Ecological Monographs back issues from February 1998:
The consequences of changing the top predator in a food web: a comparative experimental approach.
Feb 01, 1998; ... INTRODUCTIONUnderstanding how community structure is altered by dramatic environmental changes is a major focus in ecology. These efforts are motivated by comparisons of natural communities existing at different points along environmental gradients that generate these dramatic ...
Spatially and temporally predictable fish communities on coral reefs.
Feb 01, 1998; ... INTRODUCTIONEarly ecologists described coral reef fish communities as stable, equilibrial assemblages structured primarily by competitive interactions (Odum and Odum 1955, Hiatt and Strasburg 1960, Smith and Tyler 1972, 1973, Smith 1975, 1978). However, more recent studies have ...
Intertidal mussel microclimates: predicting the body temperature of a sessile invertebrate.
Feb 01, 1998; ... INTRODUCTIONSessile organisms living in the marine intertidal must contend with highly variable and often extreme environmental conditions. Water motion from crashing waves exerts enormous forces upon organisms, and the risk of dislodgement from the substrate can be an important ...
Biomass and CO2 flux in wet sedge tundras: responses to nutrients, temperature, and light.
Feb 01, 1998; ... INTRODUCTIONThe North Slope of Alaska is covered by a number of very different vegetation types, including large areas dominated by graminoids (mainly sedges), by deciduous shrubs, or by evergreen shrubs and lichens (Britton 1966, Walker et al. 1989, Shaver and Chapin 1991). This ...
Regeneration of three sympatric birch species experimental hurricane blowdown microsites.
Feb 01, 1998; ... INTRODUCTIONPlant communities persist through the process of regeneration, a broad and rather imprecise term widely used in the ecological literature. Regeneration may refer to the recruitment of a particular species population into a community, the replacement of a stand of trees ...
Effects of plant composition and diversity on nutrient cycling.
Feb 01, 1998; ... INTRODUCTIONWhile there is clear evidence that individual plant species can affect ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling, the effects of plant diversity on nutrient cycling have received more discussion than experimental attention. Of the few experiments that have addressed ...