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| EICA HYPOTHESIS | 75 Do introduced plants reduce their allocation to defense? An experimental test with goldenrod (Solidago gigantea). Solidago gigantea, introduced species, invasive species, EICA hypothesis |
| EMAP | 116 Relating estuarine condition with landscape structure in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Estuarine Condition, Landscape Structure, EMAP, Land Use/Land Cover |
| ENSO | Using spatial data to address temporal hypotheses: A quantitative study of amphibian declines in the context of climate and environmental changes. amphibian, conservation, climate, ENSO |
| ENSO | 44 ENSO effects on litter phosphorus dynamics across three edaphic types in wet tropical forests of northeastern Costa Rica. Tropical, Edaphic, Phosphorous, ENSO |
| ESA | Role of Ecological Society of America for global connections of ecological thoughts. ESA, global, ecology, leadership |
| EVAPOTRANSPIRATION | 129 Soil water balance in the arid southwest. SOIL WATER BALANCE, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION |
| EAGLE LAKE | 59 Studies on the habitat profiles of Eagle Lake and Lake Chotard in Warren County, Mississippi. Habitat Profiles , Eagle Lake , Lake Chotard, Mississippi |
| EAST AFRICA | Savanna soils during the first 150 years after village site abandonment. East Africa, savanna ecosystem, soil nitrogen, soil phosphorus |
| ECOLOGICAL MONITORING | 105 Design of monitoring programs: A case study from the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Ecological Monitoring, Water Quality, Chesapeake Bay |
| ECOLOGICAL MODELING | Simulation of soil carbon dioxide efflux in a mature temperate spruce forest from 1975 to 1999. Soil respiration, CO2 efflux, Ecological modeling, Norway spruce at Solling |
| ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT | Ecological risk assessment and extreme events analysis: applications to wildfire management. Ecological risk assessment, Wildfire |
| ECOLOGICAL TRAP | The Botteri Sparrow:An avian habitat specialist colonizing an alien grassland in southeastern Arizona. Botteri sparrow , Sacaton, Boer lovegrass, Ecological trap |
| ECOLOGY-CONSERVATION | Marine parks and management areas:A networking scheme. Marine Parks, Management-Exploitation Areas, Network, Ecology-Conservation |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | 15 The effects of hemlock woolly adelgid infestation on foliar decomposition in eastern hemlock forest of southern New England. Decomposition, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Ecosystem Function, C |
| ECOSYSTEM | The measurement, prediction, and significance of functional similarity. Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Functional group, Experiments |
| ECOSYSTEM MODEL CALIBRATION | 136 Calibration of Biome-BGC for UMBS Forest Site in Northern Michigan. Biome-BGC, Ecosystem model calibration, UMBS AmeriFlux Site |
| ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES | The impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 on the responses of a Florida scrub-oak ecosystem to the 1998 drought. Elevated CO2, Drought, Ecosystem processes, Open-top chambers |
| ECOSYSTEMS | Ecological forecasting: An organizing theme for ecological sciences. Forecasting, CENR, Prediction, Ecosystems |
| ECOTONE | 24 Soil and vegetation changes along savanna-ecotone gradient in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela. Gradient, Ecotone, Fern, Savanna |
| ECOTYPIC VARIABILITY | 50 Variability in stomatal characteristics of C4 grasses native to the Nebraska Sandhills. Ecotypic variability, drought, C4 grasses , Sandhills of Nebraska |
| EDAPHIC | 44 ENSO effects on litter phosphorus dynamics across three edaphic types in wet tropical forests of northeastern Costa Rica. Tropical, Edaphic, Phosphorous, ENSO |
| EDGE STRUCTURE | Edge effects in a forest mosaic: forest structure and composition in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Tropical Cloud Montane Forest, Edge structure, Oak Regeneration |
| EDUCATION | 10 Students as researchers: sea turtle research partnerships in Costa Rica. Dermochelys coriacea, Partnerships, Conservation, Education |
| EDUCATION | Classroom inquiry into the effects of urbanization on bruchid beetles (Family: Bruchidae) in the Sonoran Desert. Education, Bruchidae, herbivory, plant-insect interaction |
| EL NIÑO | Population synchrony in a hydrologically connected landscape: quantifying patterns and identifying processes. synchrony, El Niño, landscape, zooplankton |
| EL NIÑO | 7 Effect of irrigation on tropical forest seedling growth and survivorship during an El Niño-related drought. tropical forest ecology, El Niño, drought tolerance, tree seedlings |
| ELASTICITY | Using logistic regression to analyze sensitivity of PVA models: comparing sensitivity methods using African wild dogs. Modeling, PVA, Elasticity, Lycoan pictus |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Three years of shrub productivity under natural wet and dry cycles at the Nevada Desert FACE Facility. Elevated CO2 , Plant Growth, Mojave Desert, FACE |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 96 The effect of elevated CO2 on Chamise chaparral photosynthesis using FACE technology. Elevated CO2, Photosynthesis, WUE, Chaparral |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 39 Foliage produced under FACE experiments have lower 15N compared to ambient plants.Elevated CO2, Stable isotopes, Nitrogen |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 89 Utilization of amino acids by tree seedlings and its potential influence on growth responses to elevated CO2. Elevated CO2, Amino acids, Mycorrhizae, Trees |
| ELEVATED CO2 | The impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 on the responses of a Florida scrub-oak ecosystem to the 1998 drought. Elevated CO2, Drought, Ecosystem processes, Open-top chambers |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Plant species and functional group diversity influence ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition . Biodiversity, Global Change, Elevated CO2, Nitrogen Deposition |
| ELLENBERG INDICATOR VALUES | Regional patterns in plant species richness. species richness, Ellenberg indicator values, productivity, soil nutrients |
| ELYMUS ELYMOIDES | 63 Evaluating nitrogen immobilization for the restoration of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) infested rangeland. Nitrogen immobilization, restoration, Bromus tectorum, Elymus elymoides |
| ENALLAGMA | Intercontinental phylogeography of an insect radiation and its ecological implications. phylogeography, radiation, Enallagma, speciation |
| ENERGETICS | How climate and vegetation affect animal functional groups . Climate, Energetics, Landscape ecology, Physiology |
| ENERGY FLOW | The Stabilizing Role of Prey Defense in a Pelagic Food Web. Population Stability, Antipredator Defense, Daphnia Vulnerability, Energy Flow |
| ESTUARINE CONDITION | 116 Relating estuarine condition with landscape structure in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Estuarine Condition, Landscape Structure, EMAP, Land Use/Land Cover |
| EURASIAN WATERMILFOIL | The influence of an invasive macrophyte (Myriophyllum spicatum L.) on littoral and pelagic zooplankton community structure. zooplankton, macrophytes, lakes, Eurasian watermilfoil |
| EUROPE | Ecosystem change in the North Atlantic region under greenhouse gas increase and thermohaline circulation collapse. vegetation, DGVM, thermohaline, Europe |
| EUROPE | Scaling nutrient retention in human-dominated landscapes of Europe. riparian, nitrate export, catchment, Europe |
| EVERGLADES | Spatial scaling of Everglades aquatic macroinvertebrates. Everglades, periphyton, invertebrates, spatial autocorrelation |
| EVERGLADES RESTORATION | Investigating tree island community response to increased water flow in a southern Everglades ecosystem . landscape heterogeneity, nutrient economy, water flow, Everglades restoration |
| EVOLUTION | Variation in the vulnerability of woody plants to xylem cavitation: relationships with climate, water transport and taxonomy. Xylem, Cavitation, Climate, Evolution |
| EXPERIMENTS | The measurement, prediction, and significance of functional similarity. Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Functional group, Experiments |
| EXPERT SYSTEMS | GIS, expert knowledge, and fuzzy logic-based approach to soil mapping over areas with moderate relief. GIS, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Soil Mapping |
| EXTENT | Extent and conservation biology . Grain, Extent, biological diversity, conservation |
| EXTRAPOLATION | Integrating imagery and field data to estimate and extrapolate landscape characteristics. Imagery, Classification, Stratification, Extrapolation |
| EXTREME EVENT ANALYSIS | Mathematical and statistical techniques and approaches for extreme event analysis: an overview. Extreme event analysis, statistical ecology, long term ecological studies, modeling |
| EARLY REPRODUCTION | Local reproduction, disturbance, and the maintenance of diversity in species-rich communities. species diversity, species abundance, disturbance, early reproduction |
| EARLY WARNING INDICATORS | 43 Early warning indicators for sudden ecosystem change: monitoring dominant feedbacks in shallow lakes. early warning indicators, shallow lakes, alternate stable states, feedback loop |
| EARTHWORMS | The effect of earthworm invasion on nutrient availability and loss in a northern hardwood forest: A lysimetry study. soilwater, earthworms, nitrogen, phosphorus |
| EARTHWORMS | 40 The impact of land-use practices on native earthworm populations in California grasslands. earthworms, grassland, conservation |
| EARTHWORMS | The influence of invasive earthworms on distribution of soil organic matter depends upon land use history. earthworms, invasions, carbon, nitrogen |
| EAST AFRICAN SAVANNA | 31 Long-term influence of Maasai settlement sites on plant nitrogen and carbon isotopes. pastoralism, nutrient hotspots, dung, east african savanna |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON | Are community structure and susceptibility to invasion related? Analysis of 50-year old permanent plots. community invasibility, permanent plots, eastern Washington, invasive species |
| EASTERN | Searching for a global consensus of ecological thoughts. eastern, western, ecology, philosophy |
| EASTERN DECIDUOUS FOREST | Herb layer response to seasonal soil nitrogen dynamics in managed and mature oak forests of southeastern Ohio. eastern deciduous forest, understory diversity, soil nitrogen dynamics, clearcut harvesting |
| EASTERN DECIDUOUS FOREST | Habitat fragmentation increases Lyme disease risk. biodiversity, habitat fragmentation, disease, eastern deciduous forest |
| EASTERN HARDWOOD FOREST | 67 Effect of coal surface mine revegetation practices on long-term recovery of southeastern hardwood forests. reclamation, succession, eastern hardwood forest |
| EASTERN HEMLOCK | Potential biogeochemical and vegetative consequences of an invasive insect herbivore in Tsuga canadensis stands. nitrate, eastern hemlock, hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae |
| EASTERN PAINTED TURTLE | Age/sex-specific rates of interpond movement of Chrysemys picta picta (eastern painted turtle). interpatch movement, movement patterns, Chrysemys picta picta, eastern painted turtle |
| ECHINOIDS | Inducible morphologies in a variable food environment. echinoids, plasticity, plutei , variance |
| ECOINFORMATICS | 17 A distributed multidisciplinary graduate training seminar: a model for biocomplexity research. biocomplexity, ecoinformatics, grassland, NCEAS |
| ECOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTE | Fifty years of change in forest understory composition. III. Ecological attributes of winners and losers. biodiversity, forest understory, ecological attribute, dispersal |
| ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | 121 Mapping the potential distribution of native plant communities in the Northern Superior Uplands, Minnesota, USA. ecological classification, natural vegetation, presettlement vegetation, vegetation change |
| ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS | Do international gold prices drive the Amazon gold rush? An economic analysis. amazon, small-scale gold mining, social-ecological interactions, ecological economics |
| ECOLOGICAL FORECASTING | Mid-range prediction of coral bleaching: A molecular biomarker approach. ecological forecasting, coral bleaching, ecosystem health assessment, molecular biomarkers |
| ECOLOGICAL GENETICS | 101 Seed bank persistence and ecological genetics in declining populations from a white campion (Silene latifolia) meta population. seed banks, ecological genetics, meta population, extinction |
| ECOLOGICAL GENETICS | Biological invasions as evolutionary processes. phylogeography, biological invasions, ecological genetics, adaptive radiation |
| ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE | Managing alternative stable states: Fire, Longleaf pine, and Oaks in nothern Florida. ecological resilience, ecosystem management, fire, longleaf pine |
| ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY | 9 Variation in elemental composition (N and P) of host plants and consequences for herbivore performance. ecological stoichiometry, life history, plant-insect interactions, nitrogen |
| ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE | Are animal body mass patterns from structurally similar ecosystems similar? textural-discontinuity hypothesis, cross-scale ecology, ecological structure, body mass pattern |
| ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION | Reproductive role of remnant old-growth trees in mature Douglas-fir forests, southern Washington Cascade Range. ecological succession , old-growth, biological legacies, seed source |
| ECOLOGICAL SURROGATE | Cross-taxonomic patterns of biological diversity in riparian ecosystems: implications for conservation. alpha diversity, beta diversity, ecological surrogate, riparian |
| ECOLOGICAL WEED MANAGEMENT | 4 Sensitivity of weed life-stage transitions to soil-incorporated forage legume residues. weed population dynamics, ecological weed management, legume green manures, weed seedbank decline |
| ECOLOGY | 44 Raptor Microcommunity Ecology. raptor, microcommunity, ecology, arthropod |
| ECOLOGY | 93 Denitrification in retention basin soils of an urban ecosystem. denitrification, urban , ecology |
| ECOLOGY | 136 Patterns of fire in Russia derived using remote sensing techniques. fire, avhrr, russia, ecology |
| ECOLOGY | Fostering diversity in ecology: insights from the SEEDS program. minority, undergraduate, students, ecology |
| ECOLOGY | Using the web to teach ecology. ecology, education, motivation, web |
| ECOLOGY | Role of Ecological Society of America for global connections of ecological thoughts. ESA, global, ecology, leadership |
| ECOLOGY | Searching for a global consensus of ecological thoughts. eastern, western, ecology, philosophy |
| ECOLOGY | 13 Weaving ecology into history and literature. humanities , ecology, education |
| ECOLOGY | Ecological philosophy and concepts in old Korean cultural landscapes. ecology, philosophy, Korea, landscape |
| ECOLOGY | Toward a global synthesis of ecological thoughts. global, synthesis, ecology, summation |
| ECOLOGY | Philosophy and practice of ecology in Japan in special regrads to forest restoration. ecology, philosophy, Japan, chin-ju-mori |
| ECOLOGY | Spatial and temporal dynamics of an emerging pathogen in an introduced host: mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches. parasite, ecology, disease |
| ECOLOGY | 70 Distribution and behavior of coho salmon during summer rearing period in a Lake Superior tributary. stream, fish, ecology, coho salmon |
| ECOLOGY EDUCATION | 22 Ecology as part of a web-based introductory biology curriculum. ecology education, active learning, world wide web |
| ECONOMIC DATA | People are the problem: human demographic and economic data sources for ecological research. human demography, human population, census and survey data, economic data |
| ECONOMIC VALUE | Economic value, biodiversity, and sandhill cranes: Platte River birding. biodiversity, economic value, sandhill crane, contingent valuation |
| ECONOMICS | Measuring the real costs and benefits of breaching four dams on the lower Snake River. dams, salmon, economics |
| ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL TRAITS | 20 Applying scaling laws to Psychotria: A test of 19 species in a tropical forest . scaling laws, Psychotria, ecophysiological traits |
| ECOPHYSIOLOGY | Parasitic symbiosis: commonality between microbial, plant and animal symbionts and their impacts on their hosts. parasitism, host-parasite interactions, ecophysiology |
| ECOPHYSIOLOGY | Effect of native fungi on growth, physiology and morphology of an invasive shrub, Ardisia crenata. arbuscular mycorrhizae, invasive plants, ecophysiology, colonization rates |
| ECOPHYSIOLOGY | 66 Source-sink dynamics and physiological variation among invading populations of garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata . source-sink dynamics, invasive species, ecophysiology |
| ECOSYSTEM | Impacts of Army training on plant communities. distubance, ecosystem , management, military |
| ECOSYSTEM | Approaches to modeling soil biota to predict the impacts of global change at the ecosystem level. soil biota, modeling, global change, ecosystem |
| ECOSYSTEM | In search of general principles in regeneration ecology. ecosystem, regeneration, invasion, filter |
| ECOSYSTEM | Functional versus species richness in ecosystem response to global change: can they be disentangled? biodiversity, functional, ecosystem, grassland |
| ECOSYSTEM | Time will tell: Paleoecology and the hidden impacts of variability on ecosystem experiments. paleoecology, ecosystem, lake, experiment |
| ECOSYSTEM | New perspective on the exergy of solar radiation vis-a-vis ecosystems. ecosystem, complexity, thermodynamics, exergy |
| ECOSYSTEM | 45 Effect of single versus continuous nitrogen applications on ecosystem nitrogen losses. nitrogen, ecosystem |
| ECOSYSTEM | 58 Characterizing the aerodynamic properties of open top chambers: Can we measure ecosystem stomatal conductances? aerodynamic, stomatal, conductance, ecosystem |
| ECOSYSTEM | Complexity in terrestrial ecosystems as a consequence of thermodynamics: Experiments on a small-scale system. thermodynamics, complexity, ecosystem, experiment |
| ECOSYSTEM | 99 Use of native and non-native trees in urban landscaping: Consideration of ecosystem services. urban, ecosystem, services, landscaping |
| ECOSYSTEM CARBON EXCHANGE | Diffuse illumination in an eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) stand: Effects on photosynthesis and carbon storage. diffuse illumination, photosynthesis, Tsuga canadesis, ecosystem carbon exchange |
| ECOSYSTEM CHANGE | Housing density change 1940-1990 in the U.S. Midwest. landscape ecology, habitat fragmentation, ecosystem change, urban ecology |
| ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY | Cascading effects of mammalian herbivores on ecosystem dynamics in a coastal dune system. ecosystem ecology, animal-plant interactions, mammalian herbivory, nitrogen mineralization |
| ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY | Transport and transformation of C, N and P in a large river ecosystem. rivers, nutrient cycling, ecosystem ecology |
| ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY | 124 Positionary effects on soil texture, nutrients, and plant productivity in a Nebraska sandhills prairie. ecosystem ecology, nitrogen mineralization rates, plant productivity, soil textures |
| ECOSYSTEM ENGINEER | Controls on plant species richness in beaver meadows - how much do beaver matter? beaver, species richness, hydrology, ecosystem engineer |
| ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING | Functional groupings of ecosystem engineers. ecosystem engineering, functional groups, habitat modification, linking species and ecosystems |
| ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING | Ecosystem engineering at the intertidal: Interaction crabs - halophytic plant facilitates growth of creeks . Salicornia marsh, burrowing, creek formation, ecosystem engineering |
| ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING | 121 Effects of infauna on mobile epibenthic bioturbators: Does sediment modification by clams enhance crab burrowing? bioturbation, burrowing, positive interactions, ecosystem engineering |
| ECOSYSTEM FEEDBACKS | Changes in successional trajectory associated with fire near the range limit of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. contorta). plant migration, fire regime, boreal forest, ecosystem feedbacks |
| ECOSYSTEM FEEDBACKS | Soil carbon loss along a climate and forest type gradient in the Rocky Mountains. soil carbon efflux, climate change, soda-lime method, ecosystem feedbacks |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | Mechanisms maintaining ecosystem function after species loss: Numerical and per capita compensation by stream insects. biodiversity, ecosystem function, leaf processing, stream insects |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | 33 The effects of species richness and legume biomass on nitrogen dynamics in experimental grassland communities. diversity, ecosystem function, nitrogen fixation, Trifolium |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | 93 Shifting phenology in a grassland ecosystem under simulated global change. global change, species effects, phenology, ecosystem function |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | The unique functional role of wiregrass in longleaf pine savannas. Aristida stricta, redundancy, ecosystem function, nitrogen cycling |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | The effects of species composition on canopy interception in a reforested watershed. canopy interception, tropical forests, watershed restoration, ecosystem function |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | 46 Ecosystem function changes following hemlock harvesting in New England . logging, hemlock, nitrogen cycling, ecosystem function |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | The role of plant species in the structure and function of soil microbial communities: An experimental evaluation. soil microbial ecology, plant-microbe interactions, ecosystem function, phospholipid fatty acid analysis (PLFA) |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | Linking biodiversity and spectral reflectance in Southern California vegetation. biodiversity, ecosystem function, remote sensing, spectral reflectance |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | Species richness and system function in experimental saltmarsh microcosms. biodiversity, ecosystem function, tidal wetland, Salicornia virginica |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING | Consequences of diversity loss on ecosystem functioning: Can we extrapolate to landscape scales? biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, scale |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING | Functional group diversity and resistance to disturbance of the nitrogen cycle in the Patagonian steppe. biodiversity, nitrification, nitrogen cycling, ecosystem functioning |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING | Effect of terrestrial subsidies on pond planktonic communities. external subsidies, humic substances, food web dynamics, ecosystem functioning |
| ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING | Complementarity among grassland functional groups. biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, productivity, complementary resource use |
| ECOSYSTEM HEALTH | Presenting pluralism: ecological and social assessments of ecosystem health in south-eastern Australia. ecosystem health, landscape assessment, social values |
| ECOSYSTEM HEALTH ASSESSMENT | Mid-range prediction of coral bleaching: A molecular biomarker approach. ecological forecasting, coral bleaching, ecosystem health assessment, molecular biomarkers |
| ECOSYSTEM INTEGRITY | 150 Controls of plant species diversity in a desert riparian ecosystem. riparian, groundwater decline, species diversity, ecosystem integrity |
| ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT | Managing alternative stable states: Fire, Longleaf pine, and Oaks in nothern Florida. ecological resilience, ecosystem management, fire, longleaf pine |
| ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT | Ecosystem science and ecosystem management: A disparity. ecosystem modeling, ecosystem management |
| ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT | 135 An Ecological Approach to Siberian River Conservation and Sustainable Development . mountain headwaters, ecosystem management, indigenous ecological knowledge, sustainable development |
| ECOSYSTEM MODEL | An ecosystem network model for human ecological interactions. network, ecosystem model, human ecology, homo sapiens |
| ECOSYSTEM MODEL | Sources of system complexity in the Lake Lanier ecosystem, GA, USA. complex system, mental model, reservoir, ecosystem model |
| ECOSYSTEM MODELING | Ecosystem science and ecosystem management: A disparity. ecosystem modeling, ecosystem management |
| ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES | Spatial and biological aspects of reserve design. Spatially-explicit model, reserve design, ecosystem processes, ecosystem services |
| ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES | Are effects of species mixtures on ecosystems predictable based on effects of the component species? species effects, species mixtures, ecosystem processes, nitrogen |
| ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES | Biodiversity, idiosyncrasy, and the function of marine ecosystems. biodiversity, functional groups, marine ecology, ecosystem processes |
| ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES | The Effect of increasing functional redundancy on cellulose degradation. biodiversity, functiona redundancy, ecosystem processes, bacteria |
| ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY | Relative controls of resource availability and species diversity on ecosystem productivity: local vs. regional processes. species diversity, overyielding, ecosystem productivity, resource availability |
| ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES | The role of plant functional traits in sustaining community and ecosystem properties. functional traits , ecosystem properties, diversity |
| ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION | 90 The role of temperature in controlling CO2 uptake dynamics in a high-elevation subalpine forest. subalpine forest, canopy photosynthesis, net ecosystem exchange, ecosystem respiration |
| ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE | 98 Latitudinal variability of litter fall and decay in pine forest ecosystems: transect studies along 52N parallel . ecosystem response to climate change, organic matter accumulation, pine ecosystem, litterfall/decomposition budget |
| ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION | What's the big deal about small dams: Societal perspectives on dam removal. dam removal, river restoration, fisheries restoration, ecosystem restoration |
| ECOSYSTEM SERVICE | 109 Invasion resistance against an exotic thistle provided by natural enemies of a native thistle. ecosystem service, biotic resistance, insect herbivory, Cirsium |
| ECOSYSTEM SERVICES | Spatial and biological aspects of reserve design. Spatially-explicit model, reserve design, ecosystem processes, ecosystem services |
| ECOSYSTEM SERVICES | Consequences of diversity loss on ecosystem functioning: Can we extrapolate to landscape scales? biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, scale |
| ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION | Temporary connections make "isolated" wetlands function at the landscape scale: consequences for wetland conservation policy. ecosystem structure and function, landscape connectivity, isolated wetlands |
| ECOSYSTEMS | Viewing ecological systems as black box thermodynamic systems:The importance of the exergy viewpoint. ecosystems, complexity, thermodynamics, exergy |
| ECOSYSTEMS | Evaluation of landscapes for ecological quality. landscape, criteria, GIS, ecosystems |
| ECOSYSTEMS | Ecosystem thermodynamics:Testing complexity with small-scale vegetation models. thermodynamics, ecosystems, wind-speed, stress |
| ECOTONE | 92 New remote sensing procedures for vegetation cover sampling, estimation, spatial extrapolation, and change analysis. ecotone, spatial resolution, scaling, vegetation cover |
| ECOTONE | 128 The high salt marsh: a model for ecotone theory. marsh, ecotone, vegetation, spiders |
| ECOTOXICOLOGY | 7 A laboratory exercise using a standardized soil ecotoxicological test. ecotoxicology, Eisenia fetida, soil pollution, LC50 |
| ECOTYPE | 153 Variation in heat-shock proteins and thermotolerance among populations of Chenopodium album from contrasting thermal environments. heat-shock-proteins, thermotolerance, ecotype, climate |
| ECOTYPE SPECIALIZATION | 140 Ecotypic differences in response to resource availability and photoperiod signals. ecotype specialization, photoperiod, phenotypic plasticity, environmental predictability |
| ECOTYPE SPECIALIZATION | 124 Ecotypic differences and plasticity of developmental hierarchies in a Mediterranean annual. developmental hierarchies, phenotypic plasticity, ecotype specialization, environmental changes |
| ECOTYPIC DIFFERENCES | 148 Ecotype specialization and phenotypic plasticity in response to resource availability and variable developmental time. developmental plasticity, ecotypic differences, resource allocation, architecture |
| ECTOMYCORRHIZA | Pinus edulis stand stress impacts ectomycorrhizal colonization and community structure: Implications for global climate change. ectomycorrhiza, mortality, stress, community structure |
| ECTOMYCORRHIZAE | 68 Edaphic and biotic controls of ectomycorrhizal species diversity. ectomycorrhizae, leaf litter, diversity, community |
| ECTOMYCORRHIZAE | The response of mycorrhizal fungi to long-term fertilization of an oak savanna. arbuscular mycorrhizae, ectomycorrhizae, fertilization |
| ECTOMYCORRHIZAE | Mycorrhizal fungal responses to Ponderosa pine restoration. arbuscular mycorrhizae, ectomycorrhizae |
| ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGAL COMMUNITIES | Small-scale spatial variation in nitrogen availability and ectomycorrhizal communities. nitrogen availability, ectomycorrhizal fungal communities, spatial variability, Pinus muricata |
| ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI | Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity in four North American forests and the effect of nitrogen fertilization. ectomycorrhizal fungi, diversity, nitrogen fertilization |
| EDDY CORRELATION | Ecosystem dynamics based on a global network of eddy-correlation flux towers. carbon dioxide, global network, fluxes, eddy correlation |
| EDDY COVARIANCE | Seasonal and interannual variations in ecosystem water and carbon fluxes in Florida scrub oak . eddy covariance, carbon exchange, NEE, Florida scrub oak |
| EDDY COVARIANCE | 91 The impact of extreme climatic events on carbon sequestration of Pinus elliottii: Scaling from leaf to ecosystem. drought, hard freeze, sap flow, eddy covariance |
| EDDY COVARIANCE | 137 Carbon balance in a high-elevation subalpine forest. carbon balance, eddy covariance, subalpine |
| EDDY COVARIANCE | The Importance of drought in the control of water and carbon fluxes in an evergreen oak woodland in southwest Iberian Peninsula. carbon sink, eddy covariance, evergreen oaks, Mediterranean |
| EDDY COVARIANCE | 147 Net exchange of carbon dioxide, water, and energy for a mature uneven-aged pine flatwoods forest. carbon exchange, latent energy , slash pine, eddy covariance |
| EDDY FLUX | 88 Effects of leaf area index and species distribution on ecosystem CO2 and water fluxes. water-use efficiency, carbon sequestration, eddy flux, alpine |
| EDDY-COVARIANCE | Biophysical controls of carbon flows in three successional Douglas-fir stands based upon eddy-covariance measurements. carbon, eddy-covariance, Douglas-fir, WUE |
| EDGE | Biogeographic factors influencing native plant species distribution in riparian areas in an urbanizing Oregon basin. edge, fragmentation, isolation, vegetation |
| EDGE EFFECT | Forest soil changes across forest-clearcut edges in a high-elevation coniferous forest. edge effect, forest soil, clearcut, Sicamous Creek |
| EDGE EFFECTS | Long term edge effects on old forest fragments in Coastal Ecuador. edge effects, palm community, light, undergrowth cover |
| EDGE EFFECTS | 32 An edge effect at the landscape scale: reproductive consequences of commuting by Brown-headed Cowbirds. edge effects, avian bood parasitism, Brown-headed Cowbird, songbird conservation |
| EDGE EFFECTS | Vegetation responses along edge-to-interior gradients within green-tree retention patches in Douglas-fir forests. understory vegetation, edge effects, green-tree retention, late-seral herbs |
| EDGE EFFECTS EXTENT | 93 Using Landsat TM imagery to identify edge effects extent in a Mexican conifer forest. semivariance, edge effects extent, remote sensing, landscape heterogeneity |
| EDGE INFLUENCE | The structure of fire and clearcut edges in black spruce boreal forest. edge influence, forest structure, fire boundaries, clearcut edges |
| EDGE-EFFECTS | Landscape effects on patch connectivity, movement patterns, and edge-effects in a prairie planthopper. Prokelisia crocea, Spartina pectinata, edge-effects, connectivity |
| EDGES | Predator activity and grassland bird nest depredation: making the connection. grassland, bird, predator, edges |
| EDUCATION | Interdisciplinary teaching of ecological concepts in a General Studies curriculum. education, undergraduate, teaching |
| EDUCATION | 12 Integrating the study of photosynthesis across multiple scales in the biology majors curriculum. photosynthesis, education, curriculum |
| EDUCATION | Ecology curriculum reform: Integrating innovative teaching and global change technology. education, innovative, undergraduate, reform |
| EDUCATION | 19 Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE): A web site and CD-ROM for undergraduate ecological education. education, experiments to teach ecology, issues to teach ecology, digital library |
| EDUCATION | 20 Collaboration Through Appalachian Watershed Studies. education, watersheds, collaboration, appalachians |
| EDUCATION | Using the web to teach ecology. ecology, education, motivation, web |
| EDUCATION | 8 Teaching a sophomore Ecology course in three weeks using a context-based assignment. education, context-based |
| EDUCATION | Garden mosaics: An urban agroecology education-research partnership. urban, education, agroecology |
| EDUCATION | 23 Quantitative Environmental Learning Project. education, interdisciplinary, mathematics, environment |
| EDUCATION | 13 Weaving ecology into history and literature. humanities , ecology, education |
| EDUCATION | 15 Course development in the natural sciences: A novel approach to teacher training for graduate students. education, teacher training |
| EDUCATION | 11 Long-term perspectives on environmental variability: An introductory laboratory exercise in wetland paleoecology. paleoecology, education |
| EDUCATION | Workshops in university science education. education, workshop development |
| EDUCATION | 5 In the service of sustainability: incorporating service-learning into college-level environmental studies. service-learning, sustainable cities, education, environmental studies |
| EDUCATIONAL WEBSITE | Using focus groups to design an educational website for agricultural professionals. sustainable agriculture, educational website, focus group research, professional development program |
| EELGRASS | The effects of an invasive eelgrass, Zostera japonica, on species interactions in a Washington estuary: an experimental manipulation of native and invasive vegetation. Zostera japonica, Zostera marina, invasions, eelgrass |
| EFFICIENCY | Efficiency and risk aversion in nature: avoiding chaos. chaos, population, efficiency, risk |
| EGG BANK | Time capsules: dormant eggs that carry histories of grazer-algal interactions in lakes . egg bank, environmental change, paleoecology, zooplankton |
| EGG BANK | Effects of environmental variation and predation on cyst bank dynamics in an endangered crustacean. dormancy, egg predation, egg bank, environmental variation |
| EGG PREDATION | Effects of environmental variation and predation on cyst bank dynamics in an endangered crustacean. dormancy, egg predation, egg bank, environmental variation |
| ELASTICITY | Tradeoffs in avian life history traits and consequences for population growth. birds, life history traits, population dynamics, elasticity |
| ELASTICITY ANALYSIS | Resource and propagule limitation in invasion of tropical rain forest by an exotic shrub. plant demography, elasticity analysis, invasive species, matrix model |
| ELASTICITY ANALYSIS | 13 Declines in diamondbacks: Terrapin population modeling and implications for management. matrix modeling, elasticity analysis, turtle, Diamondback terrapin |
| ELASTICITY ANALYSIS | 52 Little demographic effect of an extended flowering season for a Mediterranean perennial herb. periodic matrix models, elasticity analysis, variance decomposition analysis, stochastic simulations |
| ELECTRON-TRANSPORT CHAIN | 6 Reduction-oxidation diagrams for teaching about nutrient cycles and electron transport. microbial ecosystem, electron-transport chain, redox potential |
| ELEMENT BUDGETS | Element inputs and outputs across a substrate age gradient in the Hawaiian Islands. element budgets, hawaiian islands, nitrogen, phosphorus |
| ELEMENTARY | Prairie Planting Partnerships: Bringing together undergraduate research projects with third grade investigations. elementary, undergraduate, prairie, restoration |
| ELEPHANTS | Age structure, group size and habitual raiding behavior of elephants raiding crops around Kibale National Park. conservation, crop raiding, elephants, human/wildlife conflict |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Estimating canopy CO2 uptake under elevated and ambient atmospheric CO2 concentrations with scaled sap-flux and 13C.canopy stomatal conductance, net assimilation, elevated CO2 |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 101 Leaf gas exchange responses of 13 grassland species to elevated CO2 and increased N supply. elevated CO2, photosynthesis, acclimation, grassland |
| ELEVATED CO2 | The relationship between NPP and nitrogen cycling in a forest under FACE: 4-Year results. FACE, nitrogen cycling, net primary production, elevated CO2 |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Use of stable isotopes to study the responses of ecosystem respiration in a forest exposed to elevated CO2. respiration, global change, isotopes, elevated CO2 |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Coupling of canopy photosynthesis and nitrogen distribution in a pine forest predicted by a N turnover model. canopy nitrogen, elevated CO2 |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 94 Increased soil respiration under elevated CO2 at the Nevada Desert FACE Facility. soil respiration, FACE, elevated CO2, Mojave |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Response of forest tent caterpillars to trembling aspen exposed to elevated levels of CO2 and O3 . Malacosoma disstria, Populus tremuloides, elevated CO2 , elevated O3 |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 86 The response of nitrate assimilation to elevated CO2 in wheat shoots over a range of photon flux densities. elevated CO2 , gas exchange, wheat, nitrate |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 87 Perturbations to nitrogen cycling in response to elevated CO2 in an intact Mojave desert ecosystem. elevated CO2 , 15N , nitrogen cycling, desert soils |
| ELEVATED CO2 | The effect of pressure, temperature, and wind on ecosystem gas exchange measurements determined using large open top chambers for exposing plants to elevated atmospheric CO2 in Florida scrub oak. elevated CO2 , net ecosystem CO2 exchange, open top chambers, florida scrub oak |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 91 Light and nitrogen use efficiencies for temperate hardwood stands exposed to elevated CO2 and O3. elevated CO2 , elevated O3 , resource use efficiency, free air carbon dioxide enrichment |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Effects of elevated CO2 on transpiration in Quercus myrtifolia measured in situ in a Florida scrub-oak ecosystem. elevated CO2, transpiration, sap-flow , self-shading |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Impacts of environmental variation on photosynthetic enhancement in a forest exposed to atmospheric CO2 enrichment. Liquidambar styraciflua, photosynthesis, elevated CO2, vapor pressure deficit |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Respiratory quotient (CO2/O2) declines when Vitis canes are exposed to elevated CO2. respiration , elevated CO2, pep carboxylase, respiratory quotient |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 104 The effect of elevated CO2 on belowground pattern and process in California annual grasslands. root distribution, plant water uptake, elevated CO2, stable isotope |
| ELEVATED CO2 | How will reproduction change in crop and wild species under elevated CO2? elevated CO2, reproductive, review, meta-analysis |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 93 Elevated CO2 does not conserve soil moisture in the Mojave Desert. elevated CO2, Mojave Desert, soil moisture |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 106 Ecosystem carbon flux under elevated CO2 by FACE technique in southern California chaparral. elevated CO2, FACE, carbon flux, chaparral |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 92 Respiratory carbon loss will increase at elevated atmospheric CO2: A meta-analysis. elevated CO2, meta-analysis, plant respiration |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Interactive effects of nitrogen, microclimate and elevated CO2 on tree seedling growth under field conditions. microclimate, elevated CO2, nitrogen, Eucalyptus pauciflora |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Effect of elevated CO2 in the root atmosphere on nitrogenase activity in three actinorhizal plants. actinorhizal plants, Alnus, elevated CO2, nitrogenase activity |
| ELEVATED CO2 | CO2 enrichment increases net primary productivity but not biomass increment in a closed-canopy forest stand. elevated CO2, Liquidambar styraciflua, net primary productivity, fine root production |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 100 Interactive effects of plant age and elevated CO2 partial pressures on reproductive allocation in a developmentally-determinate plant. development, elevated CO2, reproductive allocation, Xanthium strumarium |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 88 Growth, nitrogen uptake and allocation responses of six temperate tree species to elevated CO2 . elevated CO2, N uptake and allocation, broad leaf species, conifers |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Interacting global changes influence diversity and species composition in a California annual grassland . global change, species diversity, annual grassland, elevated CO2 |
| ELEVATED CO2 | 26 Dynamic simulation of litter decomposition. decomposition, forest litter, simulation model, elevated CO2 |
| ELEVATED CO2 | A calibration of three methods for measuring leaf area index in a scrub-oak ecosystem growing in elevated CO2. leaf area index, elevated CO2, scrub-oak |
| ELEVATED O3 | Response of forest tent caterpillars to trembling aspen exposed to elevated levels of CO2 and O3 . Malacosoma disstria, Populus tremuloides, elevated CO2 , elevated O3 |
| ELEVATED O3 | 91 Light and nitrogen use efficiencies for temperate hardwood stands exposed to elevated CO2 and O3. elevated CO2 , elevated O3 , resource use efficiency, free air carbon dioxide enrichment |
| ELEVATED | Effects of whole-ecosystem atmospheric CO2 concentration manipulation on arthropod population dynamics in southern California chaparral. arthropods, elevated, CO2, chaparral |
| ELEVATED CARBON DIOXIDE | 102 Canopy and biomass responses of native undisturbed Mojave Desert shrubs to multiple years of exposure to elevated CO2 using FACE technology. desert shrubs, elevated carbon dioxide, face, allometry |
| ELEVATED CARBON DIOXIDE | 105 Web-FACE: A 35 m tall natural deciduous forest under CO2-enrichment. elevated carbon dioxide, forest, global change, free-air CO2 enrichment |
| ELEVATED CARBON DIOXIDE | 90 Does a decrease in transpiration mediate N deprivation in trees exposed to elevated CO2? elevated carbon dioxide, cottonwood, transpiration, nitrogen |
| ELEVATED CARBON DIOXIDE | Interaction of rainfall and elevated CO2 on population and growth dynamics of native Mojave Desert winter annuals and an exotic annual grass. winter annuals, Mojave Desert, elevated carbon dioxide, exotic annual |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Elevated CO2 increases net ecosystem CO2 uptake in a Florida scrub-oak ecosystem . elevated co2, net ecosystem co2 exchange, open-top chambers, fire |
| ELEVATED CO2 | Effect of Free Air CO2 Enrichment on photosynthesis in Mojave Desert shrubs: Results from three years with differing precipitation regimes. daily photosynthesis, elevated co2, stomatal conductance, desert |
| ELEVATION | Spatial dynamics of dogwood anthracnose in the eastern United States. Cornus florida, kriging, elevation |
| ELEVATION | Shifts in competitive ability and flight performance of hummingbirds along an elevational gradient. hummingbird, flight, elevation, competition |
| ELEVATION | 23 Soil CO2 efflux along a diverse temperature and moisture gradient in Olympic National Park, Washington. soil respiration, pseudotsuga menziesii, elevation, aspect |
| EMBOLISM | 46 Variability in resistance to drought stress-induced cavitation in Juniperus (Cupressaceae). Juniperus, cavitation, embolism |
| EMBOLISM | Water Relations of a Liana Infected by a Xylem-Limited Bacterium and Concurrently Drought Stressed. xylem-limited plant pathogen, drought, embolism, water relations |
| EMBOLISM | 55 The effect of freeze-thaw cycles on conifers with large-diameter tracheids. freezing, embolism, conifer, root |
| EMERGENCE DATE | 74 The effects of emergence date on the performance in the grasshopper Sphenarium purpurascens (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae) in Central Mexico . Life history, emergence date, Sphenarium purpurascens, Orthoptera |
| EMERGENT PREDATOR EFFECTS | Interactive effects of intraguild predation and habitat complexity: Implications for top-down suppression of a salt marsh herbivore. predator-predator interaction, habitat mediated effects, higher-order interaction, emergent predator effects |
| EMERGENT VEGETATION | 51 Using light induced fluorescence for assessing the health of emergent marsh vegetation. light induced flourescence, salt marsh, emergent vegetation, plant physiology |
| EMISSIONS | The importance of agricultural nitrogen emissions to western nitrogen deposition. agriculture, emissions, nitrogen, livestock |
| EMISSIONS | 108 Emissions sources and patterns of carbon dioxide levels across a metropolitan region. carbon dioxide, urbanization, land use, emissions |
| EMPIRICAL SPATIAL LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Components of ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) population dynamics vary with position in the tidal network. network geometry, Geukensia demissa, empirical spatial landscape ecology, benthic marine invertebrate |
| ENCLOSED ECOSYSTEMS | Elevated CO2 growth conditions suppress isoprene emissions from cottonwood trees (Populus deltoides) grown in an enclosed ecosystem. isoprene, carbon dioxide, Populus deltoides, enclosed ecosystems |
| ENDANGERED | Viability analysis of a restored Illinois population of the federal threatened Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri). Cirsium pitcheri, endangered, viability, restored |
| ENDANGERED COASTAL PRAIRIE | Effects of herbivory and resources on Chinese tallow (Sapium sebiferum) invasion of native coastal prairie. alien tree invasions, endangered coastal prairie, herbivory tolerance, plant competition |
| ENDANGERED PLANTS | The role of soil disturbances in the persistence of two endangered plants, central coastal California. endangered plants, soil disturbance, exotic plants |
| ENDANGERED SPECIES | Early stages of community assembly: a field experiment with vernal pool plants. community assembly, vernal pools, endangered species, restoration ecology |
| ENDANGERED SPECIES | Predicting the vulnerability of endangered vertebrate species to fire ant impacts using landscape level predictors. fire ant, endangered species, GIS , spatial modeling |
| ENDANGERED SPECIES | Conservation of species diversity on the urban fringe: is it hopeless? plant conservation, endangered species |
| ENDANGERED SPECIES | 121 The metapopulation genetics of Polygonella basiramia, a federally endangered plant endemic to the Florida scrub. endangered species, Florida scrub, metapopulation genetics, Polygonella basiramia |
| ENDANGERED SPECIES | Spatiotemporal dynamics of endangered species hotspots in the United States. endangered species, hotspots, spatiotemporal dynamics, conservation |
| ENDANGERED SPECIES | Invasive species impacts on threatened and endangered salmonids in the Columbia River Basin. invasive species, endangered species, salmon |
| ENDANGERED SPECIES HABITAT | 138 Vegetation monitoring of endangered species habitat: Coastal sage scrub. coastal sage scrub, endangered species habitat, vegetation monitoring, gnatcatcher |
| ENDOGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS EFFECTS | Spatio-temporal patterns in population dynamics of the southern pine beetle. spatial synchrony, endogenous and exogenous effects, regional patterns, scale |
| ENDOPHYTE | Infection by the systemic fungus Epichloë glyceriae alters clonal growth of its host Glyceria striata. clonal growth, symbiosis, endophyte, grass |
| ENDOPHYTE | Herbivore pressure and endophyte infection frequency in tall fescue. endophyte, tall fescue, herbivory, infection rate |
| ENDOPHYTE | Nitrogen surplus in Douglas-fir forests: Consequences for susceptibility to an endemic foliar fungus. excess nitrogen, endophyte, Douglas-fir, foliar free amino acids |
| ENDOPHYTES | 108 Morphological variation in populations of Festuca arundinacea in England. endophytes, grasslands, plasticity, tall fescue |
| ENDOPHYTES | Performance of an insect predator while attacking external and internal stages of an endophytic herbivore. Thanasimus dubius, Ips pini, predation, endophytes |
| ENDOPHYTES | Effects of endophyte genotype on Arizona fescue performance. Neotyphodium, endophytes, mutualism |
| ENDOTHERM AND ECTOTHERM | Oxygen and carbon isotope compositions in desert endotherms and ectotherms: Effects of diet, physiology, and climate. isotopic signature, body water turnover, endotherm and ectotherm, c3 and c4 |
| ENERGY | 97 Long-term energy flows in peatlands and their responses to heat and water loading. mesocosm, climate, energy, peatlands |
| ENERGY BALANCE | Topographically modulated water and energy balance and the spatial distribution of plants at a multi-watershed scale. water balance, energy balance, climate modeling, vegetation direct gradient analysis |
| ENERGY BUDGETS | 30 Effects of chamber activity on estimates of digestive performance of lizards. cost of digestion, energy budgets, physiological ecology, lizards |
| ENRICHED CO2 | 99 The effects of nearground enriched carbon dioxide on photosynthesis in forests with different land use legacies. photosynthesis, enriched CO2, herbaceous species, temperate forest |
| ENSO | 137 Temporal variation of the soil seed bank in an arid thorn scrub community of north-central Chile. seed bank, arid systems, enso, chile |
| ENVIRONMENT | 23 Quantitative Environmental Learning Project. education, interdisciplinary, mathematics, environment |
| ENVIRONMENT | Analytical Tools for Material and Energy Balance, Cash Flow, and Environmental Loads in Crop and Dairy Agriculture. systems modelling, environment, dairy agriculture, material energy/economics |
| ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | Time capsules: dormant eggs that carry histories of grazer-algal interactions in lakes . egg bank, environmental change, paleoecology, zooplankton |
| ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | 129 Altered color morph frequency in a lake littoral population of Asellus aquaticusL. (Isopoda) . environmental change, population, genetic alteration, Asellus aquaticus |
| ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES | 124 Ecotypic differences and plasticity of developmental hierarchies in a Mediterranean annual. developmental hierarchies, phenotypic plasticity, ecotype specialization, environmental changes |
| ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION | 103 Evaluation of a participatory approach to mediate conflicts between livestock and wildlife interests in Colorado. resource management, big game , grazing habitat, environmental conflict resolution |
| ENVIRONMENTAL CUES | 41 Effects of environmental cues on transmission of the estuarine trematode parasite Himasthla rhigedana. parasite, larval transport, environmental cues, infection transmission |
| ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION | 2 The impact of environmental education on rural Costa Rican grade school children: A gender perspective. environmental education, gender issues, conservation, neotropics |
| ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS | 3 Co-mingling Ecology Education and Service-Learning; An Assessment of Student Recycling Ethics. environmental ethics, service learning, campus ecology, recycling |
| ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT | From continua to patches: A new approach to examine environmental gradients. environmental gradient, pattern, multivariate approach, community structure |
| ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS | 130 A cross-site comparative study of physical correlates with community transition. landscape scale, multivariate analysis, environmental gradients |
| ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH | Linking human and environmental health to teach ecology. human health, environmental health |
| ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY | Temporal environmental heterogeneity and community structure: a microcosm study with vascular plants. environmental heterogeneity, resource fluctuations, species richness, positive interactions |
| ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY | Testing hypotheses in spatio-temporal plant competition using measures of interaction strength. intensity of competition, storage effect, spatio-temporal variation, environmental heterogeneity |
| ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY | The effects of density dependent dispersal on population dynamics in experimental microcoms. density dependent dispersal, microcosm, environmental heterogeneity, population dynamics |
| ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY VS. DISPERSAL | Modeling of spatial dependence in heterogeneous landscapes. spatial autocorrelation in plant communities, environmental heterogeneity vs. dispersal, trend vs. autocorrelation vs. cross-correlation, variance test of species richness |
| ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING | 22 Effects of land use type and disturbance on decomposition in North Carolina. decomposition, indicators, environmental monitoring, disturbance |
| ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE | Red fruit blues: Phenological noise spectra and their consequences for frugivore life histories. population dynamics, extinction risk, environmental noise, phenology |
| ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY | Nitrogen emissions and deposition in the U.S.: Current policy and future prospects. environmental policy, nitrogen emissions, nitrogen deposition, Clean Air Act Amendments |
| ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTABILITY | 140 Ecotypic differences in response to resource availability and photoperiod signals. ecotype specialization, photoperiod, phenotypic plasticity, environmental predictability |
| ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS | The Ecological Structure of Economic Systems. production economics, input-output representations, environmental regulations, sustainable economies |
| ENVIRONMENTAL STOCHASTICITY | Dampening environmental stochasticity among immigrant plants: The role of cultivation. invasions, naturalization, environmental stochasticity, cultivation |
| ENVIRONMENTAL STOCHASTICITY | 17 A comparison of approaches to population viability analysis with matrix models: Does stochastic method matter? matrix model, population viability analysis, environmental stochasticity, stochastic model |
| ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS | Environmental stress and plant community invasibility in a coastal grassland in California. coastal grassland, plant competition, invasive species, environmental stress |
| ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | 5 In the service of sustainability: incorporating service-learning into college-level environmental studies. service-learning, sustainable cities, education, environmental studies |
| ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY | Environmental color affects competitive interactions in experimental microcosms. environmental variability, competition, species coexistence |
| ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY | The effect of immigration and environmental variability on competitive interactions. immigration, competition, environmental variability |
| ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES | On the topoclimatic and bottom-up modeling approaches in a rugged mixed-hardwood forest. topoclimatic model, bottum-up approach, soil respiration, environmental variables |
| ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION | 128 Effects of pond drying and changing food level on development of wood frog tadpoles. phenoptypic plasticity, amphibian development, environmental variation, Rana sylvatica |
| ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION | Effects of environmental variation and predation on cyst bank dynamics in an endangered crustacean. dormancy, egg predation, egg bank, environmental variation |
| ENZYME ACTIVITY | Substrate quality, nutrient availability, and enzymatic controls over litter decomposition rates. decomposition, litter quality, enzyme activity, nutrient dynamics |
| EPHEMERAL PONDS | 154 Seed bank study of ephemeral wetland ponds. seed banks, ephemeral ponds |
| EPIDEMIC WAVES | Epidemic waves in the dynamics of measles: wavelets and spatial hierarchies. epidemic waves, wavelets, spatial hierarchies, measles |
| EPIDEMIOLOGY | Good medicine for conservation biology: the intersection of epidemiology and conservation theory. infectious disease, host population, epidemiology |
| EPILITHON | Climate warming-induced changes in the structure and function of benthic communities in a boreal lake. climate, epilithon, boreal, temperature |
| EPILITHON | Ultraviolet radiation and benthic algae and invertebrate communities in montane lakes of Jasper, Canada. ultraviolet radiation, epilithon, invertebrates, food quality |
| EPIPHYTE | Effects of intensive coffee production on epiphytic plants. coffee, epiphyte |
| EPISTEMOLOGY | Evaluation of inquiry-based science courses and an ecology course case study. course evaluation, inquiry, epistemology, course reform |
| EPIZOOTIC | Escalating impacts of marine epizootics and the role of a changing environment : insights from a coral-fungus pathosystem. corals, epizootic, SIR, marine |
| EQUILIBRIUM | When is an island community in stochastic equilibrium? equilibrium, island biogeography, likelihood, species number |
| EQUILIBRIUM VS. NONEQUILIBRIUM COMMUNITIES | Species interactions among grasshoppers in a variable grassland. grasshopper (acrididae)species interactions, competition, equilibrium vs. nonequilibrium communities |
| ERICOIDS | Nitrogen mineralization and phenol accumulation along a fire chronosequence in northern Sweden . ericoids, boreal, allelopathy, charcoal |
| EROSION | 120 Using cesium-137 to understand landscape stability in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. landscape, erosion, stability, biological soil crusts |
| EROSION | Prescribed fire, monsoon rainfall and arbuscular mycorrhizal influences on erosion processes in semi-arid grasslands. prescribed fire, arbuscular mycorrhizae, erosion, semi-arid grasslands |
| EROSION | 44 Disturbance effects on infiltration and erosion susceptibility for biologically crusted soils in the Mojave Desert. biological crusts, infiltration, erosion, desert |
| ESTABLISHMENT | 67 Establishment of a native invasive shrub Prosopis glandulosa on grasslands with contrasting grazing histories. prosopis glandulosa, establishment, survival, soil depth |
| ESTIMATION | Stock analysis for sea turtle populations: Markov Chain Monte Carlo and other methods. markov chain monte carlo, sea turtles, stock analysis, estimation |
| ESTUARINE | Spread of an invasive plant in pacific estuaries: A quantitative analysis of Spartina alterniflora in Willapa Bay, WA. Spartina alterniflora, Pacific, estuarine, invasions |
| ESTUARINE FISHES | Is it safe? Relative foraging effort in estuarine habitats for a coastal freshwater sculpin. foraging costs, predation risk, quitting harvest rates, estuarine fishes |
| ESTUARINE PRODUCTIVITY | Spatial variation in the performance of an introduced oyster in a west coast estuary. benthic-pelagic coupling, estuarine productivity, population demography, Crassostrea gigas |
| ESTUARY | Ecological effects of the hurricanes of 1999: Spatial and temporal responses of the Pamlico Sound fish community. fish, hurricane, Pamlico Sound, estuary |
| ESTUARY | Responses of juvenile southern flounder to environmental variability in estuarine ecosystems. flounder, habitat, hypoxia, estuary |
| ESTUARY | Multiscale experiments in estuarine research: Improving realism and advancing theory. scale, mesocosm, extrapolation, estuary |
| ESTUARY | The fate of nitrogen inputs to coastal lagoons of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. nitrogen, estuary, coastal, 15N |
| ESTUARY | 111 A survey for exotic vegetation in the estuarine waters along the Gulf of Mexico coast from Suwannee Sound, Florida to Horn Island, Mississippi Sound. Gulf of Mexico, estuary, exotic species, survey |
| ETHIC | Toward an international conservation ethic: lessons from the cranes of Asia. international, conservation, ethic, Leopold |
| ETHNOBOTANY | Silviculture and its impact on four plants with medicinal value in Northwestern Ontario. Aerial application, Cornus stolonifera, ethnobotany, Epilobium angustifolium, medicinal use,, mechanical treatments,Pteridium aquilinum, Rubus, vegetation management |
| EUCALYPT WOODLANDS | Relative Influences of Site, Landscape Context and Historical Factors on Birds in a Fragmented Landscape. habitat fragmentation, birds, Australia, eucalypt woodlands |
| EUTROPHICATION | Lake eutrophication along the urban fringe. eutrophication, phosphorus, urban, lake |
| EUTROPHICATION | 60 Dissolved organic carbon, algae, light, and lake thermal structure: Whole-lake experiments and a comparative study show how nutrient and DOC inputs affect lake thermal structure. thermocline, dissolved organic carbon, eutrophication |
| EUTROPHICATION | 9 Impacts of human-mediated stressors on wetland plant community development. wetland plant community development, disturbance, sedimentation, eutrophication |
| EUTROPHICATION | Management issues and the integration of aquatic and terrestrial biogeochemistry: Challenges, opportunities and dangers for ecologists. biogeochemistry, nitrogen, eutrophication, wetland |
| EUTROPHICATION | Modeling interactions between dissolved organic carbon, phosphorus, and chlorophyll in North Temperate lakes. eutrophication, nutrients, carbon, model |
| EVAPOTRANSPIRATION | Short-term prediction of transpiration from managed forests in northern Wisconsin. evapotranspiration, managed forests, simulation, predictive uncertainty |
| EVAPOTRANSPIRATION | Middle Rio Grande riparian evapotranspiration, water balance, and restoration in space and time. Tamarix ramosissima, Populus deltoides ssp wislizenii, evapotranspiration, flood pulse |
| EVERGLADES | Short-term changes in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem receiving experimental phosphorus enrichment. phosphorus, wetland, everglades, biogeochemistry |
| EVERGREEN OAKS | The Importance of drought in the control of water and carbon fluxes in an evergreen oak woodland in southwest Iberian Peninsula. carbon sink, eddy covariance, evergreen oaks, Mediterranean |
| EVOLUTION | Experimental evolution of a bacterial mutualism. mutualism, evolution, microbial ecology |
| EVOLUTION | The evolution of mutualism between plants and their belowground symbionts. mutualism, symbionts, modeling, evolution |
| EVOLUTION | 38 Countergradient variation in largemouth bass: latitudinal differences in foraging behavior. Countergradient variation, fish, foraging, evolution |
| EVOLUTION | Pesticide resistance--Getting off the treadmill . landscape diversity, arthropod resistance, evolution |
| EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY | Inbreeding and nitrogen-use-efficiency in plants: linking evolutionary genetics to ecological processes. nitrogen-use-efficiency, inbreeding depression, habitat fragmentation, evolutionary ecology |
| EVOLUTIONARY STABLE STRATEGY | Energy storage and the evolution of population dynamics. dynamic energy budget, evolutionary stable strategy, population dynamics, rotifer |
| EXCESS NITROGEN | Nitrogen surplus in Douglas-fir forests: Consequences for susceptibility to an endemic foliar fungus. excess nitrogen, endophyte, Douglas-fir, foliar free amino acids |
| EXCLOSURES | 32 Response of butterfly assemblages to ungulate herbivory along an elevation gradient. butterflies, ungulate browsing, exclosures, species richness |
| EXCRETION | Nutrient cycling by omnivorous fish in reservoirs of varying productivity. nutrient regeneration, excretion, Dorosoma cepedianum, productivity gradient |
| EXERGY | New perspective on the exergy of solar radiation vis-a-vis ecosystems. ecosystem, complexity, thermodynamics, exergy |
| EXERGY | Viewing ecological systems as black box thermodynamic systems:The importance of the exergy viewpoint. ecosystems, complexity, thermodynamics, exergy |
| EXOTIC | Riparian vegetation along a rural-urban gradient. urban, riparian, exotic, flooding |
| EXOTIC | 72 Impacts of transportation corridors on invasive species of fish and wildlife in West Virginia. exotic, invasives, wildlife, transportation |
| EXOTIC | Predicting patterns of community invasion and potential changes in forest succession by a non-indigenous shrub, Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii). Lonicera maackii, non-indigenous, invasive, exotic |
| EXOTIC | Impact of soil communities on native and exotic plants in southern California. exotic, invasion, AM fungi, soil community |
| EXOTIC | 39 Effects of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) on foraging efficiency of mottled sculpins (Cottus bairdi). invasive, exotic, community, Lake Champlain |
| EXOTIC ANNUAL | Interaction of rainfall and elevated CO2 on population and growth dynamics of native Mojave Desert winter annuals and an exotic annual grass. winter annuals, Mojave Desert, elevated carbon dioxide, exotic annual |
| EXOTIC DISEASE | Indirect effects of forest disease on herbaceous plant diversity. herb diversity, exotic disease, Fagus grandifolia, Northern hardwood forest |
| EXOTIC EARTHWORMS | 41 Isotopic analysis of native and exotic earthworm feeding ecology in a Kansas tallgrass prairie . nearctic earthworms, exotic earthworms, grasslands, carbon 13 |
| EXOTIC GRASSES | Strong competitive effects of exotic perennial grasses on California native grasses are unaffected by N fertilization in a greenhouse experiment. invasion, plant competition, nutrients, exotic grasses |
| EXOTIC PLANT INVASION | Differential invasion of the exotic Chinese tallow tree among forests in coastal South Carolina. exotic plant invasion, demography |
| EXOTIC PLANTS | The role of soil disturbances in the persistence of two endangered plants, central coastal California. endangered plants, soil disturbance, exotic plants |
| EXOTIC SPECIES | 73 Estimating dispersal from patterns of spread: Spatial and local control of invasion by Daphnia lumholtzi in Missouri lakes. species invasions, dispersal, exotic species, dispersal kernal |
| EXOTIC SPECIES | Intralake spread of rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) in northern Wisconsin: Another case of accelerated replacement by a third party? rusty crayfish, exotic species, selective predation, species replacement |
| EXOTIC SPECIES | Recovery from a triple disturbance: agriculture, hurricane and exotics in a Caribbean ant community. ant diversity, exotic species, hurricane, community recovery |
| EXOTIC SPECIES | 111 A survey for exotic vegetation in the estuarine waters along the Gulf of Mexico coast from Suwannee Sound, Florida to Horn Island, Mississippi Sound. Gulf of Mexico, estuary, exotic species, survey |
| EXOTIC SPECIES | Progress in invasion biology: understanding the occurrence and impact of nonindigenous species. nonindigenous species, exotic species, prevention, risk assessment |
| EXOTIC SPECIES | Native submersed aquatic plant community dynamics associated with the establishment of an exotic species. Myriophyllum spicatum, macrophyte, community structure, exotic species |
| EXOTIC SPECIES CONTROL | Developing a predictive framework for the restoration of Midwestern prairie-savanna plant communities. floristic qualitic index, burn timing, exotic species control, native species recruitment |
| EXOTICS | Tamarix response to flooding frequency and depth. exotics, flooding, management, salt cedar |
| EXOTICS | Influence of shading on the growth and photosynthesis of the invasive exotic plant garlic mustard Alliaria petiolata grown under simulated early spring conditions. Alliaria petiolata, exotics, photosynthesis |
| EXPERIENCE | Engaging students in a holistic approach to understanding ecological research: the Institute of Ecosystem Studies' Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. undergraduate, research, experience, students |
| EXPERIMENT | Adaptive foraging under predation hazard: testing optimization theory with stream fish. optimization, fish, predator, experiment |
| EXPERIMENT | Time will tell: Paleoecology and the hidden impacts of variability on ecosystem experiments. paleoecology, ecosystem, lake, experiment |
| EXPERIMENT | Complexity in terrestrial ecosystems as a consequence of thermodynamics: Experiments on a small-scale system. thermodynamics, complexity, ecosystem, experiment |
| EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN | 33 Evaluating a critical assumption of behavioral preference tests: does the number of choices affect results? choice tests, animal behavior, experimental design |
| EXPERIMENTAL ECOSYSTEMS | Partitioning the interactive effects of species assemblage, site, and substrate on cation leaching in a complete factorial experiment using lysimeter mesocosms. cation leaching, experimental ecosystems, abiotic-biotic interaction, plant assemblages |
| EXPERIMENTAL FLOWS | Near-shore vegetation responses to experimental low steady flows on the Colorado River. clonal riparian vegetation, experimental flows, Tamarisk species, Equisetum |
| EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOL | Does human scent bias seed predation studies? seed predation, post-dispersal seed removal, rodents, experimental protocol |
| EXPERIMENTAL RESTORATION | Experimental groundlayer restorations support description of Wisconsin oak savanna as "forb-lands," not "grass-lands.". oak savanna, gradients, forbs, experimental restoration |
| EXPERIMENTS TO TEACH ECOLOGY | 19 Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE): A web site and CD-ROM for undergraduate ecological education. education, experiments to teach ecology, issues to teach ecology, digital library |
| EXPERT SYSTEM | 15 A dynamic model of habitat suitability for map turtles (Graptemys spp.). expert system, Graptemys, modeling, habitat suitability index |
| EXPLOITATIVE COMPETITION | A novel herbivore refuge? exploitative competition, facilitation, indirect commensalism, refuge from parasitism |
| EXPONENTIAL EQUATION | 127 Response of soil respiration to watering treatment in tallgrass prairie. soil respiration, soil moisture, Tallgrass prairie, exponential equation |
| EXPOSURE | 105 Integrating measures of habitat quality into Ecological Risk Assessments: modifying the exposure estimating procedures. habitat, exposure, risk, landscape |
| EXTENT | Distance decay as a measurement of extent's role in community composition turnover. extent, community composition, distance decay, biogeography |
| EXTERNAL SUBSIDIES | Effect of terrestrial subsidies on pond planktonic communities. external subsidies, humic substances, food web dynamics, ecosystem functioning |
| EXTINCTION | The extinction debt revisited: population dynamics in a continuous space model. extinction, fragmentation, dispersal, competition |
| EXTINCTION | 101 Seed bank persistence and ecological genetics in declining populations from a white campion (Silene latifolia) meta population. seed banks, ecological genetics, meta population, extinction |
| EXTINCTION | Reconceptualizing biome: The hows and whys of extinction events. biome, extinction, attractor, global climate change |
| EXTINCTION | A mechanistic model of biodiversity loss. biodiversity, extinction, model, habitat destruction |
| EXTINCTION | Migration and synchrony in metapopulation dynamics. metapopulation dynamics, migration, synchrony, extinction |
| EXTINCTION RATES | The effects of island area and latitude on species extinction rates. extinction rates, island biogeography, range size, latitudinal gradients |
| EXTINCTION RISK | 106 Evaluating population viability with fire in Eryngium cuneifolium: deciphering a decade of demographic data. population viability, fire effects on demography, extinction risk, Florida rosemary scrub |
| EXTINCTION RISK | Red fruit blues: Phenological noise spectra and their consequences for frugivore life histories. population dynamics, extinction risk, environmental noise, phenology |
| EXTINCTION RISK | Reliability of relative predictions in population viability analysis. extinction risk, management decision, population viability analysis, risk assessment |
| EXTINCTION RISK | An experimental test of whether habitat heterogeneity buffers populations against the effect of climate variability. habitat heterogeneity, population dynamics, extinction risk, Drosophila melanogaster |
| EXTINCTION/COLONIZATION | Patterns of extinction and colonization in wild sunflower populations. sunflower, Helianthus annuus, metapopulation, extinction/colonization |
| EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME ACTIVITY | The effects of chronic N deposition on extracellular enzyme activity in an Acer saccharum forest. extracellular enzyme activity , nitrogen deposition, soil ecology, decomposition |
| EXTRACTABLE C | Comparison of N dynamics in soil between dry dipterocarp forest and dry evergreen forest in central Thailand. N dynamics, dry tropical forest, available N , extractable C |
| EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES | Consequences of light environment for the interactions among ants, an ant-tended herbivore, and its host plant. ant-caterpillar mutualism, herbivory, extrafloral nectaries, ants |
| EXTRAPOLATION | Identifying scale-dependent limitations for the extrapolation of experimental results across time and space. scale-dependent, extrapolation, pelagic model, chlorophyll |
| EXTRAPOLATION | Multiscale experiments in estuarine research: Improving realism and advancing theory. scale, mesocosm, extrapolation, estuary |
| EXTREME ENVIRONMENT | Invertebrates in frozen systems: the cryoconite holes of the Antarctic Dry Valleys. cryoconite holes, extreme environment, glaciers, ice |
| EXTREME ENVIRONMENT | CO2 flux from Antarctic Dry Valley soils: Cross valley comparisons and relationship to soil biota. extreme environment, respiration |
| EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS | Organic matter accumulation and turnover in Dry Valley soils of Antarctica. soil organic matter, soil respiration , extreme environments, Antarctic Dry Valleys |
| EXTREME EVENTS | Variability and extreme events in long-term lake and river ice phenology across the northern hemisphere. ice phenology, climate change, extreme events |
| EXUVIAE | 80 Are 'sinkholes' aptly named? Larval odonate ecology and adult species diversity in southeastern New Mexico. odonates, exuviae, larvae, biodiversity |