New Interactive-Mapping Website
Recent research at NCEAS produced the first-ever maps of the cumulative impact of humans on the world's oceans. Results from this work and all of the data layers that produced these maps can now be queried online.

 

 
ScienceWatch.com Interviews Jim Elser About His Emerging Research Front Paper
Global Analysis of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Limitation of Primary Producers in Freshwater, Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
JJ Elser et al.  Abstract

 

The Ecological Dynamics of Clade Diversification and Community Assembly
Mark A. McPeek
American Naturalist
Vol. 172, pp. E270-E284
Diversity in a Complex Ecological Network with Two Interaction Types
Carlos J. Melián, Jordi Bascompte, Pedro Jordano, Vlastimil Krivan
Oikos Online: Nov 6 2008   Abstract

 

Sustaining Biodiversity in Ancient Tropical Countryside
Jai Ranganathan, R. J. Ranjit Daniels, M. D. Subash Chandran, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Gretchen C. Daily
PNAS November 3, 2008
Abstract   BBC Online   
Interview, BBC Radio: Science in Action



Fred Wagner Receives Wildlife Society's 2008 Outstanding Book Award for Yellowstone's Destabilized Ecosystem: Elk Effects, Science, and Policy Conflict


Diversity in a Complex Ecological Network with Two Interaction Types
Carlos J. Melián, Jordi Bascompte, Pedro Jordano, Vlastimil Krivan
Oikos Online: Nov 6 2008
Abstract

Sustaining Biodiversity in Ancient Tropical Countryside
Jai Ranganathan, R. J. Ranjit Daniels, M. D. Subash Chandran, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Gretchen C. Daily
PNAS November 3, 2008
Abstract   BBC Online

Linking Global Turnover of Species and Environments
L.B. Buckley and W. Jetz
PNAS November 10, 2008
Abstract   Press Release   
Environmental Research Web



Evolutionary History and the Effect of Biodiversity on Plant Productivity

Mark W. Cadotte, Bradley J. Cardinale, and Todd H. Oakley
PNAS Early Edition, October 29, 2008
Abstract
Press Release



NCEAS Co-sponsors ESA Faculty Training Workshop:
Using Continental-scale Ecological Data Sets as a Teaching Tool



Distributed Graduate Seminar:
Examining the Science and Politics of an Ocean Conservation Strategy

Graduate students from Hawaii to New Hampshire examine the role of marine protected areas as tools for ecosystem-based management.