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Peter A. Abrams
Publications of Peter A. Abrams
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I. Major publications
Abrams, P. A. 1975. Theoretical studies of the limiting similarity of competitors. Ph.D. Thesis,
Zoology, University of British Columbia.
Abrams, P. A. 1975. Limiting similarity and the form of the competition coefficient. Theoretical
Population Biology 8:356-375.
Abrams, P. A. 1976. Niche overlap and environmental variability. Mathematical Biosciences
28:357-375.
Abrams, P. A. 1977. Density independent mortality and interspecific competition: a test of
Pianka's niche overlap hypothesis. American Naturalist 111:539-552.
Abrams, P. A. 1978. Shell selection and utilization in a terrestrial hermit crab, Coenobita
compressus. Oecologia 34:239-253.
Abrams, P. A. 1980. Resource partitioning and interspecific competition in a tropical hermit crab
community. Oecologia 46:365-379.
Abrams, P. A. 1980. Consumer functional response and competition in consumer-resource
systems. Theoretical Population Biology 17:80-102.
Abrams, P. A. 1980. Some comments on measuring niche overlap. Ecology 61:44-49.
Abrams, P. A. 1980. Are competition coefficients constant? Inductive vs. deductive approaches.
American Naturalist 116:730-735.
Abrams, P. A. 1981. Comparing randomly structured and real communities: a comment.
American Naturalist 118:776-782.
Abrams, P. A. 1981. Shell fighting and competition between two hermit crab species in Panama.
Oecologia 51:84-90.
Abrams, P. A. 1981. Alternative methods of measuring competition applied to two Australian
hermit crabs. Oecologia 51:233-240.
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Abrams, P. A. 1981. Competition in an Indo-Pacific hermit crab community. Oecologia
51:241-249.
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Abrams, P. A. 1982. Intraspecific shell fighting in the hermit crab Clibanarius virescens. J.
experimental marine Biology & Ecology 59:89-101.
Abrams, P. A. 1982. Frequencies of interspecific shell exchange between hermit crabs. J.
experimental marine Biology & Ecology 61:99-109.
Abrams, P. A. and T. D. Allison. 1982. Stability, complexity, and functional response. American
Naturalist 119:240-249.
Abrams, P. A. 1982. Functional responses of optimal foragers. American Naturalist
120:382-390.
Abrams, P. A. 1983. The theory of limiting similarity. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics
14:359-376.
Abrams, P. A. 1983. Arguments in favor of higher order interactions. American Naturalist
121:887-891.
Abrams, P. A. 1983. Life history strategies of optimal foragers. Theoretical Population Biology
24:22-38.
Abrams, P. A. 1983. Alternative forms for links in trophic webs. pp. 91-94 in D. L. DeAngelis,
W. M. Post, and G. Sugihara eds. Current trends in food web theory. Oak Ridge National
Laboratory Technical Report 5983.
Abrams, P. A. 1984. Recruitment, lotteries, and coexistence in coral reef fish. American
Naturalist 123:44-55.
Abrams, P. A. 1984. Variability in resource consumption rates and the coexistence of competing
species. Theoretical Population Biology 25:106-124.
Abrams, P. A. 1984. Foraging time optimization and interactions in food webs. American
Naturalist 124:80-96.
Abrams, P. A. 1986. Character displacement and niche shift analyzed using consumer-resource
models of competition. Theoretical Population Biology 29:107-160.
Abrams, P. A., C. Nyblade, and S. Sheldon. 1986. Resource partitioning and competition for
shells in a subtidal hermit crab species assemblage. Oecologia 69:429-445.
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Abrams, P. A. 1986. Adaptive responses of predators to prey and prey to predators: the failure of
the arms race analogy. Evolution 40:1229-1247.
Abrams, P. A. 1986. Is predator-prey coevolution an arms race? Trends in Ecology and
Evolution 1:108-110.
Abrams, P. A. 1987. Indirect interactions between species that share a predator: varieties of
indirect effects. pp. 38-54 in "Predation: direct and indirect impacts on aquatic
communities" W. C. Kerfoot and A. Sih eds. University Press of New England.
Dartmouth, N. H.
Abrams, P. A. 1987. Alternative models of character displacement: I. Displacement when there
is competition for nutritionally essential resources. Evolution 41:651-661.
Abrams, P. A. 1987. An analysis of competitive interactions between three hermit crab species.
Oecologia 72:233-247.
Abrams, P. A. 1987. Resource partitioning and competition for shells between intertidal hermit
crabs on the outer coast of Washington State. Oecologia 72:248-258.
Abrams, P. A. 1987. The nonlinearity of competitive effects in models of competition for
essential resources. Theoretical Population Biology 32:50-65.
Abrams, P. A. 1987. On classifying interactions between populations. Oecologia 73:272-281.
Abrams, P. A. 1987. Alternative models of character displacement: II. Displacement when there
is competition for a single resource. American Naturalist 130:271-282.
Abrams, P. A. 1987. The functional responses of adaptive consumers of two resources.
Theoretical Population Biology 32:262-288.
Abrams, P. A. 1988. How should resources be counted? Theoretical Population Biology
33:226-242.
Abrams, P. A. 1988. Resource productivity - consumer species diversity: Simple models of
competition in spatially heterogeneous environments. Ecology 69:1418-1433.
Abrams, P. A. 1988. Sexual differences in resource use in hermit crabs; causes and
consequences. in Chelazzi, G. and Vannini, M. eds. Behavioral Adaptation to Intertidal
Life. pp. 283-296. Plenum Press.
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Abrams, P. A. and L. Shen. 1989. Population dynamics of systems with consumers that maintain
a constant ratio of intake rates of two resources. Theoretical Population Biology
35:51-89.
Abrams, P. A. 1989. Decreasing functional responses as a result of adaptive consumer behavior.
Evolutionary Ecology. 3:95-114.
Abrams, P. A. 1989. The evolution of rates of successful and unsuccessful predation.
Evolutionary Ecology. 3:157-171.
Abrams, P. A. 1989. The importance of intraspecific frequency dependent selection in modeling
competitive coevolution. Evolutionary Ecology. 3:215-220.
Abrams, P. A. 1990. Ecological vs evolutionary responses to competition. Oikos. 57:147-151.
Packer, C. and Abrams, P. A. 1990. Are cooperative groups more vigilant than selfish groups?
Journal of theoretical Biology. 142:341-357.
Abrams, P. A. 1990. Mixed responses to resource densities and their implications for character
displacement. Evolutionary Ecology. 4:93-102.
Abrams, P. A. 1990. Adaptive responses of generalist herbivores to competition; convergence or
divergence. Evolutionary Ecology. 4:103-114.
Abrams, P. A. 1990. The effects of adaptive behavior on the type - 2 functional response.
Ecology. 71:877-885.
Hill, C., Elmgren, R., and Abrams, P. 1990. Predation by the polychaete Harmothoe sarsi on
different size classes of the amphipod Pontoporeia affinis. in Barnes, M. and Gibson, R.
N. Trophic Relationships in the Marine Environment. Aberdeen Univ. Press. p.468-477.
Abrams, P. A., Hill, C., and Elmgren, R. 1990. The functional response of the predatory
polychaete, Harmothoe sarsi to the amphipod, Pontoporeia affinis. Oikos 59:261-269
Abrams, P. A. 1990. The evolution of antipredator traits in prey in response to evolutionary
change in predators. Oikos 59:147-156.
Abrams, P. A. 1991. The quality and predictive ability of federal grant review: the case of
ecology and the National Science Foundation. Social Studies of Science. 21:111-132.
Abrams, P. A. 1991. The effects of interacting species on predator-prey coevolution. Theoretical
Population Biology 39:241-262.
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Abrams, P. A. 1991. Life history and the relationship between food availability and foraging
effort. Ecology 72:1242-1252.
Abrams, P. A. 1991. The fitness costs of aging; the importance of events in early adult life.
Evolutionary Ecology 5:343-360.
Abrams, P. A. 1991. Strengths of indirect effects generated by optimal foraging. Oikos 62: 167176.
Baird, R. W., Abrams, P. A., and Dill, L. 1992. Possible indirect interactions between transient
and resident Killer Whales (Orcinus orca). Oecologia 89:125-132.
Abrams, P. A. 1992. Adaptive foraging by predators as a cause of predator-prey cycles.
Evolutionary Ecology 6:56-72.
Abrams, P. A. 1992. Predators that benefit prey and prey that harm predators: Unusual effects of
interacting foraging adaptations. American Naturalist 140:573-600.
Abrams, P. A. 1992. Why don't predators have positive effects on prey populations?
Evolutionary Ecology 6:449-457.
Abrams, P. A. 1992. Resource. in Keywords in Evolutionary Biology. E. F. Keller and E. A.
Lloyd eds. Harvard University Press. p. 282-285.
Abrams, P. A. 1993. Effect of increased productivity on the abundance of trophic levels.
American Naturalist 141:351-371.
Abrams, P. A. 1993. Why predation rates should not be proportional to predator density.
Ecology 74:726-733.
Abrams, P. A. 1993. The interaction of mortality and energy costs in determining foraging
behavior. Behavioral Ecology 4:246-253.
Abrams, P. A. and Matsuda, H. 1993. Effects of adaptive predatory and anti-predator behavior in
a two prey - one predator system. Evolutionary Ecology 7:312-326.
Abrams, P. A., Matsuda, H., and Harada, Y. 1993. Evolutionarily unstable fitness maxima and
stable fitness minima in the evolution of continuous traits. Evolutionary Ecology
7:465-487.
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Abrams, P. A. 1993. Does increased mortality favor the evolution of more rapid senescence?
Evolution 47:877-887.
Abrams, P. A., Harada, Y., and Matsuda, H. 1993. On the relationship between quantitative
genetic and ESS models. Evolution 47:982-985.
Abrams, P. A. 1993. Indirect effects arising from optimal foraging. in Kawanabe, H., Cohen,
J. and Iwasaki, K. eds., Mutualism and Community Organization:Behavioral,
Theoretical and Food Web Approaches. Oxford Univ. Press. pp. 255-279.
Matsuda, H., Abrams, P. A., and Hori, M. 1993. The effect of adaptive anti-predator behavior
on exploitative competition and mutualism between predators. Oikos 68:549-559.
Abrams, P. A. 1993. Representing biological communities containing optimally foraging
herbivores: Implications of adaptive behavior for community structure. Oak Ridge
National Laboratory Technical Report 12392, Proceedings of a Joint U. S.-Japan
Seminar in the Environmental Sciences. D. L. DeAngelis and E. Teramoto, eds. pp. 926.
Abrams, P. A., and Roth, J. 1994. The responses of unstable food chains to enrichment.
Evolutionary Ecology 8:150-171.
Matsuda, H. and Abrams, P. A. 1994. Timid consumers: Self-extinction due to adaptive change
in foraging and anti-predator effort. Theoretical Population Biology 45:76-91.
Abrams, P. A. 1994. Evolutionarily stable growth rates in size-structured populations
under size-specific competition. Theoretical Population Biology 46:78-94.
Abrams, P. A. 1994. Should prey overestimate the risk of predation? American Naturalist
144:317-328.
Abrams, P. A., and Roth, J. 1994. The effects of enrichment on three-species food chains with
nonlinear functional responses. Ecology 75:1118-1130.
Abrams, P. A. 1994. The fallacies of 'ratio-dependent' predation. Ecology 75:1842-1850.
Matsuda, H., Hori, M. and Abrams, P. A. 1994. Effects of predator-specific defense on
community complexity. Evolutionary Ecology 8:628-638.
Abrams, P. A. and Matsuda, H. 1994. The evolution of traits that determine ability in
competitive contests. Evolutionary Ecology 8:667-686.
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Matsuda, H., Namba, T., Hori, M., and Abrams, P. A. 1994. Effects of expolitative mutualism on
community complexity. pp. 247-260, in M. Yasuna and M. Watanabe, Biodiversity: Its
Complexity and Role. Global Environmental Forum, Tokyo.
Matsuda, H. and P. A. Abrams. 1994. Plant-herbivore interactions and theory of coevolution.
Plant Species Biology 9:155-161.
Matsuda, H. and Abrams, P. A. 1994. Runaway evolution to self-extinction under asymmetrical
competition. Evolution 48:1764-1772.
Abrams, P. A. 1995. Overestimation vs. underestimation of predation risk: A reply to
Bouskila et al. American Naturalist 145:1020-1024.
Abrams, P. A. 1995. Implications of dynamically variable traits for identifying, classifying, and
measuring direct and indirect effects in ecological communities. American Naturalist,
146:112-134.
Abrams, P. A. 1995. Monotonic vs. unimodal diversity vs. productivity gradients; What is
predicted by competition theory? Ecology, 76:2019-2027.
Abrams, P. A. and Ludwig, D. 1995. Optimality theory, Gompertz' Law, and the
disposable-soma theory of senescence. Evolution, 49:1055-1066.
Abrams, P. A. 1996. Dynamics and interactions in food webs with adaptive foragers. pp 113121 in G. Polis and K. Winemiller, eds. Food Webs: Integration of patterns and
dynamics. Chapman and Hall.
Abrams, P. A., Menge, B. A., Mittelbach, G. G., Spiller, D., and Yodzis, P. 1996. The role of
indirect effects in food webs. pp.371-395 in G. Polis and K. O. Winemiller eds. Food
Webs: Integration of patterns and dynamics. Chapman and Hall.
Matsuda, H., M. Hori, and P. Abrams. 1996. Effects of predator-specific defense on biodiversity
and community complexity in two-trophic-level communities. Evolutionary
Ecology, 10:13-28.
Abrams, P. A., Leimar, O., Nylin, S., and Wiklund, C. 1996. The effect of flexible growth rates
on optimal sizes and development times. American Naturalist 147:381-395.
Abrams, P. A. and H. Matsuda. 1996. Fitness minimization and dynamic instability as a
consequence of predator-prey coevolution. Evolutionary Ecology 10:167-186.
(reprinted with corrections, 1997, Evolutionary Ecology 11:1-20.)
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Abrams, P. A. and Matsuda, H. 1996. Positive indirect effects between prey species that share
predators. Ecology 77:610-616.
Abrams, P. A. and Rowe, L. 1996. The effects of predation on the age and size of maturity of
prey. Evolution, 50:1052-1061.
Abrams, P. A. 1996. Limits to the similarity of competitors under hierarchical lottery
competition. American Naturalist, 148:211-219.
Abrams, P. A. and C. J. Walters. 1996. Invulnerable prey and the statics and dynamics of
predator-prey interactions. Ecology 77:1125-1133.
Abrams, P. A. 1996. Evolution and the consequences of species introductions and deletions.
Ecology, 77:1321-1328.
Abrams, P. A. 1997. Variability and adaptive behavior; Implications for interactions between
stream organisms. Journal of the North American Bethological Society 16:358-374.
Abrams, P. A. 1997. Anomalous predictions of ratio-dependent models of predation. Oikos.
80:163-171.
Abrams, P. A. 1997. Evolutionary responses of foraging-related traits in unstable predator-prey
systems. Evolutionary Ecology 11:673-686.
Abrams, P. A. and H. Matsuda. 1997. Prey evolution as a cause of predator-prey cycles.
Evolution 51:1740-1748.
Abrams, P. A., Holt R. D., and J. D. Roth. 1998. Shared predation when populations cycle.
Ecology 79:201-212.
Abrams, P. A. 1998. High competition with low similarity and low competition with high
similarity: The interaction of exploitative and apparent competition in consumer-resource
systems. American Naturalist. 152:114-128.
Kawecki, T. J. and Abrams, P. A. 1999. Character displacement mediated by the accumulation of
mutations affecting resource consumption abilities, Evolutionary Ecology Research.
1:173-188.
Abrams, P. A. 1999. The adaptive dynamics of consumer choice. American Naturalist 153:8397.
Abrams, P. A. and O. J. Schmitz. 1999. The effect of risk of mortality on the foraging behavior
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of animals faced with time- and digestive-capacity constraints. Evolutionary Ecology
Research 1:285-301.
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Abrams, P. A. 1999. Is predator mediated coexistence possible in unstable systems? Ecology,
80:608-621.
Matsuda, H. and Abrams, P. A. 1999. Why is isogamy rare? The instability of isogamy and the
cost of anisogamy. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 1:769-784.
Abrams, P. A. and T. J. Kawecki. 1999. Adaptive host preference and the dynamics of hostparasitoid interactions. Theoretical Population Biology, 56:307-324.
Abrams, P. A. and L. R. Ginzburg. 2000. Models of predation: Prey dependent, ratio dependent
or neither? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:337-341.
Abrams, P. A. 2000. Character shifts of species that share predators. American Naturalist.
156:S45-S61.
Abrams, P. A. 2000. The evolution of predator-prey systems: theory and evidence. Annual
Review of Ecology and Systematics 31:79-105.
Abrams, P. A. 2000. The impact of habitat selection on the heterogeneity of resources in varying
environments. Ecology. 81:2902-2913.
Abrams, P. A. 2001. Adaptive dynamics; neither F nor G. Evolutionary Ecology Research.
3:369-373.
Abrams, P. A. 2001. Modeling the adaptive dynamics of traits involved in inter- and intraspecific competition: An assessment of three methods. Ecology Letters. 4:166-175.
Abrams, P. A. 2001. Describing and quantifying interspecific interactions; A commentary on
recent approaches. Oikos 94:209-218.
Abrams, P. A. 2001. The effect of density independent mortality on the coexistence of
exploitative competitors for renewing resources. American Naturalist. 158:459-470.
Abrams, P. A. 2001. Adaptationism, optimality models, and tests of adaptive scenarios. pp. 273302 in S. H. Orzack and E. Sober (eds.) Adaptationism and Optimality
Cambridge University Press.
Abrams, P. A. 2001. Predator-prey evolution and coevolution. In Perspectives in
Evolutionary Ecology, C. W. Fox, D. A. Roff, and D. J. Fairbairn (eds.) pp. 277-289.
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Chase, J., Abrams, P., Grover, J., Diehl, S., Chesson, P., Holt, R., Richards, S., Nisbet, R., Case,
T. J. 2002. The effects of predators on competition between their prey. Ecology Letters.
5:302-313.
Day, T., P. A. Abrams, and J. Chase. 2002. The role of size-specific predation in the evolution
and diversification of prey life histories. Evolution. 56:877-887.
Abrams, P. A. and X. Chen. 2002 The effect of competition between prey species on the
evolution of their vulnerabilities to a shared predator. Evolutionary Ecology Research.
4:897-909.
Abrams, P. A. 2002. Will declining population sizes warn us of impending extinctions?
American Naturalist. 160:293-305.
Abrams, P. A. and X. Chen. 2002. The evolution of traits affecting resource acquisition and
predator vulnerability; character displacement under real and apparent competition.
American Naturalist.160:692-704.
Abrams, P. A. and R. D. Holt. 2002. The impact of consumer-resource cycles on the coexistence
of competing consumers. Theoretical Population Biology. 62:281-295.
Abrams, P. A. 2002. Adaptation and species interactions in simple food webs: The case of
predator switching. in “Ensayos de Biolgia Poblacional en honor a Jesus Alberto Leon”
Acta Biologica Venezuelica. 22:71-84.
Abrams, P. A. 2003. Effects of altered resource consumption rates by one consumer species on a
competitor. Ecology Letters. 6:550-555.
Abrams, P. A. 2003. Can adaptive evolution or behaviour lead to diversification of traits
determining a trade-off between foraging gain and predation risk? Evolutionary Ecology
Research. 5:653-670.
Abrams, P. A., C. E. Brassil, and R. D. Holt. 2003. Dynamics and responses to mortality rates of
competing predators undergoing predator-prey cycles. Theoretical Population Biology.
64:163-176.
Ma, B. O., Abrams, P. A., and C. E. Brassil. 2003. Dynamic vs. instantaneous models of diet
choice. American Naturalist. 162:668-684.
Abrams, P. A. and M. Vos. 2003 Adaptation, density dependence, and the abundances of trophic
levels. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 5:1113-1132.
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Noonburg, E. K., Shuter, B. J. and Abrams, P. A. 2003. Indirect effects of zebra mussels on the
planktonic food web. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. 60:1352-1368.
Abrams, P. A. and H. Matsuda. 2003. Population dynamical consequences of switching at low
total prey densities. Population Ecology. 45:175-185.
Abrams, P. A. 2004. When does periodic variation in resource growth allow robust
coexistence of competing consumer species? Ecology. 85:372-382.
Abrams, P. A. 2004. Trait initiated indirect effects in simple food webs: consequences of changes in
consumption-related traits. Ecology. 85:1029-1038.
Matsuda, H. and P. A. Abrams. 2004. Effects of adaptive change and predator-prey cycles on
sustainable yield. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. 61:175-184.
Morbey, Y. E. and P. A. Abrams. 2004. The interaction between reproductive lifespan and
protandry in seasonal breeders. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 17:768-778.
Abrams, P. A. and H. Matsuda. 2004. Consequences of behavioral dynamics for the population
dynamics of predator-prey systems with switching. Population Ecology. 46:13-25.
Lester, N. P, B. J. Shuter, and P. A. Abrams. 2004. Interpreting the von Bertalanffy model of
somatic growth in fish: The cost of reproduction. Proceedings of the Royal Society of
London, B. 271:1625-1631.
Brassil, C. E. and Abrams, P. A. 2004. The prevalence of asymmetrical indirect effects in twohost-one-parasitoid systems. Theoretical Population Biology. 66:71-82.
P. A. Abrams and Wilson, W. G. 2004. Coexistence in metacommunities due to spatial variation
in resource growth rates; does R* predict the outcome of competition? Ecology Letters.
7:929-940.
Wilson, W. G. and P. A. Abrams. 2005. Coexistence of cycling consumer species having
localized interactions; Armstrong and McGehee in space. American Naturalist. 165:193205.
Fryxell, J. E., J. F. Wilmshurst, A. R. E. Sinclair, D. T. Haydon, R. D. Holt, and P. A. Abrams.
2005. Landscape scale, heterogeneity, and the viability of Serengeti grazers. Ecology
Letters. 8:328-335.
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Noonburg, E. and P. A. Abrams. 2005. Transient dynamics and prey species coexistence with
shared resources and predator. American Naturalist. 165:322-335.
Abrams, P. A. and H. Matsuda. 2005. The effect of adaptive change in the prey on the dynamics
of an exploited predator population. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science.
62:758-766.
B. J. Shuter, N. P. Lester, J. LaRose, K. Vascotto, C. Purchase, G. Morgan, N. Collins, P. A.
Abrams. 2005. Optimal Life Histories and Food Web Position: Linkages Between
Somatic Growth, Reproductive Investment and Mortality. Canadian Journal of Fisheries
and Aquatic Sciences. 62:738-746.
Abrams, P. A. 2005. Adaptive Dynamics vs. adaptive dynamics. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology. 18:1162-1165.
Abrams, P. A. 2005. The consequences of predator and prey adaptations for top-down and
bottom-up effects. Chapter in P. Barbosa and I. Castellanos. Ecology of Predator-Prey
Interactions. Oxford University Press. pp.279-297.
Abrams, P. A. and C. Quince. 2005. The impact of mortality on predator population size and
stability in systems with stage-structured prey. Theoretical Population Biology. 68:253266.
Abrams P. A. 2006. The prerequisites for and likelihood of generalist-specialist coexistence. American
Naturalist. 167:329-342.
Abrams, P. A. 2006. Evolution of resource-exploitation traits in a generalist consumer; the evolution and
coexistence of generalists and specialists. Evolution. 60:427-439.
Matsuda, H. and P. A. Abrams. 2006. Maximal yields from multi-species fisheries systems:
Rules for systems with multiple trophic levels. Ecological Applications. 16:225-237.
Rueffler, C., T. J. M. van Dooren, O. Leimar, and P. A. Abrams. 2006. Disruptive selection; and
then what? Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 21:238-245.
Abrams, P. A. 2006. The effects of switching behavior on the evolutionary diversification of
generalist consumers. American Naturalist. 168:645-659.
DeAngelis, D. L., M. Vos, W. M. Moij, and P. A. Abrams. 2007. Feedback effects between the
food chain and induced defense strategies. pp. 213-236 in N. Rooney, K. McCann, and D.
Noakes, eds. “From Energetics to Ecosystems: The Dynamics and Structure of Ecological
Systems”. Springer. Dordrecht.
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Abrams, P. A., R. Cressman and V. Krivan. 2007. The role of behavioral dynamics in determining the
patch distributions of interacting species. American Naturalist. 169:505-518.
Abrams, P. A. 2007. Habitat choice in predator-prey systems; spatial instability due to interacting
adaptive movements. American Naturalist. 169:581-594.
Gregor F. Fussmann, Michel Loreau and Peter A. Abrams. 2007. Community dynamics and
evolutionary change. Functional Ecology 21:465-477.
Abrams, P. A. 2007. Specialist-generalist competition in variable environments; the
consequences of competition between resources. 2007.pp. 133-157 in Vasseur, D. A. and
McCann, K. S. (eds). The impact of environmental variability on ecological systems.
The Peter Yodzis Fundamental Ecology Series Vol. 2. Springer, Dordrecht.
Abrams, P. A. and M. Nakajima. 2007. Does competition between resources reverse the
competition between their consumers? Variations on two themes by Vandermeer.
American Naturalist. 170:744-757
Abrams, P. A. 2007. Defining and measuring the impact of dynamic traits on interspecific
interactions. Ecology. 88:2555-2562.
Matsuda, H. and P. A. Abrams. 2008. Can we say goodbye to the maximum sustainable yield
theory? Reflections on trophic level fishing in reconciling fisheries with conservation.
Pages 737-744 in J. L. Nielsen, J., J. Dodson, K. Friedland, T. R. Hamon, J. Musick, and
E. Verspoor, editors. Reconciling fisheries with conservation: proceedings of the Fourth
World Fisheries Congress. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 49, Bethesda,
Maryland.
Abrams, P. A. 2008. Measuring the population-level consequences of predator-induced prey
movement. Evolutionary Ecology Research.10:333-350.
Carnicer, J., Abrams, P. A., and Jordano, P. 2008. Switching behaviour, coexistence and
diversification in a Mediterranean bird community: theoretical predictions and empirical
evidence. Ecology Letters. 11:802-808.
Abrams, P. A. 2008. Measuring the impact of dynamic antipredator traits on predator-preyresource interactions. Ecology. 89:1640-1649.
Abrams, P. A., C. Rueffler and G. Kim. 2008. Determinants of the strength of disruptive and/or
divergent selection arising from resource competition. Evolution. 62:1571-1586.
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Rennie, M.D., C. F. Purchase, N. Lester, N. C. Collins, B. J. Shuter, and P. A. Abrams. 2008.
Lazy males? Bioenergetic differences in energy acquisition and metabolism explain
sexual size dimorphism in percids. Journal of Animal Ecology. 77:916-926.
Quince, C., Abrams, P. A., Shuter, B. J., and Lester, N. P. 2008. Biphasic growth in fish: I. Theoretical
foundations. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 254:197-206.
Quince, C., Shuter, B. J., Abrams, P. A., and Lester, N. P. 2008. Biphasic growth in fish: II.
Model fitting. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 254:207-214.
Abrams, P. A., C. Rueffler, and R. Dinnage. 2008. Competition-similarity relationships, and the
nonlinearity of competitive effects in consumer-resource systems. American Naturalist.
172:463-474.
Peckarsky, B. L., Abrams, P. A., Bolnick, D. I., Dill, L. M., Grabowski, J. H., Luttbeg, B.,
Orrock, J. L, Peacor, S. D., Preisser, E. L., Schmitz, O. J., and Trussell, G. C. 2008.
Rewriting the textbooks: Considering non-consumptive effects in classic studies of
predator-prey interactions. Ecology 89:2416-2425.
Fryxell, J. M., Abrams, P. A., Holt, R. D., Wilmshurst, J. F., Sinclair, A. R. E., Haydon, D. T.,
and Coughenhour, M. 2008. Spatial dynamics and coexistence of the Serengeti grazer
community. pp. 277-300 In, Anthony R. E. Sinclair, Craig Packer, Simon A. R. Mduma,
and John M. Fryxell, editors, Serengeti III: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics.
University of Chicago Press.
Holt, R. D., P. A. Abrams, J. M. Fryxell, and T. Kimbrell. 2008. Reticulate food webs in space
and time: Messages from the Serengeti. pp. 241-276 In, Anthony R. E. Sinclair, Craig
Packer, Simon A. R. Mduma, and John M. Fryxell, editors, Serengeti III: Human
Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics. University of Chicago Press.
Abrams, P. A. and C. Rueffler. 2009. Coexistence and limiting similarity of consumer species
competing for a linear array of resources. Ecology. 90:812-822.
Abrams, P. A. 2009. When does greater mortality increase population size? The long history and
diverse mechanisms underlying the hydra effect. Ecology Letters 12:462-474.
Abrams, P. A. 2009. Determining the functional form of density dependence; deductive
approaches for consumer-resource systems with multiple resources. Evolutionary Ecology
Research. 11:517-540.
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Abrams, P. A. 2009. Determining the functional form of density dependence; deductive
approaches for consumer-resource systems with a single resource. American Naturalist.
174:321-330.
Abrams, P. A. 2009. Adaptive changes in prey vulnerability shape the response of predator
populations to mortality. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 261:294-304.
Abrams, P. A. 2010. Quantitative descriptions of resource choice in ecological models.
Population Ecology. 52:47-58.
Abrams, P. A. 2010. Implications of flexible foraging for interspecific interactions: Lessons
from simple models. Functional Ecology. 24:7-17.
Abrams, P. A. and S. R. Fung. 2010. The impact of adaptive defense on top down and bottom up
effects in systems with intraguild predation. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 12:307-325.
Abrams, P. A. and S. R. Fung. 2010. Prey persistence and abundance in systems with intraguild
predation and type-2 functional responses. Journal of Theoretical Biology 264:10331042.
Rennie, M.D., Purchase, C.F., Shuter, B.J., Collins, N.C., Abrams, P.A. and Morgan, G.E. 2010.
Predation influences prey life histories and bioenergetics: patterns differ between
vulnerable and invulnerable size classes of prey. J. Fish Biology. 77:1230-1251.
Matsuda, H. and Abrams, P. A. 2011. Why are equally-sized gametes rare? The instability of
isogamy and cost of anisogamy. pp. 75 - 95 in, 'The evolution of anisogamy', T. Togashi
and P. A. Cox eds. Cambridge Univ. Press.
Strecker, A. L., Casselman, J.M., Fortin, M.J., Jackson, D.A.,Ridgway, M.S., Abrams, P.A.,
Shuter, B.J. 2011. A multi-scale comparison of trait linkages to environmental, dispersal,
and spatial variables in fish communities across a large freshwater lake. Oecologia.
166:819-831.
Abrams, P. A. and L. Ruokolainen. 2011. How does adaptive consumer movement affect
population dynamics in consumer-resource metacommunities?; I. Homogeneous patches.
Journal of Theoretical Biology. 277:99-110.
Golubski, A. J. and P. A. Abrams. 2011. Modifying modifiers; What happens when interspecific
interactions interact? Journal of Animal Ecology. 80:1097-1108.
Abrams, P. A. 2011. Simple life history omnivory: responses to enrichment and harvesting in
systems with intraguild predation. American Naturalist in 178:305-319.
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Ruokolainen, L., P. A. Abrams, K. S. McCann, and B. J. Shuter. 2011. Spatial coupling of
heterogeneous consumer-resource systems: the effect of adaptive consumer movement on
synchrony and stability. J. Theoretical Biology. 291:76-87.
Abrams, P. A., L. Ruokolainen, B. J. Shuter and K. S. McCann. 2012. Harvesting creates
ecological traps: Consequences of invisible mortality risks in predator-prey
metacommunities. Ecology. 93:281-293.
Abrams, P. A. 2012. Predator-prey models. Chapter in Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology. A.
Hastings and L. J. Gross, eds. U. California Press pp. 587-594.
Abrams, P. A. 2012. The eco-evolutionary responses of a generalist consumer to resource
competition. Evolution. in press. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01659.x
Abrams, P. A., C. M. Tucker, and B. N. Gilbert. 2012. Evolution of the storage effect. Evolution.
in press. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01756.x
II. Manuscripts under review
de Kerckhove, D. T., B. J. Shuter, L. Cruz-Font, and P. A. Abrams. 2012 Mass movement of lake
fish under strong winds: a freshwater equivalent to ocean fronts. Journal of Animal
Ecology.
III. Manuscripts in preparation
Strecker, A. L., Milne, S. W., Fortin, M.J., Ridgway, M. S., Jackson, D. A., Abrams, P. A.,
Shuter, B. J. 2012. The scale of spatial structure in limnetic fish communities depends on
trophic level. Limnology and Oceanography. resubmission forthcoming
Ruokolainen, L., B. J. Shuter and P. A. Abrams. 2012. Harvesting mobile top predators: the
tragedy of ignorance. for Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science.
Abrams, P. A. 2012. Density dependence and the structure of ecological theory. (book in prep)
Abrams, P. A. 2012. The evolution of intraguild predation. for Evolution
IV. Shorter publications, book reviews, notes, etc.
Abrams, P. A. 1982. Reply to Hurlburt. Ecology 63:253-254.
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Abrams, P. A. 1983. Review of "Food Webs" by Stuart Pimm. Quarterly Review of Biology
58:590-591.
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Abrams, P. A. 1985. Review of "Mathematical Ecology", edited by S. A. Levin and T. G.
Hallam. Quarterly Review of Biology 60:237.
Abrams, P. A. 1985. Marine hard bottom communities. Bulletin, Ecological Society of America.
66:474-476.
Abrams, P. A. 1986. The current status of the competitive exclusion principle: other views.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 1:131-132.
Abrams, P. A. 1987. Interdisciplinary interactions: review of "Predator-prey Relationships:
Perspectives and Approaches from the Study of Lower Vertebrates". (M. Feder and G.
Lauder eds.). Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2:140-141.
Abrams, P. A. 1989. The contributions of ecological theory: review of "Perspectives in
Ecological Theory", J. Roughgarden, R. M. May, and S. A. Levin (eds.) Trends in
Ecology & Evolution. 4:220-221.
Abrams, P. A. 1993. Review of "Assessments and Decisions" by R. W. Elwood and S. J. Neil,
Animal Behavior, 46:621.
Abrams, P. A., T. Namba, M. Mimura, and J. D. Roth. 1997. Comment on Abrams and Roth:
The relationship between productivity and population densities in cycling predator-prey
systems. Evolutionary Ecology 11:371-373.
Abrams, P. A. 2001. Review of “The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography”
by Stephen P. Hubbell. Nature (London). 412:858-859.
Abrams, P. A. 2004. Review of “Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution” by
John Odling-Smee, Kevin Laland, and Marcus Feldman. Quarterly Review of Biology.
79:75.
Abrams, P. A. 2004. Mortality and Lifespan. News and Views. Nature (London). 431:1048-1049.
Shuter, B. J. and P. A. Abrams. 2005. Introducing the Symposium “Building on Beverton’s
Legacy: Life History Variation and Fisheries Management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries
and Aquatic Science. 62:725-729.
Abrams, P. A. 2005. Review of "Adaptive Speciation", edited by U. Dieckmann et al.,
Biometrics. 61:884-885.
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Abrams, P. A. 2006. ‘Evolutionary tapestries; a review of The geographic mosaic of coevolution
by John N. Thompson’. American Scientist, 94:86-87.
Abrams, P. A. 2006. Rules for studying the evolutionary game: a review of Evolutionary game
theory, natural selection, and Darwinian Dynamics, by T. L. Vincent and J. S. Brown.
Evolution. 60:202-204.
Abrams, P. A. 2008. Advances in the study of feeding; A review of Foraging: Behavior and
Ecology (D. W. Stephens et al. eds) Univ. of Chicago Press. Trends in Ecology and
Evolution 23:295-296.
Abrams, P. A. 2009. Review of: F. Dercole and S. Rinaldi. Analysis of Evolutionary Processes:
The Adaptive Dynamics Approach and Its Applications. (2008 Princeton Univ. Press)
American Journal of Human Biology. 21:714-715.
Abrams, P. A. 2011. Review of: Michael Gillman. 2009. An Introduction to Mathematical
Models in Ecology and Evolution: Time and Space. 2nd. edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
Quarterly Review of Biology. 86:127-128.
Abrams, P. A. 2011. Review of: O. J. Schmitz. 2010. Resolving ecosystem complexity. Princeton
Univ. Press. Quarterly Review of Biology. 86:218-219
V. Articles in the popular press
Abrams, P. A. 1987. The population biology of AIDS. Imprint (newsletter of the J. F. Bell
Museum of Natural History) 1987(4)
Abrams, P. A. 1989. Research and salaries not linked. Minnesota Daily. March 28, 1989.
Abrams, P. A. 1990. Facts and fallacies on global warming; It's not just hype. Minnesota Daily.
April 16, 1990.
Abrams, P. A. 1991. Inconsistencies exist in budget cuts. Minnesota Daily. October 30, 1991.
Abrams, P. A. 1992. College's budget disturbing. Minnesota Daily. January 6, 1992.
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