DECEMBER 2014
Assessing stimulus and subject influences on auditory evoked potentials and their relation to peripheral physiology in green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Are leaf functional traits 'invariant' with plant size and what is 'invariance' anyway? | Functional Ecology
Behavioral ecology and genomics: new directions, or just a more detailed map? | Behavioral Ecology
Plant growth enhancement by elevated CO2 eliminated by joint water and nitrogen limitation | Nature Geoscience
An Ecological Network Analysis of nitrogen cycling in the Laurentian Great Lakes | Ecological Modeling
Selective feeding determines patterns of nutrient release by stream invertebrates | Freshwater Science
Factors Affecting the Flight Capacity of Tetrastichus planipennisi (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), a Classical Biological Control Agent of Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) | Environmental Entomology
Molecular systematics and historical biogeography of the Nocomis biguttatus species group (Teleostei: Cyprinidae): Nuclear and mitochondrial introgression and a cryptic Ozark species | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Using landscape characteristics to predict risk of lion attacks on humans in south-eastern Tanzania | African Journal of Ecology
Biomass growth response to spatial pattern of variable-retention harvesting in a northern Minnesota pine ecosystem | Ecological Applications
Biogeographic variation in evergreen conifer needle longevity and impacts on boreal forest carbon cycle projections | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
The nutritionally responsive transcriptome of the polyphenic beetle Onthophagus taurus and the importance of sexual dimorphism and body region | Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
Bioavailability of dissolved organic carbon across a hillslope chronosequence in the Kuparuk River region, Alaska | Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Two grass species fail to display differing species-specific effects on soil bacterial community structures after one season of greenhouse growth | Plant and Soil
Specialisation of bacterial endosymbionts that protect aphids from parasitoids | Ecological Entomology
NOVEMBER 2014
ECOLOGY Diversity breeds complementarity | Nature
Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health | Nature
Landscape-scale Variation in Pathogen-suppressive Bacteria in Tropical Dry Forest Soils of Costa Rica | Biotropica
Frugivorous weevils are too rare to cause Janzen-Connell effects in New Guinea lowland rain forest | Journal of Tropical Ecology
A Molecular Signaling Approach to Linking Intraspecific Variation and Macro-evolutionary Patterns | Integrative and Comparative Biology
Human Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome | Cell
Cheetahs and wild dogs show contrasting patterns of suppression by lions | Journal of Animal Ecology
Pulsing hydrology determines top-down control of basal resources in a tropical river-floodplain ecosystem | Ecological Monographs
Mate finding, Allee effects and selection for sex-biased dispersa | Journal of Animal Ecology
Subcanopy Solar Radiation model: Predicting solar radiation across a heavily vegetated landscape using LiDAR and GIS solar radiation models | Remote Sensing of Environment
Reproductive delays in mammals: an unexplored avenue for post-copulatory sexual selection | Biological Reviews
The Relationship between the Distribution of Common Carp and Their Environmental DNA in a Small Lake | PLoS One
First-year seedlings and climate change: species-specific responses of 15 North American tree species | Oikos
Ebullitive methane emissions from oxygenated wetland streams | Global Change Biology
Phylogenetic Relationships of Mouse Opossums (Didelphidae, Marmosa) with a Revised Subgeneric Classification and Notes on Sympatric Diversity | American Museum Novitates
Anatomical and physiological studies of bigheaded carps demonstrate that the epibranchial organ functions as a pharyngeal taste organ | Journal of Experimental Biology
Warming shifts 'worming': effects of experimental warming on invasive earthworms in northern North America | Scientific Reports
Rapid plant species loss at high rates and at low frequency of N addition in temperate steppe | Global Change Biology
OCTOBER 2014
The cavefish genome reveals candidate genes for eye loss | Nature Communications
Mitogenomic data resolve basal relationships among passeriform and passeridan birds | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Replicated evolutionary divergence in the cuticular hydrocarbon profile of male crickets associated with the loss of song in the Hawaiian archipelago | Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Molecular phylogeny of short-tailed opossums (Didelphidae: Monodelphis): Taxonomic implications and tests of evolutionary hypotheses | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments (vol 506, pg 89, 2014) | Nature
Applying evolutionary biology to address global challenges | Science
Testing the Hamilton-Zuk Hypothesis: Past, Present, and Future | Integrative and Comparative Biology
Rapid evolution of reproductive isolation between incipient outcrossing and selfing Clarkia species | Evolution
Bacterial community structure is indicative of chemical inputs in the Upper Mississippi River | Frontiers in Microbiology
Environmental nutrient supply alters prevalence and weakens competitive interactions among coinfecting viruses | New Phytologist
Soils of temperate rainforests of the North American Pacific Coast | Geoderma
Resident plant diversity and introduced earthworms have contrasting effects on the success of invasive plants | Biological Invasions
Carbon and phosphorus linkages in Daphnia growth are determined by growth rate, not species or diet | Functional Ecology
Nutrient overlap, genetic relatedness and spatial origin influence interaction-mediated shifts in inhibitory phenotype among Streptomyces spp. | Fems Microbiology Ecology
Contrasting influences of stormflow and baseflow pathways on nitrogen and phosphorus export from an urban watershed | Biogeochemistry
Field-evolved resistance to Cry1F maize by Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Brazil | Crop Protection
SEPTEMBER 2014
Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts | Nature
Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system? | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The jack of all trades is master of none: A pathogen's ability to infect a greater number of host genotypes comes at a cost of delayed reproduction | Evolution
Geometry Shapes Evolution of Early Multicellularity | PLoS Computational Biology
Genome-Scale Metabolic Network Validation of Shewanella oneidensis Using Transposon Insertion Frequency Analysis | PLoS Computational Biology
Think ratio! A stoichiometric view on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research | Basic and Applied Ecology
Scales that matter: guiding effective monitoring of soil properties in restored riparian zones | Geoderma
Species Richness, Forest Structure, and Functional Diversity During Succession in the New Guinea Lowlands | Biotropica
The Reflective Plant Breeding Paradigm: A Robust System of Germplasm Development to Support Strategic Diversification of Agroecosystems | Crop Science
Biogeographic variation in evergreen conifer needle longevity and impacts on boreal forest carbon cycle projections | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The emergence and promise of functional biogeography | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Temperature drives global patterns in forest biomass distribution in leaves, stems, and roots | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A Survey and Historical Comparison of the Megachilidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Itasca State Park, Minnesota | Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Improving ecosystem productivity modeling through spatially explicit estimation of optimal light use efficiency | Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences
Re-Evaluating the Northeastern Minnesota Moose Decline and the Role of Wolves | Journal of Wildlife Management
Guidelines for Use of Fishes in Research-Revised and Expanded, 2014 | Fisheries
Notable decomposition products of senescing Lake Michigan Cladophora glomerata | Journal of Great Lakes Research
Factors Limiting the Spread of the Protective Symbiont Hamiltonella defensa in Aphis craccivora Aphids | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Selection on Horizontally Transferred and Duplicated Genes in Sinorhizobium (Ensifer), the Root-Nodule Symbionts of Medicago | Genome Biology and Evolution
Explaining ontogenetic shifts in root-shoot scaling with transient dynamics | Annals of Botany
Fish growth and degree-days II: selecting a base temperature for an among-population study | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
AUGUST 2014
A comprehensive multilocus assessment of sparrow (Aves: Passerellidae) relationships | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Gene interactions in the evolution of genomic imprinting | Heredity
Core functional traits of bacterial communities in the Upper Mississippi River show limited variation in response to land cover | Frontiers in Microbiology
Combining Engineering and Evolution to Create Novel Metabolic Mutualisms Between Species | Engineering and Analyzing Multicellular Systems: Methods and Protocols
A Likelihood-Based Biostatistical Model for Analyzing Consumer Movement in Simultaneous Choice Experiments | Environmental Entomology
Selection of bee species for environmental risk assessment of GM cotton in the Brazilian Cerrado | Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira
Using a network modularity analysis to inform management of a rare endemic plant in the northern Great Plains, USA | Journal of Applied Ecology
Incorporating climate change in conservation planning for freshwater fishes | Diversity and Distributions
Genetic variation in horizontally transmitted fungal endophytes of pine needles reveals population structure in cryptic species | American Journal of Botany
JULY 2014
In defense of fences | Science
Land-use change and costs to rural households: a case study in groundwater nitrate contamination | Environmental Research Letters
A shift of thermokarst lakes from carbon sources to sinks during the Holocene epoch | Nature
COMMENTARY: Climate engineering reconsidered | Nature Climate Change
Anthropogenic changes in sodium affect neural and muscle development in butterflies | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Drastic population fluctuations explain the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Distinguishing the effects of selection from demographic history in the genetic variation of two sister passerines based on mitochondrial-nuclear comparison | Heredity
A Framework Phylogeny of the American Oak Clade Based on Sequenced RAD Data | PLoS One
Comparative metabolomics in primates reveals the effects of diet and gene regulatory variation on metabolic divergence | Scientific Reports
Simulated climate warming alters phenological synchrony between an outbreak insect herbivore and host trees | Oecologia
Evolution within the nuthatches (Sittidae: Aves, Passeriformes): molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and ecological perspectives | Journal of Ornithology
The evolution of seed dormancy: environmental cues, evolutionary hubs, and diversification of the seed plants | New Phytologist
Plant diversity and overyielding: insights from belowground facilitation of intercropping in agriculture | New Phytologist
Enteric Pathogen-Plant Interactions: Molecular Connections Leading to Colonization and Growth and Implications for Food Safety | Microbes and Environments
Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands | Global Ecology and Biogeography
Seasonal and Genotypic Changes in Escherichia coli Phylogenetic Groups in the Yeongsan River Basin of South Korea | PLoS One
Drowning out the protection racket: partner manipulation or drought can strengthen ant-plant mutualism | Trends in Plant Science
Sustainability for the Nation: Resource Connections and Governance Linkages | Environmental Science & Technology
Shift of bacterial community structure in two Thai soil series affected by silver nanoparticles using ARISA | World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology
Multimodal signal compensation: do field crickets shift sexual signal modality after the loss of acoustic communication? | Animal Behaviour
JUNE 2014
Rapid Convergent Evolution in Wild Crickets | Current Biology
Explaining Darwin's Corollary to Haldane's Rule: The Role of Mitonuclear Interactions in Asymmetric Postzygotic Isolation Among Toads | Genetics
Speciation and Introgression between Mimulus nasutus and Mimulus guttatus | PLoS Genetics
The role of behaviour in the establishment of novel traits | Animal Behaviour
National Valuation of Monarch Butterflies Indicates an Untapped Potential for Incentive-Based Conservation | Conservation Letters
Stand age and soils as drivers of plant functional traits and aboveground biomass in secondary tropical dry forest | Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Measurement and Modeling of Denitrification in Sand-Bed Streams under Various Land Uses | Journal of Environmental Quality
Mechanisms of Tolerance and High Degradation Capacity of the Herbicide Mesotrione by Escherichia coli Strain DH5-alpha | PLoS One
Nematode community shifts in response to experimental warming and canopy conditions are associated with plant community changes in the temperate-boreal forest ecotone | Oecologia
Convergent Surface Water Distributions in US Cities | Ecosystems
Laboratory experiments demonstrate that bubble curtains can effectively inhibit movement of common carp | Ecological Engineering
Decomposition of tree leaf litter on pavement: implications for urban water quality | Urban Ecosystems
Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics of Developmental Plasticity: Novel Approaches and First Insights From the Study of Horned Beetles | Ecological Genomics: Ecology and the Evolution of Genes and Genomes
Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Nitrogen transformations at the sediment-water interface across redox gradients in the Laurentian Great Lakes | Hydrobiologia
Identification of factors constraining nitrate assimilation in Lake Superior, Laurentian Great Lakes | Hydrobiologia
MAY 2014
Metabolic Resource Allocation in Individual Microbes Determines Ecosystem Interactions and Spatial Dynamics | Cell Reports
Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the United States | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Egg load dynamics and the risk of egg and time limitation experienced by an aphid parasitoid in the field | Ecology and Evolution
Integrated Metabolomics, Gene Expression, and GWAS Identify New Saponin Biosynthetic Genes in Medicago truncatula | In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology
Evolution of a Transition State: Role of Lys100 in the Active Site of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase | ChemBiochem
Biodegradation in Waters from Hydraulic Fracturing: Chemistry, Microbiology, and Engineering | Journal of Environmental Engineering
Development and Characterization of a Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Cell Line | In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology
Three New Species of Musseromys (Muridae, Rodentia), the Endemic Philippine Tree Mouse from Luzon Island | American Museum Novitates
Global biogeography of Streptomyces antibiotic inhibition, resistance, and resource use | Fems Microbiology Ecology
Effects of Native Herbs and Light on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) Invasion | Invasive Plant Science and Management
Experimental Evolution of Multicellular Complexity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae | BioScience
Fate of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Class 1 Integrons in Soil Microcosms Following the Application of Treated Residual Municipal Wastewater Solids | Env. Sci. & Technology
Measurement and Modeling of Denitrification in Sand-Bed Streams under Various Land Uses | Journal of Environmental Quality
Homage to Hutchinson, and the role of ecology in lineage divergence and speciation | Journal of Biogeography
Inclusive fitness in agriculture | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
Circuit theory emphasizes the importance of edge-crossing decisions in dispersal-scale movements of a forest passerine | Landscape Ecology
APRIL 2014
Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands | Nature
Genomic Signature of Adaptation to Climate in Medicago truncatula | Genetics
Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation | Nature
A Distorted Circadian Clock Causes Early Flowering and Temperature-Dependent Variation in Spike Development in the Eps-3A(m) Mutant of Einkorn Wheat | Genetics
Implementing the optimal provision of ecosystem services | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Does relatedness matter? Phylogenetic density-dependent survival of seedlings in a tropical forest | Ecology
A Framework Phylogeny of the American Oak Clade Based on Sequenced RAD Data | PLoS ONE
Uptake and Transfer of a Bt Toxin by a Lepidoptera to Its Eggs and Effects on Its Offspring | PLoS ONE
Dispersal and recruitment of fish in an intermittent stream network | Austral Ecology
On the Coyne and Orr-igin of Species: Effects of intrinsic postzygotic isolation, ecological differentiation, X chromosome size, and sympatry on Drosophila speciation | Evolution
Ancient marine isoscapes and isotopic evidence of bulk-feeding by Oligocene cetaceans | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Multi-scale phylogenetic structure in coastal dune plant communities across the globe | Journal of Plant Ecology
Harvest-Created Canopy Gaps Increase Species and Functional Trait Diversity of the Forest Ground-Layer Communiiy | Forest Science
Testing the link between community structure and function for ectomycorrhizal fungi involved in a global tripartite symbiosis | New Phytologist
Community phylogenetic diversity and abiotic site characteristics influence abundance of the invasive plant Rhamnus cathartica L. | Journal of Plant Ecology
Defensive mutualisms: do microbial interactions within hosts drive the evolution of defensive traits? | Functional Ecology
Winter feeding, growth and condition of brown trout Salmo trutta in a groundwater-dominated stream | Journal of Freshwater Ecology
A preliminary molecular phylogenetic assessment of the lichen moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini) with comments on palatability and chemical sequestration | Systematic Entomology
Multitasking males and multiplicative females: dynamic signalling and receiver preferences in Cope's grey treefrog (vol 86, pg 231, 2013) | Animal Behavior
Spatial hearing in Cope's gray treefrog: I. Open and closed loop experiments on sound localization in the presence and absence of noise | J of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology
Spatial hearing in Cope's gray treefrog: II. Frequency-dependent directionality in the amplitude and phase of tympanum vibrations | J of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology
Legumes in prairie restoration: evidence for wide cross-nodulation and improved inoculant delivery | Plant and Soil
MARCH 2014
The early diversification history of didelphid marsupials: A window into South America's "Splendid Isolation" | Evolution
Epistasis and Allele Specificity in the Emergence of a Stable Polymorphism in Escherichia coli | Science
High-density genome-wide association mapping implicates an F-box encoding gene in Medicago truncatula resistance to Aphanomyces euteiches | New Phytologist
Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Common-garden studies on adaptive radiation of photosynthetic physiology among Hawaiian lobeliads | Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences
The Status of Louisiana's Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) Populations in the Wake of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Insights from Population Genetic and Contaminant Analyses | Journal of Herpetology
Risk-Based Management of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus in Minnesota | North American Journal of Fisheries Management
A role for host-bacteria interactions in shaping patterns of genetic variation across human populations | American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Vocal Behavior of the Elusive Purple Frog of India (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), a Fossorial Species Endemic to the Western Ghats (vol 9, e84809, 2014) | PLoS One
Within-group infanticide and infanticidal attempts by the alpha male chimpanzee at Gombe National Park, Tanzania | American Journal of Physical Anthropology
CO2 and CH4 emissions from streams in a lake-rich landscape: Patterns, controls, and regional significance | Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Diffuse symbioses: roles of plant-plant, plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions in structuring the soil microbiome | Molecular Ecology
Stable isotopic paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age sites on Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya | American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Non-random biodiversity loss underlies predictable increases in viral disease prevalence | Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Auditory brainstem responses in Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis): effects of frequency, level, sex and size | Journal of Comparative Physiology A - Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology
Advancing biodiversity-ecosystem functioning science using high-density tree-based experiments over functional diversity gradients | Oecologia
The world-wide 'fast-slow' plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto | Journal of Ecology
Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages | Journal of Ecology
FEBRUARY 2014
Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments | Nature
African origin of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax | Nature Communications
Production of Hybrids between Western Gray Wolves and Western Coyotes | PLoS One
Vocal Behavior of the Elusive Purple Frog of India (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), a Fossorial Species Endemic to the Western Ghats | PLoS One
Tropical freshwater ecosystems have lower bacterial growth efficiency than temperate ones | Frontiers in Microbiology
Some plants like it warmer: Increased growth of three selected invasive plant species in soils with a history of experimental warming | Pedobiologia
Ecological homogenization of urban USA | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Population genetics of Blanding's turtle (Emys blandingii) in the midwestern United States | Conservation Genetics
Quantitative PCR for measuring biomass of decomposer fungi in planta | Fungal Ecology
Neighborhoods have little effect on fungal attack or insect predation of developing seeds in a grassland biodiversity experiment | Oecologia
SIV-Induced Instability of the Chimpanzee Gut Microbiome | Cell Host & Microbe
Microscale measurements reveal contrasting effects of photosynthesis and epiphytes on frictional drag on the surfaces of filamentous algae | Freshwater Biology
Effects of bushfire on macroinvertebrate communities in south-east Australian streams affected by a megadrought | Marine and Freshwater Research
A comprehensive species-level molecular phylogeny of the New World blackbirds (Icteridae) | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Temperate tree expansion into adjacent boreal forest patches facilitated by warmer temperatures | Ecography
Sympatric inhibition and niche differentiation suggest alternative coevolutionary trajectories among Streptomycetes | ISME Journal
Multiple nutrients and herbivores interact to govern diversity, productivity, composition, and infection in a successional grassland | Oikos
JANUARY 2014
Why not lie? Costs enforce honesty in an experimental signalling game | Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences
Drought and Deforestation: Has Land Cover Change Influenced Recent Precipitation Extremes in the Amazon? | Journal of Climate
Model Systems, Taxonomic Bias, and Sexual Selection: Beyond Drosophila | Annual Review of Entomology
Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments | Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Fish growth and degree-days I: selecting a base temperature for a within-population study | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Life-history plasticity and sustainable exploitation: a theory of growth compensation applied to walleye management | Ecological Applications
Worldwide Populations of the Aphid Aphis craccivora Are Infected with Diverse Facultative Bacterial Symbionts | Microbial Ecology
An efficient assignment of drainage direction over flat surfaces in raster digital elevation models | Computers & Geosciences
Priority-flood: An optimal depression-filling and watershed-labeling algorithm for digital elevation models | Computers & Geosciences
Floral and mating system divergence in secondary sympatry: testing an alternative hypothesis to reinforcement in Clarkia | Annals of Botany
Physiological mediation of integrated phenotypes: From plasticity to evolution | Integrative and Comparative Biology
Ecological Diversification of Vibrio fischeri During the Planktonic Phase & Subsequent Consequences for Squid Host Colonization | Integrative and Comparative Biology
Testing the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis with 21st century genetic tools | Integrative and Comparative Biology
Hidden diversity in the Andes: Comparison of species delimitation methods in montane Marsupials | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Cryptic speciation reversal in the Etheostoma zonale (Teleostei: Percidae) species group, with an examination of the effect of recombination and introgression on species tree inference | Moleculary Phylogenetics and Evolution
A multilocus molecular phylogeny of combtooth blennies (Percomorpha: Blennioidei: Blenniidae): Multiple invasions of intertidal habitats | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Immune Mediated Shaping of Microflora Community Composition Depends on Barrier Site | PLoS One
Species Richness and the Temporal Stability of Biomass Production: A New Analysis of Recent Biodiversity Experiments | American Naturalist
Local adaptation and range boundary formation in response to complex environmental gradients across the geographical range of Clarkia xantiana ssp xantiana | Journal of Ecology
Quantitative genetic study of the adaptive process | Heredity
Indirect effects drive evolutionary responses to global change | New Phytologist
Presence and distribution of sensory structures on the mouthparts of self-medicating moths | Zoologischer Anzeiger
DECEMBER 2013
Parasites and altruism: converging roads | Biology Letters
Short Amplexus Duration in a Territorial Anuran: A Possible Adaptation in Response to Male-Male Competition | PLoS One
Explosive diversification following a benthic to pelagic shift in freshwater fishes | BMC Evolutionary Biology
Range dynamics, rather than convergent selection, explain the mosaic distribution of red-winged blackbird phenotypes | Ecology and Evolution
Estimating heritability using genomic data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Subinhibitory Antibiotic Concentrations Mediate Nutrient Use and Competition among Soil Streptomyces | PLoS One
Consequences of elevated temperatures on legume biomass and nitrogen cycling in a field warming and biodiversity experiment in a North American prairie | Functional Plant Biology
Spatial release from masking improves sound pattern discrimination along a biologically relevant pulse-rate continuum in gray treefrogs | Hearing Research
New cohort growth and survival in variable retention harvests of a pine ecosystem in Minnesota, USA | Forest Ecology and Management
Connecting the Green and Brown Worlds: Allometric and Stoichiometric Predictability of Above- and Below-Ground Networks | Ecological Networks in an Agricultural World
Estimating the critical N:C from litter decomposition data and its relation to soil organic matter stoichiometry | Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Description of a Riboflavin Biosynthetic Gene Variant Prevalent in the Phylum Proteobacteria | Journal of Bacteriology
Does delayed fertilization facilitate sperm competition in bats? | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
The establishment of the nuisance cyanobacteria Lyngbya wollei in Lake St. Clair and its potential to harbor fecal indicator bacteria | Journal of Great Lakes Research
Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? | Global Change Biology
Multilocus phylogeny of the avian family Alaudidae (larks) reveals complex morphological evolution, non-monophyletic genera and hidden species diversity | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
NOVEMBER 2013
Low host specificity in species-rich assemblages of xylem- and phloem-feeding herbivores (Auchenorrhyncha) in a New Guinea lowland rain forest | Journal of Tropical Ecology
Application of Illumina next-generation sequencing to characterize the bacterial community of the Upper Mississippi River | Journal of Applied Microbiology
Ecological stoichiometry: An elementary approach using basic principles | Limnology and Oceanography
Experimental evolution of an alternating uni- and multicellular life cycle in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | Nature Communications
Do vegetation boundaries display smooth or abrupt spatial transitions along environmental gradients? Evidence from the prairie-forest biome boundary of historic Minnesota, USA | Journal of Vegetation Science
Regarding the social-ecological dimensions of caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) in the Himalayas - Reply to Shrestha and Bawa | Biological Conservation
Resource Use of Soilborne Streptomyces Varies with Location, Phylogeny, and Nitrogen Amendment | Microbial Ecology
Liana Impacts on Carbon Cycling, Storage and Sequestration in Tropical Forests | Biotropica
Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions | Ecology
The case for fencing remains intact | Ecology Letters
The world within: Quantifying the determinants and outcomes of a host's microbiome | Basic and Applied Ecology
Soil carbon stocks in Sarawak, Malaysia | Science of the Total Environment
Effect of wheel traffic and green manure treatments on forage yield and crown rot in alfalfa (Medicago sativa) | Plant and Soil
Metabolomics Reveals the Origins of Antimicrobial Plant Resins Collected by Honey Bees | PLoS ONE
Evaluation of the repeatability and reproducibility of a suite of qPCR-based microbial source tracking methods | Water Research
Evaluation of molecular community analysis methods for discerning fecal sources and human waste | Water Research
Brood Ball-Mediated Transmission of Microbiome Members in the Dung Beetle, Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) | PLoS ONE
OCTOBER 2013
Anthropogenic environments exert variable selection on cranial capacity in mammals | Proceedings of the Royal Society: B Biological Sciences
Increasing global crop harvest frequency: recent trends and future directions | Environmental Research Letters
Human Influences on Nitrogen Removal in Lakes | Science
Pulse-number discrimination by Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis) in modulated and unmodulated noise | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Benefits, costs, and livelihood implications of a regional payment for ecosystem service program | PNAS
Bounded population sizes, fluctuating selection and the tempo and mode of coexistence | PNAS
Potential climate change impacts on temperate forest ecosystem processes | Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Multilocus test of the absence of mtDNA phylogeographic structure in a widespread wader, the Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) | Journal of Ornithology
Predicting overfishing and extinction threats in multispecies fisheries | PNAS
Release of genetically engineered insects: a framework to identify potential ecological effects | Ecology and Evolution
The role of integration and abstraction in complex systems thinking across multiple contexts | Earth and Mind II: A synthesis of research on thinking and learning in the geosciences
Plant monocultures produce more antagonistic soil Streptomyces communities than high-diversity plant communities | Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Is parasitoid acceptance of different host species dynamic? | Functional Ecology
Climate change during the Early Paleogene in the Bogota Basin (Colombia) inferred from paleosol carbon isotope stratigraphy, major oxides, and environmental magnetism | Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology and Palaeoecology
SEPTEMBER 2013
Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality | PNAS
Are monarch butterflies true navigators? The jury is still out | PNAS
Female preferences for acoustic and olfactory signals during courtship: male crickets send multiple messages | Behavioral Ecology
Genetic changes underlying simple multicellularity in experimentally-evolved Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Yeast
Resource reallocation does not influence estimates of pollen limitation or reproductive assurance in Clarkia xantiana subsp parviflora | American Journal of Botany
Local adaptation and genetic effects on fitness: Calculations for exponential family models with random effects | Annals of Applied Statistics
Characterization of a Self-sufficient Trans-Anethole Oxygenase from Pseudomonas putida JYR-1 | PLoS One
Giraffe mothers in East Africa linger for days near the remains of their dead calves | African Journal of Ecology
Complex Population Dynamics in Mussels Arising from Density-Linked Stochasticity | PLoS One
Using prairie restoration to curtail invasion of Canada thistle: the importance of limiting similarity and seed mix richness | Biological Invasions
Intestinal lamina propria dendritic cells maintain T cell homeostasis but do not affect commensalism | Journal of Experimental Medicine
AUGUST 2013
How to sell ecosystem services: a guide for designing new markets | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Multitasking males and multiplicative females: dynamic signalling and receiver preferences in Cope's grey treefrog | Animal Behaviour
Estimating and scaling stream ecosystem metabolism along channels with heterogeneous substrate | Ecohydrology
Disentangling Direct and Indirect Fitness Effects of Microbial Dormancy | American Naturalist
Environmental Consequences of Invasive Species: Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Insecticide Use and the Role of Biological Control in Reducing Emissions PLoS One
A trait-based ecosystem model suggests that long-term responsiveness to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration is greater in slow-growing than fast-growing plants | Functional Ecology
Epigenetic and Genetic Influences on DNA Methylation Variation in Maize Populations | Plant Cell
An empirical assessment of tree branching networks and implications for plant allometric scaling models | Ecology Letters
Global biogeography of autotroph chemistry: is insolation a driving force? | Oikos
Quasi-equilibrium reduction in a general class of stoichiometric producer-consumer models | Journal of Biological Dynamics
Biodiversity simultaneously enhances the production and stability of community biomass, but the effects are independent | Ecology
Comparative genomics of the core and accessory genomes of 48 Sinorhizobium strains comprising five genospecies | Genome Biology
Impacts of trait variation through observed trait-climate relationships on performance of an Earth system model: a conceptual analysis | Biogeosciences
Plasticity in Learning Causes Immediate and Trans-Generational Changes in Allocation of Resources | Integrative and Comparative Biology
Phenological cues drive an apparent trade-off between freezing tolerance and growth in the family Salicaceae | Ecology
Bitrophic toxicity of Cry1Ac to Cycloneda sanguinea, a predator in Brazilian cotton | Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
What controls the concentration of various aliphatic lipids in soil? | Soil Biology & Biochemistry
The impact of burning on lion Panthera leo habitat choice in an African savanna | Current Zoology
Mechanisms underlying global temperature-related patterns in leaf longevity | Global Ecology and Biogeography
JULY 2013
Great ape genetic diversity and population history | Nature
Nitrogen cycling, forest canopy reflectance, and emergent properties of ecosystems | PNAS
Ecology rather than psychology explains co-occurrence of predation and border patrols in male chimpanzees | Animal Behaviour
Variation in leaf and twig CO2 flux as a function of plant size: a comparison of seedlings, saplings and trees | Tree Physiology
The interactive effects of excess reactive nitrogen and climate change on aquatic ecosystems and water resources of the United States | Biogeochemistry
Phylogeography of the California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica) using multilocus DNA sequences and ecological niche modeling: Implications for conservation. | Auk
Evening methane emission pulses from a boreal wetland correspond to convective mixing in hollows | Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences
A Cell Line Resource Derived from Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Embryonic Tissues | PLoS One
Redefining agricultural yields: from tonnes to people nourished per hectare | Environmental Research Letters
Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia esula) Affects Vegetation More Than Seed Banks in Mixed-Grass Prairies of the Northern Great Plains | Invasive Plant Science and Management
The vocal repertoire of Pseudophilautus kani, a shrub frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats of India | Bioacoustics
Fifty-fourth supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds | Auk
Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
Rhizosphere bacterial communities associated with long-lived perennial prairie plants vary in diversity, composition, and structure | Canadian Journal of Microbiology
Selection, genome-wide fitness effects and evolutionary rates in the model legume Medicago truncatula | Molecular Ecology
Indirect effects and facilitation among native and non-native species promote invasion success along an environmental stress gradient | Journal of Ecology
Trade-offs between intra-group reproductive competition and inter-group territorial competition in male chimpanzees. | American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Age-related trauma incidence in the Gombe chimpanzees. | American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Understanding ecological variation across species: area-based vs mass-based expression of leaf traits | New Phytologist
JUNE 2013
Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality | PNAS
Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050 | PLoS One
Ectomycorrhizal community structure along a complex hydrologic gradient | Phytopathology
Effects of environment and host on endophyte communities of coastal dune grasses | Phytopathology
A culture-based and culture-free assessment of the geographic and temporal variation of boreal endophytic and endolichenic fungal communities | Phytopathology
Genomic comparison of closely related boreal endophytes | Phytopathology
Evaluating the Return in Ecosystem Services from Investment in Public Land Acquisitions | PLoS One
Improvements in crop water productivity increase water sustainability and food security-a global analysis | Environmental Research Letters
Estimating modern carbon burial rates in lakes using a single sediment sample | Limnology and Oceanography - Methods
Tempo and mode of ulticellular adaptation in experimentally evolved Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Evolution
Positive feedbacks between decomposition and soil nitrogen availability along fertility gradients | Plant and Soil
Diversity and niche evolution along aridity gradients in North American lizards (Phrynosomatidae) | Evolution
Getting the measure of ecosystem services: a social-ecological approach | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
A New Species of Marmosops (Marsupialia: Didelphidae) from the Pakaraima Highlands of Guyana, with Remarks on the Origin of the Endemic Pantepui Mammal Fauna | American Museum Novitates
Influence of Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Transcriptional Responses of Bradyrhizobium japonicum in the Soybean Rhizoplane | Microbes and Environments
Modeling of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a two-species feedback loop | Epidemics
Limits and phylogenetic relationships of East Asian fishes in the subfamily Oxygastrinae (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae | Zootaxa
Multiple Ceratocystis smalleyi Infections Associated with Reduced Stem Water Transport in Bitternut Hickory | Phytopathology
MAY 2013
An overview of the evolutionary causes and consequences of behavioural plasticity | Animal Behaviour
Signal Recognition by Green Treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) and Cope's Gray Treefrogs (Hyla chrysoscelis) in Naturally Fluctuating Noise | Journal of Comparative Psychology
Elevated CO2 influences microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling | BMC Microbiology
Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests: implications for biological monitoring | Insect Conservation and Diversity
Subjective costs drive overly patient foraging strategies in rats on an intertemporal foraging task | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
Candidate Genes and Genetic Architecture of Symbiotic and Agronomic Traits Revealed by Whole-Genome, Sequence-Based Association Genetics in Medicago truncatula | PLoS One
Asynchronous food-web pathways could buffer the response of Serengeti predators to El Nino Southern Oscillation | Ecology
Phylogenetic Signal Variation in the Genomes of Medicago (Fabaceae) | Systematic Biology
Late Neogene and Early Quaternary Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Conditions in Southwestern Europe: Isotopic Analyses on Mammalian Taxa | PLoS One
Relative importance of breakage and decay as processes depleting large wood from streams | Geomorphology
Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity | Ecology Letters
Changes in Bacterial Composition Following Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Severe Clostridium Difficie Infection | Gastroenterology
New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide | Australian Journal of Botany
Conserving large carnivores: dollars and fence | Ecology Letters
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
Global Leaf Trait Relationships: Mass, Area, and the Leaf Economics Spectrum | Science
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
Plant diversity effects on soil food webs are stronger than those of elevated CO2 and N deposition in a long-term grassland experiment | PNAS
Insights from population genetics for range limits of a widely distributed native plant | Am. J. of Botany
Energy Potential of Biomass from Conservation Grasslands in Minnesota, USA | PLoS One
Root depth distribution and the diversity-productivity relationship in a long-term grassland experiment | Ecology
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
FT flowering gene examination in Cannabis sativa | Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society
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
Sequence-based reconstruction of ancestral enzymes to find catalytically promiscuous enzymes | Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society
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
Vocal Behavior of the Ponmudi Bush Frog (Raorchestes graminirupes): Repertoire and individual variation | Herpetologica
Predator-Driven Nutrient Recycling in California Stream Ecosystems | PLoS One
Decade-long soil nitrogen constraint on the CO2 fertilization of plant biomass | Nature Climate Change
Microbes modeling ontogeny | Biology & Philosophy
Magnetococcus marinus gen. nov., sp nov., a marine, magnetotactic bacterium that represents a novel lineage (Magnetococcaceae fam. nov., Magnetococcales ord. nov.) at the base of the Alphaproteobacteria | Int. J. of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
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
Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling | Journal of 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
Photodegradation of methylmercury in stream ecosystems | Limnology and Oceanography
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
Rates and controls of nitrification in a large oligotrophic lake | Limnology and Oceanography
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
General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events | Sustainability
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 support 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 Management
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
Population Genomics of the Facultatively Mutualistic Bacteria Sinorhizobium meliloti and S. medicae | PLoS Genetics
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