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EEB Graduate Program Publications

A roundup of recent Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Graduate Program publications in scientific journals.
MAY 2013

Pleiotropy and Life History Evolution in Drosophila melanogaster: Uncoupling Life Span and Early Fecundity | Journals of Gerontology Series A - Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Occurrence, Genetic Diversity, and Persistence of Enterococci in a Lake Superior Watershed | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The murine skin microbiome is regulated independently of innate and adaptive immunity | Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Linking direct and indirect pathways mediating earthworms, deer, and understory composition in Great Lakes forests | Biological Invasions

APRIL 2013

The importance of epigenetics for behavioral ecologists (and vice versa) | Behavioral Ecology

Historical biogeography of mite harvestmen from the Wet Tropics of Australia | Integrative and Comparative Biology

Contrasting leaf trait scaling relationships in tropical and temperate wet forest species | Functional Ecology

The Endosymbiont Arsenophonus Is Widespread in Soybean Aphid, Aphis glycines, but Does Not Provide Protection from Parasitoids or a Fungal Pathogen | PLOS ONE

The role of learning in mediating transgenerational responses to nutrition | Integrative and Comparative Biology

The effects of changing nutrient inputs on sexual selection dynamics and life history evolution | Integrative and Comparative Biology

Distribution of Genetic Markers of Fecal Pollution on a Freshwater Sandy Shoreline in Proximity to Wastewater Effluent | Environmental Science & Technology

Incidence of naturally internalized bacteria in lettuce leaves | International Journal of Food Microbiology

Low biodiversity state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment | Ecology Letters

Molecular and morphological support for a Florida origin of the Cuban oak | Journal of Biogeography

Effects of plant diversity, N fertilization, and elevated carbon dioxide on grassland soil N cycling in a long-term experiment | Global Change Biology

Simulated responses of moose populations to browsing-induced changes in plant architecture and forage production | Oikos

Photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium sp Strain ORS285 Is Capable of Forming Nitrogen-Fixing Root Nodules on Soybeans (Glycine max) | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defence trade-off is the norm | Ecology Letters

Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat? | New Phytologist

Single-strain inoculation may create spurious correlations between legume fitness and rhizobial fitness | New Phytologist

MARCH 2013

Microbes modeling ontogeny | Biology & Philosophy

Effects of plant host species and plant community richness on streptomycete community structure | Fems Microbiology Ecology

How does pollen versus seed dispersal affect niche evolution? | Evolution

Physiological and Behavioral Changes in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) Induced by Nosema ceranae Infection | PLOS ONE

Antagonism influences assembly of a Bacillus guild in a local community and is depicted as a food-chain network | ISME Journal

Incorporating temperature-sensitive Q(10) and foliar respiration acclimation algorithms modifies modeled ecosystem responses to global change | Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Milkweed loss in agricultural fields because of herbicide use: effect on the monarch butterfly population | Insect Conservation and Diversity

Advertisement Call Variation in the Golden Rocket Frog (Anomaloglossus beebei): Evidence for Individual Distinctiveness | Ethology 

The adaptive potential of Populus balsamifera L. to phenology requirements in a warmer global climate | Molecular Ecology

Association of Toxin-Producing Clostridium botulinum with the Macroalga Cladophora in the Great Lakes | Environmental Science & Technology

Development of microsatellite loci for the western slimy salamander (Plethodon albagula) using 454 sequencing | Conservation Genetics Resources

Going to Extremes: Contrasting Rates of Diversification in a Recent Radiation of New World Passerine Birds | Systematic Biology

Biomass production potential of grasslands in the oak savanna region of Minnesota, USA | Bioenergy Research

Invasive grasses, climate change, and exposure to storm-wave overtopping in coastal dune ecosystems | Global Change Biology

FEBRUARY 2013

Richness and Composition of Niche-Assembled Viral Pathogen Communities | PLOS ONE

Do legumes and non-legumes tree species affect soil properties in unmanaged forests and plantations in Costa Rican dry forests? | Soil Biology & Biochemistry 

Using claw marks to study lion predation on giraffes of the Serengeti | Journal of Zoology

Regional Contingencies in the Relationship between Aboveground Biomass and Litter in the World's Grasslands | PLOS ONE

Lost in the Map | Evolution

The fossil history of Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi) in equatorial East Africa | Journal of Biogeography

Phylogenetic Relationships of New World Porcupines (Rodentia, Erethizontidae): Implications for Taxonomy, Morphological Evolution, and Biogeography | American Museum Novitates

Canopy gap size influences niche partitioning of the ground-layer plant community in a northern temperate forest | Journal of Plant Ecology

Estimating global arthropod species richness: refining probabilistic models using probability bounds analysis | Oecologia

Complex facilitation and competition in a temperate grassland: loss of plant diversity and elevated CO2 have divergent and opposite effects on oak establishment | Oecologia

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

JANUARY 2013

Climate and interrelated tree regeneration drivers in mixed temperate-boreal forests | Landscape Ecology

DNA barcodes of caterpillars (Lepidoptera) from Papua New Guinea | Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Influence of Disturbance on Temperate Forest Productivity | Ecosystems

DNA Methylation as a Mechanism of Nutritional Plasticity: Limited Support From Horned Beetles | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B - Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Earthworm Invasions in Northern Hardwood Forests: a Rapid Assessment Method | Natural Areas Journal

Edaphic Factors are a More Important Control on Surface Fine Roots than Stand Age in Secondary Tropical Dry Forests | Biotropica

Host Genotype Shapes the Foliar Fungal Microbiome of Balsam Poplar (Populus balsamifera) | PLOS ONE

Pathogen Variation and Urea Influence Selection and Success of Streptomyces Mixtures in Biological Control | Phytopathology

Standard methods for rearing and selection of Apis mellifera queens | Journal of Apicultural Research

Standard methods for American foulbrood research | Journal of Apicultural Research

Standard methods for fungal brood disease research | Journal of Apicultural Research

The Effects of Well Management and the Nature of the Aquifer on Groundwater Resources | American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Empirical evaluation of partitioning schemes for phylogenetic analyses of mitogenomic data: An avian case study | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Recent allopatric divergence and niche evolution in a widespread Palearctic bird, the common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Evolutionary rescue beyond the models | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B- Biological Sciences

DECEMBER 2012

Testing the Link between Functional Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning in a Minnesota Grassland Experiment | PLOS ONE

Regime shifts and management | Ecological Economics

Long-term carbon sequestration in North American peatlands | Quarternary Science Reviews

Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation | Nature Communications

Phylogenetic placements of the barbin genera Discherodontus, Chagunius, and Hypselobarbus in the subfamily Cyprininae (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) and their relationships with other barbins | Zootaxa

How is the rate of climatic-niche evolution related to climatic-niche breadth? | Evolution

Pollinator-mediated reproductive isolation among dioecious fig species (Ficus, Moraceae) | Evolution

ECONOMICS Conservation in the red | Nature

Female preferences for spectral call properties in the western genetic lineage of Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis) | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Dip listening or modulation masking? Call recognition by green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) in temporally fluctuating noise | Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Enrichment in a stoichiometric model of two producers and one consumer | Journal of Biological Dynamics

Quasi-equilibrium reduction in a general class of stoichiometric producer-consumer models Journal of Biological Dynamics

Plant diversity controls arthropod biomass and temporal stability | Ecology Letters

Potential impacts of emerald ash borer invasion on biogeochemical and water cycling in residential landscapes across a metropolitan region | Urban Ecosystems

An Extreme Case of Plant-Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps | Systematic Biology

NOVEMBER 2012

Chimpanzees and humans harbour compositionally similar gut enterotypes | Nature Communications

Snake-venom resistance as a mammalian trophic adaptation: lessons from didelphid marsupials | Biological Reviews

Effects of pH and calcium on soil organic matter dynamics in Alaskan tundra | Biogeochemistry

A Global System for Monitoring Ecosystem Service Change | Bioscience

Linking water quality and well-being for improved assessment and valuation of ecosystem services | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

Tree species effects on coupled cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and acidity in mineral soils at a common garden experiment | Biogeochemistry

Increasing plant diversity effects on productivity with time due to delayed soil biota effects on plants | Basic and Applied Ecology

No globally consistent effect of ectomycorrhizal status on foliar traits | New Phytologist

Catching the Right Wave: Evaluating Wave Energy Resources and Potential Compatibility with Existing Marine and Coastal Uses | PLOS ONE

Molecular phylogeny of the cyprinid tribe Labeonini (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

The Evolution of Androconia in Mimetic Tiger Moths (Noctuoidea: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Ctenuchina and Euchromiina) | Annals of the Entomological Society of America

A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the vampire moths and their fruit-piercing relatives (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Calpinae) | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Gene expression profiling of Escherichia coli in response to interactions with the lettuce rhizosphere | Journal of Applied Microbiology

Sapling growth responses to warmer temperatures 'cooled' by browse pressure | Global Change Biology

Assessing the comparative productivity advantage of bioenergy feedstocks at different latitudes | Environmental Research Letters

Trophic cascades, invasive species and body-size hierarchies interactively modulate climate change responses of ecotonal temperate-boreal forest | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Diversity of plant evolutionary lineages promotes arthropod diversity | Ecology Letters

Maximising return on conservation investment in the conterminous USA | Ecology Letters

OCTOBER 2012

Soil-Occupancy Effects of Invasive and Native Grassland Plant Species on Composition and Diversity of Mycorrhizal Associations | Invasive Plant Science and Management

Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management | Nature

Sources and Transfers of Methylmercury in Adjacent River and Forest Food Webs | Environmental Science and Technology

Decomposer diversity and identity influence plant diversity effects on ecosystem functioning | Ecology

Local Adaptation in the Flowering-Time Gene Network of Balsam Poplar, Populus balsamifera L. | Molecular Biology and Evolution

Correlations among leaf traits provide a significant constraint on the estimate of global gross primary production | Geophysical Research Letters 

Contrasting Evolutionary Dynamics and Information Content of the Avian Mitochondrial Control Region and ND2 Gene | PLoS One

Cry Toxins in Transgenic Plants Have Direct Effects on Natural Enemies in the Laboratory | Environmental Entomology

A species-level model for metabolic scaling in trees I. Exploring boundaries to scaling space within and across species | Functional Ecology

A species-level model for metabolic scaling of trees II. Testing in a ring- and diffuse-porous species | Functional Ecology

Understanding microbial community diversity metrics derived from metagenomes: performance evaluation using simulated data sets | Fems Microbiology Ecology

Determination of optical properties in heterogeneous turbid media using a cylindrical diffusing fiber | Physics in Medicine and Biology

Global meta-analysis for controlling factors on carbon stable isotope ratios of lotic periphyton | Oecologia

Tracking climate impacts on the migratory monarch butterfly | Global Change Biology

Molecular phylogeny and insular biogeography of the lowland tailorbirds of Southeast Asia (Cisticolidae: Orthotomus) | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

SEPTEMBER 2012

Estimating Litter Decomposition Rate in Single-Pool Models Using Nonlinear Beta Regression | PLoS One

Soil carbon sequestration in prairie grasslands increased by chronic nitrogen addition | Ecology

Nutrient limitation reduces land carbon uptake in simulations with a model of combined carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling | Biogeosciences

The altered ecology of Lake Christina: A record of regime shifts, land-use change, and management from a temperate shallow lake | Science of the Total Environment

First records of Parergodrilus heideri (Annelida: "Polychaeta") from North America | Zootaxa

The Common Ground of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Demonstrated: A Response to Faith | Bioscience

Induced Fit and the Catalytic Mechanism of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase | Biochemistry

Phylogeography of speciation: allopatric divergence and secondary contact between outcrossing and selfing Clarkia | Molecular Ecology

Archboldomys (Muridae: Murinae) Reconsidered: A New Genus and Three New Species of Shrew Mice from Luzon Island, Philippines | American Museum Novitates

On the "strict homeostasis" assumption in ecological stoichiometry| Ecological Modelling

Leaf Litter Disappearance in Earthworm-Invaded Northern Hardwood Forests: Role of Tree Species and the Chemistry and Diversity of Litter | Ecosystems

Multilocus coalescence analyses suppport a mtDNA-based phylogeographic history for a widespread palearctic passerine bird, Sitta europaea | Evolution

Why are there more arboreal ant species in primary than in secondary tropical forests? | Journal of Animal Ecology

Rapid climate change and the rate of adaptation: insight from experimental quantitative genetics | New Phytologist

Responses of leaf structure and photosynthetic properties to intra-canopy light gradients: a common garden test with four broadleaf deciduous angiosperm and seven evergreen conifer tree species | Oecologia

Fine-Scale Population Recombination Rates, Hotspots, and Correlates of Recombination in the Medicago truncatula Genome | Genome Biology and Evolution

Nitrogen, phosphorus and light effects on growth and allocation of biomass and nutrients in wild rice | Oecologia

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and light effects on reproduction and fitness of wild rice | Botany-Botanique

AUGUST 2012

Pathogen and host genotype differently affect pathogen fitness through their effects on different life-history stage | BMC Evolutionary Biology

Population Genomics of the Facultatively Mutualistic Bacteria Sinorhizobium meliloti and S. medicae | PLoS Genetics

Response of decomposing litter and its microbial community to multiple forms of nitrogen enrichment | Ecological Monographs

A Spectrum of Pleiotropic Consequences in Development Due to Changes in a Regulatory Pathway | PLoS One

Phylogeny, ecology, and the origins of climate-richness relationships | Ecology

Predicting tropical insect herbivore abundance from host plant traits and phylogeny | Ecology

Habitat specialization and the role of trait lability in structuring diverse willow (genus Salix) communities | Ecology

Response of Soybean Insects to an Autumn-Seeded Rye Cover Crop | Environmental Entomology

Integrating ecology and phylogenetics: the footprint of history in modern-day communities | Ecology

Phylogenetic and functional characteristics of household yard floras and their changes along an urbanization gradient | Ecology

Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability | Ecology

Synthesizing phylogenetic knowledge for ecological research | Ecology

Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment | Ecology

Sinks for nitrogen inputs in terrestrial ecosystems: a meta-analysis of N-15 tracer field studies | Ecology

Factors associated with the diversification of the gut microbial communities within chimpanzees from Gombe National Park | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

Implications of Pyrosequencing Error Correction for Biological Data Interpretation | PLoS One

Managed relocation: Integrating the scientific, regulatory, and ethical challenges | BioScience

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America | Global Ecology and Biogeography

Insects and plants: engaging undergraduates in authentic research through citizen science | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean | Nature

Effects on stink bugs of field edges adjacent to woodland | Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

JULY 2012

Carbon isotopic record of terrestrial ecosystems spanning the Late Miocene extinction of Oreopithecus bambolii, Baccinello Basin (Tuscany, Italy) | Journal of Human Evolution

Role of climate and competitors in limiting fitness across range edges of an annual plant | Ecology

Interactions between Fusarium verticillioides, Ustilago maydis, and Zea mays: An endophyte, a pathogen, and their shared plant host | Fungal Genetics and Biology

Uncertainty in ecosystem services valuation and implications for assessing land use tradeoffs: An agricultural case study in the Minnesota River Basin | Ecological Economics

The interacting effects of clumped seed dispersal and distance- and density-dependent mortality on seedling recruitment patterns | Journal of Ecology

Travel, Sex, and Food: What's Speciation Got to Do with It? | Astrobiology

Fifty-third supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds | Auk

Seeing the forest for the heterogeneous trees: stand-scale resource distributions emerge from tree-scale structure | Ecological Applications

Using Participatory Scenarios to Stimulate Social Learning for Collaborative Sustainable Development | Ecology and Society

Is science in danger of sanctifying the wolf? | Biological Conservation

Change in community phylogenetic structure during tropical forest succession: evidence from New Guinea | Ecography

Evaluating greenhouse gas emissions inventories for agricultural burning using satellite observations of active fires | Ecological Adaptations

Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

Reshaping of the maize transcriptome by domestication | Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA

Selective Processes in Development: Implications for the Costs and Benefits of Phenotypic Plasticity | Integrative and Comparative Biology

Fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana mutation accumulation lines whose spontaneous mutations are known | Evolution

Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Singlet Oxygen in Lake Superior | Environmental Science & Technology

Comparative population genomics of maize domestication and improvement | Nature Genetics

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

Interactive effects of global warming and 'global worming' on the initial establishment of native and exotic herbaceous plant species | Oikos

mtDNA haplotypes differ in their probability of being eliminated by a mass die-off in an abundant seabird | Heredity

Effect of Binodoxys communis parasitism on flight behavior of the soybean aphid, Aphis glycines | Biological Control

JUNE 2012

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity | Nature

Biophysical feedback mediates effects of invasive grasses on coastal dune shape | Ecology

Quantitative acoustic analysis of the vocal repertoire of the golden rocket frog (Anomaloglossus beebei) | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Do evergreen and deciduous trees have different effects on net N mineralization in soil? | Ecology

Seed and microsite limitation in a late-successional old field: the effects of water, adults, litter, and small mammals on seeds and seedlings | Plant Ecology

Seed and establishment limitation contribute to long-term native forb declines in California grasslands | Ecology

Distribution of Cotesia rubecula (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and its displacement of Cotesia glomerata in Eastern North America | Florida Entomologist

A model laboratory system to study the synergistic interaction and growth of environmental Escherichia coli with macrophytic green algae | Journal of Great Lakes Research

Rapid diversification in the North American minnow genus Nocomis | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Key canopy traits drive forest productivity | Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

A new timeframe for the diversification of Japan's mammals | Journal of Biogeography

Biodiversity, Nitrogen Deposition, and CO2 Affect Grassland Soil Carbon Cycling but not Storage | Ecosystems

MAY 2012

Interactions between Soil Habitat and Geographic Range Location Affect Plant Fitness | PLoS One

Sound level discrimination by gray treefrogs in the presence and absence of chorus-shaped noise | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Reduced pollinator service and elevated pollen limitation at the geographic range limit of an annual plant | Ecology

The influence of host diversity and composition on epidemiological patterns at multiple spatial scales | Ecology

Finding Common Ground for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | BioScience

Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture | Nature

Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land-use decisions | PNAS

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

Do trade-offs have explanatory power for the evolution of organismal interactions? | Evolution

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

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades | Science

Phylogenetic and phenotypic analyses of arsenic-reducing bacteria isolated from an old tin mine area in Thailand | World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology

Seedling Recruitment in the Long-Lived Perennial, Echinacea angustifolia: A 10-Year Experiment | Restoration Ecology

Pleistocene Speciation in the Genus Populus (Salicaceae) | Systematic Biology

Phylogenetic relationships of the mockingbirds and thrashers (Aves: Mimidae) | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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

Metabolome and Transcriptome of the Interaction between Ustilago maydis and Fusarium verticillioides In Vitro | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades | Science

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

Contamination and management of resistance evolution to high-dose transgenic insecticidal crops | Theoretical 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

Insulin Signaling as a Mechanism Underlying Developmental Plasticity: The Role of FOXO in a Nutritional Polyphenism | PLoS One

Sound source perception in anuran amphibians | Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Past, Present, and Future Roles of Long-Term Experiments in the LTER Network | BioScience

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

Economic-based projections of future land use in the conterminous United States under alternative policy scenarios | Ecological Applications

Managed Pollinator CAP Coordinated Agricultural Project The First Two Years of the Stationary Hive Project: Abiotic Site Effects | American Bee Journal

Nutritional Constraints in the Evolution of Cognition: effects of host shifts on neural investment in butterflies | Integrative and Comparative Biology

Use of Real-time PCR to Detect Canine Parvovirus in Feces of Free-ranging Wolves | Journal of Wildlife Diseases

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

Increased Resin Collection after Parasite Challenge: A Case of Self-Medication in Honey Bees? | PLoS One

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

The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould | Isis

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