Jane C. Marks

TL;DR: It is clarified that the functional concept of the EP (sensu Dawkins, 1982) is, in an important sense, more precise than employed by recent authors and taken issue with two aspects of the interpretation of extended phenotypes (EPs) given by Whitham et al. (2003).

TL;DR: Results suggest that exotic removal programmes in Cuatro Cienegas should focus on removing/reducing populations of the exotic cichlid in habitats where juvenile native cichLids are concentrated, and could help focus efforts to manage exotic species before populations of native species have crashed, when it is too late to intervene.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test whether fungi and bacteria that enter streams on senesced leaves are growing during decomposition and compare their abundances and growth to bacteria and fungi that colonize leaves in the water, finding that most of the growing fungal species on decomposing leaves enter the water with the leaf, whereas most growing bacteria colonize from the water column.

TL;DR: The influence of tree genotypic variation and diversity on in-stream ecosystem processes and aquatic communities is explored and whether genetically diverse inputs of leaf litter interact with a keystone organism, anadromous salmon, to influence in- stream ecosystem function is tested.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors measured the change of in situ relative growth rate to added glucose and ammonium using both 18O-H2O and 13C quantitative stable isotope probing to test whether bacterial taxa sorted into copiotrophic and oligotrophic groups.