SUBJECT INDEX
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
| N CYCLING | Relationships among leaf and root traits in grasslands of New Zealand and Australia. grasslands, functional traits, N cycling  FULL ABSTRACT |
| N MINERALIZATION | 159 How does summer precipitation affect soil N and C cycling? Differences between cheatgrass and sagebrush soils. vegetation change, N mineralization, nitrification, carbon dioxide flux FULL ABSTRACT |
| N-15 STABLE ISOTOPE MARKERS | 49 A new technique to determine seedling parenthood using a stable isotope marker. seed-dispersal, N-15 stable isotope markers FULL ABSTRACT |
| N-CYCLE | Patterns of nitrogen loss from a pristine old-growth forested watershed, Olympic National Park, Washington. N-cycle, stream chemistry, old-growth, global change FULL ABSTRACT |
| N-FIXER | The influence of a N-fixing shrub on soil C dynamics in a California forest soil. forest, carbon, nitrogen, N-fixer FULL ABSTRACT |
| N-LIMITED ENVIRONMENT | Does N utilization in ericoid association reflect the intraspecific variation in N source preference by Hymenoscyphus ericae. Genetic diversity, N-limited environment FULL ABSTRACT |
| N-MINERALIZATION | Effects of soil microbial community composition on nutrient cycling dynamics in rhizosphere soil. rhizosphere, N-mineralization, bacteria, signaling FULL ABSTRACT |
| N-SATURATION | 157 Phosphomonoesterase activity in violets (Viola rotundifolia) found in watersheds exhibiting varying levels of nitrogen availability. N-saturation, P-limitation, forests , Viola rotundifolia FULL ABSTRACT |
| NDVI | Plants reverse warming effect on ecosystem water balance in a California grassland. climate change, soil moisture, NDVI, phenology FULL ABSTRACT |
| NDVI | Statistically based assessment of aircraft CO2 flux measurements and NDVI in Arctic Alaska . Fluxes, Optimization, NDVI, Eddy Covariance FULL ABSTRACT |
| NDVI | 20 Geographic portability of the relationships between LAI, FPAR, and spectral vegetation reflectance . FPAR, LAI, NDVI, REMOTE SENSING FULL ABSTRACT |
| NDVI | Spatial heterogenity of tundra vegetation response to warming in northern Alaska. arctic tundra, vegetation dynamics, NDVI, climate change FULL ABSTRACT |
| NDVI | Stand age and seasonal effects on chaparral ecosystem carbon flux. light use efficiency, PRI, NDVI FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROUS OXIDE | Effect of labile carbon additions on N2O emissions from forest soils in southwestern Brazilian Amazon. AMAZON, NITROUS OXIDE, SOIL RESPIRATION, CARBON DIOXIDE FULL ABSTRACT |
| NPP | 24 Community and system-level constraints on NPP and C pool dynamics in a restored tallgrass prairie. carbon, restoration, prairie, NPP FULL ABSTRACT |
| NPP | 87 Soil moisture promotes grass growth, but does this growth have a measurable effect on soil-water content? grassland, arid zones, NPP, desertification FULL ABSTRACT |
| NSF GK-12 | 161 Enhancement of ecological education by NSF GK-12 Teaching Fellows in the middle grades of West Virginia schools. Ecology Education, K-12 Education, NSF GK-12, Graduate Education FULL ABSTRACT |
| NSF INITIATIVE | Ecology AND molecular biology: A wedding of complementary interests and expertises. NSF initiative, molecular biology FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUE | 27 C/N ratios in four species of plants exposed to varying light, nutrients, water, and CO2. NUE, C/N, allometry, resource availability FULL ABSTRACT |
| NASSELLA PULCHRA | Impacts of soil depth and competition with Centaurea solstitialis on Nassella pulchra. Nassella pulchra, Centaurea solstitialis, grassland restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIONAL FOREST | 106 Sweetgrass restoration in South Carolina: II. Reestablishing a coastal prairie habitat. restoration, prairie, Muhlenbergia filipes, National Forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIONAL PARK SERVICE | 94 Monitoring fire effects in national parks of the Northern Great Plains. fire effects monitoring, Northern Great Plains, National Park Service, prescribed fire FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIONAL PARK SERVICE | Native plant harvesting in Walnut Canyon National Monument: Assessing sustainability of Petrophytum caespitosum. traditional ecological knowledge, Petrophytum caespitosum, harvest sustainability, National Park Service FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIONAL PARK | 48 Understanding an Australian semi-arid ecosystem: lessons for restoration of a National Park. Australia, Restoration, Semi-arid, National Park FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE | Comprehensive conservation planning and ecosystem restoration on National Wildlife Refuges. National Wildlife Refuge, Comprehensive Conservation Plan, restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE AMERICAN | Tsé na′alkaah: Indigenous geoscience teaching. Indigenous, Native American, education, geoscience FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE AMERICANS AND FIRST NATIONS | Biodiversity investment areas: Linking Traditional Ecological Knowledge with western scientific programs. Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Biodiversity, Great Lakes, Native Americans and First Nations FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE | 103 Kaibab Environmental Education Network (KEEN): A restoration education model for Native communities. restoration, collaboration, Native, education FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE COMMUNITIES | Ike Papalua: The ecological restoration of cultural landscapes in dry forest regions of the Hawaiian Islands. Native communities, Restoration, Native trees, Hawaiian culture FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE SPECIES | Restoring the dominant native plant species in the Mojave Desert. Restoration, Mojave Desert, Native species, Creosote bush FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE TREES | Ike Papalua: The ecological restoration of cultural landscapes in dry forest regions of the Hawaiian Islands. Native communities, Restoration, Native trees, Hawaiian culture FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL CAPITAL | Returning value to southern African rangelands. Natural Capital, Africa, Rangelands FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL | 130 Theory and reality of lightning fire policy in the Kruger National Park. Fire pattern, Model, Natural, Conservation management FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEBRASKA SANDHILLS GRASSLAND | 89 The effects of predation risk and resource addition on fitness components of nymphal Ageneotettix deorum . field experiment, grasshopper ecology, Nebraska sandhills grassland, predator-prey interaction FULL ABSTRACT |
| NECTARIVOUROUS BATS | Effects of forest fragmentation on nectarivorous bat foraging in tropical dry forest in Jalisco, Mexico. Forest fragmentation, Nectarivourous bats, Pollination ecology, Tropical dry forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEGATIVE FEEDBACK | Soil nutrients influencing plant/soil community feedback. Negative Feedback, Serpentine Grassland, Matrix Species FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEGEV DESERT | Effects of shrub mounds on species richness: the role of spatial scale and environmental variability. ecosystem engineer, Negev Desert FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEIGHBORHOOD | Spring Lake Park: Challenges and rewards of multiligual outreach for neighborhood driven environmental restoration in Omaha, Nebraska. Minority , Innercity, Urban, Neighborhood FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEOTROPIC | Estimating the economic value of the Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) in Los Olivitos estuary, Venezuela.. Cormorant, Neotropic, Value, Venezuela FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEOTROPICAL BIRD | Clutch size evolution in a Neotropical bird: Experimental test of nest predation and individual optimization hypotheses. clutch size, life history evolution, Neotropical bird, predation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEOTROPICAL SAVANNAS | 112 Leaf morphological and chemical traits from geographically distant populations of Trachypogon plumosus, a dominant C4 grass from the neotropical savannas. Neotropical savannas, C4 grasses, Specific leaf area, Leaf nutrients FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEOTROPICS | 65 Diversity patterns of neotropical vascular epiphytes . Vascular Epiphytes, Biodiversity, GIS, Neotropics FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEOTROPICS | Contrasting the effects of macro- and micrograzers in a Neotropical stream. species interactions, streams, Neotropics, grazing FULL ABSTRACT |
| NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY | 134 Net ecosystem productivity and atmospheric nitrogen deposition. Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition, Net ecosystem productivity, Forest, eddy-covariance FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEUTRAL-COMMUNITY-MODELS | On zero-sum dynamics and Taylor power laws. Taylor, Power-Laws, Zero-Sum, Neutral-Community-Models FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEW YORK STATE | 99 Impact of the invasive plant Vincetoxicum rossicum on activity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal populations. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, invasion, New York State, Mycorrhizal inoculum potential FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEW ZEALAND | Investigating deciduousness in New Zealand trees using a canopy carbon-gain model. Modelling, Deciduous, Canopy, New Zealand FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEW ZEALAND | Assessing biological integrity: predicting freshwater fish assemblages using habitat selection functions . biomonitoring, freshwater fish, predictive modelling, New Zealand FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEW ZEALAND | Macroinvertebrate diversity in New Zealand spring brooks and streams. Springs, Spring brooks, Disturbance, Macroinvertebrate diversity, New Zealand FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE | Effects of elevated CO2 on nitrate leaching and denitrification in herbaceous ecosystems. Nitrification, Nitrate , Leaching, Denitrification FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE FLUX | Root nitrogen and water fluxes to the shoot are influenced by growth CO2. Root hydraulic conductivity, Ammonium flux, Nitrate flux, Amino acid fluxes FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRIFICATION | Effects of elevated CO2 on nitrate leaching and denitrification in herbaceous ecosystems. Nitrification, Nitrate , Leaching, Denitrification FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Variability in carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of bristlecone pine leaves along an altitude gradient . Pinus longeava, CO2 , Nitrogen , Stable Isotopes FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | 132 Enlarging glade communities through mechanical clearing: Initial soil and plant responses. Restoration, Glades, Nitrogen Cycling, Soil Respiration FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN RETENTION AND LOSS | Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium and nitrous oxide losses in humid Costa Rican forests. Nitrogen Retention and Loss, Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium, Nitrous Oxide Fluxes, 15N FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 131 Effects of N deposition on N cycling in annual grasslands of southern California. Nitrogen, Decomposition, Deposition, Grasslands FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Canopy uptake of atmospheric nitrogen and potential carbon sequestration at a Colorado subalpine forest. Nitrogen, Carbon, Atmospheric, Uptake FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Photosynthesis versus nitrogen relationships at the Duke Forest FACE experiment indicate no evidence of photosynthetic acclimation after five years of CO2 enrichment . Elevated CO2, Photosynthetic acclimation, Duke FACE, Nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 127 Assessing habitat loss due to anthropogenic activity in the Mondego and Mira estuaries (Portugal). Eutrophication, Salt marsh, Nitrogen, Seagrasses FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 128 Canopy uptake of atmospheric nitrogen and new growth nitrogen requirement at a Colorado subalpine forest. Nitrogen, Reallocation, Uptake, Requirement FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Impact of an invasive shrub (Rhamnus cathartica L.) on some ecosystem properties of urban woodlands in Chicago, Illinois. Invasive species, Rhamnus cathartica, Nitrogen, urban woodlands FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Post-fire plant species composition and fire severity determine nitrogen retention in upland black spruce forests. Nitrogen, Retention, Fire, Alaska FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Differential nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation by five wetland plant species. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Wetland Perennials, Nutrient Retention FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Effect of ground litter from various species on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities on Pinus rigida seedlings. Ectomycorrhiza, Litter decomposition, Phenolics, Nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Nitrogen transformations along a rainfall gradient in Patagonia, Argentina: role of carbon-nutrient interactions. Precipitation, Carbon cycling, Nitrogen cycling, 15N natural abundance FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROUS OXIDE FLUXES | Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium and nitrous oxide losses in humid Costa Rican forests. Nitrogen Retention and Loss, Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium, Nitrous Oxide Fluxes, 15N FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROUS OXIDE | Threshold responses of N2O flux to added N in intensively managed ecosystems. Nitrous oxide FULL ABSTRACT |
| NIWOT RIDGE | 45 Effects of long-term nitrogen and phosphorous fertilization on sarmentosin production by Yellow Stonecrop, Sedum lanceolatum. sedum lanceolatum, plant chemical defense, nitrogen deposition, Niwot Ridge FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-NATIVE SPECIES | 106 Synthesizing and spatially linking disparate datasets . Data synthesis, GIS, Non-native species FULL ABSTRACT |
| NORTHERN BOBWHITE | Red imported fire ant impacts on Northern Bobwhites. Invasive Species Impacts, Red Imported Fire Ant, Northern Bobwhite, Insect Abundance FULL ABSTRACT |
| NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS | 94 Monitoring fire effects in national parks of the Northern Great Plains. fire effects monitoring, Northern Great Plains, National Park Service, prescribed fire FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT RETENTION | Differential nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation by five wetland plant species. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Wetland Perennials, Nutrient Retention FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLES | Magnification of ecosystem function by Darwinian selection on organism-nutrient interactions. Biogeochemistry, Nutrient cycles, Evolution, Plant strategies FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | Insect herbivory alters soil microclimate in a semi-arid woodland: nutrient cycling implications. Herbivory, Ecosystem, Soil microclimate, Nutrient cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT UPTAKE | 19 Interspecific variation in CO2 effects on seed quality, germination rate and early seedling physiology. Seed germination, Seed quality, Nutrient uptake, Elevated CO2 FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | 122 Elemental fluxes en litterfall in riparian montane forest of the San Alberto cathment, Andean Amazon Basin (nutrient cycling). Yanachaga, Litterfall, Nutrients, Forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| N UPTAKE | 139 Elevated CO2 increases uptake and assimilation of NH4+ but not NO3- in tree seedlings. elevated co2, glutamine synhtetase, nitrate reductase, n uptake FULL ABSTRACT |
| NARRATIVE ANALYSIS | Peregrines and patriots: ecologists and physicists as policy advisors in the late twentieth century. policy science, boundary work, history, narrative analysis FULL ABSTRACT |
| NARROW-BAND REMOTE SENSING | Biophysical and spectral discrimination of functional groups in a semiarid ecosystem. functional groups, narrow-band remote sensing, biophysical characteristics, semiarid regions FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIONAL PARKS | Ecological restoration in Canada's national parks. restoration, national parks, policy, legislation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE CIRSIUM THISTLES | 66 Native floral guild penetration by two introduced weevils, Larinus planus and Rhinocyllus conicus. native Cirsium thistles, Larinus planus, Rhinocyllus conicus, biocontrol FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE | Factors controlling the relative abundance of native and exotic plant species in a dune community. native, exotic, stress gradient, dune FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE BEE DIVERSITY | 19 Native bee communities, honeybees, and flower use in black oak savannas. black oak savannas, honeybee, native bee diversity FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE BEES | Bee diversity and pollination services in an agro-natural landscape. pollination, ecosystem service, native bees, habitat isolation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE BUNCHGRASSES | Using successional management to restore invasive plant dominated wildlands. successional management, invasive plants, native bunchgrasses, restorating native grasses FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE ECOSYSTEM | Increased aboveground biomass in elevated CO2 masks species-specific growth responses in a scrub-oak ecosystem. elevated co2, native ecosystem, growth, oak species FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE FISH | Restoration of a Sonoran Desert spring ecosystem and vertebrate assemblage in an urban setting. restoration, urban ecology, native fish, herpetofauna FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE FISHES | The Fish Community in Grand Canyon: Past, Present, and Future? Colorado River, native fishes, adaptive management FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE MEADOWS | Planning for the unplanned: Incorporating ecological restoration techniques into the practice of landscape design. natural landscaping, ecological gardens, landscape design, native meadows FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE PERENNIAL BUNCHGRASSES | Predicting the effects of community composition on nitrogen dynamics in a coastal California grassland. nitrogen cycling, species effects, native perennial bunchgrasses, California grassland FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE PLANT COMMUNITY | Using ecological theory to guide the implementation of augmentative restoration. invasive plants, augmentative restoration, native plant community, environmental variability FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE PLANT COVER | Patch area effects on urban riparian native plant assemblages. biogeography, edge, native plant cover, native plant diversity FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE PLANT COVER | Non-native plant cover and physical soil properties in urban riparian areas in northwestern Oregon. native plant cover, soil bulk density, soil organic matter, soil texture FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE PLANT DIVERSITY | Patch area effects on urban riparian native plant assemblages. biogeography, edge, native plant cover, native plant diversity FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE PLANTS | The renewal of indigenous storyscapes through oral history & plant knowledge. indigenous knowledge, oral history, ecocultural restoration, native plants FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE PLANTS | 104 Seeds of Success for Restoration and Conservation. native plants, restoration, conservation, Millennium Seed Bank Project FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE PLANTS | Soil community structure and the maintenance of exotic-dominated systems: evidence for degraded mutualisms. soil community structure, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, native plants, invasive exotic plants FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE SEEDS AND PLANTS | Seeding the future: Agroecosystem conservation for the US- Mexico borderlands. traditional ecological knowledge, native seeds and plants, agroecosystems, Sonoran Desert FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATIVE SPECIES RESTORATION | Restoring species diversity and richness along riverbottom areas using herbicides. Russian knapweed, native species restoration, riparian weed management FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL ABUNDANCE ISOTOPES | Distribution of 15N-nitrogen over shoots and roots. natural abundance isotopes, nitrogen uptake, nitrogen reduction, shoot root FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL AREAS MANAGEMENT | Value and limits of understanding early human cultural impacts on the Willamette Valley landscape. natural areas management, prairie restoration and conservation, reference ecosystems, traditional ecological knowledge FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL ATTENUATION | 63 Natural revegetation of hydrocarbon-contaminated soil in the Prairie ecozone. phytoremediation, natural attenuation, species selection, hydrocarbons FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL CHANNEL DESIGN | Design constraints and opportunities associated with stream restoration in watersheds with combined sewer overflow. urban stream restoration, combined sewer overflow, natural channel design FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL CHANNEL DESIGN | 102 Bugs, slugs, and other icky stuff: Restoring nature back into urban streams. stream restoration, urban, urban education, natural channel design FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL ENEMIES | Coexistence of competing insect populations via interaction with natural enemies. coexistence, natural enemies, stage structure, invasion FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL ENEMIES | Escape of pathogens by introduced plant species. invasive species, disease, parasites, natural enemies FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL ENEMIES HYPOTHESIS | Invasiveness of Ammophila arenaria: Release from soil-borne pathogens? natural enemies hypothesis, plant pathogen interactions, invasion biology FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL LANDSCAPING | Planning for the unplanned: Incorporating ecological restoration techniques into the practice of landscape design. natural landscaping, ecological gardens, landscape design, native meadows FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL PATCHINESS | The effects of natural patchiness on ponderosa pine forest birds. ponderosa pine, birds, fragmentation, natural patchiness FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL RESOURCE MODELING | Interpolating sparse data over complex landscapes: a common problem for ecologists. woody fuels, regression tree analysis, natural resource modeling, Black Hills National Forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL SELECTION | 44 Selection by natural enemies and divergence of gall size among populations of Eurosta solidaginis. gall, parasitoid, tritrophic interactions, natural selection FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL SELECTION | Darwinian agriculture: when can humans find solutions beyond the reach of natural selection? natural selection, crop genetic improvement, agroecosystem design FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURAL SELECTION STAND MODEL | Testing the natural selection stand model for whitebark pine restoration. whitebark pine, natural selection stand model, seed dispersal, restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURALNESS | Information needs for restoring natural conditions and protecting wildness in designated wilderness. wilderness, restoration, wildness, naturalness FULL ABSTRACT |
| NATURE WRITING AND ARTWORK | Seeding the Snow - A journal of nature writing and artwork. seeding the snow, nature writing and artwork, midwestern women FULL ABSTRACT |
| NDVI | 125 Functional type contribution to the carbon balance of arctic vegetation at Barrow, AK . reflectance, ndvi, carbon, flux FULL ABSTRACT |
| NECTAR | Amino acids in nectar and honeydew shape a rain forest canopy ant community. ant-plant interactions, bottom-up control, nectar, tropical rain forests FULL ABSTRACT |
| NECTAR ANALYSIS | 58 Nectar rewards of co-flowering spring herbs in woodlands and adjacent agricultural fields. nectar analysis, agricultural weeds, woodland flowers, pollination FULL ABSTRACT |
| NECTAR ROBBING | Herbivory and resource availability influence plant resistance and response to nectar robbers and seed predators. herbivory, nectar robbing, seed predation, pollination FULL ABSTRACT |
| NECTAR SECRETION | 41 Hummingbirds, verdins and the reproductive biology of Fouquieria macdougalii. Fouquieria, pollination, hummingbirds, nectar secretion FULL ABSTRACT |
| NECTAR SELECTION | Effects of sugar concentration for nectar selection by birds: coevolutionary effects of a physiological mechanism. bird pollination, nectar selection, sugar concentration, animal-plant coevolution FULL ABSTRACT |
| NECTAR-ROBBERS | Combined effects of nectar robbers and pre-dispersal seed predators on their host plant, Ipomopsis aggregata. nectar-robbers, pre-dispersal seed predators, Ipomopsis aggregata, species interactions FULL ABSTRACT |
| NECTAR-ROBBING | The pollinator-robber spectrum. mutualism, pollination, nectar-robbing, manzanita FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEIGHBORHOOD COMPETITION | Quantifying the contribution of coexistence processes in the Arizona desert. coexistence, environmental heterogeneity, neighborhood competition, spatial storage effect FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEMATODE | 116 Spatial distribution of nematode population along a temperature gradient in the Negev Desert ecosystem. desert, diversity, nematode , soil FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEMATODE | Responses of Antarctic dry valley soil biota and soil respiration to long-term carbon and climate manipulations. antarctica, soil respiration, nematode, invertebrate FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEMATODES | Root herbivore:microbe interactions in upland grasslands. root herbivory, soil microbial communities, nematodes, rhizosphere carbon flow FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEOTROPICAL MIGRANT BIRDS | The role of spatial scale in neotropical migrant bird habitat selection: A local conservation issue. biodiversity, neotropical migrant birds, spatial analysis, geographic information systems FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEOTROPICS | Directed dispersal effects on landscape-level demographics of a neotropical tree. seed dispersal, demography, frugivorous bats, neotropics FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEST PREDATION | Songbird populations in fluctuating environments: nest predator responses to pulsed resources. direct and indirect effects, nest predation, pulsed resources, songbird populations FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEST SUCCESS | Nest success as a misleading indicator of habitat quality in the Botteri's Sparrow. habitat quality, nest success, territory density, Aimophila botterii FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEST SURVIVAL | Estimating stage-specific daily survival probabilities of nests when nest failure data are incomplete. nest survival, Mayfield model, stage-specific survival, maximum likelihood estimation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NESTED SUBSETS | The spatiotemporal structure of communities: how often do organisms at Konza Prairie exhibit nested subsets? community structure, nested subsets, species diversity, long-term ecological research FULL ABSTRACT |
| NET N MINERALIZATION RATES | 106 Nitrogen availability and non-symbiotic nitrogen fixation in early and late successional forests in southern Chile. fire disturbance, net N mineralization rates, C/N ratios, forest succession FULL ABSTRACT |
| NET ANNUAL PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY (NAPP) | 78 The importance of leaf demographic data for calculations of annual production by sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense). Cladium jamaicense, Everglades, leaf demographics, net annual primary productivity (NAPP) FULL ABSTRACT |
| NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION | Resource manipulation of the carbon budget of a Eucalyptus plantation. Gross primary production, belowground production, net ecosystem production FULL ABSTRACT |
| NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY | 26 The potential of short-rotation cropping systems to sequester C. carbon storage, net ecosystem productivity, grassland, short-rotation cropping systems FULL ABSTRACT |
| NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY | Matching scale of modeling with scales of variability in a forested region of Oregon, USA. modeling, net ecosystem productivity, forest, Oregon FULL ABSTRACT |
| NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION | 123 Scaling net primary production to a MODIS footprint in support of Earth Observing System product validation. net primary production, carbon flux, scaling, remote sensing FULL ABSTRACT |
| NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY | Water, nutrient, and carbon fluxes following ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine forests. ecological restoration, nutrient cycling, water balance, net primary productivity FULL ABSTRACT |
| NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY | The sensitivity of tropical forest growth to climate. net primary productivity, climate, tropical forest, global FULL ABSTRACT |
| NETWORK | Complex topology and scale invariance in pollination webs compared to other interaction networks. pollination, dispersal, network, food web FULL ABSTRACT |
| NETWORK | Investigating pathway proliferation in ecological networks. network, indirect effects, connectance pattern, random networks FULL ABSTRACT |
| NETWORK ANALYSIS | Size, complexity and function of theoretical and real food webs. network analysis, food web, theoretical ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| NETWORK THEORY | 83 Sensitivity and success of the Niche Model at predicting the network structure of extremely large food webs. ecological modeling, food chain, statistical ecology, network theory FULL ABSTRACT |
| NETWORK TOPOLOGY | Network topology and species loss in food webs: Robustness increases with connectance. food webs and trophic structure, biodiversity loss and cascading extinctions, ecosystem stability and robustness, network topology FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEUTRAL COMMUNITY MODEL | Species time relationships in a Kansas grassland: diversity despite dominance. diversity, species-area, species-time, neutral community model FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEUTRAL LANDSCAPE MODELS | Assessing the risk of invasive spread in fragmented landscapes. invasive spread, habitat fragmentation, neutral landscape models, landscape ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEUTRAL THEORY | 139 Estimating mean dispersal rates in ecological communities from relative species abundances . neutral theory, dispersal FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEUTRAL THEORY | 52 Neutral theory on diversification of lineages: An empirical test. neutral theory, evolution, diversification FULL ABSTRACT |
| NEUTRAL THEORY | A new theory of community assembly: From Elton and Hutchinson to now. community assembly, limiting similarity, competition, neutral theory FULL ABSTRACT |
| NICHE | 126 Modern CART-based classifiers: higher prediction accuracy for niche-based vegetation mapping. GIS, biogeography, niche, landcover mapping FULL ABSTRACT |
| NICHE BREADTH | Environmental randomness underlies morphological complexity of colonial diatoms. complexity, evolutionary strategy, fractal dimension, niche breadth FULL ABSTRACT |
| NICHE BREADTH | Individual specialization and population dynamics: implications for trophic polymorphisms. individual specialization, density dependence, niche breadth, population dynamics FULL ABSTRACT |
| NICHE OCCUPATION | Plant functional group diversity as a mechanism for invasion resistance. Cenraurea maculosa, nutrient uptake, niche occupation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NICHE PARTITIONING | Morphological, phenological, and genetic characterization of an endangered plant and its hybrid swarm: Protection implications. endangered species, genetics, introgression, niche partitioning FULL ABSTRACT |
| NIGHTTIME WATER LOSS | 81 Using blue light to address possible benefits of nighttime water loss. nighttime water loss, blue light, Chenopodium album FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE | Riparian zones and the interface between science and policy. riparian, groundwater, wetland, nitrate FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE | 127 The effects of atmospheric deposition on forested watersheds in the Los Angeles and Mexico City Air Basins. nitrogen, deposition, streamwater, nitrate FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE | Comparing perennial and annual cover crops: Root architecture and soil inorganic nitrogen. agroecology, nitrate, leaching, roots FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE | Ecological significance of dissolved organic nitrogen exported from minimally disturbed watersheds. dissolved organic nitrogen, nitrate, decomposition, nitrogen deposition FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE | 6 Effects of ecosystem restoration on nitrogen processing in an urban mid-Atlantic piedmont stream. nitrate, urban, stream, restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE DEPOSITION | 169 Nitrate loading alters NH4+, glutamine, glycine and glucosamine uptake capacity in conifer roots. amino acid uptake, ammonium uptake, conifer seedlings, nitrate deposition FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE LOADING | 129 Negative effects of nitrate loading on the physiological responses of a nitrogen-fixing tree, Robinia pseudoacacia. nitrate loading, nitrogen fixation, Robinia pseudoacacia, physiological response FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE POOL DILUTION | 163 Correlating gross nitrification rates with population dynamics of ammonia oxidizers in soil. ammonium fertilizer, nitrification, nitrate pool dilution, taqman realtime quantitative pcr FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRATE REDUCTASE | 139 Elevated CO2 increases uptake and assimilation of NH4+ but not NO3- in tree seedlings. elevated co2, glutamine synhtetase, nitrate reductase, n uptake FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRIC OXIDE | The role of biological soil crusts in ecosystem N cycling on the Colorado Plateau. nitrogen fixation, biological soil crust, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRIFICATION | Soil nitrogen cycling in urban forests and grasslands. urban ecology, urban soils, nitrogen mineralization, nitrification FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRIFICATION | 159 How does summer precipitation affect soil N and C cycling? Differences between cheatgrass and sagebrush soils. vegetation change, N mineralization, nitrification, carbon dioxide flux FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITRIFICATION | 163 Correlating gross nitrification rates with population dynamics of ammonia oxidizers in soil. ammonium fertilizer, nitrification, nitrate pool dilution, taqman realtime quantitative pcr FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Nitrogen additions change soil carbon structure and turnover times. soil carbon, nitrogen , decomposition, isotopes FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 104 Effects of vegetation and seasonality on microbial community structure and nitrogen dynamics. nitrogen , microbial community structure, agriculture, grasslands FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 104 Effects of mowing and supplemental nitrogen additions on two invasive sweet clovers, Melilotus alba and M. officinalis. restoration prairies, reproductive potential, Melilotus, nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen fertilization on fungal growth and microbial enzymes in leaf litter decaying in a hardwood forest. decomposition, nitrogen, fungi, enzymes FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 127 The effects of atmospheric deposition on forested watersheds in the Los Angeles and Mexico City Air Basins. nitrogen, deposition, streamwater, nitrate FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Nutrient use efficiency by phytoplankton in a coastal upwelling ecosystem:
Patterns along the Oregon Coast
. upwelling , nitrogen, nutrient-use-efficiency, phytoplankton FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 118 Long-term nitrogen dynamics of Coweeta forested watersheds in the Southeastern USA. nitrogen, saturation, forest watershed, Coweeta FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Soil nitrate and phosphate availability under simulated global changes in a California annual grassland ecosystem. global change, nutrient availability, nitrogen, phosphorous FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Redox and the nitrogen cycle: how oxic/anoxic fluctuation affects nitrogen cycling in a wet tropical soil. nitrogen, redox, Puerto Rico FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 105 Ecotones and gradients as determinants of Darlingtonia fen community structure: The roles of fire and soil and water nitrogen (NH4 and NO3). ecotones, gradients, Darlingtonia, nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | The influence of a N-fixing shrub on soil C dynamics in a California forest soil. forest, carbon, nitrogen, N-fixer FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 164 Mapping the abundance and activity of two symbiotic nitrogen fixers in western Oregon. nitrogen, fixation, Alnus, Lobaria FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 150 Effect of landscape properties on water quality in an agricultural watershed of north-central Ohio. water quality, nitrogen, phosphorus, GIS FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Sphagnum colonization and nutrient accumulation in a Hawaiian montane forest. hawaiian islands, sphagnum palustre, nitrogen, phosphorus FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Patterns and controls of greenhouse gas emissions from drainage waters in an intensively farmed, subtropical valley. nitrogen, nitrous oxide, methane, carbon dioxide FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Forest harvest, N saturation, and potential base cation depletion in coastal Oregon forests . nitrogen, base cation, strontium isotopes, Oregon FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | The relationship between carbon and nitrogen in New Zealand lichens. carbon, nitrogen, lichens, PCA FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Evidence of a strong soil organism effect on plant response to CO2 and nitrogen enrichment. elevated CO2 , mycorrhizae, nitrogen, respiration FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Competitive outcomes between halophytes shift when N and water levels are varied. competition, salt-marsh, nitrogen, interspecific-interactions FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 153 Vegetation, nitrogen mineralizaion and soil texture of Ft. Benning, Georgia upland forest sites. disturbance, vegetation, nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Controls on belowground carbon storage and flux in Douglas-fir forests. carbon, nitrogen, soil respiration, Douglas-fir FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 119 Relationship between biogeochemistry and ANPP within two contrasting riverine forests of Georgia. biogeochemistry, litterfall, nitrogen, phosphorus FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Impacts of plant invasions on mycorrhizal communities and nitrogen cycling. arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, non-native grass invasion, california and utah grasslands, nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | The rich arsenal of plant polyphenols and their effects on soil processes. polyphenols, litter, nitrogen, mycorrhizae FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 107 Microbiotic crust communities: Nitrogen fixation and leaching within a temperate oak savannah. microbiotic crust, nitrogen, resin bags, cyanobacteria FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Identification of the primary limiting resource within an Idaho fescue/bluebunch wheatgrass plant association as a basis for mechanistic competition modeling. nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | N Amendment supresses activity in soil from three types of northern hardwood forest. lignin decomposition, extracellular enzymes, nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Factors influencing mechanisms of P retention in humid tropical soils of Hawaii. phosphorus, soil, tropics, nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 108 A test of field and laboratory extractions for soil mineral nitrogen. soil, nitrogen, sagebrush, method FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 124 Isotopic tracers of nitrogen cycling in the San Alberto catchment, Andean Amazon basin . nitrogen, nitrogen-15, nitrogen cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Fine root lifespan is correlated with root nitrogen content. fine roots, lifespan, nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Models and mechanisms linking carbon, water and nutrient cycles under elevated CO2. elevated CO2, ecosystem, nitrogen, phosphorus FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Mycorrhizae and tropical forest: restoration and carbon sequestration. mycorrhizae, tropical forest, carbon sequestration, nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 139 Vertical gradients in canopy CO2-exchange and leaf N in Quercus and Populus at a flux site. photosynthesis, leaf mass per area, nitrogen, gas exchange FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | 148 Annual variation in the carboxylation efficiency of Larrea tridentata . seasonal photosynthesis, desert, Larrea tridentata, nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Uptake of amino acids, ammonium and nitrate ions in the arctic salt-marsh grass, Puccinellia phryganodes . amino acid, nitrogen, root uptake, arctic FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Are eroding landscapes C sources or sinks: testing the "dynamic equilibrium" hypothesis in highly erodible New Zealand pasture. Kyoto Protocol, carbon, nitrogen, erosion FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen levels on root exudation by loblolly pine. exudation, elevated CO2, nitrogen, carbon allocation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | The N:P ratio tool: predicting nutrient deficiencies in desert shrublands. Sarcobatus vermiculatus, Chrysothamnus nauseosus, nitrogen, phosphorus FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN | Watershed controls on streamwater nitrate concentrations, Catskill Mountains, NY. catskills, oak, nitrogen, watershed FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN AVAILABILITY | 110 Homogeneity of microbial communities in adjacent forests differing in nitrogen cycling. soil microbial community, DGGE, PLFA, nitrogen availability FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN BUDGET | Nitrogen dynamics in semi-natural acidic and calcareous grasslands under ambient and enhanced N deposition. nitrogen pollution, grasslands, nitrogen budget FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN COMPETITION | Can blue oak seedlings compete for organic and inorganic N with grasses and soil microorganisms. nitrogen competition, blue oaks, annual grasses, soil microorganisms FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CONTENT | Carbon tissue fractions and associated nitrogen content of 25 species after 1 year of decomposition. Decomposition, tissue fractions, nitrogen content FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLE | 120 Changes in soil nitrogen cycling processes and microbial communities across a meadow-forest gradient. nitrogen cycle, microbial diversity, forest, meadow FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Change in forest nitrogen cycling during the decline of a dominant tree species. nitrogen cycling , species decline, Tsuga canadensis FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Positive and negative feedbacks of plant species on ecosystem nitrogen cycling. nitrogen cycling, carbon cycling, feedbacks, nitrogen use efficiency FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Regional quantification of soil N oxide emission from savanna soils of North Texas. soil nitrogen trace gases, semi - arid ecosystems, nitrogen cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | 124 Isotopic tracers of nitrogen cycling in the San Alberto catchment, Andean Amazon basin . nitrogen, nitrogen-15, nitrogen cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Soil is more than skin deep: Microbial community structure and C dynamics in a soil profile. soil profile, PLFA, carbon cycling, nitrogen cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Nitrogen cycling in seasonal wetlands of subtropical pastures. seasonal wetlands, nitrogen cycling, denitrification, cattle pastures FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | 130 Landscape and seasonal influences on microbial activity and nitrogen cycling in Yellowstone grasslands. nitrogen cycling, grasslands, microbial biomass, grazing FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | 48 Interactive effects of nitrogen deposition and insect herbivory on carbon and nitrogen dynamics: Results from CENTURY. atmospheric nitrogen deposition, herbivory, nitrogen cycling, carbon storage FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Impacts of the nitrogen-fixing black locust on nitrogen-cycling in a pine-oak ecosystem . black locust, invasive species, nitrogen cycling, nitrogen mineralization FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Nitrogen distribution and  15N in a 115 year chronosequence of old-field white pine.nitrogen cycling, old field white pine, agricultural abandonment, stable isotopes FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | 125 Patterns of nitrogen cycling at treeline and within forests along a latitudinal transect in Alaska. treeline, nitrogen cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Predicting the effects of community composition on nitrogen dynamics in a coastal California grassland. nitrogen cycling, species effects, native perennial bunchgrasses, California grassland FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Centaurea diffusa and soil nutrient cycling in the Colorado Front Range. Centaurea diffusa, invasive species, nitrogen cycling, phorphorus availability FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN CYCLING | Plant trait interactions determine ecosystem effects of plant species and plant species mixtures. plant species effects, nitrogen cycling, plant mixtures, decomposition FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN DEPOSITION | Interactive effects of intraspecific litter diversity and nitrogen deposition on nutrient cycling. biodiversity, ecosystem function, intraspecific diversity, nitrogen deposition FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN DEPOSITION | 39 Loch Vale watershed long-term ecosystem research and trend analysis . long-term research, subalpine watershed, nitrogen deposition, climate change FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN DEPOSITION | Chronic N effects on root and leaf litter chemistry on northern hardwood forests. litter quality, nitrogen deposition, Acer saccharum FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN DEPOSITION | 45 Effects of long-term nitrogen and phosphorous fertilization on sarmentosin production by Yellow Stonecrop, Sedum lanceolatum. sedum lanceolatum, plant chemical defense, nitrogen deposition, Niwot Ridge FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN DEPOSITION | Comparing atmospheric deposition and nitrogen mineralization in oak-hickory forests along urban-rural gradients in New York and Kentucky. urban ecosystems, nitrogen mineralization, nitrogen deposition, forests FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN DEPOSITION | Effect of experimental N-additions on soil and root respiration in northern hardwood stands. nitrogen deposition, soil respiration, root respiration, carbon allocation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN DEPOSITION | Ecological significance of dissolved organic nitrogen exported from minimally disturbed watersheds. dissolved organic nitrogen, nitrate, decomposition, nitrogen deposition FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN DEPOSITION | 75 Changes in insect herbivore communities along an ozone and nitrogen deposition gradient in the San Bernardino Mountains. nitrogen deposition, ozone, insect herbivore community, mixed conifer forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN DIOXIDE(NO2) | The exchange of reactive nitrogen between plants and the atmosphere. biosphere/atmosphere interactions, nitrogen dioxide(NO2), gas exchange, reactive nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN ENRICHMENT | Everything but the carbon sink: AM fungi have specific and transient responses to elevated CO2 . elevated carbon dioxide, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, nitrogen enrichment, plant diversity FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN ENRICHMENT | Effects of soil fertilization on the chemical defense and performance of a specialist insect herbivore. nitrogen enrichment, specialist insect herbivore, allelochemical defense, Junonia coenia FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN FERTILIZATION | 143 Canopy radiation- and water-use efficiencies of cheatgrass as affected by pulse and gradual N fertilization. canopy development, nitrogen fertilization, radiation-use efficiency, water-use efficiency FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN FERTILIZATION | Nitrogen fertilizer effects on soil organic carbon dynamics in corn-soybean agroecosystems. carbon sequestration, corn-soybean agroecosystems, nitrogen fertilization, root allocation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN FIXATION | 158 Phosphorus availability limits nitrogen fixation across an alpine tundra soil age gradient. nitrogen fixation, alpine, phosphorus, age gradient FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN FIXATION | 161 Nitrogen fixation in bryophytes, lichens, and dead wood along a soil-age gradient in Hawaii. nitrogen fixation, nutrients, chronosequence, tropics FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN FIXATION | The role of biological soil crusts in ecosystem N cycling on the Colorado Plateau. nitrogen fixation, biological soil crust, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN FIXATION | 129 Negative effects of nitrate loading on the physiological responses of a nitrogen-fixing tree, Robinia pseudoacacia. nitrate loading, nitrogen fixation, Robinia pseudoacacia, physiological response FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN MINERALIZATION | Soil nitrogen cycling in urban forests and grasslands. urban ecology, urban soils, nitrogen mineralization, nitrification FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN MINERALIZATION | Comparing atmospheric deposition and nitrogen mineralization in oak-hickory forests along urban-rural gradients in New York and Kentucky. urban ecosystems, nitrogen mineralization, nitrogen deposition, forests FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN MINERALIZATION | A genetic component to ecosystem-level processes: genetic variation in condensed tannins predicts net nitrogen mineralization. genetic variation, nitrogen mineralization, condensed tannins, litter quality FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN MINERALIZATION | Impacts of the nitrogen-fixing black locust on nitrogen-cycling in a pine-oak ecosystem . black locust, invasive species, nitrogen cycling, nitrogen mineralization FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN POLLUTION | Nitrogen dynamics in semi-natural acidic and calcareous grasslands under ambient and enhanced N deposition. nitrogen pollution, grasslands, nitrogen budget FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN REDUCTION | Distribution of 15N-nitrogen over shoots and roots. natural abundance isotopes, nitrogen uptake, nitrogen reduction, shoot root FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN RETENTION | Species compositional effects on nitrogen partitioning and recovery in a coastal prairie ecosystem. species effects, nitrogen retention, plant phenology, invasive species FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN RETENTION | The weighted C/N stoichiometries of ecosystem pools that retain elevated N deposition in temperate forests . stable isotope, nitrogen retention, carbon sequestration, temperate forests FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN SATURATION | The relationship of soil nitrogen to herb layer dynamics and diversity patterns in an eastern oak forest, USA. understory herbaceous stratum, herb-layer diversity, nitrogen saturation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN SATURATION | Impacts of environmental stressors on coniferous forests in western North Carolina. drought, nitrogen saturation, southern pine beetles FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN SATURATION | Spatial variability in nitrogen-saturated soils: interactions of cation mobility and substrate quality with N dynamics. nitrogen saturation, cation leaching, aluminum toxicity, C/N ratio FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN SATURATION | Effects of denitrifier community structure on N2O and N2 gas flux in a nitrogen fertilization experiment. denitrification, microbial community structure, real-time PCR, nitrogen saturation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN TRANSFER | Nitrogen transfer between Lupinus perennis and non-leguminous prairie plants under elevated CO2 and N . nitrogen transfer, 15N, lupinus perennis, CO2 FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN TRANSPORT | Can deer utilization of heterogeneous landscapes alter forest nitrogen budgets? nitrogen transport, forest nitrogen budget, landscape heterogeneity, ungulate foraging FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN UPTAKE | Distribution of 15N-nitrogen over shoots and roots. natural abundance isotopes, nitrogen uptake, nitrogen reduction, shoot root FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN USE EFFICIENCY | 155 Geographic gradient in resource use efficiency in Eucalyptus plantations. nitrogen use efficiency, light use efficiency, water use efficiency FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN USE EFFICIENCY | Positive and negative feedbacks of plant species on ecosystem nitrogen cycling. nitrogen cycling, carbon cycling, feedbacks, nitrogen use efficiency FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN USE EFFICIENCY | 138 Extending growth analysis to include water and nitrogen use efficiency at ambient and elevated CO2. growth analysis, water use efficiency, nitrogen use efficiency, elevated CO2 FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN-15 | 124 Isotopic tracers of nitrogen cycling in the San Alberto catchment, Andean Amazon basin . nitrogen, nitrogen-15, nitrogen cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN-FIXATION | 42 Evidence for partner-choice in the legume-rhizobia system. partner-choice, symbiosis, nitrogen-fixation, rhizobia FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROGEN-FIXING SHRUB | Generation of microhabitats by a nitrogen-fixing shrub: the only good shrub is a dead shrub. coastal sand dunes, nitrogen-fixing shrub, light and nitrogen availability, northern California FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROUS OXIDE | Microbial community composition and nitrogen gas emissions in agroecosystems. denitrification, microbial communities, agriculture, nitrous oxide FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROUS OXIDE | 21 Soil moisture control on nitrous oxide fluxes in a large enclosed rainforest ecosystem . nitrous oxide, soil moisture, drought FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROUS OXIDE | Patterns and controls of greenhouse gas emissions from drainage waters in an intensively farmed, subtropical valley. nitrogen, nitrous oxide, methane, carbon dioxide FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROUS OXIDE | 133 Trace gas emissions from extensive aquaculture systems in the Red River Delta, Vietnam. mangrove, methane, nitrous oxide, aquaculture FULL ABSTRACT |
| NITROUS OXIDE | The role of biological soil crusts in ecosystem N cycling on the Colorado Plateau. nitrogen fixation, biological soil crust, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide FULL ABSTRACT |
| NOCTURNAL TRANSPIRATION | Nocturnal sap-flow in seedlings of 22 temperate tree species. nocturnal transpiration, sap-flow, temperate tree seedlings, forest ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-ADDITIVE | Evaluating the prevalence of non-additivity for multiple predator species in aquatic systems. additive, non-additive, multiple predator species, predation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-ADDITIVITY | Mixed-litter effects on decomposition, litter quality, microbial metabolism and invertebrate colonization in a stream ecosystem. decomposition, mixed-litter, streams, non-additivity FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-CONSUMPTIVE EFFECTS | Non-consumptive effects of predators on aphid population growth. non-consumptive effects, aphids, predation, behavior FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-HOST PLANT | Variable responses of herbivores to host and non-host density. insect herbivore, host plant density, non-host plant, Pinus edulis FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-INDIGENOUS | 67 Non-indigenous ants in the Florida Keys. non-indigenous, ants, invasive species, Florida Keys FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-INDIGENOUS SPECIES | Ecological risk assessment conceptual model formulation for non-indigenous species. regional, risk assessment, non-indigenous species, decisions FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-INVASIVE SAMPLING | 2 Female dispersal in southern hairy-nosed wombats revealed by DNA forensics on remotely collected hairs. female dispersal, microsatellite DNA, Lasiorhinus latifrons, non-invasive sampling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-NATIVE GRASS INVASION | Impacts of plant invasions on mycorrhizal communities and nitrogen cycling. arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, non-native grass invasion, california and utah grasslands, nitrogen FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-NATIVE INVASIVE PLANTS | Demonstration of a light/water trade-off in the non-native, invasive grass, Microstegium vimineum. Microstegium vimineum, light/water trade-off, non-native invasive plants, shade tolerance FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-NATIVE PLANTS | Effects of non-native plants on the population genetics of native phytophagous insects: a case study. lepidoptera, non-native plants, phytophagous insects, Everes FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-STRUCTURAL CARBON COMPOUNDS | 22 Are treeline trees carbon limited? non-structural carbon compounds, conifers, high elevation, growing season length FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-TARGET ORGANISMS | 1 Environmental impacts of biotechnology-derived cotton, corn and soybean. population genetics, soil conservation, non-target organisms, Bt corn FULL ABSTRACT |
| NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS IN MEXICO | Ecology, economy, people and trees: Conservation and the case of a non-timber resource in Mexico. non-timber forest products in Mexico, Croton fantzianus, vara blanca, ethnoecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| NONINDIGENOUS | 17 Invasive potential and seedling response of Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) to light, soil, and moisture treatments. biodiversity, invader, nonindigenous, weed FULL ABSTRACT |
| NONINDIGENOUS SPECIES | Using ecological models to forecast establishment, spread, and impact of nonindigenous species. risk analysis, nonindigenous species, economic, forecast FULL ABSTRACT |
| NONLINEAR POPULATION DYNAMICS | Time and chance reveal all: how stochasticity illuminates nonlinearity in population dynamics. nonlinear population dynamics, stochasticity, chaos, lattice effects FULL ABSTRACT |
| NONMETRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING | 65 Environmental constraints on ground dwelling beetle assemblages in old-growth and managed forests. hardwood forest, forest management, carabidae, nonmetric multidimensional scaling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NONNATIVE | Razing Arizona: fire and nonnative grass in semi-desert grasslands. fire , nonnative, restoration, grassland FULL ABSTRACT |
| NONNATIVE FISH | Factors influencing the recovery of alpine lake zooplankton following removal of nonnative fish . alpine lakes, nonnative fish, zooplankton, restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| NONNATIVE FISH | Effects of nonnative fish on aquatic communities in small streams in the southwestern U.S. nonnative fish, aquatic communities, aquatic macroinvertebrates, Rana yavapaiensis FULL ABSTRACT |
| NONPOINT POLLUTION | Patterns of soil P: Concentrations and variability across an urbanizing agricultural watershed . phosphorus, variability, spatial pattern, nonpoint pollution FULL ABSTRACT |
| NORMS OF REACTION | The evolutionary potential of an invasive monoclonal population of snails. invasive species, norms of reaction, genetic variation, Potamopyrgus FULL ABSTRACT |
| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | Generation of microhabitats by a nitrogen-fixing shrub: the only good shrub is a dead shrub. coastal sand dunes, nitrogen-fixing shrub, light and nitrogen availability, northern California FULL ABSTRACT |
| NORTHERN HARDWOODS | Thirty years of forest ecosystem reorganization following experimental deforestation and regrowth suppression . disturbance, succession, northern hardwoods, weather FULL ABSTRACT |
| NORTHERN HARDWOODS | 75 The effects of management on the deadwood component of northern hardwood forests. forest structure, northern hardwoods, deadwood, management FULL ABSTRACT |
| NORTHERN LIMIT | A demographic analysis of sugar maple seedlings at the species northern growth limit, Ontario, Canada. Acer saccharum, seedling, demographics, northern limit FULL ABSTRACT |
| NORTHWESTERN MEXICO | 34 Litterfall patterns in the Northern limit of tropical deciduous forest distribution in America. litter production, northwestern Mexico, seasonality, tropical deciduous forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| NPP | Validating a forest productivity model and predicting changes in NPP across the southern US. forest productivity, model validation, npp FULL ABSTRACT |
| NULL MODELS | Extreme generalization in pollination systems confirmed by null models. specialization, generalization, null models, plant-pollinator interactions FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUMERICAL RESPONSES | Ants influence the distribution of forest-floor generalist predators and Collembola. ants, generalist predators, spiders, numerical responses FULL ABSTRACT |
| NURSE PLANT | Nurse shrub nutrient enrichment facilitates pinyon pine development differentially across an edaphic stress gradient. pinyon pine, nurse plant, edaphic FULL ABSTRACT |
| NURSE PLANTS | Spatial pattern of shrubs and grasses in a tropical alpine puna. tropical alpine, Parastrephia, nurse plants, Andes FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTIRENT-RICH SOIL MICROSITES | Exploring effects of relative growth rates on morphological root foraging of fast and slow-growing Mediterranean-climate grass species. morphological root foraging, selective root placement, nutirent-rich soil microsites FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT | 80 Phytoplankton populations and nutrient status in two alpine lakes, Snowy Range, Wyoming. phytoplankton, nutrient, alpine, community FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT ACQUISITION | 102 Belowground mechamisms that enhance the success of an invasive forb. arbuscular mycorrhizae, Centaurea maculosa, nutrient acquisition, invasive species FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY | Soil nitrate and phosphate availability under simulated global changes in a California annual grassland ecosystem. global change, nutrient availability, nitrogen, phosphorous FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | Herbivore mediated linkages between aboveground and belowground communities. herbivory , soil biota, nutrient cycling , plant productivity FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | Mycorrhizae and Nutrient Supply in Deserts. mycorrhizal fungi, biome transition, nutrient cycling, vegetation change FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | 139 Soil enzyme activity gradients in a Great Basin piosphere. soil enzyme, shrub-steppe, nutrient cycling, grazing FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | 167 Distribution of a calcicole fern on granitic substrate in New Hampshire: implications for nutrient cycling studies. calcium, cliff ecosystems, mineral weathering, nutrient cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | Simple and weighted averaging approaches to scaling: When can spatial context be ignored? modelling, plant production, nutrient cycling, scaling regional analysis FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | Background 15N variation in riparian vegetation in the northern Rocky Mountains. 15N label, riparian fertilization, nutrient cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | Water, nutrient, and carbon fluxes following ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine forests. ecological restoration, nutrient cycling, water balance, net primary productivity FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | The relationship among plant communities, microbial communities, and carbon mineralization in a tropical soil. microbes, biodiversity, ecosytem function, nutrient cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | 166 Two insect herbivores alter above- and below-ground litter decomposition and nutrient release. nutrient cycling, herbivory, decomposition, pinyon pine FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | ENSO effects on leaf litter nutrient cycling in an old growth wet tropical forest in Costa Rica. ENSO, leaf litter, nutrient cycling, tropical FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | An exotic tree alters litter decomposition in a Hawaiian forest: effects of litter quality, nutrient availability and litter arthropods. decomposition, exotic species, nutrient cycling FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | The fate of phosphorus in a lowland Amazonian forest ecosystem. phosphorus, Amazon, nutrient cycling, roots FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT CYCLING | Comparisons of stable isotopic trends in vegetation, soils and particulate matter of contrasting catchments in the Andean Amazon of Peru. carbon cycling, nutrient cycling, tropical forests, stable isotopes FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT DYNAMICS | Ecosystem characterization and hydrologic dynamics of seasonally flooded tree islands in the southern Everglades. seasonally flooded tree islands, hydrologic restoration, nutrient dynamics, landscape complexity FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT DYNAMICS | Pocket gophers accelerate litter decomposition and nutrient turnover in a longleaf pine ecosystem. pocket gophers, decomposition, nutrient dynamics, longleaf pine ecosystem FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT | The effect of nutrient loading on an estuarine food web: a stable isotope approach. stable isotopes, nutrient enrichment, trophic structure, estuary FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT | Keystone trade-offs and grazer control of planktonic primary production. keystone predation, nutrient enrichment, top-down, bottom-up FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT | Effects of grass shrimp, Palaemonetes sp, on Ruppia maritima growth and epiphytic algae community composition. submerged aquatic vegetation, algal epiphytes, epiphyte grazing, nutrient enrichment FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT FLUXES | 123 N and P Fluxes and Transformations along an upland-riparian-stream transect in montane forest of the Andean Amazon Basin, San Alberto catchment, Peru. riparian buffer, nutrient fluxes, Amazon river, ground water FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT HETEROGENEITY | Above and belowground growth responses to soil nutrient heterogeneity of three coastal shrubs of California. nutrient heterogeneity, dune, shrub, root FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT LEACHING | Nutrient retention in tropical plantations: costs and benefits of enhanced plant life-form diversity. plant life-form diversity, nutrient leaching, tropical tree plantation, water balance FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT LIMITATION | N- and P-limitation in an arctic salt marsh: effects on plant growth and stoichiometry. above-ground primary productivity, c:n:p ratio, nutrient limitation, site successional age FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT LIMITATION | The Reiners road map: where we've been, where we're going in the search for a complementary stoichiometric paradigm. stoichiometry, evolution, nutrient limitation, food webs FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT LIMITATION | 124 Nutrient limitation of benthic macrophytes in the upper Florida Keys: An in-situ nutrient enrichment experiment. Thalassia testudinum , Stoichiometry, nutrient limitation, seagrass FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT LOADS | Nutrient and metal loads exported from hydrologic catchments by storm runoff. storm runoff chemsitry, nutrient loads, metals, arid city biogeochemistry FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT LOSS | Competition theory modified by stoichiometric ecosystem properties. stoichiometry, nutrient loss, competition, coexistence FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT PULSES | Morpho-plastic vs Physio-plastic root responses to environmental pulses. drought, fine roots, nutrient pulses FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT REMOVAL | Nitrogen farming: Generating profit from wetland restoration . nutrient removal, wetland restoration, economics, agriculture FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT RESORPTION | 137 Nutrient resorption of naturally occurring desert shrubs exposed to Free-Air CO2 enrichment. Ambrosia dumosa, Lycium pallidum, Mojave Desert, nutrient resorption FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT RETENTION | Nitrogen stocks and fluxes in riparian and upland montane forest of the Andean Amazon Basin. montane forest biomass, nutrient retention, nutrient runoff losses, Amazon basin FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT RUNOFF LOSSES | Nitrogen stocks and fluxes in riparian and upland montane forest of the Andean Amazon Basin. montane forest biomass, nutrient retention, nutrient runoff losses, Amazon basin FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT STOICHIOMETRY | The effects of predators and nutrients on insect herbivores at Mount St. Helens. herbivory, lupinus lepidus, predator, nutrient stoichiometry FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT STORAGE | 46 The role of resource availability in allocation between growth and storage in the grasshopper, Schistocerca americana. resource allocation, nutrition, nutrient storage, growth FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT SUPPLIES | Effects of elevated CO2 and nutrient supplies on carbon allocation in a pine forest. elevated CO2, nutrient supplies, carbon allocation, Pinus taeda FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT SUPPLY | Using nutrient pulses of differing frequency and magnitude to administer equal loads of nutrients to macroalgae: effects on growth and tissue nutrients of Enteromorpha intestinalis and Ulva expansa . nutrient supply, Enteromorpha intestinalis, Ulva expansa FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT TRANSPORT | Omnivory and food web stability: exploring underlying mechanisms. food web stability, omnivorous fish, trophic interactions, nutrient transport FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT UPTAKE | 165 What root parameters best predict nutrient uptake? nutrient uptake, roots FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT UPTAKE | 110 Uptake capacity of loblolly pine roots measured in the field varies seasonally. uptake kinetics, nutrient uptake, intact roots FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT UPTAKE | 126 Nutrient uptake by Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir at two Colorado subalpine forests. nutrient uptake, calcium, ammonium, magnesium FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT UPTAKE | Plant functional group diversity as a mechanism for invasion resistance. Cenraurea maculosa, nutrient uptake, niche occupation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENT-USE-EFFICIENCY | Nutrient use efficiency by phytoplankton in a coastal upwelling ecosystem:
Patterns along the Oregon Coast
. upwelling , nitrogen, nutrient-use-efficiency, phytoplankton FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | Ecological stoichiometry in streams: progress and prospects. stoichiometry, streams, nutrients, food quality FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | Interacting effects of nutrients and pH on the plankton and epilithon of two mountain lakes. mountain lakes, nutrients, pH, plankton FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | Top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal control of plant diversity in a rainforest understory. diversity, tropics, herbivory, nutrients FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | Sapling growth in relation to light, foliar nitrogen, and soil moisture across landscape variation in forest communities. forest, landscape, nutrients, resources FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | Does nutrient enrichment increase carbon limitation of a detritus-based stream food web? nutrients, streams, carbon , limitation FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | The influence of fire on P removal efficiency of a constructed wetland in Florida. nutrients, wetland, fire FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | 73 Using geometry to explore nutrient-allelochemical interactions: a case-study using locusts. herbivores, nutrients, allelochemicals, insects FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | 161 Nitrogen fixation in bryophytes, lichens, and dead wood along a soil-age gradient in Hawaii. nitrogen fixation, nutrients, chronosequence, tropics FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | 72 Correlating conductivity, longitudinal profile and stream continuum with pollution in 3rd and 4th order streams. conductivity, pollution, watershed, nutrients FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | Seasonal variation in the nutrient composition of mountain birch leaves. mountain birch, amino acids, nutrients, herbivory FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRIENTS | Mismatch in elemental composition (C:N:P) between herbivorous insects and their host plants: consequences for performance and dispersal . ecological stoichiometry, nutrients, life history, plant-insect interactions FULL ABSTRACT |
| NUTRITION | 46 The role of resource availability in allocation between growth and storage in the grasshopper, Schistocerca americana. resource allocation, nutrition, nutrient storage, growth FULL ABSTRACT |