Avian Community Structure and Incidence of Human West Nile Virus
John Swaddle 


Metrics of avian community structure and human incidence of West Nile Virus, select counties, eastern U.S.  See Swaddle and Calos, 2008

A Cross-system Synthesis of Consumer and Nutrient Resource Control on Producer Biomass
Daniel S. Gruner, et al.
Ecology Letters 11(7) 740-755  Abstract 

 

The Evolutionary Ecology of Metacommunities
Mark C. Urban, et al.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23(6) 311-317

Sediment Organic Carbon Burial in Agriculturally Eutrophic Impoundments Over the Last Century
J. A. Downing et al.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
, 22, GB1018
Abstract
   ScienceDaily
Working Group

 

Parasites in Food Webs: The Ultimate Missing Links
Kevin D. Lafferty, Stefano Allesina et al.
Ecology Letters
11(6) 533-546

A General Model for Food Web Structure
Stefano Allesina, David Alonso, and Mercedes Pascual
Science 320(5876) Abstract

Sixty Years of Environmental Change in the World’s Largest Freshwater Lake--Lake Baikal, Siberia
Stephanie E. Hampton, Lyubov R. Izmest'eva, Marianne V. Moore, Stephen L. Katz, et al.  
Global Change Biology
14(8) 1947-1958

Lake Baikal Plankton
Lyubov Izmest'eva, Stephanie Hampton, Marianne Moore

Sixty year data set collected at 7-10 day intervals.  Analyzed and described in Hampton et al. 2008

NCEAS Founding & Interim Director Bill Murdoch Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Press release



Advancing Ecological Research with Ontologies
Joshua S. Madin, Shawn Bowers, Mark P. Schildhauer and Matthew B. Jones
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
23(3) 159-168

Landscape Effects on Crop Pollination Services: Are There General Patterns?
Taylor H. Ricketts, James Regetz, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, et al.
Ecology Letters 11(5) 499–515 
Abstract 

In Memoriam
Robert Denno, Entomologist, NCEAS Science Advisory Board

North Atlantic Register for Marine Species (NARMS)
E. Berghe, C.Cunningham, and M.Costello

NARMS describes species biodiversity of the northern North Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea.

Roles of Plant Traits and Nutrient Availability in Predicting Species Invasion
Principal Investigator: Elsa Cleland

Invasive species are a threat to biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. This research investigates whether nitrogen addition would allow invasion regardless of functional traits, due to decreased competition for this limiting resource.

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