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

NCEAS Founding & Interim Director Bill Murdoch Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Advancing Ecological Research with Ontologies
Joshua S. Madin, Shawn Bowers, Mark P. Schildhauer and Matthew B. Jones
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23(3) 159-168
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Landscape Effects on Crop Pollination Services: Are There General Patterns?
Taylor H. Ricketts, James Regetz, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, et al.
Ecology Letters 11(5) 499–515  Abstract 

NCEAS Postdoctoral Associates Accept New Appointments

 

In Memoriam
Robert Denno, Entomologist, NCEAS Science Advisory Board

A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems 
Benjamin S. Halpern et al.  2008
Science 319 (5865) 948-952
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