Latest Presentations
Hematopoietic Cell Types: Prototype for a Revised Cell Ontology
The Cell Ontology (CL) is an OBO Foundry candidate ontology intended for the representation of cell types from all of biology. A recent workshop sponsored by NIAID on hematopoietic cell types in t…
Received 17 August 2009 19:29 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Immunology, Bioinformatics
Modeling forest insect population dynamics
Overview of the Special Interdisciplinary Minisymposium at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology on modeling of forest insect population dynamics.
Received 17 August 2009 20:14 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Moisture availability influences the effect of ultraviolet-B radiation on leaf litter decomposition
Altered surface ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation resulting from a combination of factors that include changes in stratospheric ozone concentrations, cloud cover, and aerosol conditions may affect lit…
Received 17 August 2009 17:01 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Integration of microbial communities into large-scale ecosystem models
Background/Question/MethodsMicro-organisms, including Bacteria, Archaea, and Fungi, control major processes throughout the Earth system. Recent advances in microbial ecology and microbiology ha…
Received 17 August 2009 16:00 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Ecologists and the development of sustainability curricula for majors vs. non-majors
Background/Question/MethodsEcologists usually study interactions among living and non-living things at a particular spatial scale. Ecological curricula often have a biological focus except in e…
Received 14 August 2009 18:42 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
The National Vegetation Classification Standard: Implementation and outreach for the state of Oklahoma
Efficient stewardship of the nation’s biological resources requires a systematic inventory and classification of the systems which support these resources. However, until recently, a single classi…
Received 16 August 2009 13:34 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Plant Impacts on Competition Between Tidal Marsh Microbes
Background/Question/Methods Wetlands can store a lot of carbon in soils, but wetland microbial respiration also releases a great deal of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). These gases …
Received 17 August 2009 13:16 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Comparative Litter Quality and Recalcitrance Among Native Grasses and the Invasive, Non-indigenous KR Bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum)
KR Bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum) is a non-indigenous, invasive, C4 grass that was introduced throughout the Midwestern and Southwestern U.S. short- to midgrass prairies with the aim of improv…
Received 15 August 2009 01:27 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology
Root production and methane dynamics: Impact of wetland functional group diversity and composition
Background/Question/MethodsThe loss of biodiversity worldwide has prompted a close investigation of the link between diversity and ecosystem functions. Most experimental studies have looked at …
Received 17 August 2009 00:49 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Ecology, Earth & Environment
Little cost of injury to growth and development of damselflies
Background:Damaged or missing appendages are a common problem in numerous vertebrate and invertebrate taxa and can negatively affect many aspects of life: mobility, foraging, predator avoidan…
Received 14 August 2009 19:26 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
