In a paper published in Ecology in 1993, Pierre Legendre highlighted and proposed solutions to the problem of "spatial autocorrelation" in the statistical analysis of ecological data. The methods proposed by Legendre have had a lasting impact on the analysis of field ecological research....
Ecology
Revisiting Rahbek 1995
In a paper published in Ecography in 1995, Carsten Rahbek critically examined the evidence for what was then believed to be a general pattern: species richness reduces with increasing altitude. Rahbek showed that through a process of "citation inbreeding" evidence from just a few studies had...
Revisiting Power 1990
In a paper published in Science in 1990, Mary Power showed, through experiments conducted in a Northern Californian river, that fish have large effects on river food webs. Power's results provided support, from a river community, for the Hairston-Smith-Slobokin -- Fretwell theory of trophic...
Revisiting Rosenzweig 1973
In a paper published in Ecology in 1973, Michael Rosenzweig presented the results on one of the first habitat selection experiments in the field. Rosenzweig's results indicated that differences in habitat preferences allow a pair of desert rodents to coexist. Forty-three years after the paper was...
Revisiting Vellend 2010
In a paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology in 2010, Mark Vellend proposed a new conceptual framework for Community Ecology, drawing inspiration from Population Genetics. Vellend proposed that, like in the case of genetic variation in populations, biological communities too can be...
Revisiting Agrawal et al. 1999
In a paper published in Nature in 1999, Anurag Agrawal, Christian Laforsch and Ralph Tollrian showed that non-lethal exposure of Daphnia and wild radish to their predators, in addition to inducing defences, led to production of offspring that were better defended than those from unattacked...
Revisiting Harrison et al. 1988
In a paper published in The American Naturalist in 1988, Susan Harrison, Dennis Murphy and Paul Ehrlich demonstrate the existence of a metapopulation of the Bay checkerspot butterfly, a rare species whose larvae feed on plants that grow on patches of serpentine soil. Using a combination of field...
Revisiting Hobbie 1996
In a paper published in Ecological Monographs in 1996, Sarah Hobbie reported the results of her laboratory experiments on the effect of increased temperature and species composition on litter decomposition in the Alaskan Tundra. Hobbie found that increased temperature led to "increased rates of...
Revisiting Jackson et al. 2001
In a paper published in Science in 2001, Jeremy Jackson, Michael Kirby, Wolfgang Berger, Karen Bjorndal, Louis Botsford, Bruce Bourque, Roger Bradbury, Richard Cooke, Jon Erlandson, James Estes, Terence Hughes, Susan Kidwell, Carina Lange, Hunter Lenihan, John Pandolfi, Charles Peterson, Robert...
Revisiting Fahrig and Merriam 1985
In a paper published in Ecology in 1985, Lenore Fahrig and Gray Merriam presented a model for changes in population sizes in a set of interconnected patches, which predicted that populations in isolated patches will grow at a slower rate and are thus morel likely to go extinct than those in...