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Online ISSN: 1600-0706

  1. Research Article

    1. Population dynamics of the spruce bark beetle: a long-term study

      Lorenzo Marini, Åke Lindelöw, Anna Maria Jönsson, Sören Wulff and Leif Martin Schroeder

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00431.x

    2. Trait-mediated indirect interactions in a marine intertidal system as quantified by functional responses

      Mhairi E. Alexander, Jaimie T. A. Dick and Nessa E. O’Connor

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00472.x

  2. Forum

    1. Global biogeography of autotroph chemistry: is insolation a driving force?

      Elizabeth T. Borer, Matthew E. S. Bracken, Eric W. Seabloom, Jennifer E. Smith, Just Cebrian, Elsa E. Cleland, James J. Elser, William F. Fagan, Daniel S. Gruner, W. Stanley Harpole, Helmut Hillebrand, Andrew J. Kerkhoff and Jacqueline T. Ngai

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00465.x

    2. Another call for the end of invasion biology

      Loïc Valéry, Hervé Fritz and Jean-Claude Lefeuvre

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00445.x

  3. Research Article

    1. Disproportionate effects of non-colonial small herbivores on structure and diversity of grassland dominated by large herbivores

      Salvador Rebollo, Daniel G. Milchunas, Paul Stapp, David J. Augustine and Justin D. Derner

      Article first published online: 8 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00403.x

    2. Food-web aggregation, methodological and functional issues

      Benoît Gauzens, Stéphane Legendre, Xavier Lazzaro and Gérard Lacroix

      Article first published online: 25 APR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00266.x

    3. Parasites as prey in aquatic food webs: implications for predator infection and parasite transmission

      David W. Thieltges, Per-Arne Amundsen, Ryan F. Hechinger, Pieter T. J. Johnson, Kevin D. Lafferty, Kim N. Mouritsen, Daniel L. Preston, Karsten Reise, C. Dieter Zander and Robert Poulin

      Article first published online: 25 APR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00243.x

    4. Simple rules for complex landscapes: the case of hilltopping movements and topography

      Guy Pe'er, David Saltz, Tamara Münkemüller, Yiannis G. Matsinos and Hans-Hermann Thulke

      Article first published online: 17 APR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00198.x

  4. Forum

    1. A critical analysis of the ubiquity of linear local–regional richness relationships

      Thiago Gonçalves-Souza, Gustavo Q. Romero and Karl Cottenie

      Article first published online: 10 APR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00305.x

  5. Research Article

    1. Phenotypically similar but ecologically distinct: differences in competitive ability and predation risk among amphipods

      Rickey D. Cothran, Kate A. Henderson, David Schmidenberg and Rick A. Relyea

      Article first published online: 8 APR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00294.x

    2. The relative importance of drift causes for stream insect herbivores across a canopy gradient

      Bruce G. Hammock and William C. Wetzel

      Article first published online: 8 APR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00319.x

    3. No free lunch: displaced marsh consumers regulate a prey subsidy to an estuarine consumer

      Ross E. Boucek and Jennifer S. Rehage

      Article first published online: 21 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.20994.x

    4. Resource tracking in marine parasites: going with the flow?

      Ross M. Thompson, Robert Poulin, Kim N. Mouritsen and David W. Thieltges

      Article first published online: 21 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00245.x

    5. Disentangling the role of connectivity, environmental filtering, and spatial structure on metacommunity dynamics

      C. Moritz, C. N. Meynard, V. Devictor, K. Guizien, C. Labrune, J.-M. Guarini and N. Mouquet

      Article first published online: 19 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00377.x

    6. Pulses of marine subsidies amplify reproductive potential of lizards by increasing individual growth rate

      Amber N. Wright, Jonah Piovia-Scott, David A. Spiller, Gaku Takimoto, Louie H. Yang and Thomas W. Schoener

      Article first published online: 19 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00379.x

    7. Bergmann′s rule in mammals: a cross-species interspecific pattern

      Marcus Clauss, Marie T. Dittmann, Dennis W. H. Müller, Carlo Meloro and Daryl Codron

      Article first published online: 19 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00463.x

    8. Plant functional traits improve diversity-based predictions of temporal stability of grassland productivity

      H. Wayne Polley, Forest I. Isbell and Brian J. Wilsey

      Article first published online: 19 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00338.x

    9. You have full text access to this OnlineOpen article
      Social familiarity relaxes the constraints of limited attention and enhances reproduction of group-living predatory mites

      Markus A. Strodl and Peter Schausberger

      Article first published online: 19 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20833.x

    10. Direct and indirect interactions co-determine species composition in nurse plant systems

      Christian Schöb, Cristina Armas and Francisco I. Pugnaire

      Article first published online: 5 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00390.x

    11. The phylogenetic interpretation of biological surveys

      Graham Bell

      Article first published online: 5 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00405.x

    12. Fruit color and contrast in seasonal habitats – a case study from a cerrado savanna

      Maria Gabriela G. Camargo, Eliana Cazetta, H. Martin Schaefer and L. Patrícia C. Morellato

      Article first published online: 5 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00328.x

    13. Interspecific differences in stochastic population dynamics explains variation in Taylor's temporal power law

      Marit Linnerud, Bernt-Erik Sæther, Vidar Grøtan, Steinar Engen, David G. Noble and Robert P. Freckleton

      Article first published online: 5 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20517.x

    14. Antelope mating strategies facilitate invasion of grasslands by a woody weed

      Shivani Jadeja, Soumya Prasad, Suhel Quader and Kavita Isvaran

      Article first published online: 5 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00320.x

    15. How a simple adaptive foraging strategy can lead to emergent home ranges and increased food intake

      Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Jakob Tougaard, Jonas Teilmann, Klaus Lucke and Mads C. Forchhammer

      Article first published online: 26 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00069.x

    16. A test of species–energy theory: patch occupancy and colony size in tropical rainforest litter-nesting ants

      Terrence P. McGlynn, Aura M. Alonso-Rodríguez and Melinda Weaver

      Article first published online: 26 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00102.x

    17. Invasive parasites in multiple invasive hosts: the arrival of a new host revives a stalled prior parasite invasion

      Crystal Kelehear, Gregory P. Brown and Richard Shine

      Article first published online: 26 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00292.x

    18. Species importance in a heterospecific foraging association network

      Hari Sridhar, Ferenc Jordán and Kartik Shanker

      Article first published online: 26 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00101.x

    19. How consistent are trait data between sources? A quantitative assessment

      Jay M. Fitzsimmons

      Article first published online: 26 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00207.x

    20. Picky hitch-hikers: vector choice leads to directed dispersal and fat-tailed kernels in a passively dispersing mite

      Emanuel A. Fronhofer, Ellen B. Sperr, Anna Kreis, Manfred Ayasse, Hans Joachim Poethke and Marco Tschapka

      Article first published online: 14 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00503.x

    21. Costs, benefits, and loss of vertically transmitted symbionts affect host population dynamics

      Kelsey M. Yule, Tom E. X. Miller and Jennifer A. Rudgers

      Article first published online: 5 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00229.x

    22. Eavesdropping foragers use level of collective commotion as public information to target high quality patches

      Mark E. Laidre

      Article first published online: 5 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00188.x

    23. Intraspecific variation in a predator drives cascading variation in primary producer community composition

      Jerome J. Weis and David M. Post

      Article first published online: 5 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00258.x

    24. Non-trophic effects of litter reduce ant predation and determine caterpillar survival and distribution

      Richard Karban, Tawny M. Mata, Patrick Grof-Tisza, Gregory Crutsinger and Marcel A. Holyoak

      Article first published online: 5 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00297.x

    25. Foraging efficiency and the fitness consequences of spatial marking by ladybeetle larvae

      Matthew H. Meisner and Anthony R. Ives

      Article first published online: 31 JAN 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00224.x

    26. Exploitation ecosystems and trophic cascades in non-equilibrium systems: pasture – red kangaroo – dingo interactions in arid Australia

      David Choquenot and David M. Forsyth

      Article first published online: 31 JAN 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20976.x

    27. The elephant in the room: the role of failed invasions in understanding invasion biology

      Rafael D. Zenni and Martin A. Nuñez

      Article first published online: 24 JAN 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00254.x

    28. Numerical response of small mustelids to vole abundance: delayed or not?

      Janne Sundell, Robert Brian O’Hara, Pekka Helle, Paavo Hellstedt, Heikki Henttonen and Hannu Pietiäinen

      Article first published online: 17 JAN 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00233.x

    29. The more polluted the environment, the more important biodiversity is for food web stability

      Leslie Garay-Narváez, Matías Arim, José D. Flores and Rodrigo Ramos-Jiliberto

      Article first published online: 17 JAN 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00218.x

    30. Population synchrony and stability in environmentally forced metacommunities

      Christopher F. Steiner, Richard D. Stockwell, Vidhya Kalaimani and Zakaria Aqel

      Article first published online: 17 JAN 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20936.x

    31. Divergent host phenotypes create opportunities and constraints on the distribution of two wing-dwelling feather mites

      Sofía Fernández-González, Iván De la Hera, Antón Pérez-Rodríguez and Javier Pérez-Tris

      Article first published online: 18 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00241.x

    32. Dissecting the decision making process of scatter-hoarding rodents

      Bo Wang, Cheng-Xi Ye, Charles H. Cannon and Jin Chen

      Article first published online: 18 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20823.x

    33. Are functional traits and litter decomposability coordinated across leaves, twigs, and wood? A test using temperate rainforest tree species

      Benjamin G. Jackson, Duane A. Peltzer and David A. Wardle

      Article first published online: 18 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00056.x

    34. Diets of sexual and sperm-dependent asexual dace (Chrosomus spp.): relevance to niche differentiation and mate choice hypotheses for coexistence

      Jonathan A. Mee, Fred Noddin, Justin R. Hanisch, William M. Tonn and Cynthia A. Paszkowski

      Article first published online: 13 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00178.x

    35. Demographic response of tundra small mammals to a snow fencing experiment

      Frédéric Bilodeau, Donald G. Reid, Gilles Gauthier, Charles J. Krebs, Dominique Berteaux and Alice J. Kenney

      Article first published online: 13 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00220.x

    36. Universal scaling of species-abundance distributions across multiple scales

      James Rosindell and Stephen J. Cornell

      Article first published online: 13 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20751.x

    37. Effect of belowground herbivory on parasitoid associative learning of plant odours

      H. Marjolein Kruidhof, Marjolein de Rijk, Daniela Hoffmann, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Louise E. M. Vet and Roxina Soler

      Article first published online: 13 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00142.x

    38. How to measure top–down vs bottom–up effects: a new population metric and its calibration on Daphnia

      Leonard V. Polishchuk, Jacobus Vijverberg, Dmitry A. Voronov and Wolf M. Mooij

      Article first published online: 13 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00046.x

    39. Environmental and plant genetic effects on tri-trophic interactions

      Luis Abdala-Roberts and Kailen A. Mooney

      Article first published online: 13 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00159.x

    40. Individual variation in resource use by opossums leading to nested fruit consumption

      Maurício Cantor, Mathias Mistretta Pires, Guilherme Ortigara Longo, Paulo Roberto Guimarães Jr. and Eleonore Zulnara Freire Setz

      Article first published online: 4 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00070.x

    41. Rules of the seed size game: contests between large-seeded and small-seeded species

      Karin Lönnberg and Ove Eriksson

      Article first published online: 4 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00249.x

    42. Response of macroalgal assemblages from rockpools to climate change: effects of persistent increase in temperature and CO2

      Celia Olabarria, Francisco Arenas, Rosa M. Viejo, Ignacio Gestoso, Fátima Vaz-Pinto, Mónica Incera, Marcos Rubal, Eva Cacabelos, Puri Veiga and Cristina Sobrino

      Article first published online: 4 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20825.x

    43. Macronutrient intake affects reproduction of a predatory insect

      Katherine L. Barry and Shawn M. Wilder

      Article first published online: 4 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00164.x

    44. Grasshoppers amensalistically suppress caterpillar performance and enhance plant biomass in an alpine meadow

      Xinqiang Xi, John N. Griffin and Shucun Sun

      Article first published online: 4 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00126.x

    45. Predator-mediated interactions between preferred, alternative and incidental prey in the arctic tundra

      Laura Mckinnon, Dominique Berteaux, Gilles Gauthier and Joël Bêty

      Article first published online: 4 DEC 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20708.x

    46. Habitat loss and the disassembly of mutalistic networks

      Miguel A. Fortuna, Abhay Krishna and Jordi Bascompte

      Article first published online: 20 NOV 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00042.x

    47. How insects sense olfactory patches – the spatial scaling of olfactory information

      Petter Andersson, Christer Löfstedt and Peter A. Hambäck

      Article first published online: 20 NOV 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00037.x

    48. Bottom–up and top–down forces structuring consumer communities in an experimental grassland

      Michael Rzanny, Annely Kuu and Winfried Voigt

      Article first published online: 20 NOV 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00114.x

    49. The interplay between above- and below-ground plant–plant interactions along an environmental gradient: insights from two-layer zone-of-influence models

      Wei-Ping Zhang, Xin Jia, Christian Damgaard, E. Charles Morris, Yan-Yuan Bai, Sha Pan and Gen-Xuan Wang

      Article first published online: 20 NOV 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20877.x

    50. Effects of spatial patterns on the pollination success of a less attractive species

      Sven Hanoteaux, Katja Tielbörger and Merav Seifan

      Article first published online: 6 NOV 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20801.x

    51. Red young leaves have less mechanical defence than green young leaves

      Ying-Zhuo Chen and Shuang-Quan Huang

      Article first published online: 6 NOV 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20852.x

    52. Fatty acid retention under temporally heterogeneous dietary intake in a cladoceran

      Apostolos-Manuel Koussoroplis, Martin J. Kainz and Maren Striebel

      Article first published online: 6 NOV 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20759.x

    53. Do physical plant litter traits explain non-additivity in litter mixtures? A test of the improved microenvironmental conditions theory

      Marika Makkonen, Matty P. Berg, Richard S. P. van Logtestijn, Jurgen R. van Hal and Rien Aerts

      Article first published online: 6 NOV 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20750.x

    54. Positive versus negative effects of an invasive ecosystem engineer on different components of a marine ecosystem

      Paul E. Gribben, James E. Byers, Jeffrey T. Wright and Tim M. Glasby

      Article first published online: 30 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20868.x

    55. Adaptive foraging allows the maintenance of biodiversity of pollination networks

      Fernanda S. Valdovinos, Pablo Moisset de Espanés, José D. Flores and Rodrigo Ramos-Jiliberto

      Article first published online: 30 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20830.x

    56. How the aphids got their spots: predation drives self-organization of aphid colonies in a patchy habitat

      Miroslav Kummel, David Brown and Andrea Bruder

      Article first published online: 30 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20805.x

    57. Estimating population size by spatially explicit capture–recapture

      Murray G. Efford and Rachel M. Fewster

      Article first published online: 25 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20440.x

    58. Predator–prey interactions in a grassland food chain vary with temperature and food quality

      Angela Nardoni Laws and Anthony Joern

      Article first published online: 25 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20419.x

    59. From random walks to informed movement

      Emanuel A. Fronhofer, Thomas Hovestadt and Hans-Joachim Poethke

      Article first published online: 18 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.21021.x

    60. Relatedness affects the density, distribution and phenotype of colonisers in four sessile marine invertebrates

      J. David Aguirre, Seth H. Miller, Steven G. Morgan and Dustin J. Marshall

      Article first published online: 18 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20827.x

    61. Biotic and abiotic effects on cohort size distributions in fish

      Jan Ohlberger, Jaime Otero, Eric Edeline, Ian J. Winfield, Nils Chr. Stenseth and L. Asbjørn Vøllestad

      Article first published online: 18 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.19858.x

    62. Neglecting uncertainty behind Allee effect estimation may generate false predictions of population extinction risk

      Luděk Berec and Tomáš Mrkvička

      Article first published online: 11 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.19987.x

    63. Modeling forage mediated aggregation in a gregarious ruminant

      Garrett M. Street, Floyd W. Weckerly and Susan Schwinning

      Article first published online: 11 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20974.x

    64. Context-dependent fruit–frugivore interactions: partner identities and spatio-temporal variations

      Ramón Perea, Miguel Delibes, Mark Polko, Alberto Suárez-Esteban and José M. Fedriani

      Article first published online: 11 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20940.x

    65. Dominant network interactions are not correlated with resource availability: a case study using mistletoe host interactions

      R. A. J. Blick, K. C. Burns and A. T. Moles

      Article first published online: 2 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20870.x

    66. Measuring fractions of beta diversity and their relationships to nestedness: a theoretical and empirical comparison of novel approaches

      José C. Carvalho, Pedro Cardoso, Paulo A. V. Borges, Dénes Schmera and János Podani

      Article first published online: 25 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20980.x

    67. Community assembly along a successional gradient in sub-alpine meadows of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

      Hui Zhang, Benjamin Gilbert, Xinxin Zhang and Shurong Zhou

      Article first published online: 25 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20828.x

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