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NCEAS
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
How to Participate
- Working Groups
- Postdoctoral Associates
- Sabbatical Fellows
- Distributed Graduate Seminars
- General Call for Proposals
- Support the Center
Programs
Research Highlights
Featured Research Underway
Pyrogeography: Fire's Place in Earth System Science
Principal Investigators: David Bowman and Jennifer Balch
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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
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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
Announcements
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Request for Working Group Proposals:
Development and Application of Scientific Knowledge to Ecosystem-Based Management of Coastal Marine SystemsNCEAS Congratulates Jane Lubchenco on Her Appointment as NOAA Head
New York Times
SeaWeb
NCEAS Research in the News
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The most widely used software package for the development of state-of-the-art fisheries stock assessment methods is now available free of charge. NCEAS is a partner in this project funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Press Release
Santa Barbara Independent
New Interactive-Mapping Website
Recent research at NCEAS produced the first-ever maps of the cumulative impact of humans on the world's oceans. Results from this work and all of the data layers that produced these maps can now be queried online.Biodiversity Loss in Latin American Coffee Landscapes: Review of the Evidence on Ants, Birds, and Trees
Stacy M. Philpott et al.
Conservation Biology 22(5) 1093-1105