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Tropical rainforests: Carbon sink or carbon source?	Effects of sediment transport on the New Zealand mud snail in Boulder Creek, Colorado

Breeding ecology of birds in pinon-juniper woodlands and the influence of gas well compressor noise	Advancing air quality modeling through improved urban vegetation characterization and an enhanced understanding of biogenic sesquiterpene emissions

A genetic comparison of bog vs. forest populations of Metrosideros polymorpha (Myrtaceae) in Hawai'i	Light and planktonic nitrogen fixation in Colorado reservoirs

An examination of morphological and environmental variability among horned lizards (Phrynosoma) at broad and local scales	Habitat assessment of the invasive white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) and the native bluehead sucker (Catostomus discobolus) at multiple spatial scales

Invasive species in wilderness as a function of burn severity: A case study in Yosemite National Park, California	Weed management implementation in Colorado: Connecting theory and practice

Microbial functional and phylogenetic succession in temperate, recently de-glaciated, unvegetated soils	Fire history of ponderosa pine-dominated forests in the Colorado Front Range: Elevation, topography and land-use

Interspecies and temporal variation in bacterial leaf surface communities	Cold acclimation of photosynthesis in the context of phloem loading and possible anatomical constraints

Variation in herbivore resistance to parasitoids: The effect of development, diet and sequestration on parasitoids and encapsulation responses	The impacts of environmental and land-use variables on butterfly communities across a temperate landscape

Spatio-temporal patterns of mountain pine beetle activity in lodgepole and ponderosa pines of the southern Rocky Mountains	Landscape effects on disease and demography in the blacktailed prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus

Phenology and brown-headed cowbird parasitism	A shift in diatom composition due to increased weathering and nitrogen deposition

Meteorological controls on the seasonal exchange of water and carbon dioxide from high-elevation alpine tundra at Niwot Ridge, Colorado	Investigating the growth of Didymosphenia geminata and the impact on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in Boulder Creek, a regulated mountain stream, in the summer of 2008

Microbial succession within a pro-glacial zone: The Middle Fork Toklat Glacier, Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska, USA	Global environmental change factors and noxious weed management shape a novel grassland ecosystem on the Colorado Front Range

Trends in avian community structure across a gradient of native to invasive riparian vegetation in northwest New Mexico	The Effects of Logging, Fire and Blowdown on Colorado Subalpine Forest Soil

Teetering on the edge of suitable climate: Kit fox (Vulpes macrotis) range limit dynamics in east-central Utah and west-central Colorado, 1983 to 2009	The effects of a climate manipulation experiment on snow properties, snow surface energy balance, and soil temperature and moisture along an elevational gradient on Niwot Ridge, Colorado

Testing the effects of resource distribution on simultaneous predator and prey habitat selection using seven-spotted lady beetles (Coccinella septempunctata L., Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris), Hemiptera: Aphididae), and tic bean plants (Vicia faba L., Fabaceae)	Invasive crayfish in a desert spring system: Using landscape genetics to inform ecological restoration

Spatial and temporal patterns of dust emissions in semi-arid landscapes, southeastern Utah, USA 2008-2011	Prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) and vegetation dynamics in Boulder, Colorado: A retrospective analysis

Soil nutrients and biogeochemical cycling in the forest-alpine tundra ecotone	Global patterns of bacterial diversity

Molecular phylogenetic characterization of high altitude soil microbial communities and novel, uncultivated bacterial lineages	Relational complexity in natural science and the design of ecological informatics

The influence of turbulence, temperature, and nutrient concentration gradients on sediment-water exchanges of nitrogen and phosphorus in lakes	Hydroecological feedback processes governing self-organization of the Everglades ridge and slough landscape

Scaling from molecules to ecosystems: Controls over free-living nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems	Effects of alpine plant species on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics and neighboring plant growth

Mammal and flea occurrence in association with black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies: Implications for interspecific plague transmission	Pollinators in an urbanizing landscape: Effects of suburban sprawl on a grassland bee assemblage

Fire mitigation and exotic species invasions in the Front Range: Responses of soil and vegetation to woodchip amendments in thinned forest, across a gradient of experimentally-manipulated nutrient availability	Variation in the effects of ants on seed dispersal and ecosystem processes

In-vitro assessment of estrogenicity in wastewater treatment plant effluents using cultured liver and testis from fathead minnow	Topography, elemental ratios, and nutrient limitation in tropical montane ecosystems

The effects of anthropogenic disturbance on weedy characteristics of the common sunflower, Helianthus annuus	Ecology, phylogenetics, and ultrastructure of Archaea

Effects of vegetation-related soil heterogeneity on runoff, infiltration, and redistribution in semi-arid shrubland and grassland landscapes	Systematics, population structure and demography of the African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus spp.): A perspective from multiple scales

Mammalian faunal change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Piceance Creek Basin, western Colorado	Phylogenetic analysis of microbial communities

The parasite ecology and socioecology of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) and Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) inhabiting the Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve	Linking the carbon and water cycles in a subalpine forest

Aeolian deposition in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, USA: The biogeochemical role of dust in soil development and weathering	The assembly of a temperate coniferous forest ant community

Toward an understanding of microbial communities and biogeochemistry in high-elevation, unvegetated soils	Climatic and human influences on fire regimes and forest dynamics in temperate rainforests in southern Chile

Interactions among herbivory, soil resources, and plant competition govern the recruitment and dominance of spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe) in North America	Chemical ecology of an invasive plant, Dalmatian toadflax (Linaria dalmatica), and two specialist herbivores, Calophasia lunula and Mecinus janthinus

Landscape heterogeneity in the soil nitrogen cycle of an alpine-subalpine ecosystem	Niche separation between mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus) and clutter-foraging bats at Berenty Private Reserve, Madagascar

Causes and consequences of altered avian communities in response to anthropogenic noise	High and dry: Spaced out microbes in arid alpine environments

Interactions of climate, carbon, and nutrient cycling in wet tropical forest	Removal of benthic algae in swift-flowing streams: The significance of spatial and temporal variation in shear stress and bed disturbance

Ecological controls on stream diatom communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica	The spatiotemporal dynamics of microbes in the near-surface atmosphere

Climate-driven shifts in host-parasite interactions: Consequences for parasite transmission and host pathology	Ecology of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) at the Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, Madagascar: Implications for female dominance and the evolution of lemur traits

The effects of environmental heterogeneity at multiple scales on a community of five diurnal lemurs in Betampona Natural Reserve, Madagascar: A landscape ecology approach	Dissimilarity and Optimal Sampling in Urn Ensembles

The effects of increasing anthropogenic nitrogen on soil microbial communities and processes	An examination of background tree mortality and mountain pine beetle disturbance in subalpine forests of the Front Range of Colorado, USA

Biogeochemical couplings among earth's ecosystems: A focus on old-growth tropical rainforests	The effects of atmospheric composition, climate, and herbivory on plant secondary metabolism and volatile organic carbon emissions

Dispersal, diversity and divergence: Evolutionary processes in prairie dogs (Genus Cynomys)