Submissions from 2015
Notes from the field: Lessons learned from using ecosystem service approaches to inform real-world decisions, Mary Ruckelshaus, Emily McKenzie, Heather Tallis, Anne Guerry, Gretchen Daily, Peter Kareiva, Stephen Polasky, Taylor Ricketts, Nirmal Bhagabati, Spencer A. Wood, and Joanna Bernhardt
Baleen whales host a unique gut microbiome with similarities to both carnivores and herbivores, Jon G. Sanders, Annabel C. Beichman, Joe Roman, Jarrod J. Scott, David Emerson, James J. McCarthy, and Peter R. Girguis
NOAA local climate analysis tool (LCAT) data, methods, and usability, Marina Timofeyeva-Livezey, Fiona Horsfall, Annette Hollingshead, Jenna Meyers, and Lesley Ann Dupigny-Giroux
A GPI-Based Critique of "The Economic Profile of the Lower Mississippi River: an Update", Eric Zencey
Mainstreaming Early Warning Systems in Development and Planning Processes: Multilevel Implementation of Sendai Framework in Indus and Sahel, Asim Zia and Courtney Hammond Wagner
Submissions from 2014
Governing agriculture-forest landscapes to achieve climate change mitigation, Arun Agrawal, E. Wollenberg, and L. Persha
From theoretical to actual ecosystem services: Mapping beneficiaries and spatial flows in ecosystem service assessments, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Ferdinando Villa, David Batker, Jennifer Harrison-Cox, Brian Voigt, and Gary W. Johnson
Climate coupling between temperature, humidity, precipitation, and cloud cover over the Canadian prairies, Alan K. Betts, Raymond Desjardins, Devon Worth, and Brian Beckage
A cosmogenic view of erosion, relief generation, and the age of faulting in southern Africa, Paul R. Bierman, Ryan Coppersmith, Kathryn Hanson, Johann Neveling, Eric W. Portenga, and Dylan H. Rood
A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary, Jessica L. Blois, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, J. Tyler Faith, S. Kathleen Lyons, John W. Williams, Kathryn L. Amatangelo, Antoine Bercovici, Andrew Du, Jussi T. Eronen, Gary R. Graves, Nathan Jud, Conrad Labandeira, Cindy V. Looy, Brian Mcgill, David Patterson, Richard Potts, Brett Riddle, Rebecca Terry, Anikó Tóth, Amelia Villaseñor, and Scott Wing
Mineral soil carbon fluxes in forests and implications for carbon balance assessments, Thomas Buchholz, Andrew J. Friedland, Claire E. Hornig, William S. Keeton, Giuliana Zanchi, and Jared Nunery
Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: A framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies, Anne Chao, Nicholas J. Gotelli, T. C. Hsieh, Elizabeth L. Sander, K. H. Ma, Robert K. Colwell, and Aaron M. Ellison
Are genes faster than crabs? Mitochondrial introgression exceeds larval dispersal during population expansion of the invasive crab Carcinus maenas, John A. Darling, Yi Hsin Erica Tsai, April M.H. Blakeslee, and Joe Roman
Selective-logging and oil palm: Multitaxon impacts, biodiversity indicators, and trade-offs for conservation planning, David P. Edwards, Ainhoa Magrach, Paul Woodcock, Yinqiu Ji, Norman T.L. Lim, Felicity A. Edwards, Trond H. Larsen, Wayne W. Hsu, Suzan Benedick, Chey Vun Khen, Arthur Y.C. Chung, Glen Reynolds, Brendan Fisher, William F. Laurance, David S. Wilcove, Keith C. Hamer, and Douglas W. Yu
P values, hypothesis testing, and model selection: It's déjà vu all over again, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Brian D. Inouye, and Donald R. Strong
Impacts of projected climate change over the Lake Champlain basin in Vermont, Justin Guilbert, Brian Beckage, Jonathan M. Winter, Radley M. Horton, Timothy Perkins, and Arne Bomblies
Climate-Smart Landscapes: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Tropical Agriculture, Celia A. Harvey, Mario Chacón, Camila I. Donatti, Eva Garen, Lee Hannah, Angela Andrade, Lucio Bede, Douglas Brown, Alicia Calle, Julian Chará, Christopher Clement, Elizabeth Gray, Minh Ha Hoang, Peter Minang, Ana María Rodríguez, Christina Seeberg-Elverfeldt, Bambi Semroc, Seth Shames, Sean Smukler, Eduardo Somarriba, Emmanuel Torquebiau, Jacob van Etten, and Eva Wollenberg
Shade coffee: Update on a disappearing refuge for biodiversity, Shalene Jha, Christopher M. Bacon, Stacy M. Philpott, V. Ernesto Méndez, Peter LÄderach, and Robert A. Rice
Analysis of a consumer survey on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, Joseph S. Krupa, Donna M. Rizzo, Margaret J. Eppstein, D. Brad Lanute, Diann E. Gaalema, Kiran Lakkaraju, and Christina E. Warrender
Environmental footprints show China and Europe's evolving resource appropriation for soybean production in Mato Grosso, Brazil, Michael J. Lathuillière, Mark S. Johnson, Gillian L. Galford, and Eduardo G. Couto
Comment on "opinion paper: Forest management and biodiversity": The role of protected areas is greater than the sum of its number of species, M. Mikoláš, M. Svoboda, V. Pouska, R. C. Morrissey, D. C. Donato, W. S. Keeton, T. A. Nagel, V. D. Popescu, J. Müller, C. Bässler, J. Knorn, L. Rozylowicz, C. M. Enescu, V. Trotsiuk, P. Janda, H. Mrhalová, Z. Michalová, F. Krumm, and D. Kraus
Synthesis and Review: Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification, Lydia P. Olander, Eva Wollenberg, Francesco N. Tubiello, and Martin Herold
Geographic differences in effects of experimental warming on ant species diversity and community composition, S. L. Pelini, S. E. Diamond, L. M. Nichols, K. L. Stuble, A. M. Ellison, N. J. Sanders, R. R. Dunn, and N. J. Gotelli
Using historical and experimental data to reveal warming effects on ant assemblages, Julian Resasco, Shannon L. Pelini, Katharine L. Stuble, Nathan J. Sanders, Robert R. Dunn, Sarah E. Diamond, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, and Douglas J. Levey
Whales as marine ecosystem engineers, Joe Roman, James A. Estes, Lyne Morissette, Craig Smith, Daniel Costa, James McCarthy, J. B. Nation, Stephen Nicol, Andrew Pershing, and Victor Smetacek
Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: Scientific basis for action, Kerri L. Steenwerth, Amanda K. Hodson, Arnold J. Bloom, Michael R. Carter, Andrea Cattaneo, Colin J. Chartres, Jerry L. Hatfield, Kevin Henry, Jan W. Hopmans, William R. Horwath, Bryan M. Jenkins, Ermias Kebreab, Rik Leemans, Leslie Lipper, Mark N. Lubell, Siwa Msangi, Ravi Prabhu, Matthew P. Reynolds, Samuel Sandoval Solis, William M. Sischo, Michael Springborn, Pablo Tittonell, Stephen M. Wheeler, Sonja J. Vermeulen, Eva K. Wollenberg, Lovell S. Jarvis, and Louise E. Jackson
Potential future dynamics of carbon fluxes and pools in New England forests and their climatic sensitivities: A model-based study, Guoping Tang, Brian Beckage, and Benjamin Smith
Matrix models for quantifying competitive intransitivity from species abundance data, Werner Ulrich, Santiago Soliveres, Wojciech Kryszewski, Fernando T. Maestre, and Nicholas J. Gotelli
Submissions from 2013
Predicting food-web structure with metacommunity models, Benjamin Baiser, Hannah L. Buckley, Nicholas J. Gotelli, and Aaron M. Ellison
Introduction environmentally induced displacement and forced migration, Pablo Bose and Elizabeth Lunstrum
Using physiology to predict the responses of ants to climatic warming, Sarah E. Diamond, Clint A. Penick, Shannon L. Pelini, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Nathan J. Sanders, and Robert R. Dunn
Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: Challenges and opportunities, Maria Dornelas, Anne E. Magurran, Stephen T. Buckland, Anne Chao, Robin L. Chazdon, Robert K. Colwell, Tom Curtis, Kevin J. Gaston, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Matthew A. Kosnik, Brian McGill, Jenny L. McCune, Hélène Morlon, Peter J. Mumby, Lise Øvreås, Angelika Studeny, and Mark Vellend
A new method to infer vegetation boundary movement from 'snapshot' data, Maarten B. Eppinga, Carolyn A. Pucko, Mara Baudena, Brian Beckage, and Jane Molofsky
Monetary and fiscal policies for a finite planet, Joshua Farley, Matthew Burke, Gary Flomenhoft, Brian Kelly, D. Forrest Murray, Stephen Posner, Matthew Putnam, Adam Scanlan, and Aaron Witham
MaxEnt versus MaxLike: Empirical comparisons with ant species distributions, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Nicholas J. Gotelli, and Aaron M. Ellison
Coupling self-organizing maps with a Naïve Bayesian classifier: Stream classification studies using multiple assessment data, Nikolaos Fytilis and Donna M. Rizzo
Prospects for land-use sustainability on the agricultural frontier of the Brazilian Amazon, Gillian L. Galford, Britaldo Soares-Filho, and Carlos E.P. Cerri
Forest Restoration and Parasitoid Wasp Communities in Montane Hawai'i, Rachelle K. Gould, Liba Pejchar, Sara G. Bothwell, Berry Brosi, Stacie Wolny, Chase D. Mendenhall, and Gretchen Daily
New England's community forests: Comparing a regional model to ICCAs, Martha West Lyman, Cecilia Danks, and Maureen McDonough
Factors contributing to carbon fluxes from bioenergy harvests in the U.S. Northeast: An analysis using field data, Anna M. Mika and William S. Keeton
Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win-win solutions, R. Muradian, M. Arsel, L. Pellegrini, F. Adaman, B. Aguilar, B. Agarwal, E. Corbera, D. Ezzine de Blas, J. Farley, G. Froger, E. Garcia-Frapolli, E. Gómez-Baggethun, and J. Gowdy
Beyond climate-smart agriculture: Toward safe operating spaces for global food systems, Henry Neufeldt, Molly Jahn, Bruce M. Campbell, John R. Beddington, Fabrice DeClerck, Alessandro De Pinto, Jay Gulledge, Jonathan Hellin, Mario Herrero, Andy Jarvis, David LeZaks, Holger Meinke, Todd Rosenstock, Mary Scholes, Robert Scholes, Sonja Vermeulen, Eva Wollenberg, and Robert Zougmoré
Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification*, Lydia Olander, Eva Wollenberg, Francesco Tubiello, and Martin Herold
Multifaceted value profiles of forest owner categories in South Sweden: The river helge å catchment as a case study, Gustav Richnau, Per Angelstam, Sviataslau Valasiuk, Lyudmyla Zahvoyska, Robert Axelsson, Marine Elbakidze, Joshua Farley, Ingemar Jönsson, and Ihor Soloviy
Toward a protocol for quantifying the greenhouse gas balance and identifying mitigation options in smallholder farming systems, T. S. Rosenstock, M. C. Rufino, K. Butterbach-Bahl, and E. Wollenberg
Pattern detection in null model analysis, Werner Ulrich and Nicholas J. Gotelli
Submissions from 2012
Empirical correction of a toy climate model, Nicholas A. Allgaier, Kameron D. Harris, and Christopher M. Danforth
Are range-size distributions consistent with species-level heritability?, Michael K. Borregaard, Nicholas J. Gotelli, and Carsten Rahbek
Protecting important sites for biodiversity contributes to meeting global conservation targets, Stuart H.M. Butchart, Jörn P.W. Scharlemann, Mike I. Evans, Suhel Quader, Salvatore Aricò, Julius Arinaitwe, Mark Balman, Leon A. Bennun, Bastian Bertzky, Charles Besançon, Timothy M. Boucher, Thomas M. Brooks, Ian J. Burfield, Neil D. Burgess, Simba Chan, Rob P. Clay, Mike J. Crosby, Nicholas C. Davidson, Naamal de Silva, Christian Devenish, Guy C.L. Dutson, David F.Díaz Fernández, Lincoln D.C. Fishpool, Claire Fitzgerald, Matt Foster, Melanie F. Heath, Marc Hockings, Michael Hoffmann, David Knox, Frank W. Larsen, and John F. Lamoreux
Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation and comparison of assemblages, Robert K. Colwell, Anne Chao, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Shang Yi Lin, Chang Xuan Mao, Robin L. Chazdon, and John T. Longino
A physiological trait-based approach to predicting the responses of species to experimental climate warming, Sarah E. Diamond, Lauren M. Nichols, Neil McCoy, Christopher Hirsch, Shannon L. Pelini, Nathan J. Sanders, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, and Robert R. Dunn
High conservation value or high confusion value? Sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation in the tropics, David P. Edwards, Brendan Fisher, and David S. Wilcove
Ecosystem services: The economics debate, Joshua Farley
Statistical challenges in null model analysis, Nicholas J. Gotelli and Werner Ulrich
Biogenic vs. geologic carbon emissions and forest biomass energy production, John S. Gunn, David J. Ganz, and William S. Keeton
Shedding light on plant litter decomposition: Advances, implications and new directions in understanding the role of photodegradation, Jennifer Y. King, Leslie A. Brandt, and E. Carol Adair
Estimating Litter Decomposition Rate in Single-Pool Models Using Nonlinear Beta Regression, Etienne Laliberté, E. Carol Adair, and Sarah E. Hobbie
Bioenergy harvesting impacts on ecologically important stand structure and habitat characteristics, Caitlin E. Littlefield and William S. Keeton
Integrative frontiers in environmental policy theory and research, Meredith T. Niles and Mark Lubell
Common garden experiments reveal uncommon responses across temperatures, locations, and species of ants, Shannon L. Pelini, Sarah E. Diamond, Heidi MacLean, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Nathan J. Sanders, and Robert R. Dunn
Understorey diversity in southern boreal forests is regulated by productivity and its indirect impacts on resource availability and heterogeneity, Peter B. Reich, Lee E. Frelich, Richard A. Voldseth, Peter Bakken, and E. Carol Adair
Spatial patterns of soil nitrification and nitrate export from forested headwaters in the northeastern United States, Donald S. Ross, James B. Shanley, John L. Campbell, Gregory B. Lawrence, Scott W. Bailey, Gene E. Likens, and Beverley C. Wemple
Carbon storage, timber production, and biodiversity: Comparing ecosystem services with multi-criteria decision analysis, W. Scott Schwenk, Therese M. Donovan, William S. Keeton, and Jared S. Nunery
Do anthropogenic dark earths occur in the interior of borneo? some initial observations from East Kalimantan, Douglas Sheil, Imam Basuki, Laura German, Thomas W. Kuyper, Godwin Limberg, Rajindra K. Puri, Bernard Sellato, Meine van Noordwijk, and Eva Wollenberg
Null model tests for niche conservatism, phylogenetic assortment and habitat filtering, Werner Ulrich, Marcin Piwczyński, Fernando T. Maestre, and Nicholas J. Gotelli
Submissions from 2011
Concordance of freshwater and terrestrial biodiversity, Robin Abell, Michele Thieme, Taylor H. Ricketts, Nasser Olwero, Rebecca Ng, Paulo Petry, Eric Dinerstein, Carmen Revenga, and Jonathan Hoekstra
The limits to prediction in ecological systems, Brian Beckage, Louis J. Gross, and Stuart Kauffman
The high costs of conserving Southeast Asia's lowland rainforests, Brendan Fisher, David P. Edwards, Xingli Giam, and David S. Wilcove
Cost-effective conservation: Calculating biodiversity and logging trade-offs in Southeast Asia, Brendan Fisher, David P. Edwards, Trond H. Larsen, Felicity A. Ansell, Wayne W. Hsu, Carter S. Roberts, and David S. Wilcove
Historical carbon emissions and uptake from the agricultural frontier of the Brazilian Amazon, Gillian L. Galford, Jerry M. Melillo, David W. Kicklighter, John F. Mustard, Timothy W. Cronin, Carlos E.P. Cerri, and Carlos C. Cerri
Counting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Biodiversity sampling and statistical analysis for myrmecologists, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Aaron M. Ellison, Robert R. Dunn, and Nathan J. Sanders
Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Werner Ulrich, and Fernando T. Maestre
The effects of climate change on density-dependent population dynamics of aquatic invertebrates, Edmund M. Hart and Nicholas J. Gotelli
A natural-resource-based view of the firm: Fifteen years after, Stuart L. Hart and Glen Dowell
Incorporating systems thinking and sustainability within civil and environmental engineering curricula at UVM, Nancy J. Hayden, Donna M. Rizzo, Mandar M. Dewoolkar, Lalita Oka, and Maureen Neumann
Evaluating the remote sensing and inventory-based estimation of biomass in the western carpathians, Magdalena Main-Knorn, Gretchen G. Moisen, Sean P. Healey, William S. Keeton, Elizabeth A. Freeman, and Patrick Hostert
Effects of short-term warming on low and high latitude forest ant communities, Shannon L. Pelini, Mark Boudreau, Neil McCoy, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Nathan J. Sanders, and Robert R. Dunn
Heating up the forest: Open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities at Harvard and Duke Forests, Shannon L. Pelini, Francis P. Bowles, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Nathan J. Sanders, and Robert R. Dunn
Understanding earth's eroding surface with 10Be, Eric W. Portenga and Paul R. Bierman
Cross-scale value trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems: The politics of scale in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, Asim Zia, Paul Hirsch, Alexander Songorwa, David R. Mutekanga, Sheila O'Connor, Thomas McShane, Peter Brosius, and Bryan Norton
Submissions from 2010
A hitchhiker's guide to the Maritimes: Anthropogenic transport facilitates long-distance dispersal of an invasive marine crab to Newfoundland, A. M.H. Blakeslee, C. H. McKenzie, J. A. Darling, J. E. Byers, J. M. Pringle, and J. Roman
Protecting degraded rainforests: Enhancement of forest carbon stocks under REDD+, David P. Edwards, Brendan Fisher, and Emily Boyd
The Amazon frontier of land-use change: Croplands and consequences for greenhouse gas emissions, Gillian L. Galford, Jerry Melillo, John F. Mustard, Carlos E.P. Cerri, and Carlos C. Cerri
The interplay of chaos between the terrestrial and giant planets, Wayne B. Hayes, Anton V. Malykh, and Christopher M. Danforth
Temporal and spatial monitoring of mobile nanoparticles in a vineyard soil: Evidence of nanoaggregate formation, N. Perdrial, J. N. Perdrial, J. E. Delphin, F. Elsass, and N. Liewig
Calibrating a long-term meteoric 10Be accumulation rate in soil, Lucas Reusser, Joseph Graly, Paul Bierman, and Dylan Rood
Indigenous lands, protected areas, and slowing climate change, Taylor H. Ricketts, Britaldo Soares-Filho, Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca, Daniel Nepstad, Alexander Pfaf, Annie Petsonk, Anthony Anderson, Doug Boucher, Andrea Cattaneo, Marc Conte, Ken Creighton, Lawrence Linden, Claudio Maretti, Paulo Moutinho, Roger Ullman, and Ray Victurine
The whale pump: Marine mammals enhance primary productivity in a coastal basin, Joe Roman and James J. McCarthy
Transient social-ecological stability: The effects of invasive species and ecosystem restoration on nutrient management compromise in lake erie, Eric D. Roy, Jay F. Martin, Elena G. Irwin, Joseph D. Conroy, and David A. Culver
Projecting the distribution of forests in New England in response to climate change, Guoping Tang and Brian Beckage
Estimating potential forest NPP, biomass and their climatic sensitivity in New England using a dynamic ecosystem model, Guoping Tang, Brian Beckage, Benjamin Smith, and Paul A. Miller
Null model analysis of species associations using abundance data, Werner Ulrich and Nicholas J. Gotelli
Species interactions and thermal constraints on ant community structure, Sarah E. Wittman, Nathan J. Sanders, Aaron M. Ellison, Erik S. Jules, Jaime S. Ratchford, and Nicholas J. Gotelli
Sensitivity of incipient particle motion to fluid flow penetration depth within a packed bed, Benjamin A. Yergey, Maria Laura Beninati, and Jeffrey S. Marshall
Submissions from 2004
Understanding human and ecosystem dynamics in the Kola Arctic: A participatory integrated study, Doneivan Ferreira, Saul Suslick, Joshua Farley, Robert Costanza, and Sergey Krivov