Featured Research Underway at NCEAS

Synthesizing frontiers in modeling drought- and insect-induced tree mortality with climate change
Principal Investigator(s): William Anderegg, Jeffrey Hicke, and Rosie Fisher
Ecotoxicology of the Gulf Oil Spill: A Holistic Framework for Assessing Impacts
Principal Investigator(s): Sean Anderson, Gary Cherr, C. Pete Peterson
Comparative Ecology of Cities: What Makes an Urban Biota “Urban”?
Principal Investigator(s): Myla Aronson, Madhusudan Katti, Paige Warren, and Charles Nilon
Ecology of Environmental Justice in Metropolitan Areas
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Boone, Mary Cadenasso, Morgan Grove, and Steward Pickett
Establishing an Open-source Animal-tracking Analysis Platform for Archival Geolocators
Principal Investigator(s): Eli Bridge, David Winkler, Eldar Rakhimberdiev, and Nathaniel Seavy
Evaluating Publication Bias in Ecology
Principal Investigator(s): Amber E. Budden
Global Impacts of Climate Change on Kelp Forest Ecosystems
Principal Investigator(s): Jarrett Byrnes, Sean Connell, and Mark Novak
Tidal Wetland Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Model
Principal Investigator(s): John Callaway, Steve Crooks, Pat Megonigal, and Abe Doherty
Soil respiration in arid and semi-arid ecosystems
Principal Investigator(s): Mariah Carbone
Biodiversity and the Functioning of Ecosystems: Translating Results from Model Experiments into Functional Reality
Principal Investigator(s): Bradley Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy and David Hooper
Linking Evolutionary History, Plant Traits, and Ecological Processes at Multiple Scales
Principal Investigator(s): Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
Gradients of Beta-diversity
Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Chase, Nathan Sanders, and Amy Freestone
Revisiting Nutrient Limitation in Tropical Forests
Principal Investigator(s): Cory C. Cleveland and Alan R. Townsend
Jellyfish Blooms of the Global Ocean: Magnitude, Causes and Consequences for Marine Food Webs, Carbon Cycling and Socioeconomics
Principal Investigator(s): Robert Condon, Carlos Duarte, Monty Graham
Forecasting Phenology: Integrating Ecology, Climatology, and Phylogeny to Understand Plant Responses to Climate Change
Principal Investigator(s): Benjamin I. Cook and Elizabeth M. Wolkovich
Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE):
Principal Investigator(s): Robert Costanza, Lisa Graumlich, and Sander van der Leeuw
When Are Matrix Models Useful for Management? An Empirical Test Across Plant Populations
Principal Investigator(s): Elizabeth Crone, Eric S. Menges and Martha Ellis
Envisioning a Sustainable Global Seafood Market and Restored Marine Ecosystems
Principal Investigator(s): Larry Crowder and Martin Smith
Land Use Change and Infectious Diseases
Principal Investigator(s): Andrew Dobson, Nita Bharti, and Matt Bonds
Tropical Coral Reefs of the Future: Modeling Ecological Outcomes from the Analyses of Current and Historical Trends
Principal Investigator(s): Ruth D. Gates and Peter J. Edmunds
The Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN):
Principal Investigator(s): Brian J. Enquist, Richard Condit, Robert K. Peet, Brad Boyle and Steven Dolins
Developing Comprehensive Management Models for Marine Mammals
Principal Investigator(s): Leah Gerber
Dance with neighbors: What have we learned about species coexistence in tree communities from the global stem-mapped forest plots?
Principal Investigator(s): Fangliang He, Rick Condit, Stephen Hubbell, and Thorsten Wiegand
Finding Common Ground in Marine Conservation and Management
Principal Investigator(s): Ray Hilborn and Boris Worm
When is a Mutualist a Cheater? A Synthesis of Conceptual and Data-based Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences of Variation in Mutualist Quality
Principal Investigator(s): Emily Jones and Maren Friesen
The future of publishing in ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental science
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Lortie, Jarrett Byrnes
Evaluating and Improving Open Source Software for Nonlinear Statistical Modeling in Ecology
Principal Investigator(s): Mark Maunder, Beth Gardner, and Ben Bolker
How Do Climate and the Environment Control Where a Species Lives?
Principal Investigator(s): Brian McGill, Walter Jetz, Robert Guralnick, and Jana McPherson
Warming Food Webs
Principal Investigator(s): Mary O'Connor and Hamish Greig
How do Grasslands Respond to El Niño and Future Climate Change?
Principal Investigator(s): Stephanie Pau
The Role of Marine Protected Areas in Ecosystem-based Management
Principal Investigator(s): Robert Pavia and James Lindholm
Paving the way for better access to Earth and environmental data
Principal Investigator(s): Stacy Rebich Hespanha
Towards Understanding Marine Biological Impacts of Climate Change
Principal Investigator(s): Anthony Richardson and Elvira Poloczanska
Understanding a Diverse Insect-parasitoid Community: Insights from Synthesizing Biodiversity Inventory Data from the Tropics
Principal Investigator(s): Josephine Rodriguez
Sustainability of Freshwater Resources in the United States
Principal Investigator(s): John Sabo, Laura Bowling, Gerrit Schoups
Revealing How Plankton "Get Along"
Principal Investigator(s): Lindsay Scheef
Synthesizing top-down and bottom-up approaches to ecological energetics
Principal Investigator(s): Jane Shevtsov
Climate Change and Invasive Species: Are Non-natives Poised for Greater Success in Future Climatic Conditions?
Principal Investigator(s): Cascade Sorte, Jeffrey Dukes, and Joshua Lawler
A Standard Assessment Framework for Ecosystem Services
Principal Investigator(s): Dean Urban, Lydia Olander, and Pat Comer
Fungal Pathogens and Disease-induced Extinction: Are Fungal Diseases Different?
Principal Investigator(s): Jamie Voyles, Cheryl Briggs, and Marm Kilpatrick
Efficient Wildlife Disease Control: From Social Network Self-organization to Optimal Vaccination
Principal Investigator(s): Peter Walsh
Red Flags and Species Endangerment: Meta-analytical Development of Criteria for Assessing Extinction Risk
Principal Investigator(s): Robin Waples and Jeffrey Hutchings
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