ESA Bulletin

A companion "paper" to our recent Ecology article about the arthropod responses at Helluvaðstjörn just came out in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.  This is like a show-and-tell for ecologists where recent papers from ESA journals are highlighted by providing some photos with brief descriptions.  Some of these photos may be familiar to long-term followers of this blog, but I'll post the Bulletin pages below so you can see the layout.  Many people who have been involved with this project are in the photos including Maddy, Hilary, Kyle, Ted, Jaclyn, Jamin and Bre (see if you can find us all :).

I had to convert the pdf into a jpg to get it to show up on the blog and decided bigger was better even though it cuts off a little bit of the page. Here is the text from the first page:

Aquatic insects are a common and important subsidy to terrestrial systems. Hoekman et al. simulated lake-to-lake insect deposition in a field experiment in northern Iceland. They hypothesized a positive bottom-up response of detritivores that would be transmitted to their predators and would persist into the following year. Midge addition resulted in significantly different arthropod communities and increased arthropod densities, especially detritivores. By manipulating the nutrient pulse delivered by midges, they were able to elucidate food web consequences of midge deposition and subsequent spatial and temporal dynamics.