2015 Spring Publications from the Department of Ecology and Evolution

• Akçakaya, H.R., S.H.M. Butchart, J.E.M. Watson, R.G. Pearson. 2014. Preventing species extinctions resulting from climate change. Nature Climate Change 4:1048-1049.
  
  
• Pacifi, M., W.B. Foden, P. Visconti, J.E.M. Watson, S. H.M. Butchart, K.M. Kovacs, B.R. Scheffers, D.G. Hole, T.G. Martin, H.R. Akçakaya, R.T. Corlett, B. Huntley, D. Bickford, J.A. Carr, A.A. Hoffmann, G.F. Midgley, P. P. Kelly, R.G.Pearson, S.E. Williams, S.G. Willis, B. Young, C. Rondinini. 2015. Assessing species vulnerability to climate change. Nature Climate Change (in press)
  
  
• Stanton , J.C., K.T. Shoemaker, R.G. Pearson, H.R. Akçakaya. 2015. Warning times for species extinctions due to climate change. Global Change Biology 21:1066–1077.
  
  
• Shoemaker, K.T. and H.R. Akçakaya. 2015. Inferring the nature of anthropogenic threats from long-term abundance records. Conservation Biology 29:238-249.
  
  
• Elizabeth G. Atkinson, Jeffrey Rogers, Michael C. Mahaney, Laura A. Cox, and James M. Cheverud. 2015. Cortical Folding of the Primate Brain: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Genetic Architecture, Modularity, and Evolvability of a Significant Neurological Trait in Pedigreed Baboons (Genus Papio). Genetics Vol.200, 651–665.
  
  
• Borrelli, J.J. 2015. Selection against instability: stable subgraphs are most frequent in empirical food webs. Oikos (in press)
  
  
• Futuyma, D. J. 2015. Can modern evolutionary theory explain macroevolution? Pp. 29-85 in Macroevolution: Evidence, Measurement, Explanation, ed. E. Serrelli and N. Gontier, Springer.
• Futuyma, D. J. 2015. Basic evolutionary theory. In M. P. Muehlenbein (ed.), Basics in Human Evolution. Chapter 1, pp. 3-14. Academic Press (Elsevier), London and San Diego.
• Borrelli, J.J. and Ginzburg, L.R. 2014. Why there are so few trophic levels: selection against instability explains the pattern. Food Webs. doi:10.1016/j.fooweb.2014.11.002
  
  
• B. Weinstein, B.Tinoco, J. Parra, L Brown, and C. Graham. Taxonomic, Phylogenetic and Trait betadiverisity in South American Hummingbirds. The American Naturalist. 184, 2:211-224
  
  
• Gillett, David, J., Stephan B. Weisberg, Treda Grayson, Anna Hamilton, Virginia Hansen, Erik W. Leppo, Marguerite C. Pelletier, Angel Borja, Donald Cadien, Daniel Dauer, Robert Diaz, Margaret Dutch, Jeffery L. Hyland, Michael Kellog, Peter Larsen, Jeffrey Levinton, Roberto Llansó, Lawrence L. Lovel, Paul Montagna, Dean Pasko, Charles A. Phillips, Chet Rakocinski, J. Ananda Ranasinghe, Denise M. Sanger, Heliana Teixeira, Robert F. Van Dolah, Ronald G. Velarde, and Kathy I. Welch. 2015. Effect of ecological group classification schemes on performance of the AMBI benthic index in US coastal waters. Ecological Indicators 50:99-107.
  
  
• Levinton, J., S. Lord, Y. Higashide. 2015. Are crabs stressed for water on a hot sand flat? Water loss and field water state of two species of intertidal fiddler crabs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 469:57-62.
  
  
• Sebastiano, D., J.S. Levinton, M. Doall, S. Kamath. 2015. Using a shellfish harvesting strategy to extract high nitrogen inputs in urban and suburban coastal bays: practical and economic implications. Journal of Shellfish Research 34: 573-583.
  
  
• Dianna K. Padilla, Michael McCann, Mica McCarty-Glenn, Alexandra Hooks, Sandra E. Shumway. 2014. Effect of food on time to metamorphic competence in the model system, Crepidula fornicata. Biological Bulletin. 227:242-251.
  
  
• Dianna K. Padilla, Thomas L. Daniel, Patsy S. Dickinson, Daniel Grünbaum, Cheryl Hayashi, Donal T. Manahan, James H. Marden, Billie J. Swalla and Brian Tsukimura. 2014. Addressing grand challenges in organismal biology - the need for synthesis. BioScience 64:1178-1187.
  
  
• Alexander Y. Karatayev, Lyubov E. Burlakova and Dianna K. Padilla. 2015. Zebra versus quagga mussels: a review of their spread, population dynamics, and ecosystem impacts. Hydrobiologia. 746:97-112.
  
  
• Alexander Y. Karatayev, Lyubov E. Burlakova, Sergey E. Mastitsky, and Dianna K. Padilla. 2015. Predicting the spread of aquatic invaders: insight from 200 years of invasion by zebra mussels. Ecological Applications. 25:430-440.
  
  
• Alexander Y. Karatayev, Demetrio Boltovskoy, Lyubov Burlakova and Dianna K. Padilla. 2015. Parallels and contrasts between Limnoperna fortunei and species of Dreissena. In: Limnoperna fortunei: the ecology, distribution and control of a swiftly spreading invasive fouling mussel, Demetrio Boltovskoy, Editor. Springer.
  
  
• Xi, Z., L. Liu, J.S. Rest, C.C. Davis. 2014. Coalescent versus concatenation methods and the placement of Amborella as sister to water lilies. Systematic Biology. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syu055.
  
  
• Martinez, C.A., J.S. Rest, A-R. Kim, M.Z. Ludwig, M. Kreitman, K.P. White, J. Reinitz. 2014. Ancestral resurrection of the Drosophila S2E enhancer reveals accessible evolutionary paths through compensatory change. Molecular Biology and Evolution. doi:10.1093/molbev/msu042.
  
  
• Heather Tallis, et al. 2014. A call for inclusive conservation. Nature. 515:27-28.
  
  
• David S. Salisbury, Ben G. Weinstein. Cultural Diversity in the Amazon Borderlands: Implications for Conservation and Development. Journal of Borderlands Studies. 29, 2.
  
  
• Ben G. Weinstein. 2014. MotionMeerkat: Integrating motion video detection and ecological monitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.