Welcome to NCEAS

Scientists at NCEAS use existing information to address important questions in ecology and allied disciplines. Hundreds of scholars, including Postdoctoral Associates, Sabbatical Fellows, and visitors in Working Groups collaborate each year at the Center on scores of projects.

Research

Research Highlights

Featured Research Underway

Pyrogeography: Fire's Place in Earth System Science
Principal Investigators: David Bowman and Jennifer Balch


Landscape fires affect biodiversity, human health, the global radiation budget, carbon balance and hyrdrological cycles. Bowman and Balch are synthesizing knowledge about biomass burning across fields to develop an integrative paradigm of 'pyrogeography'. 

Scientific Products

Featured Dataset

Data on Nonconsumptive Predator Effects
Evan Preisser

Data were gathered from 300 published studies that measured the non-lethal effect of predators on their prey. Includes taxonomic information for both predator and prey, the variable(s) being measured, and means and measures of variation for prey in both a non-lethal treatment and a control treatment.

Projects Funded 2008

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