Pictured from left: Gyorgy Barabas, Rosalyn Rael, Annette Ostling, Susanna Messinger, Rafael D`Andrea. 

 

Ostling Lab Publications

 

 

(*Postdoc advised by Ostling, **Graduate Student advised by Ostling, ***Undergraduate Student advised by Ostling)

 

 

Submitted & In Review

1.        Messinger, S. ** and A. Ostling  (In Review) Predator evolution in space: self-shading leads to novel effects of predator and prey ecology on the predator`s evolved attack rate. Theoretical Population Biology.

 

2.        Barabas, G.** and A. Ostling (In Review) Community robustness in periodic environments for discrete-time dynamics.  Ecological Complexity

 

 

Published

3.        Sedio, B.** and A. Ostling (In Press) How specialized must natural enemies be to facilitate coexistence among plants? Ecology Letters.

4.        Barabas, G.**, R. D`Andrea**, R. Rael*, G. Meszena, and A. Ostling (In Press) Emergent neutrality or hidden niches? Oikos.

 

5.        D`Andrea, R. **, G. Barabas**, and A. Ostling (2013) Revising the tolerance-fecundity tradeoff, or On the consequences of discontinuous resource use.  The American Naturalist 181: E91-E101.  DOI: 10.1086/669902 pdf

 

6.        Messinger, S.** and A. Ostling (2013) The influence of host reproduction, host death, and pathogen virulence on the evolution of pathogen transmission in a spatial context.  Evolutionary Ecology 27: 353-380.  DOI: 10.1007/s10682-012-9594-y pdf  Online publication date: August, 2012.

 

7.        Barabas, G.**, R. D`Andrea**, and A. Ostling (2013) Species packing in nonsmooth competition models.  Theoretical Ecology 6: 1-19 DOI: 10.1007/s12080-011-0151-z pdf  Online publication date: January, 2012

 

 

8.        Zhang, D. Y., B. Y. Zhang, K. Lin, X. Jiang, Y. Tao, S. Hubbell, F. He, and A. Ostling (2012) Demographic tradeoffs shape species abundance and diversity.  Journal of Plant Ecology 5:82-88. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtr039 pdf

 

 

9.        Ostling, A. (2012) Large-scale spatial synchrony and the stability of forest biodiversity revisited.  Journal of Plant Ecology 5:52-63. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtr035 pdf

 

 

10.     Barabas, G. **, G. Meszena, and A. Ostling  (2012) Community robustness and limiting similarity in periodic environments.  Theoretical Ecology 5:265-282.  DOI: 10.1007/s12080-011-0127-z pdf  Online publication date: May 2011

 

 

11.     Ostling, A.  (2012) Do fitness-equalizing tradeoffs lead to neutral communities?  Theoretical Ecology 5:181-194.  DOI: 10.1007/s12080-010-0107-8 pdf supplementary material Online publication date: Jan, 2011

 

 

12.    Brym, Z. T. ***, J. K. Lake*, D. Allen, and A. Ostling.  (2011) Plant functional traits suggest novel ecological strategy for an invasive shrub in an understory woody plant community.  Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 1098-1106. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02049.x pdf 

 

 

13.     Lake, J. K.*, and A. Ostling (2009)  Comment on: Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest.  Science 324:1015-c. pdf kraft reply original kraft article

 

 

14.     Messinger, S. ** and A. Ostling (2009) The consequences of spatial structure for pathogen evolution.  The American Naturalist 174:441-454. pdf

 

 

15.     Morlon, H., White, E., Etienne, R., Green, J., Ostling, A., Alonso, D., Enquist, B., He, F.,  Hurlbert, A., Magurran, A., Maurer, B., McGill, B., Olff, H., Storch, D., and T. Zillio (2009)  Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals.  Ecology Letters 12:488-501. pdf   

 

 

16.     O`Dwyer, J. P., J. K. Lake*, A. Ostling, V. M. Savage, and J. L. Green (2009)  An intergrative framework for stochastic, size-structured community assembly.  PNAS 106:6170-6175. pdf supplemental

 

 

17.     Ballantyne, F., D. Menge, A. Ostling, and P. Hosseini.  (2008)  Nutrient recycling affects autotroph and ecosystem stochiometry.  American Naturalist 171: 511-523. pdf

 

 

18.     Alonso, D.*, A. Ostling, and R. Etienne.  (2008) The assumption of symmetry and species abundance distributions.  Ecology Letters 11:93-105. pdf  sup1 sup2

 

 

19.     McGill, B., R. S. Ettiene, J. Gray, D. Alonso, M. J. Anderson, H. K. Benecha, M. Dornelas, B. J. Enquist, J. L. Green, F. He, A. Hurlbert, A. E. Magurran, P. A. Marquet, B. A. Maurer, A. Ostling, C. U. Sokyan, K. Ugland, and E. White (2007) Species abundance distributions: Moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework. Ecology Letters 10:  995-1015. pdf

 

 

20.     Carey, S., A. Ostling, Harte, J., and R. del Moral.  (2007) Impact of curve construction and community dynamics on the species-time relationship.  Ecology 88: 2145-2153. pdf

 

 

21.     Ostling, A. (2005) Neutral theory tested by birds.  Nature 436: 635. (News and Views) pdf

 

 

22.     Harte, J., E. Conlisk, A. Ostling, J. L. Green, and A. B. Smith. (2005) A theory of spatial-abundance and species-abundance distributions in ecological communities at multiple spatial scales. Ecological Monographs 75: 179-197. pdf

 

 

23.     Harte, J., A. Ostling, J. L. Green, and A. P. Kinzig. (2004) Climate Change and Extinction.  Nature 430: Brief Communications. pdf

 

 

24.     Ostling, A., J. Harte, J. L. Green, and A. P. Kinzig. (2004) Self-similarity, the power-law form of the species-area relationship, and a probability rule:  A reply.  The American Naturalist 163: 627-633. pdf

 

 

25.     Brose, U., A. Ostling, K. Harrison, and N. D. Martinez. (2004) Unified spatial scaling of species and their trophic interactions.  Nature 428:167-171. pdf

 

 

26.     Green, J. L., and A. Ostling.  (2003) Endemics-area relationships: the influence of species dominance and spatial aggregation.  Ecology 84: 3090-3094. pdf 

 

 

27.     Ostling, A., J. Harte, J. L. Green, and A. P. Kinzig. (2003) A community-level fractal property produces power-law species-area relationships in nature. Oikos 103: 218-224. pdf

 

 

28.     Green, J. L., J. Harte, and A. Ostling.  (2003) Species richness, endemism and abundance patterns:  tests of two fractal models in a serpentine grassland Ecology Letters 6: 919-928. pdf

 

 

29.     Harte, J., T. Blackburn, and A. Ostling. (2001) Self-similarity and the relationship between abundance and range size. The American Naturalist 157:374-386. pdf

 

 

30.     Green, J. L., J. Harte, and A. Ostling. (2001) Global warming, temperature homogenization and species extinction, in Biotic Homogenization, Lockwood, J. and M. McKinney, editors, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2001). pdf

 

 

31.     Ostling, A., J. Harte, and J. Green. (2000) Self-similarity and clustering in the spatial distribution of species -Technical Comment. Science 290:671a. pdf  Condit article  

 

 

32.     Sardesai M., C. Figge, M. Bodner, M. Crosby, J. Hansen, J. A. Quillfeldt, S. Landau, A. Ostling, S. Vuong, and G. L. Shaw.  (2001) Reliable short-term memory in the trion model: toward a cortical language and grammar. Biological Cybernetics 84:173-182.