Arguably one of the most important effects of climate change is the potential impact on human
health. While this is likely to take many forms, the implications for future transmission of …

We review and synthesize information on invasions of nonnative forest insects and diseases
in the United States, including their ecological and economic impacts, pathways of arrival, …

Efforts to anticipate threats to biodiversity take the form of species richness predictions (SRPs)
based on simple correlations with current climate and habitat area. We review the major …

… We used a cross-validation procedure 30 that randomly removed 30% of the data and
evaluated the model’s ability to estimate these missing nodes. Correlation coefficients comparing …

Several forces are converging to transform ecological research and increase its emphasis
on quantitative forecasting. These forces include (1) dramatically increased volumes of data …

… Two years of our study (2002 and 2003) exhibited NPP that was seemingly decoupled
from the current year’s water availability (P-PET). While we have no measure of nonstructural …

Ecologists have long studied patterns, directions and tempos of change, but there is a
pressing need to extend current understanding to empirical observations of abrupt changes as …

WESт NILE IRUS (WNV) was introduced into the western hemisphere in 1999 near New York
City, where it caused substantial mortality in corvids and a small number of human cases (…

… Taken together, we have traditional M s ’s that only admit low-dimensional, deterministic …
contrasting M p ’s that assume variation is global, applying identically to the entire population(s). …

Colonization–competition trade‐offs represent a stabilizing mechanism that is thought to
maintain diversity of forest trees. If so, then early‐successional species should benefit from high …