Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "ecology"
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Spatial Pattern Enhances Ecosystem Functioning in an African Savanna
(Public Library of Science, 2010)The finding that regular spatial patterns can emerge in nature from local interactions between organisms has prompted a search for the ecological importance of these patterns. Theoretical models have predicted that ... -
Species Richness and Trophic Diversity Increase Decomposition in a Co-Evolved Food Web
(Public Library of Science, 2011)Ecological communities show great variation in species richness, composition and food web structure across similar and diverse ecosystems. Knowledge of how this biodiversity relates to ecosystem functioning is important ... -
The Suffocating Embrace of Landscape and the Picturesque Conditioning of Ecology
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)What are natural landscapes? Are they “out there,” separate from people, or are they creations of our own perception? An exploration of artistic visions of landscape on the one hand and the development of ecology as a ... -
Terrestrialization, Miniaturization and Rates of Diversification in African Puddle Frogs (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae)
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Terrestrialization, the evolution of non-aquatic oviposition, and miniaturization, the evolution of tiny adult body size, are recurring trends in amphibian evolution, but the relationships among the traits that characterize ... -
What is Geobiology?
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Within and between Whorls: Comparative Transcriptional Profiling of Aquilegia and Arabidopsis
(Public Library of Science, 2010)Background: The genus Aquilegia is an emerging model system in plant evolutionary biology predominantly because of its wide variation in floral traits and associated floral ecology. The anatomy of the Aquilegia flower is ...