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Volume 6 (2009), Issue 7 (July)

1. Health of the homeless and climate change.
   J Urban Health, 86(4): 654-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. The covariance between genetic and environmental influences across ecological gradients: reassessing the evolutionary significance of countergradient and cogradient variation.
   Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1168: 100-29. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Abundance and the environmental niche: environmental suitability estimated from niche models predicts the upper limit of local abundance.
   Am Nat, 174(2): 282-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. The astysphere and urban geochemistry-a new approach to integrate urban systems into the geoscientific concept of spheres and a challenging concept of modern geochemistry supporting the sustainable development of planet earth.
   Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, 16(5): 539-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Genetic structure and population dynamics of a heteroecious plant pathogen Melampsora larici-epitea in short-rotation coppice willow plantations.
   Mol Ecol, 18(14): 3006-19. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Modeling the costs and benefits of dam construction from a multidisciplinary perspective.
   J Environ Manage, 90: S303-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Genetic diversity and peculiarity of annual wild soybean (G. soja Sieb. et Zucc.) from various eco-regions in China.
   Theor Appl Genet, 119(2): 371-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Evidence of a biological effect of light therapy on the retina of patients with seasonal affective disorder.
   Biol Psychiatry, 66(3): 253-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. New nitrogen uptake strategy: specialized snow roots.
   Ecol Lett, 12(8): 758-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant diversity in New England salt marshes.
    Ecol Lett, 12(8): 842-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Climate change and parasitic disease: farmer mitigation?
    Trends Parasitol, 25(7): 308-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Evidence for a Cenozoic radiation of ferns in an angiosperm-dominated canopy.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(27): 11200-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. The Arctic as a model for anticipating, preventing, and mitigating climate change impacts on host-parasite interactions.
    Vet Parasitol, 163(3): 217-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Translocation experiments with butterflies reveal limits to enhancement of poleward populations under climate change.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(27): 11160-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Contingencies and compounded rare perturbations dictate sudden distributional shifts during periods of gradual climate change.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(27): 11172-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Evaluation of pityriasis versicolor in prisoners: a cross-sectional study.
    Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol, 75(4): 379-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. The current refugial rainforests of Sundaland are unrepresentative of their biogeographic past and highly vulnerable to disturbance.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(27): 11188-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. The status of wildlife in protected areas compared to non-protected areas of Kenya.
    PLoS One, 4(7): e6140. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Acetylcholinesterase activity in Gammarus fossarum (Crustacea Amphipoda) Intrinsic variability, reference levels, and a reliable tool for field surveys.
    Aquat Toxicol, 93(4): 225-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Seasonal pelage changes are synchronized by simulated natural photoperiods in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus).
    J Exp Zool A Ecol Genet Physiol, 311(7): 475-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Late Cretaceous seasonal ocean variability from the Arctic.
    Nature, 460(7252): 254-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Phase change material for thermotherapy of Buruli ulcer: modelling as an aid to implementation.
    J Med Eng Technol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Applying the Theory of Island Biogeography to Emerging Pathogens: Toward Predicting the Sources of Future Emerging Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases.
    Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Consistency between satellite-derived and modeled estimates of the direct aerosol effect.
    Science, 325(5937): 187-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Rapid radiation of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) during Pliocene and Pleistocene: result of a global climate change.
    Mol Phylogenet Evol, 52(3): 806-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Rapid response of a marine mammal species to holocene climate and habitat change.
    PLoS Genet, 5(7): e1000554. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Metabolic, ventilatory and hygric physiology of the chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii; Marsupialia, Dasyuridae).
    Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol, 154(1): 92-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Climate change effects on migration phenology may mismatch brood parasitic cuckoos and their hosts.
    Biol Lett, 5(4): 539-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Climate change and sexual size dimorphism in an Arctic spider.
    Biol Lett, 5(4): 542-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Endocrine disruption in the context of life cycles: perception and transduction of environmental cues.
    Gen Comp Endocrinol, 163(1): 92-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Optimum land cover products for use in a Glossina-morsitans habitat model of Kenya.
    Int J Health Geogr, 8: 39. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Reef endemism, host specificity and temporal stability in populations of symbiotic dinoflagellates from two ecologically dominant Caribbean corals.
    PLoS One, 4(7): e6262. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Architectural plasticity in young Eucalyptus marginata on restored bauxite mines and adjacent natural forest in south-western Australia.
    Tree Physiol, 29(8): 1033-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Deep-sea temperature and ice volume changes across the Pliocene-Pleistocene climate transitions.
    Science, 325(5938): 306-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Large and unexpected enrichment in stratospheric 16O13C18O and its meridional variation.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(28): 11496-501. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Extinction implications of a chenopod browse diet for a giant Pleistocene kangaroo.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(28): 11646-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Re-evaluation of forest biomass carbon stocks and lessons from the world's most carbon-dense forests.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(28): 11635-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. To have or not to have: the critical importance of reproductive rights to the paradox of population policies in the 21st century.
    Int J Gynaecol Obstet, 106(2): 148-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Thermodynamic modelling predicts energetic bottleneck for seabirds wintering in the northwest Atlantic.
    J Exp Biol, 212: 2483-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Investigating unsaturated fat, monensin, or bromoethanesulfonate in continuous cultures retaining ruminal protozoa. I. Fermentation, biohydrogenation, and microbial protein synthesis.
    J Dairy Sci, 92(8): 3849-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Psychological science's contributions to a sustainable environment: Extending our reach to a grand challenge of society.
    Am Psychol, 64(5): 339-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Experimental infections with the tropical monogenean, Gyrodactylus bullatarudis: potential invader or experimental fluke?
    Parasitol Int, 58(3): 249-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Systematic long-term observations of the global carbon cycle.
    Trends Ecol Evol, 24(8): 427-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Distribution history and climatic controls of the Late Miocene Pikermian chronofauna.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(29): 11867-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. In-situ measurements of the mixing state and optical properties of soot with implications for radiative forcing estimates.
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(29): 11872-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Local stressors reduce coral resilience to bleaching.
    PLoS One, 4(7): e6324. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Light limitation of nutrient-poor lake ecosystems.
    Nature, 460(7254): 506-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. The dynamics of phenotypic change and the shrinking sheep of St. Kilda.
    Science, 325(5939): 464-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Phylogeography of the Alcippe morrisonia (Aves: Timaliidae): long population history beyond late Pleistocene glaciations.
    BMC Evol Biol, 9: 143. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Promoting mental health in small-medium enterprises: an evaluation of the "Business in Mind" program.
    BMC Public Health, 9: 239. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. The roles and interactions of symbiont, host and environment in defining coral fitness.
    PLoS One, 4(7): e6364. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Major conservation policy issues for biodiversity in Oceania.
    Conserv Biol, 23(4): 834-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Conservation focus on Europe: major conservation policy issues that need to be informed by conservation science.
    Conserv Biol, 23(4): 818-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Do herbivorous minnows have "plug-flow reactor" guts? Evidence from digestive enzyme activities, gastrointestinal fermentation, and luminal nutrient concentrations.
    J Comp Physiol B, 179(6): 759-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?
    Proc Biol Sci, 276(1670): 3037-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Models for analysing species' presence/absence data at two time points.
    J Theor Biol, 259(4): 684-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Disparities between observed and predicted impacts of climate change on winter bird assemblages.
    Proc Biol Sci, 276(1670): 3167-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Global latitudinal variations in marine copepod diversity and environmental factors.
    Proc Biol Sci, 276(1670): 3053-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Seasonal variation, source, and regional representativeness of the background aerosol from two remote sites in western China.
    Environ Monit Assess. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. The impact of habitat fragmentation on tsetse abundance on the plateau of eastern Zambia.
    Prev Vet Med, 91(1): 11-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Where do species' geographic ranges stop and why? Landscape impermeability and the Afrotropical avifauna.
    Proc Biol Sci, 276(1670): 3063-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Spatial analysis of plague in California: niche modeling predictions of the current distribution and potential response to climate change.
    Int J Health Geogr, 8: 38. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances.
    J Anim Ecol, 78(4): 699-714. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Heat-related side-effects of neurological and non-neurological medication may increase heatwave fatalities.
    Eur J Neurol, 16(7): 879-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Climate change, habitat loss, protected areas and the climate adaptation potential of species in mediterranean ecosystems worldwide.
    PLoS One, 4(7): e6392. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. Biological approaches to global environment change mitigation and remediation.
    Curr Biol, 19(14): R615-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. Impacts of climate change on marine organisms and ecosystems.
    Curr Biol, 19(14): R602-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Ecological change, range fluctuations and population dynamics during the Pleistocene.
    Curr Biol, 19(14): R584-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Climate as a driver of evolutionary change.
    Curr Biol, 19(14): R575-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. Variation in moss-associated nitrogen fixation in boreal forest stands.
    Oecologia, 161(2): 353-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Pollination and restoration.
    Science, 325(5940): 571-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. Ecological restoration in the light of ecological history.
    Science, 325(5940): 567-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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