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
| UNCERTAINTY | Conservation decision making under severe uncertainty: satisficing river flows for pallid sturgeon. Decision Theory, Uncertainty, River ecosystems  FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES | 163 Design and construction of an outdoor classroom to promote ecology education. Ecology Education, Outdoor Classroom, Underserved Communities FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERSTORY | 27 Edge effects on understory Rubiaceae communities in lower montane moist forest at Monteverde, Costa Rica. Rubiaceae, Edge Effects, Understory FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNGULATES | Chemical ecology as a tool for altering wildlife behavior in managed ecosystems. Behavior, Ungulates, Damage management FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNIONID MUSSEL | 43 Habitats and hosts: critical factors in conservation of an endangered mussel. habitat and host use by freshwater mussel, Unionid mussel, Popenaias popeii , mark and recapture, and immunology FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY EDUCATION | 62 Urban ecology education enhanced by a museum, university, school partnership. Urban Ecology Education, GK-12 FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEM | 63 Desert crusts in an urban landscape: responses of N2 fixation to anthropogenic C and N deposition. Urban Ecosystem, Biogeochemistry, Biological soil crust FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | 75 Denitrification potential in retention basins in Phoenix, AZ. Urban, Soil, Retention Basin FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN DESERT | 13 The Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden: a growing oasis for birds in central Arizona. Bird communities, Urban ecology, Urban desert FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | 13 The Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden: a growing oasis for birds in central Arizona. Bird communities, Urban ecology, Urban desert FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | Packaging ecological research for the corporate world. Urban ecology, Designed experiments, Funding opportunities FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN HABITAT | The influence of urban land use and edge permeability on seed dispersal and wetland invasibility. Urban habitat, Invasibility, Seed dispersal FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBANIZATION | Urbanization effects on aboveground carbon storage pools in semi-arid ecosystems along the Colorado Front Range. Urbanization, Carbon Storage, Semi-Arid Ecosystems FULL ABSTRACT |
| ULTRASOUND | Feasibility of ultrasonic control on water chestnut. water chestnut (Trapa natans L.), ultrasound, invasive plant FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNCERTAINTY | A general framework for spatio-temporal dynamics via hierarchical Bayesian models. bayesian, spatio-temporal, uncertainty FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNCERTAINTY | Population trends of Indiana bats: shedding a little darkness. estimating population size, Myotis sodalis, uncertainty FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS | 133 Uncertainty analysis on simple mass balance model to calculate critical loads for acidity. uncertainty analysis, modeling, air pollutants FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION | A new approach to summer undergraduate learning: combining case-studies, road trips, video interviews, and website development. undergraduate education, case-study based undergraduate education, case-study based undergraduate education FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION | 168 Exploring a local ecosystem: writing to learn about the environment. undergraduate education, urban ecology, ecosystem analysis FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERGRADUATE ENGAGEMENT | 160 Case studies in community-based research: connecting undergraduate education, community service, and faculty research. education, undergraduate engagement, community based research FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION | Ecological effects of recreational horse riding in protected areas. sustainable management of protected areas, northern environments, understorey vegetation FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION | The effects of fertilization and disturbance on understory vegetation in subarctic and boreal environments. disturbances, northern environments, understorey vegetation FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERSTORY INHIBITION | 177 Sun fleck dynamics of canopy tree seedlings in the presence of evergreen shrubs. seedling carbon gain, sun fleck dynamic, understory inhibition FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERSTORY PLANT COMMUNITIES | European earthworm impacts on forest floor plant communities. exotic earthworms, hardwood forest ecosystems, understory plant communities FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERSTORY PLANT DIVERSITY AND COMPOSITION | Patterns of understory diversity and composition of mixedwood stands of the boreal forest of western Canada. boreal forest, understory plant diversity and composition, diversity measurement FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNDERSTORY SHRUB | 157 Contrasting demography of the understory shrub Dirca palustris in two habitats. demography, understory shrub, Dirca palustris FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNEVEN-AGED NORTHERN HARDWOODS | 72 Effects of different partial cutting treatments on structural dynamics in uneven-aged northern hardwood stands. spatial pattern, stand dynamics, uneven-aged northern hardwoods FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNGULATES | Macroparasite-microparasite interactions: worms and TB in African buffalo. disease ecology, interspecific interactions, ungulates, nematodes, eubacteria FULL ABSTRACT |
| UNIONIDAE | 42 Freshwater mussels of the Hatchie River in west Tennessee. unionidae, rivers, malacology FULL ABSTRACT |
| UPLAND HARDWOOD FOREST | 43 Does the invasive autumn olive alter community composition and fuelbed characteristics in upland hardwood forests of southern Illinois. invasive, prescribed fire, upland hardwood forest FULL ABSTRACT |
| UPLAND HARDWOOD/OAK | 123 First-year assessment of upland hardwood rehabilitation treatments on a degraded oak stand in the Arkansas Ozarks. upland hardwood/oak, prescribed fire management, oak restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| UPLIFT | Uplift, erosion, and the distribution of phosphorus depleted ecosystems. phosphorus, uplift, erosion FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | Behavioral insights into urban trophic dynamics: patch and landscape characteristics correlated with gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) density and behavior. urban, wildlife FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | The role of freeway corridors in native and non-native plant migration in and around metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. migration and invasion, urban, community ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | 58 Inorganic nitrogen profile of xeriscaped stormwater retention basins in the Phoenix metropolitan area. urban, stormwater, N retention FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | 57 Atmospheric deposition of nutrients in a desert city: spatial patterns of wet deposition, throughfall, and runoff. urban, atmospheric deposition, CAP LTER FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | 136 Valuation of ecosystem services of Overton Park, Memphis, TN. ecosystem services, valuation, urban FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | Urban succession: Phoenix. urban, succession, community FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | Predicting persistence of imperiled fish species in an urbanizing landscape. conservation, urban, fish FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | Urbanization effects on leaf phenology across a multi-continent bioclimatic gradient. Heat island effect, budburst, urban FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | Challenges for sustainable ecosystem design and management in built environments. urban, metadisciplinary, design FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | The ecology of environmental justice: relationships to ecological theory. environmental justice, urban, conceptual framework FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | The ecology and pedagogy of buildings: the effects of real-time information feedback on the environmental performance of buildings and building occupants. urban, ecological design, education FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN | Community composition and diversity on anthropogenic substrates in urban rocky intertidal environments. urban, conservation, intertidal FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN BIRDS | For the birds-a comparison of human activities related to avian food webs between Phoenix, Arizona and southeastern Michigan. urban birds, human dimensions, social surveys FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN COMMUNITY STRUCTURE | Linking community structure to biodiversity in urban settings: why is species diversity lower in cities? urban community structure, foraging efficiency, urban species diversity FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | 72 The sky is falling: soil microbial responses to deposition from the urban atmosphere. desert, atmospheric deposition, urban ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | 69 Beyond infiltration: a characterization of microbial communities in urban rain gardens. rain garden, microbial community, urban ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | 59 Resilience of an urban coastal sage scrub remnant to wildfire fuel modification. urban ecology, coastal sage scrub, succession FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | Humans in the urban food web: insights from integrating social and biophysical science approaches in Phoenix and Baltimore. urban ecology, food webs, birds FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | Humans as part of simpler but often contaminated food webs in urban streams and rivers. streams and rivers, food webs, urban ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | Bees in San Francisco: park characteristics as explanatory variables of species richness and abundance. urban ecology, bees, ecosystem services FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | Linking ecology and environmental justice. environmental justice, urban ecology, research paradigm FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | The ecology of mowing and mulching: communities and ecosystem processes in urban habitats. urban habitats, urban ecology, habitat structure FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOLOGY | 168 Exploring a local ecosystem: writing to learn about the environment. undergraduate education, urban ecology, ecosystem analysis FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEM | 64 Effects of landscape manipulation on human behavior, knowledge, and social organization in an urban ecosystem. urban ecosystem, human behavioral ecology, human-environmental feedback FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEM | Carbon storage by urban soils in the US. urban ecosystem, soil carbon, carbon sequestration FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEM | Wildlife disease in urbanized landscapes: the ecology of West Nile Virus and its avian reservoir hosts. wildlife disease ecology, dilution effect, urban ecosystem FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEMS | Experimental approaches to understanding urban trophic dynamics. trophic dynamics, food webs, urban ecosystems FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEMS | 65 Can urban forests predict global climate change: sugar maple as a case study. urban ecosystems, global climate change, dendrochronology FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEMS | Variations in heavy metals across urbanizing watersheds. urban ecosystems, streams, biogeochemical cycles FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEMS | Restoring justice/restoring ecosystems: the intersection of ecology and environmental justice. environmental justice, urban ecosystems FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEMS | 6 Decomposition rates in Baisman and Dead Run stream systems. stream ecology, urban ecosystems, decomposition FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEMS | Urbanization effects on forest condition in the Georgia Piedmont. forest ecology, urban ecosystems, urban-rural interface FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN ECOSYSTEMS | 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 |
| URBAN FLORAS | Compositional similarity among urban floras within and across continents: the role of nonindigenous species. biotic homogenization, biogeography, urban floras FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN FOREST | Urbanization, non-native invertebrates, and the top-down effects of terrestrial salamanders in forest-floor food webs. urban forest, plethodontid salamanders, top-down effects FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN FOREST | 66 Growth and predation rates of western red cedar (Thuja plicata) seedlings in an urban forest. urban forest, recruitment, western red cedar FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN FORESTS | Tree recruitment, growth, and mortality differences between similar forests in urban and rural environments. urban forests, seedling recruitment, sapling growth FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN GARDENS | Constraints to pollination services in urban community gardens. pollination, urban gardens, ecosystem service FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN HABITATS | The ecology of mowing and mulching: communities and ecosystem processes in urban habitats. urban habitats, urban ecology, habitat structure FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN MARINE | 4 Survey for selected pathogens and evaluation of disease risk factors for endangered Hawaiian monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands. Monachus schauinslandi, urban marine, satellite telemetry/GIS FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN SPECIES DIVERSITY | Linking community structure to biodiversity in urban settings: why is species diversity lower in cities? urban community structure, foraging efficiency, urban species diversity FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN WOODLANDS | Effect of woodland restoration on bat activity in a metropolitan landscape. bats, urban woodlands, restoration FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN-RURAL INTERFACE | Urbanization effects on forest condition in the Georgia Piedmont. forest ecology, urban ecosystems, urban-rural interface FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBAN/SUBURBAN ECOSYSTEMS | Effect of consumption choices on fluxes of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus through urban households: case studies from Minnesota and Albania. household nutrient flux calculator, urban/suburban ecosystems, household nutrient cycles FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBANIZATION | The effect of time since urbanization on anuran communities in urban ponds. landscape ecology, urbanization, amphibians FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBANIZATION | Urbanization and avian communities in the southeastern US. urbanization, species richness, landscape ecology FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBANIZATION | Eurycea cirrigera abundance and growth: watershed and local habitat effects. urbanization, salamander, herpetology FULL ABSTRACT |
| URBANIZATION | 61 Estimating urbanization, fertilization, and irrigation effect on terrestrial water cycle and water quality at a watershed level: linking remote sensing technique, inventory data, and ecosystem model. water cycle, urbanization, remote sensing FULL ABSTRACT |
| USER CAPACITY | A question of balance: resource protection and visitor experience in Yosemite National Park. user capacity, indicator development FULL ABSTRACT |
| UV EFFECTS ON PLANTS | 147 Diurnal changes in epidermal UV transmittance of plants in naturally high UV environments. uv effects on plants, physiological plant ecology, chlorophyll fluorescence FULL ABSTRACT |
| UV-B RADIATION | 126 Response of sugar maple seedlings to two years exposure to UV-B radiation. acer saccharum, uv-b radiation, calorimetry FULL ABSTRACT |