Download Chapter 1 Suggested Readings Davis, M. B. 1983. Quaternary

Chapter 1 Suggested Readings
Davis, M. B. 1983. Quaternary history of deciduous forests of eastern North America and
Europe. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 70:550–63.
Davis, M. B. 1989. Retrospective studies. In G. E. Likens, ed. Long-Term Studies in
Ecology. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Davis, M. B. and R. G. Shaw. 2001. Range shifts and adaptive responses to Quaternary
climate change. Science 292:673–79.
Davis, M. B., R. G. Shaw, and J. R. Etterson. 2005. Evolutionary responses to climate
change. Ecology 86:1704–14.
This is a sample of work done by Margaret Davis and colleagues on ecological and
evolutionary responses to climate change.
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 319:756-760.
Pickett, S. T. A., 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 58:139-150.
These two papers summarize some recent results and thinking by two pioneering North
American groups working on the rapidly developing frontier of urban ecology.
Kunz, T. H., S. A. Gauthreaux Jr., N. I. Hristov, J. W. Horn, G. Jones, E. K. V. Kalko, R.
P. Larkin, G. F. McCracken, S. M. Swartz, R. B. Srygley, R. Dudley, J. K. Westbrook
and M. Wikelski. 2008. Aeroecology: probing and modeling the aerosphere.
Integrative and Comparative Biology 48:1-11.
In this paper, Thomas Kunz and colleagues introduce another frontier in ecological
study: aeroecology.
MacArthur, R. H. 1958. Population ecology of some warblers of northeastern coniferous
forests. Ecology 39:599–619.
In this classic study in ecology, Robert MacArthur tested predictions of ecological theory
with field observations.
Nadkarni, N. M. 1981. Canopy roots: convergent evolution in rainforest nutrient cycles.
Science 214:1023–24.
Nadkarni, N. M. 1984a. Biomass and mineral capital of epiphytes in an Acer
macrophyllum community of a temperate moist coniferous forest, Olympic Peninsula,
Washington State. Canadian Journal of Botany 62:2223–28.
Nadkarni, N. M. 1984b. Epiphyte biomass and nutrient capital of a neotropical elfin
forest. Biotropica 16:249–56.
Nadkarni, N. M. and M. M. Sumera. 2004. Old-growth forest canopy structure and its
relationship to throughfall interception. Forest Science 50:290-298.
These papers provide a sample of forest canopy research by one of the founders of the
field, including research using the Wind River Canopy Crane.
Norris R. D., P. P. Marra, T. K. Kyser, and L. M. Ratcliffe. 2005. Tracking habitat use of
a long-distance migratory bird, the American redstart Setophaga ruticilla, using
stable-carbon isotopes in cellular blood. Journal of Avian Biology 36:164–70.
Rubenstein, D. R. and K. A. Hobson. 2004. From birds to butterflies: animal movement
patterns and stable isotopes. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 19:256-263.
These references provide an introduction to the use of stable isotopes for studying the
movement of animals.
Réale, D., A. G. McAdam, S. Boutin, and D. Berteaux. 2003. Genetic and Plastic
responses of a northern mammal to climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society
of London B 270:591-596.
In this is an often-cited research paper, the authors provide and example of rapid
evolution by a northern mammal species to recent climate warming.