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• Reducing uncertainty with iterative model updating parses effects of competition and environment on salamander occupancy, 2024, Oecologia
• The chytrid insurance hypothesis: Integrating parasitic chytrids into a biodiversity–ecosystem functioning framework for phytoplankton–zooplankton population dynamics, 2024, Oecologia (204) -
• Parasites alter food-web topology of a subarctic lake food web and its pelagic and benthic compartments, 2024, Oecologia (204) -
• Spatiotemporal segregation by migratory phenotype indicates potential for assortative mating in lake sturgeon, 2023, Oecologia (201) -
• Investing in a nest egg: Intraspecific variation in the timing of egg laying across a latitudinal gradient, 2023, Oecologia (202) -
• Symbiotic nitrogen fixation does not stimulate soil phosphatase activity under temperate and tropical trees, 2023, Oecologia (201) -
• Anthropogenic subsidies influence resource use during a mange epizootic in a desert coyote population, 2023, Oecologia (201) -
• Summer/fall diet and macronutrient assimilation in an Arctic predator, 2022, Oecologia (198) -
• Modeling effects of disturbance across life history strategies of stream fishes, 2021, Oecologia (196) -
• Locally abundant, endangered Mariana swiftlets impact the abundance, behavior, and body condition of an invasive predator, 2021, Oecologia (195) -
• Urbanization’s influence on the distribution of mange in a carnivore revealed with multistate occupancy models, 2021, Oecologia (195) -
• Muted responses to chronic experimental nitrogen deposition on the Colorado Plateau, 2021, Oecologia (195) -
• Behaviorally-mediated trophic cascade attenuated by prey use of risky places at safe times, 2021, Oecologia (195) -
• Trophic structure of apex fish communities in closed versus leaky lakes of arctic Alaska, 2020, Oecologia (194) -
• Drivers and consequences of apex predator diet composition in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, 2020, Oecologia (194) -
• Associational effects of plant ontogeny on damage by a specialist insect herbivore, 2020, Oecologia (193) -
• Seasonal and individual event-responsiveness are key determinants of carbon exchange across plant functional types, 2020, Oecologia (193) -
• Possible control of acute outbreaks of a marine fungal pathogen by nominally herbivorous tropical reef fish, 2020, Oecologia (193) -
• Reverberating effects of resource exchanges in stream–riparian food webs, 2020, Oecologia (192) -
• Environmental gradients influence differences in leaf functional traits between native and non-native plants, 2019, Oecologia (191) - 2
• Spatial capture-recapture reveals age- and sex-specific survival and movement in stream amphibians, 2019, Oecologia (190) - 4
• Phenotypic plasticity and climate change: Can polar bears respond to longer Arctic summers with an adaptive fast?, 2019, Oecologia (186) - 2
• Increasing temperature seasonality may overwhelm shifts in soil moisture to favor shrub grass dominance in Colorado Plateau drylands, 2018, Oecologia (188) -
• Temporal records of diet diversity dynamics in individual adult female Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) vibrissae, 2018, Oecologia (188) - 1
• Microspatial ecotone dynamics at a shifting range limit: plant–soil variation across salt marsh–mangrove interfaces, 2018, Oecologia (187) - 1
• Shifting stream planform state decreases stream productivity yet increases riparian animal production, 2018, Oecologia (187) - 1
• What to eat in a warming world: do increased temperatures necessitate hazardous duty pay?, 2018, Oecologia (186) - 1
• Examining spatial patterns of selection and use for an altered predator guild, 2017, Oecologia (185) - 4
• Habitat degradation affects the summer activity of polar bears, 2017, Oecologia (184) - 1
• Response of aboveground carbon balance to long-term, experimental enhancements in precipitation seasonality is contingent on plant community type in cold-desert rangelands, 2017, Oecologia (183) - 3
• Life history plasticity does not confer resilience to environmental change in the mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum), 2017, Oecologia (183) -
• Trophic dynamics of shrinking Subarctic lakes: naturally eutrophic waters impart resilience to rising nutrient and major ion concentrations, 2016, Oecologia (181) - 2
• Detecting grizzly bear use of ungulate carcasses using global positioning system telemetry and activity data, 2016, Oecologia (181) - 3
• Annual grass invasion in sagebrush-steppe: The relative importance of climate, soil properties and biotic interactions, 2016, Oecologia (181) - 2
• Effects of climate and plant phenology on recruitment of moose at the southern extent of their range, 2015, Oecologia (178) - 4
• Variable nutrient stoichiometry (carbon:nitrogen:phosphorus) across trophic levels determines community and ecosystem properties in an oligotrophic mangrove system, 2015, Oecologia (179) - 3
• Detecting mismatches of bird migration stopover and tree phenology in response to changing climate, 2015, Oecologia (178) - 4
• Pulse-drought atop press-drought: unexpected plant responses and implications for dryland ecosystems, 2015, Oecologia (179) - 4
• Factors affecting individual foraging specialization and temporal diet stability across the range of a large “generalist” apex predator, 2015, Oecologia (178) - 1
• Linking degradation status with ecosystem vulnerability to environmental change, 2015, Oecologia (178) - 3
• Individual specialization in the foraging habits of female bottlenose dolphins living in a trophically diverse and habitat rich estuary, 2015, Oecologia (178) - 2
• The interaction of intraspecific competition and habitat on individual diet specialization: a near range-wide examination of sea otters, 2015, Oecologia (178) - 1
• C₃ and C₄ plant responses to increased temperatures and altered monsoonal precipitation in a cool desert on the Colorado Plateau, USA, 2015, Oecologia (177) - 4
• Timescales alter the inferred strength and temporal consistency of intraspecific diet specialization, 2015, Oecologia (178) - 1
• The cost of reproduction: differential resource specialization in female and male California sea otters, 2015, Oecologia (178) - 1
• Climatic controls of aboveground net primary production in semi-arid grasslands along a latitudinal gradient portend low sensitivity to warming, 2015, Oecologia (177) - 4
• Testing the nutritional-limitation, predator-avoidance, and storm-avoidance hypotheses for restricted sea otter habitat use in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 2015, Oecologia (177) - 3
• Understanding how lake populations of arctic char are structured and function with special consideration of the potential effects of climate change: A multi-faceted approach., 2014, Oecologia (176) - 1
• Partitioning the non‑consumptive effects of predators on preywith complex life histories, 2014, Oecologia (176) - 1
• Relaxed selection causes microevolution of seawater osmoregulation and gene expression in landlocked Alewives, 2014, Oecologia (175) - 4
• Unexpected hydrogen isotope variation in oceanic pelagic seabirds, 2014, Oecologia (175) - 4
• Ecological consequences of the expansion of N₂-fixing plants in cold biomes, 2014, Oecologia (176) - 1
• Looking for age-related growth decline in natural forests: unexpected biomass patterns from tree rings and simulated mortality, 2014, Oecologia (175) - 1
• Diffuse migratory connectivity in two species of shrubland birds: evidence from stable isotopes, 2014, Oecologia (174) - 2
• Litter quality versus soil microbial community controls over decomposition: a quantitative analysis, 2014, Oecologia (174) - 1
• Learning rate and temperament in a high predation risk environment, 2014, Oecologia (176) - 3
• Decomposition and nitrogen dynamics of ¹⁵N-labeled leaf, root, and twig litter in temperate coniferous forests, 2013, Oecologia (173) - 4
• Warming and the dependence of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) establishment on summer soil moisture within and above its current elevation range, 2013, Oecologia (171) - 1
• Density-dependent nest predation in waterfowl: the relative importance of nest density versus nest dispersion, 2012, Oecologia (169) - 3
• Nitrogen limitation, ¹⁵N tracer retention, and growth response in intact and Bromus tectorum-invaded Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis communities, 2012, Oecologia (171) - 4
• New parasites and predators follow the introduction of two fish species to a subarctic lake: implications for food-web structure and functioning, 2012, Oecologia (171) - 4
• Nest survival of piping plovers at a dynamic reservoir indicates an ecological trap for a threatened population, 2012, Oecologia (170) - 4
• Fire-driven alien invasion in a fire-adapted ecosystem, 2012, Oecologia (169) - 4
• Species traits and environmental conditions govern the relationship between biodiversity effects across trophic levels, 2012, Oecologia (168) - 2
• Foraging segregation and genetic divergence between geographically proximate colonies of a highly mobile seabird, 2012, Oecologia (168) - 1
• Genetic diversity and species diversity of stream fishes covary across a land-use gradient, 2012, Oecologia (168) - 1
• Population cycles are highly correlated over long time series and large spatial scales in two unrelated species: Greater sage-grouse and cottontail rabbits, 2011, Oecologia (165) - 4
• Adverse foraging conditions may impact body mass and survival of a high Arctic seabird, 2011, Oecologia (167) - 1
• Species replacement by a nonnative salmonid alters ecosystem function by reducing prey subsidies that support riparian spiders, 2011, Oecologia (167) - 2
• δ¹⁵N constraints on long-term nitrogen balances in temperate forests, 2011, Oecologia (167) - 3
• Coexistence in streams: Do source-sink dynamics allow salamanders to persist with fish predators?, 2011, Oecologia (166) - 4
• Early impacts of biological control on canopy cover and water use of the invasive saltcedar tree (Tamarix spp.) in western Nevada, USA, 2011, Oecologia (165) - 3
• High mangrove density enhances surface accretion, surface elevation change, and tree survival in coastal areas susceptible to sea-level rise, 2010, Oecologia (164) - 2
• Distribution patterns of wintering sea ducks in relation to the North Atlantic Oscillation and local environmental characteristics, 2010, Oecologia (163) - 4
• Microbial community shifts influence patterns in tropical forest nitrogen fixation, 2010, Oecologia (164) - 2
• King eider use an income strategy for egg production: a case study for incorporating individual dietary variation into nutrient allocation research, 2010, Oecologia (164) - 1
• Prey-mediated avoidance of an intraguild predator by its intraguild prey, 2010, Oecologia (164) - 4
• A strong conditional mutualism limits and enhances seed dispersal and germination of a tropical palm, 2010, Oecologia (162) - 4
• Patterns of Tamarix water use during a record drought, 2010, Oecologia (162) - 2
• Population synchrony of a native fish across three Laurentian Great Lakes: Evaluating the effects of dispersal and climate, 2010, Oecologia (162) - 3
• Migratory decisions in birds: Extent of genetic versus environmental control, 2009, Oecologia (161) - 1
• Disentangling effects of growth and nutritional status on seabird stable isotope ratios, 2009, Oecologia (159) - 1
• Fundamental limits to the accuracy of deuterium isotopes for identifying the spatial origin of migratory animals, 2008, Oecologia (158) - 2
• Movements of wintering surf scoters: Predator responses to different prey landscapes, 2008, Oecologia (155) - 4
• Natal location influences movement and survival of a spatially structured population of snail kites, 2007, Oecologia (153) - 2
• Can parasites be indicators of free-living diversity? Relationships between species richness and the abundance of larval trematodes and of local benthos and fishes, 2007, Oecologia (151) - 1
• Food web structure in exotic and native mangroves: A Hawaii-Puerto Rico comparison, 2007, Oecologia (153) - 3
• Nutrients stimulate leaf breakdown rates and detritivore biomass: Bottom-up effects via heterotrophic pathways, 2007, Oecologia (151) - 4
• Spatiotemporal variability of stream habitat and movement of three species of fish, 2007, Oecologia (151) - 3
• Temporal and spatial variability in stable isotope compositions of a freshwater mussel: Implications for biomonitoring and ecological studies, 2007, Oecologia (152) - 1
• Comparative performance of invasive and native Celastrus species across environmental gradients, 2007, Oecologia (154) - 2
• Indirect food web interactions: Sea otters and kelp forest fishes in the Aleutian archipelago, 2006, Oecologia (146) - 4
• Incubation period and immune function: A comparative field study among coexisting birds, 2006, Oecologia (146) - 4
• Variation in predation pressure as a mechanism underlying differences in numerical abundance between populations of the poeciliid fish Heterandria formosa, 2006, Oecologia (147) - 4
• Keystone predators (eastern newts, Notophthalmus viridescens) reduce the impacts of an aquatic invasive species, 2006, Oecologia (148) - 2
• Individual quality, survival variation and patterns of phenotypic selection on body condition and timing of nesting in birds, 2005, Oecologia (143) - 3
• Controlling for anthropogenically induced atmospheric variation in stable carbon isotope studies, 2005, Oecologia (146) - 1
• Disturbance frequency and community structure in a twenty-five year intervention study, 2005, Oecologia (145) - 1
• Density-dependent habitat selection by brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) in tallgrass prairie, 2005, Oecologia (142) - 1
• A test of geographic assignment using isotope tracers in feathers of known origin, 2005, Oecologia (144) - 4
• What limits the Serengeti zebra population?, 2004, Oecologia (140) - 3
• The relationship between species detection probability and local extinction probability, 2004, Oecologia (141) - 4
• Phenotypic variation and vulnerability to predation in juvenile bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus), 2004, Oecologia (138) - 1
• Response of desert biological soil crusts to alterations in precipitation frequency, 2004, Oecologia (141) - 2
• Geographic variation in patterns of nestedness among local stream fish assemblages in Virginia, 2004, Oecologia (140) - 4
• How do frugivores track resources? Insights from spatial analyses of bird foraging in a tropical forest, 2004, Oecologia (139) - 2
• Effects of behavioral and morphological plasticity on risk of predation in a Neotropical tadpole, 2004, Oecologia (141) - 1
• Patterns of nitrogen accumulation and cycling in riparian floodplain ecosystems along the Green and Yampa rivers, 2004, Oecologia (139) - 1
• Temporal variability of local abundance, sex ratio and activity in the Sardinian chalk hill blue butterfly, 2003, Oecologia (136) - 3
• Avian fruit preferences across a Puerto Rican forested landscape: Pattern consistency and implications for seed removal, 2003, Oecologia (134) - 1
• Feedback dynamics of grazing lawns: Coupling vegetation change with animal growth, 2003, Oecologia (135) - 4
• Life history dependent morphometric variation in stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon, 2003, Oecologia (137) - 4
• Interactions of bullfrog tadpole predators and an insecticide: Predation release and facilitation, 2003, Oecologia (137) - 4
• Factors limiting the intertidal distribution of the mangrove species Xylocarpus granatum, 2003, Oecologia (135) - 1
• Nitrogen limitation of growth and nutrient dynamics in a disturbed mangrove forest, Indian River Lagoon, Florida, 2003, Oecologia (134) - 3
• Leaf δ¹³C variability with elevation, slope aspect, and precipitation in the southwest United States, 2002, Oecologia (132) - 3
• Nitrogen dynamics in an Alaskan salt marsh following spring use by geese, 2002, Oecologia (130) - 4
• The influence of climatic variability on local population dynamics of Cercidium microphyllum (foothill paloverde), 2002, Oecologia (130) - 1
• Response of pigeon guillemots to variable abundance of high-lipid and low-lipid prey, 2002, Oecologia (132) - 2
• Population dynamics and the ecological stability of obligate pollination mutualisms, 2001, Oecologia (126) -
• The effect of community composition on persistence of prey with their predators in an assemblage of pond-breeding amphibians, 2001, Oecologia (128) - 1
• Association of amphibians with attenuation of ultraviolet-b radiation in montane ponds, 2001, Oecologia (128) - 4
• Pollen-limited reproduction in blue oak: Implications for wind pollination in fragmented populations, 2001, Oecologia (128) - 1
• Growth and development of larval green frogs (Rana clamitans) exposed to multiple doses of an insecticide, 2001, Oecologia (129) - 4
• Foraging time and dietary intake by breeding ross's and lesser snow geese, 2001, Oecologia (127) - 1
• Separating the effects of intra- and interspecific age-structured interactions in an experimental fish assemblage, 2001, Oecologia (127) - 1
• Inter-decadal change in diet and population of sea otters at Amchitka Island, Alaska, 2000, Oecologia (124) - 2
• Linking biodiversity to ecosystem function: Implications for conservation ecology, 2000, Oecologia (122) - 3
• Role of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in the flow of marine nitrogen into a terrestrial ecosystem, 1999, Oecologia (121) - 4
• Effects of climatic variation on field metabolism and water relations of desert tortoises, 1998, Oecologia (117) - 3
• Modeled responses of terrestrial ecosystems to elevated atmospheric CO2: A comparison of simulations by the biogeochemistry models of the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP), 1998, Oecologia (114) - 3
• Study design and interpretation for population estimates of mammalian carnivores, 1998, Oecologia (113) -
• C4 photosynthetic modifications in the evolutionary transition from land to water in aquatic grasses, 1998, Oecologia (116) -
• Effects of flooding, salinity and herbivory on coastal plant communities, Louisiana, United States, 1998, Oecologia (117) - 4
• Effects of climatic variation on field metabolism and water relations of desert tortoises, 1998, Oecologia (117) -
• The effect of canopy cover and seasonal change on host plant quality for the endangered Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis), 1998, Oecologia (114) - 2
• The influence of vines on an oligohaline marsh community: Results of a removal and fertilization study, 1997, Oecologia (112) - 3
• Lipid and water depletion in migrating passerines following passage over the Gulf of Mexico, 1996, Oecologia (106) -
• Scaling population density and spatial pattern for terrestrial mammalian carnivores, 1996, Oecologia (105) -
• Forage digestibility and intake by lesser snow geese: effects of dominance and resource heterogeneity, 1996, Oecologia (108) - 2
• Spatial scaling of allometry among terrestrial, mammalian carnivores, 1996, Oecologia (107) -
• Climate response among growth increments of fish and trees, 1995, Oecologia (104) -
• Relative effects of nutrient enrichment and grazing on epiphyte-macrophyte (Zostera marina L.) dynamics, 1993, Oecologia (93) - 2
• Size bias in traditional analyses of substitutive competition experiments, 1992, Oecologia (90) -
• The Mauna Loa environmental matrix: foliar and soil nutrients, 1992, Oecologia (89) - 3
• Bluegill growth as modified by plant density: an exploration of underlying mechanisms, 1992, Oecologia (89) - 2
• Ectoparasitism and the role of green nesting material in the European starling, 1991, Oecologia (88) - 1
• A comparison of soil climate and biological activity along an elevation gradient in the eastern Mojave Desert, 1989, Oecologia (80) - 3
• Size differences in migrant sandpiper flocks: ghosts in ephemeral guilds, 1988, Oecologia (77) -
• Habitat islands and the equilibrium theory of island biogeography: testing some predictions, 1988, Oecologia (75) - 3
• Fire adaptation in Neblinaria celiae (Theaceae), a high-elevation rosette shrub endemic to a wet equatorial tepui, 1986, Oecologia (70) - 4
• Seed germination patterns in coastal sage, chaparral and desert scrub populations of Salvia mellifera, 1986, Oecologia (71) -
• Carbon, oxygen and hydrogen isotope abundance in Stylites reflect its unique physiology, 1985, Oecologia (67) -
• Population structure of Adenostoma fasciculatum in mature stands of chamise chaparral in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, 1984, Oecologia (64) - 1
• Adaptive variation in offspring size in the terrestrial isopod, Armadillidium vulgare, 1984, Oecologia (61) - 1
• The effects of meiofauna on settling macrofauna: meiofauna may structure macrofaunal communities, 1983, Oecologia (59) - 2-3
• Crassulacean acid metabolism in the seasonally submerged aquatic Isoetes howellii, 1983, Oecologia (58) -
• Crassulacean acid metabolism in Isoetes bolanderi in high elevation oligotrophic lakes, 1983, Oecologia (58) -
• Dark CO2-fixation and diurnal malic acid fluctuations in the submerged-aquatic Isoetes storkii, 1981, Oecologia (48) -
• Differential seed predation on two species of Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae), 1976, Oecologia (24) -