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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

Animal-Plant Interaction

Principal Investigator

Ilka Feller

felleri@si.edu

Specialty

Mangrove Ecologist

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Reef, Ruth ; Ruess, Roger W. (2014). Variable effects of nutrient enrichment on soil respiration in mangrove forests. Plant and Soil, 379 (1-2) , 135-148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6
Reef, Ruth ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Lovelock, Catherine E. (2014). Mammalian herbivores in Australia transport nutrients from terrestrial to marine ecosystems via mangroves . Journal of Tropical Ecology, 30 (3) , 179-188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0266467414000054
Riley, Megan E. ; Johnston, Cora A. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Griffen, Blaine D. (2014). Range Expansion of Aratus pisonii (Mangrove Tree Crab) into Novel Vegetative Habitats. Southeastern Naturalist, 13 (4) , N43-N48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1656/058.013.0405
Feller, Ilka C. ; Chamberlain, Anne H. ; Piou, Cyril ; Chapman, Samantha ; Lovelock, Catherine E. (2013). Latitudinal Patterns of Herbivory in Mangrove Forests: Consequences of Nutrient Over-Enrichment. Ecosystems, 16 (7) , 1203-1215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-013-9678-8
Simpson, Loraé T. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Chapman, Samantha K. (2013). Effects of competition and nutrient enrichemnt on avicennia germinans in the salt marsh-mangrove ecotone . Aquatic Botany, 104 , 55-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2012.09.006
Vogt, Juliane ; Skóra, Annegret ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Piou, Cyril ; Coldren, Glenn ; Berger, Uta. (2012). Investigating the role of impoundment and forest structure on the resistance and resilience of mangrove forests to hurricanes . Aquatic Botany, 97 (1) , 24-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2011.10.006
Chapman, Samantha K. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2011). Away-field advantage: mangrove seedlings grow best in litter from other mangrove species. Oikos, 120 (12) , 1880-1888. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19381.x
Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Adame, Maria Fernanda ; Reef, Ruth ; Penrose, Helen M. ; Wei, Lili ; Ball, Marilyn C. (2011). Intense storms and the delivery of materials that relieve nutrient limitations in mangroves of an arid zone estuary. Functional Plant Biology, 38 (6) , 514-522. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/FP11027
Feller, Ilka C. ; Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Berger, U. ; McKee, Karen L. ; Joye, S. B. ; Ball, M. C. (2010). Biocomplexity in Mangrove Ecosystems. Annual Review of Marine Science, 2 , 395-417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163809
Reef, Ruth ; Ball, Marilyn C. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Lovelock, Catherine E. (2010). Relationships among RNA : DNA ratio, growth and elemental stoichiometry in mangrove trees . Functional Ecology, 24 (5) , 1064-1072. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01722.x
Reef, Ruth ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Lovelock, Catherine E. (2010). Nutrition of mangroves . Tree Physiology, 30 (9) , 1148-1160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpq048
(2009). Relationships Between Frequency of Ground Exposure and Forest Cover in a Mangrove Island Ecosystem . http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.568 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution .
Feller, Ilka C. ; Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Piou, C. (2009). Growth and nutrient conservation in Rhizophora mangle in response to fertilization along latitudinal and tidal gradients. Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium (345-358) Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press .
Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Ball, Marilyn C. ; Martin, Katherine ; Feller, Ilka C. (2009). Nutrient enrichment increases mortality of mangroves . PLoS Biology, 4 (5) , e5600.
Martin, Katherine C. ; Bruhn, Dan ; Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Evans, John R. ; Ball, Marilyn C. (2009). Nitrogen fertilization enhances water-use efficiency in a saline environment . Plant, Cell and Environment, 33 (3) , 344-357. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.02072.x

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