 50 million years of genomic stasis in endosymbiotic bacteria. 
  • A Bayesian approach to retransformation bias in transformed regression. 
  • A continental view of pine-associated ectomycorrhizal fungal spore banks: a quiescent functional guild with a strong biogeographic pattern. 
  • A coupled geomorphic and ecological model of tidal marsh evolution. 
  • A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass. 
  • A graph-theory framework for evaluating landscape connectivity and conservation planning. 
  • A heteroduplex method for detection of targeted sub-populations of bacterial communities. 
  • A human-driven decline in global burned area. 
  • A keystone mutualism underpins resilience of a coastal ecosystem to drought. 
  • A mechanistic-bioclimatic modeling analysis of the potential impact of climate change on biomes of the Tibetan Plateau. 
  • A molecular phylogeny of the fern family Pteridaceae: assessing overall relationships and the affinities of previously unsampled genera. 
  • A novel framework for analyzing conservation impacts: evaluation, theory, and marine protected areas. 
  • A spatially explicit investigation of phosphorus sorption and related soil properties in two riparian wetlands. 
  • A state-space modeling approach to estimating canopy conductance and associated uncertainties from sap flux density data. 
  • A study of anthropogenic and climatic disturbance of the New River Estuary using a Bayesian belief network. 
  • A synthetic Escherichia coli predator-prey ecosystem. 
  • A three-stage symbiosis forms the foundation of seagrass ecosystems. 
  • A trophic cascade regulates salt marsh primary production. 
  • A unique advantage for giant eyes in giant squid. 
  • Aboveground sink strength in forests controls the allocation of carbon below ground and its [CO2]-induced enhancement. 
  • Abundance and molecular diversity of thraustochytrids in coastal waters of southern China. 
  • Abundance and survival rates of the Hawai'i Island associated spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) stock. 
  • Abundance of water bodies is critical to guide mosquito larval control interventions and predict risk of mosquito-borne diseases. 
  • Acoustic ecology of the California mantis shrimp (Hemisquilla californiensis). 
  • Activity patterns in seven captive lemur species: Evidence of cathemerality in Varecia and Lemur catta? 
  • Adaptive feeding across environmental gradients and its effect on population dynamics. 
  • Algal blooms and the nitrogen-enrichment hypothesis in Florida springs: evidence, alternatives, and adaptive management. 
  • Amino acid abundance and proteolytic potential in North American soils. 
  • Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources. 
  • An adaptable mesocosm platform for performing integrated assessments of nanomaterial risk in complex environmental systems. 
  • An ecological perspective on nanomaterial impacts in the environment. 
  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species. 
  • An invasive foundation species enhances multifunctionality in a coastal ecosystem. 
  • An obligately photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. 
  • Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences. 
  • Annual community patterns are driven by seasonal switching between closely related marine bacteria. 
  • Are ecosystem carbon inputs and outputs coupled at short time scales? A case study from adjacent pine and hardwood forests using impulse-response analysis. 
  • Are plant populations seed limited? A critique and meta-analysis of seed addition experiments. 
  • Aridity weakens population-level effects of multiple species interactions on Hibiscus meyeri. 
  • Assessing different mechanisms of toxicity in mountaintop removal/valley fill coal mining-affected watershed samples using Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Assessment of soil microbial community structure by use of taxon-specific quantitative PCR assays. 
  • Behavioral self-organization underlies the resilience of a coastal ecosystem. 
  • Benefit and cost curves for typical pollination mutualisms. 
  • Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees. 
  • Beyond neutral science. 
  • Biodiversity and the Lotka-Volterra theory of species interactions: open systems and the distribution of logarithmic densities. 
  • Biodiversity. Extinction by numbers. 
  • Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents. 
  • Biological diversity. Species: would any of them be missed? 
  • Biomass control in waste air biotrickling filters by protozoan predation. 
  • Biomass responses to elevated CO2, soil heterogeneity and diversity: an experimental assessment with grassland assemblages. 
  • Biting mechanics and niche separation in a specialized clade of primate seed predators. 
  • Boechera, a model system for ecological genomics. 
  • Boreal forests' carbon stores need better management. 
  • Breeding birds on small islands: island biogeography or optimal foraging? 
  • Buffering of life histories against environmental stochasticity: accounting for a spurious correlation between the variabilities of vital rates and their contributions to fitness. 
  • Building statistical models to analyze species distributions. 
  • CO2, nitrogen, and diversity differentially affect seed production of prairie plants. 
  • Calibrating single-ended fiber-optic Raman spectra distributed temperature sensing data. 
  • Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation, and albedo in temperate and boreal forests: Functional relations and potential climate feedbacks. 
  • Capacity of mosquitoes to transmit malaria depends on larval environment. 
  • Carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange in a warm temperate grassland. 
  • Causal inference in coupled human and natural systems. 
  • Causality and persistence in ecological systems: a nonparametric spectral granger causality approach. 
  • Causes and consequences of habitat fragmentation in river networks. 
  • Centuries of human-driven change in salt marsh ecosystems. 
  • Challenges in elevated CO2 experiments on forests. 
  • Challenges to interdisciplinary research in ecosystem-based management. 
  • Changes in stable isotopic signatures of soil nitrogen and carbon during 40 years of forest development. 
  • Characterizing fishing effort and spatial extent of coastal fisheries. 
  • Climate Change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon 
  • Climate change, elevational range shifts, and bird extinctions. 
  • Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia. 
  • Coastal ecosystem-based management with nonlinear ecological functions and values. 
  • Cohort studies of health effects among people exposed to estuarine waters: North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. 
  • Comment on "Open-ocean fish reveal an omnidirectional solution to camouflage in polarized environments". 
  • Common bacterial responses in six ecosystems exposed to 10 years of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. 
  • Community occupancy responses of small mammals to restoration treatments in ponderosa pine forests, northern Arizona, USA. 
  • Community structure of free-floating filamentous cyanobacterial mats from the Wonder Lake geothermal springs in the Philippines. 
  • Comparative hydraulic architecture of tropical tree species representing a range of successional stages and wood density. 
  • Comparing habitat suitability and connectivity modeling methods for conserving pronghorn migrations. 
  • Competition for hummingbird pollination shapes flower color variation in Andean solanaceae. 
  • Complex trait divergence contributes to environmental niche differentiation in ecological speciation of Boechera stricta. 
  • Complexity and variation in loggerhead sea turtle life history. 
  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change. 
  • Computational visual ecology in the pelagic realm. 
  • Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots. 
  • Conservation. CITES designation for endangered rosewood in Madagascar. 
  • Conservation. Reconsidering the consequences of selective fisheries. 
  • Considerations of Environmentally Relevant Test Conditions for Improved Evaluation of Ecological Hazards of Engineered Nanomaterials. 
  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe. 
  • Consumer versus resource control of producer diversity depends on ecosystem type and producer community structure. 
  • Contrasting hydraulic architecture and function in deep and shallow roots of tree species from a semi-arid habitat. 
  • Contribution of aerobic photoheterotrophic bacteria to the carbon cycle in the ocean. 
  • Contributions of North American endophytes to the phylogeny, ecology, and taxonomy of Xylariaceae (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota). 
  • Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning. 
  • Costa Rica's payment for environmental services program: intention, implementation, and impact. 
  • Crepuscular and nocturnal illumination and its effects on color perception by the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor. 
  • Cryptococcus neoformans mates on pigeon guano: implications for the realized ecological niche and globalization. 
  • Dam controversy: Remaking the Mekong. 
  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin. 
  • Decadal biomass increment in early secondary succession woody ecosystems is increased by CO2 enrichment. 
  • Decoupling the effects of logging and hunting on an afrotropical animal community. 
  • Decreasing uncertainties in assessing environmental exposure, risk, and ecological implications of nanomaterials. 
  • Deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystem research during the census of marine life decade and beyond: a proposed deep-ocean road map. 
  • 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. 
  • Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts. 
  • Density-dependent mortality and the latitudinal gradient in species diversity. 
  • Dental microwear texture analysis and diet in the Dmanisi hominins. 
  • Dependence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus on hydrogen peroxide scavenging microbes for growth at the ocean's surface. 
  • Deterministic Factors Overwhelm Stochastic Environmental Fluctuations as Drivers of Jellyfish Outbreaks. 
  • Differential nutrient limitation of soil microbial biomass and metabolic quotients (qCO2): is there a biological stoichiometry of soil microbes? 
  • Digging the New York City Skyline: soil fungal communities in green roofs and city parks. 
  • Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis. 
  • Discharge competence and pattern formation in peatlands: a meta-ecosystem model of the Everglades ridge-slough landscape. 
  • Disentangling the visual cues used by a jumping spider to locate its microhabitat. 
  • Distribution, ecology, life history, genetic variation, and risk of extinction of nonhuman primates from Costa Rica. 
  • Diversification before the most recent glaciation in Balanus glandula. 
  • Do Payments Pay Off? Evidence from Participation in Costa Rica's PES Program. 
  • Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? 
  • Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates? 
  • Drained coastal peatlands: A potential nitrogen source to marine ecosystems under prolonged drought and heavy storm events-A microcosm experiment. 
  • Dramatic variability of the carbonate system at a temperate coastal ocean site (Beaufort, North Carolina, USA) is regulated by physical and biogeochemical processes on multiple timescales. 
  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. 
  • Drought, snails, and large-scale die-off of southern U.S. salt marshes. 
  • Dynamic habitat models: using telemetry data to project fisheries bycatch. 
  • Dynamic ocean management increases the efficiency and efficacy of fisheries management. 
  • Dynamics of soil CO2 efflux under varying atmospheric CO2 concentrations reveal dominance of slow processes. 
  • Ecohydrology of agroecosystems: quantitative approaches towards sustainable irrigation. 
  • Ecological approaches and the development of "truly integrated" pest management. 
  • Ecological dynamics of mutualist/antagonist communities. 
  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. 
  • Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments. 
  • Ecological networks and their fragility. 
  • Ecological reproductive isolation of coast and inland races of Mimulus guttatus. 
  • Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome. 
  • Ecology. Domains of diversity. 
  • Ecology. Ecology for a crowded planet. 
  • Ecology. Global climate change strikes a tropical lake. 
  • Ecology. North Atlantic right whales in crisis. 
  • Ecology. Protecting China's biodiversity. 
  • Ecology. Synthesizing U.S. river restoration efforts. 
  • Economics. Sustainability and global seafood. 
  • Ecosystem change and human health: implementation economics and policy. 
  • Ecosystem engineering in space and time. 
  • Ecosystem engineers activate mycorrhizal mutualism in salt marshes. 
  • Ecosystem impacts of geoengineering: a review for developing a science plan. 
  • Ecosystem impacts of three sequential hurricanes (Dennis, Floyd, and Irene) on the United States' largest lagoonal estuary, Pamlico Sound, NC. 
  • Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. 
  • Effects of future infrastructure development on threat status and occurrence of Amazonian birds. 
  • Effects of urbanization and urban stream restoration on the physical and biological structure of stream ecosystems. 
  • Electronic tagging of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus, L.) reveals habitat use and behaviors in the Mediterranean Sea. 
  • Elevational Ranges of Montane Birds and Deforestation in the Western Andes of Colombia. 
  • Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity. 
  • Emerging infectious diseases in an island ecosystem: the New Zealand perspective. 
  • Endemism in the moss flora of North America. 
  • Engineering microbial systems to explore ecological and evolutionary dynamics. 
  • Enteric infection and inflammation alter gut microbial ecology. 
  • Environment. Can we defy nature's end? 
  • Environment. Looming global-scale failures and missing institutions. 
  • Environment. Monitoring Earth's critical zone. 
  • Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon-use efficiency in soils. 
  • Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification. 
  • Environmental occurrences, behavior, fate, and ecological effects of nanomaterials: an introduction to the special series. 
  • Environmental science. Aging infrastructure and ecosystem restoration. 
  • Estimating extinction risk with metapopulation models of large-scale fragmentation. 
  • Estimating global "blue carbon" emissions from conversion and degradation of vegetated coastal ecosystems. 
  • Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation. 
  • Estimating the impacts of conservation on ecosystem services and poverty by integrating modeling and evaluation. 
  • Evaluating 'good governance': The development of a quantitative tool in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem. 
  • Evaluating ecosystem services provided by non-native species: an experimental test in California grasslands. 
  • Evaluating interactions of forest conservation policies on avoided deforestation. 
  • Evaluating the impacts of multiple generalist fungal pathogens on temperate tree seedling survival. 
  • Evaluating the landscape of fear between apex predatory sharks and mobile sea turtles across a large dynamic seascape. 
  • Evaluating the sources of potential migrant species: implications under climate change. 
  • Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2 Enrichment studies. 
  • Evaluation of the current state of mechanistic aquatic biogeochemical modeling: citation analysis and future perspectives. 
  • 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 for a Cenozoic radiation of ferns in an angiosperm-dominated canopy. 
  • Evo-devo beyond morphology: from genes to resource use. 
  • Evolution and biogeography of deep-sea vent and seep invertebrates. 
  • Evolution of mixed strategies of plant defense allocation against natural enemies. 
  • Evolution of niche preference in Sphagnum peat mosses. 
  • Evolution of sexual systems, dispersal strategies and habitat selection in the liverwort genus Radula. 
  • Evolutionary dynamics of an Arabidopsis insect resistance quantitative trait locus. 
  • Evolutionary genetics in wild primates: combining genetic approaches with field studies of natural populations. 
  • Examining landscape factors influencing relative distribution of mosquito genera and frequency of virus infection. 
  • Experimental manipulation of seed shadows of an Afrotropical tree determines drivers of recruitment. 
  • Expression profiling and local adaptation of Boechera holboellii populations for water use efficiency across a naturally occurring water stress gradient. 
  • Extrapolating cetacean densities to quantitatively assess human impacts on populations in the high seas. 
  • Facilitation shifts paradigms and can amplify coastal restoration efforts. 
  • Factors affecting individual foraging specialization and temporal diet stability across the range of a large "generalist" apex predator. 
  • Falling palm fronds structure amazonian rainforest sapling communities. 
  • FenyMon: ferry-based monitoring and assessment of human and climatically driven environmental change in the Albemarle-Pamlico sound system. 
  • Fine-scale habitat modeling of a top marine predator: do prey data improve predictive capacity? 
  • Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community. 
  • Fire cycles in North American interior grasslands and their relation to prairie drought. 
  • Flux Control in a Defense Pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana Is Robust to Environmental Perturbations and Controls Variation in Adaptive Traits. 
  • Forest elephant movement and habitat use in a tropical forest-grassland mosaic in Gabon. 
  • Frequency-dependence stabilizes competitive interactions among four annual plants. 
  • Funding should come to those who wait. 
  • Fungal community analysis by large-scale sequencing of environmental samples. 
  • Gaps contribute tree diversity to a tropical floodplain forest. 
  • Genetic isolation between two recently diverged populations of a symbiotic fungus. 
  • Genetics of incipient speciation in Drosophila mojavensis. I. Male courtship song, mating success, and genotype x environment interactions. 
  • Genome-wide scan reveals signatures of selection related to pollution adaptation in non-model estuarine Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). 
  • Genotypic diversity within a natural coastal bacterioplankton population. 
  • Geographic Variation of Plant Circadian Clock Function in Natural and Agricultural Settings. 
  • Geographic variation in algal partners of Cladonia subtenuis (Cladoniaceae) highlights the dynamic nature of a lichen symbiosis. 
  • Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems. 
  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation. 
  • Global desertification: building a science for dryland development. 
  • Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances. 
  • Graph models of habitat mosaics. 
  • Graph theory as a proxy for spatially explicit population models in conservation planning. 
  • Grassland species loss resulting from reduced niche dimension. 
  • Habitat and behaviour of yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares in the Gulf of Mexico determined using pop-up satellite archival tags. 
  • Habitat collapse due to overgrazing threatens turtle conservation in marine protected areas. 
  • Herbivore metabolism and stoichiometry each constrain herbivory at different organizational scales across ecosystems. 
  • Hide and seek in the open sea: pelagic camouflage and visual countermeasures. 
  • Hierarchical organization via a facilitation cascade in intertidal cordgrass bed communities. 
  • High and far: biases in the location of protected areas. 
  • High frequency temperature variability reduces the risk of coral bleaching. 
  • High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services. 
  • History and evolution of alpine plants endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Aconitum gymnandrum (Ranunculaceae). 
  • How does plant chemical diversity contribute to biodiversity at higher trophic levels? 
  • How mammalian predation contributes to tropical tree community structure. 
  • How many seeds does it take to make a sapling? 
  • How to make more out of community data? A conceptual framework and its implementation as models and software. 
  • Human colonic biota studied by ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. 
  • Human disturbance causes the formation of a hybrid swarm between two naturally sympatric fish species. 
  • Hybridization can facilitate species invasions, even without enhancing local adaptation. 
  • Hydraulic lift and tolerance to salinity of semiarid species: consequences for species interactions. 
  • Hydraulic redistribution in a Douglas-fir forest: lessons from system manipulations. 
  • Hydraulic redistribution of soil water by roots affects whole-stand evapotranspiration and net ecosystem carbon exchange. 
  • Hydraulic redistribution of soil water in two old-growth coniferous forests: quantifying patterns and controls. 
  • Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre. 
  • Ice-age survival of Atlantic cod: agreement between palaeoecology models and genetics. 
  • Impacts of anthropogenic disturbances at deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems: a review. 
  • Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis. 
  • Increased belowground biomass and soil CO2 fluxes after a decade of carbon dioxide enrichment in a warm-temperate forest. 
  • Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways. 
  • Increases in nitrogen uptake rather than nitrogen-use efficiency support higher rates of temperate forest productivity under elevated CO2. 
  • Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long-term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO₂. 
  • Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO2 concentration alleviate forest mortality risk. 
  • Indigenous lands, protected areas, and slowing climate change. 
  • Individual variability in tree allometry determines light resource allocation in forest ecosystems: a hierarchical Bayesian approach. 
  • Individuals and the variation needed for high species diversity in forest trees. 
  • Inferential ecosystem models, from network data to prediction. 
  • Influence of climate on malaria transmission depends on daily temperature variation. 
  • Informing climate models with rapid chamber measurements of forest carbon uptake. 
  • Integrating bioassessment and ecological risk assessment: an approach to developing numerical water-quality criteria. 
  • Integrating impact evaluation in the design and implementation of monitoring marine protected areas. 
  • Interaction type influences ecological network structure more than local abiotic conditions: evidence from endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale. 
  • Interbirth intervals in wild baboons: Environmental predictors and hormonal correlates. 
  • Invasion, competitive dominance, and resource use by exotic and native California grassland species. 
  • Invertebrate biomechanics. 
  • Investigating niche partitioning of ectomycorrhizal fungi in specialized rooting zones of the monodominant leguminous tree Dicymbe corymbosa. 
  • Is floral diversification associated with pollinator divergence? Flower shape, flower colour and pollinator preference in Chilean Mimulus. 
  • It's Not Easy Being Blue: Are There Olfactory and Visual Trade-Offs in Plant Signalling? 
  • Joint effects of nutrient addition and enemy exclusion on exotic plant success. 
  • Landscape position influences microbial composition and function via redistribution of soil water across a watershed. 
  • Leaf-level gas-exchange uniformity and photosynthetic capacity among loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) genotypes of contrasting inherent genetic variation. 
  • Legacy source of mercury in an urban stream-wetland ecosystem in central North Carolina, USA. 
  • Lemurs. 
  • Lessons learned from coordinating research on the North Atlantic (CORONA). 
  • Light and vision in the deep-sea benthos: I. Bioluminescence at 500-1000 m depth in the Bahamian islands. 
  • Light-driven synchrony of Prochlorococcus growth and mortality in the subtropical Pacific gyre. 
  • Linking deforestation to malaria in the Amazon: characterization of the breeding habitat of the principal malaria vector, Anopheles darlingi. 
  • Linking microbial community structure and microbial processes: an empirical and conceptual overview. 
  • Linking populations to landscapes: richness scenarios resulting from changes in the dynamics of an ecosystem engineer. 
  • Living in a physical world VIII. Gravity and life in water. 
  • Local frequency dependence and global coexistence. 
  • Long-distance interactions regulate the structure and resilience of coastal ecosystems. 
  • Long-term CO2 enrichment of a forest ecosystem: implications for forest regeneration and succession. 
  • Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability. 
  • Low concentrations of silver nanoparticles in biosolids cause adverse ecosystem responses under realistic field scenario. 
  • Mammalian Herbivores Alter the Population Growth and Spatial Establishment of an Early-Establishing Grassland Species. 
  • Man and the last great wilderness: human impact on the deep sea. 
  • Managing the impact of invasive species: the value of knowing the density-impact curve. 
  • Mangroves protected villages and reduced death toll during Indian super cyclone. 
  • Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine. 
  • Marine Socio-Environmental Covariates: queryable global layers of environmental and anthropogenic variables for marine ecosystem studies. 
  • Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. 
  • Metatranscriptomic Study of Common and Host-Specific Patterns of Gene Expression between Pines and Their Symbiotic Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in the Genus Suillus. 
  • Metatranscriptomic analysis of ectomycorrhizal roots reveals genes associated with Piloderma-Pinus symbiosis: improved methodologies for assessing gene expression in situ. 
  • Microgeographic Patterns of Genetic Divergence and Adaptation across Environmental Gradients in Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae). 
  • Migration and fishing in Indonesian coastal villages. 
  • Migratory movements, depth preferences, and thermal biology of Atlantic bluefin tuna. 
  • Mimulus is an emerging model system for the integration of ecological and genomic studies. 
  • Modeling seed dispersal distances: implications for transgenic Pinus taeda. 
  • Modeling spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial populations. 
  • Modifying the 'pulse-reserve' paradigm for deserts of North America: precipitation pulses, soil water, and plant responses. 
  • Molecular ecology and natural history of simian foamy virus infection in wild-living chimpanzees. 
  • Morphological characteristics of urban water bodies: mechanisms of change and implications for ecosystem function. 
  • Murine typhus still exists in the United States. 
  • Natural experiment demonstrates that bird loss leads to cessation of dispersal of native seeds from intact to degraded forests. 
  • Natural selection on a polymorphic disease-resistance locus in Ipomoea purpurea. 
  • Natural soil microbes alter flowering phenology and the intensity of selection on flowering time in a wild Arabidopsis relative. 
  • Natural variation, differentiation, and genetic trade-offs of ecophysiological traits in response to water limitation in Brachypodium distachyon and its descendent allotetraploid B. hybridum (Poaceae). 
  • Navigating the complexity of ecological stability. 
  • Networking our science to characterize the state, vulnerabilities, and management opportunities of soil organic matter. 
  • Niche construction through phenological plasticity: life history dynamics and ecological consequences. 
  • Niche partitioning among Prochlorococcus ecotypes along ocean-scale environmental gradients. 
  • Niche partitioning and biogeography of high light adapted Prochlorococcus across taxonomic ranks in the North Pacific. 
  • Nitrogen-addition effects on leaf traits and photosynthetic carbon gain of boreal forest understory shrubs. 
  • Non-neutral patterns of species abundance in grassland communities. 
  • Non-neutral vegetation dynamics. 
  • Nutrient availability and atmospheric CO2 partial pressure modulate the effects of nutrient heterogeneity on the size structure of populations in grassland species. 
  • Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities. 
  • Nutrient limitation and physiology mediate the fine-scale (de)coupling of biogeochemical cycles. 
  • Oceans. Legal bedrock for rebuilding America's ocean ecosystems. 
  • Oil and gas projects in the Western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples. 
  • On population growth near protected areas. 
  • On the complementary relationship between marginal nitrogen and water-use efficiencies among Pinus taeda leaves grown under ambient and CO2-enriched environments. 
  • Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to assess sustainability. 
  • Organellar phylogenomics of an emerging model system: Sphagnum (peatmoss). 
  • Overhead tank is the potential breeding habitat of Anopheles stephensi in an urban transmission setting of Chennai, India. 
  • Overturning in the North Atlantic. 
  • Parasite infection alters nitrogen cycling at the ecosystem scale. 
  • Parasitism in species of Bathymodiolus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) mussels from deep-sea seep and hydrothermal vents. 
  • Partitioning interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange between climatic variability and functional change. 
  • Peatmoss (Sphagnum) diversification associated with Miocene Northern Hemisphere climatic cooling? 
  • Phosphorus resource partitioning shapes phosphorus acquisition and plant species abundance in grasslands. 
  • Photoautotrophic symbiont and geography are major factors affecting highly structured and diverse bacterial communities in the lichen microbiome. 
  • Phylogenetic relationships, host affinity, and geographic structure of boreal and arctic endophytes from three major plant lineages. 
  • Phylogeny and biogeography of the American live oaks (Quercus subsection Virentes): a genomic and population genetics approach. 
  • Phylogeography and historical ecology of the North Atlantic intertidal. 
  • Phylogeography of the arid-adapted Malagasy bullfrog, Laliostoma labrosum, influenced by past connectivity and habitat stability. 
  • Physical stress modifies top-down and bottom-up forcing on plant growth and reproduction in a coastal ecosystem. 
  • Planetary Boundaries for Biodiversity: Implausible Science, Pernicious Policies. 
  • Plant and animal endemism in the eastern Andean slope: challenges to conservation. 
  • Plant evolutionary ecology. 
  • Plant nitrogen concentration and isotopic composition in residential lawns across seven US cities. 
  • Plant responses to precipitation in desert ecosystems: integrating functional types, pulses, thresholds, and delays. 
  • Plant speciation. 
  • Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. 
  • Plant-soil feedbacks: a comparative study on the relative importance of soil feedbacks in the greenhouse versus the field. 
  • Political economy of marine reserves: understanding the role of opportunity costs. 
  • Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve. 
  • 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 the economic impact of an invasive species on an ecosystem service. 
  • Predictive modeling of spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) resting habitat in the main Hawaiian Islands. 
  • Preface to the special issue: ecological and evolutionary genomics of populations in nature. 
  • Prevalence and strength of density-dependent tree recruitment. 
  • Prochlorococcus ecotype abundances in the North Atlantic Ocean as revealed by an improved quantitative PCR method. 
  • Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. 
  • Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem processes under elevated CO2 in a warm-temperate forest. 
  • Protect the deep sea. 
  • Protected Areas' Impacts on Brazilian Amazon Deforestation: Examining Conservation-Development Interactions to Inform Planning. 
  • Protected area types, strategies and impacts in Brazil's Amazon: public protected area strategies do not yield a consistent ranking of protected area types by impact. 
  • Protecting the environment can boost the economy. 
  • Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon. 
  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming. 
  • Quantifying human impact on Earth's microbiome. 
  • Quantitative analysis of forest fragmentation in the atlantic forest reveals more threatened bird species than the current red list. 
  • Quantitative analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of a synthetic predator-prey ecosystem. 
  • Range size and extinction risk in forest birds. 
  • Range size heritability and diversification patterns in the liverwort genus Radula. 
  • Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments. 
  • Re: Uses and misuses of multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) in environmental decision making. 
  • Reassessing the conservation status of the giant panda using remote sensing. 
  • Reciprocal gut microbiota transplants from zebrafish and mice to germ-free recipients reveal host habitat selection. 
  • Reciprocal specialization in ecological networks. 
  • Reconstructing Holocene fire history in a southern Appalachian forest using soil charcoal. 
  • Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes. 
  • Regional contingencies in the relationship between aboveground biomass and litter in the world's grasslands. 
  • Regional management units for marine turtles: a novel framework for prioritizing conservation and research across multiple scales. 
  • Relating ranging ecology, limb length, and locomotor economy in terrestrial animals. 
  • Remotely Sensed Data Informs Red List Evaluations and Conservation Priorities in Southeast Asia. 
  • Reply to Rubenstein and Rubenstein: Time to move on from ideological debates on rewilding. 
  • Reproducibility of Vibrionaceae population structure in coastal bacterioplankton. 
  • Resource partitioning and sympatric differentiation among closely related bacterioplankton. 
  • Resource policy. Wood energy in America. 
  • Responses of soil microbial communities to water stress: results from a meta-analysis. 
  • 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. 
  • Rising CO2 levels and the fecundity of forest trees. 
  • Risk and markets for ecosystem services. 
  • River restoration: the fuzzy logic of repairing reaches to reverse catchment scale degradation. 
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY. Engage key social concepts for sustainability. 
  • Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health. 
  • Salt marshes. 
  • Satellites miss environmental priorities. 
  • Savanna elephant numbers are only a quarter of their expected values. 
  • Science and regulation. Mountaintop mining consequences. 
  • Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research. 
  • Science, policy advocacy, and marine protected areas. 
  • Scientists as stakeholders in conservation of hydrothermal vents. 
  • Seasonal variation in the spatial distribution of basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) in the lower Bay of Fundy, Canada. 
  • Seeps regulate stream nitrate concentration in a forested Appalachian catchment. 
  • Setting practical conservation priorities for birds in the Western Andes of Colombia. 
  • Sight or scent: lemur sensory reliance in detecting food quality varies with feeding ecology. 
  • Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium. 
  • Size, sex and individual-level behaviour drive intrapopulation variation in cross-ecosystem foraging of a top-predator. 
  • Soil fertility limits carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems in a CO2-enriched atmosphere. 
  • Soil water balance and ecosystem response to climate change. 
  • Southern Ocean iron enrichment experiment: carbon cycling in high- and low-Si waters. 
  • Spatial Genetic Structure of the Abundant and Widespread Peatmoss Sphagnum magellanicum Brid. 
  • Spatial organization and composition of the mucosal flora in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. 
  • Spatio-temporal gap analysis of OBIS-SEAMAP project data: assessment and way forward. 
  • Spatiotemporal modulation of biodiversity in a synthetic chemical-mediated ecosystem. 
  • Speciation on a local geographic scale: the evolution of a rare rock outcrop specialist in Mimulus. 
  • Species co-occurrence patterns and dietary resource competition in primates. 
  • Spectral sensitivity of the concave mirror eyes of scallops: potential influences of habitat, self-screening and longitudinal chromatic aberration. 
  • Sphagnum physiology in the context of changing climate: emergent influences of genomics, modelling and host-microbiome interactions on understanding ecosystem function. 
  • Stability of forest biodiversity. 
  • Stoichiometric patterns in foliar nutrient resorption across multiple scales. 
  • Strategies of a Bornean tropical rainforest water use as a function of rainfall regime: isohydric or anisohydric? 
  • THE USE OF STABLE ISOTOPES IN ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH - 1ST RESULTS OF A FIELD-STUDY WITH N-15 
  • Targeted habitat restoration can reduce extinction rates in fragmented forests. 
  • Techniques for quantifying phytoplankton biodiversity. 
  • Tempo of trophic evolution and its impact on mammalian diversification. 
  • Testing the field of dreams hypothesis: functional responses to urbanization and restoration in stream ecosystems. 
  • Tests of the contribution of acclimation to geographic variation in water loss rates of the West Indian lizard Anolis cristatellus. 
  • The Ascomycota tree of life: a phylum-wide phylogeny clarifies the origin and evolution of fundamental reproductive and ecological traits. 
  • The Global Synanthrome Project: A Call for an Exhaustive Study of Human Associates. 
  • The Narrow Niche hypothesis: gray squirrels shed new light on primate origins. 
  • The Paucity of Frugivores in Madagascar May Not Be Due to Unpredictable Temperatures or Fruit Resources. 
  • The Precision Problem in Conservation and Restoration. 
  • The Southern Ocean biological response to aeolian iron deposition 
  • The adaptive radiation of lichen-forming Teloschistaceae is associated with sunscreening pigments and a bark-to-rock substrate shift. 
  • The challenges of incorporating cultural ecosystem services into environmental assessment. 
  • The constructal law and the evolution of design in nature. 
  • The constructal law of design and evolution in nature. 
  • The contribution of long-term research at Gombe National Park to chimpanzee conservation. 
  • The earliest stages of ecosystem succession in high-elevation (5000 metres above sea level), recently deglaciated soils. 
  • The ecosystem services of animal microbiomes. 
  • The environmental costs of mountaintop mining valley fill operations for aquatic ecosystems of the Central Appalachians. 
  • The environmental price tag on a ton of mountaintop removal coal. 
  • The global atmospheric environment for the next generation. 
  • The global stoichiometry of litter nitrogen mineralization. 
  • The glucosinolate-myrosinase system in an ecological and evolutionary context. 
  • The impact of large terrestrial carnivores on Pleistocene ecosystems 
  • The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States. 
  • The impacts of wind power integration on sub-daily variation in river flows downstream of hydroelectric dams. 
  • The influence of balanced and imbalanced resource supply on biodiversity-functioning relationship across ecosystems. 
  • The likely impact of elevated [CO2], nitrogen deposition, increased temperature and management on carbon sequestration in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems: a literature review. 
  • The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment. 
  • The physiological ecology of the supratidal amphipod Talorchestia longicornis. 
  • The relationship among oceanography, prey fields, and beaked whale foraging habitat in the Tongue of the Ocean. 
  • The restoration potential of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq. 
  • The role of diversification in community assembly of the oaks (Quercus L.) across the continental U.S. 
  • The shrinking ark: patterns of large mammal extinctions in India. 
  • The spatial factor, rather than elevated CO₂, controls the soil bacterial community in a temperate Forest Ecosystem. 
  • The structure of turbulence near a tall forest edge: the backward-facing step flow analogy revisited. 
  • Thermally adaptive tradeoffs in closely related marine bacterial strains. 
  • Thermodynamic constraints on the utility of ecological stoichiometry for explaining global biogeochemical patterns. 
  • Three pillars of sustainability in fisheries. 
  • Toward a trophic theory of species diversity. 
  • Toxicological effects of methylmercury on walleye (Sander vitreus) and perch (Perca flavescens) from lakes of the boreal forest. 
  • Trading water for carbon with biological carbon sequestration. 
  • Trait space of rare plants in a fire-dependent ecosystem. 
  • Transcriptome, genetic editing, and microRNA divergence substantiate sympatric speciation of blind mole rat, Spalax. 
  • Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. 
  • Tree community structure reflects niche segregation of three parapatric squirrel monkey species (Saimiri spp.). 
  • Tree recruitment in an empty forest. 
  • Trophic cascades in rocky shore tide pools: distinguishing lethal and nonlethal effects. 
  • Trophic downgrading of planet Earth. 
  • Understanding biodiversity effects on prey in multi-enemy systems. 
  • Understanding rice adaptation to varying agro-ecosystems: trait interactions and quantitative trait loci. 
  • Unisexual reproduction enhances fungal competitiveness by promoting habitat exploration via hyphal growth and sporulation. 
  • Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children's health across 35 developing countries. 
  • Using ecosystem engineers to restore ecological systems. 
  • Using expert judgment to estimate marine ecosystem vulnerability in the California Current. 
  • Variability in net ecosystem exchange from hourly to inter-annual time scales at adjacent pine and hardwood forests: a wavelet analysis. 
  • Variation in Plant Response to Herbivory Underscored by Functional Traits. 
  • Vegetation pattern shift as a result of rising atmospheric CO2 in arid ecosystems. 
  • Vertebrate herbivory impacts seedling recruitment more than niche partitioning or density-dependent mortality. 
  • Visual acuity in ray-finned fishes correlates with eye size and habitat. 
  • Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems. 
  • Water subsidies from mountains to deserts: their role in sustaining groundwater-fed oases in a sandy landscape. 
  • Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities. 
  • What can decision analysis do for invasive species management? 
  • What we know and don't know about Earth's missing biodiversity. 
  • Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites. 
  • Whole-genome positive selection and habitat-driven evolution in a shallow and a deep-sea urchin. 
  • Why humans build fires shaped the same way. 
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  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Doyle, Martin, Professor in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Division, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Heffernan, James Brendan, Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Ecohydrology, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Hunt, Dana E., Assistant Professor of Microbial Ecology, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Nowacek, Douglas, Randolph K. Repass and Sally-Christine Rodgers University Associate Professor of Conservation Technology in Environment and Engineering, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Pan, William Kuang-Yao, Associate Professor of Global Environmental Health, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Reynolds, James F., Professor Emeritus, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Richter, Daniel D., Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Swenson, Jennifer J., Associate Professor of the Practice of Geospatial Analysis, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Urban, Dean L., Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship