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Chapter 1
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Johnson, C. K., et al. 2009. Prey choice and habitat use drive sea otter pathogen exposure in a resource-limited coastal system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 2242–2247.
Marquis, R. J., and C. J. Whelan. Insectivorous birds increase growth of white oak through consumption of leaf-chewing insects. Ecology 75: 2007–2014.
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Chapter 2
Cheng, C. H. C., and H. W. Detrich. 2007. Molecular physiology of Antarctic notothenioid fishes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 362: 2215–2232.
Hughes, T. P., et al. 2003. Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefs. Science 301: 929–933.
Takei, Y. 2008. Exploring novel hormones essential for seawater adaptation in teleost fish. General and Comparative Endocrinology 157: 3–13.
Watanabe, M. E. 2005. Generating heat: New twists in the evolution of endothermy. BioScience 55: 470–475.
Chapter 3
Munns, R. 2002. Comparative physiology of salt and water stress. Plant, Cell & Environment 25: 239–250.
Osborne, C. P., and D. J. Beerling. 2006. Nature’s green revolution: The remarkable evolutionary rise of C4 plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 361: 173–194.
Watanabe, M. E. 2005. Generating heat: New twists in the evolution of endothermy. BioScience 55: 470–475.
Chapter 4
Miner, B. G., et al. 2005. Ecological consequences of phenotypic plasticity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 685–692.
Pfennig, D. W., et al. 2010. Phenotypic plasticity’s impacts on diversification and speciation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 459–467.
Chapter 5
Ducklow, H., et al. 2008. Ecological responses to climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula. American Scientist 96: 302–310.
Suplee, C. 1999. El Niño, La Niña. National Geographic 195 (3): 73–95.
Chapter 6
Ellis, E. C., and N. Ramankutty. 2008. Putting people in the map: Anthropogenic biomes of the world. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6: 439–447.
Wolanski, E., et al. 2003. Mud, marine snow, and coral reefs. American Scientist 91: 44.
Chapter 7
Losos, J. B. 2007. Detective work in the West Indies: Integrating historical and experimental approaches to study island lizard evolution. BioScience 57: 585–597.
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Janzen, D. H. 1976. Why bamboos wait so long to flower. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 7: 347–391.
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Chapter 9
Busch, J. W., M. Neiman, and J. M. Koslow. 2004. Evidence for maintenance of sex by pathogens in plants. Evolution 58: 2584–2590.
Chapman, T. 2006. Evolutionary conflicts of interest between males and females. Current Biology 16: R744–R754.
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Chapter 10
Clutton-Brock, T. H., et al. 1999. Selfish sentinels in cooperative mammals. Science 284: 1640–1644.
Foster, K. R., T. Wenseleers, and F. L. W. Ratnieks. 2006. Kin selection is the key to altruism. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 57–60.
Griffin, A. S., and S. A. West. 2003. Kin discrimination and the benefit of helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. Science 302: 634–636.
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Chapter 11
Brown, J. H., et al. 2004. Toward a metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology 85: 1771–1789.
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Chapter 12
Kramer, A. M., et al. 2009. The evidence for Allee effects. Population Ecology 51: 341–354.
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Chapter 13
Beckerman, A., et al. 2002. Population dynamic consequences of delayed life-history effects. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 263–269.
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Chapter 14
Hanski, I., et al. 2001. Small rodent dynamics and predation. Ecology 82: 1505–1520.
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Chapter 15
Brown, J. K. M., and A. Tellier. 2011. Plant-parasite coevolution: Bridging the gap between genetics and ecology. Annual Review of Phytopathology 49: 345–367.
Hawley, D. M., and S. M. Altizer. 2011. Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: Understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations. Functional Ecology 25: 48–60.
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
Bonfante, P., and I.-A. Anca. 2009. Plants, mycorrhizal fungi, and bacteria: A network of interactions. Annual Review of Microbiology 63: 363–383.
Bronstein, J. L. 2009. The evolution of facilitation and mutualism. Journal of Ecology 97: 1160–1170.
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Stachowicz, J. J. 2001. Mutualism, facilitation, and the structure of ecological communities. BioScience 51: 235–246.
Chapter 18
Halpern, B. S., et al. 2005. Predator effects on herbivore and plant stability. Ecology Letters 8: 189–194.
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Pace, M. L., et al. 1999. Trophic cascades revealed in diverse systems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 483–488.
Shurin, J. B., et al. 2002. A cross-ecosystem comparison of the strength of trophic cascades. Ecology Letters 5: 785–791.
Srivastava, D., et al. 2009. Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition. Ecology 90: 1073–1083.
Chapter 19
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Walker, L. R., et al. 2010. The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development. Journal of Ecology 98: 725–736.
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Chapter 20
Elser, J. J., et al. 2007. Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Ecology Letters 10: 1135–1142.
Hessen, D. O., et al. 2004. Carbon sequestration in ecosystems: The role of stoichiometry. Ecology 85: 1179–1192.
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Chapter 21
Arrigo, K. R. 2005. Marine microorganisms and global nutrient cycles. Nature 437: 349–355.
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Chapter 22
Fahrig, L. 2003. Effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 34: 487–515.
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Chapter 23
Cardillo, M., et al. 2005. Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal species. Science 309: 1239–1241.
Firestone, R. B., et al. 2007. Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 16016–16021.
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