Publications | Weecology

SE Hampton, M.B. Jones, L.A. Wasser, M.P. Schildhauer, S.R. Supp, J. Brun, R.R. Hernandez, C. Boettiger, S.L. Collins, L.J. Gross, D.S. Fernández, A. Budden, E.P. White, T.K. Teal, S. Labou, J.E. Aukema (2018). Skills and knowledge for data-intensive environmental research. Bioscience.

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K. Riemer, R. P Guralnick, E. P White (2018). No general relationship between mass and temperature in endothermic species. eLife.

K Riemer, RP Guralnick, EP White (2018). No general relationship between mass and temperature in endothermic species. eLife.

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M. C Dietze, A. Fox, L. M Beck-Johnson, J. L Betancourt, M. B Hooten, C. S Jarnevich, T. H Keitt, M. A Kenney, C. M Laney, L. G Larsen, o. (2018). Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

MC Dietze, A Fox, J Betancourt, M Hooten, C Jarnevich, T Keitt, MA Kenney, C Laney, L Larsen, HW Loescher, C Lunch, B Pijanowski, JT Randerson, E Read, A Tredennick, KC Weathers, EP White (2018). Iterative ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges. PNAS.

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K. H Bannar-Martin, C. T Kremer, S. Ernest, M. A Leibold, H. Auge, J. Chase, S. AJ Declerck, N. Eisenhauer, S. Harpole, H. Hillebrand, o. (2018). Integrating community assembly and biodiversity to better understand ecosystem function: the Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems (CAFE) approach. Ecology letters.

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DJ Harris, SD Taylor, EP White (2018). Forecasting biodiversity in breeding birds using best practices. PeerJ.

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E. P White, G. M Yenni, S. D Taylor, E. M Christensen, E. K Bledsoe, J. L Simonis, S. Morgan Ernest (2018). Developing an automated iterative near-term forecasting system for an ecological study. bioRxiv.

M Dornelas, LH Antao, F Moyes, AE Bates, AE Magurran, …, SK Morgan Ernest, …, EP White, et al (2018). BioTIME: a database of biodiversity time series for the anthropocene. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

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S. Snell, B. Evans, E. White, A. Hurlbert (2017). The prevalence and impact of transient species in ecological communities. bioRxiv.

S. E Hampton, M. B Jones, L. A Wasser, M. P Schildhauer, S. R Supp, J. Brun, R. R Hernandez, C. Boettiger, S. L Collins, L. J Gross, o. (2017). Skills and knowledge for data-intensive environmental research. Bioscience.

H Senyondo, BD Morris, A Goel, A Zhang, A Narasimha, S Negi, DJ Harris, DG Digges, K Kumar, A Jain, K Pal, K Amipara, EP White (2017). Retriever: Data Retrieval Tool. JOSS.

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G. Yenni, P. B Adler, S. Ernest (2017). Do persistent rare species experience stronger negative frequency dependence than common species?. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

M. A Leibold, J. M Chase, S. Ernest (2017). Community assembly and the functioning of ecosystems: how metacommunity processes alter ecosystems attributes. Ecology.

K. Riemer, K. J Anderson-Teixeira, F. A Smith, D. J Harris, S. Morgan Ernest (2017). Body size shifts influence effects of increasing temperatures on ectotherm metabolism. bioRxiv.

J. M Meiners, T. L Griswold, D. J Harris, S. Morgan Ernest (2017). Bees without Flowers: Before Peak Bloom, Diverse Native Bees Find Insect-Produced Honeydew Sugars. The American Naturalist.

S. Morgan Ernest, G. M. Yenni, G. Allington, E. M Christensen, K. Geluso, J. R Goheen, M. R Schutzenhofer, S. R. Supp, K. M. Thibault, J. H Brown, o. (2016). Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona (1977--2013). Ecology.

M. C Dietze, A. Fox, J. L Betancourt, M. B Hooten, C. S Jarnevich, T. H Keitt, M. Kenney, C. Laney, L. Larsen, H. W Loescher, o. (2016). Iterative ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges. NEON Workshop: Operationalizing Ecological Forecasting.

K. Mislan, J. M Heer, E. P White (2016). Elevating the status of code in ecology. Trends in ecology & evolution.

E. White (2016). Data Management Plan for Moore Investigator in Data Driven Discovery Grant. Research Ideas and Outcomes.

X. Xiao, J. P O’Dwyer, E. P White (2016). Comparing process-based and constraint-based approaches for modeling macroecological patterns. Ecology.

E. Baldridge, D. J Harris, X. Xiao, E. P White (2016). An extensive comparison of species-abundance distribution models. PeerJ.

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S. R Supp, D. N. Koons, S. Morgan Ernest (2015). Using life history trade-offs to understand core-transient structuring of a small mammal community. Ecosphere.

E. P White (2015). Some thoughts on best publishing practices for scientific software. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution.

D. McGlinn, X. Xiao, J. Kitzes, E. P White (2015). Exploring the spatially explicit predictions of the Maximum Entropy Theory of Ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

T. K Teal, K. A Cranston, H. Lapp, E. White, G. Wilson, K. Ram, A. Pawlik (2015). Data carpentry: workshops to increase data literacy for researchers. International Journal of Digital Curation.

N. P Myhrvold, E. Baldridge, B. Chan, D. Sivam, D. L Freeman, S. Ernest (2015). An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology.

X. Xiao, D. J McGlinn, E. P White (2015). A strong test of the maximum entropy theory of ecology. The American Naturalist.

X. Xiao, K. J Locey, E. P White (2015). A process-independent explanation for the general form of Taylor’s Law. The American Naturalist.

S. R Supp, S. Ernest (2014). Species-level and community-level responses to disturbance: a cross-community analysis. Ecology.

J. J Saarinen, A. G Boyer, J. H Brown, D. P Costa, S. Morgan Ernest, A. R Evans, M. Fortelius, J. L Gittleman, M. J Hamilton, L. E Harding, o. (2014). Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences.

J. P Tennant, T. Poisot, M. Fabiana Kubke, F. Michonneau, M. P Taylor, G. Steel, J. Anquetin, E. Coyte, B. Schwessinger, E. C McKiernan, o. (2014). Open Letter to The American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Winnower.

S. Morgan Ernest, E. P White (2014). Macroecology before Macroecology. Foundations of Macroecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries.

G. Wilson, D. A Aruliah, C. Titus Brown, N. P Chue Hong, M. Davis, R. T Guy, S. HD Haddock, K. D Huff, I. M Mitchell, M. D Plumbley, o. (2014). Best practices for scientific computing. PLoS biology.

S. Morgan Ernest (2013). Using size distributions to understand the role of body size in mammalian community assembly. Animal Body Size: Linking Pattern and Process across Space, Time, and Taxonomic Group.

P. Desjardins-Proulx, E. P White, J. J Adamson, K. Ram, T. Poisot, D. Gravel (2013). The case for open preprints in biology. PLoS Biology.

B. D Morris, E. P White (2013). The EcoData retriever: improving access to existing ecological data. PloS one.

J. R Coyle, A. H Hurlbert, E. P White (2013). Opposing mechanisms drive richness patterns of core and transient bird species. The American Naturalist.

E. P White, E. Baldridge, Z. T Brym, K. J Locey, D. J McGlinn, S. R Supp (2013). Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re) use your data. PeerJ PrePrints.

G. RH Allington, D. N Koons, S. Morgan Ernest, M. R Schutzenhofer, T. J Valone (2013). Niche opportunities and invasion dynamics in a desert annual community. Ecology Letters.

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K. J Locey, E. P White (2013). How species richness and total abundance constrain the distribution of abundance. Ecology letters.

J. G Okie, A. G Boyer, J. H Brown, D. P Costa, S. Morgan Ernest, A. R Evans, M. Fortelius, J. L Gittleman, M. J Hamilton, L. E Harding, o. (2013). Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences.

G. Wilson, D. Aruliah, C. Titus Brown, N. P Chue Hong, M. Davis, R. T Guy, S. HD Haddock, K. Huff, I. M Mitchell, M. Plumbley, o. (2013). Best practices for scientific computing.

D. J McGlinn, X. Xiao, E. P White (2013). An empirical evaluation of four variants of a universal species--area relationship. PeerJ.

A. R Evans, D. Jones, A. G Boyer, J. H Brown, D. P Costa, S. Morgan Ernest, E. MG Fitzgerald, M. Fortelius, J. L Gittleman, M. J Hamilton, o. (2012). The maximum rate of mammal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

G. Marie Yenni, P. Adler, S. Morgan Ernest (2012). Strong self-limitation promotes the persistence of rare species. Ecology.

E. P White, X. Xiao, J. Nick, R. M Sibly (2012). Methodological tools.

K. J Anderson-Teixeira, F. A Smith, S. Morgan Ernest (2012). Climate Change. Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach.

E. P White, K. M Thibault, X. Xiao (2012). Characterizing species abundance distributions across taxa and ecosystems using a simple maximum entropy model. Ecology.

S. Supp, X. Xiao, S. Ernest, E. White (2012). An experimental test of the response of macroecological patterns to altered species interactions. Ecology.

J. C Stegen, N. G Swenson, B. J Enquist, E. P White, O. L Phillips, P. M Jorgensen, M. D Weiser, A. Monteagudo Mendoza, P. N’u~nez Vargas (2011). Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

K. M Thibault, S. R Supp, M. Giffin, E. P White, S. Morgan Ernest (2011). Species composition and abundance of mammalian communities. Ecology.

K. J Locey, E. P White (2011). Simple structural differences between coding and noncoding DNA. PloS one.

X. Xiao, E. P White, M. B Hooten, S. L Durham (2011). On the use of log-transformation vs. nonlinear regression for analyzing biological power laws. Ecology.

K. M Thibault, E. P White, A. H Hurlbert, S. Ernest (2011). Multimodality in the individual size distributions of bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

F. A Smith, A. G Boyer, J. H Brown, D. P Costa, T. Dayan, S. Morgan Ernest, A. R Evans, M. Fortelius, J. L Gittleman, M. J Hamilton, o. (2010). The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals. science.

K. M Thibault, S. Ernest, J. H Brown (2010). Redundant or complementary? Impact of a colonizing species on community structure and function. Oikos.

S. R Supp, E. P White (2010). Measures of journal quality should separate reviews from original research. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution.

K. M Thibault, S. Morgan Ernest, E. P White, J. H Brown, J. R Goheen (2010). Long-term insights into the influence of precipitation on community dynamics in desert rodents. Journal of Mammalogy.

E. P White, S. Morgan Ernest, P. B Adler, A. H Hurlbert, S. Kathleen Lyons (2010). Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understanding species richness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

K. Thibault, S. Ernest, E. P White, J. Brown, J. Goheen (2010). Complex dynamics of rodent response to precipitation in the Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Mammalogy.

E. P White, A. H Hurlbert (2009). The combined influence of the local environment and regional enrichment on bird species richness. The American Naturalist.

H. Morlon, E. P White, R. S Etienne, J. L Green, A. Ostling, D. Alonso, B. J Enquist, F. He, A. Hurlbert, A. E Magurran, o. (2009). Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals. Ecology Letters.

S. Ernest, T. J Valone, J. H Brown (2009). Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona, USA. Ecology.

C. A Price, K. Ogle, E. P White, J. S Weitz (2009). Evaluating scaling models in biology using hierarchical Bayesian approaches. Ecology letters.

S. Ernest, E. P White, J. H Brown (2009). Changes in a tropical forest support metabolic zero-sum dynamics. Ecology letters.

S. Morgan Ernest, J. H Brown, K. M Thibault, E. P White, J. R Goheen (2008). Zero sum, the niche, and metacommunities: long-term dynamics of community assembly. The American Naturalist.

J. C Stegen, E. P White (2008). On the relationship between mass and diameter distributions in tree communities. Ecology letters.

E. P White, B. J Enquist, J. L Green (2008). On estimating the exponent of power-law frequency distributions. Ecology.

F. A Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. Morgan Ernest, J. H Brown (2008). Macroecology: more than the division of food and space among species on continents. Progress in Physical Geography.

S. Morgan Ernest (2008). Homeostasis. The Encyclopedia of Ecology.

M. Lima, S. Ernest, J. H Brown, A. Belgrano, N. Chr Stenseth (2008). Chihuahuan Desert kangaroo rats: nonlinear effects of population dynamics, competition, and rainfall. Ecology.

B. J McGill, R. S Etienne, J. S Gray, D. Alonso, M. J Anderson, H. Kassa Benecha, M. Dornelas, B. J Enquist, J. L Green, F. He, o. (2007). Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework. Ecology letters.

E. P White (2007). Spatiotemporal scaling of species richness: patterns, processes, and implications. Scaling biodiversity (eds D. Storch, PA Marquet & JH Brown).

E. P White, S. Morgan Ernest, A. J Kerkhoff, B. J Enquist (2007). Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology. Trends in ecology & evolution.

E. P White, M. A Gilchrist (2007). Effects of population-level aggregation, autocorrelation, and interspecific association on the species--time relationship in two desert communities. Evolutionary Ecology Research.

A. H Hurlbert, E. P White (2007). Ecological correlates of geographical range occupancy in North American birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

J. E Houlahan, D. J Currie, K. Cottenie, G. S Cumming, S. Ernest, C. Scott Findlay, S. D Fuhlendorf, U. Gaedke, P. Legendre, J. J Magnuson, o. (2007). Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural ecological communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

C. R McClain, E. P White, A. H Hurlbert (2007). Challenges in the application of geometric constraint models. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

E. L Charnov, S. Morgan Ernest (2006). The offspring-size/clutch-size trade-off in mammals. The American Naturalist.

J. R Goheen, E. P White, S. Morgan Ernest, J. H Brown (2006). Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents: reply. Ecology.

V. M Savage, E. P White, M. E Moses, S. Morgan Ernest, B. J Enquist, E. L Charnov (2006). Comment on The illusion of invariant quantities in life histories. Science.

E. White, P. Adler, W. Lauenroth, R. Gill, D. Greenberg, D. Kaufman, A. Rassweiler, J. Rusak, M. Smith, J. Steinbeck, o. (2006). A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups.(vol 112, pg 185, 2005). Oikos.

E. P White, P. B Adler, W. K Lauenroth, R. A Gill, D. Greenberg, D. M Kaufman, A. Rassweiler, J. A Rusak, M. D Smith, J. R Steinbeck, o. (2006). A comparison of the species--time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups. Oikos.

E. P White, J. H Brown (2005). The template: patterns and processes of spatial variation. Ecosystem function in heterogeneous landscapes.

J. R Goheen, E. P White, S. Ernest, J. H Brown (2005). Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents. Ecology.

P. B Adler, E. P White, W. K Lauenroth, D. M Kaufman, A. Rassweiler, J. A Rusak (2005). Evidence for a general species--time--area relationship. Ecology.

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D. F Sax, J. H Brown, E. P White, S. D Gaines (2005). Dynamics of species invasions: Insights into the mechanisms that limit species diversity.

A. H Hurlbert, E. P White (2005). Disparity between range map-and survey-based analyses of species richness: patterns, processes and implications. Ecology Letters.

S. Ernest (2005). Body size, energy use, and community structure of small mammals. Ecology.

S. Kathleen Lyons, F. A Smith, P. J Wagner, E. P White, J. H Brown (2004). Was a ‘hyperdisease’responsible for the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction?. Ecology Letters.

E. P White (2004). Two-phase species--time relationships in North American land birds. Ecology Letters.

E. P White, S. Morgan Ernest, K. M Thibault (2004). Trade-offs in community properties through time in a desert rodent community. The American Naturalist.

K. M Thibault, E. P White, S. Ernest (2004). Temporal dynamics in the structure and composition of a desert rodent community. Ecology.

F. A Smith, J. H Brown, J. P Haskell, S. Kathleen Lyons, J. Alroy, E. L Charnov, T. Dayan, B. J Enquist, S. Morgan Ernest, E. A Hadly, o. (2004). Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time. The American Naturalist.

B. A Maurer, J. H Brown, T. Dayan, B. J Enquist, S. Morgan Ernest, E. A Hadly, J. P Haskell, D. Jablonski, K. E Jones, D. M Kaufman, o. (2004). Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates. Evolutionary Ecology Research.

P. Chesson, R. LE Gebauer, S. Schwinning, N. Huntly, K. Wiegand, M. SK Ernest, A. Sher, A. Novoplansky, J. F Weltzin (2004). Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments. Oecologia.

E. P White (2004). Factors affecting bat house occupancy in Colorado. The Southwestern Naturalist.

E. White, M. Dougher (2004). Criticizing the tendency for evolutionary psychologists to adopt cognitive paradigms when discussing language. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy.

J. Brown, E. Bedrick, S. Ernest, J. Cartron, J. Kelly (2004). Constraints on negative relationships: mathematical causes and ecological consequences. The nature of scientific evidence, ML Taper and SR Lele (eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

S. Ernest, B. J Enquist, J. H Brown, E. L Charnov, J. F Gillooly, V. M Savage, E. P White, F. A Smith, E. A Hadly, J. P Haskell, o. (2003). Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use. Ecology Letters.

S. Ernest (2003). Life history characteristics of placental nonvolant mammals. Ecology.

A. P Allen, E. P White (2003). Effects of range size on species--area relationships. Evolutionary Ecology Research.

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F. A Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. Morgan Ernest, K. E Jones, D. M Kaufman, T. Dayan, P. A Marquet, J. H Brown, J. P Haskell (2003). Body Mass of Late Quaternary Mammals. Ecology.

J. H Brown, S. Morgan Ernest (2002). Rain and Rodents: Complex Dynamics of Desert Consumers. BioScience.

T. J Valone, S. E Nordell, S. Morgan Ernest (2002). Effects of fire and grazing on an arid grassland ecosystem. The Southwestern Naturalist.

J. H Brown, S. Morgan Ernest, J. M Parody, J. P Haskell (2001). Regulation of diversity: maintenance of species richness in changing environments. Oecologia.

S. Morgan Ernest, J. H Brown (2001). Homeostasis and compensation: the role of species and resources in ecosystem stability. Ecology.

E. P White, S. D Gehrt (2001). Effects of recording media on echolocation data from broadband bat detectors. Wildlife Society Bulletin.

S. Morgan Ernest, J. H Brown (2001). Delayed compensation for missing keystone species by colonization. Science.

J. H Brown, T. G Whitham, S. Morgan Ernest, C. A Gehring (2001). Complex species interactions and the dynamics of ecological systems: long-term experiments. Science.

S. Ernest, J. H Brown, R. R Parmenter (2000). Rodents, plants, and precipitation: spatial and temporal dynamics of consumers and resources. Oikos.

E. L Charnov, J. Haskell, S. Ernest (2000). Density-dependent invariance, dimensionlesslife-histories and the energy-equivalence rule. Evolutionary Ecology Research.

R. R Parmenter, J. W Brunt, D. I Moore, S. Earnest, N. Mexico, S. Long-Term Ecological Research Program, C. for Disease Control, P. (US) (1993). The hantavirus epidemic in the Southwest: rodent population dynamics and the implications for transmission of hantavirus-associated adult respiratory distress syndrome (HARDS) in the Four Corners region.

K. Thibault, E. White, S. Ernest (0001). Temporal dynamics in the structure and composition of a desert rodent community Publication Type Journal Article Year of Publication 2004. Ecology.

K. M Thibault, E. P White, A. H Hurlbert, S. Morgan Ernest (0001). Aim Species introductions and extinctions have reorganized the earth's biota, often leaving formerly spatially distinct assemblages more similar in species composition, a process termed biotic homogenization. The study of biotic homogenization has been almost entirely focused on the change in taxonomic similarity between assemblages through time. Here, we provide a trait-based method for calculating.... Global Ecology and Biogeography.