Download Chapter 4 Suggested Readings

Chapter 16 Suggested Readings
Colinvaux, P. A. 1989. The past and future Amazon. Scientific American 260:102–8.
This paper reviews the long history of human disturbance in tropical communities of
Central and South America.
Cao, Y., D. D. Williams, and D. P. Larsen. 2002. Comparison of ecological communities:
the problem of sample representativeness. Ecological Monographs 72:41–56.
In this study, Cao, Williams, and Larsen point out that equalizing sampling efforts across
communities may not result in representative estimates of species richness.
Fleishman, E., J. R. Thomson, R. Mac Nally, D. D. Murphy, and J. P. Fay. 2005. Using
indicator species to predict species richness of multiple taxonomic groups.
Conservation Biology 19:1125–37.
The authors successfully predict overall bird and/or butterfly diversity using a few
species of birds, butterflies, or a combination of birds and butterflies as diversity
indicators.
Gotelli, N. J. and R. K. Colwell. 2001. Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls
in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecology Letters 4:379–91.
This study examines some of the subtle issues involved in making quantitative
comparisons of species richness.
Grimm, N. B., S. H. Faeth, N. E. Golubiewski, C. L. Redman, J. Wu, X. Bai, and J. M.
Briggs. 2008. Global change and the ecology of cities. Science 319:756-60.
Pickett, S. T., M. L. Cadenasso, J. M. Grove, P. M. Groffman, L. E. Band, C. G. Boone,
W. R. Burch Jr., C. S. B. Grimmond, J. Hom, J. C. Jenkins, N. L. Law, C. H. Nilon,
R. V. Pouyat, K. Szlavecz, P. S. Warren, and M. A. Wilson. 2008. Beyond urban
legends: an emerging framework of urban ecology, as illustrated by the Baltimore
Ecosystem Study. BioScience 58:139-50.
Two overviews of urban ecology by two research teams exploring urban ecology at the
Central Arizona Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research site (LTER) and the Baltimore
Ecosystem Study LTER.
Joern, A. 2005. Disturbance by fire frequency and bison grazing modulate grasshopper
assemblages in tall-grass prairie. Ecology 86:861–73.
This study shows how fire and grazing influence grasshopper species richness and
diversity through their effects on vegetation heterogeneity and plant species diversity.
Lilleskov, E. A., T. J. Fahey, T. R. Horton, and G. M. Lovett. 2002. Belowground
ectomycorrhizal fungal community change over a nitrogen deposition gradient in
Alaska. Ecology 83:104–15.
Fascinating study of the effects of nitrogen enrichment on diversity of mycorrhizal fungi.
Mac Nally, R. and C. A. R. Timewell. 2005. Resource availability controls bird
assemblage composition through interspecific aggression. Auk 122:1097–1111.
In this study, the researchers find that a combination of resource availability (nectar),
size of habitat, and aggression among honeyeater birds controls the composition of local
bird assemblages.
Martikainen, P. and J. Kouki. 2003. Sampling the rarest: threatened beetles in boreal
forest biodiversity inventories. Biodiversity and Conservation 12:1815–31.
A detailed analysis of the sampling efforts required to sample rare beetle species in
boreal forests. This study shows that the amount of earth’s biodiversity and the
challenges of characterizing that diversity are substantial even far from the tropics.
Peterson, D. W. and P. B. Reich. 2008. Fire frequency and tree canopy structure
influence plant species diversity in a forest-grassland ecotone. Plant Ecology 194:5–
16.
A recent study showing that intermediate fire frequencies maintain high species richness
and high habitat heterogeneity.
Svensson, J. R., M. Lindegarth, M. Siccha, M. Lenz, M. Molis, M. Wahl, and H. Pavia.
2007. Maximum species richness at intermediate frequencies of disturbance:
consistency among levels of productivity. Ecology 88:830–38.
Careful experimental study of disturbance frequency and species richness that showed
consistent support of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis across levels of nutrient
enrichment.
Tilman, D. 1994. Competition and biodiversity in spatially structured habitats. Ecology
75:2–16.
A pioneering study on diversity among organisms that contrast sharply with the birds
studied by MacArthur and his colleagues.
WallisDeVries, M. F., P. Poschlod, and J. H. Willems. 2002. Challenges for the
conservation of calcareous grasslands in northwestern Europe: integrating the
requirements of flora and fauna. Biological Conservation 104:265–73.
Willems, J. H. 2002. Problems, approaches, and results in restoration of Dutch calcareous
grassland during the last 30 years. Restoration Ecology 9:147–54.
Two studies that update the continuing work to conserve and restore the humaninfluenced, species-rich chalk grasslands of northwestern Europe.
Wittebolle, L., M. Marzorati, L. Clement, A. Balloi, D. Daffonchio, K. Heylen, P. De
Vos, W. Verstraete, and N. Boon. 2009. Initial community evenness favours
functionality under selective stress. Nature 458:623-26.
Naeem, S. 2009. Gini in the bottle. Nature 458:579-80.
The study by Wittebolle and colleagues, which employs microbial microcosms, is among
the few that examines the significance of species evenness to the functional behavior of
ecosystems. The companion article by Naeem provides graphics and explanation that
make the microcosm experiment and its implications more accessible.