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Increased flood frequency and magnitude decreases density of a stream-breeding salamander in urbanized watersheds
Background/Question/MethodsAs urbanization increases across the globe, more ecologists have taken note of its consequences to stream systems. Sufficient data have been collected to document repea…
Received 12 November 2009 21:51 UTC; Posted 13 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Obtaining New Insights for Biodiversity Conservation from Broad-Scale Citizen Science Data
Increasing public engagement in volunteer science1, either through data collection2 or processing3, is both raising public awareness of science and gathering useful information for scientists. Whi…
Received 10 November 2009 15:56 UTC; Posted 13 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Geological Controls on Water Resource Variability in Minnesota, USA
Sustainable management of water resources requires quantitative description of spatio-temporal variability, and the map is a universal medium to reflect the spatio-temporal distribution of water re…
Received 06 November 2009 20:59 UTC; Posted 09 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Ecophysiological traits of grasses: resolving the effects of photosynthetic pathway and phylogeny
C4 photosynthesis is an important example of convergent evolution in plants, having arisen in eudicots, monocots and diatoms. Comparisons between such diverse groups are confounded by phylogenetic …
Received 03 November 2009 17:22 UTC; Posted 04 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Robustness of self-organised systems to changes in individual level behaviour: an example from real and simulated self-organised snail aggregations
Perfect behaviours that are optimal to the environment an agent operates within rarely exist in real animals or in robotic systems. The costs (be they biological or economic) of building sensors an…
Received 29 October 2009 18:12 UTC; Posted 30 October 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
16S rRNA based identification of Aeromonas sp. kumar by constructing phylogenetic tree and identification of regulatory elements from the harmful Red Tide bloom, Gulf of Mannar
A bacterial strain, designated Aeromonas sp. kumar, was isolated from a water sample collected from Red tide Bloom occurred in the region of Gulf of Mannar region, Puthumadam Coast, India and the…
Received 28 October 2009 02:02 UTC; Posted 28 October 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
Roman roads: The hierarchical endosymbiosis of cognitive modules
Serial endosymbiosis theory provides a unifying paradigm for examining the interaction of cognitive modules at vastly different scales of biological, social, and cultural organization. A trivial bu…
Received 22 October 2009 16:47 UTC; Posted 02 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Neuroscience, Earth & Environment, Evolutionary Biology
Evaluating experiential education through an intertidal ecology field trip.
Background/Question/MethodsStanford SEEDS and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve have worked together with Redwood High School to implement an experiential ecology education program. The Re…
Received 20 October 2009 04:34 UTC; Posted 21 October 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Genome-scale approach proves that the lungfish-coelacanth sister group is the closest living relative of tetrapods with the BEST program
The origin of tetrapods has not been resolved for decades. Three principal hypotheses (lungfish-tetrapod, coelacanth-tetrapod, or lungfish-coelacanth sister group) have been proposed. We used the B…
Received 15 October 2009 04:03 UTC; Posted 15 October 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Host factors affecting abomasal parasites in Alpine Ibex
Alpine ibex is characterized by strong sexual differences, both morphological and in population dynamics. Host sex has been shown to strongly affect parasite load with males usually more infected t…
Received 25 September 2009 11:37 UTC; Posted 25 September 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology, Earth & Environment
