Global climate change is frequently considered a major conservation threat. The Earth's
climate has already warmed by 0.5° C over the past century, and recent studies show that it …

We argue that population growth rate is the key unifying variable linking the various facets of
population ecology. The importance of population growth rate lies partly in its central role in …

The innate immune system recognizes pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs)
that are expressed on infectious agents, but not on the host. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) …

Environmental change has altered the phenology, morphological traits and population
dynamics of many species,. However, the links underlying these joint responses remain …

To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of
wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and …

There is mounting evidence that global climate change has extended growing seasons,
changed distribution patterns, and altered the phenology of flowering, breeding, and …

Climatic oscillations as reflected in atmospheric modes such as the North Atlantic Oscillation
(NAO) may be seen as a proxy for regulating forces in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems …

Old-growth forests have traditionally been considered negligible as carbon sinks because
carbon uptake has been thought to be balanced by respiration. We show that the top 20 …

Both biotic interactions and abiotic random forcing are crucial influences on population
dynamics. This frequently leads to roughly equal importance of deterministic and stochastic …

Climate change is leading to widespread elevational shifts thought to increase species
extinction risk in mountains. We integrate digital elevation models with a metric of human …