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Effects of overlapping generations on linkage disequilibrium estimates of effective population size

Comprehensive ecosystem model-data synthesis using multiple data sets at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment experiments: Model performance at ambient CO2 concentration

Functional and phylogenetic similarity of alien plants to co-occurring natives

Restoration ecology: Ecological fidelity, restoration metrics, and a systems perspective

Re-defining recovery: A generalized framework for assessing species recovery

The cost of gypsy moth sex in the city

Since its introduction in the 1860s, gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.), has periodically defoliated large swaths of forest in the eastern United States. Prior research has suggested that the greatest costs and losses from these outbreaks accrue in residential areas, but these impacts have not been well quantified. We addressed this lacuna with a case study of Baltimore City. Using two urban tree inventories, we estimated potential costs and losses from a range of gypsy moth outbreak scenarios under different environmental and management conditions.

Eutrophication reverses whole-lake carbon budgets

Hunting, food subsidies, and mesopredator release: The dynamics of crop-raiding baboons in a managed landscape

Trade-offs in ecosystem services and varying stakeholder preferences: Evaluating conflicts, obstacles, and opportunities

Cheaters must prosper: Reconciling theoretical and empirical perspectives on cheating in mutualism

Cheating is a focal concept in the study of mutualism, with the majority of researchers considering cheating to be both prevalent and highly damaging. However, current definitions of cheating do not reliably capture the evolutionary threat that has been a central motivation for the study of cheating. We describe the development of the cheating concept and distill a relative-fitness-based definition of cheating that encapsulates the evolutionary threat posed by cheating, i.e. that cheaters will spread and erode the benefits of mutualism.