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Cutting the trees to save the forest: The Finch Pruyn working forest
The past two decades have seen sales of millions of acres of commercial forest land in the United States. Changed ownership often results in altered forest management, parcelization or development….
Received 26 August 2009 15:44 UTC; Posted 26 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Allergies, Asthma, and Eczema: Response to Disturbance of the Microbiota of the Newborn Gut
Background/Question/MethodsThe birth of a child may include routine use of antibiotics or a delivery by cesarean section. We applaud these medical advances for their direct benefits. However,...
Received 24 August 2009 19:28 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology
Ecological dynamics and the basis of sympatric phenotypic diversification
Theoretical and empirical studies are showing evidence in support of evolutionary branching and sympatric speciation due to frequency‐dependent competition. However, phenotypic diversification due …
Received 21 August 2009 17:39 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
The joys and perils of recombination – The hotspot conversion paradox and the evolution of recombination
The contradiction between the long-term persistence of the chromosomal hotspots that initiate meiotic recombination and the self-destructive mechanism by which they act strongly suggests that our u…
Received 21 August 2009 20:11 UTC; Posted 21 August 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Evolutionary Biology
Five years of winter climate change-related research in the Canadian low Arctic: What have we learned?
The importance of the fall, winter and spring periods to ecosystem functioning and biogeochemical cycling in tundra has only become apparent in the past two decades. Our research group has been co…
Received 20 August 2009 21:08 UTC; Posted 21 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Local winter deer density: Effects of forest structure and snow in a managed forest landscape
Background/Questions/MethodsWhite-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are a ‘keystone herbivore’ with the potential to cause tree regeneration failure and greatly affect vegetation dynamics,...
Received 20 August 2009 22:10 UTC; Posted 21 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Development of Incentives for Data Sharing in Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Ready access to data is a key concern in both basic research and problem-solving in the biological sciences, as the scale and scope of the questions that researchers ask expand, and as global probl…
Received 18 August 2009 13:03 UTC; Posted 19 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
Evaluating restoration success and applying adapative management in the Middle Rio Grande Bosque
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Albuquerque District, in collaboration with various local partners, has been implementing restoration projects in the Albuquerque Reach of the Middle Rio Grande. T…
Received 18 August 2009 16:52 UTC; Posted 19 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
The hotspot conversion paradox
The contradiction between the long-term persistence of the chromosomal hotspots that initiate meiotic recombination and the self-destructive mechanism by which they act strongly suggests that our u…
Received 17 August 2009 20:07 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Evolutionary Biology
Time to focus on function: Linking microbial community structure to novel aspects of microbial function
Background/Question/MethodsOne of the fundamental challenges in microbial ecology is to examine how microbial communities that differ in composition may also differ in function. Since the adve…
Received 18 August 2009 13:16 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology
