A selection of our community's more recent publications, listed by lab group. Harris Center authors are in bold, and Harris Center students are denoted with an asterisk (*).
Brant, R.A.*, Arduser, M. & Dunlap, A.S. 2022. There must bee a better way: A review of published urban bee research and an outline of topics for future study. Landscape and Urban Planning 226:104513.
Abts, B.J.* & Dunlap, A.S. 2022 . Memory and the value of social information in foraging bumble bees. Learning & Behavior.
Dunlap, A.S., & Dexheimer, A.F.* 2022. Experimental evolution and mechanisms for prepared learning. In M.A. Krause, K.L. Hollis, & M.R. Papini (Eds.). Evolution of learning and memory mechanisms. Cambridge University Press.
Austin, M.A.*, Tripodi, A. Strange, J. & Dunlap, A.S. 2022. Bumble bees exhibit body size clines across an urban gradient despite low genetic differentiation. Scientific Reports 12:4166.
Austin, M.A.*, Manning, T.H.*, MuseMorris, K. & Dunlap, A.S. 2021 . Equivalent learning, but unequal participation: male bumble bees learn comparably to females, but participate in cognitive assessments at lower rates. Behavioural Processes 193:104528.
Hughes, M., Bertram, S.M., Young, A.M., Merry, J.W., Kolluru, G.R., Dunlap, A.S., Danielson-Francois, A., & Weiss, S. 2020. Teaching animal behavior online: a primer for the pandemic and beyond. Ethology 127:14-31.
Austin, M.W.* and Dunlap, A.S. 2019. Intraspecific variation in worker body size makes North American bumble bees (Bombus spp.) more susceptible to decline. The American Naturalist 194(3).
Dunlap, A.S., Austin, M.W.* and Figueiredo, A.* , 2019. Components of change and the evolution of learning in theory and experiment. Animal behaviour, 147, pp.157-166.
Maharaj, G.*, Horack, P.*, Yoder, M.* and Dunlap, A.S., 2019. Influence of pre-existing preference for color on sampling and tracking behavior in bumble bees. Behavioral Ecology 30(1): 150-158.
Austin, M.W.*, Horack, P.* and Dunlap, A.S., 2018. Choice in a floral marketplace: the role of complexity in bumble bee decision-making. Behavioral Ecology, 30(2), pp.500-508.
Marcus, M.A.*, Burnham, T.C., Stephens, D.W., and Dunlap, A.S., 2018. Experimental evolution of color preference for oviposition in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of BioEconomics. 20(1): 125-140.
Dunlap, A.S., 2018. Biological preparedness. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. J. Vonk, T.K. Shackleford, Eds.
Dunlap A.S., Papaj D.R., & Dornhaus A. 2017. Sampling and tracking a changing environment: persistence and reward in the foraging decisions of bumblebees. Interface Focus 7: 20160149. DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2016.0149
Stephens, D.W. and Dunlap, A.S. 2017. Foraging. In: Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, ed. 2. Byrne, J. Menzel, R. et al (Eds.), Oxford: Elsevier.
Fernandez Barrancos, E.P.*, Reid, J.L. and Hall, J.S., 2019. Lack of Araceae in Young Forests Highlights the Importance of Mature Forest Conservation. Tropical Conservation Science, 12, p.1940082919849504.
Jiménez, J.E., Juárez, P. and Chaves-Fallas, J.M.*, 2018. Rediscovery of Phaedranassa carmiolii (Amaryllidaceae), an endangered species from Costa Rica. Brittonia, 70(2), pp.214-220.
Galetti, M., Moleón, M., Jordano, P., Pires, M.M., Guimaraes Jr, P.R., Pape, T., Nichols, E., Hansen, D., Olesen, J.M., Munk, M. and de Mattos, J.S., 2018. Ecological and evolutionary legacy of megafauna extinctions. Biological Reviews, 93(2), pp.845-862.
Fernandez Barrancos, E.P.*, Reid, J.L. and Aronson, J., 2017. Tank bromeliad transplants as an enrichment strategy in southern Costa Rica. Restoration ecology, 25(4), pp.569-576.
Reid, J.L., Chaves‐Fallas, J.M.*, Holl, K.D. and Zahawi, R.A., 2016. Tropical forest restoration enriches vascular epiphyte recovery. Applied vegetation science, 19(3), pp.508-517. DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12234
Marquis, R.J., Salazar, D.*, Baer, C.*, Reinhardt, J.*, Priest, G.* and Barnett, K.*, 2016. Ode to Ehrlich and Raven or how herbivorous insects might drive plant speciation. Ecology, 97(11), pp.2939-2951.
Salazar, D.*, Jaramillo, A. and Marquis, R.J., 2016. The impact of plant chemical diversity on plant–herbivore interactions at the community level. Oecologia, 181(4), pp.1199-1208. DOI:10.1007/s00442-016-3629-y
Dáttilo, W., Lara-Rodríguez, N., Jordano, P., Guimarães Jr, P.R., Thompson, J.N., Marquis, R.J., Medeiros, L.P., Ortiz-Pulido, R., Marcos-García, M.A. and Rico-Gray, V., 2016. Unravelling Darwin's entangled bank: architecture and robustness of mutualistic networks with multiple interaction types. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1843), p.20161564.
Gamba, D.* and N. Muchhala. 2022. Pollinator type strongly impacts gene flow within and among plant populations for six Neotropical species. Ecology. doi: 10.1002/ecy.3845
Calderón-Acevedo, C.*, J. Bagley, and N. Muchhala. 2022. Genome-wide ultraconserved elements resolve phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic history among Neotropical leaf-nosed bats in the genus Anoura (Phyllostomidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 167 (2022) 107356.
Moreira-Hernández, J.*, C. Calderón-Acevedo*, and N. Muchhala. 2021. Fur, wings, and flowers: development and progress on nectarivorous bat research in the last 50 years. Chp 9 (pp. 135-149) in Lim B.K. et al. (eds), 50 Years of Bat Research.
Springer, Cham. Muchhala, N., and B. Mashburn. 2021. Three new species of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae) endemic to Ecuador. Phytotaxa 490(3):253-262.
Mashburn, B., C. Ulloa Ulloa, and N. Muchhala. 2021. Six new species of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae) endemic to Ecuador. Novon 29:51-69. Calderón-
Acevedo, C.*, M. E. Rodríguez-Posada and N. Muchhala. 2021. Morphology and genetics concur that Anoura carishina is a synonym of Anoura latidens (Chiroptera, Glossophaginae). Mammalia 85(5): 471–481.
Moreira-Hernández, J.I.,* Terzich, N., Zambrano-Cevallos, R., Oleas, N.H., and Muchhala, N., 2019. Differential Tolerance to Increasing Heterospecific Pollen Deposition in Two Sympatric Species of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae). International Journal of Plant Sciences.
Moreira-Hernández, J.I.* and Muchhala, N., 2019. Importance of Pollinator-Mediated Interspecific Pollen Transfer for Angiosperm Evolution. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 50.
Vallejo, A.F., Perez, A.J., Cevallos, D. and Muchhala, N., 2018. New species of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae) from Ecuador. Phytotaxa, 362(3), pp.263-270.
Calderón-Acevedo, C.A.* and Muchhala, N.C., 2018. Identification and diagnosis of Anoura fistulata with remarks on its presumed presence in Bolivia. Journal of Mammalogy, 99(1), pp.131-137.
Lagomarsino, L.P., Forrestel, E.J., Muchhala, N. and Davis, C.C., 2017. Repeated evolution of vertebrate pollination syndromes in a recently diverged Andean plant clade. Evolution, 71(8), pp.1970-1985. DOI:10.1111/evo.13297
Maguiña, R.* and Muchhala, N., 2017. Do artificial nectar feeders affect bat–plant interactions in an Ecuadorian cloud forest?. Biotropica, 49(5), pp.586-592. DOI: 10.1111/btp.12465
Gamba, D.*, R. Maguiña*, C. Calderón-Acevedo*, K. Torres, and N. Muchhala. 2017. Seed dispersal for the unusual inflated berries of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae). Neotropical Biodiversity 3(1):10-17.
Uribe-Convers, S., Carlsen, M.M.*, Lagomarsino, L.P. and Muchhala, N., 2017. Phylogenetic relationships of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae): Combining whole plastome with targeted loci data in a recent radiation. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 107, pp.551-563.
Rasambainarivo, F.*, Andriamihajarivo, M.N., Dubovi, E. and Parker, P.G., 2018. Patterns of Exposure of Carnivores to Selected Pathogens in the Betampona Natural Reserve Landscape, Madagascar. Journal of wildlife diseases, 54(2), pp.386-391.
Asigau, S.* and Parker, P.G., 2018. The influence of ecological factors on mosquito abundance and occurrence in Galápagos. Journal of vector ecology, 43(1), pp.125-137.
Jaramillo, M.*, Rohrer, S.* and Parker, P.G., 2017. From Galapagos doves to passerines: Spillover of Haemoproteus multipigmentatus. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 6(3), pp.155-161.
Erkenswick, G.A.*, Watsa, M., Pacheco, M.A., Escalante, A.A. and Parker, P.G., 2017. Chronic Plasmodium brasilianum infections in wild Peruvian tamarins. PloS one, 12(9), p.e0184504.
Pomerantz, J., Rasambainarivo, F.T.*, Dollar, L., Rahajanirina, L.P., Andrianaivoarivelo, R., Parker, P. and Dubovi, E., 2016. Prevalence of antibodies to selected viruses and parasites in introduced and endemic carnivores in western Madagascar. Journal of wildlife diseases, 52(3), pp.544-552. DOI: 10.7589/2015-03-063
Humphries, M.B.*, Stacy, M.T. and Ricklefs, R.E., 2019. Population structure of avian malaria parasites. Ecology and Evolution.
Humphries, M.B.*, Barbosa De Oliveira Pil, M.W., Latta, S.C., Marra, P.P. and Ricklefs, R.E., 2019. Historical demography of Coereba flaveola on Puerto Rico. The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 136(2), p.uky017.
Humphries, M.B.*, Gonzalez, M.A. and Ricklefs, R.E., 2019. Phylogeography and historical demography of Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris). The Journal of Caribbean Ornithology, 32:11–16.
Ellis, V.A., Sari, E.H., Rubenstein, D.R., Dickerson, R.C., Bensch, S. and Ricklefs, R.E., 2019. The global biogeography of avian haemosporidian parasites is characterized by local diversification and intercontinental dispersal. Parasitology, 146(2), pp.213-219.
Wu, Y.*, Ricklefs, R.E., Huang, Z., Zan, Q. and Yu, S., 2018. Winter temperature structures mangrove species distributions and assemblage composition in China. Global ecology and biogeography, 27(12), pp.1492-1506.
Fecchio, A., Bell, J.A., Collins, M.D., Farias, I.P., Trisos, C.H., Tobias, J.A., Tkach, V.V., Weckstein, J.D., Ricklefs, R.E. and Batalha‐Filho, H., 2018. Diversification by host switching and dispersal shaped the diversity and distribution of avian malaria parasites in Amazonia. Oikos, 127(9), pp.1233-1242. DOI: 10.1111/oik.05115
Pulgarín‐R, P.C., Gómez, J.P., Robinson, S., Ricklefs, R.E. and Cadena, C.D., 2018. Host species, and not environment, predicts variation in blood parasite prevalence, distribution, and diversity along a humidity gradient in northern South America. Ecology and evolution, 8(8), pp.3800-3814. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3785
Ricklefs, R.E., Soares, L.*, Ellis, V.A.* and Latta, S.C., 2016. Haemosporidian parasites and avian host population abundance in the Lesser Antilles. Journal of Biogeography, 43(7), pp.1277-1286. DOI:10.1111/jbi.12730
Santos, A.M., Field, R. and Ricklefs, R.E., 2016. New directions in island biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(7), pp.751-768. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12477
Ricklefs, R.E. and He, F., 2016. Region effects influence local tree species diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(3), pp.674-679.