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Ricklefs, R. E. 1987.
Community diversity: relative roles of local and regional
processes. Science 235: 167-171. pdf
Renner, S. S., and R. E. Ricklefs. 1995.
Dioecy and its correlates in the flowering plants. American Journal of Botany 82: 596-606. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 1997. Comparative
demography of New World populations of thrushes (Turdus spp.). Ecological Monographs 67(1): 23-43. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and E. Bermingham. 1999. Taxon cycles in the Lesser Antillean avifauna. Ostrich 70: 49-59. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and I. J Lovette. 1999.
The roles of island area per se and
habitat diversity in the species-area relationships of four Lesser Antillean
faunal groups. Journal of Animal Ecology 68: 1142-1160. pdf
Lovette, I. J., G. Seutin, R. E.
Ricklefs, and E. Bermingham. 1999. The origins of an island fauna: a genetic
assessment of sources and temporal patterns in the avian colonization of
Barbados. Biological Invasions 1: 33-41. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2000. Intrinsic
aging-related mortality in birds. Journal of Avian Biology 31: 103-111. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2000. Introduction,
Special Section, Avian Life Histories. Condor 102: 1-2. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2000. Lack, Skutch, and Moreau: the early development of life-history thinking. Condor 102: 3-8. pdf
Qian, H., and R. E. Ricklefs.
2000. Large-scale processes and the Asian bias in temperate plant species
diversity. Nature 407: 180-182. pdf
Apanius, V., N. Yorinks, E. Bermingham,
and R. E. Ricklefs. 2000. Island and taxon effects in the prevalence of blood
parasites and activity of the immune system in Lesser Antillean birds. Ecology
81(7): 1959-1969. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2000. Density dependence, evolutionary optimization, and the diversification of avian life histories. Condor 102: 9-22. pdf
Morand,
S., and R. E. Ricklefs. 2001. Genome size, longevity, and the development time
in birds: a comment on Monaghan and Metcalfe. Trends in Genetics 17(10):
567-568. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and E. Bermingham. 2001. Nonequilibrium diversity dynamics of the Lesser Antillean avifauna. Science 294 (16 November): 1522-1524. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and E. Bermingham.
2002. Islands, equilibria, and speciation. [Response to a technical comment by
J. L. Cherry, F. R. Adler, and K. P. Johnson.] Science 296 (10 May): 975a.
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Fair, J.M., and R. E. Ricklefs.
2002. Physiological, growth, and immune responses of Japanese quail chicks to
the multiple stressors of immunological challenge and lead shot. Archives of
Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 42(1): 77-87. pdf
Lovette, I. J., E. Bermingham, and R.E. Ricklefs. 2002. Clade-specific morphological diversification and adaptive radiation in Hawaiian songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 269, 37-42. pdf
Lill, J. T., R. J. Marquis, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2002. Host plants influence parasitism of forest caterpillars. Nature 417 (9 May): 170-173. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and S. M. Fallon. 2002. Diversification and host switching in avian malaria parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269: 885-892. pdf Electronic appendices: pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2002. Sibling competition, chick solicitation, and parental response. Pp. 283-301 in J. Wright and M. L. Leonard (Eds.), The Evolution of Begging: Competition, Cooperation and Communication. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and M. Wikelski. 2002. The physiology-life history nexus. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17(10): 462-468. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and A. Scheuerlein. 2002. Biological implications of the Weibull and Gompertz models of aging. Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences 57A(2): B69-B76. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and E. Bermingham. 2002. The concept of the taxon cycle in biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography 11: 353-361. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2002. Splendid isolation: historical ecology of the South American passerine fauna. Journal of Avian Biology 33: 207-211. pdf
Tella, J. L., A. Scheuerlein, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2002. Is cell-mediated immunity related to the evolution of life-history strategies in birds? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269(1495): 1059-1066. pdf
Bakken, G. S., J. B. Williams, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2002/3. Metabolic response to wind of downy chicks of Arctic-breeding shorebirds (Scolopacidae). Journal of Experimental Biology 205: 3435-3443. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2003. A comment on Hubbell’s zero-sum ecological drift model. Oikos 100(1): 185-192. pdf
Ricklefs,
R. E. 2003. Rate of ontogenetic growth: constraint by supply or demand?
Functional Ecology 17(3): 384–393. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. Global diversification rates of passerine birds. 2003. Proceedings of the Royal Society – Series B: Biological Sciences 270: 2285-2291. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and J. B. Williams. 2003. Metabolic responses of shorebird chicks to cold stress: hysteresis of cooling and warming phases. Journal of Experimental Biology 206: 2883-2893. pdf
Guo, Q., M. Kato, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2003. Life history, diversity and distribution: a study of Japanese pteridophytes. Ecography 26:129-138. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2003. Genetics, evolution, and ecological communities. Ecology 84: 588-591. pdf
Fallon, S. M., E. Bermingham, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2003. Island and taxon effects in parasitism revisited: avian malaria in the Lesser Antilles. Evolution 57(3): 606-615. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and A. Scheuerlein. 2003. Life span as a component of avian life histories. Population Development and Review 29, Supplement: 71-98. pdf
Krijgsveld, K. L., J. W. H. Reneerkens, G. D. McNett, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2003. Time budgets and body temperatures of American golden-plover chicks in relation to ambient temperature. Condor 105: 268-278. pdf
Fair, J. M., O. B. Myers, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2003. Immune and growth response of western bluebirds and ash-throated flycatchers to soil contaminants. Ecological Applications 13(6): 1817-1829. pdf
Choi,
I.-H., J. H. Shim, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2003. Morphometric relationships of take-off speed in anuran amphibians. Journal of Experimental Zoology 299A:
99-102. pdf
Fallon, S. M., R. E. Ricklefs, B. L. Swanson, and E. Bermingham. 2003. Detecting avian malaria: An improved polymerase chain reaction diagnostic. Journal of Parasitology 89(5): 1044-1047. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2004. A comprehensive framework for global patterns in biodiversity. Ecology Letters 7: 1-15. pdf
Joseph, L., T. Wilke, E. Bermingham, D. Alpers, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2004. Towards a phylogenetic framework for the evolution of shakes, rattles and rolls in Myiarchus tyrant-flycatchers (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 139-152. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. S. M. Fallon, and E. Bermingham. 2004. Evolutionary relationships, cospeciation, and host switching in avian malaria parasites. Systematic Biology 53(1): 111-119. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., H. Qian, and P. S. White. 2004. The region effect on mesoscale plant species richness between eastern Asia and eastern North America. Ecography 27: 129-136. pdf
Qian, H., and R. E. Ricklefs. 2004. Geographic distribution and ecological conservatism of disjunct genera of vascular plants in eastern Asia and eastern North America. Journal of Ecology 92: 253-265. pdf
Scheuerlein, A., and R. E. Ricklefs. 2004. Prevalence of blood parasites in European passeriform birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London – Series B: Biological Sciences 271: 1363-1370. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and E. Bermingham. 2004. History and the species-area relationship in Lesser Antillean birds. American Naturalist 163(2): 227-239. pdf
Fallon, S., R. E. Ricklefs, S. Latta, and E. Bermingham. 2004. Temporal stability of insular avian malarial parasite communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London – Series B: Biological Sciences 271: 493-500. pdf
Qian, H., and R. E. Ricklefs. 2004. Climate and taxonomic richness in angiosperms: is there a globally consistent relationship that precludes region effects? American Naturalist 163: 773-779. pdf
Tieleman,
B. I., J. B. Williams, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2004. Nest attentiveness and egg
temperature do not explain variation in the incubation periods of tropical
birds. Functional Ecology 18: 571-577. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2004. Cladogenesis and morphological diversification in passerine birds. Nature 430: 338-341. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2004. The cognitive face of avian life histories. Wilson Bulletin 116(2): 119-133. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and E. Bermingham. 2004. Application of Johnson et al.’s speciation threshold model to apparent colonization times of island biotas. Evolution 58(8): 1664-1673. pdf
Xiang, Q.-Y., W. H. Zhang, R. E. Ricklefs, H. Qian, Z. D. Cheng, J. Wen, and J. H. Li. 2004. Regional differences rates of plant speciation and molecular evolution: a comparison between eastern Asia and eastern North America. Evolution 58(10): 2175-2184. pdf
Qian, H., R. E. Ricklefs, and P. S. White. 2004. Beta diversity of angiosperms in temperate floras of eastern Asia and eastern North America. Ecology Letters 7: 000-000. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00682.x pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2005. Historical and ecological dimensions of global patterns in plant diversity. Biologiske Skrifter (Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters) 55: 583-603. pdf
Matson, K. D., R. E. Ricklefs, and K. C. Klasing. 2005. A hemolysis-hemagglutination assay for characterizing constitutive innate humoral immunity in wild and domestic birds. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 29(3): 275-286. pdf
Fallon,
S. M., E. Bermingham, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2005. Host specialization and
geographic localization of avian malaria parasites: a regional analysis in the
Lesser Antilles. American Naturalist 165(4): 466-480. pdf Appendix pdf
Mendes, L., T. Piersma, M. Lecoq, B. Spaans, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2005. Disease-limited distributions? Contrasts in the prevalence of avian malaria in shorebird species using marine and freshwater habitats. Oikos 109(2): 396-404. pdf
Morand, S., and R. E. Ricklefs. 2005. Genome size is not related to life history traits in primates. Genome 48(2): 273-278. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2005. Small clades at the periphery of passerine morphological space. American Naturalist 165(6): 651–659. pdf
Ricklefs,
R. E. 2005. Taxon cycles: insights from invasive species. Pp. 165-199 in D. F.
Sax, J. J. Stachowicz, and S. D. Gaines (Eds.), Species Invasions. Insights
into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland,
Massachusetts. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2006. The unified neutral theory of biodiversity: do the numbers add up? Ecology 87(6): 1424-1431. pdf
Lee, K. A., L. B. Martin II, D.
Hasselquist, R. E. Ricklefs, and M. Wikelski. 2006. Contrasting adaptive immune
defenses and blood parasite prevalence in closely related Passer
sparrows. Oecologia 150(3): 383-392. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2006. Embryo development and aging in birds and mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B: Biological Sciences, doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3544. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E. 2006. Evolutionary diversification and the origin of the diversity-environment relationship. Ecology 87(7) Supplement: S3-S13. pdf
Qian, H., and R. E. Ricklefs. 2006. The role of exotic species in homogenizing the North American flora. Ecology Letters 9: 1293-1298. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., A. E. Schwarzbach, and S. S. Renner. 2006. Rate of lineage origin explains the diversity anomaly in the world’s mangrove vegetation. American Naturalist 168(6): 805-810. pdf
Ricklefs, R. E., and E. Bermingham. 2007. Evolutionary radiations of passerine birds in archipelagoes. American Naturalist 169(3): 285-297. pdf Appendix pdf