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ECOLOGYVOL. 87 • NO. ] 2 ' DECEMBER 2006

ISSN 0012-9658

CONTENTS

Reporte

2959A climatic driver for abrupt mid-Holocenevegetation dynamics and the hemlock declinein New England • DAVID R. FOSTER, W. WYATTOSWALD, EDWARD K. FAÍSON. ELAINE D. DOUGHTYAND BARBARA C. S, HANSEN

2967Crown ratio influences allometric scaiing in trees• ANÑIKKI MÁKELÁ AND HARRY T. VALENTINE

2973The distribution of lianas and their change inabundance in températe forests oyer the past 45years • RÓÑALO A. LONDRÉ AND STEFAN A. SCHNITZER

2979The fear of being caten reduces energy transferin a simple food chain • GEOFFREY C. TRUSSELL,PATRICK J, EWANCHUK, AND CATHERINE M. MATASSA

2985The role of environmental and spatial processesin structuring lake communities from bacteria toflsh • BEATRIX E. BEISNER, PEDRO R. PERES-NETO, EVA S,LINDSTRÓM, ALLAIN BARNETT, AND MARÍA LORENALONGHI

2992Phytoplankton food quality determines timeWindows for successful zooplankton reproduc-tive pulses • CRISTIAN A. VARGAS, RUBÉN ESCRIBANO,AND SERGE POULET

3000Local extinction of grassland plants: The land-scape matrix is more important than patchattributes • NICHOLAS S. G. WILLLIAMS, JOHN W.MORGAN, MICHAEL A, McCARTHY AND MARK J,McDONNELL

3007Massive and distinctive effects of meadow voleson grassland vegetation • HENRY F. HOWE, BARBARAZORN-ARNOLD, AMY SULLIVAN, AND JOEL S. BROWN

3014Resources and offspring provisioning: a test ofthe Trexler-DeAngelis model for matrotrophyevolution • EDIE MARSH-MATTHEWS AND RAELYNNDEATON

Statistical Reporte

3021Weighted distributions and estimation of resourceselection probability functions • SUBHASH R. LELEAND JONAH L KEIM

Articles

3029Evidence of large-scale source-sink dynamicsand long-distance dispersal among Wood Thrushpopulations • REBECCA TITTLER, LENORE FAHRIG, ANDMARC-ANDRÉ VILLARD

3037Spatial spread of an emerging infectious disease:conjunctivitis in House Finches • PARVIEZ R.HOSSEINI, AÑORÉ A. DHONDT, AND ANDY P DOBSON

3047Diversity, ecosystem function, and stability of par-asitoid-host interactions across a tropical habitatgradient • JASON M. TYLIANAK1S, TEJA TSCHARNTKE,AND ALEXANDRA-MARIA KLEIN

3058Food quality, competition, and parasitism influ-ence feeding preference in a Neotropical lepi-dopteran • THOMAS A. KURSAR, BRETT T. WOLFE,MARY JANE EPPS, AND PHYLLIS D. COLEY

3070Parsnip webworms and host plants at home andabroad: trophic complexity in a geographic mo-saic • MAY R, BERENBAUM AND ARTHUR R. ZANGERL

3082Current shifts and kin aggregation explaingenetic patchiness in fish recruits • K/MBERLY A.SELKOE, STEVEN D. GAINES, JENNIFER E, CASELLE, ANDROBERT R. WARNER

3095Linking movement, diving, and habitat to foragingsuccess in a large marine predator • DEBORAHAUSTIN, W. DON BOWEN, JIM I. McMILLAN, AND SARA J.IVERSON

3109Counterintuitive density-dependent growth in along-lived vertébrate after removal of nest preda-tors • RICKY-JOHN SPENCER, FREDRIC J, JANZEN, ANDMICHAEL B. THOMPSON

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