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Global change impacts on landscape fires

Principal Investigator(s): Michael Flannigan, Sandra Lavorel
Completed
Detritus and dynamics of populations, food webs and communities

Principal Investigator(s): John C. Moore, Quan Dong
Completed
Life-history variation and community structure in neotropical rainforest communities: Ecological and phylogenetic influences

Principal Investigator(s): Susan J. Mazer, David D. Ackerly, Miguel Martinez-Ramos, Horacio Paz
Completed
Nature and role of biological legacies

Principal Investigator(s): Jerry F. Franklin
Completed
Ecological Forecasting (Hosted by NCEAS)

Principal Investigator(s): James S. Clark
Completed
Energy and geographic variation in species richness

Principal Investigator(s): Bradford A. Hawkins, Howard V. Cornell
Completed
Decision support for conservation planning (Hosted by NCEAS)

Principal Investigator(s): Peter A. Stine, Richard L. Church, Ross Gerrard
Completed
Biggest Bang for the Buck: Really melding demographic theory with economics

Principal Investigator(s): Gardner M. Brown, Peter Kareiva, Mark L. Plummer
Completed
Pathways of non-indigenous plant pest introductions: How exotic insects, pathogens and weeds arrive in the United States

Principal Investigator(s): Deborah G. McCullough, Joseph F. Cavey, Sarah Reichard
Completed
Facilitation and competition on alpine elevation gradients: A global experiment on the organization of plant communities

Principal Investigator(s): Ragan Callaway, Robin Brooker, Christopher J. Lortie, Richard Michalet
Completed