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
| LAI | 102 Simulated and inferred LAI, NPP, and plant functional types in North America since the last glacial maximum. BIOME4, LAI, NPP, Vegetation Structure, Biogeography  FULL ABSTRACT |
| LH-PCR | 118 Assessing microbial communities in treatment wetlands as affected by phosphorus loading - a microcosm experiment. constructed wetland, microbial community, LH-PCR FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKE ERIE | Round goby effects on growth and survivorship of young-of-the-year smallmouth bass. invasives, competition, Lake Erie FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKE ERIE WETLANDS | 157 The invasion and spread of the emergent wetland plant Phragmites australis in a Lake Erie coastal wetland. Lake Erie wetlands, Phragmites, plant community dynamics FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKE MARACAIBO | 39 Early growth, reproductive biology, and feeding of white mullet Mugil curema from Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Mugil curema, Lake Maracaibo, Fishery FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKE TITICACA | Glacial-interglacial vegetation dynamics in the Andes. Lake Titicaca, Pollen, Quaternary FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKE VICTORIA | A comparison of the recent invasion histories of North American and African Great Lake systems: has anything been learned? invasive species, Lake Victoria, ecosystem FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKE | A 23-year record of cascading limnological effects of a shifting light environment in a monomictic seepage lake in central Florida. Lake, Dissolved organic carbon, Regime shift FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND ABANDONMENT | Biodiversity across a land-use gradient supports the intermediate disturbance hypothesis. Land abandonment, Agricultural ecosystems, Biodiversity FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND COVER CHANGE | Relating landscape pattern to ecosystem properties using maps: effects of spatial and thematic resolutions. Scale, thematic resolution, Landscape pattern analysis, Land cover change FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND USE AND LAND COVER | 7 Linking land use / cover to the severity of hurricane storm surges along the US Gulf Coast: an analysis based on remote sensing and GIS. Hurricane, Land use and Land cover, Remote Sensing FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDBIRDS | Methodological framework for ecological scale landbird conservation planning. Modeling, Sustainability, Landbirds FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSAT | Modeling invasive species using remote sensing: an example using Tamarix. Tamarix sp., Landsat, potential habitat FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE GENETICS | Landscape genetics: combining GIS and genes to identify biological corridors. Landscape Genetics, DNA, Corridors FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE PATTERN ANALYSIS | Relating landscape pattern to ecosystem properties using maps: effects of spatial and thematic resolutions. Scale, thematic resolution, Landscape pattern analysis, Land cover change FULL ABSTRACT |
| LARVAL SETTLEMENT | Silk use enhances benthic invertebrate settlement. Larval settlement, Organism-flow interaction, Topography FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAST ICE AGE | Ecological rates of change in a biodiversity hotspot during the Late Quaternary. Amazonia, Last Ice Age, Holocene FULL ABSTRACT |
| LATITUDINAL GRADIENT | Historical processes enhance patterns of diversity along latitudinal gradients. Biodiversity, Latitudinal Gradient, Diversification FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEPIDOPTERA | Ecological trade-offs and the community structure of polyphagous forest caterpillars. plant-insect interactions, Lepidoptera, ecological trade-offs FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEPIDOPTERA | Icons and upstarts in butterfly mimicry. mimicry, predator/prey, Lepidoptera FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEPIDOPTERA | Relative abundance in forest Lepidopteran larval assemblages: trait-based mechanisms and macroecological patterns. community dynamics, temperate forest, Lepidoptera FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEPIDOPTERA: PAPILIONIDAE | Host preference and performance driven by host plant quality and not induction in a swallowtail butterfly. Herbivory, Lepidoptera: Papilionidae, Preference/Performance studies FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION | Effects of processes at the population and community level on carbon dynamics in an ecosystem model. Ecosystem models, Carbon dynamics, Levels of organization FULL ABSTRACT |
| LICHENS | Grazing impacts on macrolichen communities of the Seward Peninsula, AK. Lichens, Arctic tundra, Grazing FULL ABSTRACT |
| LINVILLE GORGE | Interactions between fire severity, pre- and post-fire community composition, topography, and the invasion of Paulownia tomentosa at Linville Gorge, NC. Paulownia tomentosa, Linville Gorge, wildfire FULL ABSTRACT |
| LITTER DECOMPOSITION | Litter decomposition and nutrient release in the Patagonian steppe: carbon and nitrogen mineralization decoupled? Litter decomposition, Semiarid steppe, Biogeochemistry FULL ABSTRACT |
| LITTLE'S RANGE | Irreversible red maple expansion? Red maple, Oak, Little's Range FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIVE OAKS (QUERCUS SECTION VIRENTES) | Ecophysiological and genetic differentiation of live oaks across a latitudinal gradient from the tropics to the temperate zone. Live oaks (Quercus section Virentes), ecophysiological differentiation, genetic differentiation, tropical dry forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOBESIA BOTRANA | Survey of Trichogramma spp in vineyards of Rheingau Valley, Germany. Trichogramma, survey, vineyards, Lobesia botrana, Eupoecilia ambiguella, Hedges FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONG-DISTANCE POLLEN DISPERSAL | 93 Atmospheric and environmental conditions affecting long-distance pollen-mediated gene flow in Agrostis stolonifera. Long-distance pollen dispersal, modelling, gene-flow FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONG-LEAF PINE SAVANNA | The relative importance of environmental heterogeneity in species-area relationships. species-area relationship, structural equation modeling, Long-leaf pine savanna FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONG-TERM STUDY | Interactions between invertebrate herbivores: insects maintain diversity, molluscs reduce it. Invertebrate herbivory, Grassland, Long-term study FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE | 113 The combined influence of small-scale disturbances on the groundcover in a restored longleaf pine savanna. Longleaf pine, small scale disturbance, groundcover FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE | 12 Modeling fire-induced mortality of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris). Tree mortality modeling, Fire Ecology, Longleaf pine FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE ECOSYSTEM | 13 Effects of fire season on ground layer vegetation of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests. Fire ecology, Longleaf pine ecosystem, Fire season FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOUISIANA BLACK BEAR | Large mammal response to forest management activities. Louisiana black bear, White-tailed deer FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOWER RIO GRANDE | Spatial relations of aquatic bird species and water management in the Lower Rio Grande Basin. Spatial Explicit Model, Aquatic Bird, Lower Rio Grande FULL ABSTRACT |
| LYME DISEASE | Absence of demographic forcing in Ixodes scapularis populations: implications for Lyme disease dynamics. disease ecology, Lyme disease, demography FULL ABSTRACT |
| LABORATORY EXPERIENCES | 159 Class research projects in ecology courses: methods to un-can the experience. education, laboratory experiences, class projects FULL ABSTRACT |
| LABORATORY EXPERIMENT | Grass endophytes mediate coexistence between aphid species. competition, endophytic fungi, laboratory experiment FULL ABSTRACT |
| LACCASE | Abundance and activity of lignolytic soil fungi along a gradient of plant litter chemistry. enzymes, laccase, decomposition FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKE | 19 Analysis of the Cougar Lake, Illinois, food chain using stable isotopes of nitrogen and carbon. stable isotopes, food chain, lake FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKE ERIE ECOLOGY | Lake Erie yellow perch: does water mass residency determine growth rates? lake erie ecology, juvenile yellow perch growth, otolith microchemistry FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKE VICTORIA | Dreampond or nightmare: Lake Victoria basin case studies for undergraduate courses in Environmental Studies, Anthropology, and African Studies. lake victoria, ecological education FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKES | 82 Changes in life-history traits during community assembly. life history traits, lakes, Daphnia FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKES | Bayesian hierarchical modeling approaches for large-scale ecological inference. Bayesian, hierarchical, lakes FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKES | Warmer does not have to mean sicker: temperature and predators can jointly drive timing of epidemics. predation and parasitism, community ecology of disease, lakes FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKES | Parental care and piscivory: role of behavior in recruitment dynamics of an aquatic predator. fish, behavior, lakes FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKES | 29 Benthic secondary production in a north-temperate lake. aquatic ecology, secondary production, lakes FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAKES | Invasive zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) increase cyanobacterial toxin concentrations in low-nutrient lakes. lakes, exotic species invasion, toxic phytoplankton FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND ABANDONMENT | Vegetation and songbird response to land abandonment in the Mediterranean. mediterranean landscape, bird, land abandonment FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND COVER | Mapping ecological systems in the East Gulf Coastal Plain via remote sensing: balancing interpretation and modeling. land cover, Ecological Systems, remote sensing FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND COVER | Developing regional ecological system maps for the southeastern US: from points to ecoregions. land cover, topographic modeling, CART FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND COVERAGE | Determining vegetation coverage and changes in land use under the Quesungual slash and mulch agroforestry system. agroforestry, land coverage, land use FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND MANAGEMENT (PARK RESOURCES) | 74 An integrated study of capacity of the Denali Park Road. land management (park resources), modeling (park road capacity), adaptive management FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND REFORM | Biodiversity conservation and the eradication of excessive wealth. agricultural matrix, land reform, fragmented landscapes FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND USE | Avian community composition in playa wetlands: a land use and landscape perspective on the Southern High Plains. playa wetlands, avian community composition, land use FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND USE | Determining vegetation coverage and changes in land use under the Quesungual slash and mulch agroforestry system. agroforestry, land coverage, land use FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND USE | Plant invasions and land use: the case of bracken fern invasion in southern Yucatan forest frontier. plant invasions, Mexico, land use FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND USE | Opposing influence of land use and elevation on the net ecosystem CO2 exchange of two mountain grasslands. net ecosystem CO2 exchange, mountain grassland, land use FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND USE | People and animals on savanna landscapes: effects of pastoral land use on the spatial distribution of wildlife. herbivory, savannas, land use FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS | Deriving land-surface biophysics from mapped vegetation physiognomy and natural resource statistics. land-atmosphere interactions, vegetation mapping, eastern deciduous forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS | Importance of DOC exports on estimates of terrestrial carbon sequestration. terrestrial carbon sequestration, land-water interactions, land-atmosphere interactions FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND-COVER/LAND-USE CHANGES | 24 Morphological variation in two Eleutherodacatylus frogs in response to land-cover and land-use change in the northern karst region of Puerto Rico. morphological variation, land-cover/land-use changes, amphibians FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND-USE | 11 Mammal road-kill pattern with land-use types of areas close to roads in Korea. road-kill, mammal, land-use FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND-USE | Longitudinal patterns of fish assemblages in small unregulated sub-basins: evaluating reach- and watershed-scale parameters. fish, watershed, land-use FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND-USE CHANGE | 134 Does history make the difference?: Land use practices and the ever-changing tropical dry forest of Sonora, Mexico. ecosystem ecology, land-use change, tropical dry forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND-USE CHANGE | Assessing economic and ecological costs of exurbanization of forest and farmland at the wildland-urban interface on Tennessee's southern Cumberland Plateau. wildland-urban interface, land-use change, GIS FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND-USE LEGACIES | 8 Nitrogen isotope concentrations in the foliage of four New England plant species show diverse responses to persistent legacies of historical agricultural land-use. stable isotope ecology, land-use legacies, plant nitrogen partitioning FULL ABSTRACT |
| LAND-WATER INTERACTIONS | Importance of DOC exports on estimates of terrestrial carbon sequestration. terrestrial carbon sequestration, land-water interactions, land-atmosphere interactions FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAOE PROCESSES | Resolution and age effects of landuse/land cover data on association strength between amphibian species and landscape patterns in the Piedmont region of Maryland. scale effects, landscaoe processes, species associations FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE | Predator-prey games on a landscape: the predator pass-along effect and random predator movement. predator-prey, game theory, landscape FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS | 179 Watershed and estuarine landscape characteristics and their effects on ecological responses of Chesapeake Bay subestuaries. Interaction between watershed and estuary, landscape analysis, submerged aquatic vegetation FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS | Landscape analysis using geospatial tools. landscape analysis, geospatial tools, vegetation databases FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT | 128 The effects of plot size on scale and patterns of plant species richness: a landscape-scale assessment approach using geospatial information and geostatistics. Plot size, scale, pattern, plant diversity,, species richness, diversity indices, landscape assessment, spatial information, Geostatistics. FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT MODELS | 129 Integrating forest inventory, stand simulation, and mid-scale landscape models in the upper Deschutes sub-basin, Oregon. landscape assessment models, state and transition models, integrated landscape modeling FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY | 129 Restoring functional landscape connectivity in northwest Florida: the Nokuse Plantation linkage. landscape connectivity, GIS, restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY | Butterfly occurrence depends on spatial landscape scales. landscape connectivity, butterflies, wetlands FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Theory and application of ecological networks. nework theory, landscape ecology, species diversity FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Ecosystem resilience to small clearfell harvesting in an ecotonal forest. resilience, sierra nevada eastside pine, landscape ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Urbanization and avian communities in the southeastern US. urbanization, species richness, landscape ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Is it possible to map riparian vegetation using high spatial resolution satellite imagery? remote sensing, riparian zones, landscape ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Biodiversity potential in the Pacific and Inland Northwest: Phase II; applications to industry planning areas. Pacific Northwest forest, biodiversity management, landscape ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Determining the influence of historical, local, and landscape context on plant community composition in abandoned citrus groves undergoing succession. landscape ecology, succession, fragmented landscapes FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns? ecosystem services, pollination ecology, landscape ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 124 The relationship between breeding bird diversity in urban forest patches and the human-mediated resources located in the surrounding residential matrix. landscape ecology, birds, urban ecosystems FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 65 A model for hierarchically delineating habitat patches: theoretical behavior and ecological applications. habitat patch delineation, landscape ecology, ecological boundaries FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Dynamic connectivity on a host-pathogen network: consequences for the transmission of disease. graph theory, landscape ecology, disease FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 130 Bird populations in geographically isolated freshwater marshes: the importance of patch area and isolation on habitat utilization. isolation, freshwater marshes, landscape ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 125 Utilization of a landscape level airborne mercury survey network to evaluate residual contamination from agricultural use in the Shenandoah Valley, VA. landscape ecology, mercury toxicological cycling, GIS mapping FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 126 Spatial distribution of airborne mercury in an urban landscape as related to point source river contamination in Waynesboro, VA. landscape ecology, mercury toxicological cycling, GIS mapping FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 127 A multi-staged approach to defining monitoring targets in a fragmented urban landscape. connectivity monitoring, graph theory, landscape ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | The effect of time since urbanization on anuran communities in urban ponds. landscape ecology, urbanization, amphibians FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Comparing conceptual and empirical range vegetation classification systems for the Intermountain West. classification, landscape ecology, rangelands FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | Land cover pattern and watershed health in small catchments of southeastern coastal plain streams, MS. landscape ecology, aquatic ecology, watershed integrity, modeling, remote sensing & gis FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 3 Estimating landscape-scale species richness: the effects of extent and grain. species richness, landscape ecology, richness estimators FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE GENETICS | The landscape genetics of invasion: a study of California wild pigs. sus scrofa, landscape genetics, invasive species FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY | 80 Landscape configuration affects the energy intake rates of foragers: an agent-based approach to optimal foraging in heterogeneous landscapes. optimal foraging, spatially explicit agent-based model, landscape heterogeneity FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE METRICS | Spatial heterogeneity of vegetation influences butterfly species richness in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, US. butterfly species richness, spatial heterogeneity, landscape metrics, fragstats, native and nonnative plant species richness FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE SCALE ESTIMATION | Forest carbon dynamics: consequences of spatial variability for landscape-scale estimation. forest carbon dynamics, landscape scale estimation, spatial variability FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE | 174 Riparian forests in northwest Ohio watersheds: relations between landscape structure, land use, and water quality in regional streams. riparian ecology, assessment and monitoring, landscape structure FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPE-SCALE DATA INTEGRATION | Real-time landscape-scale science: from data isolation to data integration. Geospatial data integration systems, spatial predictive modeling, invasive species, landscape-scale data integration FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPES | 158 Nutrient dynamic differences in former wetland soils following 80+ years of agriculture. soil nutrient dynamics, landscapes FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDSCAPES OF FEAR | 16 Does fear affect the foraging of domestic ungulates? A test with free ranging goats in South Africa. predation risk, landscapes of fear, domestic ungulates FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDTYPE ASSOCIATION | Landscape ecological mapping in Pennsylvania. landtype association, ecological landtype, Pennsylvania FULL ABSTRACT |
| LANDUSE | Landuse and stream conditions in the upper Green River watershed of Kentucky. watershed, karst, landuse FULL ABSTRACT |
| LARGE MAMMALS | Foraging and its influence on plant populations are not controlled by predation risk gradients in a large mammal predator-prey system. predation risk, large mammals, food webs FULL ABSTRACT |
| LARGE RIVER BACKWATERS | Changes in backwater lake habitat reflected in the diet of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) from Swan Lake, Calhoun County, Illinois. large river backwaters, diet, Cyprinus carpio FULL ABSTRACT |
| LARGE RIVERS | Forested floodplains and ecological services of large rivers: a geomorphic perspective from the Atchafalaya River, LA. large rivers, floodplain, sediment FULL ABSTRACT |
| LARGE RIVERS | Downstream turnover of zooplankton communities in the Missouri River. large rivers, zooplankton, community structure FULL ABSTRACT |
| LARGE RIVERS | Forested floodplains and ecological services of large rivers: a biological perspective. large rivers, ecological services, wetland ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LARVAL ANURANS | The effect of biorhythmic activity on anti-predator behavior in green frog (Rana clamitans) tadpoles. anti-predator behavior, predator-prey, larval anurans FULL ABSTRACT |
| LARVAL COMPETITION | Displacement of the native toad, Bufo fowleri, via larval competition with the invasive B. nebulifer. interference competition, larval competition, Bufo nebulifer , Bufo fowleri, disturbed habitat FULL ABSTRACT |
| LARVAL DISPERSAL | Methods for assessment of sustainability in spatial management: evaluating marine reserve configurations. marine reserves, fisheries modeling, larval dispersal FULL ABSTRACT |
| LASER RANGEFINDER | 104 Determining forest canopy structure with a laser rangefinder: split beams and measurement accuracy. forest, canopy structure, laser rangefinder FULL ABSTRACT |
| LATE-HOLOCENE | 105 Landscape patterns in response to climatic change: 1000 years of vegetation change and fire history on a sand plain. late-Holocene, sand plain vegetation, fire history FULL ABSTRACT |
| LATITUDE | Latitudinal gradients in plant-herbivore interactions in European salt marshes. herbivory, latitude, salt marsh FULL ABSTRACT |
| LATITUDINAL BIODIVERSITY GRADIENT | 13 The role of total population size in the emergence and dynamics of diversification along a resource gradient in a homogenous environment. latitudinal biodiversity gradient, microbial diversity, productivity-diversity FULL ABSTRACT |
| LATITUDINAL BIODIVERSITY GRADIENT | Placing local plant species richness in the context of environmental drivers of metacommunity richness. latitudinal biodiversity gradient, metacommunity, scale dependence FULL ABSTRACT |
| LATITUDINAL GRADIENT | Preference and performance in plant-herbivore interactions across latitude. herbivory, latitudinal gradient, salt marsh FULL ABSTRACT |
| LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS | Saturation in time: global patterns of diversity and stability in lake zooplankton communities. turnover, latitudinal gradients, species-area FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEACHING | 85 Long-term trends in nitrate leaching along a management intensity gradient. agriculture, ecosystem monitoring, leaching FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEACHING SOIL CATIONS | Using combined broad- and fine-scale studies to link acid rain, invertebrate prey species, and population declines in the Wood Thrush. forest-breeding birds, leaching soil cations, northeastern hardwood forests FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAF AND PHLOEM SUGARS | Are spatial patterns of ecosystem water use efficiency due to species difference? water use efficiency, subalpine forest, leaf and phloem sugars FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAF AREA INDEX | 96 Edaphic, topographic, seasonal, and interannual variation in rain forest canopy cover in the Atlantic lowlands of Costa Rica. tropical rain forest, leaf area index, hemispherical photography FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAF AREA RATIO | Interspecific differences in light interception and use of plants the first years of secondary succession in tropical forest. Bolivia, canopy model, leaf area ratio, light interception, lianas, pioneers, photosynthesis model, secondary succession, tropical forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAF BREAKDOWN | 8 Consumption of leaf litter by stream invertebrates: evaluating the effects of leaf size. streams, leaf breakdown, detritivores FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAF CHEMISTRY | 96 Genetic architecture of leaf ecophysiological traits in Helianthus. evolution, leaf chemistry, quantitative trait loci FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAF GAS EXCHANGE | Leaf photosynthetic responses of native and non-native C4 grasses to precipitation pulses in a desert grassland. precipitation pulses, non-native species invasion, leaf gas exchange FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAF LITTER | 91 Leaf litter, nutrient cycling, and forest ecology in the vicinity of an abandoned limestone quarry. leaf litter, forest composition, songbirds, soil pH, decomposition FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAF LITTER DECOMPOSITION | 64 Influence of Chinese privet on decomposing litter in floodplain forests. chinese privet, leaf litter decomposition, invasive non-native plants FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAF STOICHIOMETRY | 89 C:N:P across Chinese grasslands: comparison with global patterns of leaf stoichiometry. leaf stoichiometry, grasslands, biogeography of foliar traits FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAF WATER POTENTIAL | 137 Modeling relative leaf water content in central Texas forests for fire hazard prediction. leaf water potential, sap flux, carbon budget FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEAFMINER | 53 A trade-off between host detectability and escape may reflect inefficient searching by parasitoids. host-parasitoid, adaptation, leafminer FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEARNING OUTCOME | An experiment on guided vs. open-ended inquiries in ecology labs: effects on student attitude and learning. ecology education, inquiry labs, learning outcome FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEARNING STRATEGY OR MODULE WEBQUEST | Global climate change: investigating the issues across the curriculum. ecological education, learning strategy or module WebQuest, student active or inquiry-based learning FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEGACIES | Soils matter! Ecological legacies on centuries old agricultural terraces in the Sonoran Desert created by permanently altered soils. soil characteristics, legacies, agriculture FULL ABSTRACT |
| LEGITIMATE VS. ILLEGITIMATE POLLINATION | 164 Impact of mate availability, population size, and spatial aggregation of morphs on sexual reproduction in a distylous, aquatic plant. Frequency-dependent selection, legitimate vs. illegitimate pollination, Hottonia palustris FULL ABSTRACT |
| LENGTH SCALES | Natural length scales of real ecosystems: objectively defining optimal scales to observe ecological systems. length scales, monitoring scale, ecosystem FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIANAS | 170 The distribution of lianas and their 45-year change in abundance in temperate deciduous forests. lianas, climate change, forest fragmentation FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIANAS | Field and common garden ecological and morphological character comparisons for Celastrus orbiculatus and C. scandens. invasive plant species, Eastern forests, lianas FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIANAS | Interspecific differences in light interception and use of plants the first years of secondary succession in tropical forest. Bolivia, canopy model, leaf area ratio, light interception, lianas, pioneers, photosynthesis model, secondary succession, tropical forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIANAS | 10 How long do lianas live and how fast do they grow in a temperate floodplain forests? lianas, woody vines, southeastern floodplain forests FULL ABSTRACT |
| LICHENOLOGY | 38 Lichen species richness and composition response to substrate in the Teberdinsky preserve, NW Caucasus (Russia). substrate ecology, lichenology, mountain ecosystems FULL ABSTRACT |
| LICHENS | 93 Debunking the myth of slow lichens. lichens, succession FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE CYCLE POLYPHENISM | Life cycle polyphenism as a factor affecting the ecological divergence of the eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens. life cycle polyphenism, phylogeny, Notophthalmus viridescens FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE HISTORY | Joint analysis of survival and reproduction over 10 years in perennial Echinacea plants from seven populations. statistical model, life history, perennial plant FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE HISTORY | 23 Resources and offspring provisioning: a test of the Trexler and DeAngelis model for the evolution of matrotrophy. life history, offspring provisioning, radiolabeled markers FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE HISTORY CHARACTERISTICS | 19 Effects of size at metamorphosis on locomotor performance in three species of anurans. anurans, jumping performance, life history characteristics FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION | 153 Demographic consequences of dormancy in the pine lily, Lilium catesbaei. plant population ecology, demography, life history evolution FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION | Parasitism and evolution of the complex life history strategy of Red-spotted newts. life history evolution, parasite/disease ecology, amphibians FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION | Dormancy costs and alternate life history strategies in Daphnia pulicaria. life history evolution, fresh water lakes, Daphnia sp. FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE HISTORY THEORY | Integral projection models as a framework for exploring life history evolution in the real world. integral projection model, life history theory, evolution FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE HISTORY TRAIT | Phenotypic plasticity in Sarracenia purpurea L.: morphological responses of pitcher parameters and pitcher production in different light environments and prey treatments. Sarraceniaceae, life history trait, functional ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE HISTORY TRAITS | 82 Changes in life-history traits during community assembly. life history traits, lakes, Daphnia FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE HISTORY TRAITS | Insurance in the face of rapid spatiotemporal dynamics in a southwestern riparian metacommunity. metacommunity, life history traits, riparian FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE-HISTORY ECOLOGY | Should you save your sons or your daughters? Temperature-dependent sex determination offers a potential solution to this difficult choice. life-history ecology, sex determination, reptile FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIFE-HISTORY STRATEGY | Linkages among the homeostatic regulation of macronutrient composition, growth, and life history strategy in phytophagous insects. ecological stoichiometry, life-history strategy, phytophagous insects FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIGHT | 176 A tale of two forests: light environments in slash and longleaf pine forests and their impact on seedling responses. longleaf pine, light, restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIGHT ABSORPTANCE | The three dimensional structure of canopy trees: how to model crowns for light-driven growth. crown competition, light absorptance, 3D remote sensing FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIGHT ACCLIMATION | 115 Seedling acclimation to dynamic forest light environments: temporal trends in carbon storage, growth, and photosynthesis. seedling recruitment, light acclimation, tropical forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIGHT AND NITROGEN EFFECTS | Impact of light and nitrogen levels on Arundinaria gigantea canebrake establishment and reintroduction. Arundinaria gigantea, canebrake reintroduction, light and nitrogen effects FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIGHT AVAILABILITY | Flower bud presence on artificially established pondberry grown under three light regimes. Lindera melissifolia, endangered species, light availability FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIGHT INTERCEPTION | Interspecific differences in light interception and use of plants the first years of secondary succession in tropical forest. Bolivia, canopy model, leaf area ratio, light interception, lianas, pioneers, photosynthesis model, secondary succession, tropical forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIGHT LIMITATION | Constraints on colonization from the regional species pool at high productivity: isolating the role of light limitation in a 4-year vegetation experiment. productivity-diversity relationship, regional species pool, light limitation FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIGHT-ATTENUATION | Abaxial anthocyanin: contrasting adaptive function in deeply-shaded and high-light plants. anthocyanin, photoprotection, light-attenuation FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIKELIHOOD | The 80:20 rule in Lyme disease dynamics: causes and consequences of variable tick burdens on mice and chipmunks. disease ecology, aggregation and transmission, likelihood FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIMITING FACTORS | Factors limiting oceanic N2 fixation. marine N2 fixation, diazotrophs, limiting factors FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIMITING SIMILARITY | Community assembly in a temperate forest tree community: testing limiting similarity, environmental filtering, and functional equivalence with leaf functional traits. community assembly, limiting similarity, functional equivalence FULL ABSTRACT |
| LINKING POPULATION AND EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY | Evolution of trade between two species competing for two resources. evolution of trade; mutualism; resource ratio theory; competition, linking population and evolutionary ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LINKING SPECIES AND ECOSYSTEMS USING NEIGHBORHOOD MODELS | Neighborhood analyses of the impacts of invasive tree species on ecosystem processes. linking species and ecosystems using neighborhood models, temperate forests, invasion ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIPID BIOMARKERS | Linking community structure to carbon cycling: cascading effects of changing diversity on sediment geochemistry in an experimental seagrass system. ecosystem function, seagrass, lipid biomarkers FULL ABSTRACT |
| LITTER | Can  13C and 15N of leaf litter be used to infer canopy isotopic composition?stable isotope, canopy, litter FULL ABSTRACT |
| LITTER DECOMPOSITION | Photodegradation of plant litter in an arid ecosystem. arid ecosystems, litter decomposition, extracellular enzymes FULL ABSTRACT |
| LITTER DECOMPOSITION | Genetic diversity of aspen leaf litter: effects on leaf decomposition and macroinvertebrates in an aquatic system. temperate stream, Populus tremuloides, litter decomposition FULL ABSTRACT |
| LITTER DECOMPOSITION | 122 Litter mixing affects decomposition in a Patagonian temperate forest, Argentina. litter decomposition, temperate forest, biogeochemistry FULL ABSTRACT |
| LITTER DECOMPOSITON | What type of diversity yields synergy during mixed litter decomposition in a natural forest ecosystem? litter decompositon, biodiversity, microbial communities FULL ABSTRACT |
| LITTER MIXTURES | 136 The role of fungi in movement of nitrogen within leaf litter mixtures. litter mixtures, decomposition, boreal forests FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIVESTOCK GRAZING | 26 Winter livestock grazing in a shrub-steppe ecosystem: indirect effects on desert horned lizards (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) through biotic and abiotic pathways. livestock grazing, Phrynosoma platyrhinos, shrub-steppe FULL ABSTRACT |
| LIZARDS | Individual energetics, ecological release, and the global abundance patterns of lizards. density compensation, biogeography, lizards FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOBLOLLY PINE | 111 Nutrient cycling in a 27 yr old loblolly pine plantation after multiple fertilizations and/or brush control. loblolly pine, fertilization, brush control FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOCAL ADAPTATION | Local adaptation of plant populations across climate gradients. local adaptation, phenotypic plasticity, geographical range FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOCAL ADAPTATION | Fine-scale genetic differentiation between wood frog populations: testing for evidence of local adaptation. local adaptation, wetlands, Rana sylvatica FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOCAL ADAPTATION | Local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity? A test with pacific treefrogs. Pseudacris regilla, induced defense, local adaptation FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOCAL ADAPTATION | Local adaptation of an herbivore constrained by opposing selection from plants and natural enemies. plant-insect interactions, local adaptation, Thaumetopoea pityocampa FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOCAL ADAPTATION | Local adaptation of maize (Zea mays L. ssp. mays) landraces to environmental gradients. local adaptation, maize, evolution FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOCAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE | Engaging landowners and scientists in collaborative landscape-level analyses of restoration and management activities: a case study in California rangelands. restoration and ecosystem managment, local ecological knowledge, rangelands and remote sensing FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOCAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE | Supporting and enhancing development of heterogeneous ecological knowledge among seascape resource users - a Kenyan example. local ecological knowledge, seascape, East Africa FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOCAL SPECIES RICHNESS VS. REGIONAL SPECIES RICHNESS PLOTS | Can saturation be reconciled with linear relationships between local and regional species richness? saturation, species diversity, local species richness vs. regional species richness plots FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOCOMOTOR PERFORMANCE OF RODENTS AND LIZARDS | Effect of cheatgrass on locomotor ability of rodents and lizards: that stuff is dense!. Bromus tectorum, locomotor performance of rodents and lizards, shrub-steppe ecosystem FULL ABSTRACT |
| LODGEPOLE PINE | Stand-replacing fires and carbon storage: effects of stand age and stand density on carbon storage in lodgepole pine ecosystems. carbon cycling, subalpine forest, lodgepole pine FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOGNORMAL | Species abundance distributions result from body size energetics relations. abundance distribution, lognormal, geometric sequence FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONG TERM STUDY | 167 Long term studies of the herb stratum of a Connecticut River oxbow forest. floodplain forest, herbaceous species, long term study FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONG TERM STUDY | 57 Long-term trends in abundance of the invasive species Phalaris arundinacea in undisturbed wetlands at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Minnesota. invasive species, Phalaris arundinacea, long term study FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONG-TERM | Shrub invasion decreases small-scale stability in an arid ecosystem. shrub invasion, community stability, long-term FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH SITES | Analyzing data when time-series are too short or when replicates are too few: progress, opportunities, and challenges. statistical ecology, time-series analysis, long-term ecological research sites FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONG-TERM STUDIES | Relative demographic performance of a dominant tropical rain forest tree: no smoking gun? tropical tree demography, dominance, long-term studies FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE (PINUS PALUSTRIS MILL.) | Effects of site preparation treatments on microsite conditions in relation to growth and survival of planted longleaf pine seedlings in North Carolina. longleaf pine / wiregrass ecosystem, resource availability and pine growth, longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE / WIREGRASS ECOSYSTEM | Effects of site preparation treatments on microsite conditions in relation to growth and survival of planted longleaf pine seedlings in North Carolina. longleaf pine / wiregrass ecosystem, resource availability and pine growth, longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE | 114 Litter versus shade: partitioning the effects of forest floor accumulation and midstory canopy development on understory density and species richness in Pinus palustris sand hill communities. longleaf pine, fire suppression, fire regime restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE | 116 Disturbance frequency and changes in plant growth life-form: ecosystem effects on NPP. longleaf pine-wiregrass savanna, productivity, longleaf pine FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE | 176 A tale of two forests: light environments in slash and longleaf pine forests and their impact on seedling responses. longleaf pine, light, restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE | 115 Transient changes in transpiration, stem CO2 efflux, and soil respiration in longleaf pine following leaf area reduction. sapflux, CO2 efflux, longleaf pine FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE | 11 Soil microarthropod community composition in a long-term prescribed fire experiment in longleaf pine flatwoods of northeast Florida. fire, longleaf pine, microarthropods FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE | Seedling density-dependence and fire in a longleaf pine matrix population model. matrix population model, density-dependence, longleaf pine FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE | 31 Carbon sequestration and natural longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystems. carbon sequestratioan, prescribed-burn treatment, longleaf pine FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE | 78 Evaluating the feasibility of using natural regeneration to restore longleaf pine on Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. longleaf pine, natural regeneration, gaps FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE SAVANNA | Hurricane-fire interactions: testing predictions in the savanna-forest landscape. hurricane-fire interaction, longleaf pine savanna, disturbance ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| LONGLEAF PINE-WIREGRASS SAVANNA | 116 Disturbance frequency and changes in plant growth life-form: ecosystem effects on NPP. longleaf pine-wiregrass savanna, productivity, longleaf pine FULL ABSTRACT |
| LOWLAND TROPICAL RAIN FOREST | Biogeochemical and microbial community controls over free-living nitrogen fixation in a lowland tropical rain forest. nitrogen fixation, lowland tropical rain forest, nitrogen fixing microorganism FULL ABSTRACT |
| LUPINE | 69 Tree removal expands habitat for lupine and frosted elfin butterfly. barrens, restoration, lupine FULL ABSTRACT |