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| R* | 112 Application of R* theory to light-limited plant communities may predict relative species abundances in old fields. R*, Solidago altissima, goldenrods, asters |
| RAPD | 144 Within-site genetic variation is negatively correlated with average stem diameter in post-fire Yellowstone aspen seedlings . genetic variation, Populus tremuloides, RAPD, regeneration |
| RAPD | Blight-free Midwestern American chestnut populations compared to those of Eastern North America: ecology and population genetics. Castanea dentata, population projection matrix, RAPD, chestnut blight |
| RESTORATION ECOLOGY | 118 Fire, mangement, and disturbance effects on Karner Blue habitat. LUPINE, KARNER BLUE, FIRE ECOLOGY, RESTORATION ECOLOGY |
| RABIES | Quantifying variation in the spatial spread of raccoon rabies. Spatial Ecology, Parasite-Host Interactions, Rabies |
| REGENERATION NICHE | Factors limiting regeneration of upland hardwoods. Regeneration niche, Restoration, Quercus alba, Cornus florida |
| REGIONAL POPULATION DYNAMIC | 47 Spatial autocorrelation affects regional population dynamic of the beetle Timarcha lugens. Regional population dynamic, Spatial autocorrelation, High-mountains, Timarcha lugens |
| REMOTE SENSING | 87 Correlation of NDVI and topographic indices in a rugged mountain area of Korea. NDVI, Correlation analysis, Topographic index, Remote Sensing |
| RESOURCE ALLOCATION | 141 Effects of simulated herbivory and light on growth and reproductive allocation in Dirca palustris L. (Eastern leatherwood, Thymelaeaceae) in selectively managed forests of the Northwoods. Dirca palustris, Herbivory, Resource allocation, Plant reproduction |
| RESOURCE USE | Consequences of resourse pulse use in an herbaceous desert perennial. Crypthantha flava, Nitrogen pulses, Resource use, Demography |
| RESOURCES | Multiple limiting soil resources in a California grassland. Resources, Grassland, Invasive, Nutrient addition |
| RESTORATION | 122 Prairie species diversity along a connectivity gradient. Fragmentation, Restoration, Prairie, Connectivity |
| RESTORATION | 130 Spartina alterniflora dieback in a southwestern Louisiana salt marsh. Spartina alterniflora, Marsh dieback, Restoration, Genetic diversity |
| RESTORATION | Factors limiting regeneration of upland hardwoods. Regeneration niche, Restoration, Quercus alba, Cornus florida |
| RESTORATION | The effects of a light gradient on seedling establishment in an oak savanna restoration. Restoration, Plants, Savanna, Light |
| RETENTION | The fate and retention of organic and inorganic nitrogen in a western Oregon coniferous forest . Organic Nitrogen, Retention, Forest Soil, Lobaria oregana |
| RICKER MODEL | 4 Complex dynamics in a simple competition model. competition theory, Ricker model, complex dynamics |
| RIPLEY'S K STATISTIC | Coherent spatial relationships of species distribution and production in an old-growth Pseudotsuga-Tsuga forest. spatial pattern analysis, old-growth, biomass, Ripley's K statistic |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK | Do species traits or habitat characteristics determine non-native plant invasion? A synthesis from Rocky Mountain National Park. invasive plants, Rocky Mountain National Park |
| ROOT FORAGING | Physiological responses of roots to pulses of nutrients. Malus domestica, Root foraging, Root respiration, Soil patches |
| ROOT RESPIRATION | Physiological responses of roots to pulses of nutrients. Malus domestica, Root foraging, Root respiration, Soil patches |
| ROUND GOBY | 71 Round goby effects in Lake Erie: short-term and long-term projections. Invasion, Great Lakes, Round goby, Zebra mussel |
| RUBISCO | Is increased nitrogen availability predictive for long-term forest carbon sequestration? nitrogen deposition, photosynthesis, Rubisco, carbon sequestration |
| RUBUS | 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 |
| RABIES | Predicting the spatial dynamics of infectious diseases: raccoon rabies as a model system. infectious diseases, spatial dynamics, rabies |
| RADIAL GROWTH | Sugar maple growth in relation to health, glaciation and foliar nutrition in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York. sugar maple decline, defoliation, calcium and magnesium, radial growth |
| RADIATION | Generating biodiversity: The phylogeography of a North American insect radiation. biodiversity, radiation, speciation, phylogeography |
| RADIATION | Intercontinental phylogeography of an insect radiation and its ecological implications. phylogeography, radiation, Enallagma, speciation |
| RADIATION ABSORPTION | Canopy structure versus physiology effects on net photosynthesis of mountain grasslands differing in land use. model, abandonment, dead plant matter, radiation absorption |
| RADIOCARBON | The radiocarbon signature of soil respiration following fire in Alaskan boreal forest: does disturbance release old soil carbon to the atmosphere? carbon, soil respiration, radiocarbon, fire |
| RADIOCARBON DATING | 80 Effects of sample mass and type on radiocarbon dating of arctic lake sediments. Arctic, paleoecology, radiocarbon dating |
| RAIN FOREST | Ground-dwelling vertebrates, mycorrhizal fungi and seedling diversity in an Australian tropical rain forest. rain forest, diversity, mycorrhiza, seedling dynamics |
| RAIN FOREST | Seedling regeneration over 35 years in Australian tropical and subtropical rain forests. rain forest, diversity, seedling regeneration, Australia |
| RAINBOW SMELT | Effects of exotic species invasion and species replacement on prey community structure. invasive species, rainbow smelt, zooplankton community structure, planktivory |
| RAINFALL | Carbon and nitrogen in the soil-plant system along rainfall and land-use gradients in southern Africa. carbon, nitrogen, rainfall, land-use |
| RAINFALL GRADIENT | Photosynthetic capacity and associated leaf traits along a precipitation gradient in lowland tropical forest. photosynthesis, rainfall gradient, tropical forest, Panama |
| RAINFOREST | Faunal Effects on Floristic Diversity in a Lowland Neotropical Rainforest. landcrab, rainforest, biodiversity, dicotyledons |
| RAINFOREST | Seasonal and inter-annual variation in canopy foliage area of tropical rain forest in Costa Rica under ENSO and La Niña climate regimes. drought, rainforest, soil moisture |
| RAINFOREST | Calcium and phosphorus uptake by plants in secondary succession at Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, USA. nutrients, plants, rainforest, life history |
| RAINFOREST TREE GROWTH | Tropical rainforest tree growth periodicity. rainforest tree growth, tree growth periodicity, tropical tree phenology, climate change |
| RAMET AGGREGATION | The role of clonal integration in the survival and growth of four wetland plant species. clonal integration, ramet aggregation, fen, wetlands |
| RANDOM PLACEMENT MODEL | The random placement model as a null model of four well-known biogeographic patterns. random placement model, null model, nestedness, species distribution |
| RANGE CHANGE | Population dynamics during rapid response to climatic change. range change, climate change, insect population dynamics, butterflies |
| RANGE DISTRIBUTIONS | 14 Modeling herpetile range distributions from species occurrences and landscape variables. GAP, amphibians, reptiles, range distributions |
| RANGE EXPANSION | Possible effects of natural enemies on tree species range expansion following climate change. tree species, climate change, range expansion, dispersal |
| RANGE SIZE | The effects of island area and latitude on species extinction rates. extinction rates, island biogeography, range size, latitudinal gradients |
| RANGE-AREA RELATIONSHIP | Testing for self-similarity in a serpentine ecosystem. species-area relationship, range-area relationship, self-similarity, serpentine grasslands |
| RANGELAND | 46 Monitoring grassland, shrubland and savanna ecosystems: LCTA versus an integrated soil and vegetation monitoring protocol. monitoring, desert, rangeland, indicators |
| RANGELAND MONITORING | 90 Adapting remote sensing tools for rangeland monitoring. remote sensing, GIS, rangeland monitoring |
| RANGELANDS | Runoff and erosion thresholds: Implications for rangeland degradation and restoration. hydrology, threshold, rangelands, runoff and erosion |
| RANGELANDS | Climatic triggers for non-linear and threshold responses of rangelands. paleoecology, rangelands, climate, thresholds |
| RANKING AND SELECTION | Spatial reserve design: a comparison of methods for determining optimal habitat layouts for an endangered species. stochastic simulation optimization, ranking and selection, integer programming, reaction-diffusion |
| RANKING SYSTEM | Prioritizing plant: the alien plant ranking system. invasive plants, ranking system, alien plants, decision support tools |
| RAPID EVOLUTION | Evidence of rapid evolution in the biological control weevil, Rhinocyllus conicus? host range expansion, biological control, rapid evolution, Rhinocyllus conicus |
| RAPTOR | 44 Raptor Microcommunity Ecology. raptor, microcommunity, ecology, arthropod |
| RARE | 43 Understanding community structure with two new methods: transparent error and transparent observer. accuracy, camouflage, amphibian, rare |
| RARE | Effects of competition, spatial variability, and timing of germination on Mimulus nudatus, a rare serpentine endemic plant. competition, plants, rare, Mimulus |
| RARE AND ENDANGERED PLANTS AND ANIMALS | Confronting climate change in California. climate change, California, water resources, rare and endangered plants and animals |
| RARE FLORA | Rare vascular flora of the longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem: temporal responses to fire frequency. rare flora, fire frequency, longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem, conservation biology |
| RARE PLANT | Estimation of population size and probabilities of survival and detection in Mead's milkweed, a rare prairie plant. rare plant, capture-mark-recapture, survival estimates, population estimates |
| RARE SPECIES | Microhabitat of two Florida scrub endemic plant species with comparisons to their widespread congeners. microhabitat, rare species, habitat specialization, Florida scrub |
| RAREFACTION | Inference about diversity estimates: Confidence intervals and statistical comparisons for sample species richness. biodiversity, bootstrap, rarefaction, species richness |
| RARITY | The spatial scaling of rare plant distributions. spatial scale, species distributions, fractals , rarity |
| RATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | How does zooplankton community structure respond to varying rates and magnitudes of environmental change? species composition, nutrient enrichment, acidification, rate of environmental change |
| REACTION-DIFFUSION | Spatial reserve design: a comparison of methods for determining optimal habitat layouts for an endangered species. stochastic simulation optimization, ranking and selection, integer programming, reaction-diffusion |
| REACTION-DIFFUSION MODELS | Spatial optimization in ecological applications. linear programming, reaction-diffusion models, spatial control, proximity relationships |
| REALIZED FITNESS | 3 Greenhouse bioassay for evaluating performance of the western spruce budworm on grafted Douglas-firs. Choristoneura occidentalis, greenhouse bioassay, realized fitness, mechanisms of resistance |
| RECENSUS | 105 Recensus of an Indiana nature preserve to examine goldenseal population demography. Hydrastis, recensus, clonal plant, perennial plant |
| RECENT WATER QUALITY CHANGES | Can regional landscape evolution be determined by the study of one lake? kettle pond development, Cape Cod National Seashore, recent water quality changes, paleovegetation and paleolimnology |
| RECIPROCAL TRANSPLANT | 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 |
| RECLAMATION | 67 Effect of coal surface mine revegetation practices on long-term recovery of southeastern hardwood forests. reclamation, succession, eastern hardwood forest |
| RECOLONIZATION | 78 Long-term revegetation of restored prairie pothole wetlands. wetland restoration, invasive species, prairie potholes, recolonization |
| RECOVERY | A century of increase in species richness at a Sonoran Desert site protected from prolonged human impact . diversity, human impact, recovery, Sonoran Desert |
| RECOVERY | 36 Evaluating the viability and potential recovery options for the Florida panther. population viability analysis, recovery, Florida panther, Puma concolor coryi |
| RECOVERY | Plant reestablishment on the Mount St. Helens' debris avalanche. disturbance, recovery |
| RECOVERY | Recovery of zooplankton communities from acidification in Killarney Park, Ontario, 1972-2000: pH 6 as a recovery goal. acidification, recovery, zooplankton |
| RECOVERY FROM BROWSING | 55 Rapid recovery of witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) by sprouting, following release from deer browsing. recovery from browsing, Hamamelis virginiana, basal sprouting, seedling |
| RECRUITMENT | 85 Tests of soil calcium effects on forest dynamics in northeastern USA. nutrient limitation, recruitment, forest dynamics, base-cation deficiency |
| RECRUITMENT | Regulatory effects of adult coral-reef fish on recruit demography. coral-reef fish, population regulation, demography, recruitment |
| RECRUITMENT | Rocky intertidal community dynamics across a major oceanographic discontinuity: precipitous changes in recruitment and growth . upwelling, recruitment, rocky intertidal, oceanography |
| RECRUITMENT | Priority effects in coral reef fish communities. recruitment, predation, competition, community dynamics |
| RECRUITMENT | Seed dispersal, species richness, and recruitment of forest plants across a fragmented Michigan landscape. forest fragmentation, seed dispersal, Lindera benzoin, recruitment |
| RECRUITMENT | 4 Student Perceptions of SEEDS. diversity, minorities, recruitment, SEEDS |
| RECRUITMENT | Size-structured predation, relative growth rates and recruitment potential of largemouth bass. size-structure, predation, recruitment, largemouth bass |
| RECRUITMENT FACILITATION | Facilitation vs. apparent competition and the establishment of tree seedlings under nurse shrubs in northern Patagonia. indirect interactions between plants, recruitment facilitation, short-term apparent competition, insect herbivory |
| RECRUITMENT LIMITATION | Consequences of variable seed production for seedling recruitment in three neotropical tree species. tree seedling demography, variable seed production, recruitment limitation |
| RECYCLING | 3 Co-mingling Ecology Education and Service-Learning; An Assessment of Student Recycling Ethics. environmental ethics, service learning, campus ecology, recycling |
| RED MAPLE | 143 Growth and leaf nitrogen responses of oak and red maple seedlings to canopy gap fraction following prescribed fires. oak regeneration, prescribed fire, red maple, hemispherical photography |
| RED OAK - MIXED HARDWOOD FOREST | 115 Do forest canopy gaps enhance the stem diameter growth of adjacent overstory trees? forest stand dynamics, Pennsylvania, red oak - mixed hardwood forest, tree ring width |
| RED:FAR-RED RATIO | 156 Contribution of horizontal and vertical R:FR to the expression of shade avoidance in grassland canopy gaps. red:far-red ratio, canopy gaps, grassland ecology, perennial grass |
| REDISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL | 44 Water dynamics in four water-limited plant communities. soil water dynamics, hdyraulic redistribution, redistribution of rainfall, steppeland plant communities |
| REDOX POTENTIAL | 6 Reduction-oxidation diagrams for teaching about nutrient cycles and electron transport. microbial ecosystem, electron-transport chain, redox potential |
| REDUCED TILLAGE | 8 Effects of organic amendments and tillage practices on soil microbial biomass, N availability and crop yield in intensive agriculture. cover crops, reduced tillage, compost, sustainable agriculture |
| REDUNDANCY | The unique functional role of wiregrass in longleaf pine savannas. Aristida stricta, redundancy, ecosystem function, nitrogen cycling |
| REED CANARY GRASS | Impact of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) and reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinaceae) density on plant and moth communities in northwest Oregon. purple loosestrife, reed canary grass, invasive species, community impacts |
| REED CANARYGRASS | The replacement of wetland vegetation by reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) . wetlands, invasive species, reed canarygrass, Phalaris arundinacea |
| REEF FISH | Cryptic variation in habitat quality modifies the strength of density-dependent mortality of a reef fish. habitat quality, density dependence, cryptic variation, reef fish |
| REFERENCE CONDITION | 148 Historical vegetation reconstruction to define reference condition. historical, reference condition, watershed, riparian |
| REFIXATION | 60 Allometric equations for estimating bark surface area and corticular refixation. refixation, carbon , carbon budget, allometric equation |
| REFLECTANCE INDEX | 91 Detecting age of Southern California chaparral stands with spectral reflectance. stand age, reflectance index, green & red/near-infrared spectral regions, annual variability |
| REFORESTATION | Expediting forest regeneration in tropical grasslands: distance and isolation from seed sources in plantations. arrested succession, plantations , reforestation, tropical forests |
| REFORESTATION | The use of shrubs as nurse plants: a new technique for reforestation in Mediterranean mountains. facilitation, Mediterranean ecosystems, nurse plant, reforestation |
| REFORM | Ecology curriculum reform: Integrating innovative teaching and global change technology. education, innovative, undergraduate, reform |
| REFUGE | Does Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) shift the balance between fish and invertebrate predators? dissolved organic carbon, invertebrate predators, food web, refuge |
| REFUGE FROM PARASITISM | A novel herbivore refuge? exploitative competition, facilitation, indirect commensalism, refuge from parasitism |
| REFUGES | Plant species and quaternary climate: Disparate histories and potential responses to future change. migration, refuges, genetics, climate change |
| REGENERATION | 141 Longleaf pine gap dynamics on a North Carolina flatwoods site. Pinus palustris, regeneration, North Carolina, fire |
| REGENERATION | In search of general principles in regeneration ecology. ecosystem, regeneration, invasion, filter |
| REGENERATION | Responses to slow versus cataclysmic tree death - growth of neighbors and seedling establishment. canopy gap, deciduous forest, mode of death, regeneration |
| REGENERATION | 71 Regeneration in Amazonian floodplain forest. regeneration, floodplains, Amazonia, palms |
| REGENERATION | Patterns of establishment and growth in rain forest seedlings. tropical rain forest, regeneration, light, Miconia |
| REGENERATION | 64 Biodiversity of endomycorrhizae in forests with distinct patterns of Araucaria angustifolia regeneration in southern Brazil. Araucaria angustifolia, mycorrhizae, regeneration, biodiversity |
| REGENERATION | 144 Within-site genetic variation is negatively correlated with average stem diameter in post-fire Yellowstone aspen seedlings . genetic variation, Populus tremuloides, RAPD, regeneration |
| REGENERATION | Multi-scale correlates of woody regeneration in the Sierra Nevada of California. regeneration, Sierra Nevada, topography, nonmetric multi-dimensional scaling |
| REGENERATION | 145 Flood regime effects on regeneration - a disturbance, subsidy or stress? regeneration, flood regime, disturbance, subsidy-stress |
| REGIONAL ANALYSES | The Influence of climatic events on biota in lakes across the boreal shield. climate change, multiple stressors, regional analyses, aquatic communities |
| REGIONAL BIODIVERSITY | Conserving regional biodiversity across landscapes and habitats: role of reserves, rural lands, and suburbs. regional biodiversity, nature reserve, suburban landscape, conservation |
| REGIONAL DIVERSITY | Convergence and divergence in pond meta-communities: Implications for local and regional patterns of diversity. meta-community, local diversity, regional diversity, pond |
| REGIONAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE | The interactions of climate, society, and natural resources in the mid-Atlantic U.S. regional impacts of climate change, valuing ecological changes, integrated regional assessment, perceptions of ecosystems and their functioning |
| REGIONAL PATTERNS | Spatio-temporal patterns in population dynamics of the southern pine beetle. spatial synchrony, endogenous and exogenous effects, regional patterns, scale |
| REGIONAL-SCALE | Role of disturbance in the large-scale structure and functioning of Amazonian Ecosystems. amazonia, regional-scale, distrubance, land-use |
| REGRESSION | 22 Factors that influence the distribution and abundance of shrubs in coastal Oregon forests. understory, regression, models |
| REGRESSION TREE | A practical technique for relating land use and land cover data: a case study in the Amazon basin. land use, pasture, regression tree, Amazon |
| REGULATIONS | Regulations to Limit Introduction and Spread of Invasive Species: Past, Present, and Future. invasive species, regulations, policy |
| REINTRODUCTION | 120 Restoration of an endangered Florida sandhill endemic plant, Warea amplexifolia (Brassicaceae): Plant response to habitat enhancement and to reintroduction. Warea amplexifolia, restoration, demography, reintroduction |
| RELATIVE FITNESS | High larval performance of leopard frog hybrids (Rana pipiens complex: effects of environment-dependent selection. hybridization, amphibian larvae, relative fitness, transplant experiment |
| RELATIVE FITNESS | 126 A wild annual sunflower of hybrid origin and its ancestral parents differ in their relative fitness, biomass allocation and integrated water use efficiency in response to resource availability. Hybrid speciation, adaptation, relative fitness |
| RELATIVE GROWTH RATE | 86 Interspecific differences in plant growth response to nitrogen are associated with the response of ULR. growth analysis, net assimilation rate, unit leaf rate, relative growth rate |
| RELATIVE GROWTH RATE | 78 Dispersal, reproduction and physiological ecology of two invasive non-indigenous fern species; Lygodium microphyllum and L. japonicum. invasive, reproduction, relative growth rate |
| RELOCATED STREAM | 146 Riparian evaluation using stream measurements and the Riparian Channel Environmental Inventory. riparian evaluation, relocated stream, riparian channel environmental inventory |
| REMOTE | 84 Stream mapping using a remote control model helicopter. aerial, remote, sensing, mapping |
| REMOTE | Thermal remote sensing and the thermodynamics of ecosystem development. thermal, remote, sensing, thermodynamics |
| REMOTE SENSING | Using MODIS data to assess regional forest degradation from human activity. remote sensing, forest degradation, MODIS |
| REMOTE SENSING | Remote sensing of soil erosion for monitoring the ecological integrity of rangelands. soil erosion, soil stability index, remote sensing, timeseries |
| REMOTE SENSING | 95 Detecting contrasting patterns of photosynthetic activity in arctic vegetation using remote sensing. remote sensing, gas exchange, arctic |
| REMOTE SENSING | Relationships between ecosystem CO2 flux and vegetation spectral reflectance in Southern California chaparral. carbon flux, remote sensing, modeling, photosynthesis |
| REMOTE SENSING | 94 Using geospatial technologies for ecological classification of longleaf pine sites in southern Alabama. Pinus palustris, GIS, remote sensing, discrimnant analysis |
| REMOTE SENSING | Remote sensing of forest structure and biophysical properties indicating forest response to chronic nitrogen deposition . nitrogen deposition, remote sensing, forest ecosystems, Germany |
| REMOTE SENSING | 93 Using Landsat TM imagery to identify edge effects extent in a Mexican conifer forest. semivariance, edge effects extent, remote sensing, landscape heterogeneity |
| REMOTE SENSING | Linking biodiversity and spectral reflectance in Southern California vegetation. biodiversity, ecosystem function, remote sensing, spectral reflectance |
| REMOTE SENSING | Enhancing accuracy of foliage biomass estimation with remotely sensed data in a rugged montane area. topography, foliage biomass, leaf area index, remote sensing |
| REMOTE SENSING | Contrasting controls on carbon flux in arctic and chaparral ecosystems. carbon flux, remote sensing, arctic , chaparral |
| REMOTE SENSING | 90 Adapting remote sensing tools for rangeland monitoring. remote sensing, GIS, rangeland monitoring |
| REMOTE SENSING | Spatiotemporal rates of land cover change since 1973: Regional examples from a national study. land cover/use dynamics, disturbance, remote sensing |
| REMOTE SENSING | Data fusion and landscape stratification to identify anomalous characteristics. remote sensing, landscape, vegetation |
| REMOTE SENSING | Catastrophic Ecological Decline of Carysfort Reef, Key Largo, Florida 1974-2000. Coral reef , remote sensing, temporal texture, Carysfort Reef |
| REMOTE SENSING | "Captain, sensors report ...": Correction of Remote Sensing Data . remote sensing, theoretical, corrections, thermodynamics |
| REMOTE SENSING | 96 Landuse changes around Pasoh Forest Reserve in Peninsular Malaysia. tropical forest, landuse change, Malaysia, remote sensing |
| REMOTE SENSING | Remote sensing of absorbed light and primary production in semi-deciduous tropical forest canopies in Panama. remote sensing, deciduousness, canopy light dynamics, carbon model |
| REMOTE SENSING | 158 Key chemical and morphological determinants of light-use efficiency in canopies of terrestrial vegetation . light-use efficiency, remote sensing, net primary production |
| REMOTE SENSING | 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 |
| REMOTE SENSING | 154 Whither the red knot: mapping and modeling the nesting habitat of an Arctic shorebird at both site and regional scales. Calidris canutus, habitat modeling, remote sensing, GIS |
| REMOTE SENSING | Understory vegetation mapping from remote sensing data and its implications for giant panda habitat conservation. remote sensing, understory vegetation, landscape pattern |
| REMOTE SENSING | Forest fragmentation effects on simulated biomass accumulation using remotely-sensed data with varying spatial resolution. spatial scaling, forest productivity, remote sensing, carbon storage |
| REMOTE SENSING AND VEGETATION | 22 Ground truthing remotely sensed vegetation parameters for arid land assessment and management. arid land vegetation, vegetation monitoring, remote sensing and vegetation, senescent vegetation |
| REMOVAL EXPERIMENT | 142 Effects of neighbor removal and fertilization on tallgrass prairie co-dominants. Andropogon gerardii, Sorghastrum nutans, removal experiment, tallgrass prairie |
| REPRODUCTION | Ecologically-relevant effects of pesticides on Daphnia magna. daphnia, pesticide, reproduction, population |
| REPRODUCTION | Is wolverine reproduction linked to winter food availability? wolverine, reproduction, conservation, gulo gulo |
| REPRODUCTION | 78 Dispersal, reproduction and physiological ecology of two invasive non-indigenous fern species; Lygodium microphyllum and L. japonicum. invasive, reproduction, relative growth rate |
| REPRODUCTION | The impact of PCB 153 on male advertisement calling in Rana pipiens. Rana pipiens, behavior, reproduction, PCB 153 |
| REPRODUCTIVE | How will reproduction change in crop and wild species under elevated CO2? elevated CO2, reproductive, review, meta-analysis |
| REPRODUCTIVE ALLOCATION | 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 |
| REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION | Spatial segregation, life history variation and genetic differentiation in trophically dimorphic pumpkinseed sunfish populations. sunfish, trophic polymorphism, reproductive isolation, site fidelity |
| REPRODUCTIVE OUTPUT | Tree seedling recruitment across a landscape fertility gradient. masting, dispersal, reproductive output, soil resources |
| REPRODUCTIVE OUTPUT | Relationships among reproductive output, dispersal, and seedling establishment in experimental populations of wild sunflowers. Helianthus annuus, seed dispersal, reproductive output, seedling recruitment |
| REPTILES | 14 Modeling herpetile range distributions from species occurrences and landscape variables. GAP, amphibians, reptiles, range distributions |
| RESEARCH | Supporting basic research in national parks. national parks, science support, research |
| RESEARCH | Engaging students in a holistic approach to understanding ecological research: the Institute of Ecosystem Studies' Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. undergraduate, research, experience, students |
| RESEARCH ETHICS | 16 How (not) to be an Evil Scientist: Case studies for research ethics education in ecology. research ethics, case studies |
| RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES | Ecological research opportunities in river conservation. river, conservation, service learning, research opportunities |
| RESERVE DESIGN | Spatial and biological aspects of reserve design. Spatially-explicit model, reserve design, ecosystem processes, ecosystem services |
| RESERVOIR | Zooplankton in a large advective reservoir: composition and production through a riverine to lacustrine transition. zooplankton, productivity, reservoir, large river |
| RESERVOIR | Sources of system complexity in the Lake Lanier ecosystem, GA, USA. complex system, mental model, reservoir, ecosystem model |
| RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT | Bird communities and low-density human settlement in the Rocky Mountain West. birds, residential development, land-use change, Colorado |
| RESILIENCE | Resistance and resilience of alpine lake fauna to fish introductions. resistance, resilience, alpine lakes, nonnative fish |
| RESILIENCE | Estimating community stability and ecological interactions from time-series data. community stability, resilience, time-series analysis |
| RESILIENCE | 70 Effects of fire and clear-cut logging on the stability of beetle assemblages in boreal forests. beetles, disturbance, resistance , resilience |
| RESILIENCE | Does zooplankton community structure determine how phytoplankton respond to pulses of nutrients? resistance, resilience, Daphnia, phytoplankton |
| RESILIENCE | Power and social mechanisms for building resilience: lessons from Mexico. resilience, social mechanisms for resilience, power dynamics and social mechanisms, social systems and ecosystems |
| RESISTANCE | 70 Effects of fire and clear-cut logging on the stability of beetle assemblages in boreal forests. beetles, disturbance, resistance , resilience |
| RESISTANCE | Resistance and resilience of alpine lake fauna to fish introductions. resistance, resilience, alpine lakes, nonnative fish |
| RESISTANCE | Costs of resistance and tolerance against herbivores in the context of plant-plant interactions. cost of defense, tolerance, resistance, Arabis |
| RESISTANCE | Does zooplankton community structure determine how phytoplankton respond to pulses of nutrients? resistance, resilience, Daphnia, phytoplankton |
| RESISTANCE | Tolerance and resistance: alternative defensive strategies for plants? tolerance, Raphanus raphanistrum, herbivory, resistance |
| RESISTANCE | Testing Fox's assembly rule: Does plant invasion depend on recipient community structure? functional group, plant, invasion, resistance |
| RESOURCE | The effects of self-pollination and resource addition in wild lupine, Lupinus perennis. selfing, resource, inbreeding depression |
| RESOURCE ALLOCATION | 148 Ecotype specialization and phenotypic plasticity in response to resource availability and variable developmental time. developmental plasticity, ecotypic differences, resource allocation, architecture |
| RESOURCE ALLOCATION | Allometric plasticity of three early successional tree species along a nitrogen gradient. resource allocation, nutrient gradient, boreal tree |
| RESOURCE AVAILABILITY | Relative controls of resource availability and species diversity on ecosystem productivity: local vs. regional processes. species diversity, overyielding, ecosystem productivity, resource availability |
| RESOURCE AVAILABILITY | 1 Plasticity of biomass allocation in response to multiple resource limitation. Abutilon theophrasti, resource availability, growth, biomass allocation |
| RESOURCE AVAILABILITY | Tests of habitat fragmentation and resource distribution effects on the population performance of Microtus pennsylvanicus. habitat fragmentation, resource availability, population demography, Microtus pennsylvanicus |
| RESOURCE AVAILABILITY | 149 Effects of fire and grazing on patterns of resource availability: A comparison of North American and South African grasslands. grasslands, fire, grazers, resource availability |
| RESOURCE AVAILABILITY | Effects of resource availability and soil pH on the growth of Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergii). Berberis thunbergii, invasions, soil pH, resource availability |
| RESOURCE AVAILABILITY | Survivorship of an ant-tended butterfly and the potential role of resource availability. mutualism, ants, lycaenid, resource availability |
| RESOURCE AVAILABILITY | The role of resource availability in plant community invasibility. biological invasions, serpentine grassland, resource availability, invasibility |
| RESOURCE AVAILABILITY | Fluctuating Resources Lead to Predictable Changes in Competition and Invasibility. invasibility, species invasions, competition, resource availability |
| RESOURCE COMPETITION | Stoichiometric models of microbial ecosystems. stoichiometry, plankton, microbial ecology, resource competition |
| RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION | Spatial dynamics of bird communities in a "resource-mosaic" landscape . birds, spatial dynamics, patchy landscapes, resource distribution |
| RESOURCE FLUCTUATIONS | Temporal environmental heterogeneity and community structure: a microcosm study with vascular plants. environmental heterogeneity, resource fluctuations, species richness, positive interactions |
| RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | 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 |
| RESOURCE QUALITY/QUANTITY | Performance tradeoffs along resource quality/quantity gradients in anuran larvae. tradeoff, productivity gradients, resource quality/quantity, mechanisms |
| RESOURCE RATIOS | Sensitivity of western mountain lake biology to N deposition. nitrogen deposition, western mountain lakes, resource ratios |
| RESOURCE STORAGE | 110 Competition, regrowth, and storage in a caespitose grass. plant competition, resource storage, defoliation, Phleum pratense |
| RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY | 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 |
| RESOURCES | 106 How does "science" help resource management at Denali National Park and Preserve? management, resources, park, Denali |
| RESOURCES | Thermodynamics and resource quality in beaver spatiotemporal dynamics. thermodynamics, complexity, castor canadensis, resources |
| RESOURCES | Dissipation versus degradation: a helpful distinction in understanding human historical and non-human ecology of resource use. thermodynamics, resources, hierarchy, observer |
| RESOURCES | Understanding how resources and disturbance create heterogeneity in streams: some considerations of process. heterogeneity, disturbance, resources, streams |
| RESPIRATION | Respiratory quotient (CO2/O2) declines when Vitis canes are exposed to elevated CO2. respiration , elevated CO2, pep carboxylase, respiratory quotient |
| RESPIRATION | 25 Water soluble OC and low-temperature respiration of carbon dioxide from soils of arctic Alaska. winter, respiration, soil, carbon |
| RESPIRATION | 8 Accurate assessment of respiration acclimation to temperature is critical for carbon balance modeling. modeling, respiration, acclimation, temperature |
| RESPIRATION | 63 An examination of the relationship between sapflow rate and measured stem CO2 efflux in trees. respiration, sapflow |
| RESPIRATION | CO2 flux from Antarctic Dry Valley soils: Cross valley comparisons and relationship to soil biota. extreme environment, respiration |
| RESPIRATION | Use of stable isotopes to study the responses of ecosystem respiration in a forest exposed to elevated CO2. respiration, global change, isotopes, elevated CO2 |
| RESPIRATION | Acclimation of plant respiration along an altitudinal gradient. respiration, temperature, acclimation, Q10 |
| RESPIRATION | Root and "root-free" soil respiration response to soil temperature in Alaskan Black spruce forests. soil, respiration, carbon, root |
| RESPIRATION | 95 Carbon dioxide efflux from stems and soil during a cottonwood dry-down experiment under low and high atmospheric CO2. Populus deltoides , drought, respiration |
| RESPIRATION RATE | 68 Physiological and metabolic evaluation of Poa secunda Presl. populations of the Intermountain West. Intermountain west, plant calorimetry, respiration rate, heat rate |
| RESPIRATION RATES | Plant species, not short- or long-term nitrogen fertilization, determine soil microbial biomass. soil microbial community, microbial biomass, respiration rates, nitrogen |
| RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT | Respiratory quotient (CO2/O2) declines when Vitis canes are exposed to elevated CO2. respiration , elevated CO2, pep carboxylase, respiratory quotient |
| RESPONSE CURVE | Continuum theory revisited: what shape are species responses along ecological gradients? response curve, HOF models, skewed responses, beta function models |
| RESPONSE RULES | 48 Disturbance-associated assembly and response rules in blackland prairies. fire, assembly rules, response rules, null models |
| RESPROUTING | Effects of pre-fire fuel load manipulation on shrub resprouting 2 and 14 months post-fire in pine savanna. resprouting, fire intensity, pine savanna, shrubs |
| RESPROUTING | Why do non-sprouters exist? Seedling drought tolerance in resprouting and non-sprouting populations of Ceanothus tomentosus. fire, resprouting, drought, Ceanothus |
| RESTORATION | Historical alterations of surface hydrology in Iowa's agricultural watersheds. stream ecology, restoration , riparian, wet prairie |
| RESTORATION | Is prescribed fire effective in restoring eastern forest soils under heavy atmospheric N loading? restoration, deciduous forest, N mineralization, soil enzyme activity |
| RESTORATION | Seedbank viability in disturbed longleaf pine sites. longleaf pine, seedbank, loblolly pine, restoration |
| RESTORATION | River flow regime as a restoration target:assessing flow alteration in rivers of the Great Lakes Basin. river, flow regime, restoration, hydrology |
| RESTORATION | Changes in mineralization rates and pools of carbon and nitrogen six years following the conversion of agriculture to restored prairie in southern Minnesota. prairie, carbon, restoration, agriculture |
| RESTORATION | 77 Short-term effects of experimental restoration of a lakeshore plant community. restoration, lakeshore, wetland, prairie |
| RESTORATION | Changes in net primary productivity and soil N status across a 25 year chronosequence of tallgrass prairie restoration sites. restoration, tallgrass prairie, nitrogen, net primary productivity |
| RESTORATION | 79 The role of species pools in determining initial plant species richness in newly created wetlands. restoration, species pools, wetland |
| RESTORATION | 62 Comparison of planting strategies in a tallgrass prairie restoration. restoration, prairie, planting, seeding |
| RESTORATION | 63 Evaluating nitrogen immobilization for the restoration of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) infested rangeland. Nitrogen immobilization, restoration, Bromus tectorum, Elymus elymoides |
| RESTORATION | 71 Deciduous woodland dynamics following removal of invasive honeysuckle. deciduous woodland, honeysuckle, invasive species, restoration |
| RESTORATION | 72 Functional analysis of planted, regenerated, and old-growth cypress wetlands along the Cache River, Illinois. restoration, wetland, baldcypress |
| RESTORATION | Complementarity, compensation, & competition: what goes around, comes around. productivity, tropics, biodiversity, restoration |
| RESTORATION | 74 Interrelationships among channel form, instream habitat, and aquatic communities. streams, restoration, channelization |
| RESTORATION | Secondary succession along a 42-year chronosequence of restored freshwater marshes. succession, wetland, seed bank, restoration |
| RESTORATION | 127 Fifty years of change in Maine salt marsh landscapes: Implications for restoration. salt marshes, restoration, drainage network, landscape change |
| RESTORATION | Ecology and management of Zizania texana (Texas Wild Rice), an endangered aquatic macrophyte of the San Marcos River, Texas. Zizania texana, macrophyte, restoration, management |
| RESTORATION | The relationships of the savanna herbaceous layer to gradients in gap size, canopy cover, and soil conditions. sand savanna, herbaceous vegetation, gap size, restoration |
| RESTORATION | The role of post-disturbance seed dispersal and initial floristic resources during tropical forest succession. dispersal, restoration, succession, tropical |
| RESTORATION | 120 Restoration of an endangered Florida sandhill endemic plant, Warea amplexifolia (Brassicaceae): Plant response to habitat enhancement and to reintroduction. Warea amplexifolia, restoration, demography, reintroduction |
| RESTORATION | Go towards the light: butterfly species richness increases following ponderosa pine restoration. butterfly, restoration, ponderosa pine, community structure |
| RESTORATION | Legal perspectives on dam removal. law, dam removal, restoration |
| RESTORATION | A description of avian communities of upland forests of northern Mississippi: implications for oak-pine woodland restoration. management, forest-obligate, restoration |
| RESTORATION | Arbuscular mycorrhizae and restoration of disturbed soils: structure of hyphae and non-nutritional roles. restoration, arbuscular mycorrhizae, soils |
| RESTORATION | 122 The creative mosaic - a potential role for microarthropods in determining prairie restoration success. microarthropods, nutrient mobilization, restoration |
| RESTORATION | Expected responses of riparian vegetation to dam removal. dam removal, riparian vegetation, restoration |
| RESTORATION | 65 Effects of Formica subsericea mounds on prairie plants and soils. prairie, restoration, ant, mounds |
| RESTORATION | Relationships between stream incision, riparian vegetation dynamics, and restoration potential in Great Basin watersheds. riparian vegetation, stream incision, Great Basin watersheds, restoration |
| RESTORATION | Evaluating the success of wetland restoration at the Disney Wilderness Preserve, central Florida. wetland , restoration, mitigation, monitoring |
| RESTORATION | 12 Response of a southern pine community to readjustment of stand structure. Pinus palustris, Pinus echinata, Pinus taeda, restoration |
| RESTORATION | Land use legacies and the recovery of a tropical forest ecosystem. biodiversity, restoration, nutrient cycling, community structure |
| RESTORATION | Dam removal: Challenges and opportunities for ecological research and watershed management. river, restoration, dam, watershed |
| RESTORATION | Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities and the success of prairie restoration. arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, prairie, restoration |
| RESTORATION | 80 Wet prairie vegetation and soil development on the Mount Saint John (MEEC) prairie restoration. restoration, soil development, succession, wet prairie |
| RESTORATION | 57 Determining restoration goals and methods for a degraded sand prairie. restoration, sand prairie |
| RESTORATION | Application of an urban woodland restoration framework. urban, woodland, restoration |
| RESTORATION | Spatial distribution of seeds in desert grasslands and their potential vulnerability to prescribed burning. seed bank, desert grassland, prescribed burning, restoration |
| RESTORATION | Modeling phosphorus assimilation through the canal system of the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation. wetland, phosphorus, restoration, modeling |
| RESTORATION | Developing appropriate plant assemblage bioindicators of forested wetland hydrology. bioindicator, restoration, wetland, hydrology |
| RESTORATION | Ecosystem responses to removal of low-head dams from two Wisconsin Rivers. dams, nitrogen, phosphorus, restoration |
| RESTORATION | Retaining students in ecology: enriching introductory chemistry, biology, and non-majors science with wetland restoration projects. applied learning, project-based learning, investigative laboratory, restoration |
| RESTORATION | Prairie Planting Partnerships: Bringing together undergraduate research projects with third grade investigations. elementary, undergraduate, prairie, restoration |
| RESTORATION ECOLOGY | Preserving an old-growth pine remnant: do two "wrongs" make a "right"? old-growth, restoration ecology, salvage harvesting, CWD |
| RESTORATION ECOLOGY | Early stages of community assembly: a field experiment with vernal pool plants. community assembly, vernal pools, endangered species, restoration ecology |
| RESTORATION ECOLOGY | Species-rich plantings increase biomass accumulation in a salt marsh restoration experiment. biodiversity, restoration ecology, Salicornia virginica, wetlands |
| RESTORATION MANAGEMENT | Effects of thinning on the carbon isotope signatures of Larix occidentalis (Nutt.). soil water availability, carbon isotope discrimination, restoration management, western larch |
| RESTORED | Viability analysis of a restored Illinois population of the federal threatened Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri). Cirsium pitcheri, endangered, viability, restored |
| REVEGETATION | 73 Carolina Bay restoration: vegetation assessment of Lost Lake after 9 years. Carolina Bay, revegetation, soil disturbance, wetland restoration |
| REVIEW | How will reproduction change in crop and wild species under elevated CO2? elevated CO2, reproductive, review, meta-analysis |
| REWRITES TO IMPROVE GRADES | 14 Teaching ecology with interactive methods. interactive teaching, worksheets, group learning, rewrites to improve grades |
| RHIZOSPHERE | 58 Differences between rhizosphere and bulk soil in a nutrient-poor loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantation. rhizosphere, nutrient uptake, fine roots, mycorrhizae |
| RICHNESS | The effect of precipitation change on leaf litter spider communities. spiders, precipitation, communities, richness |
| RICHNESS | 84 Multivariate effects on species richness in floodplain oak savannas. richness, diversity, savanna, prairie |
| RIPARIAN | Cross-taxonomic patterns of biological diversity in riparian ecosystems: implications for conservation. alpha diversity, beta diversity, ecological surrogate, riparian |
| RIPARIAN | 149 Vegetation and seed bank dynamics in riparian habitats of the regulated Colorado River in Grand Canyon. disturbance, riparian, vegetation, management |
| RIPARIAN | Nutrient dynamics in subsurface flowpaths of an arid watershed. nitrogen, riparian, nutrient, hydrology |
| RIPARIAN | Introduction: The need for integration of aquatic and terrestrial perspectives of biogeochemistry. biogeochemistry, terrestrial, aquatic, riparian |
| RIPARIAN | Riparian area response to altering season of use and intensity of cattle grazing in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico. riparian, Populus angustifolia, cattle grazing |
| RIPARIAN | Hyporheic processing and storage of nutrients from spawning sockeye salmon. hyporheic, salmon, nitrogen, riparian |
| RIPARIAN | Scaling nutrient retention in human-dominated landscapes of Europe. riparian, nitrate export, catchment, Europe |
| RIPARIAN | 157 Phoenix or Tucson: does landscape structure influence where Abert's Towhees choose to live? Pipilo aberti, urban, riparian, corridor |
| RIPARIAN | 150 Controls of plant species diversity in a desert riparian ecosystem. riparian, groundwater decline, species diversity, ecosystem integrity |
| RIPARIAN | Consequences of detrital heterogeneity for stream invertebrates: Results from a simulation analysis and field experiment. streams, riparian, litter, invertebrates |
| RIPARIAN | Historical alterations of surface hydrology in Iowa's agricultural watersheds. stream ecology, restoration , riparian, wet prairie |
| RIPARIAN | Riparian vegetation along a rural-urban gradient. urban, riparian, exotic, flooding |
| RIPARIAN | Plant diversity response to grazing on spring-fed riparian areas of California's oak woodlands. grazing, diversity, riparian |
| RIPARIAN | Characterization of land use in riparian areas within the Contentnea watershed of North Carolina. riparian, digital orthophotograph, land use |
| RIPARIAN | Territorial responses of riparian forest birds to width of watercourses. gap-crossing, territory, playback, riparian |
| RIPARIAN | Riparian land use/cover change around lakes, wetlands, and streams across a 60-yr study . riparian, land use change, aquatic ecosystems |
| RIPARIAN | 148 Historical vegetation reconstruction to define reference condition. historical, reference condition, watershed, riparian |
| RIPARIAN AREAS | Riparian root systems: Response to season, landscape position, and disturbance in the Adirondack Mountains, NY. rooting dynamics, riparian areas, disturbance, landscape position |
| RIPARIAN CHANNEL ENVIRONMENTAL INVENTORY | 146 Riparian evaluation using stream measurements and the Riparian Channel Environmental Inventory. riparian evaluation, relocated stream, riparian channel environmental inventory |
| RIPARIAN DISTRUBANCE | 144 An experimental manipulation to assess ecological impacts of riparian disturbances on small stream ecosystems. riparian distrubance, instream habitat, aquatic communities, fishes and macroinvertebrates |
| RIPARIAN ECOLOGY | Effects of marine-derived nutrients on riparian forest structure in southwest Alaska. marine-derived nutrients, riparian ecology, boreal forest structure |
| RIPARIAN ECOLOGY | Woody plant diversity in western Oregon riparian forests: Multiple scales of control. riparian ecology, plant diversity, forests, disturbance |
| RIPARIAN ECOLOGY | Physical variables affect the location of species of tree seedlings on river point bars. riparian ecology, seedling establishment, primary succession, southeastern floodplain forest |
| RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEMS | 151 Degradation of the riparian ecosystem of Ramsey Canyon in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona. riparian ecosystems, seed bank |
| RIPARIAN EVALUATION | 146 Riparian evaluation using stream measurements and the Riparian Channel Environmental Inventory. riparian evaluation, relocated stream, riparian channel environmental inventory |
| RIPARIAN FOREST | Soil variability along the middle Rio Grande floodplain related to vegetation type and flood frequency. soils, riparian forest, Tamarix, floodplain |
| RIPARIAN SUCCESSION | Patterns of nitrogen accumulation and turnover in riparian soils along the Green and Yampa Rivers. nitrogen cycling, nitrogen accumulation, riparian succession, river regulation |
| RIPARIAN VEGETATION | Influence of climatic variation on recruitment dynamics of riparian trees along the Wisconsin River. riparian vegetation, climatic change, flooding, modeling |
| RIPARIAN VEGETATION | Expected responses of riparian vegetation to dam removal. dam removal, riparian vegetation, restoration |
| RIPARIAN VEGETATION | Relationships between stream incision, riparian vegetation dynamics, and restoration potential in Great Basin watersheds. riparian vegetation, stream incision, Great Basin watersheds, restoration |
| RIPARIAN ZONE | Riparian zone functions: sediment and contaminant trapping and vegetation along the Pocomoke River, Maryland. riparian zone, sedimentation, channelization disturbance, contaminant trapping |
| RIPARIAN ZONE | Apparent temporal shifts in stream communities following selective logging. Salvelinus fontinalis, stream community, selective logging, riparian zone |
| RISK | 105 Integrating measures of habitat quality into Ecological Risk Assessments: modifying the exposure estimating procedures. habitat, exposure, risk, landscape |
| RISK | Efficiency and risk aversion in nature: avoiding chaos. chaos, population, efficiency, risk |
| RISK | 5 The use of AQUATOX to disaggregate the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems. model, toxic, nutrient, risk |
| RISK ASSESSMENT | Reliability of relative predictions in population viability analysis. extinction risk, management decision, population viability analysis, risk assessment |
| RISK ASSESSMENT | Progress in invasion biology: understanding the occurrence and impact of nonindigenous species. nonindigenous species, exotic species, prevention, risk assessment |
| RISK ASSESSMENT | How precise is population viability analysis (PVA)? population viability analysis, risk assessment |
| RISK OF PREDATION | 50 Diversity and composition of non-breeding bird assemblies in the northern Israeli desert during winter. community structure, non-breeding species assemblies, risk of predation, habitat structure |
| RISK OF PREDATION | Oviposition site selection by the mosquito, Culiseta longiareolata, in response to chemical detection of a predator, Notonecta maculata. oviposition habitat selection, risk of predation, temporary pools |
| RIVER | River flow regime as a restoration target:assessing flow alteration in rivers of the Great Lakes Basin. river, flow regime, restoration, hydrology |
| RIVER | Ecological research opportunities in river conservation. river, conservation, service learning, research opportunities |
| RIVER | Dam removal: Challenges and opportunities for ecological research and watershed management. river, restoration, dam, watershed |
| RIVER REGULATION | 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 |
| RIVER REGULATION | Patterns of nitrogen accumulation and turnover in riparian soils along the Green and Yampa Rivers. nitrogen cycling, nitrogen accumulation, riparian succession, river regulation |
| RIVER RESTORATION | What's the big deal about small dams: Societal perspectives on dam removal. dam removal, river restoration, fisheries restoration, ecosystem restoration |
| RIVERS | Transport and transformation of C, N and P in a large river ecosystem. rivers, nutrient cycling, ecosystem ecology |
| RIVERS | Effects of dam removal on river form and process. geomorphology, rivers, sediment transport, dam removal |
| RIVERS | Changes in the hydrologic periodicity of the Mississippi River. periodicity, rivers, disturbance, temporal dynamics |
| ROAD ECOLOGY | Road traffic and nearby grassland bird patterns in a suburbanizing landscape. distance-from-road effect, grassland birds, landscape ecology, road ecology |
| ROCK POOLS | 49 The relationship between diversity and stability in rock pool microcosms. diversity-stability, rock pools, microcosms, predation |
| ROCK POOLS | Plankton community structure in small aquatic systems. species turnover, species composition, plankton, rock pools |
| ROCKY INTERTIDAL | Cross-scale linkages between bottom-up factors and interaction strength in rocky intertidal communities. cross-scale linkages, bottom-up/top-down, rocky intertidal, California current |
| ROCKY INTERTIDAL | Rocky intertidal community dynamics across a major oceanographic discontinuity: precipitous changes in recruitment and growth . upwelling, recruitment, rocky intertidal, oceanography |
| ROCKY INTERTIDAL | Direct and indirect effects of shade on community structure in the low rocky intertidal zone. positive interactions, herbivory, rocky intertidal, canopy effects |
| RODENTS | Does human scent bias seed predation studies? seed predation, post-dispersal seed removal, rodents, experimental protocol |
| ROOT | 59 Root phenolics, leaf phenolics, and growth of cottonwood. Populus deltoides, tradeoffs, root, condensed tannin |
| ROOT | Root and "root-free" soil respiration response to soil temperature in Alaskan Black spruce forests. soil, respiration, carbon, root |
| ROOT | 55 The effect of freeze-thaw cycles on conifers with large-diameter tracheids. freezing, embolism, conifer, root |
| ROOT ALLOCATION | Species specific root allocation patterns in belowground competition. root allocation, belowground competition, interspecific competition |
| ROOT BIOMASS | Biological versus geochemical cycling of phosphorus in an Amazonian forest ecosystem. phosphorus, nutrient limitation, root biomass, tropical forests |
| ROOT BIOMASS | 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 |
| ROOT BIOMASS | 89 Linking root and microbial biomass to soil respiration rate in a high-altitude coniferous forest. soil respiration, root biomass, microbial biomass, subalpine forest soil |
| ROOT COMPETITION | Timing is of the essence: Intra-annual variation in root and shoot competition. plant competition, per-gram effects, non-additive interactions, root competition |
| ROOT DAMAGE | 24 Effects of artificial root herbivory on seedling growth. roots, herbivory, compensation, root damage |
| ROOT DECAY | Do litterbags underestimate fine root decomposition? root decay , fine roots, intact cores, litterbags |
| ROOT DECOMPOSITION | Fine root physiology, tissue construction and morphology in tree species of different growth rate. fine root physiology, temporate forest trees, root decomposition |
| ROOT DISTRIBUTION | 104 The effect of elevated CO2 on belowground pattern and process in California annual grasslands. root distribution, plant water uptake, elevated CO2, stable isotope |
| ROOT FORAGING | 132 Influence of soil nutrient heterogeneity on root system morphology and responses to drought in three herbs. nutrient heterogeneity, root foraging, root system asymmetry, drought |
| ROOT PATHOGENS | Temporal and spatial interactions among root and stem insects, fungi, and predators in declining forests. forest decline, bark beetles and predators, belowground herbivory, root pathogens |
| ROOT SYSTEM ASYMMETRY | 132 Influence of soil nutrient heterogeneity on root system morphology and responses to drought in three herbs. nutrient heterogeneity, root foraging, root system asymmetry, drought |
| ROOT UPTAKE | Free amino acids as a source of plant nitrogen nutrition in sub-arctic salt-marsh coastal sites. free amino acids, root uptake, arctic, nitrogen |
| ROOT-DERIVED CARBON | 3 Fate of root-derived carbon in annual cropping systems. carbon cycling, root-derived carbon , particulate organic matter, microbial biomass |
| ROOT:SHOOT RATIO | The fate of nutrients released by control burning and the effect on pine seedling growth. Pinus rigida, fire, litter, root:shoot ratio |
| ROOTING DYNAMICS | Riparian root systems: Response to season, landscape position, and disturbance in the Adirondack Mountains, NY. rooting dynamics, riparian areas, disturbance, landscape position |
| ROOTS | Comparison of root and stem vulnerability to xylem embolism between sprouting and non-sprouting chaparral. cavitation, chaparral, xylem embolism, roots |
| ROOTS | Effects of climate and soil on root systems of grasses. roots, grasslands, climate, soil |
| ROOTS | Self/non-self responses in roots. self/non-self, roots, competition, plasticity |
| ROOTS | Steady-state resource preemption: a new hypothesis for nutrient competition. competition, nutrients, roots |
| ROOTS | 24 Effects of artificial root herbivory on seedling growth. roots, herbivory, compensation, root damage |
| ROOTS | 145 Directional Self/Non-self Responses in Roots. self/non-self, roots, phenotypic plasticity, plant competition |
| ROOTS | Grazers stimulate whole grassland production in Yellowstone Park. herbivore, grassland, Yellowstone National Park, roots |
| ROOTS | 124 Contrasting effects of collembola on mass and N uptake of ash seedlings. collembola, mycorrhizae, roots |
| ROOTS | 47 Nitrogen transformations, roots, and fates of inorganic N in agricultural soil. roots, plant ammonium uptake, ammonification, nitrification |
| ROOTS | How sensitive are fine root dynamics and BNPP to short and long-term changes in soil water content? roots, BNPP, hydroperiod, bottomland hardwood forest |
| ROTIFER | Energy storage and the evolution of population dynamics. dynamic energy budget, evolutionary stable strategy, population dynamics, rotifer |
| ROUND GOBY | Weathering the storm: synergistic effects of storms, angling, and predators on smallmouth bass nest success. micropterus dolomieui, round goby, lake erie, nest predation |
| RUDERALS | Effects of soil nutrient patchiness on plant competition. nutrient, heterogeneity, competition, ruderals |
| RUNOFF AND EROSION | Runoff and erosion thresholds: Implications for rangeland degradation and restoration. hydrology, threshold, rangelands, runoff and erosion |
| RUSSIA | 136 Patterns of fire in Russia derived using remote sensing techniques. fire, avhrr, russia, ecology |
| RUSTY CRAYFISH | 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 |