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Submissions from 2013

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New England's community forests: Comparing a regional model to ICCAs, Martha West Lyman, Cecilia Danks, and Maureen McDonough

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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

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The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter Sentiment and Expression, Demographics, and Objective Characteristics of Place, Lewis Mitchell, Morgan R. Frank, Kameron Decker Harris, Peter Sheridan Dodds, and Christopher M. Danforth

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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

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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

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Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification*, Lydia Olander, Eva Wollenberg, Francesco Tubiello, and Martin Herold

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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

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Mapping the margin: Comparing marginal values of tropical forest remnants for pollination services, Taylor H. Ricketts and Eric Lonsdorf

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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

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Pattern detection in null model analysis, Werner Ulrich and Nicholas J. Gotelli

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Linking environmental variability to village-scale malaria transmission using a simple immunity model, Teresa K. Yamana, Arne Bomblies, Ibrahim M. Laminou, Jean Bernard Duchemin, and Elfatih A.B. Eltahir

Submissions from 2012

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Empirical correction of a toy climate model, Nicholas A. Allgaier, Kameron D. Harris, and Christopher M. Danforth

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Costs of food safety certification on fresh produce farms in Vermont, Florence A. Becot, Virginia Nickerson, David S. Conner, and Jane M. Kolodinsky

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Are range-size distributions consistent with species-level heritability?, Michael K. Borregaard, Nicholas J. Gotelli, and Carsten Rahbek

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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

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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

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Defining the boundaries of normal thrombin generation: Investigations into hemostasis, Christopher M. Danforth, Thomas Orfeo, Stephen J. Everse, Kenneth G. Mann, and Kathleen E. Brummel-Ziedins

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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

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High conservation value or high confusion value? Sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation in the tropics, David P. Edwards, Brendan Fisher, and David S. Wilcove

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Ecosystem services: The economics debate, Joshua Farley

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Statistical challenges in null model analysis, Nicholas J. Gotelli and Werner Ulrich

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Biogenic vs. geologic carbon emissions and forest biomass energy production, John S. Gunn, David J. Ganz, and William S. Keeton

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Genetic patterns of domestication in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (l.) Millsp.) and wild Cajanus relatives, Mulualem T. Kassa, R. Varma Penmetsa, Noelia Carrasquilla-Garcia, Birinchi K. Sarma, Subhojit Datta, Hari D. Upadhyaya, Rajeev K. Varshney, Eric J.B. von Wettberg, and Douglas R. Cook

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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

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Positivity of the English language, Isabel M. Kloumann, Christopher M. Danforth, Kameron Decker Harris, Catherine A. Bliss, and Peter Sheridan Dodds

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Estimating Litter Decomposition Rate in Single-Pool Models Using Nonlinear Beta Regression, Etienne Laliberté, E. Carol Adair, and Sarah E. Hobbie

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Bioenergy harvesting impacts on ecologically important stand structure and habitat characteristics, Caitlin E. Littlefield and William S. Keeton

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Integrative frontiers in environmental policy theory and research, Meredith T. Niles and Mark Lubell

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Technical feasibility of small-scale oilseed and on-farm biodiesel production: A Vermont case study, Emily J. Stebbins-Wheelock, Robert Parsons, Qingbin Wang, Heather Darby, and Vernon Grubinger

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eOrganic: The organic agriculture community of practice for eXtension, Alexandra G. Stone, Danielle D. Treadwell, Alice K. Formiga, John P.G. McQueen, Michelle M. Wander, James Riddle, Heather M. Darby, and Debra Heleba

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Null model tests for niche conservatism, phylogenetic assortment and habitat filtering, Werner Ulrich, Marcin Piwczyński, Fernando T. Maestre, and Nicholas J. Gotelli

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Early developmental responses to seedling environment modulate later plasticity to light spectral quality, Eric J.B. von Wettberg, John R. Stinchcombe, and Johanna Schmitt

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Land use adaptation to climate change: Economic damages from land-falling hurricanes in the Atlantic and gulf States of the USA, 1900-2005, Asim Zia

Submissions from 2011

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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

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The limits to prediction in ecological systems, Brian Beckage, Louis J. Gross, and Stuart Kauffman

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Alternative organic fungicides for apple scab management and their non-target effects, Morgan L. Cromwell, Lorraine P. Berkett, Heather M. Darby, and Takamaru Ashikaga

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Temporal patterns of happiness and information in a global social network: Hedonometrics and Twitter, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Kameroncker Decker Harris, Isabel M. Kloumann, Catherine A. Bliss, and Christopher M. Danforth

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The high costs of conserving Southeast Asia's lowland rainforests, Brendan Fisher, David P. Edwards, Xingli Giam, and David S. Wilcove

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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

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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

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Counting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Biodiversity sampling and statistical analysis for myrmecologists, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Aaron M. Ellison, Robert R. Dunn, and Nathan J. Sanders

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Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Werner Ulrich, and Fernando T. Maestre

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The effects of climate change on density-dependent population dynamics of aquatic invertebrates, Edmund M. Hart and Nicholas J. Gotelli

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A natural-resource-based view of the firm: Fifteen years after, Stuart L. Hart and Glen Dowell

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Governance informatics: Managing the performance of inter-organizational governance networks, Christopher Koliba, Asim Zia, and Brian H.Y. Lee

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Time use and food pattern influences on obesity, Jane M. Kolodinsky and Amanda B. Goldstein

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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

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Subsurface characterization of groundwater contaminated by landfill leachate using microbial community profile data and a nonparametric decision-making process, Andrea R. Pearce, Donna M. Rizzo, and Paula J. Mouser

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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

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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

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Understanding earth's eroding surface with 10Be, Eric W. Portenga and Paul R. Bierman

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Larvicidal effects of Chinaberry (Melia azederach) powder on Anopheles arabiensis in Ethiopia, Ryan E. Trudel and Arne Bomblies

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Scientific instruments for climate change adaptation: Estimating and optimizing the efficiency of ecosystem service provision, Ferdinando Villa, Ken Bagstad, Gary Johnson, and Brian Voigt

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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

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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

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Measuring the happiness of large-scale written expression: Songs, blogs, and presidents, Peter Sheridan Dodds and Christopher M. Danforth

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Protecting degraded rainforests: Enhancement of forest carbon stocks under REDD+, David P. Edwards, Brendan Fisher, and Emily Boyd

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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

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The interplay of chaos between the terrestrial and giant planets, Wayne B. Hayes, Anton V. Malykh, and Christopher M. Danforth

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Nutrient enrichment enhances hidden differences in phenotype to drive a cryptic plant invasion, Christine Holdredge, Mark D. Bertness, Eric Von Wettberg, and Brian R. Silliman

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Conclusions about niche expansion in introduced Impatiens walleriana populations depend on method of analysis, Lisa Mandle, Dan L. Warren, Matthias H. Hoffmann, A. Townsend Peterson, Johanna Schmitt, and Eric J. von Wettberg

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Enhanced detection of groundwater contamination from a leaking waste disposal site by microbial community profiles, Paula J. Mouser, Donna M. Rizzo, Gregory K. Druschel, Sergio E. Morales, Nancy Hayden, Patrick O'Grady, and Lori Stevens

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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

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Calibrating a long-term meteoric 10Be accumulation rate in soil, Lucas Reusser, Joseph Graly, Paul Bierman, and Dylan Rood

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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

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The whale pump: Marine mammals enhance primary productivity in a coastal basin, Joe Roman and James J. McCarthy

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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

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Fire effects on demography of the invasive shrub brazilian pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius) in Florida pine savannas, Jens T. Stevens and Brian Beckage

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Projecting the distribution of forests in New England in response to climate change, Guoping Tang and Brian Beckage

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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

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Null model analysis of species associations using abundance data, Werner Ulrich and Nicholas J. Gotelli

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How anthocyanin mutants respond to stress: the need to distinguish between stress tolerance and maximal vigour, Eric J. Von Wettberg, Maureen L. Stanton, and Justen B. Whittall

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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

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Sensitivity of incipient particle motion to fluid flow penetration depth within a packed bed, Benjamin A. Yergey, Maria Laura Beninati, and Jeffrey S. Marshall

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The digital divide in internet information searching: A double-hurdle model analysis of household data from vermont, Guangxuan Zhang, Qingbin Wang, and Jane Kolodinsky

Submissions from 2004

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Understanding human and ecosystem dynamics in the Kola Arctic: A participatory integrated study, Doneivan Ferreira, Saul Suslick, Joshua Farley, Robert Costanza, and Sergey Krivov