Do terrestrial ecologists ignore aquatic literature?

Menge, Bruce A.; Chan, Francis; Dudas, Sarah E.; Eerkes-Medrano, Dafne; Grorud-Colvert, Kirsten; Heiman, Kimberly W.; Hessing‐Lewis, Margot; Iles, Alison C.; Milston-Clements, Ruth; Noble, Mae M.; Page-Albins, Kimberly N.; Richmond, Erin L.; Rilov, Gil; Rose, Jeremy M.; Tyburczy, Joe; Vinueza, Luis; Zarnetske, Phoebe L.

doi:10.1890/09.wb.010

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“…This perception is reinforced by compartmentalization within academic institutions and funding agencies (Raffaelli et al . 2005; Menge et al . 2009).…”

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“…2009). Yet, information sharing across the land–sea boundary has fostered the development and dissemination of many valuable ecological insights, including concepts such as spatial and temporal scales and trophic cascades (Halley 2005; Menge et al . 2009; Terborgh and Estes 2010), and helped to answer pressing environmental questions, such as the nature of global carbon cycling (Cole 2005).…”

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A comparison of shark and wolf research reveals similar behavioral responses by prey

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Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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Marine and terrestrial ecologists rarely exchange information, yet comparing research from both sides of the land–sea boundary holds great potential for improving our understanding of ecological processes. For example, by comparing the interaction between tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) and dugongs (Dugong dugon) to that between gray wolves (Canis lupus) and elk (Cervus elaphus), we show that top predators in marine and terrestrial ecosystems trigger three similar types of anti‐predator behavior: (1) encounter avoidance, (2) escape facilitation, and (3) increased vigilance. By implication, the ecological roles of top predators in both ecosystems may be more similar than previously thought, and studies that fail to account for multiple modes of anti‐predator behavior are likely to underestimate these roles and the consequences of eliminating predators from ecosystems. We encourage more communication between marine and terrestrial ecologists, in the interest of generating further insights into ecosystem dynamics and conservation.

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“…This perception is reinforced by compartmentalization within academic institutions and funding agencies (Raffaelli et al . 2005; Menge et al . 2009).…”

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A comparison of shark and wolf research reveals similar behavioral responses by prey

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2010

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

107

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“…Hotspot analysis illustrating clustering of ecological activity (see Fig. 1 (Grant et al 2007), and illustrate communication gaps between sub-disciplines within ecology (Menge et al 2009). Grant et al's (2007) ranking of conservation biology programs by US states and Canadian provinces as a function of publication and citation rates generally coincided with the ecological hotspots we identified herein.…”

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The landscape of ecology

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Abstract. Science, and ecology, is fundamentally a social endeavor. As such, central aspects of the scientific process, like innovation or the exchange of ideas, can be influenced by the geographic distribution of scientists and resources. Nonetheless, the spatial patterning of ecological research within the United States has never been measured. By using an approach similar to that used to map global biodiversity hotspots, we quantified ecological research activity across the United States. We assigned members of Ecological Society of America, recipients of National Science Foundation grants, and authors of publications in leading ecological journals to the ZIP code of their home institution. Using these data we mapped the density of ecologists, and the magnitude of their inputs and outputs, and quantified an ''ecological activity'' index to measure the spatial intensity of ecological research within the United States. We also examined spatial patterns of collaboration. Our quantification of ecological activity and subsequent cluster analysis revealed distinct centers, or hotspots, of ecological research. Our analyses also indicated that such hotspots of ecological activity achieved their status via different pathways. Furthermore, ecologists within hotspots of ecological research were highly connected via collaborations with researchers across the country and within their own ZIP code.

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Ecology is the study of interactions that determine the distribution and abundance of organisms and its main goal is to discover widely applicable, general principles in nature [1]. Ecology therefore integrates traditional disciplines like zoology and botany, and terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems.

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“…It is, however, symptomatic as others have shown how terrestrial ecologists often under-cite aquatic research [1,33]. For example, there are virtually no references to aquatic case studies in past forest studies on cascading habitat-formation [17,18,20,34,35 -40].…”

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