Research Projects

Leaders	Title	Status
Allen, Andrew Green, Jessica Hubbell, Stephen Marquet, Pablo	Towards a unified theory of biodiversity	Active
Allendorf, Fred Schwartz, Michael	Genetic monitoring: Development of tools for conservation and management	Active
Allesina, Stefano	Reverse engineering of ecological networks: From the disassembly to the construction of robust networks	Active
Alroy, John Marshall, Charles Miller, Arnold	Paleobiology Database (Hosted by NCEAS)	Active
Atkinson, David	Towards a new metabolic theory of ecology	Active
Aukema, Juliann	Distributed graduate seminar, economic impacts of non-native forest pests and pathogens in North America	Active
Aukema, Juliann Fleishman, Erica	Steering committee, economic impacts of non-native forest pests and pathogens in North America	Active
Aukema, Juliann	Economic and ecological implications of non-native forest pests and pathogens (TNC)	Active
Aukema, Juliann Fleishman, Erica Reichman, O.	Economic impacts of non-native forest pests and pathogens in North America (TNC)	Active
Balch, Jennifer	Relative influence of fuels, climate, and ignition on fire frequency across earth's ecosystems	Active
Baron, Nancy	SeaWeb (Hosted by NCEAS)	Active
Baskett, Marissa	Can coral reefs survive climate change?	Active
Beechie, Timothy Ruckelshaus, Mary	Resilience of Pacific salmon to climate change	Active
Bowman, David Balch, Jennifer	Pyrogeography - fire's place in earth system science	Active
Broitman, Bernardo	Bottom-up ecosystem-based management of coastal systems: Social drivers of ecological and economic factors in EBM (EBM)	Active
Buckley, Lauren Angilletta, Michael Holt, Robert Tewksbury, Joshua	Mechanistic distribution models: Energetics, fitness, and population dynamics	Active
Buckley, Lauren	Distribution dynamics in changing environments: Geographic trait variation and the potential for future adaptation	Active
Budden, Amber	Occurrence of publication bias in ecology	Active
Cadotte, Marc	Using phylogenetic information to predict the relative importance of equalizing versus stabilizing mechanisms on species coexistence	Active
Carroll, Carlos Fleishman, Erica	Landscape and population connectivity	Active
Cavender-Bares, Jeannine Ackerly, David Burleigh, J. Gordon Mack, Michelle Ree, Richard Reich, Peter	Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and ecological processes at multiple scales	Active
Chazdon, Robin Griffith, Daniel	Biodiversity and conservation value of agricultural landscapes of Mesoamerica	Active
Christie, Patrick Pollnac, Richard	Governance feasibility of marine ecosystem-based management: A comparative analysis (EBM)	Active
Cleland, Elsa	The response of ecological communities to nutrient enrichment: Utilizing meta-analysis and structural equation modeling to disentangle the influences of functional traits and environmental context	Active
Cleland, Elsa Collins, Scott Suding, Katharine	Ushering in a new era of functional ecology: Dynamics in a changing environment	Active
Cleveland, Cory Townsend, Alan	Revisiting nutrient limitation in tropical forests	Active
Condit, Richard	Geographic distribution of neotropical tree species: Pattern and process	Active
Connors, Margaret	Kids Do Ecology Poster Day	Active
Connors, Margaret Andelman, Sandy	Kids Do Ecology	Active
Cornell, Howard Harrison, Susan McCain, Christy	The role of niche conservatism in producing biodiversity gradients	Active
Costanza, Robert Graumlich, Lisa van der Leeuw, Sander	Integrated history and future of people on Earth (IHOPE): Building a community data base and testing the resilience - sustainability hypothesis across scales	Active
Costello, Christopher	Working Group, Matching property rights institutions with fishery characteristics	Active
Costello, Christopher Cook, Chuck Fleishman, Erica	Options for reforming the California nearshore finfish fishery	Active
Cuddington, Kim Byers, James	Habitat modification in conservation problems: Modeling invasive ecosystem engineers	Active
Davidson, Diane Fagan, William	Ecological stoichiometry and the spatial distributions and temporal dynamics of arthropods	Active
Davies, T. Jonathan	Coexistence, competition, and character evolution in carnivores and primates	Active
De Clerck, Fabrice Asbjornsen, Heidi Garrett, Karen Gordon, Thomas Lambrinos, John Mayfield, Margaret Philpott, Stacy Russell, Kimberly Aukema, Juliann Tyndall, John	Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes	Active
Doak, Daniel Estes, James Wootton, J. Timothy Williams, Terrie	Conservation planning for ecosystem functioning: Testing predictions of ecological effectiveness for marine predators (EBM)	Active
Drake, John Langford, Bill	Machine learning for the environment	Active
Enquist, Brian Condit, Richard Peet, Robert Boyle, Brad Dolins, Steven	Developing an integrated botanical information network to investigate the ecological impacts of global climate change on plant biodiversity	Active
Field, Christopher Canadell, Josep	Vulnerability of carbon in permafrost: Pool size and potential effects on the climate system	Active
Fleishman, Erica Costello, Christopher	Steering committee, sustainable fisheries group	Active
Fleishman, Erica	Prediction of responses of wild Pacific salmon to climate change	Active
Fleishman, Erica	Ecosystem analysis of pelagic organism declines in the Upper San Francisco Estuary	Active
Fleishman, Erica	Potential role of contaminants in declines of pelagic organisms in the Upper San Francisco Estuary, California	Active
Fleishman, Erica Aukema, Juliann O'Halloran, Thomas	Ecological and economic responses of non-native forests pests and pathogens to climate change	Active
Fleishman, Erica	Valuation of marine ecosystem services	Active
Fleishman, Erica Tabor, Gary	Climate change and conservation (WCS)	Active
Fleishman, Erica	Steering committee, wild salmon ecosystems	Active
Fleishman, Erica	Wild salmon ecosystems	Active
Gaines, Steven Costello, Christopher Reichman, O. Melack, John	Sustainable fisheries management project (Hosted by NCEAS)	Active
Gamon, John Rahman, Faiz	SpecNet	Active
Gotelli, Nicholas Colwell, Robert Rahbek, Carsten	Synthetic macroecological models of species diversity	Active
Granek, Elise Koch, Evamaria Barbier, Edward Stoms, David Aswani-Canela, Shankar	Measuring ecological, economic and social values of coastal habitats to inform ecosystem-based management of land-sea (EBM)	Active
Hacker, Sally	Science Advisory Board 2008-2010	Active
Hastings, Alan Botsford, Louis	Development of tools for the practical design of marine reserves	Active
Hochberg, Michael	A life-history theory of animal groups	Active
Hoeksema, Jason Johnson, Nancy Umbanhowar, James	Bridging the gap between theory and practice in mycorrhizal management (Extended)	Active
Hurlbert, Allen	Exploring the Swiss Cheese Effect: The causes and consequences of patchily occupied species ranges	Active
Jones, Matthew Ebert-May, Diane Schildhauer, Mark Urban-Lurain, Mark	Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST II)	Active
Jones, Matthew Schildhauer, Mark Beach, James Ludaescher, Bertram Michener, William	Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) (Hosted by NCEAS)	Active
Jones, Matthew Schildhauer, Mark Reichman, O.	Data management and analysis tools supporting adaptive management in South Afrian parks	Active
Juanes, Francis	Comparing globally-distributed population of Pomatomus saltatrix: Life histories and fisheries	Active
Kareiva, Peter Ricketts, Taylor Daily, Gretchen Polasky, Stephen	Conservation priorities: Can we have our biodiversity and ecosystem services too?	Active
King, Aaron Rohani, Pej	Unifying approaches to statistical inference in ecology	Active
Koricheva, Julia Gurevitch, Jessica	Meta-analysis in ecology: Lessons, challenges and future	Active
Kremen, Claire Williams, Neal	Restoring an ecosystem service to degraded landscapes: Native bees and crop pollination	Active
Lafferty, Kevin Dobson, Andrew Pascual, Mercedes	Parasites and food webs ? the ultimate missing links	Active
Lockwood, Rowan	Is rarity linked to extinction in the fossil record? Synthesizing data from background and mass extinctions in U.S. Coastal Plain mollusks	Active
Lortie, Christopher Aarssen, Lonnie Koricheva, Julia Tregenza, Tom	A quantitative exploration of the role of publication-related biases in ecology	Active
Mantua, Nate	Mechanisms of range limitation for Pacific salmon	Active
McGill, Brian Etienne, Rampal Gray, John Green, Jessica	Tools and fresh approaches for species abundance distributions	Active
McRae, Brad	Linking landscape ecology and population genetics using algorithms from circuit theory	Active
Melian, Carlos	The evolution of behavior and the structure of ecological networks	Active
Micheli, Fiorenza Rosenberg, Andrew	A synthetic approach to the science of ecosystem-based management of coastal marine ecosystems (EBM)	Active
Mittelbach, Gary Cornell, Howard Schemske, Douglas	Gradients in biodiversity and speciation	Active
Murdoch, William Kareiva, Peter Possingham, Hugh	International conservation: Expanding the decision framework	Active
Norby, Richard Luo, Yiqi Oren, Ram Prentice, I. Colin Hanson, Paul	Benchmarking ecosystem response models with experimental data from long-term CO2	Active
O'Halloran, Thomas	Quantitative analysis of ecosystem processes in forests and estuaries	Active
Orth, Robert Dennison, William	Global trajectories of seagrasses: Establishing a quantitative basis for seagrass conservation and restoration	Active
Osherenko, Gail Norse, Elliott Crowder, Larry Young, Oran Airame, Satie	Ecosystem-based management for the oceans: The role of zoning	Active
Parker, John	Disciplinary synthesis and collaboration in ecology: Organizations, research groups, and work lives	Active
Pavia, Robert Lindholm, James	Distributed graduate seminar - the role of MPAs in ecosystem-based management: Examining the science and politics of an ocean conservation strategy	Active
Peddle, Derek	Terrestrial Remote Sensing of climate change impacts and forest fire dynamics in North American ecosystems	Active
Peet, Robert Grossman, Dennis Jennings, Michael Walker, Marilyn	An information infrastructure for vegetation science (Hosted by NCEAS)	Active
Peterman, Randall	Monitoring responses of Pacific salmon to climate change	Active
Preisser, Evan Bolnick, Daniel	When, and how much, does fear matter? Quantitatively assessing the impact of predator intimidation of prey on community dynamics	Active
Randerson, James Canadell, Josep Jackson, Robert	Linking carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems with other climate forcing agents: A synthesis allowing for effective carbon dioxide stabilization policies	Active
Rathcke, Beverly	Science Advisory Board 2006-2008	Active
Regan, Helen Sarkar, Sahotra	Making decisions on complex environmental problems	Active
Reichman, O.	Knowledge and capacity-building to support ecosystem-based management (EBM) for sustainable coastal-marine systems	Active
Sabo, John	Thermal physiology and the abundance and distribution of ectotherms	Active
Sax, Dov Gaines, Steven Stachowicz, John	Exotic species: A source of insight into ecology, evolution, and biogeography	Active
Schildhauer, Mark Jones, Matthew Madin, Joshua Bowers, Shawn Kelling, Steve Sugarbaker, Larry	Towards a unified model for describing ecological and environmental observation data	Active
Schimel, Josh	Can we now determine if, when, and how microbial community composition impacts ecosystem processes? Will that understanding yield critical new information about ecosystem function and response to change?	Active
Schulz, Kimberly	Food quality effects on ecological efficiency at multiple scales in aquatic systems	Active
Selkoe, Kimberly	Elucidating marine dispersal with population genetics: A simulation approach with case studies on the Northwest Hawaiian Islands and the Pacific coasts of Baja and Southern California (Hosted by NCEAS)	Active
Shurin, Jonathan Hillebrand, Helmut Gruner, Daniel	Comparing trophic structure across ecosystems (Extended)	Active
Shurin, Jonathan Hillebrand, Helmut Gruner, Daniel	Comparing trophic structure across ecosystems	Active
Smith, Jennifer	Coral reef degradation: Determining the relative role of top-down and bottom-up factors in the global decline of coral reefs	Active
Stephens, Patrick	The effects of lineage age on the species richness of regional assemblages	Active
Strier, Karen Alberts, Susan Wright, Patricia	Evolutionary ecology of primate life histories (funded jointly with NESCent)	Active
Swaddle, John	Testing the importance of ecological theory in predicting human disease: Does avian diversity and community structure predict the incidence of human West Nile virus infection?	Active
Townsend, Alan Howarth, Robert	Ecological and health impacts of an accelerated U.S. nitrogen cycle	Active
Urban, Mark	Interaction traits and metacommunity gene flow	Active
Vieglais, David	Evaluating the role of current semantic web technologies for improving discovery, accessibility and interoperability of ecological and environmental data	Active
Walsh, Peter	Efficient wildlife disease control: From social network self-organization to optimal vaccination	Active
Weiner, Jacob	The allometry of reproduction in plant populations	Active
Wilcox, Chris Donlan, C. Josh	Exploring compensatory mitigation and markets as mechanisms for resolving fisheries bycatch: Biodiversity conservation conflicts	Active
Worm, Boris Hilborn, Ray	Finding common ground in marine conservation and management	Active
Zhuang, Qianlai Melillo, Jerry Prinn, Ronald McGuire, A. David	Toward an adequate quantification of CH4 emissions from land ecosystems: Integrating field and in-situ observations, satellite data, and modeling	Active
Abrams, Peter Wilson, Will	Extending, synthesizing, and applying recent advances in competition theory	Completed
Adler, Peter	Coexistence in a changing environment: Evaluating the role of climatic variability in semiarid plant communities	Completed
Aizen, Marcelo	Effects of habitat fragmentation on pollination and reproduction: A synthesis through a meta-analysis approach (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Allen, Andrew	The role of temperature in the origin and maintenance of biodiversity	Completed
Allen, Edith Covington, W. Falk, Donald	Developing the conceptual basis for restoration biology	Completed
Alroy, John Marshall, Charles	A sampling-standardized analysis of phanerozoic marine diversification and extinction	Completed
Alroy, John	Paleoecology of North American mammals: Large-scale patterns and processes	Completed
Altizer, Sonia Nunn, Charles	Understanding the role of infectious disease in mammalian mating and social systems (Extended)	Completed
Altizer, Sonia Nunn, Charles	Understanding the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in mammalian mating and social systems	Completed
Amarasekare, Priyanga	Spatial processes and multi-species interactions: Insights for biodiversity management	Completed
Andelman, Sandy	Designing and assessing the viability of nature reserve systems at regional scales: Integration of optimization, Heuristic and dynamic models	Completed
Andelman, Sandy	Designing and assessing the viability of nature reserve systems at regional scales: Integration of optimization, heuristic and dynamic models - Year 2	Completed
Andelman, Sandy	Review of Forest Service Viability Assessment Processes	Completed
Arneberg, Per	Comparative Studies of Abundance and Species Richness Patterns among Mammalian Nematodes	Completed
Ashley, Mary	New analytical methods in molecular ecology	Completed
Ashman, Tia-Lynn Knight, Tiffany Mazer, Susan Morgan, Martin	Beyond hand-pollinations: Linking pollen limitation to plant population biology	Completed
Bakarr, Mohamed	Global Gap Analysis: An assessment of the global network of protected areas (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Bascompte, Jordi	Habitat fragmentation: From spatially explicit models to the analysis of patterns in real ecosystems	Completed
Bascompte, Jordi	Self-organization in complex ecosystems (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Beach, James Krishtalka, Leonard	Systematics Community (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Becerra, Judith	Landscape coevolution of bursera plants and its herbivores	Completed
Beck, Michael Heck, Kenneth	Evaluation of the nursery role of wetlands and seagrasses for better conservation and management	Completed
Bjornstad, Ottar	Recruitment variability and populations dynamics	Completed
Bjornstad, Ottar	Statistical models for fluctuations in age- and stage-structured populations	Completed
Boersma, Dee Kareiva, Peter	Prospectus for an analysis of recovery plans and delisting	Completed
Bohannan, Brendan Morin, Peter Reysenbach, Anna-Louise Martiny, Jennifer Hughes	Patterns in microbial biodiversity (Extended)	Completed
Bohannan, Brendan Morin, Peter Reysenbach, Anna-Louise Martiny, Jennifer Hughes	Patterns in microbial biodiversity	Completed
Borer, Elizabeth	Synthesizing intraguild predation theory and data	Completed
Boring, Lindsay	New Directions and Applications for Ecosystem Science in the Private Sector	Completed
Bradshaw, Gay	Restoring the landscape: An analysis of Native American approaches to ecological restoration	Completed
Brooks, Marjorie	Anthropogenic stressors on aquatic ecosystems: Modeling links between UV radiation, geochemistry, bioaccumulation, and invertebrate communities at a landscape scale	Completed
Brooks, Thomas	Synthesis of the biodiversity knowledge base: Towards a global database of terrestrial vertebrate distributions	Completed
Brown, Gardner Kareiva, Peter Plummer, Mark	Biggest Bang for the Buck: Really melding demographic theory with economics	Completed
Brown, James	ESA Publications (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Brown, James Tilman, David Holling, Crawford Levin, Simon	Universal Phenomena in Ecology?	Completed
Brown, James	Allometry	Completed
Bunting, Lynda	Continental-scale patterns of salmon abundance during the past 500 years	Completed
Burgman, Mark Andelman, Sandy	Developing and testing methods for classifying species conservation status and estimating risk	Completed
Burgman, Mark	Setting priorities and making decisions for conservation risk management	Completed
Burton, Rebecca	Immunological response to environmental conditions	Completed
Buston, Peter	The ecology of hermaphroditic breeding systems	Completed
Callaway, Ragan Michalet, Richard Brooker, Robin Lortie, Christopher	Facilitation and competition on alpine elevation gradients: A global experiment on the organization of plant communities	Completed
Cane, James	NSF Pollinator Decline Workshop (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Carpenter, Steve	The need for large-scale experimentation to assess and predict the response of ecosystems to perturbation	Completed
Carpenter, Steve	Science Advisory Board Meeting	Completed
Carpenter, Steve	Science Advisory Board Meeting	Completed
Carpenter, Steve	Synthesis in Ecology: Applications, opportunities and challenges	Completed
Case, Ted	The biogeography of endemism, age, and area	Completed
Caswell, Hal Neubert, Michael	A new synthesis of demography and dispersal	Completed
Chapin, F. Sala, Osvaldo	Scenarios of future biodiversity: Causes, patterns and consequences	Completed
Chapin, F.	Arctic boreal processes that feed back to climate: Extrapolation and synthesis	Completed
Clark, James	The Role of Dispersal in the Holocene Expansion of Trees	Completed
Clark, James	Ecological Forecasting (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Cole, Jonathan Duarte, Carlos Prairie, Yves	Integrating the aquatic with the terrestrial component of the global carbon budget	Completed
Coleman, William	Electric Power Research Institute (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Cornell, Howard Hawkins, Bradford	Predators, pathogens, and parasitoids as mortality agents in phytophagous insect populations	Completed
Costanza, Robert Farber, Stephen	Value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital: Toward a dynamic, integrated approach	Completed
Costanza, Robert	Total value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital	Completed
Cottenie, Karl	Local versus regional processes: Integrating space and environment	Completed
Cottingham, Kathryn	Early warning of discontinuous changes in ecosystem state: Myth, reality, or somewhere in between?	Completed
Courtney, Steven Brosnan, Deborah	HCP Report: The way forward	Completed
Courtney, Steven	Sustainable Ecological Institute (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Covich, Alan	Drought effects on riparian forests and reorganization of nested stream food webs	Completed
Crowder, Larry	Marine conservation: Integrating science and policy	Completed
Crowley, Philip	Use of numerical, computer-intensive methods to solve optimization problems in evolutionary ecology	Completed
Cunningham, Clifford	The North Atlantic Project: Comparative ecology of the temperate Northwestern and Northeastern Atlantic benthic communities	Completed
Dadd, Michael	Meeting of the Species 2000 Project (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Damschen, Ellen	The causes and consequences of patchiness in kelp forests and implications for coastal marine reserve design (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Damuth, John	Climatic and Habitat Inference from Features of Mammalian Paleocommunities	Completed
Davis, Frank Barrows, Cam	Ecological monitoring of multi-species habitat conservation plans	Completed
Davis, Frank Greenwood, Greg Andelman, Sandy	California Legacy Project (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Davis, Frank	Coastal Reserves (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Debenham, Patty	SeaWeb (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Dobson, Andrew Holt, Robert	Infectious diseases and conservation biology	Completed
Donoghue, Michael Webb, Campbell	Phylogenies and community ecology	Completed
Drake, John	Risk analysis for alien species and emerging infectious diseases	Completed
Eldredge, Niles Thompson, John	Ecological processes and evolutionary rates	Completed
Ellison, Aaron	ESA Committee on Data Archiving and Sharing (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Ellner, Stephen	Visiting Scientist	Completed
Elser, James Fagan, William	Ecological stoichiometry of plant-herbivore interactions	Completed
Enquist, Brian	Allometry as a fundamental mechanism linking evolutionary and ecological pattern in vascular plants	Completed
Fagan, William	How habitat edges change species interactions	Completed
Farber, Stephen Costanza, Robert	Understanding, valuing, and managing dynamic ecosystem services under stress: Synthesizing across the LTER Network	Completed
Field, Christopher Harmon, Mark Holland, Elisabeth Kohlmaier, Gundolf	The carbon balance of Eurasia and North America	Completed
Flannigan, Michael Lavorel, Sandra	Global change impacts on landscape fires	Completed
Floeter, Sergio	Diversity, biogeography and macroecological patterns of Atlantic reef fishes	Completed
Francis, Robert Kitchell, James	Models of alternative management policies for marine ecosystems	Completed
Franklin, Jerry	Nature and role of biological legacies	Completed
Gabriel, Wilfried	Inducible defenses and environmental tolerance: A model system for the evolution of phenotypic plastic responses	Completed
Gerber, Leah	Developing population models to examine mortality impacts and spatial components of sea otter demographics (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Gerber, Leah	The influence of body size on effects of disease in natural populations	Completed
Gergel, Sarah	Protecting water by conserving land: The importance of spatial arrangement in influencing ecosystem processes	Completed
Gerrard, Ross	Investigating alternative land use/habitat conservation strategies using GIS and optimization modeling (Postdoctoral Fellow)	Completed
Gilpin, Michael Stine, Peter	Investigating alternative land use/habitat conservation strategies using GIS and optimization modeling	Completed
Gilpin, Michael Stine, Peter Church, Richard Gerrard, Ross	Investigating alternative land use/habitat conservation strategies using GIS and optimization modeling (Extended)	Completed
Gittleman, John McKinney, Michael	Phylogeny and conservation: Problems in the quantification of biodiversity	Completed
Godfray, Charles	Science Advisory Board	Completed
Gonzalez Guzman, Laura	Visiting Scientist (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Goodchild, Michael	Geographic Digital Library Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Goodin, Doug	LTER Climate Committee (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Gower, Stith McMurtrie, Ross	An analysis of the age-related decline in aboveground net primary production: Potential causes and stand-to global scale implications	Completed
Greene, Charles	Responses of North Atlantic continental shelf ecosystems to climate variability and change	Completed
Grimm, Nancy	Terrestrial and aquatic biogeochemistry: Sabbatical	Completed
Grimm, Nancy	Science Advisory Board	Completed
Grimm, Nancy	Aquatic-terrestrial Biogeochemistry (ATBGC)	Completed
Gross, Katherine	Developing a predictive framework for the maintenance and restoration of native plant diversity in grasslands	Completed
Groves, Craig	Methods for assessing species viability	Completed
Groves, Craig	Drafting a conservation blueprint: A practitioner's guide to regional planning for biodiversity	Completed
Gunderson, Lance Holling, Crawford Peterson, Garry	Theories for sustainable futures: Understanding and managing for resilience in human-ecological systems	Completed
Gyllenberg, Mats	Metapopulation models	Completed
Hackett, Edward	Ecology transformed: Social and intellectual change in ecological research	Completed
Hackett, Edward	Ecology transformed? A proposed working group to study new forms of scientific collaboration	Completed
Halpern, Ben	Predicting community-level responses to disturbance: Implications for reserve design (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Halpern, Ben Selkoe, Kimberly Micheli, Fiorenza Lenihan, Hunter	Putting ocean wilderness on the map: Building a global GIS atlas of pristine marine environments	Completed
Hannah, Lee Bradford, Jason	A collaborative research effort in climate change and biodiversity for the Tropical Andes (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Hanski, Ilkka	Metapopulation models	Completed
Harlan, Sharon	Urban ecology, social inequality, and climate: Building an integrative framework at the neighborhood scale	Completed
Harmon, Mark	Analysis of long-term litter decomposition experiments: Synthesis at the site, regional, and global levels	Completed
Hart, Stephen	Analysis and synthesis of the historical range of variability in ecosystem structure and function of inland west forests: Implications for ecological restoration (Sabbatical Fellow)	Completed
Harvell, Drew	The ecology of marine diseases (Extended)	Completed
Harvell, Drew	The ecology of marine diseases	Completed
Hawkins, Bradford Cornell, Howard	Energy and geographic variation in species richness	Completed
Helly, John	Computational Ecology	Completed
Hibbard, Kathy	Intercomparison of global scale ecological models and field data: EMDI II (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Hibbard, Kathy	Ecosystem model-data intercomparison working group IV (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Hibbard, Kathy	Ecosystem Model-Data Intercomparison Working Group on Data - Synthesis, Formats, and Establishment of an EMDI Server Facility	Completed
Hibbard, Kathy	Intercomparison of global scale ecological models and field data: EMDI III	Completed
Hilborn, Ray	Predicting extinction: The dynamics of salmon populations at low densities	Completed
Hochberg, Michael	Analyzing pattern and process in human cultural diversity	Completed
Hochberg, Michael	Patterns in social behavior and cultural diversity	Completed
Hoeksema, Jason Johnson, Nancy Umbanhowar, James	Narrowing the gap between theory and practice in mycorrhizal management	Completed
Holl, Karen Crone, Elizabeth Schultz, Cheryl	Restoration in a Landscape Context	Completed
Holt, Robert	The ecological and evolutionary dynamics of species' borders	Completed
Holyoak, Marcel	Visiting Scientist	Completed
Hosseini, Parviez	Graduate Intern for Complex Population Dynamics	Completed
Houlahan, Jeff Findlay, C. Scott Currie, David	Spatial and temporal community dynamics: Sharing data to answer questions	Completed
Howarth, Robert	Nitrogen transport and transformations: A regional and global analysis	Completed
Huenneke, Laura Diaz, Sandra Chapin, F.	Analysis of diversity reduction experiments to address the ecosystem consequences of biodiversity loss	Completed
Hunsaker, Carolyn	Quantification of uncertainty in spatial data for ecological applications	Completed
Ives, Anthony Frost, Thomas	Intrinsic and extrinsic variability in community dynamics	Completed
Jackson, Jeremy	Long-term ecological records of marine environments, populations and communities	Completed
Jackson, Robert	Towards an explicit representation of root distributions in global models	Completed
Jennings, Michael	The ecology of steppe and grassland vegetation alliances of the Columbia River Basin (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Johnson, Edward Miyanishi, Kiyoko	Forest fires: Behavior and ecological effects	Completed
Jones, Matthew Schildhauer, Mark Davis, Frank Reichman, O.	Automation of ecological data management using structured metadata (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Jones, Matthew	NSF NEON Informatics Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Juanes, Francis	The allometry of predator-prey relationships	Completed
Kaandorp, Jaap Kubler, Janet	Modelling growth and form of sessile marine organisms	Completed
Kareiva, Peter	Infusing ecological theory into the design of environmental monitoring	Completed
Kareiva, Peter	Developing a modeling paradigm for spatially explicit urban ecology models	Completed
Kareiva, Peter	Habitat conservation planning for endangered species	Completed
Kaufman, Dawn	The latitudinal gradient of diversity: Synthesis of pattern and process	Completed
Keitt, Timothy	Visiting Scientist (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Kelly, Dave Sork, Victoria Liebhold, Andrew	Evolutionary causes and ecological consequences of mast seeding in plants	Completed
Kerr, Suzi Pfaff, Alexander	A dynamic integrated model of land use, carbon flows and carbon sequestration supply in Costa Rica	Completed
Kinnaird, Margaret O'Brien, Timothy	Functional relationships of Asian Hornbills in changing forest landscapes	Completed
Kinzig, Ann Pacala, Stephen	Proposal for Workshop and Web-Based Working Group on The Theoretical Foundations of Biodiversity/Ecosystem Function Relationships	Completed
Kitchell, James	Apex predators in the ocean	Completed
Kitchell, James	Food web models for aquatic ecosystems	Completed
Klaas, Ben	Graduate Intern	Completed
Kolstad, Charles Heal, Geoffrey	The economics of biodiversity	Completed
Krivan, Vlastimil	Merging adaptive behavior and population dynamics	Completed
Kunz, Thomas	An ecological-economic analysis of pest-control services: The Brazilian Free-tailed Bat as a model	Completed
Langford, Bill	Evaluation functions for ecological image segmentation	Completed
Larson, Brendon	Ecological metaphors: Their cultural resonance and what we can do about it	Completed
Leavitt, Peter	Ecological variability of lakes in time: Integrated insights from paleolimnology and long-term ecological research	Completed
Leibold, Mathew	The Meta-Community Concept: A framework for large scale community ecology?	Completed
Lewinsohn, Thomas	Community structure and interaction diversity in insect-plant assemblages	Completed
Liebhold, Andrew Gurevitch, Jessica	Integrating the statistical modeling of spatial data in ecology	Completed
Liebhold, Andrew	Application of geostatistics in ecology (Sabbatical Fellow)	Completed
Lodge, David	Biology and policy of invasive species	Completed
Loik, Michael	PrecipNet: Analysis and synthesis of precipitation and ecosystem change	Completed
Lomolino, Mark Sax, Dov Brown, James	Foundations and future of biogeography	Completed
Losos, Jonathan	Comparative study of adaptive radiation	Completed
Lovvorn, James	Physiological limits on realized patch structure and trophic coupling from krill to diving seabirds	Completed
Lubchenco, Jane Palumbi, Stephen Gaines, Steven	Developing the theory of marine reserves	Completed
Luo, Yiqi Field, Christopher	Progressive nitrogen limitation of plant and ecosystem responses to elevated CO2	Completed
Lyons, Kathleen	Temporal and spatial dimensions of mammalian community structure: Pattern and process	Completed
Marquet, Pablo	Power laws in ecology	Completed
Marsh, David	Optimal design of population monitoring programs	Completed
Martinez, Neo	Synthesizing and analyzing complex ecological networks with ecoinformatics	Completed
Maurer, Brian Taper, Mark Lele, Subhash Dennis, Brian	Analyzing the demographic structure of geographic ranges: Investigating techniques to predict geographic range size	Completed
Mazer, Susan Ackerly, David Martinez-Ramos, Miguel Paz, Horacio	Life-history variation and community structure in neotropical rainforest communities: Ecological and phylogenetic influences	Completed
McCain, Christy	Elevational trends in biodiversity: Examining theoretical predictions across taxa	Completed
McCullough, Deborah Reichard, Sarah Cavey, Joseph	Pathways of non-indigenous plant pest introductions: How exotic insects, pathogens and weeds arrive in the United States	Completed
Merrick, Jennifer	National Center for Environmental Decision-Making Research. Grad Student Intern	Completed
Micheli, Fiorenza	Joint effects of top-down and bottom-up forces on the structure and dynamics of estuarine and coastal marine communities: Interactions between nutrient inputs and fisheries exploitation	Completed
Michener, William Haeuber, Richard	Interdisciplinary synthesis of recent natural and managed floods	Completed
Michener, William	Partnership for Biodiversity Information (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Milne, Bruce	Theoretical landscape ecology	Completed
Mitchell, Charles Power, Alison	The roles of natural enemies and mutualists in plant invasions	Completed
Mittelbach, Gary	Determinants of species diversity at varying spatial scales	Completed
Moe, Jannicke	Stoichiometry and population dynamics of consumer-resource systems: A combined experimental and modelling approach (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Moehlman, Patricia	The evolution of cooperative breeding in Canidae: Implications for extinction risk	Completed
Moles, Angela	The radiation of seed mass strategies worldwide	Completed
Mooney, Harold	Ecological Monitoring	Completed
Moore, John Dong, Quan	Detritus and dynamics of populations, food webs and communities	Completed
Morris, William Pfister, Catherine Tuljapurkar, Shripad	Stochastic demography for an increasingly variable world	Completed
Moss, Cynthia Croze, Harvey	Analysis and synthesis of results of studies carried out over three decades by the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya	Completed
Muller-Landau, Helene	Landscape-scale variation in forest communities and the distribution of tree life history strategies	Completed
Murdoch, William	Science Advisory Board Meeting	Completed
Murdoch, William Carpenter, Steve	External Advisory Committee/NSF Meeting	Completed
Murdoch, William Turchin, Peter	Complex Population Dynamics	Completed
Murdoch, William	Spatio-Temporal Conference	Completed
Murdoch, William	Integrative research in population dynamics (Sabbatical Fellow)	Completed
Naiman, Robert	The ecology and uses of riparian zones	Completed
Naiman, Robert	Fresh water and environmental change: The ecological consequences of altered hydrological regimes	Completed
Nisbet, Roger	Predicting population level effects of toxicants	Completed
O'Brien, W. John	Global change and eutrophication: Modeling of arctic lake ecosystems	Completed
Ojima, Dennis Mosier, Arvin	Analysis and synthesis of trace gas fluxes	Completed
Olson, Robert Kitchell, James	Ecological implications of alternative fishing strategies for apex predators	Completed
Orrock, John	Interactions between mammalian herbivores and associated plant communities	Completed
Osenberg, Craig	Meta-analysis, interaction strength and effect size: Application of biological models to the synthesis of experimental data	Completed
Ostfeld, Richard	Ecology of infectious disease: Roles of biodiversity, biotic interactions, and global change	Completed
Owen-Smith, Norman Hobbs, N. Illius, Andrew Lundberg, Per	Dynamics of large mammalian herbivores in changing environments: Alternative modeling approaches	Completed
Pace, Michael	Establishing Structure for the Synthesis and Integration of Progress in Ecosystem Science	Completed
Pace, Michael	Science Advisory Board	Completed
Packer, Craig	Serengeti: The origins and future of a complex ecosystem (Extended)	Completed
Packer, Craig Polasky, Stephen	Serengeti: The origins and future of a complex ecosystem	Completed
Padilla, Dianna	Non-native species introductions in marine reserves and protected areas	Completed
Palmer, Margaret Allan, J. David	A synthetic analysis of the scientific basis of ecological restoration of stream ecosystems	Completed
Palmer, Margaret	SAB 2003-2004	Completed
Palmer, Margaret	ESA Ecological Visions Committee (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Parker, Ingrid	Invasion biology: Toward a theory of impacts	Completed
Parmenter, Robert	National Science Foundation Biodiversity Observatory Network (BON) Workshop (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Parmesan, Camille	Assessing effects of global change by geographical analysis of population-level persistence data	Completed
Parrish, Julia	Marine conservation	Completed
Parton, William Coughenour, Michael Archer, Steven Hall, David	Interactions in mixed tree-grass systems	Completed
Pascual, Mercedes Dobson, Andrew	Seasonality and the population dynamics of infectious diseases	Completed
Peet, Robert Hennekens, Stephan	Tools for vegetation classification and analysis	Completed
Peterson, A. Townsend Moritz, Craig	Testing alternative methodologies for modeling species' ecological niches and predicting geographic distributions	Completed
Peterson, Charles	Science Advisory Board Meeting	Completed
Peterson, Charles	Science Advisory Board Meeting	Completed
Peterson, Garry Allen, Craig Holling, Crawford	Cross-scale organization and resilience of ecological systems	Completed
Pfaff, Alexander	A supply function for carbon sequestration: Multi-disciplinary estimation and integrated sensitivity analysis	Completed
Porter, Warren	Climate-ecological interactions: Individual, population and community connections	Completed
Porter, Warren	Putting physiology on a landscape scale	Completed
Possingham, Hugh	Decision theory in conservation biology: Are there rules of thumb?	Completed
Post, David	How does turnover time structure affect ecosystem stability?	Completed
Pressey, Robert	Effectiveness of current Approaches to Identifying Priority Conservation Areas	Completed
Pressey, Robert	Conservation planning tools	Completed
Prince, Stephen	Global Primary Production Data Initiative	Completed
Pyke, Chris	Climate, ecosystems, and land-use: Understanding environmental variability in human-dominated landscapes	Completed
Quinn, James	U.S. Biological Resources Division IABIN Workshop (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Ralls, Katherine Amrhein, Christopher Davis, Frank Howarth, Richard	A multidisciplinary analysis of alternative farmland-retirement strategies for restoring San Joaquin Valley ecosystems	Completed
Real, Leslie	North American Rabies Database	Completed
Real, Leslie Dobson, Andrew	Spatial ecology of infectious disease	Completed
Reichman, O.	Data management for the ecological sciences (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Reichman, O.	Los Marineros. A Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Program in Partnership with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History	Completed
Reichman, O. Brunt, James Helly, John Jones, Matthew Willig, Michael	A Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity: Building and evaluating a metadata-based framework for integrating heterogeneous scientific data (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Reichman, O. Krishtalka, Leonard	NSF Biodiversity Observatory Network (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Reichman, O.	EAC Meeting	Completed
Reichman, O.	KDI: Proposal development meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Reichman, O. Schildhauer, Mark Jones, Matthew	Integrating marine ecology data for scientific analysis and resource management: A community database prototype (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Reiners, William	Modeling ecological influences across landscape space	Completed
Reiners, William	Propagation of ecological influences across landscape space	Completed
Rex, Michael Strong, Donald	Deep sea biodiversity: Pattern and scale	Completed
Ritchie, Mark	Thermodynamics of trophic interactions: Toward a reconciliation of energy and elements	Completed
Roberts, David	Synthesizing the new vegetation ecology	Completed
Robles, Carlos Batchelder, Hal Donalson, Douglas Nisbet, Roger Desharnais, Robert Denny, Mark	Modeling spatially structured dynamics in benthic populations	Completed
Rothstein, Stephen	Cowbird Management (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Roughgarden, Joan	Ecological economics	Completed
Roughgarden, Joan	Ecology and Economics	Completed
Ruckelshaus, Mary	Science Advisory Board 2004-2006	Completed
Russell, Gareth McKinney, Michael	Sampling curves in ecology: Theory and application	Completed
Russell, Gareth	New tools for the analysis of population and community dynamics	Completed
Rustad, Lindsey Marion, Giles	Analysis, synthesis, and integration of temperature manipulation research	Completed
Sagarin, Rafe	Ecological and evolutionary models for homeland security strategy	Completed
Murray, Jill	Bridging microbial and theoretical ecology to investigate cooperative strategies in bacteria	Completed
Schmitz, Oswald	Understanding the role of individual-scale processes in community-level dynamics: What are the dynamically relevant organizational scales for predicting community dynamics?	Completed
Schnitzer, Stefan Burnham, Robyn	Lianas and tropical forest dynamics: Synthesis of Pan-tropical patterns from regional data sets	Completed
Schultz, Cheryl	Managing natural areas: How do we select among land management options?	Completed
Seabloom, Eric	Restoration of invaded California grasslands	Completed
Seastedt, Tim	Association of Ecosystem Research Centers Annual Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Semmens, Brice	Los Marineros: A Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Program in Partnership with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History	Completed
Semmens, Brice	California Marine Managed Areas Survey	Completed
Shachak, Moshe	The role of plants as landscape modulators in controlling biodiversity	Completed
Shea, Katriona Mangel, Marc Possingham, Hugh	Working Group on Population Management	Completed
Shimada, Masakazu	Visiting Scientist	Completed
Shurin, Jonathan	Detecting species interactions in survey data: New approaches and applications	Completed
Siegel, David	Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Sih, Andrew	Identifying and characterizing case studies of the successful use of basic ecological concepts to solve applied problems	Completed
Silander, John Gelfand, Alan Cowling, Richard Rebelo, Anthony	Macro-ecology and biogeography: Hierarchical (Bayesian) model development using data from South Africa	Completed
Smith, Felisa	Body size in ecology and paleoecology: Linking pattern and process across spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales	Completed
Smith, Robert	Analysis of Non-Linear Dynamics in Ecological Time Series; Use of Long-Term Data Sets to Evaluate the Role of Replication in Time and Space	Completed
Sork, Victoria	Synthesis of geographical, spatial-temporal, and metapopulation models into the analysis of landscape-level genetic data of woody plants (Sabbatical Fellow)	Completed
Sork, Victoria	Theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of gene flow in fragmented and managed populations	Completed
Stanford, Jack	Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Steffen, Will	Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems;A Synthesis	Completed
Stevens, Richard	Environmental determinants of biodiversity	Completed
Stine, Peter Church, Richard Gerrard, Ross	Decision support for conservation planning (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Stockwell, David	Preparation of a book and accompanying CD of programs and data entitled "Ecological Niche Modeling: Ecoinformatics in application to biodiversity"	Completed
Stromberg, Mark D'Antonio, Carla Harrison, Susan Malmstrom, Carolyn Rice, Kevin	Change in California grasslands	Completed
Strong, Donald Rex, Michael	Deep-sea biodiversity: Spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation strategies	Completed
Taper, Mark Lele, Subhash Lewin-Koh, Nicholas	The Evidence Project: Supporting scientific claims	Completed
Templer, Pamela Mack, Michelle Nadelhoffer, Knute	The fate of nitrogen inputs to terrestrial ecosystems	Completed
Thompson, John	Coevolution and the organization of biodiversity	Completed
Tilman, David	Ecological Forecasting	Completed
Tilman, David	The causes and consequences of biodiversity and composition	Completed
Tilman, David	Visiting Scientist	Completed
Tilman, David Kareiva, Peter	Spatial ecology: The role of space in population dynamics and interspecific interactions	Completed
Torchin, Mark	Using biological invasions to test predictions of population control by parasites	Completed
Travis, Joseph	Science Advisory Board	Completed
Turner, Monica Dale, Virginia	Comparing large, infrequent disturbances: What have we learned?	Completed
Urban, Mark Leibold, Mathew	Evolutionary and ecological sorting in space	Completed
Vazquez, Diego	Null models for specialization and asymmetry in plant-pollinator systems	Completed
Vellend, Mark	Forest plant metapopulations in fragmented and dynamic landscapes: Synthesizing models and data	Completed
Venable, Larry	Population and community dynamics of desert annuals	Completed
Verburg, Piet	Climate forcing of lacustrine energy fluxes	Completed
Vorosmarty, Charles	Arctic Hydrology (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Wagner, Frederic	Synthesis of elk influences on the Northern Yellowstone ecosystem and role of research in national park policy setting	Completed
Waide, Robert Willig, Michael	An Analysis of the Relationship between Productivity and Diversity using Experimental Results from the Long-Term Ecological Research Network	Completed
Walker, Marilyn Jones, Michael	A circumpolar comparison of tundra response to temperature manipulation: A synthesis of international tundra experiment data	Completed
Warner, Robert	Open vs. closed marine populations: Synthesis and analysis of the evidence	Completed
White, Michael	Biocomplexity in a coupled natural and human system: The glassy-winged sharpshooter and threats to the California wine industry (Hosted by NCEAS)	Completed
Wiens, John	A conceptual synthesis of landscape ecology	Completed
Wilkinson, Robert	California Regional Climate Change	Completed
Williams, John	Integrating satellite and pollen data with biogeochemical modelling to reconstruct long-term trends in the productivity and carbon sequestration of terrestrial ecosystems	Completed
Willig, Michael	Latitudinal gradients of diversity: A taxonomically and geographically comparative perspective	Completed
Wilson, Mark Real, Leslie	Global change and infectious disease	Completed
Wilson, Will	A broad look at organismal interactions: Linking intraspecific social interactions to an interspecific resource-consumer framework	Completed
Wilson, Will	Visiting Scientist	Completed
Worm, Boris Sala, Enric	Linking marine biodiversity to ecosystem functions and services	Completed
Zilov, Evgeny Moore, Marianne Hampton, Stephanie	The 60-year data set of plankton dynamics in Lake Baikal: Examining facets of the jewel of Siberia	Completed
de Roos, Andre	Visiting Scientist	Completed
de Valpine, Perry	Analysis of insect population data with structured population models	Completed

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