Welcome to NCEAS

Scientists at NCEAS use existing information to address important questions in ecology and allied disciplines. Hundreds of scholars, including Postdoctoral Associates, Sabbatical Fellows, and visitors in Working Groups collaborate each year at the Center on scores of projects.

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Programs Ecology Core Ecoinformatics Conservation and Resource Management New Projects Funded	Featured Research Underway What Local Environmental Conditions Cause Evolutionary Diversification Principal Investigator: Lesley Lancaster Lancaster is investigating whether and how two sources of diversity, one environmenal, the other evolutionary, are related. The study should have implications for conservation efforts.	Featured Dataset Producer Nutritional Quality Controls Ecosystem Trophic Structure Jonathan Shurin et al. Compiled from the literature and other sources that includes measures of aboveground producer biomass, herbivore biomass, and producer nutritional quality expressed as nitrogen and phosphorus content in aboveground producer biomass for a broad range of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

Announcements

NCEAS Postdoctoral Associate Stephanie Pau, Research Partner in Development of GrassPortal, a Database of the World's Grasses
Press Release

John Alroy Receives National Academies of Science Award for Scientific Reviewing
Alroy is honored for developing The Paleobiology Database, “which has produced an extraordinarily extensive synthesis of paleontological data.”     Subscribe

Interviews with Scientists

New NCEAS Publications

MPowering Ecologists: Community Assembly Tools for Community Assembly Rules
Joshua Ladau, Sadie J. Ryan
Oikos   Online: Jan. 15, 2010
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Refuge-mediated Apparent Competition in Plant–consumer Interactions
John L. Orrock, Robert D. Holt, Marissa L. Baskett
Ecology Letters 13(1) 11-20   Abstract