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Testing the applicability of the Pfankuch Stability Index in characterizing the physical integrity of low-gradient alluvial streams in Minnesota, USA and exploring its utility for stressor identification of biological impairments	Estimating seed dispersal distances with incomplete genetic data: new methods, power analyses and a case study of the tropical tree Tabebuia rosea

Taxonomic resolution in ecology	Applying remote sensing and GIS for chimpanzee habitat change detection, behaviour and conservation

Landowner decision-making, land retirement, and wildlife conservation: The Conservation Reserve Program and the Reinvest in Minnesota Program in southeastern Minnesota	Comparative phylogeography of diverse Rocky Mountain fauna

Identifying the mechanisms that promote local plant species diversity in a tall grass prairie	Plant-microbe interactions in oak savanna: Controls on carbon and nitrogen cycling

Phenology and taxonomic composition of lotic Chironomidae (Diptera) communities in contrasting thermal regimes	Kairomone-induced colony formation in freshwater phytoplankton: Algal population dynamics and physiological cost of coloniality

Conserving biodiversity: Managing invasive species and exploitation of wildlife	The chemical ecology of the northern spruce engraver, Ips perturbatus (Eichhoff) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), and associated insects in spruce forests of Alaska

Group territoriality of the African lion: Behavioral adaptation in a heterogeneous landscape	Effectiveness of riparian forestry best management practices to protect stream habitat and biota: Lessons from temperate and tropical systems

Interactions between moose and their primary forage at Isle Royale National Park, Lake Superior	The migratory behavior of adult sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) in response to olfactory and temperature cues

Predicting coaster brook trout distribution based on landscapes, habitats, fish communities, and life history traits	Stress, evolution, and sociality in wild female baboons

Ecohydrology of unit river ecosystems: Scaling and critical responses of stream health indicators to the environmental drivers	Origins and diversification of New World geckos

Impact of large-scale irrigation on a closed basin wetland: Water flow alterations and participatory irrigation management effects on the Sultan Marshes ecosystem in Turkey	Ecological and sociological aspects of human-tiger conflicts in Chitwan National Park, Nepal

The adaptive value and genetic basis of maternal effects in competitive environments	Multiple scale spatial dynamics of the moose-forest-soil ecosystem of Isle Royale National Park, MI, USA

Predicting disease dynamics in African lion populations	Riparian bird communities along an urban gradient: Effects of local vegetation, landscape biophysical heterogeneity, and spatial scale

Wildlife conservation in social, economic, and ecological contexts: Multiple stakeholders and extraordinary resource value in a Congolese national park	The Sundarbans tiger: Adaptation, population status and conflict management

Habitat selection and ecological stoichiometry: The role of seston C:P in Daphnia daytime spatial location	Spatial vegetation-environment relationships and distributional changes in the presettlement Minnesota prairie-forest boundary

The ones that got away: Resource overlap and competition between a non-native fish Oreochromis niloticus and Thai native species, and implications for ecological risk assessment	Change and reliability in the evolution of learning and memory

Instream wood transport, and effects of forest harvest on geomorphology and fish, in northern Minnesota streams	Ecological overlap of sympatric sun bears and Asiatic black bears in tropical forest, Thailand

Potential host use by the Mediterranean pine engraver on novel tree species	Sympatric nesting Eastern Prairie Population Canada geese and lesser snow geese on the Hudson Bay lowlands: Nest survival and spatial distribution

The role of photodegradation in plant litter decomposition in grassland ecosystems	Dynamics of old-growth forests of Minnesota

A natural laboratory, a national monument: Carving out a place for science in Glacier Bay, Alaska, 1879--1959	Carbon dioxide sequestration and heterotrophy in shallow lakes

Temporal changes in spatial patterns of moose browse, causes and consequences	Paternity and father-offspring relationships in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii

Examining genetic diversity, outbreeding depression, and local adaptation in a native fish reintroduction program	An ecological and evolutionary perspective on functional diversity in the genus Salix

Resource hoarding facilitates cheating in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis and bet-hedging in the soil	Fungi in Antarctica: A circumpolar study of biodiversity in soils and historic structures

Effects of vertebrates, insects, and pathogens on patterns of early plant recruitment in tropical forests	The impact of trees on temporal variability in urban carbon and water budgets

Population genetic structure, pollen dispersal, and local adaptation in Quercus oleoides forests of Costa Rica	Intraguild predator interference of a classical biological control agent of the soybean aphid

Consumer nutrient stoichiometry: patterns, homeostasis, and links with fitness	Interactions between plants and antagonistic streptomycetes

Spatial and Temporal Variability in Zooplankton-Fish Interactions in Freshwater Communities	Landscape Ecology and Population Genetics of Minnesota's Bats

Relations among Invasions of Non-native Earthworms, Forest Floor Habitat, and Populations of Ground-nesting Songbirds in North Temperate Hardwood Forests	The Role of Harvest Gaps in the Plant Diversity of a Northern Hardwood Forest of Northern Wisconsin, USA

Limits to range expansion in the native annual legume Chamaecrista fasciculata	From pattern to process: Ecology and evolution of host specificity in the fig-pollinator mutualism

Phylogenetic diversity, functional traits, and tropical forest succession	Deterministic and stochastic forces in community ecology: Integrating competing paradigms in theory and observation

Tree regeneration dynamics and drivers across the temperate-boreal transition zone	Consequences of elevated temperature on prairie plants: legumes, nitrogen, and phenology

Carbon cycling in secondary tropical dry forest from species to global scales	Biological and Photochemical Degradation of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Peatland Ecosystems

Defining Stream Integrity Using Biological Indicators	Size-related variation in physiology, carbon gain, and growth of trees in deciduous and evergreen forests

Molecular phylogenetics of the New World blackbirds (Icteridae)	Seedling Recruitment in Fragmented Populations of Echinacea angustifolia