Colloquium Paper: Species Invasions and Extinction: The Future of Native Biodiversity on Islands
Dov F. Sax and Steven D. Gaines
PNAS 105:11490-11497   Abstract
New York Times

 


NCEAS Working Group Results Published in Ecology Special Feature
Ecology
89(9) 2414-2445
When Predators Don’t Eat Their Prey: Nonconsumptive Predator Effects on Prey Dynamics
PI’s Evan Preisser and Daniel Bolnick, Guest Editors   Press Release

 

Special Call for Proposals: 30 Sept Deadline
Experimental Design for Detection of Species Response to Management Actions Across Scales

Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle
Edward A.G. Schuur et al.
Bioscience 58(8) 701-714    Abstract

Data on Nonconsumptive Predator Effects
Evan Preisser

Data were gathered from 300 published studies that measured the non-lethal effect of predators on their prey. Includes taxonomic information for both predator and prey, the variable(s) being measured, and means and measures of variation for prey in both a non-lethal treatment and a control treatment.

Colloquium Paper: Phylogenetic Trees and the Future of Mammalian Biodiversity
T. Jonathan Davies et al.
PNAS 105: 11556-11563  Abstract

The Coevolution of Cooperation and Dispersal in Social Groups and Its Implications for the Emergence of Multicellularity
Michael E. Hochberg, Daniel J. Rankin, Michael Taborsky
BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:232
Abstract published 8/19/2008

The Many Faces of Fear: Comparing the Pathways and Impacts of Nonconsumptive Predator Effects on Prey Populations  
Evan L. Preisser, Daniel I. Bolnick  PLoS ONE 3(6): e2465

Google Tool Identifies Linchpin Species
Stefano Allesina applies search system to determine which prey are key to an ecosystem’s survival.
Nature News Aug. 2008  Emma Marris