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| LANDIS | 77 Simulation of the impact of fire on the location and structure of the Prairie-Forest border in Minnesota. prairie-forest border, fire frequency, simulation, LANDIS |
| LANDIS | Forest landscape response to different harvest scenarios under climate warming in two ecoregions in northern Wisconsin, U.S.A. climate warming, spatial model, LANDIS, forest harvesting |
| LC50 | 7 A laboratory exercise using a standardized soil ecotoxicological test. ecotoxicology, Eisenia fetida, soil pollution, LC50 |
| LIFE HISTORY | Central place foraging for eating versus feeding the young: Alternative patch-use by parents. Nectarinia osea, PARENTAL CARE, LIFE HISTORY, PROVISIONING |
| LONG-DISTANCE | Are long-distance dispersal events usually caused by nonstandard means of dispersal? DISPERSAL, MIGRATION, LONG-DISTANCE |
| LTER | 25 Long Term Ecological Research Network K-12 Education Partnership: Students and Teachers Experiencing LTER. K-12 Education, long-term datasets, inquiry-based, LTER |
| LTER | 98 Bird species diversity in the greater Phoenix area, Arizona. urban, community, desert, LTER |
| LTRE ANALYSIS | 49 Timing is everything: a demographic model of Boltonia decurrens in an altered floodplain environment. Boltonia decurrens, Illinois River floodplain, stage-classified seasonal matrix model, LTRE analysis |
| LUPINE | 118 Fire, mangement, and disturbance effects on Karner Blue habitat. LUPINE, KARNER BLUE, FIRE ECOLOGY, RESTORATION ECOLOGY |
| LA BREA TAR PITS | Physiological responses of trees from the Rancho La Brea tar pits throughout glacial/inter-glacial cycles. low carbon dioxide, La Brea tar pits, stable carbon isotopes, Pleistocene |
| LADY BEETLES | Effects of prey diet, temperature and prey abundance on consumption, weight gain and survival of a lady beetle predator. Plant chemicals, Lady beetles, temperature, prey abundance |
| LAKE BAIKAL | Dark and light taiga history since the last glacial around Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal, Taiga, permafrost, since the last galcial |
| LAKE CHAMPLAIN | 39 Effects of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) on foraging efficiency of mottled sculpins (Cottus bairdi). invasive, exotic, community, Lake Champlain |
| LAKE CHOTARD | 59 Studies on the habitat profiles of Eagle Lake and Lake Chotard in Warren County, Mississippi. Habitat Profiles , Eagle Lake , Lake Chotard, Mississippi |
| LAKE MENDOTA | Multiple trophic level responses to a planktivore die-off and sustained piscivore stocking in eutrophic Lake Mendota. Lake Mendota, Piscivore stocking, Trophic cascade |
| LAKE MICHIGAN | Dynamics of the Lake Michigan food web, 1970-2000. Lake Michigan, food web, anthropogenic stressors, dynamics |
| LAKE TANGANYIKA | Food resource partitioning in the littoral food web of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. stable isotopes, food webs, speciation, Lake Tanganyika |
| LAND COVER | Landscape relationships of waterbird colonies on the Virginia Coast Reserve. Colonial Waterbird, Landscape Composition, Island, Land Cover |
| LAND SURFACE FLUXES | 2 Parameter sensitivity of a land surface model using Monte Carlo analysis and eddy-covariance measurements at the WLEF-TV tower site, Wisconsin. Land Surface Model, Parameter Sensitivity, Land Surface Fluxes, Wisconsin |
| LAND SURFACE MODEL | 2 Parameter sensitivity of a land surface model using Monte Carlo analysis and eddy-covariance measurements at the WLEF-TV tower site, Wisconsin. Land Surface Model, Parameter Sensitivity, Land Surface Fluxes, Wisconsin |
| LAND USE CHANGE | 143 The effect of land use change on the belowground carbon stock of the Miombo Woodlands. Soil carbon, Land Use Change |
| LAND USE/LAND COVER | 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 |
| LANDSAT TM | Quantifying landscape pattern index responses using current land cover data: A case study of the managed forest of Ontario. landscape pattern indicies, spatial resolution, Landsat TM, sensitivity analysis |
| LANDSAT | 129 Recent forest cover type transitions and landscape structural changes in northeast Minnesota. Landsat, change detection, forest fragmentation, landscape indices |
| LANDSCAPE | 153 Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus) distribution and habitat selection in the Nicolet National Forest, WI, USA. <Aegolius acadicus>, Landscape , Habitat Selection, Owl survey |
| LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION | Landscape relationships of waterbird colonies on the Virginia Coast Reserve. Colonial Waterbird, Landscape Composition, Island, Land Cover |
| LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE | 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 |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | How climate and vegetation affect animal functional groups . Climate, Energetics, Landscape ecology, Physiology |
| LATITUDINAL GRADIENT | Latitudinal gradients in the morphological diversity of bat communities. Morphological Diversity, Latitudinal Gradient, Bat Community Structure, Diversity Gradient |
| LEOPOLD | Toward an international conservation ethic: lessons from the cranes of Asia. international, conservation, ethic, Leopold |
| LEPIDOPTERA | Effects of timber harvest practices on the biodiversity and community structure of forest Lepidoptera. logging, biodiversity, Lepidoptera, Malacosoma americanum |
| LIANA | Life history diversity of lianas in an eastern Amazonian forest. tropical forest, Brazil, Liana, life history |
| LIFE HISTORY | 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 |
| LIGHT | The effects of a light gradient on seedling establishment in an oak savanna restoration. Restoration, Plants, Savanna, Light |
| LIGHT INTENSITY | Do plants selectively associate with species of ectomycorrhizal fungi that support highest plant growth? Growth of Abies balsamea seedlings, Composition of ectomycorrhizal fungi, Selective associations, Light intensity |
| LIGHT SATURATION | Physiologic response of Carex planostachys (Cyperaceae) along a woodland to intercanopy patch gradient. Carex Planostachys, Juniperus, Water potential, Light saturation |
| LIMITING SIMILARITY | Competition and coexistence between insect parasitoids. Interspecific Competition, Invasion Dynamics, Limiting Similarity, Transients |
| LITTER | Influence of canopy tree types on litter production and soil microbial activities in Wisconsin River floodplain. Floodplain, Litter, Silver maple, Soil microbes |
| LITTER DECOMPOSITION | 53 Nutrient dynamics in litterfall and decomposition leaf litter in a mixed hardwood forest ecosystem, Korea. Litterfall, Litter decomposition, Nutrient cycling, Nutrient dynamics |
| LITTER LAYER | Litter layer nitrogen release in fertilized and unfertilized Pinus taeda L. stands in southeastern Georgia. Nitrogen, Litter layer, Fertilizer, Pinus taeda |
| LITTERFALL | 53 Nutrient dynamics in litterfall and decomposition leaf litter in a mixed hardwood forest ecosystem, Korea. Litterfall, Litter decomposition, Nutrient cycling, Nutrient dynamics |
| LITTLE ICE AGE | Responses of fire and vegetation to Little-Ice-Age climatic change in boreal Alaska. climate change, fire ecology, Little Ice Age, Alaska |
| LOBELIACEAE | Putting the "adaptive" in adaptive radiation: static photosynthetic light responses in Hawaiian lobeliads. adaptive radiation, photosynthetic light response, Lobeliaceae, Hawaii |
| LONG-TERM MONITORING OF FISH COMMUNITIES | Effects of the 1993 flood on fish communities in the Upper Mississippi River: what can be learned from long-term monitoring? 1993 Flood, Upper Misssissippi River System, Long-Term Monitoring of Fish Communities, Flood Pulse Concept |
| LONG-TERM DATA | Importance of long-term data sets for managing and sustaining Park areas. Long-term data, Hubbard Brook, Management |
| LOS TUXTLAS | Ontogenetic development of sun and shade leaves in tropical tree species. leaf mass per area, ontogeny, tropical trees, Los Tuxtlas |
| LOUISIANA IRIS | Subtlety will get you everywhere: differential response of Louisiana Iris hybrids to flooding, shade and drought. Louisiana Iris, hybridization, hybrid novelty, physiological tolerance |
| LOUISIANA | Effects of hydroperiod on seedling banks within a coastal plain bottomland forest in Southeastern Louisiana. seedling banks, bottomland hardwood forest, hydroperiod, Louisiana |
| LYMANTRIIDAE | 14 Fates of ingested terpenes in generalist and specialist Lymantriidae (Lepidoptera). physiological ecology, Lymantriidae, terpenes |
| LYME DISEASE | The dilution effect in disease ecology: the search for host X. Lyme disease, tick population, dilution effect, pathogen |
| LYME DISEASE | Ecological context determines prevalence of the Lyme Disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi. disease ecology, Lyme disease, white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus |
| LAKE | Lake eutrophication along the urban fringe. eutrophication, phosphorus, urban, lake |
| LAKE | Predicting the stable isotope signature of dissolved inorganic carbon in lakes. carbon, stable isotope, dissolved inorganic carbon, lake |
| LAKE | Connecting aquatic food webs to organic C from the watershed: Do maple leaves feed fish? lake, carbon, stable isotope, food web |
| LAKE | Time will tell: Paleoecology and the hidden impacts of variability on ecosystem experiments. paleoecology, ecosystem, lake, experiment |
| LAKE | The impact of lakes and small dams on benthic invertebrate distribution in streams. benthic invertebrate, stream, lake, dam |
| LAKE | Fecal Coliforms: Where do they come from and where do they go? bacteria, quality, antibiotic, lake |
| LAKE | 114 Effects of predator switching behavior on the stability of zooplankton communities. predation, zooplankton, lake, community |
| LAKE | 66 Spatial patterns in the nutrient status of Wisconsin lakes: interactions between landscape position and catchment disturbance. lake, nutrients, landuse, landscape position |
| LAKE | 62 Landscape organization of geomorphic features and plankton ecology in sockeye salmon nursery lakes. lake, landscape position, nutrient limitation, plankton |
| LAKE ERIE | Weathering the storm: synergistic effects of storms, angling, and predators on smallmouth bass nest success. micropterus dolomieui, round goby, lake erie, nest predation |
| LAKE FOODWEBS | Effects of the exotic macrophyte, Myriophyllum spicatum, on littoral and pelagic zone foodwebs: results from whole-lake macrophyte manipulations. macrophytes, myriophyllum spicatum, lake foodwebs |
| LAKE MANAGEMENT | Using subfossil Chironomidae (Diptera) to determine past and present lake conditions in the Northern Niagara Escarpment Region, Ontario, Canada. subfossil chironomids, paleolimnology, shallow lakes, lake management |
| LAKE METABOLISM | Water color affects lake stable carbon isotope but not the food source for yellow perch. stable isotope, perca flavescens, water color, lake metabolism |
| LAKE-LEVEL CHANGE | Holocene lake-level changes and their relationship to vegetational change at two sites in the Midwest. lake-level change, paleoecology, vegetation response, climatic variability |
| LAKES | Large-scale mapping and predictive modeling of submerged aquatic vegetation. submerged, plants, mapping, lakes |
| LAKES | Landscape patterns of aquatic invaders: Assessing the extent of zebra mussel dispersal from spatial distributions. spatial patterns, invasive species, lakes, dispersal |
| LAKES | The relative importance of resource limitation and predator limitation in 10 Michigan lakes of varying productivity. limitation, productivity, benthic algae, lakes |
| LAKES | A paleolimnological assessment of the impact of nitrogen deposition to alpine lakes in Rocky Mountain National Park. diatoms, nitrogen, alpine, lakes |
| LAKES | The influence of an invasive macrophyte (Myriophyllum spicatum L.) on littoral and pelagic zooplankton community structure. zooplankton, macrophytes, lakes, Eurasian watermilfoil |
| LAKES | Iron-phosphorus cycling in southeastern Piedmont lakes. phosphorus, iron, nutrient cycling, lakes |
| LAKES | Specific UV absorbance as an Indicator of DOC source. organic carbon, lakes |
| LAKESHORE | 77 Short-term effects of experimental restoration of a lakeshore plant community. restoration, lakeshore, wetland, prairie |
| LAKESHORES | Groundwater controls on lakeshore plant communities. groundwater, lakeshores, macrophytes, biogeochemistry |
| LAND APPLICATION | Land applying paper and pulp mill residues: Integrating biology and economics to evaluate waste recycling. land application, mill residues, modeling, financial analyses |
| LAND COVER | Ecological assessment associating stream macroinvertebrates with watershed land cover for protecting and restoring Wisconsin streams. biomonitoring, stream, land cover, disturbance |
| LAND COVER | Validating spatially-explicit, predictive land-cover models - how does the question shape the method? land cover, validation, modeling, spatial metrics |
| LAND COVER | Late-Quaternary land cover change in boreal and eastern North America. land cover, Quaternary, North America, pollen |
| LAND COVER/USE DYNAMICS | Spatiotemporal rates of land cover change since 1973: Regional examples from a national study. land cover/use dynamics, disturbance, remote sensing |
| LAND ETHIC | Aldo Leopold's vision for land health. agro-ecology, land ethic, Aldo Leopold |
| LAND MANAGEMENT | 136 Ecological indicators for land management. indicators, land management |
| LAND MANAGEMENT | 76 1000 year drought records from tree-rings in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. drought, climate dynamics, land management |
| LAND RECORDS | 115 Definition of current patch structure drivers from historic land records. land records, patch template, Baltimore, MD, urban-rural continuum |
| LAND SUBSIDENCE | Land cover change in the upper Barataria Basin Estuary, Louisiana, from 1972-1992: Increases in wetland area. Barataria Basin (Louisiana USA), remote sensing, wetland change detection, land subsidence |
| LAND USE | 35 Historical variations in nitrogen source to wetlands. nitrogen, isotope, land use, wetlands |
| LAND USE | Characterization of land use in riparian areas within the Contentnea watershed of North Carolina. riparian, digital orthophotograph, land use |
| LAND USE | Land-use change and bird communities in large-river floodplain forests. birds, land use, floodplain, scale |
| LAND USE | 108 Emissions sources and patterns of carbon dioxide levels across a metropolitan region. carbon dioxide, urbanization, land use, emissions |
| LAND USE | A practical technique for relating land use and land cover data: a case study in the Amazon basin. land use, pasture, regression tree, Amazon |
| LAND USE | Defining and measuring the urban-rural gradient. Human-dominated, land use, urban-rural, GIS |
| LAND USE | 61 Relationships between land use, geology and in-stream physical habitat in small northern Oregon coastal streams. land use, physical habitat, streams, Oregon coast |
| LAND USE CHANGE | Riparian land use/cover change around lakes, wetlands, and streams across a 60-yr study . riparian, land use change, aquatic ecosystems |
| LAND USE CHANGE | From farming to logging: a case study of San Juan de los Duran, Mexico. land use change, Mexico, logging, subsistence agriculture |
| LAND USE EFFECTS | 113 Macroinvertebrate assemblages of prairie headwater streams: effects of adjacent land uses. aquatic macroinvertebrates, land use effects, species diversity, stream ecology |
| LAND-BRIDGE ISLANDS | 42 Relaxation of tropical avian communities on recently created land-bridge islands. faunal relaxation, fragmentation, land-bridge islands |
| LAND-USE | Traditional and modern ways of land-use planning and managment in South Korea. Feng-Shui, land-use, planning, Korea |
| LAND-USE | Carbon and nitrogen in the soil-plant system along rainfall and land-use gradients in southern Africa. carbon, nitrogen, rainfall, land-use |
| LAND-USE | Interactions of climate, land use, and carbon in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. fire, carbon, land-use |
| LAND-USE | Role of disturbance in the large-scale structure and functioning of Amazonian Ecosystems. amazonia, regional-scale, distrubance, land-use |
| LAND-USE | 114 Ecological effects upon Maasai pastoral settlement patterns and cattle migration distances. land-use, pastoralist, cattle, gis |
| LAND-USE CHANGE | 29 Land-use change and soil C and N concentrations, soil respiration, and N availability. land-use change, soil respiration, N availability, carbon |
| LAND-USE CHANGE | Bird communities and low-density human settlement in the Rocky Mountain West. birds, residential development, land-use change, Colorado |
| LAND-USE CHANGE | Litter nutrient dynamics in secondary dry tropical forests of the Southern Yucatan. tropical forests, land-use change, nutrient dynamics |
| LAND-USE CHANGE | Regional shifts in ecosystem processes as a result of urban sprawl in Colorado's Front Range. carbon storage, land-use change, urban ecology, net primary productivity |
| LAND-USE LEGACIES | 23 Influences of historic land-use on a diverse woodland herb flora. woodland herbs, seed dispersal, land-use legacies |
| LAND-WATER INTERACTIONS | Hot spots and hot moments in landscape biogeochemistry. biogeochemistry, nitrogen, carbon, land-water interactions |
| LANDCRAB | Faunal Effects on Floristic Diversity in a Lowland Neotropical Rainforest. landcrab, rainforest, biodiversity, dicotyledons |
| LANDFORM | 130 Ecological evaluation of soil quality in South Sinai, Egypt. South Sinai, soil quality, landform, water availability |
| LANDOWNERS | Effects of landowner attitudes and behaviors on breeding birds in a dynamic landscape. BBS, landowners, birds, landscape |
| LANDSAT TM DATA | Predictive spatial models of vegetation, cryptobiotic, and soil characteristics: A landscape-scale assessment using spatial information and spatial statistics. multi-phase, multi-scale, landscape, plant diversity, spatial information, landsat Tm Data, GIS, trend surface, kirging, cokriging, variogram |
| LANDSCAPE | 120 Using cesium-137 to understand landscape stability in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. landscape, erosion, stability, biological soil crusts |
| LANDSCAPE | Human and natural impacts on soil phosphorus accumulation in an urbanizing agricultural watershed. phosphorus, nonpoint pollution, landscape, human impacts |
| LANDSCAPE | Predictive spatial models of vegetation, cryptobiotic, and soil characteristics: A landscape-scale assessment using spatial information and spatial statistics. multi-phase, multi-scale, landscape, plant diversity, spatial information, landsat Tm Data, GIS, trend surface, kirging, cokriging, variogram |
| LANDSCAPE | Evaluation of landscapes for ecological quality. landscape, criteria, GIS, ecosystems |
| LANDSCAPE | Effects of landowner attitudes and behaviors on breeding birds in a dynamic landscape. BBS, landowners, birds, landscape |
| LANDSCAPE | Strength of hierarchical relationships between landscapes and Midwestern US stream communities. stream, landscape, hierarchical relationships, biota |
| LANDSCAPE | 109 Simulation test of mechanisms shaping the differential response of two generalist predators to landscape fragmentation. habitat fragmentation, simulation, landscape, spiders |
| LANDSCAPE | Data fusion and landscape stratification to identify anomalous characteristics. remote sensing, landscape, vegetation |
| LANDSCAPE | The effect of landscape heterogeneity due to forestry on the settlement patterns of a bark beetle . Polygraphus rufipennis, logging, settlement, landscape |
| LANDSCAPE | Designing basic research in national parks: landscape processes in Yellowstone National Park. Pinus contorta, disturbance, landscape, fire |
| LANDSCAPE | Ecological philosophy and concepts in old Korean cultural landscapes. ecology, philosophy, Korea, landscape |
| LANDSCAPE | 16 Ecosystem controls of landscape-level bison (Bos bison) grazing patterns in a tallgrass prairie. fire, grazing, nitrogen, landscape |
| LANDSCAPE | 125 Analysis of soil microbial activity at three spatial scales in an Ohio deciduous forest landscape. soil enzymes, microbial activity, landscape, forest |
| LANDSCAPE | Population synchrony in a hydrologically connected landscape: quantifying patterns and identifying processes. synchrony, El Niño, landscape, zooplankton |
| LANDSCAPE | Landscape changes in the semi-arid steppe of western Colorado: Impacts on winter habitat of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus). landscape, change, semi-arid, aerial photography |
| LANDSCAPE | 105 Integrating measures of habitat quality into Ecological Risk Assessments: modifying the exposure estimating procedures. habitat, exposure, risk, landscape |
| LANDSCAPE | Species effects on soil properties across the landscape I: Texture, pH and exchangeable cations. species effects, soil properties, cation cycling, landscape |
| LANDSCAPE | Beaver-induced wetland landscape dynamics and avian diversity in the Adirondacks, NY. beaver, wetland, landscape, avian |
| LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS | Using landscape metrics to interpret land cover change in Western Honduras and to monitor infringement into Celaque National Park. fragmentation, landscape analysis, change trajectories, coffee |
| LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS | Pattern and scale: The behavior of landscape metrics. pattern, scale, landscape analysis, landscape metrics |
| LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT | Presenting pluralism: ecological and social assessments of ecosystem health in south-eastern Australia. ecosystem health, landscape assessment, social values |
| LANDSCAPE CHANGE | 28 Mid-Holocene northern Minnesota lake sediment record suggests global warming induced landscape changes. mid-holocene climate, landscape change, global warming |
| LANDSCAPE CHANGE | 127 Fifty years of change in Maine salt marsh landscapes: Implications for restoration. salt marshes, restoration, drainage network, landscape change |
| LANDSCAPE CHANGE | 38 Breeding bird response to landscape patterns along the C & O Canal National Historical Park, USA. breeding birds, landscape change, C & O Canal National Historical Park, Maryland |
| LANDSCAPE COMPLEMENTARITY | Spatial variation in aquatic beetle communities of a temporary and permanent pond cluster. aquatic beetles, temporary ponds, cyclic colonization, landscape complementarity |
| LANDSCAPE COMPLEMENTATION | 37 Landscape complementation and the use of wetland habitats by migratory water birds. stopover habitat, agricultural landscapes, landscape complementation, migration |
| LANDSCAPE COMPLEXITY | 10 Influence of agricultural landscape structure on parasitoid abundance: a longer-term perspective. agroecosystems, conservation biological control, parasitoids, landscape complexity |
| LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION | Landscape composition modulates the effects of forest fragmentation: consequences for breeding Ovenbirds. landscape composition, forest fragmentation, neotropical migrant songbirds, ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillus) |
| LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY | Temporary connections make "isolated" wetlands function at the landscape scale: consequences for wetland conservation policy. ecosystem structure and function, landscape connectivity, isolated wetlands |
| LANDSCAPE DIVERSITY | Pesticide resistance--Getting off the treadmill . landscape diversity, arthropod resistance, evolution |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | What population-level mechanisms drive stream fish invasions?: A large-scale field experiment with salmonids in the western U.S. invasion biology, stream fishes, large-scale experiments, landscape ecology |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 112 Parasite communities of frogs: relationships to landscape and habitat features. Rana pipiens, parasite communities, landscape ecology |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 111 Landscape analysis of forest bird populations in northern Wisconsin. habitat model, landscape ecology, forest birds, forest management |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 158 Birds and hedgerows at two spatial scales in an agricultural landscape of Guanajuato, Mexico. landscape ecology, geographic information systems, neotropical migratory birds, hedgerows |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Predictive mapping of avian populations using texture indices based on digital orthophotos. landscape ecology, avian population, habitat mapping, desert |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Road traffic and nearby grassland bird patterns in a suburbanizing landscape. distance-from-road effect, grassland birds, landscape ecology, road ecology |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Housing density change 1940-1990 in the U.S. Midwest. landscape ecology, habitat fragmentation, ecosystem change, urban ecology |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Spatial pollination patterns in an experimentally fragmented landscape. landscape ecology, prairie restoration, pollination, threshold responses |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | The common biodiversity in agroecosystems. species richness, tri-trophic levels, conservation ecology, landscape ecology |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Spatial extent and ecological processes: Integrating observational and functional scales. spatial extent, landscape ecology, scale |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 86 Spatio-temporal dynamics of vegetation and precipitation in the Nebraska Sand Hills. NDVI, space-time analysis, landscape ecology, grasslands |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 35 Patch and landscape characteristics associated with the distribution of woodland amphibians in an agricultural landscape. habitat fragmentation, amphibians, landscape ecology, conservation |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 119 Wavelet analysis of vegetation patterns in northern Wisconsin. landscape ecology, vegetation, Wisconsin, wavelet analysis |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 131 Topographic influences on solar radiation at landscape scales. solar radiation, topography, landscape ecology, insolation |
| LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY | Spatial heterogeneity and long-term forest stand development: Do fire-created landscape legacies persist? landscape legacies, lodgepole pine, forest stand dynamics, landscape heterogeneity |
| LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY | Investigating tree island community response to increased water flow in a southern Everglades ecosystem . landscape heterogeneity, nutrient economy, water flow, Everglades restoration |
| LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY | 93 Using Landsat TM imagery to identify edge effects extent in a Mexican conifer forest. semivariance, edge effects extent, remote sensing, landscape heterogeneity |
| LANDSCAPE INDICES | 129 Recent forest cover type transitions and landscape structural changes in northeast Minnesota. Landsat, change detection, forest fragmentation, landscape indices |
| LANDSCAPE INDICES | Cross-scale determinants of the Savannah River Site mammalian community, South Carolina. Savannah River Site, scale, landscape indices, mammals |
| LANDSCAPE LEGACIES | Spatial heterogeneity and long-term forest stand development: Do fire-created landscape legacies persist? landscape legacies, lodgepole pine, forest stand dynamics, landscape heterogeneity |
| LANDSCAPE METRICS | Effects of fire vs. logging on landscape structure in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. scale, landscape metrics, disturbance, Yellowstone |
| LANDSCAPE METRICS | Pattern and scale: The behavior of landscape metrics. pattern, scale, landscape analysis, landscape metrics |
| LANDSCAPE METRICS | Historic range of variability in landscape structure for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. historic range of variability, landscape structure, landscape metrics, Yellowstone National Park |
| LANDSCAPE MODEL | Modeling spatially explicit transition of boreal forest cover in the absence of disturbances. boreal forest, landscape model, forest cover change, post-fire transition |
| LANDSCAPE MODELS | When does arrangement matter to ecosystem function: Interactions between the amount and configuration of land cover types. landscape models, nutrient loading |
| LANDSCAPE PATTERN | Spatial patterns of conifer forest expansion in Geater Yellowstone. forest expansion, global change, Greater Yellowstone, landscape pattern |
| LANDSCAPE PATTERN | Understory vegetation mapping from remote sensing data and its implications for giant panda habitat conservation. remote sensing, understory vegetation, landscape pattern |
| LANDSCAPE PATTERN INDICIES | Quantifying landscape pattern index responses using current land cover data: A case study of the managed forest of Ontario. landscape pattern indicies, spatial resolution, Landsat TM, sensitivity analysis |
| LANDSCAPE POSITION | Riparian root systems: Response to season, landscape position, and disturbance in the Adirondack Mountains, NY. rooting dynamics, riparian areas, disturbance, landscape position |
| LANDSCAPE POSITION | 66 Spatial patterns in the nutrient status of Wisconsin lakes: interactions between landscape position and catchment disturbance. lake, nutrients, landuse, landscape position |
| LANDSCAPE POSITION | 62 Landscape organization of geomorphic features and plankton ecology in sockeye salmon nursery lakes. lake, landscape position, nutrient limitation, plankton |
| LANDSCAPE SCALE | 130 A cross-site comparative study of physical correlates with community transition. landscape scale, multivariate analysis, environmental gradients |
| LANDSCAPE SCALE | Local vs landscape patterns in arthropod recolonization after disturbance by fire. arthropod communities, disturbance ecology, coastal sage scrub, landscape scale |
| LANDSCAPE SCALE INVASIVE PATTERNS | Combining species-habitat approaches to understand exotic plant invasions in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah USA. species invasive index, predictive model, vegetation gradient, landscape scale invasive patterns |
| LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE | Historic range of variability in landscape structure for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. historic range of variability, landscape structure, landscape metrics, Yellowstone National Park |
| LANDSCAPING | 99 Use of native and non-native trees in urban landscaping: Consideration of ecosystem services. urban, ecosystem, services, landscaping |
| LANDSLIDES | Landslides and their contribution to the carbon cycle: Regional and global impacts. landslides, mountains, tropics, carbon-cycle |
| LANDUSE | 66 Spatial patterns in the nutrient status of Wisconsin lakes: interactions between landscape position and catchment disturbance. lake, nutrients, landuse, landscape position |
| LANDUSE CHANGE | 96 Landuse changes around Pasoh Forest Reserve in Peninsular Malaysia. tropical forest, landuse change, Malaysia, remote sensing |
| LARGE EXPERIMENTS | Limitations and opportunities in ecosystem-level studies: Lessons from wetland restoration. adaptive restoration, wetlands, large experiments |
| LARGE RIVER | Riverine transport of zooplankton populations: a landscape-scale assessment for the Ohio River Basin. zooplankton, large river, community composition, watershed |
| LARGE RIVER | Zooplankton in a large advective reservoir: composition and production through a riverine to lacustrine transition. zooplankton, productivity, reservoir, large river |
| LARGE-SCALE ECOLOGICAL MODEL | A spatially explicit model to assess environmental constraints on historic tree distributions across southern Wisconsin. u.s. general land office surveys, southern wisconsin, fire disturbance, large-scale ecological model |
| LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTS | What population-level mechanisms drive stream fish invasions?: A large-scale field experiment with salmonids in the western U.S. invasion biology, stream fishes, large-scale experiments, landscape ecology |
| LARGEMOUTH BASS | Whole-lake patterns of predation mortality: the impacts of littoral zone structural complexity and depth on fish predator-prey interactions. largemouth bass, yellow perch, mortality, coarse woody debris |
| LARGEMOUTH BASS | Size-structured predation, relative growth rates and recruitment potential of largemouth bass. size-structure, predation, recruitment, largemouth bass |
| LARVAE | 80 Are 'sinkholes' aptly named? Larval odonate ecology and adult species diversity in southeastern New Mexico. odonates, exuviae, larvae, biodiversity |
| LARVAL DELIVERY | Marine protected area design: oceanographic linkages, delivery rates and species richness. marine protected areas, larval delivery, species richness |
| LARVAL FORAGING | Fish recruitment in reservoirs: Quantifying the interactive effects of depth, turbidity, and zooplankton. depth distribution, larval foraging, turbidity, zooplankton |
| LARVAL TRANSPORT | 41 Effects of environmental cues on transmission of the estuarine trematode parasite Himasthla rhigedana. parasite, larval transport, environmental cues, infection transmission |
| LASER ALTIMETRY | 89 Biomass Imaging for Research on Carbon and Habitats (BIRCH): a mission concept supporting NASA's Carbon Cycle Initiative. lidar, laser altimetry, satellite, height |
| LATE-SERAL HERBS | 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 |
| LATENT ENERGY | 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 |
| LATITUDE | Testing mechanisms responsible for the latitudinal gradient of species diversity. diversity, latitude, protist, microcosm |
| LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS | The effects of island area and latitude on species extinction rates. extinction rates, island biogeography, range size, latitudinal gradients |
| LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS | 34 Spatial patterns of bird species richness in East Asia . Species richness, Asia, island biogeography, latitudinal gradients |
| LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS | Latitudinal gradients in the diversity of New World bat communities. latitudinal gradients, diversity, bat communities, macroecology |
| LATTICE SIMULATION MODEL | 113 Density dependent strategy of Scirpus olneyi: Field observation to simulation model. density effect, Scirpus olneyi (i.e. Schenoplectus americanus), lattice simulation model, spatial structure |
| LAW | Legal perspectives on dam removal. law, dam removal, restoration |
| LEACHING | 1 Applying global ecosystem modeling tools to agriculture: continental-scale food production to precision farming. agriculture, modeling, nitrate, leaching |
| LEAD CONTAMINATION | Fluctuating asymmetry in stonerollers from streams of varying lead contamination history. lead contamination, fluctuating asymmetry, stream fishes, bioindicators |
| LEADERSHIP | Role of Ecological Society of America for global connections of ecological thoughts. ESA, global, ecology, leadership |
| LEAF | 18 Micro-scale changes in leaf litter surface carbohydrate chemistry during decomposition. decomposition, leaf, FT-IR, carbohydrates |
| LEAF AND FINE ROOT LITTER | Polyphenols in tropical rainforest litter. polyphenols, soil nutrient availability, leaf and fine root litter, soil chronosequence |
| LEAF AREA | The impact of heterogeneous forest cover on water fluxes at the tree, stand, and regional scales. water flux, hydrology, leaf area |
| LEAF AREA | Water relations and biomass adjustments of cottonwood in response to river regulation. cottonwood water relations, river regulation, floodplain hydrology, leaf area, root biomass, xylem pressure potential, stomatal conductance |
| LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI) | Controls on early rates of succession in a Virginia Piedmont old-field. succession, leaf area index (LAI), old-field, Virginia |
| LEAF AREA INDEX | Spatial-temporal variation of leaf area index (LAI) and aboveground net primary productivity (NPPA ) of a northern Wisconsin forested landscape. leaf area index, net primary productivity, spatial, geostatistics |
| LEAF AREA INDEX | 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 |
| LEAF AREA INDEX | Enhancing accuracy of foliage biomass estimation with remotely sensed data in a rugged montane area. topography, foliage biomass, leaf area index, remote sensing |
| LEAF CELL ENLARGEMENT | 30 Cell enlargement in UV-B-treated leaves correlates with leaf phenylpropanoid content and leaf apoplastic pH. uv-b, leaf cell enlargement, phenylpropanoid, acid growth |
| LEAF DEMOGRAPHY | 125 Leaf expansion and demography in Avicennia germinans L. grown in a salinity gradient. A. germinans, leaf demography, leaf expansion, salinity |
| LEAF EXPANSION | 125 Leaf expansion and demography in Avicennia germinans L. grown in a salinity gradient. A. germinans, leaf demography, leaf expansion, salinity |
| LEAF LIFESPAN | Drought alters leaf morphology and demography in Cryptantha flava (Boraginaceae). leaf lifespan, drought, leaf morphology, Cryptantha flava |
| LEAF LITTER | 68 Edaphic and biotic controls of ectomycorrhizal species diversity. ectomycorrhizae, leaf litter, diversity, community |
| LEAF MASS PER AREA | Ontogenetic development of sun and shade leaves in tropical tree species. leaf mass per area, ontogeny, tropical trees, Los Tuxtlas |
| LEAF MORPHOLOGY | Drought alters leaf morphology and demography in Cryptantha flava (Boraginaceae). leaf lifespan, drought, leaf morphology, Cryptantha flava |
| LEAF PHENOLOGY | 142 Effects of fire on tree juvenile height and leaf phenology in central India. central India, deciduous forests, fire, leaf phenology |
| LEAF PROCESSING | Mechanisms maintaining ecosystem function after species loss: Numerical and per capita compensation by stream insects. biodiversity, ecosystem function, leaf processing, stream insects |
| LEAF TURNOVER | 70 Plant traits and nutrient limitation of Cecropia in abandoned pasture in Puerto Rico. nutrient limitation, limiting traits, leaf turnover, tropical pasture restoration |
| LEAF-LITTER DECOMPOSITION | Mixed-litter decomposition on calcareous and acidic soils in NW Connecticut. mixed-litter decomposition, soil influences, leaf-litter decomposition |
| LEAFY DEBRIS PATCH | Effect of subdivision of resource patches on mobile fauna in dynamic streambed landscapes. chironomid, habitat fragmentation, streambed landscape, leafy debris patch |
| LEGACIES | Predicting susceptibility to damage following hurricanes in a subtropical moist forest. hurricane damage, legacies, non-native species |
| LEGUME | 73 Germination ecology of Astragalus succumbens and Astragalus sclerocarpus in south-eastern Washington. physical dormancy, legume, germination, Astragalus |
| LEGUME GREEN MANURES | 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 |
| LEGUMES | 43 Nitrogen fixation along rainfall and disturbance gradients in Southern Africa and its relation with phosphorus concentration and water availability. nitrogen , fixation, isotopes, legumes |
| LEGUMES | Effects of ecological restoration treatments on legumes, shrubs and C4 grasses. ponderosa pine, legumes, C4 grasses, shrubs |
| LEPIDIUM | 61 The genetic variation of an invasive perennial, Lepidium latifolium L.(Cruciferae), across the western United States. invasive, lepidium, mustard, genetics |
| LIDAR | 89 Biomass Imaging for Research on Carbon and Habitats (BIRCH): a mission concept supporting NASA's Carbon Cycle Initiative. lidar, laser altimetry, satellite, height |
| LIDAR REMOTE SENSING | Relationship between vertical canopy profiles and biomass in a neotropical rainforest. aboveground biomass, canopy structure, tropical forests, lidar remote sensing |
| LIFE CYCLE | Population regulation in species with complex life cycles. seaweed, Mazzaella flaccida, life cycle, haploid |
| LIFE FORMS | Spring and summer hydraulic properties of 14 tree species of boreal forests in British Columbia. Huber value, hydraulic conductivity, life forms, specific leaf area |
| LIFE HISTORY | Immunosenescence in nature: Age, size and pathogen susceptibility in a population of Plantago lanceolata. life history, species interactions, aging, demography |
| LIFE HISTORY | What species and community information can be used to predict the outcome of invasion on communities? biological invasions, Alliaria petiolata, physiology, life history |
| LIFE HISTORY | Life-history meaning of the von Bertalanffy growth model and its ecological implications. life history, age at first reproduction, fishes in the Great Lakes, the von Bertalanffy growth model |
| LIFE HISTORY | Life history consequences of size-specific interactions in the Arizona tiger salamander. life history, intraspecific interactions, size structure |
| LIFE HISTORY | Amphibian life history traits and population responses to perturbation. amphibian, life history, population, conservation |
| LIFE HISTORY | Life history diversity of lianas in an eastern Amazonian forest. tropical forest, Brazil, Liana, life history |
| LIFE HISTORY | 9 Variation in elemental composition (N and P) of host plants and consequences for herbivore performance. ecological stoichiometry, life history, plant-insect interactions, nitrogen |
| LIFE HISTORY | Calcium and phosphorus uptake by plants in secondary succession at Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, USA. nutrients, plants, rainforest, life history |
| LIFE HISTORY TRAITS | Tradeoffs in avian life history traits and consequences for population growth. birds, life history traits, population dynamics, elasticity |
| LIFE HISTORY TRAITS | 8 Relationships between neotropical tree seedling morphology and performance in contrasting environments. tropical rain forest, seedling regeneration, life history traits, French Guiana |
| LIFE HISTORY VARIABILITY | Nutrient dynamics, life history diversity and hazing: implications for population viability of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). depensation, life history variability, population persistence/viability, salmon |
| LIFE TABLE RESPONSE EXPERIMENT | Population biology of Mile-a-minute weed in its native and adventive habitats. Polygonum perfoliatum, matrix population models, biological invasion, life table response experiment |
| LIFE-HISTORIES | Chemicals, Plants and Animals: Linking secondary compounds, plant functional types and insect feeding guilds. herbivory, plant defense, taxonomy, life-histories |
| LIFE-HISTORY | Evolutionary demography of populations of garter snakes with alternate life-history patterns. demography, life-history, garter snakes, mark-recapture data |
| LIFE-HISTORY STRATEGIES | 45 Density-dependent population dynamics influenced by parental control of offspring size and number. population dynamics, body size, Nicrophorus investigator, life-history strategies |
| LIFE-TABLE RESONSE EXPERIMENT | Using life-table resonse experiments to quantify herbivore and pollinator influences on plant population dynamics. life-table resonse experiment , demography, interspecific interactions, spatial and temporal variation |
| LIGHT | 11 Effects of light, soil moisture, time and forest canopy gaps on fecundity, size, and growth of Trillium ovatum Pursh in Douglas-Fir forests. Trillium, fecundity, age, light |
| LIGHT | Sapling stem orientation in relation to growth rate, leaf dimensions and leaf habit. plasticity, sapling, growth, light |
| LIGHT | Effect of incident light on the diel vertical migration of juvenile sockeye salmon in Alaska lakes. diel vertical migration, sockeye salmon, light, predator-prey |
| LIGHT | 155 Measuring tree growth as a function of light using low-level aerial photography. light |
| LIGHT | Species richness effects on microsite availability for seed germination of the invasive Phalaris arundinacea (L.). invasive, light, germination, species-richness |
| LIGHT | Patterns of establishment and growth in rain forest seedlings. tropical rain forest, regeneration, light, Miconia |
| LIGHT | Long term edge effects on old forest fragments in Coastal Ecuador. edge effects, palm community, light, undergrowth cover |
| LIGHT | Potential persistence of American wildcelery and sago pondweed in Peoria Lake, Illinois. aquatic, macrophytes, light, simulation |
| LIGHT ACCLIMATION | 157 Seasonal dynamics of photosynthesis under contrasting light regimes for three Mediterranean pine species. Pine, Mediterranean, gas exchange, light acclimation |
| LIGHT GAPS | 56 Evidence for the role of canopy disturbance in the spatial distribution of eastern leatherwood (Dirca palustris). Dirca palustis, patch dynamics, spatial pattern, light gaps |
| LIGHT INDUCED FLOURESCENCE | 51 Using light induced fluorescence for assessing the health of emergent marsh vegetation. light induced flourescence, salt marsh, emergent vegetation, plant physiology |
| LIGHT LEVELS | 159 Effects of interactions between Na2SO4 concentrations and light levels on the growth of Helianthus paradoxus and Helianthus annuus. Helianthus paradoxus, Helianthus annuus, salt tolerance, light levels |
| LIGHT QUALITY | Growth form controls developmental and morphological responses to light quality in Brassica rapa. growth form, plasticity, development, light quality |
| LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY | Atmospheric constraints on physiological processes from CO2 inversions. inversion, Q10, light use efficiency |
| LIGHT-USE EFFICIENCY | 158 Key chemical and morphological determinants of light-use efficiency in canopies of terrestrial vegetation . light-use efficiency, remote sensing, net primary production |
| LIGHTNING FIRE ARRIVALS | Fire arrival probabilities vary with stand-type in boreal mixedwood forests. lightning fire arrivals, inhomogeneous Poisson process, fire frequency |
| LIGTH INTERCEPTION | Morpho-physiological responses of nine neotropical shrubs to contrasting light and water regimes in Panama. ligth interception, hydraulic conductance, Neotropical Psychotria, crown architecture |
| LIKELIHOOD | When is an island community in stochastic equilibrium? equilibrium, island biogeography, likelihood, species number |
| LIME EFFECTS | Effects of fence, herbicide, and lime on regeneration of sugar maple in northern Pennsylvania. acer saccharum, fence effects, lime effects, herbicide effects |
| LIMITATION | The relative importance of resource limitation and predator limitation in 10 Michigan lakes of varying productivity. limitation, productivity, benthic algae, lakes |
| LIMITING RESOURCES | 54 The role of seed fall patterns vs. environmental resources in the spatial distribution of tree seedlings. seed-fall, seedling, spatial distribution, limiting resources |
| LIMITING TRAITS | 70 Plant traits and nutrient limitation of Cecropia in abandoned pasture in Puerto Rico. nutrient limitation, limiting traits, leaf turnover, tropical pasture restoration |
| LIMITS TO GROWTH | Generalized equations of population ecology project global human population limit. population ecology, human population growth, limits to growth, population singularity |
| LINEAR PROGRAMMING | Spatial optimization in ecological applications. linear programming, reaction-diffusion models, spatial control, proximity relationships |
| LINEAR REGRESSION | How much of nothing is enough? Problems with zero abundance data in fish habitat models. animal abundance, linear regression, brook trout |
| LINKED MODELS | Simulating coastal plain stream fish community response to nonpoint source pollution using linked hydrologic-ecological models. stream fish, nonpoint source pollution, linked models |
| LINKING SPECIES AND ECOSYSTEMS | Functional groupings of ecosystem engineers. ecosystem engineering, functional groups, habitat modification, linking species and ecosystems |
| LIPID BIOMARKERS | Sediment microbial community composition at four California mercury mines. phospholipid fatty acid analysis, methyl mercury, sulfate reducing bacteria, lipid biomarkers |
| LITTER | Resilience of litterfall production after a hurricane in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. disturbance, tropical forests, litter, fertilization |
| LITTER | 151 The fate of wild sunflower seeds and its population biology consequences. seeds, wild sunflower, dormancy, litter |
| LITTER | Consequences of detrital heterogeneity for stream invertebrates: Results from a simulation analysis and field experiment. streams, riparian, litter, invertebrates |
| LITTER | 21 The spatial distribution of litter decomposition over a heterogeneous landscape of a Wyoming forest-alpine tundra ecotone. litter, decomposition, alpine, Wyoming |
| LITTER | The fate of nutrients released by control burning and the effect on pine seedling growth. Pinus rigida, fire, litter, root:shoot ratio |
| LITTER | Soil nitrogen availability and litter chemistry interact to influence fungal-mediated nitrogen immobilization during litter decomposition. litter, nitrogen, fungi, decomposition |
| LITTER | 17 Neighborhood effects on litter production. neighborhood, litter, tropical, forests |
| LITTER DECAY | 52 Distribution and carbon flux of coarse woody debris in a boreal black spruce chronosequence. coarse woody debris, boreal forest, litter decay, carbon dioxide |
| LITTER QUALITY | Substrate quality, nutrient availability, and enzymatic controls over litter decomposition rates. decomposition, litter quality, enzyme activity, nutrient dynamics |
| LITTERBAGS | Do litterbags underestimate fine root decomposition? root decay , fine roots, intact cores, litterbags |
| LITTERFALL | Terrestrial NPP is being strongly underestimated: example data from an intensively-measured tropical rain forest. primary production, tropical rain forest, global carbon cycling, litterfall |
| LITTERFALL | 65 Litterfall production in forested wetlands with contrasting hydrologic regimes. wetland, litterfall, organic matter |
| LITTERFALL | Determinants of regional variability in litter production of forests in the Southern Yucatan: environmental gradients or human legacy? tropical, forest, litterfall, disturbance |
| LITTERFALL/DECOMPOSITION BUDGET | 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 |
| LIVESTOCK | The importance of agricultural nitrogen emissions to western nitrogen deposition. agriculture, emissions, nitrogen, livestock |
| LIVESTOCK | 42 Effects of livestock on structure and composition of floodplain forests in the Lower Amazon, Brazil. livestock, flooded forest, disturbance, forest structure |
| LIVESTOCK | 1 Uncoupling nutrient cycles in Midwestern agroecosystems: N and P flows on diversified farms vs. confined livestock operations. nutrient flow, livestock, nitrogen, phosphorus |
| LIVESTOCK GRAZING | 148 Effects of fire and grazing on vegetation in northern Chihuahuan desert grasslands. Bouteloua eriopoda, desert grasslands, fire, livestock grazing |
| LIZARD | Seasonal and diel activity patterns of Italian wall lizards in New York, USA. Podarcis sicula, lizard, behavior, introduction |
| LIZARD | Phenotypic selection on body size and sprint performance in the tree lizard Urosaurus ornatus. locomotor performance, phenotypic selection, lizard, body size |
| LIZARDS | 30 Effects of chamber activity on estimates of digestive performance of lizards. cost of digestion, energy budgets, physiological ecology, lizards |
| LOADS | Role of Total Maximum Daily Load decisions for water quality in Mill Creek (Cincinnati). water, nutrient, habitat, loads |
| LOBLOLLY | 57 Role of mycorrhizal fungi in loblolly pine root tolerance to aluminum. loblolly, aluminum, mycorrhizae |
| LOBLOLLY PINE | Seedbank viability in disturbed longleaf pine sites. longleaf pine, seedbank, loblolly pine, restoration |
| LOBLOLLY PINE | 142 Soil CO2 efflux and profile concentration in response to irrigation and fertilization in a 16-year old loblolly pine stand. loblolly pine, soil CO2 |
| LOBLOLLY PINE | 20 Soil CO2 efflux, soil organic matter and root development in newly planted loblolly pine plantations. soil CO2 efflux, soil respiration, soil carbon, loblolly pine |
| LOBLOLLY PINE | 65 Seasonal 15N acquisition and allocation in slow- and fast-growing families of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). loblolly pine, nitrogen acquisition, 15N enrichment |
| LOCAL ADAPTATION | Evidence for local adaptation along a salinity gradient in a salt marsh perennial. local adaptation, salinity gradient, salt marsh plant, Borrichia frutescens |
| LOCAL ADAPTATION | Consequences of intraspecific variation in clonal integration: in a patchy world, generosity pays. clonal plant, physiological integration, Fragaria chiloensis, local adaptation |
| LOCAL ADAPTATION | It's not the size of your grass, it's where you plant it: Local adaptation in Chesapeake Bay eelgrass. local adaptation, seagrass, fitness, reciprocal transplant |
| LOCAL AND REGIONAL PROCESSES | Effects of predator-mediated coexistence on diversity at local and regional scales. metacommunity, keystone predation, local and regional processes, species coexistence |
| LOCAL DIVERSITY | Convergence and divergence in pond meta-communities: Implications for local and regional patterns of diversity. meta-community, local diversity, regional diversity, pond |
| LOCAL VS. REGIONAL RICHNESS | On the relationship between local and regional richness. species richness, local vs. regional richness, general theory |
| LOCOMOTION | Foxes make good fathers: high paternal investment in the kit fox, Vulpes macrotis. cost of reproduction, paternal investment, locomotion, canid |
| LOCOMOTOR PERFORMANCE | Phenotypic selection on body size and sprint performance in the tree lizard Urosaurus ornatus. locomotor performance, phenotypic selection, lizard, body size |
| LOCOMOTOR PHYSIOLOGY | Locomotor performance and social dominance in male Anolis cristatellus (Reptilia: Sauria). Anolis cristatellus, locomotor physiology, social dominance, field behavior |
| LODGEPOLE PINE | Spatial heterogeneity and long-term forest stand development: Do fire-created landscape legacies persist? landscape legacies, lodgepole pine, forest stand dynamics, landscape heterogeneity |
| LODGEPOLE PINE | How stand structure affects the crown collisons of lodgepole pine. crown shyness, lodgepole pine, crown abrasion, wind sway |
| LOGGING | Effects of timber harvest practices on the biodiversity and community structure of forest Lepidoptera. logging, biodiversity, Lepidoptera, Malacosoma americanum |
| LOGGING | 46 Ecosystem function changes following hemlock harvesting in New England . logging, hemlock, nitrogen cycling, ecosystem function |
| LOGGING | Effects of logging activity on components of the carbon budget in a Canadian jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) forest. Pinus banksiana, carbon cycling, logging, chronosequence |
| LOGGING | From farming to logging: a case study of San Juan de los Duran, Mexico. land use change, Mexico, logging, subsistence agriculture |
| LOGGING | Impact of compound disturbances on N-cycling and forest reorganization in a wind-disturbed and logged forest. blowdown, logging, nutrient cycling, disturbance |
| LOGGING | The effect of landscape heterogeneity due to forestry on the settlement patterns of a bark beetle . Polygraphus rufipennis, logging, settlement, landscape |
| LONG DISTANCE DISPERSAL | Tapirs as long-distance seed dispersal vectors: implications for the survivorship and spatial distribution of tropical trees. long distance dispersal, tropical tree diversity, seed shadows, tapirs |
| LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL STUDIES | Mathematical and statistical techniques and approaches for extreme event analysis: an overview. Extreme event analysis, statistical ecology, long term ecological studies, modeling |
| LONG TERM ECOSYSTEM STUDY | 29 Biodiversity of microfauna and fungal communities in a Sphagnum bog under two levels of solar UV-B. ozone depletion, long term ecosystem study, peat bog, biodiversity |
| LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL | Long-distance dispersal of tree seeds by wind: the role of vertical wind updrafts. seed dispersal by wind, long-distance dispersal, vertical wind updrafts, seed aerodynamics |
| LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL OF SEEDS | A Large-Eddy / Lagrangian Dispersion model to study long-distance dispersal of tree seeds. long-distance dispersal of seeds, simulations of seeds dispersal, turbulence in and above tree canopies |
| LONG-DISTANCE SEED DISPERSAL | 24 Multi-Scale Analysis of Seed Dispersal: an attempt to resolve Reid's paradox. long-distance seed dispersal, plant migration, modeling, spatial homogenization |
| LONG-TERM CHANGE | Seventy-two years of change in the herbaceous vegetation layer of Heart's Content Scenic Area, Warren County, PA. herbaceous plants, old growth, white-tailed deer, long-term change |
| LONG-TERM DATA | Tree-population responses to hurricane disturbance in an old-growth Southern Mixed Hardwood Forest. hurricane, tree-population response syndrome, long-term data, southern mixed hardwood forest |
| LONG-TERM DATASETS | 25 Long Term Ecological Research Network K-12 Education Partnership: Students and Teachers Experiencing LTER. K-12 Education, long-term datasets, inquiry-based, LTER |
| LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL CHANGE | Long-term perspectives on ecological questions. An Overview. paleoecology, margaret b. davis, long-term ecological change, vegetation dynamics |
| LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH | 9 SchoolYard Science: Student-centered Investigation of Aquatic Ecosystems. student-centered inquiry, schoolyard habitats, long-term ecological research, professional development |
| LONG-TERM EXPERIMENT | The trophic cascade in ponds. biomanipulation, long-term experiment, compensation, meta-analysis |
| LONG-TERM TREND ANALYSIS | Contaminants in fish of Illinois inland lakes, 1974-1998. fish contaminants, long-term trend analysis, organochorines and mercury, sampling and risk assessment |
| LONGEVITY | Leaf phenology of saplings growing in the understory of a forest exposed to elevated CO2. longevity, phenology, senescence, survivorship |
| LONGLEAF PINE | Managing alternative stable states: Fire, Longleaf pine, and Oaks in nothern Florida. ecological resilience, ecosystem management, fire, longleaf pine |
| LONGLEAF PINE | Seedbank viability in disturbed longleaf pine sites. longleaf pine, seedbank, loblolly pine, restoration |
| LONGLEAF PINE | Correlates of species richness in northwest Florida longleaf pine sandhills. biodiversity, longleaf pine, fire, disturbance |
| LONGLEAF PINE-WIREGRASS ECOSYSTEM | Rare vascular flora of the longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem: temporal responses to fire frequency. rare flora, fire frequency, longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem, conservation biology |
| LOW CARBON DIOXIDE | Physiological responses of trees from the Rancho La Brea tar pits throughout glacial/inter-glacial cycles. low carbon dioxide, La Brea tar pits, stable carbon isotopes, Pleistocene |
| LOW LIGHT | 66 Ozone and low light effects on allocation and partitioning of recently-assimilated carbon in sugar maple. sugar maple, ozone, carbon transport, low light |
| LOW LIGHT ENVIRONMENTS | Does shade tolerance change with plant size? A test of tissue and whole plant respiration in deep shade. dark respiration, shade tolerance, low light environments, plant size |
| LUPINE | 78 Effects of multiple visits by Xylocopa virginica on the reproduction of Lupinus perennis . multiple, visits, pollinator, lupine |
| LYCAENID | Survivorship of an ant-tended butterfly and the potential role of resource availability. mutualism, ants, lycaenid, resource availability |