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

Feller, Ilka C. ; Chamberlain, Anne. (2007). Herbivore responses to nutrient enrichment and landscape heterogeneity in a mangrove ecosystem . Oecologia, 153 (3) , 607-616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-007-0760-9
Feller, Ilka C. ; Lovelock, Catherine E. ; McKee, Karen L. (2007). Nutrient addition differentially affects ecological processes of Avicennia germinans in nitrogen vs. phosphorus limited mangrove ecosystems . Ecosystems, 10 , 347-359.
Feller, Ilka C., Lovelock, Catherine and Mckee, K. L. (2007). Nutrient addition differentially affects ecological processes of Avicennia germinans in nitrogen versus phosphorus limited mangrove ecosystems . Ecosystems, 10 (3) , 347-359. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-007-9025-z
Lovelock, Catherine ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Ball, M. C. ; Ellis, J. ; Sorrell, B. (2007). Testing the growth rate vs. geochemical hypothesis for latitudinal variation in plant nutrients. Ecology Letters, 10 (12) , 1154-1163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01112.x
Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Ellis, J. ; Schwarz, A. M. ; Hancock, N. ; Nichols, P. ; Sorrell, B. (2007). Mangrove Growth in New Zealand Estuaries: The Role of Nutrient Enrichment at Sites with Contrasting Rates of Sedimentation . Oecologia, 153 (3) , 633-641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-007-0750-y
Mckee, K. L., Cahoon, D. R. and Feller, Ilka C. (2007). Caribbean mangroves adjust to rising sea level through biotic controls on change in soil elevation. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16 (5) , 545-556. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00317.x
McKee, Karen L. ; Cahoon, Donald R. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2007). Caribbean Mangroves Adjust to Rising Sea Levels through Biotic Controls on Change in Soil Elevation . Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16 (5) , 545-556. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00317.x
McKee, Karen L. ; Rooth, J. E. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2007). Mangrove recruitment after forest disturbance is facilitated by herbaceous species common to the Caribbean region . Ecological Applications, 17 , 1678-1693.
Wanek, W. ; Hofmann, J. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2007). Canopy interactions of rainfall in an off-shore mangrove ecosystem dominated by Rhizophora mangle (Belize) . Journal of Hydrology, 345 , 70-79.
Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Ball, M. C. ; Choat, B. ; Engelbrecht, Bettina M. J. ; Holbrook, N. M. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2006). Linking physiological processes with mangrove forest structure: phosphorus deficiency limits canopy development, hydraulic conductivity and photosynthetic carbon gain in dwarf Rhizophora mangle . Plant, Cell and Environment, 29 , 793-802.
Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Ball, M. C. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Engelbrecht, Bettina M. J. ; Ewe, M. M. (2006). Variation in hydraulic conductivity of mangroves: influence of species, salinity, and nitrogen phosophorus availability . Physiologia Plantarum, 127 , 457-464.
Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Ball, M. C. ; Engelbrecht, Bettina M. J. ; Ewe, M. L. (2006). Differences in plant function in phosphorus-and-nitrogen-limited mangrove ecosystems . New Phytologist, 172 , 514-522.
Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Ruess, R. W. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2006). Fine root respiration int he mangrove Rhizophora mangle over variation in forest stature and nutrient availability. Tree Physiology, 26 , 1601-1606.
Piou, C. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Berger, U. ; Chi, F. (2006). Zonation patterns of Belizean offshore mangrove forests 41 years after a catastrophic hurricane . Biotropica, 38 , 365-374.
Levine, M. T. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2004). Effects of forest age and disturbance on population persistence in the understory herb, Arisaema triphyllum (Araceae) . Plant Ecology, 172 , 73-82.

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