Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested
ecosystems - Ellison - 2005 - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - Wiley Online Library …

Bayesian inference is an important statistical tool that is increasingly being used by ecologists.
In a Bayesian analysis, information available before a study is conducted is summarized …

Indicator species (IS) are used to monitor environmental changes, assess the efficacy of
management, and provide warning signals for impending ecological shifts. Though widely …

… AM Ellison's work on this project was supported by US NSF awards DEB 04-52 254 and
DEB-0620443, and Department of Energy award DE-FG02-08ER64510. This is a contribution …

Given that statistics are used to support arguments and learning in ecology at multiple levels
of technical depth, an overview text on ecological statistics that can clearly explain the …

At a meeting of world mangrove experts held last year in Australia, it was unanimously
agreed that we face the prospect of a world deprived of the services offered by mangrove …

Mangrove species are uniquely adapted to tropical and subtropical coasts, and although
relatively low in number of species, mangrove forests provide at least US $1.6 billion each year …

… of debris cover over the spring and summer was timed to coincide with the growing season
of the plants and the peak abundance of wrack on the marsh (MD Bertness and AM Ellison, …

Many dynamical systems, including lakes, organisms, ocean circulation patterns, or financial
markets, are now thought to have tipping points where critical transitions to a contrasting …

In our statistical practice, we ecologists work comfortably within the hypothetico‐deductive
epistemology of Popper and the frequentist statistical methodology of Fisher. Consequently, …