Dormancy is a common mechanism employed by short-lived organisms for persistence in a variable environment. Theory suggests that the fraction of propagules that terminate dormancy each year should be ,100% when recruitment success varies temporally. Moreover, the fraction of propagules that resumes development should vary across habitats that differ in the probability of successful recruitment ...

Despite growing recognition of the importance of ecosystem services and the economic and ecological harm caused by invasive species, linkages between invasions, changes in ecosystem functioning, and in turn, provisioning of ecosystem services remain poorly documented and poorly understood. We evaluate the economic impacts of an invasion that cascaded through a food web to cause substantial decl...

The effects of fish predation on zooplankton communities are well documented, but relatively little is known about how predation structures the genetic composition of individual populations. This study illustrates how a perturbation in the timing and strength of predation by rainbow trout directly and indirectly altered the genetic composition of a Daphnia pulicaria population in a Minnesota (U...