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The Effect of Competition Among Resources on Phenotypic Evolution of Consumers	Functional Traits Exert More Control on Root Carbon Exudation than Do Short-Term Light and Nitrogen Availability in Four Herbaceous Plant Species

Vegetation community change over decadal and century scales in the North Carolina Piedmont	Establishment and growth of a sea turtle rookery: The population biology of the leatherback in Florida

Avian distribution patterns and conservation in Amazonia	Song evolution in white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys): Patterns and mechanisms

Larval release rhythms and larval behavior of palinurid lobsters: A comparative study	Top predator distribution and foraging ecology in Florida Bay, Florida

A multiscale investigation of snake habitat relationships and snake conservation in Illinois	The role of plant functional diversity and soil amendments in regulating plant biomass and soil biogeochemistry in restored wetland ecosystems in the North Carolina piedmont

Estuarine ingress of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus	Barnacle cement: A polymerization model based on evolutionary concepts

Spatial ecology of the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)	Environmental impacts on the population dynamics of a tropical seabird in the context of climate change: Improving inference through hierarchical modeling

Road impact on deforestation and jaguar habitat loss in the Mayan Forest	Influence of substrate on coral reef fish communities

Fruit to sapling: An ontogenetically integrated study of tree recruitment in an Amazonian rainforest	Marsh ecomorphodynamics

Carbon and water relations in Pinus taeda: Bridging the gap across plant physiology, genomics, and global climate change	The effects of dispersal on macroecological patterns

The utility of digital aerial surveys in censusing Dipteryx panamensis, the key food and nesting tree of the endangered great green macaw (Ara ambigua) in Costa Rica	Linking prey to predator: Scale dependence and oceanographic influence in marine food webs

Mammal diversity, persistence, and conservation in India	Animal movement in pelagic ecosystems: From communities to individuals

Behavior, ecology, and conservation of sea turtles in the North Atlantic Ocean	Remote sensing of fire, flooding, and white sand ecosystems in the Amazon

Managing invasive plants during wetland restoration: The role of disturbance, plant strategies, and environmental filters	Costs and benefits of intrasexual aggression in females: An experimental approach

Vertical structure, horizontal cover, and temporal change of the North Carolina Piedmont (1985--2005)	Feedbacks of nitrogen cycling and invasion with the non-native plant, Microstegium vimineum, in riparian wetlands

The effects of urbanization on reptiles and amphibians in the sandhills region of North Carolina	The role of seedling pathogens in temperate forest dynamics

Broad scale conservation: Protected areas and species interactions	Hydrologic controls on vegetation: From leaf to landscape

Large tree crowns in closed forest canopies: Measuring structure and estimating light	The effect of afforestation on soil microbes and biogeochemistry across multiple scales

Measurement and modeling of radiation and water fluxes in plantation forests	Spawning biology of female blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus

Systematics and ecology of truffles (Tuber)	Host constraints on the post-glacial migration history of the parasitic plant, Epifagus virginiana

Integrating genetics, geography, and local adaptation to understand ecotype formation in the yellow monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus	Spatial patterns in dryland vegetation and the significance of dispersal, infiltration and complex topography

Seed dispersal, gene flow, and hybridization in red oak	Farm fields to wetlands: Biogeochemical consequences of re-flooding in coastal plain agricultural lands

Geological control of floristic composition in Amazonian forests	Molecular approaches to estimating soil fungal diversity and community shifts in response to land-use change

Coevolution of the Ipomoea-Coleosporium natural plant-fungus pathosystem	The Evolution and Genetics of Reinforcement in Phlox Drummondii

Coastal Plain Pond Vegetation Patterns: Tracking Changes across Space and Time	The Ecology of Sharing Mutualists: Consequences for Plant Performance and Population Dynamics

The Cost of Locomotion in North Atlantic Right Whales Eubalaena glacialis	Seabird foraging in dynamic oceanographic features

Evolution of Edaphic Ecology in Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae)	Microbial Phosphorus Cycling and Community Assembly in Wetland Soils and Beyond

A Phylogenetic, Ecological, and Functional Characterization of Non-Photoautotrophic Bacteria in the Lichen Microbiome	Phenotypic and Genetic Diversity in the Sea Urchin Lytechinus Variegatus

Causes and functional consequences of denitrifying bacteria community structure in streams affected to varying degrees by watershed urbanization	Monitoring Marine Mammals in Onslow Bay, North Carolina, Using Passive Acoustics

An Ecosystem Approach to Dead Plant Carbon over 50 years of Old-Field Forest Development	Connectivity Drives Function: Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in a Floodplain-Aquifer Ecosystem

Improving Models of Forest Carbon and Water Cycling: Revisiting Assumptions and Incorporating Variability	Controls on Carbon Uptake and Storage in Southeastern Forests

The Effects of Habitat Parameters on the Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation of the Udzungwa Red Colobus Monkey (Procolobus gordonorum)	Aspects of the Feeding Ecology of the Antillean Manatee ( Trichechus manatus manatus) in the Wetlands of Tabasco, Mexico