The small, terrestrial eastern red-backed salamander is abundant on many forest floors of
northeastern North America. Dr. Robert Jaeger and many of his graduate students spent …

Many alien species are neither cultivated nor traded but spread unintentionally, and their
global movements, capacities to invade ecosystems, and susceptibility to detection by …

What makes a model organism? Identifying the qualities of a model organism has been
given a great deal of attention in the biomolecular sciences, but less so in the fields of …

DNA barcoding is both an important research and science education tool. The technique
allows for quick and accurate species identification using only minimal amounts of tissue …

Asian pheretimoid earthworms (eg Amyntha s and Metaphire spp.) are invading North
American forests and consuming the vital detrital layer that forest floor biota [including the …

Numerous authors have studied the diet of the Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon
cinereus) and have described this species as a generalist predator of invertebrates. In most …

Eastern Red-backed Salamanders are colour polymorphic and have become a model
system for examining ecological separation and the mechanisms for potential divergence in …

Although the principles of landscape ecology are increasingly extended to include riverine
landscapes, explicit applications are few. We investigated associations between patch …

Urbanization is expected to reduce biodiversity. However, an increasing number of studies
report urban biodiversity comparable to that of surrounding nonurban areas, leaving open …

Large scale disturbances are known to significantly alter aspects of both species diversity
and ecosystem function. In the Caribbean, hurricane events are a significant form of …