Concepts

Competitive advantage afforded to early discoverers that arrive at and modify a resource first

Game theory model where producers invest in developing resources while scroungers exploit those resources without investment

The degree to which alarming aerial stimuli must elicit 'aerial alarm calls' and alarming terrestrial stimuli must elicit 'terrestrial alarm calls'

Acceleration of gonad development which becomes functional at a significantly younger age than the usual onset of maturity in metamorphs

Students' sense of being connected to and comfortable with their research groups, programs, or broader scientific communities

Developmental hijacking where infected plants produce bright yellow flower-like clusters that mimic co-occurring blooms to attract pollinators for pathogen reproduction

Having more than one sample per individual that may bias results

Physiological responses including elevated heart rate triggered by perceived threats or social interactions rather than physical activity

Framework that analyzes perception by measuring changes in behavior with changes in stimulation to understand cognitive processes

A form of supplemental feeding for nectivorous Lepidoptera to acquire necessary mineral nutrients, primarily sodium, that are otherwise absent from their nectar diets

Pest management approach that repels pests from desired resources while attracting them to manageable locations

Single-well tracer test involving injection of tracer solution followed by extraction to evaluate aquifer transport and reaction processes

QA/QC process for time-series data involving identification of problems in data, subsequent data cleaning or processing, including outlier detection, gap filling, and data validation

Estimates of precipitation amount derived from radar and other observational data

Plant defense that reduces but does not eliminate herbivore performance, mediated by multiple genes with additive effects

An approach that treats species as analogous to quantum particles, representing species distributions as wave functions

Use of fluorescent nanocrystals to label individual pollen grains for tracking movement between plants

A method of cellular communication in which organisms communicate via cell-to-cell signaling, coordinating gene expression based on population density

The ratio of ribosomal RNA to ribosomal DNA used to estimate the size of the dormant population in a community

Model predicting FID based on combined effects of predator and prey speeds, distances and directions to refuge, and margin of safety

Laboratory technique using antibody-antigen binding and radioactive tracers to measure hormone concentrations in biological samples

RUE - ANPP divided by precipitation, representing efficiency of water use for biomass production

Experimental design that groups experimental units into blocks to control for sources of variation while randomizing treatments within blocks

Radar scanning strategy that measures at constant azimuth across varying elevation angles

Process where LAG becomes more tightly compacted as a result of reduced growth rate, creating difficulty in accurately deducing the number of LAG

Systematic approaches for tracking populations of uncommon or threatened species over time

Species characterized by low local abundance and small geographic range size

A cognitive mechanism that allows animals to discriminate between predator and non-predator sounds based on learned or innate acoustic features rather than general novelty

The process of identifying coreferent records both between and within files in the absence of a unique identifiable attribute