EEB recent research publications

A roundup of recent Ecology, Evolution and Behavior faculty publications in scientific journals.

May 2012

Aboveground biomass in mature and secondary seasonally dry tropical forests: A literature review and global synthesis | Forest Ecology and Managment

Variable Responses of Lowland Tropical Forest Nutrient Status to Fertilization and Litter Manipulation | Ecosystems

Growth responses, biomass partitioning, and nitrogen isotopes of prairie legumes in response to elevated temperature and vayring nitrogen source in a growth chamber experiment | American Journal of Botany

Male and female aggression: lessons from sex, rank, age, and injury in olive baboons | Behavioral Ecology

Host phylogeny and specialisation in parasitoids | Ecology Letters

Maintenance of tree phylogenetic diversity in a highly fragmented rain forest | Journal of Ecology

Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis | Journal of Ecology

April 2012

Elevated Carbon Dioxide Alters the Structure of Soil Microbial Communities | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The evolution of parasitoid fecundity: a paradigm under scrutiny | Ecology Letters

Sound or Silence: Call Recognition in the Temporal Domain by the Frog Allobates femoralis | Ethology

Tempo and Mode of Mating System Evolution Between Incipient Clarkia Species | Evolution

March 2012

The impact of gene-tree/species-tree discordance on diversification-rate estimation | Evolution

Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social-ecological systems | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Effects of land cover change on moisture availability and potential crop yield in the world's breadbaskets | Environmental Research Letters

Xanthophyll cycle pigment and antioxidant profiles of winter-red (anthocyanic) and winter-green (acyanic) angiosperm evergreen species | Journal of Experimental Botany

Spatial release from masking in a free-field source identification task by gray treefrogs | Hearing Research

Phylogeny and cryptic diversity in geckos (Phyllopezus; Phyllodactylidae; Gekkota) from South America's open biomes | Molecular Phylogenetics

Insects on Plants: Explaining the Paradox of Low Diversity within Specialist Herbivore Guilds | American Naturalist

Plasmid Localization and Organization of Melamine Degradation Genes in Rhodococcus sp Strain Mel | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Understorey diversity in southern boreal forests is regulated by productivity and its indirect impacts on resource availability and heterogeneity | Journal of Ecology

The residential landscape: fluxes of elements and the role of household decisions | Urban Ecosystems

Islands in the sky or squeezed at the top? Ecological causes of elevational range limits in montane salamanders | Ecography

Transcriptional Responses of Escherichia coli K-12 and O157:H7 Associated with Lettuce Leaves | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Response to Comments on "Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness" | Science

Isolation of mesotrione-degrading bacteria from aquatic environments in Brazil | Chemosphere

February 2012

The phylogenetic composition and structure of soil microbial communities shifts in response to elevated carbon | International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal

Evidence for a freezing tolerance-growth rate trade-off in the live oaks (Quercus series Virentes) across the tropical-temperate divide | New Phytologist

Global change belowground: impacts of elevated CO(2), nitrogen, and summer drought on soil food webs and biodiversity | Global Change Biology

Ecosystem Services: Free Lunch No More Response | Science

Receiver psychology turns 20: is it time for a broader approach? | Animal Behaviour

Rescuing Wolves: Threat of Misinformation | Science

Above- and below-ground plant inputs both fuel soil food webs | Soil Biology & Biochemistry

The population structure of Escherichia coli isolated from subtropical and temperate soils | Science of the Total Environment

Global quantification of contrasting leaf life span strategies for deciduous and evergreen species in response to environmental conditions | Global Ecology and Biogeography

January 2012

Experimental evolution of multicellularity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

Lifetime return on investment increases with leaf lifespan among 10 Australian woodland species | New Phytologist

Invasions: the trail behind, the path ahead, and a test of a disturbing idea | Journal of Ecology

Ecological and social factors affect the occurrence and outcomes of intergroup encounters in chimpanzees | Animal Behaviour

Integrated Online System for a Pyrosequencing-Based Microbial Source Tracking Method that Targets Bacteroidetes 165 rDNA | Environmental Science & Technology

Late Pleistocene artifacts and fauna from Rusinga and Mfangano islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya | Azania-Archaeological Research in Africa

Effects of planting method and seed mix richness on the early stages of tallgrass prairie restoration | Biological Conservation

Subtle differences in two non-native congeneric beach grasses significantly affect their colonization, spread, and impact | Oikos

Riparian vegetation removal alters consumer-resource stoichiometry in an Australian lowland stream | Marine and Freshwater Research

Wolf population dynamics in the US Northern Rocky Mountains are affected by recruitment and human-caused mortality | Journal of Wildlife Management

Combined effects of host-plant resistance and intraguild predation on the soybean aphid parasitoid Binodoxys communis in the field | Biological Control

Latitude, elevational climatic zonation and speciation in New World vertebrates | Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences

Nonlinear effects of group size on the success of wolves hunting elk | Behavioral Ecology

Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control | New Phytologist

Local ecotypic and species range-related adaptation influence photosynthetic temperature optima in deciduous broadleaved trees | Plant Ecology

Competition between two wood-degrading fungi with distinct influences on residues | Fems Microbiology Ecology

December 2011

Kin encounter rate and inbreeding avoidance in canids | Molecular Ecology

Pathologic Lesions in Chimpanzees (Pan trogylodytes schweinfurthii) from Gombe National Park | Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Effects of planting method and seed mix richness on the early stages of tallgrass prairie restoration | Biological Conservation

Field observations of Ostrinia nubilalis eclosion and post-eclosion activity of females around their natal plants | Insect Science

Prevalence of season-specific Escherichia coli strains in the Yeongsan River Basin of South Korea | Environmental Microbiology

The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses | Nature

Elevated CO(2) stimulates grassland soil respiration by increasing carbon inputs rather than by enhancing soil moisture | Global Change Biology

Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA

Experimental evolution of ultraviolet radiation resistance in Escherichia coli | Evolution

Predictability of anthrax infection in the Serengeti, Tanzania | Journal of Applied Ecology

Dip listening and the cocktail party problem in grey treefrogs: signal recognition in temporally fluctuating noise | Animal Behaviour

Endangered species management and the role of conservation genetics: A response to Barr et al. | Auk

Success of the high-dose/refuge resistance management strategy after 15 years of Bt crop use in North America | Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Analysis of inbreeding depression in mixed-mating plants provides evidence for selective interference and stable mixed mating | Evolution

Use of cranial characters in taxonomy of the Minnesota wolf (Canis sp.) | Canadian Journal of Zoology