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A class of spatial models with applications to abundance prediction	A community genomics investigation of microorganisms involved in acid mine generation

Adaptive advantages of cooperative courtship in the Lance-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceolata)	Benthic macroinvertebrates and ecological assessments: Examining the biological potential of urban stream restoration in the San Francisco Bay area

Biogeochemical cycling in an annual grassland matrix: Responses and feedbacks to climate change	Characterization of dispersal within the California Current by indigenous Hemigrapsus oregonensis and recently introduced Rhithropanopeus harrisii estuarine crabs

Consequences of sudden oak death: Overstory and understory dynamics across a gradient of Phytophthora ramorum-infected coast live oak/bay laurel forests	Controls on above and belowground carbon storage during tropical reforestation

Detection and mapping invasive species yellow starthistle along Bear Creek in California through CASI hyperspectral imagery	Development and tests of two null theories of ecological communities: A fractal theory and a dispersal-assembly theory

Development of geospatial techniques for ecological analysis: A case study of sudden oak death in California	Disease invasion and control in structured populations: Bovine tuberculosis in the buffalo population of the Kruger National Park

Disease transmission in heterogeneous populations	Dispersal and inheritance in the dusky-footed woodrat, Neotoma fuscipes

Ecological analysis of population density and animal location time series data	Ecological factors affecting forest encroachment into coastal California grasslands

Ecological resistance, propagule supply and the invasion of California coastal prairie by the European grass Holcus lanatus L.	Ecology of red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in the Lassen Peak region of California, United States of America

Ecology of the San Gabriel River catchment: Anthropogenic influences on black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) and other benthic macroinvertebrates	Ecosystem responses to warming-induced plant species loss and increased nitrogen availability in a Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow

Ecosystem-level effects of tree species diversity in urban forests and riparian zones	Environmental determinants of plant community composition and songbird abundance in a California Coast Range grassland

Environmental influences on schistosomiasis transmission in Sichuan, China: Theoretical and field findings and their implications	Estimation of forest structure parameters in tropical dry forest ecosystems integrating MISR and MODIS image

Evaluation of biomonitoring techniques using benthic macroinvertebrates and periphyton in aquatic ecosystems: Detecting impairment of population and community structure	Fisher ecology in the Sierra National Forest, California

Floodplain connectivity and river corridor complexity: Implications for river restoration and planning for floodplain management	Forest disturbance effects on insect and bird communities: Insectivorous birds in coast live oak woodlands and leaf litter arthropods in the Sierra Nevada

Functional trait and phylogenetic-based tests of community assembly in a Neotropical forest	Identifying ecological patterns and processes in montane meadows of the Sierra Nevada Range

Impacts and success of the invasive spider Cheiracanthium mildei (Miturgidae) in vineyards and surrounding natural ecosystems	Landscape scale patterns in disease ecology: Assessing risk of exposure to Lyme borreliosis spirochetes in a highly endemic region of northern California

Long-term variability, disturbance, and biological traits of aquatic invertebrates in Mediterranean-climate streams	Metapopulation modeling and optimal habitat reconstruction for birds in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia

Microevolutionary responses of the house sparrow to changing environments	Monitoring behavior, ecology, and demographic patterns of free ranging giant pandas in the Wolong Nature Reserve (China)

Natural and human disturbance factors influencing carnivore distributions and implications for conservation	Natural wildfires in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas

On the assembly of species diversity in space and time	Plant productivity, consumer feeding preferences, and biological control in a terrestrial arthropod food web

Population genetic and ecological approaches for improving biological control of mealy plum aphid, Hyalopterus pruni, in California	Quantifying the role of interacting forest disturbances: The compounded effects of an exotic insect pest and deer herbivory on forest regeneration and exotic plant invasion (Pennsylvania, New Jersey)

Quantifying tree mortality risk and spatial pattern in a temperate conifer forest	Rapidly fluctuating redox regimes frame the ecology of microbial communities and their biogeochemical function in a humid tropical soil

Role of habitat size, isolation and environment in assemblage dynamics and host relations of ectomycorrhizal fungi	Spatial considerations in host-parasitoid interactions and effects on biological control

Spatial foraging patterns and ranging behavior of mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata), Barro Colorado Island, Panama	Spider interactions with arthropod prey and their consequences in temperate and tropical communities

Stand development and tree response in mixed-species forest ecosystems affected by introduced pathogens	Temporal and spatial linkages between watershed land use and wetland vegetation response in the Elkhorn Slough watershed, Monterey County, California

The behavioral ecology and locomotion of Abdopus aculeatus (d'Orbigny, 1834)	The effects of fire and fuels reduction treatments on fire hazard and soil carbon respiration in a Sierra Nevada pine plantation

The effects of fire and mechanical fuel treatments on wildlife in the mixed-conifer forest of the Sierra Nevada	The effects of invasive ants on arthropod species and communities in the Hawaiian Islands

The evolution of flightlessness in Hawaiian moths	The origin and maintenance of a migratory divide in the Swainson's thrush (Catharus ustulatus) and its implications for speciation

The relationship between physical habitat and biology in freshwater ecosystems	The socio-ecology of the African elephant (Loxodonta africana)

Transmission and effects of an emerging fungal pathogen (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in a declining amphibian (Rana muscosa)	Variation in foliar structure and function within the crowns of conifers growing in the central Sierra Nevada, CA

Wildfire models: Firebrands and contiguous spread	Wildlife on an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary golf course: A case study in the Sacramento Valley of California