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Active Projects

LeadersTitle
  • Andrew P. Allen
  • Jessica L. Green
  • Stephen P. Hubbell
  • Pablo A. Marquet
Towards a unified theory of biodiversity
  • Sonia Altizer
  • Karen Oberhauser
  • Leslie Ries
Monarch butterflies as a model for understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of migratory species and their response to environmental change
  • Sean S. Anderson
  • Gary Cherr
  • Charles H. Peterson
Ecotoxicology of the gulf oil spill: A holistic framework for assessing impacts
  • Myla Aronson
  • Madhusudan Katti
  • Charles H. Nilon
  • Paige S. Warren
Comparative ecology of cities: What makes an urban biota “urban”?
  • Jennifer K. Balch
Relative influence of fuels, climate, and ignition on fire frequency across earth's ecosystems
  • Nancy Baron
SeaWeb (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Timothy Beechie
  • Mary Ruckelshaus
Resilience of Pacific salmon to climate change
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jessica L. Green
  • Ian Wright
Biogeography of Microorganisms: From Taxonomy to Traits
  • Christopher G. Boone
  • Mary L. Cadenasso
  • J. Morgan Grove
  • Steward T. Pickett
Ecology of environmental justice in metropolitan areas
  • David Bowman
  • Jennifer K. Balch
Pyrogeography - fire's place in earth system science
  • Lauren B. Buckley
  • Michael J. Angilletta
  • Robert D. Holt
  • Joshua Tewksbury
Mechanistic distribution models: Energetics, fitness, and population dynamics
  • Amber E. Budden
Occurrence of publication bias in ecology
  • Jarrett E. Byrnes
Linking network theory and biodiversity-ecosystem function research: topology modifies the consequences of species loss for the flow of energy and nutrients within food webs
  • John C. Callaway
  • Steve Crooks
  • Abe Doherty
  • Pat Megonigal
Tidal wetland carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions model
  • Mariah S. Carbone
A synthesis of soil respiration in semi-arid and arid ecosystems across multiple spatial and temporal scales
  • Bradley J. Cardinale
  • Emmett Duffy
  • Dave U. Hooper
Biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems: Translating results from model experiments into functional reality
  • Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
  • David D. Ackerly
  • J. Gordon Burleigh
  • Michelle C. Mack
  • Richard H. Ree
  • Peter B. Reich
Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and ecological processes at multiple scales
  • Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
  • Stephen Polasky
Developing curricula and model systems for sustainability science
  • Jonathan M. Chase
  • Amy L. Freestone
  • Nathan J. Sanders
A synthesis of patterns, analyses, and mechanisms of beta-diversity along ecological gradients
  • Elsa E. Cleland
  • Scott L. Collins
  • Katharine N. Suding
Ushering in a new era of functional ecology: Dynamics in a changing environment
  • Cory C. Cleveland
  • Alan R. Townsend
Revisiting nutrient limitation in tropical forests
  • Robert H. Condon
  • Carlos M. Duarte
  • William M. Graham
Global expansion of jellyfish blooms: Magnitude, causes and consequences
  • Margaret Connors
  • Sandy J. Andelman
Kids Do Ecology
  • Benjamin I. Cook
  • Elizabeth M. Wolkovich
Forecasting phenology: Integrating ecology, climatology, and phylogeny to understand plant responses to climate change
  • Robert Costanza
  • Lisa J. Graumlich
  • Sander E. van der Leeuw
Integrated history and future of people on Earth (IHOPE): Building a community data base and testing the resilience - sustainability hypothesis across scales
  • Elizabeth E. Crone
  • Martha Ellis
  • Eric S. Menges
When are matrix models useful for management? An empirical test across plant populations
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Martin D. Smith
Envisioning a sustainable global seafood market and restored marine ecosystems
  • Peter J. Edmunds
  • Ruth Gates
Tropical coral reefs of the future: Modeling ecological outcomes from the analyses of current and historical trends
  • Brian J. Enquist
  • Brad Boyle
  • Richard Condit
  • Steven Dolins
  • Robert K. Peet
Developing an integrated botanical information network to investigate the ecological impacts of global climate change on plant biodiversity
  • Erica Fleishman
Potential role of contaminants in declines of pelagic organisms in the Upper San Francisco Estuary, California
  • Erica Fleishman
  • Christopher Costello
Steering committee, sustainable fisheries group
  • Erica Fleishman
Prediction of responses of wild Pacific salmon to climate change
  • Erica Fleishman
Analysis and Conservation Prioritization of Landscape Connectivity in Nevada
  • Erica Fleishman
Ecological thresholds in the San Francisco Estuary
  • Steven D. Gaines
  • Christopher Costello
  • John M. Melack
  • O. J. Reichman
Sustainable fisheries management project (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Anne D. Guerry
  • Kai Chan
Cultural ecosystem services from marine and coastal systems: Counting the intangibles EBM
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
Kids Do Ecology Poster Day
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
Large-scale management action experiments and the detection of population-level effects
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
Marine Debris: Scale and impact of trash in ocean ecosystems
  • Darren Johnson
Converting evolutionary costs into ecological currency: linking trait variation, natural selection, and population dynamics
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • William K. Michener
  • Kathleen K. Smith
INTEROP: Creation of an international virtual data center for the biodiversity, ecological and environmental sciences
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
SDCI NMI improvements: Development of Kepler CORE -- a comprehensive, open, robust, and extensive scientific workflow infrastructure
  • Matthew B. Jones
Semantic enhancements
  • Kevin Lafferty
  • Andrew P. Dobson
  • Mercedes Pascual
Parasites and food webs - the ultimate missing links
  • Lesley Lancaster
What Community Characteristics Promote Recent and Current Bio-Diversification? An Investigation of Community-Level, Ecological Correlates of Rapid Diversification in Replicate, Temperate Angiosperm Genera
  • Andrew M. Liebhold
  • Deborah G. McCullough
Applying population ecology to strategies for eradicating invasive forest insects
  • Christopher J. Lortie
  • Jarrett E. Byrnes
The future of publishing in ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental science
  • Nathan Mantua
Mechanisms of range limitation for Pacific salmon
  • Mark N. Maunder
  • Benjamin Bolker
  • Beth Gardner
Evaluating and improving open source software for nonlinear statistical modeling in ecology
  • Edward McCauley
Development and application of scientific knowledge to ecosystem-based management of coastal marine systems
  • Brian McGill
  • Robert Guralnick
  • Walter Jetz
  • Jana McPherson
Choosing (and making available) the right environmental layers for modeling how the environment controls the distribution and abundance of organisms
  • Karen L. McLeod
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Michael J. Fogarty
  • Andrew A. Rosenberg
A framework to assess ecosystem health in support of ecosystem-based management of coastal-marine systems (EBM)
  • Teresa Mourad
  • Wendy K. Gram
  • Bruce Grant
Engaging undergraduate students in ecological investigations using large, public datasets: Distributed Graduate Seminar
  • Richard J. Norby
  • Paul J. Hanson
  • Yiqi Luo
  • Ram Oren
  • I. Colin Prentice
Benchmarking ecosystem response models with experimental data from long-term CO2 enrichment experiments
  • John N. Parker
  • Edward J. Hackett
Advancing Theory and Research on Scientific Synthesis
  • Stephanie Pau
Improving our understanding of the ecological controls on the distribution and phenology of C3 and C4 grasses in response to climate variations
  • Robert Pavia
  • James Lindholm
Distributed graduate seminar - The role of MPAs in ecosystem-based management: Examining the science and politics of an ocean conservation strategy
  • Randall Peterman
Monitoring responses of Pacific salmon to climate change
  • Erin E. Peterson
  • Daniel J. Isaak
  • Jay M. Ver Hoef
Spatial statistical models for stream networks: Synthesis and new directions
  • Hugh P. Possingham
  • Carissa J. Klein
Supporting decision making in the Coral Triangle Initiative: Prioritizing socially and economically viable projects and places for biodiversity conservation EBM
  • Evan L. Preisser
  • Daniel I. Bolnick
When, and how much, does fear matter? Quantitatively assessing the impact of predator intimidation of prey on community dynamics
  • Jai Ranganathan
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
Developing a return on investment approach for conservation planning in Argentina
  • Helen M. Regan
  • Sahotra Sarkar
Making decisions on complex environmental problems
  • O. J. Reichman
Knowledge and capacity-building to support ecosystem-based management (EBM) for sustainable coastal-marine systems
  • Anthony J. Richardson
  • Elvira Poloczanska
Towards understanding marine biological impacts of climate change
  • Josephine Rodriguez
Understanding a diverse insect-parasitoid community: insights from synthesizing biodiversity inventory data from the tropics
  • Michael S. Rosenberg
  • Bryan K. Epperson
  • Andrew T. Storfer
An interdisciplinary approach to advancing landscape genetics
  • John L. Sabo
  • Laura C. Bowling
  • Gerrit H. Schoups
Human impacts of water infrastructure on watershed ecosystems and the sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the coterminous US
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
  • Shawn Bowers
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Steve Kelling
  • Joshua S. Madin
  • Larry Sugarbaker
Towards a unified model for describing ecological and environmental observation data
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Ecoinformatics graduate internships
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
INTEROP: A Community-driven scientific observations network to achieve interoperability of environmental and ecological data
  • Daniel Schlenk
Potential interactions between urban runoff and decline of pelagic fishes
  • Kimberly A. Selkoe
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)
  • M. Rebecca Shaw
Global climate change and adaptation of conservation priorities
  • John R. Sibert
  • Mark N. Maunder
Public domain ADMB project
  • Cascade Sorte
  • Jeffrey S. Dukes
  • Joshua J. Lawler
Climate change and invasive species: Are non-natives poised for greater success in future climatic conditions?
  • Karen B. Strier
  • Susan Alberts
Evolutionary ecology of primate life histories (funded jointly with NESCent)
  • James A. Turner
Effects of trade policy on management of non-native forest pests and pathogens
  • Peter D. Walsh
Efficient wildlife disease control: From social network self-organization to optimal vaccination
  • Robin Waples
  • Jeffrey A. Hutchings
Red flags and species endangerment: Meta-analytical development of criteria for assessing extinction risk
  • Chris Wilcox
  • C. Josh Donlan
Exploring compensatory mitigation and markets as mechanisms for resolving fisheries bycatch: Biodiversity conservation conflicts
  • Boris Worm
  • Ray Hilborn
Finding common ground in marine conservation and management
  • Qianlai Zhuang
  • A. David McGuire
  • Jerry M. Melillo
  • Ronald G. Prinn
Toward an adequate quantification of CH4 emissions from land ecosystems: Integrating field and in-situ observations, satellite data, and modeling
  • Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
  • David D. Ackerly
  • J. Gordon Burleigh
  • Michelle C. Mack
  • Richard H. Ree
  • Peter B. Reich
Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and ecological processes at multiple scales
  • Karen B. Strier
  • Susan Alberts
Evolutionary ecology of primate life histories (funded jointly with NESCent)
  • Margaret Connors
  • Sandy J. Andelman
Kids Do Ecology
  • Lauren B. Buckley
  • Michael J. Angilletta
  • Robert D. Holt
  • Joshua Tewksbury
Mechanistic distribution models: Energetics, fitness, and population dynamics
  • David Bowman
  • Jennifer K. Balch
Pyrogeography - fire's place in earth system science
  • Mark N. Maunder
  • Benjamin Bolker
  • Beth Gardner
Evaluating and improving open source software for nonlinear statistical modeling in ecology
  • Evan L. Preisser
  • Daniel I. Bolnick
When, and how much, does fear matter? Quantitatively assessing the impact of predator intimidation of prey on community dynamics
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
  • Shawn Bowers
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Steve Kelling
  • Joshua S. Madin
  • Larry Sugarbaker
Towards a unified model for describing ecological and environmental observation data
  • John L. Sabo
  • Laura C. Bowling
  • Gerrit H. Schoups
Human impacts of water infrastructure on watershed ecosystems and the sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the coterminous US
  • Brian J. Enquist
  • Brad Boyle
  • Richard Condit
  • Steven Dolins
  • Robert K. Peet
Developing an integrated botanical information network to investigate the ecological impacts of global climate change on plant biodiversity
  • Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
  • David D. Ackerly
  • J. Gordon Burleigh
  • Michelle C. Mack
  • Richard H. Ree
  • Peter B. Reich
Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and ecological processes at multiple scales
  • Christopher J. Lortie
  • Jarrett E. Byrnes
The future of publishing in ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental science
  • Christopher G. Boone
  • Mary L. Cadenasso
  • J. Morgan Grove
  • Steward T. Pickett
Ecology of environmental justice in metropolitan areas
  • Anne D. Guerry
  • Kai Chan
Cultural ecosystem services from marine and coastal systems: Counting the intangibles EBM
  • Sean S. Anderson
  • Gary Cherr
  • Charles H. Peterson
Ecotoxicology of the gulf oil spill: A holistic framework for assessing impacts
  • Elsa E. Cleland
  • Scott L. Collins
  • Katharine N. Suding
Ushering in a new era of functional ecology: Dynamics in a changing environment
  • Brian J. Enquist
  • Brad Boyle
  • Richard Condit
  • Steven Dolins
  • Robert K. Peet
Developing an integrated botanical information network to investigate the ecological impacts of global climate change on plant biodiversity
  • Steven D. Gaines
  • Christopher Costello
  • John M. Melack
  • O. J. Reichman
Sustainable fisheries management project (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Erica Fleishman
  • Christopher Costello
Steering committee, sustainable fisheries group
  • John C. Callaway
  • Steve Crooks
  • Abe Doherty
  • Pat Megonigal
Tidal wetland carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions model
  • Karen L. McLeod
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Michael J. Fogarty
  • Andrew A. Rosenberg
A framework to assess ecosystem health in support of ecosystem-based management of coastal-marine systems (EBM)
  • Kevin Lafferty
  • Andrew P. Dobson
  • Mercedes Pascual
Parasites and food webs - the ultimate missing links
  • John C. Callaway
  • Steve Crooks
  • Abe Doherty
  • Pat Megonigal
Tidal wetland carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions model
  • Brian J. Enquist
  • Brad Boyle
  • Richard Condit
  • Steven Dolins
  • Robert K. Peet
Developing an integrated botanical information network to investigate the ecological impacts of global climate change on plant biodiversity
  • Chris Wilcox
  • C. Josh Donlan
Exploring compensatory mitigation and markets as mechanisms for resolving fisheries bycatch: Biodiversity conservation conflicts
  • Robert H. Condon
  • Carlos M. Duarte
  • William M. Graham
Global expansion of jellyfish blooms: Magnitude, causes and consequences
  • Bradley J. Cardinale
  • Emmett Duffy
  • Dave U. Hooper
Biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems: Translating results from model experiments into functional reality
  • Cascade Sorte
  • Jeffrey S. Dukes
  • Joshua J. Lawler
Climate change and invasive species: Are non-natives poised for greater success in future climatic conditions?
  • Elizabeth E. Crone
  • Martha Ellis
  • Eric S. Menges
When are matrix models useful for management? An empirical test across plant populations
  • Michael S. Rosenberg
  • Bryan K. Epperson
  • Andrew T. Storfer
An interdisciplinary approach to advancing landscape genetics
  • Karen L. McLeod
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Michael J. Fogarty
  • Andrew A. Rosenberg
A framework to assess ecosystem health in support of ecosystem-based management of coastal-marine systems (EBM)
  • Jonathan M. Chase
  • Amy L. Freestone
  • Nathan J. Sanders
A synthesis of patterns, analyses, and mechanisms of beta-diversity along ecological gradients
  • Mark N. Maunder
  • Benjamin Bolker
  • Beth Gardner
Evaluating and improving open source software for nonlinear statistical modeling in ecology
  • Peter J. Edmunds
  • Ruth Gates
Tropical coral reefs of the future: Modeling ecological outcomes from the analyses of current and historical trends
  • Robert H. Condon
  • Carlos M. Duarte
  • William M. Graham
Global expansion of jellyfish blooms: Magnitude, causes and consequences
  • Teresa Mourad
  • Wendy K. Gram
  • Bruce Grant
Engaging undergraduate students in ecological investigations using large, public datasets: Distributed Graduate Seminar
  • Teresa Mourad
  • Wendy K. Gram
  • Bruce Grant
Engaging undergraduate students in ecological investigations using large, public datasets: Distributed Graduate Seminar
  • Robert Costanza
  • Lisa J. Graumlich
  • Sander E. van der Leeuw
Integrated history and future of people on Earth (IHOPE): Building a community data base and testing the resilience - sustainability hypothesis across scales
  • Andrew P. Allen
  • Jessica L. Green
  • Stephen P. Hubbell
  • Pablo A. Marquet
Towards a unified theory of biodiversity
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jessica L. Green
  • Ian Wright
Biogeography of Microorganisms: From Taxonomy to Traits
  • Christopher G. Boone
  • Mary L. Cadenasso
  • J. Morgan Grove
  • Steward T. Pickett
Ecology of environmental justice in metropolitan areas
  • Brian McGill
  • Robert Guralnick
  • Walter Jetz
  • Jana McPherson
Choosing (and making available) the right environmental layers for modeling how the environment controls the distribution and abundance of organisms
  • John N. Parker
  • Edward J. Hackett
Advancing Theory and Research on Scientific Synthesis
  • Jai Ranganathan
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
Developing a return on investment approach for conservation planning in Argentina
  • Richard J. Norby
  • Paul J. Hanson
  • Yiqi Luo
  • Ram Oren
  • I. Colin Prentice
Benchmarking ecosystem response models with experimental data from long-term CO2 enrichment experiments
  • Boris Worm
  • Ray Hilborn
Finding common ground in marine conservation and management
  • Lauren B. Buckley
  • Michael J. Angilletta
  • Robert D. Holt
  • Joshua Tewksbury
Mechanistic distribution models: Energetics, fitness, and population dynamics
  • Bradley J. Cardinale
  • Emmett Duffy
  • Dave U. Hooper
Biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems: Translating results from model experiments into functional reality
  • Andrew P. Allen
  • Jessica L. Green
  • Stephen P. Hubbell
  • Pablo A. Marquet
Towards a unified theory of biodiversity
  • Robin Waples
  • Jeffrey A. Hutchings
Red flags and species endangerment: Meta-analytical development of criteria for assessing extinction risk
  • Erin E. Peterson
  • Daniel J. Isaak
  • Jay M. Ver Hoef
Spatial statistical models for stream networks: Synthesis and new directions
  • Brian McGill
  • Robert Guralnick
  • Walter Jetz
  • Jana McPherson
Choosing (and making available) the right environmental layers for modeling how the environment controls the distribution and abundance of organisms
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
  • Shawn Bowers
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Steve Kelling
  • Joshua S. Madin
  • Larry Sugarbaker
Towards a unified model for describing ecological and environmental observation data
  • Myla Aronson
  • Madhusudan Katti
  • Charles H. Nilon
  • Paige S. Warren
Comparative ecology of cities: What makes an urban biota “urban”?
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
  • Shawn Bowers
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Steve Kelling
  • Joshua S. Madin
  • Larry Sugarbaker
Towards a unified model for describing ecological and environmental observation data
  • Hugh P. Possingham
  • Carissa J. Klein
Supporting decision making in the Coral Triangle Initiative: Prioritizing socially and economically viable projects and places for biodiversity conservation EBM
  • Cascade Sorte
  • Jeffrey S. Dukes
  • Joshua J. Lawler
Climate change and invasive species: Are non-natives poised for greater success in future climatic conditions?
  • Robert Pavia
  • James Lindholm
Distributed graduate seminar - The role of MPAs in ecosystem-based management: Examining the science and politics of an ocean conservation strategy
  • Richard J. Norby
  • Paul J. Hanson
  • Yiqi Luo
  • Ram Oren
  • I. Colin Prentice
Benchmarking ecosystem response models with experimental data from long-term CO2 enrichment experiments
  • Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
  • David D. Ackerly
  • J. Gordon Burleigh
  • Michelle C. Mack
  • Richard H. Ree
  • Peter B. Reich
Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and ecological processes at multiple scales
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
  • Shawn Bowers
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Steve Kelling
  • Joshua S. Madin
  • Larry Sugarbaker
Towards a unified model for describing ecological and environmental observation data
  • Andrew P. Allen
  • Jessica L. Green
  • Stephen P. Hubbell
  • Pablo A. Marquet
Towards a unified theory of biodiversity
  • John R. Sibert
  • Mark N. Maunder
Public domain ADMB project
  • Andrew M. Liebhold
  • Deborah G. McCullough
Applying population ecology to strategies for eradicating invasive forest insects
  • Qianlai Zhuang
  • A. David McGuire
  • Jerry M. Melillo
  • Ronald G. Prinn
Toward an adequate quantification of CH4 emissions from land ecosystems: Integrating field and in-situ observations, satellite data, and modeling
  • Brian McGill
  • Robert Guralnick
  • Walter Jetz
  • Jana McPherson
Choosing (and making available) the right environmental layers for modeling how the environment controls the distribution and abundance of organisms
  • John C. Callaway
  • Steve Crooks
  • Abe Doherty
  • Pat Megonigal
Tidal wetland carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions model
  • Steven D. Gaines
  • Christopher Costello
  • John M. Melack
  • O. J. Reichman
Sustainable fisheries management project (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Qianlai Zhuang
  • A. David McGuire
  • Jerry M. Melillo
  • Ronald G. Prinn
Toward an adequate quantification of CH4 emissions from land ecosystems: Integrating field and in-situ observations, satellite data, and modeling
  • Elizabeth E. Crone
  • Martha Ellis
  • Eric S. Menges
When are matrix models useful for management? An empirical test across plant populations
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • William K. Michener
  • Kathleen K. Smith
INTEROP: Creation of an international virtual data center for the biodiversity, ecological and environmental sciences
  • Myla Aronson
  • Madhusudan Katti
  • Charles H. Nilon
  • Paige S. Warren
Comparative ecology of cities: What makes an urban biota “urban”?
  • Sonia Altizer
  • Karen Oberhauser
  • Leslie Ries
Monarch butterflies as a model for understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of migratory species and their response to environmental change
  • Richard J. Norby
  • Paul J. Hanson
  • Yiqi Luo
  • Ram Oren
  • I. Colin Prentice
Benchmarking ecosystem response models with experimental data from long-term CO2 enrichment experiments
  • Kevin Lafferty
  • Andrew P. Dobson
  • Mercedes Pascual
Parasites and food webs - the ultimate missing links
  • Brian J. Enquist
  • Brad Boyle
  • Richard Condit
  • Steven Dolins
  • Robert K. Peet
Developing an integrated botanical information network to investigate the ecological impacts of global climate change on plant biodiversity
  • Sean S. Anderson
  • Gary Cherr
  • Charles H. Peterson
Ecotoxicology of the gulf oil spill: A holistic framework for assessing impacts
  • Christopher G. Boone
  • Mary L. Cadenasso
  • J. Morgan Grove
  • Steward T. Pickett
Ecology of environmental justice in metropolitan areas
  • Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
  • Stephen Polasky
Developing curricula and model systems for sustainability science
  • Anthony J. Richardson
  • Elvira Poloczanska
Towards understanding marine biological impacts of climate change
  • Richard J. Norby
  • Paul J. Hanson
  • Yiqi Luo
  • Ram Oren
  • I. Colin Prentice
Benchmarking ecosystem response models with experimental data from long-term CO2 enrichment experiments
  • Qianlai Zhuang
  • A. David McGuire
  • Jerry M. Melillo
  • Ronald G. Prinn
Toward an adequate quantification of CH4 emissions from land ecosystems: Integrating field and in-situ observations, satellite data, and modeling
  • Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
  • David D. Ackerly
  • J. Gordon Burleigh
  • Michelle C. Mack
  • Richard H. Ree
  • Peter B. Reich
Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and ecological processes at multiple scales
  • Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares
  • David D. Ackerly
  • J. Gordon Burleigh
  • Michelle C. Mack
  • Richard H. Ree
  • Peter B. Reich
Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and ecological processes at multiple scales
  • Steven D. Gaines
  • Christopher Costello
  • John M. Melack
  • O. J. Reichman
Sustainable fisheries management project (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Sonia Altizer
  • Karen Oberhauser
  • Leslie Ries
Monarch butterflies as a model for understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of migratory species and their response to environmental change
  • Karen L. McLeod
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Michael J. Fogarty
  • Andrew A. Rosenberg
A framework to assess ecosystem health in support of ecosystem-based management of coastal-marine systems (EBM)
  • Timothy Beechie
  • Mary Ruckelshaus
Resilience of Pacific salmon to climate change
  • Jonathan M. Chase
  • Amy L. Freestone
  • Nathan J. Sanders
A synthesis of patterns, analyses, and mechanisms of beta-diversity along ecological gradients
  • Helen M. Regan
  • Sahotra Sarkar
Making decisions on complex environmental problems
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
SDCI NMI improvements: Development of Kepler CORE -- a comprehensive, open, robust, and extensive scientific workflow infrastructure
  • John L. Sabo
  • Laura C. Bowling
  • Gerrit H. Schoups
Human impacts of water infrastructure on watershed ecosystems and the sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the coterminous US
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • William K. Michener
  • Kathleen K. Smith
INTEROP: Creation of an international virtual data center for the biodiversity, ecological and environmental sciences
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Martin D. Smith
Envisioning a sustainable global seafood market and restored marine ecosystems
  • Michael S. Rosenberg
  • Bryan K. Epperson
  • Andrew T. Storfer
An interdisciplinary approach to advancing landscape genetics
  • Elsa E. Cleland
  • Scott L. Collins
  • Katharine N. Suding
Ushering in a new era of functional ecology: Dynamics in a changing environment
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
  • Shawn Bowers
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Steve Kelling
  • Joshua S. Madin
  • Larry Sugarbaker
Towards a unified model for describing ecological and environmental observation data
  • Lauren B. Buckley
  • Michael J. Angilletta
  • Robert D. Holt
  • Joshua Tewksbury
Mechanistic distribution models: Energetics, fitness, and population dynamics
  • Cory C. Cleveland
  • Alan R. Townsend
Revisiting nutrient limitation in tropical forests
  • Robert Costanza
  • Lisa J. Graumlich
  • Sander E. van der Leeuw
Integrated history and future of people on Earth (IHOPE): Building a community data base and testing the resilience - sustainability hypothesis across scales
  • Erin E. Peterson
  • Daniel J. Isaak
  • Jay M. Ver Hoef
Spatial statistical models for stream networks: Synthesis and new directions
  • Myla Aronson
  • Madhusudan Katti
  • Charles H. Nilon
  • Paige S. Warren
Comparative ecology of cities: What makes an urban biota “urban”?
  • Benjamin I. Cook
  • Elizabeth M. Wolkovich
Forecasting phenology: Integrating ecology, climatology, and phylogeny to understand plant responses to climate change
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jessica L. Green
  • Ian Wright
Biogeography of Microorganisms: From Taxonomy to Traits

Completed Projects

LeadersTitle
  • Peter A. Abrams
  • Will G. Wilson
Extending, synthesizing, and applying recent advances in competition theory
  • Carol Adair
Do microbes matter? Using global data to test implicit versus explicit representation of microbial activity in litter decomposition models
  • Peter B. Adler
Coexistence in a changing environment: Evaluating the role of climatic variability in semiarid plant communities
  • Marcelo A. Aizen
Effects of habitat fragmentation on pollination and reproduction: A synthesis through a meta-analysis approach (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Andrew P. Allen
The role of temperature in the origin and maintenance of biodiversity
  • Edith B. Allen
  • W. W. Covington
  • Donald A. Falk
Developing the conceptual basis for restoration biology
  • Fred W. Allendorf
  • Michael K. Schwartz
Genetic monitoring: Development of tools for conservation and management
  • Stefano Allesina
Reverse engineering of ecological networks: From the disassembly to the construction of robust networks
  • John Alroy
  • Charles R. Marshall
A sampling-standardized analysis of phanerozoic marine diversification and extinction
  • John Alroy
  • Charles R. Marshall
  • Arnold I. Miller
Paleobiology Database (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • John Alroy
Paleoecology of North American mammals: Large-scale patterns and processes
  • Sonia Altizer
  • Charles L. Nunn
Understanding the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in mammalian mating and social systems
  • Sonia Altizer
  • Charles L. Nunn
Understanding the role of infectious disease in mammalian mating and social systems (Extended)
  • Priyanga Amarasekare
Spatial processes and multi-species interactions: Insights for biodiversity management
  • Sandy J. Andelman
Designing and assessing the viability of nature reserve systems at regional scales: Integration of optimization, heuristic and dynamic models - Year 2
  • Sandy J. Andelman
Designing and assessing the viability of nature reserve systems at regional scales: Integration of optimization, Heuristic and dynamic models
  • Sandy J. Andelman
Review of Forest Service Viability Assessment Processes
  • Per Arneberg
Comparative Studies of Abundance and Species Richness Patterns among Mammalian Nematodes
  • Mary V. Ashley
New analytical methods in molecular ecology
  • Tia-Lynn Ashman
  • Tiffany M. Knight
  • Susan J. Mazer
  • Martin Morgan
Beyond hand-pollinations: Linking pollen limitation to plant population biology
  • David Atkinson
Towards a new metabolic theory of ecology
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Erica Fleishman
Steering committee, economic impacts of non-native forest pests and pathogens in North America
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
  • O. J. Reichman
Economic impacts of non-native forest pests and pathogens in North America (TNC)
  • Juliann Aukema
Distributed graduate seminar, economic impacts of non-native forest pests and pathogens in North America
  • Juliann Aukema
Economic and ecological implications of non-native forest pests and pathogens (TNC)
  • Mohamed Bakarr
Global Gap Analysis: An assessment of the global network of protected areas (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Jordi Bascompte
Habitat fragmentation: From spatially explicit models to the analysis of patterns in real ecosystems
  • Jordi Bascompte
Self-organization in complex ecosystems (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Marissa Baskett
Can coral reefs survive climate change?
  • Julia K. Baum
Predicting baseline, current, and future distributions and abundances of apex predators on coral reefs
  • James H. Beach
  • Leonard Krishtalka
Systematics Community (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Judith X. Becerra
Landscape coevolution of bursera plants and its herbivores
  • Michael W. Beck
  • Kenneth L. Heck
Evaluation of the nursery role of wetlands and seagrasses for better conservation and management
  • James D. Bever
SAB_Science Advisory Board 2009-2010
  • Ottar N. Bjornstad
Statistical models for fluctuations in age- and stage-structured populations
  • Ottar N. Bjornstad
Recruitment variability and populations dynamics
  • Dee Boersma
  • Peter Kareiva
Prospectus for an analysis of recovery plans and delisting
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jennifer Hughes Martiny
  • Peter J. Morin
  • Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Patterns in microbial biodiversity
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jennifer Hughes Martiny
  • Peter J. Morin
  • Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Patterns in microbial biodiversity (Extended)
  • Elizabeth T. Borer
Synthesizing intraguild predation theory and data
  • Lindsay Boring
New Directions and Applications for Ecosystem Science in the Private Sector
  • David Bowman
  • Jennifer K. Balch
Pyrogeography and climate change (co-sponsored with KITP)
  • Gay A. Bradshaw
Restoring the landscape: An analysis of Native American approaches to ecological restoration
  • Kerry Britton
Plants for planting
  • Bernardo R. Broitman
Bottom-up ecosystem-based management of coastal systems: Social drivers of ecological and economic factors in EBM (EBM)
  • Marjorie L. Brooks
Anthropogenic stressors on aquatic ecosystems: Modeling links between UV radiation, geochemistry, bioaccumulation, and invertebrate communities at a landscape scale
  • Thomas Brooks
Synthesis of the biodiversity knowledge base: Towards a global database of terrestrial vertebrate distributions
  • Gardner M. Brown
  • Peter Kareiva
  • Mark L. Plummer
Biggest Bang for the Buck: Really melding demographic theory with economics
  • James H. Brown
ESA Publications (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • James H. Brown
Allometry
  • James H. Brown
  • Crawford S. Holling
  • Simon A. Levin
  • David Tilman
Universal Phenomena in Ecology?
  • Lauren B. Buckley
Distribution dynamics in changing environments: Geographic trait variation and the potential for future adaptation
  • Lynda Bunting
Continental-scale patterns of salmon abundance during the past 500 years
  • Mark Burgman
  • Sandy J. Andelman
Developing and testing methods for classifying species conservation status and estimating risk
  • Mark Burgman
Setting priorities and making decisions for conservation risk management
  • Rebecca S. Burton
Immunological response to environmental conditions
  • Peter M. Buston
The ecology of hermaphroditic breeding systems
  • Marc W. Cadotte
Using phylogenetic information to predict the relative importance of equalizing versus stabilizing mechanisms on species coexistence
  • Ragan Callaway
  • Robin Brooker
  • Christopher J. Lortie
  • Richard Michalet
Facilitation and competition on alpine elevation gradients: A global experiment on the organization of plant communities
  • James H. Cane
NSF Pollinator Decline Workshop (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Stephen R. Carpenter
SAB_Science Advisory Board Meeting
  • Stephen R. Carpenter
SAB_Science Advisory Board Meeting
  • Stephen R. Carpenter
Synthesis in Ecology: Applications, opportunities and challenges
  • Stephen R. Carpenter
The need for large-scale experimentation to assess and predict the response of ecosystems to perturbation
  • Carlos Carroll
  • Erica Fleishman
Landscape and population connectivity
  • Ted Case
The biogeography of endemism, age, and area
  • Hal Caswell
  • Michael G. Neubert
A new synthesis of demography and dispersal
  • F. Stuart Chapin
  • Osvaldo E. Sala
Scenarios of future biodiversity: Causes, patterns and consequences
  • F. Stuart Chapin
Arctic boreal processes that feed back to climate: Extrapolation and synthesis
  • Robin L. Chazdon
  • Daniel M. Griffith
Biodiversity and conservation value of agricultural landscapes of Mesoamerica
  • Patrick J. Christie
  • Richard Pollnac
Governance feasibility of marine ecosystem-based management: A comparative analysis (EBM)
  • James S. Clark
Ecological Forecasting (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • James S. Clark
The Role of Dispersal in the Holocene Expansion of Trees
  • Elsa E. Cleland
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
  • Jonathan J. Cole
  • Carlos M. Duarte
  • Yves T. Prairie
Integrating the aquatic with the terrestrial component of the global carbon budget
  • William Coleman
Electric Power Research Institute (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Liza S. Comita
Determinants of relative species abundance: A cross-continental comparison of tropical tree communities
  • Richard Condit
Geographic distribution of neotropical tree species: Pattern and process
  • Howard V. Cornell
  • Susan P. Harrison
  • Christy M. McCain
The role of niche conservatism in producing biodiversity gradients
  • Howard V. Cornell
  • Bradford A. Hawkins
Predators, pathogens, and parasitoids as mortality agents in phytophagous insect populations
  • Robert Costanza
Total value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
  • Robert Costanza
  • Stephen Farber
Value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital: Toward a dynamic, integrated approach
  • Christopher Costello
  • Chuck Cook
  • Erica Fleishman
Options for reforming the California nearshore finfish fishery
  • Christopher Costello
Working Group, Matching property rights institutions with fishery characteristics
  • Christopher Costello
Limited-information fisheries management
  • Karl Cottenie
Local versus regional processes: Integrating space and environment
  • Kathryn L. Cottingham
Early warning of discontinuous changes in ecosystem state: Myth, reality, or somewhere in between?
  • Steven Courtney
  • Deborah M. Brosnan
HCP Report: The way forward
  • Steven Courtney
Sustainable Ecological Institute (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Alan P. Covich
Drought effects on riparian forests and reorganization of nested stream food webs
  • Larry B. Crowder
Marine conservation: Integrating science and policy
  • Philip H. Crowley
Use of numerical, computer-intensive methods to solve optimization problems in evolutionary ecology
  • Kim Cuddington
  • James E. Byers
Habitat modification in conservation problems: Modeling invasive ecosystem engineers
  • Clifford W. Cunningham
The North Atlantic Project: Comparative ecology of the temperate Northwestern and Northeastern Atlantic benthic communities
  • Michael N. Dadd
Meeting of the Species 2000 Project (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Ellen I. Damschen
The causes and consequences of patchiness in kelp forests and implications for coastal marine reserve design (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • John Damuth
Climatic and Habitat Inference from Features of Mammalian Paleocommunities
  • Diane W. Davidson
  • William F. Fagan
Ecological stoichiometry and the spatial distributions and temporal dynamics of arthropods
  • T. Jonathan Davies
Coexistence, competition, and character evolution in carnivores and primates
  • Frank W. Davis
  • Sandy J. Andelman
  • Greg Greenwood
California Legacy Project (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Frank W. Davis
Coastal Reserves (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Frank W. Davis
  • Cam Barrows
Ecological monitoring of multi-species habitat conservation plans
  • Patty Debenham
SeaWeb (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Fabrice De Clerck
  • Heidi Asbjornsen
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Karen Garrett
  • Thomas R. Gordon
  • John Lambrinos
  • Margaret M. Mayfield
  • Stacy Philpott
  • Kimberly N. Russell
  • John Tyndall
Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes
  • Andre M. de Roos
Visiting Scientist
  • Andre M. de Roos
Population and community ecology of ontogenetic development and growth
  • Perry de Valpine
Analysis of insect population data with structured population models
  • Daniel F. Doak
  • James A. Estes
  • Terrie Williams
  • J. Timothy Wootton
Conservation planning for ecosystem functioning: Testing predictions of ecological effectiveness for marine predators (EBM)
  • Andrew P. Dobson
  • Robert D. Holt
Infectious diseases and conservation biology
  • Michael J. Donoghue
  • Campbell O. Webb
Phylogenies and community ecology
  • John M. Drake
  • William T. Langford
Machine learning for the environment
  • John M. Drake
Risk analysis for alien species and emerging infectious diseases
  • Niles Eldredge
  • John N. Thompson
Ecological processes and evolutionary rates
  • Aaron Ellison
ESA Committee on Data Archiving and Sharing (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Stephen P. Ellner
Visiting Scientist
  • James J. Elser
  • William F. Fagan
Ecological stoichiometry of plant-herbivore interactions
  • Brian J. Enquist
Allometry as a fundamental mechanism linking evolutionary and ecological pattern in vascular plants
  • William F. Fagan
How habitat edges change species interactions
  • William F. Fagan
Dendritic landscapes: Exploring connectivity and biodiversity in an alternative geometry
  • Stephen Farber
  • Robert Costanza
Understanding, valuing, and managing dynamic ecosystem services under stress: Synthesizing across the LTER Network
  • Christopher B. Field
  • Mark Harmon
  • Elisabeth A. Holland
  • Gundolf Kohlmaier
The carbon balance of Eurasia and North America
  • Christopher B. Field
  • Josep Canadell
Vulnerability of carbon in permafrost: Pool size and potential effects on the climate system
  • Michael Flannigan
  • Sandra Lavorel
Global change impacts on landscape fires
  • Erica Fleishman
Steering committee, wild salmon ecosystems
  • Erica Fleishman
Evaluation of declines of pelagic organisms in the upper San Francisco Estuary
  • Erica Fleishman
  • Gary Tabor
Climate change and conservation (WCS)
  • Erica Fleishman
Valuation of marine ecosystem services
  • Erica Fleishman
Interactions between the near-coastal ocean and the San Francisco Estuary
  • Erica Fleishman
  • Susan Frankel
Risk assessment for climate change and forest pathogens in western North America
  • Erica Fleishman
Ecosystem analysis of pelagic organism declines in the Upper San Francisco Estuary
  • Erica Fleishman
Wild salmon ecosystems
  • Sergio R. Floeter
Diversity, biogeography and macroecological patterns of Atlantic reef fishes
  • Robert C. Francis
  • James F. Kitchell
Models of alternative management policies for marine ecosystems
  • Jerry F. Franklin
Nature and role of biological legacies
  • Wilfried Gabriel
Inducible defenses and environmental tolerance: A model system for the evolution of phenotypic plastic responses
  • John A. Gamon
  • Faiz Rahman
SpecNet
  • Ruth Gates
Synthesizing molecular and ecological datasets to evaluate how diversity in coral endosymbiont communities (symbiodinium) maps onto environmental sensitivity in corals
  • Leah R. Gerber
Developing population models to examine mortality impacts and spatial components of sea otter demographics (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Leah R. Gerber
Integrating behavior and demography in vertebrate conservation
  • Leah R. Gerber
The influence of body size on effects of disease in natural populations
  • Sarah E. Gergel
Protecting water by conserving land: The importance of spatial arrangement in influencing ecosystem processes
  • Ross Gerrard
Investigating alternative land use/habitat conservation strategies using GIS and optimization modeling (Postdoctoral Fellow)
  • Michael Gilpin
  • Richard L. Church
  • Ross Gerrard
  • Peter A. Stine
Investigating alternative land use/habitat conservation strategies using GIS and optimization modeling (Extended)
  • Michael Gilpin
  • Peter A. Stine
Investigating alternative land use/habitat conservation strategies using GIS and optimization modeling
  • John L. Gittleman
  • Michael L. McKinney
Phylogeny and conservation: Problems in the quantification of biodiversity
  • Charles Godfray
SAB_Science Advisory Board
  • Laura I. Gonzalez Guzman
Visiting Scientist (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Michael F. Goodchild
Geographic Digital Library Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Doug Goodin
LTER Climate Committee (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Nicholas J. Gotelli
  • Robert K. Colwell
  • Carsten Rahbek
Synthetic macroecological models of species diversity
  • Stith T. Gower
  • Ross McMurtrie
An analysis of the age-related decline in aboveground net primary production: Potential causes and stand-to global scale implications
  • Elise Granek
  • Shankar Aswani-Canela
  • Edward B. Barbier
  • Evamaria W. Koch
  • David M. Stoms
Measuring ecological, economic and social values of coastal habitats to inform ecosystem-based management of land-sea (EBM)
  • Charles H. Greene
Responses of North Atlantic continental shelf ecosystems to climate variability and change
  • Nancy B. Grimm
Terrestrial and aquatic biogeochemistry: Sabbatical
  • Nancy B. Grimm
SAB_Science Advisory Board
  • Nancy B. Grimm
Aquatic-terrestrial Biogeochemistry (ATBGC)
  • Katherine L. Gross
Predicting grassland community responses to fertilization: Exploring the role of clonality and other species traits
  • Katherine L. Gross
Developing a predictive framework for the maintenance and restoration of native plant diversity in grasslands
  • Craig Groves
Methods for assessing species viability
  • Craig Groves
Drafting a conservation blueprint: A practitioner's guide to regional planning for biodiversity
  • Lance H. Gunderson
  • Crawford S. Holling
  • Garry Peterson
Theories for sustainable futures: Understanding and managing for resilience in human-ecological systems
  • Mats Gyllenberg
Metapopulation models
  • Sally Hacker
SAB_Science Advisory Board 2008-2009
  • Edward J. Hackett
Ecology transformed: Social and intellectual change in ecological research
  • Edward J. Hackett
Ecology transformed? A proposed working group to study new forms of scientific collaboration
  • Benjamin S. Halpern
  • Hunter S. Lenihan
  • Fiorenza Micheli
  • Kimberly A. Selkoe
Putting ocean wilderness on the map: Building a global GIS atlas of pristine marine environments
  • Benjamin S. Halpern
Ranking and mapping human threats and impacts to marine ecosystems in the California current
  • Benjamin S. Halpern
Predicting community-level responses to disturbance: Implications for reserve design (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Lee Hannah
  • Jason Bradford
A collaborative research effort in climate change and biodiversity for the Tropical Andes (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Ilkka Hanski
Metapopulation models
  • Sharon L. Harlan
Urban ecology, social inequality, and climate: Building an integrative framework at the neighborhood scale
  • Mark Harmon
Analysis of long-term litter decomposition experiments: Synthesis at the site, regional, and global levels
  • Stephen C. Hart
Analysis and synthesis of the historical range of variability in ecosystem structure and function of inland west forests: Implications for ecological restoration (Sabbatical Fellow)
  • Drew Harvell
The ecology of marine diseases (Extended)
  • Drew Harvell
The ecology of marine diseases
  • Alan Hastings
  • Louis W. Botsford
Development of tools for the practical design of marine reserves
  • Bradford A. Hawkins
  • Howard V. Cornell
Energy and geographic variation in species richness
  • John J. Helly
Computational Ecology
  • Kathy A. Hibbard
Ecosystem model-data intercomparison working group IV (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Kathy A. Hibbard
Intercomparison of global scale ecological models and field data: EMDI II (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Kathy A. Hibbard
Ecosystem Model-Data Intercomparison Working Group on Data - Synthesis, Formats, and Establishment of an EMDI Server Facility
  • Kathy A. Hibbard
Intercomparison of global scale ecological models and field data: EMDI III
  • Ray Hilborn
  • Boris Worm
Distributed Graduate Seminar: Finding common ground in marine conservation and management
  • Ray Hilborn
Predicting extinction: The dynamics of salmon populations at low densities
  • Michael E. Hochberg
Analyzing pattern and process in human cultural diversity
  • Michael E. Hochberg
A life-history theory of animal groups
  • Michael E. Hochberg
Patterns in social behavior and cultural diversity
  • Jason D. Hoeksema
  • Nancy C. Johnson
  • James A. Umbanhowar
Narrowing the gap between theory and practice in mycorrhizal management
  • Jason D. Hoeksema
  • James D. Bever
A graduate seminar network to facilitate synthetic research on context-dependency in the mycorrhizal symbiosis
  • Jason D. Hoeksema
  • Nancy C. Johnson
  • James A. Umbanhowar
Bridging the gap between theory and practice in mycorrhizal management (Extended)
  • Karen Holl
  • Elizabeth E. Crone
  • Cheryl B. Schultz
Restoration in a Landscape Context
  • Robert D. Holt
The ecological and evolutionary dynamics of species' borders
  • Marcel Holyoak
Visiting Scientist
  • Parviez R. Hosseini
Graduate Intern for Complex Population Dynamics
  • Jeff Houlahan
  • David J. Currie
  • C. Scott Findlay
Spatial and temporal community dynamics: Sharing data to answer questions
  • Robert W. Howarth
Nitrogen transport and transformations: A regional and global analysis
  • Laura F. Huenneke
  • F. Stuart Chapin
  • Sandra Diaz
Analysis of diversity reduction experiments to address the ecosystem consequences of biodiversity loss
  • Carolyn T. Hunsaker
Quantification of uncertainty in spatial data for ecological applications
  • Allen H. Hurlbert
Exploring the Swiss Cheese Effect: The causes and consequences of patchily occupied species ranges
  • Anthony R. Ives
  • Thomas M. Frost
Intrinsic and extrinsic variability in community dynamics
  • Robert B. Jackson
Towards an explicit representation of root distributions in global models
  • Jeremy B.C. Jackson
Long-term ecological records of marine environments, populations and communities
  • Michael D. Jennings
The ecology of steppe and grassland vegetation alliances of the Columbia River Basin (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Edward A. Johnson
  • Kiyoko Miyanishi
Forest fires: Behavior and ecological effects
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Frank W. Davis
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Automation of ecological data management using structured metadata (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • James H. Beach
  • Bertram Ludaescher
  • William K. Michener
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Matthew B. Jones
NSF NEON Informatics Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Data management and analysis tools supporting adaptive management in South African parks
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Diane Ebert-May
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
  • Mark Urban-Lurain
Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST II)
  • Francis Juanes
Comparing globally-distributed population of Pomatomus saltatrix: Life histories and fisheries
  • Francis Juanes
The allometry of predator-prey relationships
  • Jaap A. Kaandorp
  • Janet E. Kubler
Modelling growth and form of sessile marine organisms
  • Peter Kareiva
Developing a modeling paradigm for spatially explicit urban ecology models
  • Peter Kareiva
Infusing ecological theory into the design of environmental monitoring
  • Peter Kareiva
Habitat conservation planning for endangered species
  • Peter Kareiva
  • Gretchen Daily
  • Stephen Polasky
  • Taylor Ricketts
Conservation priorities: Can we have our biodiversity and ecosystem services too?
  • Dawn Kaufman
The latitudinal gradient of diversity: Synthesis of pattern and process
  • Timothy H. Keitt
Visiting Scientist (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Dave Kelly
  • Andrew M. Liebhold
  • Victoria L. Sork
Evolutionary causes and ecological consequences of mast seeding in plants
  • Suzi Kerr
  • Alexander Pfaff
A dynamic integrated model of land use, carbon flows and carbon sequestration supply in Costa Rica
  • Aaron A. King
  • Pej Rohani
Unifying approaches to statistical inference in ecology
  • Margaret F. Kinnaird
  • Timothy G. O'Brien
Functional relationships of Asian Hornbills in changing forest landscapes
  • Ann P. Kinzig
  • Stephen W. Pacala
Proposal for Workshop and Web-Based Working Group on The Theoretical Foundations of Biodiversity/Ecosystem Function Relationships
  • James F. Kitchell
Food web models for aquatic ecosystems
  • James F. Kitchell
Apex predators in the ocean
  • Ben Klaas
Graduate Intern
  • Charles Kolstad
  • Geoffrey Heal
The economics of biodiversity
  • Christopher P. Konrad
  • Julian Olden
Evaluating responses of freshwater ecosystems to experimental water management
  • Julia Koricheva
  • Jessica Gurevitch
Meta-analysis in ecology: Lessons, challenges and future
  • Claire Kremen
  • Neal M. Williams
Restoring an ecosystem service to degraded landscapes: Native bees and crop pollination
  • Vlastimil Krivan
Merging adaptive behavior and population dynamics
  • Thomas H. Kunz
An ecological-economic analysis of pest-control services: The Brazilian Free-tailed Bat as a model
  • William T. Langford
Evaluation functions for ecological image segmentation
  • Brendon Larson
Ecological metaphors: Their cultural resonance and what we can do about it
  • Peter R. Leavitt
Ecological variability of lakes in time: Integrated insights from paleolimnology and long-term ecological research
  • Mathew A. Leibold
The Meta-Community Concept: A framework for large scale community ecology?
  • Thomas M. Lewinsohn
Community structure and interaction diversity in insect-plant assemblages
  • Andrew M. Liebhold
  • Jessica Gurevitch
Integrating the statistical modeling of spatial data in ecology
  • Andrew M. Liebhold
Application of geostatistics in ecology (Sabbatical Fellow)
  • Rowan Lockwood
Is rarity linked to extinction in the fossil record? Synthesizing data from background and mass extinctions in U.S. Coastal Plain mollusks
  • David M. Lodge
Biology and policy of invasive species
  • Michael E. Loik
PrecipNet: Analysis and synthesis of precipitation and ecosystem change
  • Mark V. Lomolino
  • James H. Brown
  • Dov F. Sax
Foundations and future of biogeography
  • Christopher J. Lortie
  • Lonnie W. Aarssen
  • Julia Koricheva
  • Tom Tregenza
A quantitative exploration of the role of publication-related biases in ecology
  • Jonathan B. Losos
Comparative study of adaptive radiation
  • James R. Lovvorn
Physiological limits on realized patch structure and trophic coupling from krill to diving seabirds
  • Jane Lubchenco
  • Steven D. Gaines
  • Stephen R. Palumbi
Developing the theory of marine reserves
  • Yiqi Luo
  • Christopher B. Field
Progressive nitrogen limitation of plant and ecosystem responses to elevated CO2
  • Kathleen Lyons
Temporal and spatial dimensions of mammalian community structure: Pattern and process
  • Michelle C. Mack
Climate warming and fire in a naïve biome: Using insights from boreal forest to understand causes and consequences of fire intensification in arctic tundra
  • Luis Francisco Madrinan
Investigating responses of riverine habitats and Pacific salmon to climate change
  • Pablo A. Marquet
Power laws in ecology
  • David Marsh
Optimal design of population monitoring programs
  • Neo Martinez
Synthesizing and analyzing complex ecological networks with ecoinformatics
  • Brian A. Maurer
  • Brian Dennis
  • Subhash R. Lele
  • Mark L. Taper
Analyzing the demographic structure of geographic ranges: Investigating techniques to predict geographic range size
  • Susan J. Mazer
  • David D. Ackerly
  • Miguel Martinez-Ramos
  • Horacio Paz
Life-history variation and community structure in neotropical rainforest communities: Ecological and phylogenetic influences
  • Christy M. McCain
Elevational trends in biodiversity: Examining theoretical predictions across taxa
  • Deborah G. McCullough
  • Joseph F. Cavey
  • Sarah Reichard
Pathways of non-indigenous plant pest introductions: How exotic insects, pathogens and weeds arrive in the United States
  • Robert I. McDonald
  • Peter J. Marcotullio
Ecosystem services on an urbanizing planet: What 2 billion new urbanites means for air and water
  • Brian McGill
  • Rampal S. Etienne
  • Jessica L. Green
Tools and fresh approaches for species abundance distributions
  • Brad H. McRae
Linking landscape ecology and population genetics using algorithms from circuit theory
  • Carlos J. Melian
The evolution of behavior and the structure of ecological networks
  • Carlos J. Melian
Unifying niche-neutral theories of molecular, community and network evolution (Gift)
  • Duncan N. Menge
Synthesizing ecosystem development data in a theoretical framework to understand transitions from nitrogen limitation to colimitation to phosphorus limitation
  • Jennifer Merrick
National Center for Environmental Decision-Making Research. Grad Student Intern
  • Fiorenza Micheli
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
  • Fiorenza Micheli
  • Andrew A. Rosenberg
A synthetic approach to the science of ecosystem-based management of coastal marine ecosystems (EBM)
  • William K. Michener
  • Richard Haeuber
Interdisciplinary synthesis of recent natural and managed floods
  • William K. Michener
Partnership for Biodiversity Information (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Bruce T. Milne
Theoretical landscape ecology
  • Charles E. Mitchell
  • Alison G. Power
The roles of natural enemies and mutualists in plant invasions
  • Gary G. Mittelbach
Community ecology in transition
  • Gary G. Mittelbach
  • Howard V. Cornell
  • Douglas W. Schemske
Gradients in biodiversity and speciation
  • Gary G. Mittelbach
Determinants of species diversity at varying spatial scales
  • Jannicke Moe
Stoichiometry and population dynamics of consumer-resource systems: A combined experimental and modelling approach (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Patricia D. Moehlman
The evolution of cooperative breeding in Canidae: Implications for extinction risk
  • Angela T. Moles
The radiation of seed mass strategies worldwide
  • Harold A. Mooney
Ecological Monitoring
  • John C. Moore
  • Quan Dong
Detritus and dynamics of populations, food webs and communities
  • Max A. Moritz
Fire as a Global Ecological Disturbance
  • William F. Morris
  • Catherine A. Pfister
  • Shripad Tuljapurkar
Stochastic demography for an increasingly variable world
  • Cynthia J. Moss
  • Harvey Croze
Analysis and synthesis of results of studies carried out over three decades by the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya
  • Helene C. Muller-Landau
Landscape-scale variation in forest communities and the distribution of tree life history strategies
  • William W. Murdoch
  • Peter Turchin
Complex Population Dynamics
  • William W. Murdoch
  • Peter Kareiva
  • Hugh P. Possingham
International conservation: Expanding the decision framework
  • William W. Murdoch
  • Stephen R. Carpenter
External Advisory Committee/NSF Meeting
  • William W. Murdoch
Spatio-Temporal Conference
  • William W. Murdoch
Integrative research in population dynamics (Sabbatical Fellow)
  • William W. Murdoch
SAB_Science Advisory Board Meeting
  • Jill L. S. Murray
Bridging microbial and theoretical ecology to investigate cooperative strategies in bacteria
  • Robert J. Naiman
The ecology and uses of riparian zones
  • Robert J. Naiman
Fresh water and environmental change: The ecological consequences of altered hydrological regimes
  • Roger M. Nisbet
Predicting population level effects of toxicants
  • Steven Oberbauer
  • Tiffany Troxler
Long-term phenological changes in tundra plants in response to experimental warming and observed changes in climate
  • W. John O'Brien
Global change and eutrophication: Modeling of arctic lake ecosystems
  • Mary I. O'Connor
Linking Physiological Rates and Community Ecology: Effects of Temperature on Food Web Dynamics and Population Connectivity
  • Thomas L. O'Halloran
Quantitative analysis of ecosystem processes in forests and estuaries
  • Dennis S. Ojima
  • Arvin R. Mosier
Analysis and synthesis of trace gas fluxes
  • Robert J. Olson
  • James F. Kitchell
Ecological implications of alternative fishing strategies for apex predators
  • John L. Orrock
Interactions between mammalian herbivores and associated plant communities
  • Robert J. Orth
  • William C. Dennison
Global trajectories of seagrasses: Establishing a quantitative basis for seagrass conservation and restoration
  • Craig W. Osenberg
Meta-analysis, interaction strength and effect size: Application of biological models to the synthesis of experimental data
  • Gail Osherenko
  • Satie Airame
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Elliott A. Norse
  • Oran R. Young
Ecosystem-based management for the oceans: The role of zoning
  • Richard S. Ostfeld
Ecology of infectious disease: Roles of biodiversity, biotic interactions, and global change
  • Norman Owen-Smith
  • N. Thompson Hobbs
  • Andrew W. Illius
  • Per Lundberg
Dynamics of large mammalian herbivores in changing environments: Alternative modeling approaches
  • Michael L. Pace
SAB_Science Advisory Board
  • Michael L. Pace
Establishing Structure for the Synthesis and Integration of Progress in Ecosystem Science
  • Craig Packer
Serengeti: The origins and future of a complex ecosystem (Extended)
  • Craig Packer
  • Stephen Polasky
Serengeti: The origins and future of a complex ecosystem
  • Dianna K. Padilla
Non-native species introductions in marine reserves and protected areas
  • Margaret A. Palmer
  • J. David Allan
A synthetic analysis of the scientific basis of ecological restoration of stream ecosystems
  • Margaret A. Palmer
ESA Ecological Visions Committee (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Margaret A. Palmer
SAB_Science Advisory Board 2003-2004
  • Ingrid M. Parker
Invasion biology: Toward a theory of impacts
  • John N. Parker
Disciplinary synthesis and collaboration in ecology: Organizations, research groups, and work lives
  • Robert R. Parmenter
National Science Foundation Biodiversity Observatory Network (BON) Workshop (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Camille Parmesan
Assessing effects of global change by geographical analysis of population-level persistence data
  • Julia K. Parrish
Marine conservation
  • William J. Parton
  • Steven R. Archer
  • Michael B. Coughenour
  • David Hall
Interactions in mixed tree-grass systems
  • Mercedes Pascual
  • Andrew P. Dobson
Seasonality and the population dynamics of infectious diseases
  • Robert K. Peet
  • Stephan Hennekens
Tools for vegetation classification and analysis
  • Robert K. Peet
  • Dennis H. Grossman
  • Michael D. Jennings
  • Marilyn D. Walker
An information infrastructure for vegetation science (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Christine Petersen
Assessing sensitivity of salmon species to river modifications and climate change
  • Charles H. Peterson
SAB_Science Advisory Board Meeting
  • Garry Peterson
  • Craig R. Allen
  • Crawford S. Holling
Cross-scale organization and resilience of ecological systems
  • A. Townsend Peterson
  • Craig Moritz
Testing alternative methodologies for modeling species' ecological niches and predicting geographic distributions
  • Charles H. Peterson
SAB_Science Advisory Board Meeting
  • Alexander Pfaff
A supply function for carbon sequestration: Multi-disciplinary estimation and integrated sensitivity analysis
  • Warren P. Porter
Putting physiology on a landscape scale
  • Warren P. Porter
Climate-ecological interactions: Individual, population and community connections
  • Hugh P. Possingham
Decision theory in conservation biology: Are there rules of thumb?
  • David M. Post
How does turnover time structure affect ecosystem stability?
  • Robert Pressey
Conservation planning tools
  • Robert Pressey
Effectiveness of current Approaches to Identifying Priority Conservation Areas
  • Stephen D. Prince
Global Primary Production Data Initiative
  • Chris Pyke
Climate, ecosystems, and land-use: Understanding environmental variability in human-dominated landscapes
  • Simon A. Queenborough
Addressing a long-standing paradox: How do dioecious plant species persist?
  • James F. Quinn
U.S. Biological Resources Division IABIN Workshop (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Katherine Ralls
  • Christopher Amrhein
  • Frank W. Davis
  • Richard B. Howarth
A multidisciplinary analysis of alternative farmland-retirement strategies for restoring San Joaquin Valley ecosystems
  • James T. Randerson
  • Josep Canadell
  • Robert B. Jackson
Linking carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems with other climate forcing agents: A synthesis allowing for effective carbon dioxide stabilization policies
  • Beverly Rathcke
SAB_Science Advisory Board 2006-2008
  • Leslie A. Real
North American Rabies Database
  • Leslie A. Real
  • Andrew P. Dobson
Spatial ecology of infectious disease
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Integrating marine ecology data for scientific analysis and resource management: A community database prototype (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Leonard Krishtalka
NSF Biodiversity Observatory Network (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • O. J. Reichman
KDI: Proposal development meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • O. J. Reichman
Data management for the ecological sciences (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • O. J. Reichman
EAC Meeting
  • O. J. Reichman
  • James W. Brunt
  • John J. Helly
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Michael R. Willig
A Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity: Building and evaluating a metadata-based framework for integrating heterogeneous scientific data (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • O. J. Reichman
Los Marineros. A Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Program in Partnership with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
  • William A. Reiners
Modeling ecological influences across landscape space
  • William A. Reiners
Propagation of ecological influences across landscape space
  • Michael A. Rex
  • Donald R. Strong
Deep sea biodiversity: Pattern and scale
  • Taylor Ricketts
SAB_Science Advisory Board 2010-2011
  • Mark Ritchie
Thermodynamics of trophic interactions: Toward a reconciliation of energy and elements
  • David W. Roberts
Synthesizing the new vegetation ecology
  • Carlos Robles
  • Hal Batchelder
  • Mark W. Denny
  • Robert A. Desharnais
  • Douglas Donalson
  • Roger M. Nisbet
Modeling spatially structured dynamics in benthic populations
  • Stephen Rothstein
Cowbird Management (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Joan Roughgarden
Ecology and Economics
  • Joan Roughgarden
Ecological economics
  • Mary Ruckelshaus
SAB_Science Advisory Board 2004-2006
  • Gareth J. Russell
  • Michael L. McKinney
Sampling curves in ecology: Theory and application
  • Gareth J. Russell
New tools for the analysis of population and community dynamics
  • Lindsey Rustad
  • Giles M. Marion
Analysis, synthesis, and integration of temperature manipulation research
  • Sadie J. Ryan
Quantifying long-term landscape vegetation dynamics in and around Kibale National Park, Uganda, to establish appropriate landscapes for zoonotic disease models
  • John L. Sabo
Dams, river networks and the distribution of native and non-native freshwater fauna in the United States
  • John L. Sabo
Thermal physiology and the abundance and distribution of ectotherms
  • Raphael Sagarin
Ecological and evolutionary models for homeland security strategy
  • Dov F. Sax
  • Steven D. Gaines
  • John J. Stachowicz
Exotic species: A source of insight into ecology, evolution, and biogeography
  • Josh Schimel
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?
  • Oswald J. Schmitz
Understanding the role of individual-scale processes in community-level dynamics: What are the dynamically relevant organizational scales for predicting community dynamics?
  • Stefan A. Schnitzer
  • Robyn J. Burnham
Lianas and tropical forest dynamics: Synthesis of Pan-tropical patterns from regional data sets
  • Cheryl B. Schultz
Managing natural areas: How do we select among land management options?
  • Kimberly L. Schulz
Food quality effects on ecological efficiency at multiple scales in aquatic systems
  • Edward A.G. Schuur
Permafrost and the global carbon cycle: A research and education synthesis towards understanding terrestrial feedbacks to climate change
  • Eric Seabloom
Restoration of invaded California grasslands
  • Tim Seastedt
Association of Ecosystem Research Centers Annual Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Brice Semmens
California Marine Managed Areas Survey
  • Brice Semmens
Los Marineros: A Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Program in Partnership with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
  • Moshe Shachak
The role of plants as landscape modulators in controlling biodiversity
  • Katriona Shea
  • Marc Mangel
  • Hugh P. Possingham
Working Group on Population Management
  • Masakazu Shimada
Visiting Scientist
  • Jonathan B. Shurin
  • Daniel S. Gruner
  • Helmut Hillebrand
Comparing trophic structure across ecosystems (Extended)
  • Jonathan B. Shurin
  • Daniel S. Gruner
  • Helmut Hillebrand
Comparing trophic structure across ecosystems
  • Jonathan B. Shurin
Detecting species interactions in survey data: New approaches and applications
  • David A. Siegel
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Andrew Sih
Identifying and characterizing case studies of the successful use of basic ecological concepts to solve applied problems
  • John Silander
  • Richard M. Cowling
  • Alan E. Gelfand
  • Anthony G. Rebelo
Macro-ecology and biogeography: Hierarchical (Bayesian) model development using data from South Africa
  • Jennifer E. Smith
Coral reef degradation: Determining the relative role of top-down and bottom-up factors in the global decline of coral reefs
  • Felisa A. Smith
Body size in ecology and paleoecology: Linking pattern and process across spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales
  • Robert H. Smith
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
  • Victoria L. Sork
Synthesis of geographical, spatial-temporal, and metapopulation models into the analysis of landscape-level genetic data of woody plants (Sabbatical Fellow)
  • Victoria L. Sork
Theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of gene flow in fragmented and managed populations
  • Jack Stanford
Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) Meeting (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Will Steffen
Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems;A Synthesis
  • Patrick R. Stephens
The effects of lineage age on the species richness of regional assemblages
  • Richard D. Stevens
Environmental determinants of biodiversity
  • Peter A. Stine
  • Richard L. Church
  • Ross Gerrard
Decision support for conservation planning (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • David Stockwell
Preparation of a book and accompanying CD of programs and data entitled "Ecological Niche Modeling: Ecoinformatics in application to biodiversity"
  • Mark Stromberg
  • Carla D'Antonio
  • Susan P. Harrison
  • Carolyn Malmstrom
  • Kevin Rice
Change in California grasslands
  • Donald R. Strong
  • Michael A. Rex
Deep-sea biodiversity: Spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation strategies
  • John P. Swaddle
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?
  • Mark L. Taper
  • Subhash R. Lele
  • Nicholas J. I. Lewin-Koh
The Evidence Project: Supporting scientific claims
  • Pamela Templer
  • Michelle C. Mack
  • Knute Nadelhoffer
The fate of nitrogen inputs to terrestrial ecosystems
  • Joshua Tewksbury
Natural history from decline to rebirth
  • John N. Thompson
Coevolution and the organization of biodiversity
  • David Tilman
The causes and consequences of biodiversity and composition
  • David Tilman
  • Peter Kareiva
Spatial ecology: The role of space in population dynamics and interspecific interactions
  • David Tilman
Visiting Scientist
  • David Tilman
Ecological Forecasting
  • Mark E. Torchin
Using biological invasions to test predictions of population control by parasites
  • Joseph Travis
SAB_Science Advisory Board
  • Monica G. Turner
  • Virginia H. Dale
Comparing large, infrequent disturbances: What have we learned?
  • Mark C. Urban
Interaction traits and metacommunity gene flow
  • Mark C. Urban
  • Mathew A. Leibold
Evolutionary and ecological sorting in space
  • Diego P. Vazquez
Null models for specialization and asymmetry in plant-pollinator systems
  • Mark Vellend
Forest plant metapopulations in fragmented and dynamic landscapes: Synthesizing models and data
  • D. Lawrence Venable
Population and community dynamics of desert annuals
  • Piet Verburg
Climate forcing of lacustrine energy fluxes
  • David A. Vieglais
Evaluating the role of current semantic web technologies for improving discovery, accessibility and interoperability of ecological and environmental data
  • Charles J. Vorosmarty
Arctic Hydrology (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Frederic H. Wagner
Synthesis of elk influences on the Northern Yellowstone ecosystem and role of research in national park policy setting
  • Helene Wagner
  • Lisette Waits
Developing best practices for testing landscape effects on gene flow: Distributed Graduate Seminar
  • Robert B. Waide
  • Michael R. Willig
An Analysis of the Relationship between Productivity and Diversity using Experimental Results from the Long-Term Ecological Research Network
  • Marilyn D. Walker
  • Michael Hunt Jones
A circumpolar comparison of tundra response to temperature manipulation: A synthesis of international tundra experiment data
  • Robert R. Warner
Open vs. closed marine populations: Synthesis and analysis of the evidence
  • Jacob Weiner
The allometry of reproduction in plant populations
  • Michael White
Biocomplexity in a coupled natural and human system: The glassy-winged sharpshooter and threats to the California wine industry (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • John A. Wiens
A conceptual synthesis of landscape ecology
  • Robert Wilkinson
California Regional Climate Change
  • Jennifer L. Williams
Evaluating life history theory and the consequences of reproductive strategy for population fluctuations
  • John W. Williams
Integrating satellite and pollen data with biogeochemical modelling to reconstruct long-term trends in the productivity and carbon sequestration of terrestrial ecosystems
  • Michael R. Willig
Latitudinal gradients of diversity: A taxonomically and geographically comparative perspective
  • Mark L. Wilson
  • Leslie A. Real
Global change and infectious disease
  • Will G. Wilson
Visiting Scientist
  • Will G. Wilson
A broad look at organismal interactions: Linking intraspecific social interactions to an interspecific resource-consumer framework
  • Elizabeth M. Wolkovich
Long term plankton community dynamics in the face of climate change
  • Kerry Woods
Slow systems and complex data-sets: Multi-decade permanent plots permit address of recalcitrant questions about late-successional forests
  • Boris Worm
  • Enric Sala
Linking marine biodiversity to ecosystem functions and services
  • Evgeny A. Zilov
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
  • Marianne V. Moore
The 60-year data set of plankton dynamics in Lake Baikal: Examining facets of the jewel of Siberia
  • Christopher J. Lortie
  • Lonnie W. Aarssen
  • Julia Koricheva
  • Tom Tregenza
A quantitative exploration of the role of publication-related biases in ecology
  • Susan J. Mazer
  • David D. Ackerly
  • Miguel Martinez-Ramos
  • Horacio Paz
Life-history variation and community structure in neotropical rainforest communities: Ecological and phylogenetic influences
  • Gail Osherenko
  • Satie Airame
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Elliott A. Norse
  • Oran R. Young
Ecosystem-based management for the oceans: The role of zoning
  • Margaret A. Palmer
  • J. David Allan
A synthetic analysis of the scientific basis of ecological restoration of stream ecosystems
  • Garry Peterson
  • Craig R. Allen
  • Crawford S. Holling
Cross-scale organization and resilience of ecological systems
  • Katherine Ralls
  • Christopher Amrhein
  • Frank W. Davis
  • Richard B. Howarth
A multidisciplinary analysis of alternative farmland-retirement strategies for restoring San Joaquin Valley ecosystems
  • Mark Burgman
  • Sandy J. Andelman
Developing and testing methods for classifying species conservation status and estimating risk
  • Frank W. Davis
  • Sandy J. Andelman
  • Greg Greenwood
California Legacy Project (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • William J. Parton
  • Steven R. Archer
  • Michael B. Coughenour
  • David Hall
Interactions in mixed tree-grass systems
  • Fabrice De Clerck
  • Heidi Asbjornsen
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Karen Garrett
  • Thomas R. Gordon
  • John Lambrinos
  • Margaret M. Mayfield
  • Stacy Philpott
  • Kimberly N. Russell
  • John Tyndall
Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes
  • Elise Granek
  • Shankar Aswani-Canela
  • Edward B. Barbier
  • Evamaria W. Koch
  • David M. Stoms
Measuring ecological, economic and social values of coastal habitats to inform ecosystem-based management of land-sea (EBM)
  • Fabrice De Clerck
  • Heidi Asbjornsen
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Karen Garrett
  • Thomas R. Gordon
  • John Lambrinos
  • Margaret M. Mayfield
  • Stacy Philpott
  • Kimberly N. Russell
  • John Tyndall
Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes
  • David Bowman
  • Jennifer K. Balch
Pyrogeography and climate change (co-sponsored with KITP)
  • Elise Granek
  • Shankar Aswani-Canela
  • Edward B. Barbier
  • Evamaria W. Koch
  • David M. Stoms
Measuring ecological, economic and social values of coastal habitats to inform ecosystem-based management of land-sea (EBM)
  • Frank W. Davis
  • Cam Barrows
Ecological monitoring of multi-species habitat conservation plans
  • Carlos Robles
  • Hal Batchelder
  • Mark W. Denny
  • Robert A. Desharnais
  • Douglas Donalson
  • Roger M. Nisbet
Modeling spatially structured dynamics in benthic populations
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • James H. Beach
  • Bertram Ludaescher
  • William K. Michener
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Jason D. Hoeksema
  • James D. Bever
A graduate seminar network to facilitate synthetic research on context-dependency in the mycorrhizal symbiosis
  • Alan Hastings
  • Louis W. Botsford
Development of tools for the practical design of marine reserves
  • Lee Hannah
  • Jason Bradford
A collaborative research effort in climate change and biodiversity for the Tropical Andes (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Ragan Callaway
  • Robin Brooker
  • Christopher J. Lortie
  • Richard Michalet
Facilitation and competition on alpine elevation gradients: A global experiment on the organization of plant communities
  • Steven Courtney
  • Deborah M. Brosnan
HCP Report: The way forward
  • Mark V. Lomolino
  • James H. Brown
  • Dov F. Sax
Foundations and future of biogeography
  • O. J. Reichman
  • James W. Brunt
  • John J. Helly
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Michael R. Willig
A Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity: Building and evaluating a metadata-based framework for integrating heterogeneous scientific data (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Stefan A. Schnitzer
  • Robyn J. Burnham
Lianas and tropical forest dynamics: Synthesis of Pan-tropical patterns from regional data sets
  • Kim Cuddington
  • James E. Byers
Habitat modification in conservation problems: Modeling invasive ecosystem engineers
  • Christopher B. Field
  • Josep Canadell
Vulnerability of carbon in permafrost: Pool size and potential effects on the climate system
  • James T. Randerson
  • Josep Canadell
  • Robert B. Jackson
Linking carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems with other climate forcing agents: A synthesis allowing for effective carbon dioxide stabilization policies
  • William W. Murdoch
  • Stephen R. Carpenter
External Advisory Committee/NSF Meeting
  • Deborah G. McCullough
  • Joseph F. Cavey
  • Sarah Reichard
Pathways of non-indigenous plant pest introductions: How exotic insects, pathogens and weeds arrive in the United States
  • Laura F. Huenneke
  • F. Stuart Chapin
  • Sandra Diaz
Analysis of diversity reduction experiments to address the ecosystem consequences of biodiversity loss
  • Peter A. Stine
  • Richard L. Church
  • Ross Gerrard
Decision support for conservation planning (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Michael Gilpin
  • Richard L. Church
  • Ross Gerrard
  • Peter A. Stine
Investigating alternative land use/habitat conservation strategies using GIS and optimization modeling (Extended)
  • Nicholas J. Gotelli
  • Robert K. Colwell
  • Carsten Rahbek
Synthetic macroecological models of species diversity
  • Christopher Costello
  • Chuck Cook
  • Erica Fleishman
Options for reforming the California nearshore finfish fishery
  • Bradford A. Hawkins
  • Howard V. Cornell
Energy and geographic variation in species richness
  • Gary G. Mittelbach
  • Howard V. Cornell
  • Douglas W. Schemske
Gradients in biodiversity and speciation
  • Stephen Farber
  • Robert Costanza
Understanding, valuing, and managing dynamic ecosystem services under stress: Synthesizing across the LTER Network
  • William J. Parton
  • Steven R. Archer
  • Michael B. Coughenour
  • David Hall
Interactions in mixed tree-grass systems
  • Edith B. Allen
  • W. W. Covington
  • Donald A. Falk
Developing the conceptual basis for restoration biology
  • John Silander
  • Richard M. Cowling
  • Alan E. Gelfand
  • Anthony G. Rebelo
Macro-ecology and biogeography: Hierarchical (Bayesian) model development using data from South Africa
  • Karen Holl
  • Elizabeth E. Crone
  • Cheryl B. Schultz
Restoration in a Landscape Context
  • Gail Osherenko
  • Satie Airame
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Elliott A. Norse
  • Oran R. Young
Ecosystem-based management for the oceans: The role of zoning
  • Cynthia J. Moss
  • Harvey Croze
Analysis and synthesis of results of studies carried out over three decades by the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya
  • Jeff Houlahan
  • David J. Currie
  • C. Scott Findlay
Spatial and temporal community dynamics: Sharing data to answer questions
  • Peter Kareiva
  • Gretchen Daily
  • Stephen Polasky
  • Taylor Ricketts
Conservation priorities: Can we have our biodiversity and ecosystem services too?
  • Monica G. Turner
  • Virginia H. Dale
Comparing large, infrequent disturbances: What have we learned?
  • Mark Stromberg
  • Carla D'Antonio
  • Susan P. Harrison
  • Carolyn Malmstrom
  • Kevin Rice
Change in California grasslands
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Frank W. Davis
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Automation of ecological data management using structured metadata (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Katherine Ralls
  • Christopher Amrhein
  • Frank W. Davis
  • Richard B. Howarth
A multidisciplinary analysis of alternative farmland-retirement strategies for restoring San Joaquin Valley ecosystems
  • Brian A. Maurer
  • Brian Dennis
  • Subhash R. Lele
  • Mark L. Taper
Analyzing the demographic structure of geographic ranges: Investigating techniques to predict geographic range size
  • Robert J. Orth
  • William C. Dennison
Global trajectories of seagrasses: Establishing a quantitative basis for seagrass conservation and restoration
  • Carlos Robles
  • Hal Batchelder
  • Mark W. Denny
  • Robert A. Desharnais
  • Douglas Donalson
  • Roger M. Nisbet
Modeling spatially structured dynamics in benthic populations
  • Carlos Robles
  • Hal Batchelder
  • Mark W. Denny
  • Robert A. Desharnais
  • Douglas Donalson
  • Roger M. Nisbet
Modeling spatially structured dynamics in benthic populations
  • Laura F. Huenneke
  • F. Stuart Chapin
  • Sandra Diaz
Analysis of diversity reduction experiments to address the ecosystem consequences of biodiversity loss
  • Leslie A. Real
  • Andrew P. Dobson
Spatial ecology of infectious disease
  • Mercedes Pascual
  • Andrew P. Dobson
Seasonality and the population dynamics of infectious diseases
  • Carlos Robles
  • Hal Batchelder
  • Mark W. Denny
  • Robert A. Desharnais
  • Douglas Donalson
  • Roger M. Nisbet
Modeling spatially structured dynamics in benthic populations
  • John C. Moore
  • Quan Dong
Detritus and dynamics of populations, food webs and communities
  • Jonathan J. Cole
  • Carlos M. Duarte
  • Yves T. Prairie
Integrating the aquatic with the terrestrial component of the global carbon budget
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Diane Ebert-May
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
  • Mark Urban-Lurain
Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST II)
  • Daniel F. Doak
  • James A. Estes
  • Terrie Williams
  • J. Timothy Wootton
Conservation planning for ecosystem functioning: Testing predictions of ecological effectiveness for marine predators (EBM)
  • Brian McGill
  • Rampal S. Etienne
  • Jessica L. Green
Tools and fresh approaches for species abundance distributions
  • James J. Elser
  • William F. Fagan
Ecological stoichiometry of plant-herbivore interactions
  • Diane W. Davidson
  • William F. Fagan
Ecological stoichiometry and the spatial distributions and temporal dynamics of arthropods
  • Edith B. Allen
  • W. W. Covington
  • Donald A. Falk
Developing the conceptual basis for restoration biology
  • Robert Costanza
  • Stephen Farber
Value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital: Toward a dynamic, integrated approach
  • Yiqi Luo
  • Christopher B. Field
Progressive nitrogen limitation of plant and ecosystem responses to elevated CO2
  • Jeff Houlahan
  • David J. Currie
  • C. Scott Findlay
Spatial and temporal community dynamics: Sharing data to answer questions
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Erica Fleishman
Steering committee, economic impacts of non-native forest pests and pathogens in North America
  • Carlos Carroll
  • Erica Fleishman
Landscape and population connectivity
  • Christopher Costello
  • Chuck Cook
  • Erica Fleishman
Options for reforming the California nearshore finfish fishery
  • Erica Fleishman
  • Susan Frankel
Risk assessment for climate change and forest pathogens in western North America
  • Anthony R. Ives
  • Thomas M. Frost
Intrinsic and extrinsic variability in community dynamics
  • Jane Lubchenco
  • Steven D. Gaines
  • Stephen R. Palumbi
Developing the theory of marine reserves
  • Dov F. Sax
  • Steven D. Gaines
  • John J. Stachowicz
Exotic species: A source of insight into ecology, evolution, and biogeography
  • Fabrice De Clerck
  • Heidi Asbjornsen
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Karen Garrett
  • Thomas R. Gordon
  • John Lambrinos
  • Margaret M. Mayfield
  • Stacy Philpott
  • Kimberly N. Russell
  • John Tyndall
Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes
  • John Silander
  • Richard M. Cowling
  • Alan E. Gelfand
  • Anthony G. Rebelo
Macro-ecology and biogeography: Hierarchical (Bayesian) model development using data from South Africa
  • Peter A. Stine
  • Richard L. Church
  • Ross Gerrard
Decision support for conservation planning (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Michael Gilpin
  • Richard L. Church
  • Ross Gerrard
  • Peter A. Stine
Investigating alternative land use/habitat conservation strategies using GIS and optimization modeling (Extended)
  • Fabrice De Clerck
  • Heidi Asbjornsen
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Karen Garrett
  • Thomas R. Gordon
  • John Lambrinos
  • Margaret M. Mayfield
  • Stacy Philpott
  • Kimberly N. Russell
  • John Tyndall
Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes
  • Brian McGill
  • Rampal S. Etienne
  • Jessica L. Green
Tools and fresh approaches for species abundance distributions
  • Frank W. Davis
  • Sandy J. Andelman
  • Greg Greenwood
California Legacy Project (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Robin L. Chazdon
  • Daniel M. Griffith
Biodiversity and conservation value of agricultural landscapes of Mesoamerica
  • Robert K. Peet
  • Dennis H. Grossman
  • Michael D. Jennings
  • Marilyn D. Walker
An information infrastructure for vegetation science (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Jonathan B. Shurin
  • Daniel S. Gruner
  • Helmut Hillebrand
Comparing trophic structure across ecosystems (Extended)
  • Jonathan B. Shurin
  • Daniel S. Gruner
  • Helmut Hillebrand
Comparing trophic structure across ecosystems
  • Andrew M. Liebhold
  • Jessica Gurevitch
Integrating the statistical modeling of spatial data in ecology
  • Julia Koricheva
  • Jessica Gurevitch
Meta-analysis in ecology: Lessons, challenges and future
  • William K. Michener
  • Richard Haeuber
Interdisciplinary synthesis of recent natural and managed floods
  • William J. Parton
  • Steven R. Archer
  • Michael B. Coughenour
  • David Hall
Interactions in mixed tree-grass systems
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
  • O. J. Reichman
Economic impacts of non-native forest pests and pathogens in North America (TNC)
  • Evgeny A. Zilov
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
  • Marianne V. Moore
The 60-year data set of plankton dynamics in Lake Baikal: Examining facets of the jewel of Siberia
  • Christopher B. Field
  • Mark Harmon
  • Elisabeth A. Holland
  • Gundolf Kohlmaier
The carbon balance of Eurasia and North America
  • Mark Stromberg
  • Carla D'Antonio
  • Susan P. Harrison
  • Carolyn Malmstrom
  • Kevin Rice
Change in California grasslands
  • Howard V. Cornell
  • Susan P. Harrison
  • Christy M. McCain
The role of niche conservatism in producing biodiversity gradients
  • Howard V. Cornell
  • Bradford A. Hawkins
Predators, pathogens, and parasitoids as mortality agents in phytophagous insect populations
  • Charles Kolstad
  • Geoffrey Heal
The economics of biodiversity
  • Michael W. Beck
  • Kenneth L. Heck
Evaluation of the nursery role of wetlands and seagrasses for better conservation and management
  • O. J. Reichman
  • James W. Brunt
  • John J. Helly
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Michael R. Willig
A Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity: Building and evaluating a metadata-based framework for integrating heterogeneous scientific data (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Robert K. Peet
  • Stephan Hennekens
Tools for vegetation classification and analysis
  • Jonathan B. Shurin
  • Daniel S. Gruner
  • Helmut Hillebrand
Comparing trophic structure across ecosystems (Extended)
  • Jonathan B. Shurin
  • Daniel S. Gruner
  • Helmut Hillebrand
Comparing trophic structure across ecosystems
  • Norman Owen-Smith
  • N. Thompson Hobbs
  • Andrew W. Illius
  • Per Lundberg
Dynamics of large mammalian herbivores in changing environments: Alternative modeling approaches
  • Christopher B. Field
  • Mark Harmon
  • Elisabeth A. Holland
  • Gundolf Kohlmaier
The carbon balance of Eurasia and North America
  • James H. Brown
  • Crawford S. Holling
  • Simon A. Levin
  • David Tilman
Universal Phenomena in Ecology?
  • Garry Peterson
  • Craig R. Allen
  • Crawford S. Holling
Cross-scale organization and resilience of ecological systems
  • Lance H. Gunderson
  • Crawford S. Holling
  • Garry Peterson
Theories for sustainable futures: Understanding and managing for resilience in human-ecological systems
  • Andrew P. Dobson
  • Robert D. Holt
Infectious diseases and conservation biology
  • Katherine Ralls
  • Christopher Amrhein
  • Frank W. Davis
  • Richard B. Howarth
A multidisciplinary analysis of alternative farmland-retirement strategies for restoring San Joaquin Valley ecosystems
  • Norman Owen-Smith
  • N. Thompson Hobbs
  • Andrew W. Illius
  • Per Lundberg
Dynamics of large mammalian herbivores in changing environments: Alternative modeling approaches
  • James T. Randerson
  • Josep Canadell
  • Robert B. Jackson
Linking carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems with other climate forcing agents: A synthesis allowing for effective carbon dioxide stabilization policies
  • Robert K. Peet
  • Dennis H. Grossman
  • Michael D. Jennings
  • Marilyn D. Walker
An information infrastructure for vegetation science (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Jason D. Hoeksema
  • Nancy C. Johnson
  • James A. Umbanhowar
Narrowing the gap between theory and practice in mycorrhizal management
  • Jason D. Hoeksema
  • Nancy C. Johnson
  • James A. Umbanhowar
Bridging the gap between theory and practice in mycorrhizal management (Extended)
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Integrating marine ecology data for scientific analysis and resource management: A community database prototype (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • O. J. Reichman
  • James W. Brunt
  • John J. Helly
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Michael R. Willig
A Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity: Building and evaluating a metadata-based framework for integrating heterogeneous scientific data (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Marilyn D. Walker
  • Michael Hunt Jones
A circumpolar comparison of tundra response to temperature manipulation: A synthesis of international tundra experiment data
  • David Tilman
  • Peter Kareiva
Spatial ecology: The role of space in population dynamics and interspecific interactions
  • William W. Murdoch
  • Peter Kareiva
  • Hugh P. Possingham
International conservation: Expanding the decision framework
  • Gardner M. Brown
  • Peter Kareiva
  • Mark L. Plummer
Biggest Bang for the Buck: Really melding demographic theory with economics
  • Dee Boersma
  • Peter Kareiva
Prospectus for an analysis of recovery plans and delisting
  • Robert C. Francis
  • James F. Kitchell
Models of alternative management policies for marine ecosystems
  • Robert J. Olson
  • James F. Kitchell
Ecological implications of alternative fishing strategies for apex predators
  • Tia-Lynn Ashman
  • Tiffany M. Knight
  • Susan J. Mazer
  • Martin Morgan
Beyond hand-pollinations: Linking pollen limitation to plant population biology
  • Elise Granek
  • Shankar Aswani-Canela
  • Edward B. Barbier
  • Evamaria W. Koch
  • David M. Stoms
Measuring ecological, economic and social values of coastal habitats to inform ecosystem-based management of land-sea (EBM)
  • Christopher B. Field
  • Mark Harmon
  • Elisabeth A. Holland
  • Gundolf Kohlmaier
The carbon balance of Eurasia and North America
  • Christopher J. Lortie
  • Lonnie W. Aarssen
  • Julia Koricheva
  • Tom Tregenza
A quantitative exploration of the role of publication-related biases in ecology
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Leonard Krishtalka
NSF Biodiversity Observatory Network (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • James H. Beach
  • Leonard Krishtalka
Systematics Community (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Jaap A. Kaandorp
  • Janet E. Kubler
Modelling growth and form of sessile marine organisms
  • Fabrice De Clerck
  • Heidi Asbjornsen
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Karen Garrett
  • Thomas R. Gordon
  • John Lambrinos
  • Margaret M. Mayfield
  • Stacy Philpott
  • Kimberly N. Russell
  • John Tyndall
Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes
  • John M. Drake
  • William T. Langford
Machine learning for the environment
  • Michael Flannigan
  • Sandra Lavorel
Global change impacts on landscape fires
  • Mark C. Urban
  • Mathew A. Leibold
Evolutionary and ecological sorting in space
  • Brian A. Maurer
  • Brian Dennis
  • Subhash R. Lele
  • Mark L. Taper
Analyzing the demographic structure of geographic ranges: Investigating techniques to predict geographic range size
  • Mark L. Taper
  • Subhash R. Lele
  • Nicholas J. I. Lewin-Koh
The Evidence Project: Supporting scientific claims
  • Benjamin S. Halpern
  • Hunter S. Lenihan
  • Fiorenza Micheli
  • Kimberly A. Selkoe
Putting ocean wilderness on the map: Building a global GIS atlas of pristine marine environments
  • James H. Brown
  • Crawford S. Holling
  • Simon A. Levin
  • David Tilman
Universal Phenomena in Ecology?
  • Mark L. Taper
  • Subhash R. Lele
  • Nicholas J. I. Lewin-Koh
The Evidence Project: Supporting scientific claims
  • Dave Kelly
  • Andrew M. Liebhold
  • Victoria L. Sork
Evolutionary causes and ecological consequences of mast seeding in plants
  • Ragan Callaway
  • Robin Brooker
  • Christopher J. Lortie
  • Richard Michalet
Facilitation and competition on alpine elevation gradients: A global experiment on the organization of plant communities
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • James H. Beach
  • Bertram Ludaescher
  • William K. Michener
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Norman Owen-Smith
  • N. Thompson Hobbs
  • Andrew W. Illius
  • Per Lundberg
Dynamics of large mammalian herbivores in changing environments: Alternative modeling approaches
  • Pamela Templer
  • Michelle C. Mack
  • Knute Nadelhoffer
The fate of nitrogen inputs to terrestrial ecosystems
  • Mark Stromberg
  • Carla D'Antonio
  • Susan P. Harrison
  • Carolyn Malmstrom
  • Kevin Rice
Change in California grasslands
  • Katriona Shea
  • Marc Mangel
  • Hugh P. Possingham
Working Group on Population Management
  • Robert I. McDonald
  • Peter J. Marcotullio
Ecosystem services on an urbanizing planet: What 2 billion new urbanites means for air and water
  • Lindsey Rustad
  • Giles M. Marion
Analysis, synthesis, and integration of temperature manipulation research
  • John Alroy
  • Charles R. Marshall
A sampling-standardized analysis of phanerozoic marine diversification and extinction
  • John Alroy
  • Charles R. Marshall
  • Arnold I. Miller
Paleobiology Database (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Susan J. Mazer
  • David D. Ackerly
  • Miguel Martinez-Ramos
  • Horacio Paz
Life-history variation and community structure in neotropical rainforest communities: Ecological and phylogenetic influences
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jennifer Hughes Martiny
  • Peter J. Morin
  • Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Patterns in microbial biodiversity (Extended)
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jennifer Hughes Martiny
  • Peter J. Morin
  • Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Patterns in microbial biodiversity
  • Fabrice De Clerck
  • Heidi Asbjornsen
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Karen Garrett
  • Thomas R. Gordon
  • John Lambrinos
  • Margaret M. Mayfield
  • Stacy Philpott
  • Kimberly N. Russell
  • John Tyndall
Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes
  • Tia-Lynn Ashman
  • Tiffany M. Knight
  • Susan J. Mazer
  • Martin Morgan
Beyond hand-pollinations: Linking pollen limitation to plant population biology
  • Howard V. Cornell
  • Susan P. Harrison
  • Christy M. McCain
The role of niche conservatism in producing biodiversity gradients
  • John L. Gittleman
  • Michael L. McKinney
Phylogeny and conservation: Problems in the quantification of biodiversity
  • Gareth J. Russell
  • Michael L. McKinney
Sampling curves in ecology: Theory and application
  • Stith T. Gower
  • Ross McMurtrie
An analysis of the age-related decline in aboveground net primary production: Potential causes and stand-to global scale implications
  • Ragan Callaway
  • Robin Brooker
  • Christopher J. Lortie
  • Richard Michalet
Facilitation and competition on alpine elevation gradients: A global experiment on the organization of plant communities
  • Benjamin S. Halpern
  • Hunter S. Lenihan
  • Fiorenza Micheli
  • Kimberly A. Selkoe
Putting ocean wilderness on the map: Building a global GIS atlas of pristine marine environments
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • James H. Beach
  • Bertram Ludaescher
  • William K. Michener
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • John Alroy
  • Charles R. Marshall
  • Arnold I. Miller
Paleobiology Database (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Edward A. Johnson
  • Kiyoko Miyanishi
Forest fires: Behavior and ecological effects
  • Evgeny A. Zilov
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
  • Marianne V. Moore
The 60-year data set of plankton dynamics in Lake Baikal: Examining facets of the jewel of Siberia
  • Tia-Lynn Ashman
  • Tiffany M. Knight
  • Susan J. Mazer
  • Martin Morgan
Beyond hand-pollinations: Linking pollen limitation to plant population biology
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jennifer Hughes Martiny
  • Peter J. Morin
  • Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Patterns in microbial biodiversity (Extended)
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jennifer Hughes Martiny
  • Peter J. Morin
  • Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Patterns in microbial biodiversity
  • A. Townsend Peterson
  • Craig Moritz
Testing alternative methodologies for modeling species' ecological niches and predicting geographic distributions
  • Dennis S. Ojima
  • Arvin R. Mosier
Analysis and synthesis of trace gas fluxes
  • Pamela Templer
  • Michelle C. Mack
  • Knute Nadelhoffer
The fate of nitrogen inputs to terrestrial ecosystems
  • Hal Caswell
  • Michael G. Neubert
A new synthesis of demography and dispersal
  • Carlos Robles
  • Hal Batchelder
  • Mark W. Denny
  • Robert A. Desharnais
  • Douglas Donalson
  • Roger M. Nisbet
Modeling spatially structured dynamics in benthic populations
  • Gail Osherenko
  • Satie Airame
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Elliott A. Norse
  • Oran R. Young
Ecosystem-based management for the oceans: The role of zoning
  • Sonia Altizer
  • Charles L. Nunn
Understanding the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in mammalian mating and social systems
  • Sonia Altizer
  • Charles L. Nunn
Understanding the role of infectious disease in mammalian mating and social systems (Extended)
  • Margaret F. Kinnaird
  • Timothy G. O'Brien
Functional relationships of Asian Hornbills in changing forest landscapes
  • Christopher P. Konrad
  • Julian Olden
Evaluating responses of freshwater ecosystems to experimental water management
  • Ann P. Kinzig
  • Stephen W. Pacala
Proposal for Workshop and Web-Based Working Group on The Theoretical Foundations of Biodiversity/Ecosystem Function Relationships
  • Jane Lubchenco
  • Steven D. Gaines
  • Stephen R. Palumbi
Developing the theory of marine reserves
  • Susan J. Mazer
  • David D. Ackerly
  • Miguel Martinez-Ramos
  • Horacio Paz
Life-history variation and community structure in neotropical rainforest communities: Ecological and phylogenetic influences
  • Lance H. Gunderson
  • Crawford S. Holling
  • Garry Peterson
Theories for sustainable futures: Understanding and managing for resilience in human-ecological systems
  • Suzi Kerr
  • Alexander Pfaff
A dynamic integrated model of land use, carbon flows and carbon sequestration supply in Costa Rica
  • William F. Morris
  • Catherine A. Pfister
  • Shripad Tuljapurkar
Stochastic demography for an increasingly variable world
  • Fabrice De Clerck
  • Heidi Asbjornsen
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Karen Garrett
  • Thomas R. Gordon
  • John Lambrinos
  • Margaret M. Mayfield
  • Stacy Philpott
  • Kimberly N. Russell
  • John Tyndall
Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes
  • Gardner M. Brown
  • Peter Kareiva
  • Mark L. Plummer
Biggest Bang for the Buck: Really melding demographic theory with economics
  • Peter Kareiva
  • Gretchen Daily
  • Stephen Polasky
  • Taylor Ricketts
Conservation priorities: Can we have our biodiversity and ecosystem services too?
  • Craig Packer
  • Stephen Polasky
Serengeti: The origins and future of a complex ecosystem
  • Patrick J. Christie
  • Richard Pollnac
Governance feasibility of marine ecosystem-based management: A comparative analysis (EBM)
  • Katriona Shea
  • Marc Mangel
  • Hugh P. Possingham
Working Group on Population Management
  • William W. Murdoch
  • Peter Kareiva
  • Hugh P. Possingham
International conservation: Expanding the decision framework
  • Charles E. Mitchell
  • Alison G. Power
The roles of natural enemies and mutualists in plant invasions
  • Jonathan J. Cole
  • Carlos M. Duarte
  • Yves T. Prairie
Integrating the aquatic with the terrestrial component of the global carbon budget
  • Nicholas J. Gotelli
  • Robert K. Colwell
  • Carsten Rahbek
Synthetic macroecological models of species diversity
  • John A. Gamon
  • Faiz Rahman
SpecNet
  • Mark L. Wilson
  • Leslie A. Real
Global change and infectious disease
  • John Silander
  • Richard M. Cowling
  • Alan E. Gelfand
  • Anthony G. Rebelo
Macro-ecology and biogeography: Hierarchical (Bayesian) model development using data from South Africa
  • Deborah G. McCullough
  • Joseph F. Cavey
  • Sarah Reichard
Pathways of non-indigenous plant pest introductions: How exotic insects, pathogens and weeds arrive in the United States
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Stephanie E. Hampton
  • O. J. Reichman
Economic impacts of non-native forest pests and pathogens in North America (TNC)
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Data management and analysis tools supporting adaptive management in South African parks
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Frank W. Davis
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Automation of ecological data management using structured metadata (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Donald R. Strong
  • Michael A. Rex
Deep-sea biodiversity: Spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation strategies
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jennifer Hughes Martiny
  • Peter J. Morin
  • Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Patterns in microbial biodiversity
  • Brendan Bohannan
  • Jennifer Hughes Martiny
  • Peter J. Morin
  • Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Patterns in microbial biodiversity (Extended)
  • Mark Stromberg
  • Carla D'Antonio
  • Susan P. Harrison
  • Carolyn Malmstrom
  • Kevin Rice
Change in California grasslands
  • Peter Kareiva
  • Gretchen Daily
  • Stephen Polasky
  • Taylor Ricketts
Conservation priorities: Can we have our biodiversity and ecosystem services too?
  • Aaron A. King
  • Pej Rohani
Unifying approaches to statistical inference in ecology
  • Fiorenza Micheli
  • Andrew A. Rosenberg
A synthetic approach to the science of ecosystem-based management of coastal marine ecosystems (EBM)
  • Fabrice De Clerck
  • Heidi Asbjornsen
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Karen Garrett
  • Thomas R. Gordon
  • John Lambrinos
  • Margaret M. Mayfield
  • Stacy Philpott
  • Kimberly N. Russell
  • John Tyndall
Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes
  • F. Stuart Chapin
  • Osvaldo E. Sala
Scenarios of future biodiversity: Causes, patterns and consequences
  • Boris Worm
  • Enric Sala
Linking marine biodiversity to ecosystem functions and services
  • Mark V. Lomolino
  • James H. Brown
  • Dov F. Sax
Foundations and future of biogeography
  • Gary G. Mittelbach
  • Howard V. Cornell
  • Douglas W. Schemske
Gradients in biodiversity and speciation
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Frank W. Davis
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Automation of ecological data management using structured metadata (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Integrating marine ecology data for scientific analysis and resource management: A community database prototype (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • James H. Beach
  • Bertram Ludaescher
  • William K. Michener
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Diane Ebert-May
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
  • Mark Urban-Lurain
Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST II)
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • O. J. Reichman
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
Data management and analysis tools supporting adaptive management in South African parks
  • Karen Holl
  • Elizabeth E. Crone
  • Cheryl B. Schultz
Restoration in a Landscape Context
  • Fred W. Allendorf
  • Michael K. Schwartz
Genetic monitoring: Development of tools for conservation and management
  • Benjamin S. Halpern
  • Hunter S. Lenihan
  • Fiorenza Micheli
  • Kimberly A. Selkoe
Putting ocean wilderness on the map: Building a global GIS atlas of pristine marine environments
  • Dave Kelly
  • Andrew M. Liebhold
  • Victoria L. Sork
Evolutionary causes and ecological consequences of mast seeding in plants
  • Dov F. Sax
  • Steven D. Gaines
  • John J. Stachowicz
Exotic species: A source of insight into ecology, evolution, and biogeography
  • Michael Gilpin
  • Peter A. Stine
Investigating alternative land use/habitat conservation strategies using GIS and optimization modeling
  • Michael Gilpin
  • Richard L. Church
  • Ross Gerrard
  • Peter A. Stine
Investigating alternative land use/habitat conservation strategies using GIS and optimization modeling (Extended)
  • Elise Granek
  • Shankar Aswani-Canela
  • Edward B. Barbier
  • Evamaria W. Koch
  • David M. Stoms
Measuring ecological, economic and social values of coastal habitats to inform ecosystem-based management of land-sea (EBM)
  • Michael A. Rex
  • Donald R. Strong
Deep sea biodiversity: Pattern and scale
  • Erica Fleishman
  • Gary Tabor
Climate change and conservation (WCS)
  • Brian A. Maurer
  • Brian Dennis
  • Subhash R. Lele
  • Mark L. Taper
Analyzing the demographic structure of geographic ranges: Investigating techniques to predict geographic range size
  • Niles Eldredge
  • John N. Thompson
Ecological processes and evolutionary rates
  • James H. Brown
  • Crawford S. Holling
  • Simon A. Levin
  • David Tilman
Universal Phenomena in Ecology?
  • Christopher J. Lortie
  • Lonnie W. Aarssen
  • Julia Koricheva
  • Tom Tregenza
A quantitative exploration of the role of publication-related biases in ecology
  • Steven Oberbauer
  • Tiffany Troxler
Long-term phenological changes in tundra plants in response to experimental warming and observed changes in climate
  • William F. Morris
  • Catherine A. Pfister
  • Shripad Tuljapurkar
Stochastic demography for an increasingly variable world
  • William W. Murdoch
  • Peter Turchin
Complex Population Dynamics
  • Fabrice De Clerck
  • Heidi Asbjornsen
  • Juliann Aukema
  • Karen Garrett
  • Thomas R. Gordon
  • John Lambrinos
  • Margaret M. Mayfield
  • Stacy Philpott
  • Kimberly N. Russell
  • John Tyndall
Biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem services in managed landscapes
  • Jason D. Hoeksema
  • Nancy C. Johnson
  • James A. Umbanhowar
Narrowing the gap between theory and practice in mycorrhizal management
  • Jason D. Hoeksema
  • Nancy C. Johnson
  • James A. Umbanhowar
Bridging the gap between theory and practice in mycorrhizal management (Extended)
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Diane Ebert-May
  • Mark P. Schildhauer
  • Mark Urban-Lurain
Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST II)
  • Helene Wagner
  • Lisette Waits
Developing best practices for testing landscape effects on gene flow: Distributed Graduate Seminar
  • Robert K. Peet
  • Dennis H. Grossman
  • Michael D. Jennings
  • Marilyn D. Walker
An information infrastructure for vegetation science (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Michael J. Donoghue
  • Campbell O. Webb
Phylogenies and community ecology
  • Daniel F. Doak
  • James A. Estes
  • Terrie Williams
  • J. Timothy Wootton
Conservation planning for ecosystem functioning: Testing predictions of ecological effectiveness for marine predators (EBM)
  • Claire Kremen
  • Neal M. Williams
Restoring an ecosystem service to degraded landscapes: Native bees and crop pollination
  • O. J. Reichman
  • James W. Brunt
  • John J. Helly
  • Matthew B. Jones
  • Michael R. Willig
A Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity: Building and evaluating a metadata-based framework for integrating heterogeneous scientific data (Hosted by NCEAS)
  • Robert B. Waide
  • Michael R. Willig
An Analysis of the Relationship between Productivity and Diversity using Experimental Results from the Long-Term Ecological Research Network
  • Peter A. Abrams
  • Will G. Wilson
Extending, synthesizing, and applying recent advances in competition theory
  • Daniel F. Doak
  • James A. Estes
  • Terrie Williams
  • J. Timothy Wootton
Conservation planning for ecosystem functioning: Testing predictions of ecological effectiveness for marine predators (EBM)
  • Ray Hilborn
  • Boris Worm
Distributed Graduate Seminar: Finding common ground in marine conservation and management
  • Gail Osherenko
  • Satie Airame
  • Larry B. Crowder
  • Elliott A. Norse
  • Oran R. Young
Ecosystem-based management for the oceans: The role of zoning