Welcome to NCEAS

Scientists at NCEAS use existing information to address important questions in ecology and allied disciplines. Hundreds of scholars, including Postdoctoral Associates, Sabbatical Fellows, and visitors in Working Groups collaborate each year at the Center on scores of projects.

Research

Research Highlights

Featured Research Underway

Roles of Plant Traits and Nutrient Availability in Predicting Species Invasion
Principal Investigator: Elsa Cleland

Invasive species are a threat to biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. This research investigates whether nitrogen addition would allow invasion regardless of functional traits, due to decreased competition for this limiting resource.

Scientific Products

Featured Dataset

Lake Baikal Plankton
Lyubov Izmest'eva, Stephanie Hampton, Marianne Moore

Sixty year data set collected at 7-10 day intervals.  Analyzed and described in Hampton et al. 2008.

Projects Funded 2008

Announcements

NCEAS Research in the News

  • Sediment Organic Carbon Burial in Agriculturally Eutrophic Impoundments Over the Last Century
    J. A. Downing et al.
    Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, GB1018
    Abstract   ScienceDaily
    Working Group

    Parasites in Food Webs: The Ultimate Missing Links
    Kevin D. Lafferty, Stefano Allesina et al.
    Ecology Letters 11(6) 533-546

    A General Model for Food Web Structure
    Stefano Allesina, David Alonso, and Mercedes Pascual
    Science 320(5876) Abstract

    Sixty Years of Environmental Change in the World’s Largest Freshwater Lake--Lake Baikal, Siberia
    Stephanie E. Hampton, Lyubov R. Izmest'eva, Marianne V. Moore, Stephen L. Katz, et al.  
    Global Change Biology     Postprint
    Abstract       Press Release