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  • Biodiversity : illustrations of some concepts, causes, and consequences

    Creator:
    Russell, Roland B.
    Abstract:
    Careful analysis and thoughtful synthesis will be necessary for expanding the envelope of ecological understanding. This work is my attempt at communicating both of these, in relation to three questions about our understanding of the structure and dynamics of biological diversity. These questions focus on a) advancing our understanding of...
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    Lubchenco, Peter McEvoy, Bruce Menge, Phil Rossignol, and Dan Schafer; you make a pretty amazing team. Dave

  • Linking marine communities and ecosystems : invertebrates mediate nutrient availability in intertidal communities

    Creator:
    Bracken, Matthew E.
    Abstract:
    While community ecologists have traditionally focused on local-scale processes, it has become apparent that a broader perspective, which explores the community-level ramifications of material fluxes within and between ecosystems, is necessary to effectively evaluate bottom-up influences on community structure and dynamics. In this dissertation, I employed ecosystem principles to understand...
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    organic nitrogen, which is unusable by macroalgae, into ammonium, which algae readily assimilate. l