Search Results - "Long, Zachary T"

The impact of deer on relationships between tree growth and mortality in an old-growth beech-maple forest by Long, Zachary T., Pendergast, Thomas H., Carson, Walter P.

“…White-tailed deer have been at high levels in the northeastern forests of the United States for decades and have strongly influenced forest dynamics. In this…”
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Food chain length and omnivory determine the stability of a marine subtidal food web by Long, Zachary T., Bruno, John F., Duffy, J. Emmett

“…1. Using a subtidal marine food web as a model system, we examined how food chain length (predators present or absent) and the prevalence of omnivory…”
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An invasive foundation species enhances multifunctionality in a coastal ecosystem by Ramus, Aaron P., Silliman, Brian R., Thomsen, Mads S., Long, Zachary T.

“…While invasive species often threaten biodiversity and human well-being, their potential to enhance functioning by offsetting the loss of native habitat has…”
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Foundational biodiversity effects propagate through coastal food webs via multiple pathways by Ramus, Aaron P., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Long, Zachary T.

“…Relatively few studies have attempted to resolve the pathways through which the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning cascade from one trophic level…”
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Is coral richness related to community resistance to and recovery from disturbance? by Zhang, Stacy Y, Speare, Kelly E, Long, Zachary T, McKeever, Kimberly A, Gyoerkoe, Megan, Ramus, Aaron P, Mohorn, Zach, Akins, Kelsey L, Hambridge, Sarah M, Graham, Nicholas A J, Nash, Kirsty L, Selig, Elizabeth R, Bruno, John F

“…More diverse communities are thought to be more stable-the diversity-stability hypothesis-due to increased resistance to and recovery from disturbances. For…”
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Acoustofluidic-mediated molecular delivery to human T cells with a three-dimensional-printed flow chamber by Centner, Connor S, Moore, John T, Baxter, Mary E, Long, Zachary T, Miller, Jacob M, Kovatsenko, Ekaterina S, Xie, Benjamin, Menze, Michael A, Berson, R Eric, Bates, Paula J, Yaddanapudi, Kavitha, Kopechek, Jonathan A

“…Cell-based therapies have garnered significant interest to treat cancer and other diseases. Acoustofluidic technologies are in development to improve cell…”
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Producer diversity enhances consumer stability in a benthic marine community by Ramus, Aaron P, Long, Zachary T, Silliman, Brian

“…The diversity of many communities is changing due to local extinctions and invasions. Understanding the consequences of these changes is vital to their…”
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A seaweed increases ecosystem multifunctionality when invading bare mudflats by Thomsen, Mads S., Ramus, Aaron P., Long, Zachary T., Silliman, Brian R.

“…One of the most successful marine invaders worldwide is the seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla (Gulbransen et al. 2013; Hu and Juan 2014; Thomsen et al…”
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Benthic Community Responses to the Filling of a Hurricane-Induced Barrier Island Inlet by Rodil, Iván F., Long, Zachary T., Fegley, Stephen R., Rodriguez, Antonio B., Peterson, Charles H.

“…Rodil, I.F.; Long, Z.T.; Fegley, S.R.; Rodriguez, A.B., and Peterson, C.H., 2021. Benthic community responses to the filling of a hurricane-induced barrier…”
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Fertilization and plant diversity accelerate primary succession and restoration of dune communities by Long, Zachary T., Fegley, Stephen R., Peterson, Charles H.

“…Plant species richness can increase primary production because plants occupy different niches or facilitate each other ("complementarity effects") or because…”
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Partitioning the effects of algal species identity and richness on benthic marine primary production by Bruno, John F., Lee, Sarah C., Kertesz, Johanna S., Carpenter, Robert C., Long, Zachary T., Emmett Duffy, J.

“…Influential research in terrestrial habitats indicates that several ecosystem processes are related to plant biodiversity, yet these links remain poorly…”
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effects of immigration and environmental variability on the persistence of an inferior competitor by Long, Zachary T, Petchey, Owen L, Holt, Robert D

“…We tested the hypothesis that temporally autocorrelated variation should increase the abundance of an inferior competitor sustained by immigration. Temporally…”
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Effects of predation on intraspecific aggregation of prey and prey diversity in a subtidal marine food web by Long, Zachary T., O'Connor, Mary I., Bruno, John F.

“…The aggregation model of coexistence suggests that intraspecific aggregation in local patches decreases richness locally, but increases richness regionally…”
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Population and community resilience in multitrophic communities by Steiner, Christopher F., Long, Zachary T., Krumins, Jennifer A., Morin, Peter J.

“…Diversity-stability relationships have long been a topic of controversy in ecology, but one whose importance has been re-highlighted by increasing large-scale…”
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Suppressed recovery of plant community composition and biodiversity on dredged fill of a hurricane-induced inlet through a barrier island by Long, Zachary T., Fegley, Stephen R., Peterson, Charles H.

“…In September 2003, Hurricane Isabel created an inlet over 500 m wide and 10 m deep that connected the Atlantic Ocean and Pamlico Sound. This breach was…”
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Biodiversity mediates productivity through different mechanisms at adjacent trophic levels by Long, Zachary T., Bruno, John F., Duffy, J. Emmett

“…Biodiversity may enhance productivity either because diverse communities more often contain productive species (selection effects) or because they show greater…”
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Soil Factors in Three Populations of Endangered Golden Sedge (Carex lutea LeBlond) by Taggart, John B, Long, Zachary T

“…Three sites with populations of federally endangered golden sedge (Carex lutea LeBlond) were sampled to investigate whether circumneutral soil conditions were…”
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Predation intensity is negatively related to plant species richness in a benthic marine community by Moran, Emma R., Reynolds, Pamela L., Ladwig, Laura M., O’Connor, Mary I., Long, Zachary T., Bruno, John F.

“…Plant biodiversity affects primary productivity and resource utilization in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and may also influence other key ecological…”
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Extending the Resource Concentration Hypothesis to Plant Communities: Effects of Litter and Herbivores by Long, Zachary T., Mohler, Charles L., Carson, Walter P.

“…We extend the resource concentration hypothesis (herbivorous insects are more likely to find and stay in more dense and less diverse patches of their host…”
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Species Richness and Allometric Scaling Jointly Determine Biomass in Model Aquatic Food Webs by Long, Zachary T., Steiner, Christopher F., Krumins, Jennifer Adams, Morin, Peter J.

“…1. Allometric theory makes specific predictions about how density, and consequently biomass, scale with organism size within trophic levels, across trophic…”
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