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Rebecca J Best

School of Earth & Sustainability, Northern Arizona University
Verified email at nau.edu
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Evolution in a community context: on integrating ecological interactions and macroevolution

MG Weber, CE Wagner, RJ Best, LJ Harmon… - Trends in ecology & …, 2017 - cell.com
Despite a conceptual understanding that evolution and species interactions are inextricably
linked, it remains challenging to study ecological and evolutionary dynamics together over …

Genotypic variation in phenological plasticity: Reciprocal common gardens reveal adaptive responses to warmer springs but not to fall frost

HF Cooper, KC Grady, JA Cowan, RJ Best… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Species faced with rapidly shifting environments must be able to move, adapt, or acclimate
in order to survive. One mechanism to meet this challenge is phenotypic plasticity: altering …

Complementarity in marine biodiversity manipulations: reconciling divergent evidence from field and mesocosm experiments

JJ Stachowicz, RJ Best… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Mounting concern over the loss of marine biodiversity has increased the urgency of
understanding its consequences. This urgency spurred the publication of many short-term studies, …

Trophic cascades in seagrass meadows depend on mesograzer variation in feeding rates, predation susceptibility, and abundance

RJ Best, JJ Stachowicz - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2012 - int-res.com
Seagrasses provide important habitat for fishes and invertebrates but are declining around
the globe, often due to overgrowth by algae. One hypothesis for this overgrowth is that …

Exotic herbivores directly facilitate the exotic grasses they graze: mechanisms for an unexpected positive feedback between invaders

RJ Best, P Arcese - Oecologia, 2009 - Springer
The ability of an exotic species to establish in a system may depend not only on the invasibility
of the native community, but also on its interactions with other exotic species. Though …

Prey diversity is associated with weaker consumer effects in a meta‐analysis of benthic marine experiments

KF Edwards, KM Aquilino, RJ Best, KL Sellheim… - Ecology …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… On average, these experiments have shown a positive effect of species richness on ecosystem
function, but experimental polycultures on average tend to perform no better than the best

Genotypic diversity and grazer identity interactively influence seagrass and grazer biomass

AR Hughes, RJ Best, JJ Stachowicz - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2010 - int-res.com
Despite experimental evidence for effects of primary producer diversity and consumer species
diversity on population and community processes, little is known about how diversity at …

Study of optimal temperature, pH and stability of dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus) peel for use as potential natural colorant.

KV Harivaindaran, OP Rebecca… - Pakistan journal of …, 2008 - europepmc.org
… The best condition to obtain highest betacyanin content was heating samples at 100 …
The next part of this study involved the stability test of the pigments obtained through the best

Automated brain tumor segmentation and detection in MRI using enhanced Darwinian particle swarm optimization (EDPSO)

V Vijay, AR Kavitha, SR Rebecca - Procedia Computer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
… The coefficients w, ɏ1 and ɏ2 assign weights to the inertial influence, the global best and
the local best when determining the new velocity, respectively 1 and 2 are constant integer …

[BOOK][B] What works in girls' education: Evidence for the world's best investment

GB Sperling, R Winthrop - 2015 - books.google.com
… Thus, this second aspect is why we believe that girls’ education is the best investment that
can be made anywhere in the world. In advanced nations, we are used to hearing the case for …