Symmetrical Web of Carpinteria Salt Marsh
K. D. Lafferty et al
The authors analyzed the effect of parasites on food-web topology in a salt marsh ecosystem.
The data set is available via the NCEAS Data Repository.
Environmental Science to Solutions Fellowships
Funded by The Henry Luce Foundation
Applications are being accepted from doctoral students at UCSB for an interdisciplinary program focusing on solutions to environmental problems.
Information about the Program
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Effects of Metabolic Rate on Protein Evolution
James F. Gillooly, Michael W. McCoy and Andrew P. Allen
Biology Letters online, October 2, 2007
NCEAS Associates Named MacArthur Fellows
NCEAS Board member Ruth DeFries
Working Group leader Claire Kremen
They are among only 24 MacArthur Fellows named by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for 2007.
Ecolunch Seminar Series 2007 Resumes for Fall Quarter
mark [dot] urban [at] uconn [dot] edu (Mark C. Urban)
PNAS 104(36) 14377-14382 (2007)
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National Geographic
PNAS 104(36) 14377-14382 (2007)
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National Geographic
KITP Partners with NCEAS to Increase Participation of Ecologists in 2008 Physics of Climate Change Program
The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB invites ecologists to participate in a variety of research activities during spring 2008. Deadline: 7 September 2007.
Caribbean Food Web
Bascompte J., Melian C., and Sala E.
The authors compiled and analyzed a large, quantitative food web that includes 249 species. The data set is available via the NCEAS Data Repository.
Species Richness, Hotspots, and the Scale Dependence of Range Maps in Ecology and Conservation
Allen H. Hurlbert and Walter Jetz
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Synthesizing and Analyzing Complex Ecological Networks with Ecoinformatics
NCEAS Sabbatical Fellow Neo Martinez develops new advances in network science and applies them to the study of food webs...
Compensatory Mitigation as a Solution to Fisheries Bycatch - Biodiversity Conservation ConflictsChris Wilcox and C. Josh Donlan
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5, 6 (2007)
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A Meta-Analysis of Effects of Bt Cotton and Maize on Nontarget Invertebrates
Michelle Marvier, Chanel McCreedy, regetz [at] nceas [dot] ucsb [dot] edu (Jim Regetz), and Peter Kareiva
Science 316, 5830 (2007)
The Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST)
This project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is developing new metadata standards for assessment in ecological education. This will facilitate data exchange and comparison of different assessment techniques. The team is led by researchers at Michigan State University.
This project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is developing new metadata standards for assessment in ecological education. This will facilitate data exchange and comparison of different assessment techniques. The team is led by researchers at Michigan State University.
Novel Methods Improve Prediction of Species' Distributions From Occurrence Data
Elith, J;Graham, CH, et al.
Ecography 29, 2, (2006)
Interview with Jane Elith and Catherine Graham
Principal investigator: Brad McRae
Where Mountain Lions Roam: Star-P Helps Decipher Threatened Wildlife Migration
James F. Gillooly, Andrew Allen, Eric L. Charnov
PLoS Biology4, 8: e248 (2006)
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"Math and Fossils Resolve a Debate on Dinosaur Metabolism"
Boris Worm, Edward B. Barbier, Nicola Beaumont, J. Emmett Duffy, Carl Folke, halpern [at] nceas [dot] ucsb [dot] edu (Benjamin S. Halpern), Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Heike K. Lotze, Fiorenza Micheli, Stephen R. Palumbi, Enric Sala, selkoe [at] nceas [dot] ucsb [dot] edu (Kimberley A. Selkoe), John J. Stachowicz, Reg Watson
Science, 314, 5800 (2006)
Benjamin S. Halpern, Karl Cottenie, Bernardo R. Broitman
Science 312, 5777 (2006)
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Jennifer E. Smith, Morrigan Shaw, Rob A. Edwards, David Obura, Olga Pantos, Enric Sala, Stuart A. Sandin, Steven Smriga, Mark Hatay, Forest L. Rohwer
Ecology Letters 9, 7 (2006)
Reported in ScienceNOW Daily News
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