Karl Cottenie

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• Priority effects of stream eutrophication and assembly history on beta diversity across aquatic consumers, decomposers and producers
• A Metacognitive Instructional Guide to Support Effective Studying Strategies
• Examining the effects of heterospecific abundance on dispersal in forest small mammals
• At each site its diversity: DNA barcoding reveals remarkable earthworm diversity in neotropical rainforests of French Guiana
• Reconciling seascape genetics and fisheries science in three codistributed flatfishes
• Ethanol eDNA Reveals Unique Community Composition of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Compared to Bulk Tissue Metabarcoding in a Biomonitoring Sampling Scheme
• Floods homogenize aquatic communities across time but not across space in a Neotropical floodplain
• Mapping and understanding the vulnerability of northern peatlands to permafrost thaw at scales relevant to community adaptation planning
• Spatio-temporal analyses show conflicting evidence of the role of an invasive minnow in the decline of an endangered desert fish endemic to the south-western U.S.A.
• Variation in space and time: a long-term examination of density-dependent dispersal in a woodland rodent
• Assessment of stream macroinvertebrate communities with eDNA is not congruent with tissue-based metabarcoding
• Transposable element persistence via potential genome-level ecosystem engineering
• Into the wild: microbiome transplant studies need broader ecological reality
• Stochastic and deterministic processes drive wetland community assembly across a gradient of environmental filtering
• Perception of Biology Instructors on Using Student Evaluations to Inform Their Teaching
• Distinctive macroinvertebrate communities in a subtropical river network
• Restored native prairie supports abundant and species-rich native bee communities on conventional farms
• Individual foraging location, but not dietary, specialization: implications for rhinoceros auklets as samplers of forage fish
• Maintenance of agricultural drains alters physical habitat, but not macroinvertebrate assemblages exploited by fishes
• The effects of roads on habitat selection and movement patterns of the American badger subspecies Taxidea taxus jacksoni in Ontario, Canada
• Fish assemblages in agricultural drains are resilient to habitat change caused by drain maintenance
• The importance of taxonomic resolution for additive beta diversity as revealed through DNA barcoding
• Yes! There are Resilient Generalizations (or “Laws”) in Ecology
• Taxonomic resolution based on DNA barcoding affects environmental signal in metacommunity structure
• Different roles of environmental variables and spatial factors in structuring stream benthic diatom and macroinvertebrate in Yangtze River Delta, China
• Concept mapping as means to critical thinking textbar Teaching and Learning Innovations
• Detecting signatures of competition from observational data: a combined approach using DNA barcoding, diversity partitioning and checkerboards at small spatial scales
• The impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on plant species richness in the freshwater lakes of Algonquin Provincial Park
• The role of local and regional processes on population synchrony along the gradients of habitat specialization - Pandit - 2016 - Ecosphere - Wiley Online Library
• Variation in plant community composition and vegetation carbon pools a decade following a severe fire season in interior Alaska
• Study of biofilms on PVDF membranes after chemical cleaning by sodium hypochlorite
• A comparative analysis reveals weak relationships between ecological factors and beta diversity of stream insect metacommunities at two spatial levels
• Applying ecological models to communities of genetic elements: the case of neutral theory
• Dispersal abilities of riverine freshwater mussels influence metacommunity structure
• Metacommunity versus Biogeography: A Case Study of Two Groups of Neotropical Vegetation-Dwelling Arthropods
• Changes in migratory fish communities and their health, hydrology, and water chemistry in rivers of the Athabasca oil sands region: a review of historical and current data
• A novel application of ecological analyses to assess transposable element distributions in the genome of the domestic cow, Bos taurus
• A critical analysis of the ubiquity of linear local–regional richness relationships
• Distinguishing ecological from evolutionary approaches to transposable elements
• Distribution of unionid freshwater mussels depends on the distribution of host fishes on a regional scale
• Improving dichotomous keys for undergraduate teaching
• Population synchrony decreases with richness and increases with environmental fluctuations in an experimental metacommunity
• Spatial Variability in Plant Predation Determines the Strength of Stochastic Community Assembly
• A Metacommunity Framework for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Biological Monitoring Strategies
• The terminology of metacommunity ecology
• Common and rare species respond to similar niche processes in macroinvertebrate metacommunities
• Response of Migratory Sea Lampreys to Artificial Lighting in Portable Traps
• Patterns of tree diversity in response to logging in Algonquin Provincial Park
• Dispersal limitation of unionid mussels and implications for their conservation
• Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi-terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal abilities sampled in the same plots
• Aquatic connectivity and fish metacommunities in wetlands of the lower Great Lakes
• Hierarchical zooplankton metacommunities: distinguishing between high and limiting dispersal mechanisms
• Spatial autocorrelation and dispersal limitation in freshwater organisms
• Contrasts between habitat generalists and specialists: an empirical extension to the basic metacommunity framework
• Plant and fungal identity determines pathogen protection of plant roots by arbuscular mycorrhizas
• Exploring differences in macroinvertebrate communities from emergent, floating-leaved and submersed vegetation in shallow ponds
• The relative importance of dispersal and local processes in structuring phytoplankton communities in a set of highly interconnected ponds
• The power of species sorting: Local factors drive bacterial community composition over a wide range of spatial scales
• Little evidence for climate effects on local-scale structure and dynamics of California kelp forest communities
• Top-Down Vs. Bottom-Up Effects in Kelp Forests
• Strong Top-Down Control in Southern California Kelp Forest Ecosystems
• Integrating environmental and spatial processes in ecological community dynamics
• Metacommunity Structure: Synergy of Biotic Interactions as Selective Agents and Dispersal as Fuel
• Connectivity and cladoceran species richness in a metacommunity of shallow lakes
• Zooplankton Metacommunity Structure: Regional Vs. Local Processes in Highly Interconnected Ponds
• The status of some exotic cladoceran (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) species in the Belgian fauna.
• Zooplankton community structure and environmental conditions in a set of interconnected ponds