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

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
Piou, C. ; Berger, U. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2009). Spatial structure of a leaf-removing crab population in a mangrove of North-Brazil. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 17 (2) , 93-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/$11273-008-9089-3
Urish, Daniel W. ; Wright, Raymond M. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Rodriguez, Wilfrid. (2009). Dynamic Hydrology of a Mangrove Island: Twin Cays, Belize . Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium (473-490) Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press .
Whigham, Dennis F. ; Whigham, Michael C. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Rodriguez, Wilfred ; King, Ryan S. (2009). Ecological characteristics of Batis maritima in Florida and Belize . Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium (491-500)
Piou, C. ; Berger, U. ; Hildenbrandt, H. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2008). Testing the intermediate disturbance hypothesis in species-poor systems: A simulation experiment for mangrove forests . Journal of Vegetation Science, 19 , 417-424.

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