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Can global models reproduce the current increase in Western United States Wildfires and project a reliable future trend?
Background/Question/Methods:Wildfires in the western U.S. are generally thought to have increased since the 1980s. Many factors have contributed to this increase such as fire suppression, livesto…
Received 14 August 2009 21:18 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Using lidar remote sensing and support vector machines to classify fire disturbance legacies in a Florida oak scrub landscape
Background/Question/MethodsEcologists have long emphasized the reciprocal interactions between spatial pattern and ecological processes in the creation of landscape mosaics. While an enormous a…
Received 14 August 2009 17:58 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
The significance of ponds in maintaining biodiversity in an intensively farmed landscape
Background/Question/MethodsPonds are amongst the most diverse freshwater habitats and have been recently found to support more species, as well as more uncommon, rare, and threatened species co…
Received 13 August 2009 22:03 UTC; Posted 14 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
The plural of anecdote is not data: Rigorously testing a boreal forest chronosequence
“Forests appear stable because the ecologists who study them die.” The chronosequence, with its space-for-time substitution, is a widely-employed workaround for a difficult problem: many interestin…
Received 13 August 2009 22:36 UTC; Posted 14 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Indigenous ecological knowledge as social capital: How citizen science can help us replenish the bank
Background/Question/Methods In our increasingly urban world, indigenous knowledge of local ecology is declining rapidly, because survival in industrialized urban environments does not depend …
Received 14 August 2009 01:45 UTC; Posted 14 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Assemblage-structuring force of species interactions varies spatially and temporally: Co-occurrence analysis of canopy arthropod distributions
Background/Question/Methods Understanding how interactions amongst species contribute to their distribution is central to community ecology. However, it is not understood how these processes may …
Received 13 August 2009 23:32 UTC; Posted 14 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Coexistence by recruitment variation: How large is the contribution of relative nonlinearity?
Background/Question/MethodsRecruitment variation is believed to be an important mechanism of species coexistence in variable environments. This mechanism, however, is a composite of two other…
Received 13 August 2009 21:48 UTC; Posted 14 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Urban Ecosystems: Alterations to Peakflow, Microclimate and the Natural Environment
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urbanized ecosystems. Continued human population growth over the next several decades will place unprecedented demand on urban water resources,...
Received 14 August 2009 01:39 UTC; Posted 14 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
An OWL-DL Ontology for Classification of Lipids
Lipids can be systematically classified according to functional properties, structural features, biochemical origin or biological system. However Lipid nomenclature has yet to become a robust resea…
Received 12 August 2009 02:25 UTC; Posted 12 August 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Bioinformatics
Open Biomedical Ontologies Applied to Prostate Cancer
In this presentation we survey preliminary results from the Interdisciplinary Prostate Ontology Project (IPOP), in which ontologies from the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) library have been used …
Received 10 August 2009 21:16 UTC; Posted 12 August 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Bioinformatics
