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IN REVIEW OR REVISION

  1. Weiser, M.D. and B.J. Enquist. In revision . Biological gradients in species richness and a spurious mid-domain effect.

  2. Jenkins, C.N., N.J. Sanders, A.N. Andersen, X. Arnan, C.A.Brühl, X. Cerda, A.M. Ellison, B.L. Fisher, M.C. Fitzpatrick, N.J. Gotelli, A.D. Gove, Benoit Guénard, J.E. Lattke, J.-P. Lessard, T.P. McGlynn, S.B. Menke, C.L. Parr, S.M. Philpott, H.L. Vasconcelos, M.D. Weiser and R.R. Dunn. in review. Exploring the limits to our knowledge of diversity in light of climate change, the case of ants

  3. Weiser, M.D. and B.J. Enquist in revision . Is there a general explanation for the latitudinal gradient in mammal species diversity?

  4. Fitzpatrick, M.C., N.J. Sanders, S. Ferrier, J.T. Longino, M.D. Weiser and R.R. Dunn. In review. Forecasting the future of biodiversity: a test of single- and multi-species models for ants in North America.

  5. Swenson, N.G., B.J. Enquist, J. Pither, A.J. Kerkhoff, B. Boyle, J.J. Elser, W.F. Fagen, A.T. Moles, O.L. Phillips, C.A. Price, P.B. Reich, J.C. Stegen, M.D. Weiser, I.J. Wright, S. Andelman, S. Flynn, C.M. Hulshof, P.M. Jorgensen, T.E. Lacher Jr., A. Monteagudo, M.P. Nunez Vargas, and R. Vasquez. In review. The diversity of woody plant function across the New World.
IN PRESS
  1. Stegen, J.C., N.G. Swenson, B.J. Enquist, E.P. White, O.L. Phillips, P.M. Jorgensen, M.D. Weiser, A. Monteagudo-Mendoza, and P. Núñez Vargas. Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients. In Press at Global Ecology and Biogeography.
PUBLISHED
  1. S.B. Menke, B. Guénard, J.O. Sexton, M.D. Weiser, R.R. Dunn, and J. Silverman. 2010. Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants. Urban Ecosystems DOI 10.1007/s11252-010-0150-7 | pdf |

  2. Weiser, M.D., N.J. Sanders, D. Agosti, A.M. Ellison, B.L. Fisher, H. Gibb, N.J. Gotelli, A.D. Gove, B. Guénard, M. Janda, M. Kaspari, J.-P. Lessard, J.T. Longino, J.D Majer, S.B. Menke, T.P. McGlynn, C.L. Parr, S.M. Philpott, J. Retana, A. Suarez, H.L. Vasconcelos, S.P. Yanoviak and R.R. Dunn. 2010. . Ant diversity on the ground and in the canopy: Do similar patterns imply similar drivers of diversity? Biology Letters 6:769-772. | pdf |

  3. Swenson, N.G., and M.D. Weiser. 2010. Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees. Ecology 91:2234-2241. | pdf |

  4. Guénard, B., M.D. Weiser and R.R. Dunn. 2010. Global generic diversity and distribution: new maps of the world of ants with examples of their use in the context of Asia. Asian Myrmecology 3:21-28. | pdf |

  5. McGlynn, T.P., M.D. Weiser and R.R.Dunn. 2010. More individuals but fewer species - testing the More Individuals Hypothesis in a diverse tropical fauna. Biology Letters 6: 490-493. | pdf |

  6. Dunn, R.R., D. Agosti, A. Andersen, C. Bruhl, X. Cerda, A. Ellison, B. Fisher, M.C. Fitzpatrick, H. Gibb, N. Gotelli, A. Gove, B. Guénard, M. Janda, M. Kaspari, E. Laurent, J.-P. Lessard, J.T. Longino, J. Majer, T.P. McGlynn, S.B. Menke, C. Parr, S. Philpott, M. Pfeiffer, J. Retana, A. Suarez, H. Vasconcelos, M.D. Weiser and N.J. Sanders. 2009. Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness. Ecology Letters 12: 324-333. | pdf |

  7. R.R. Dunn, N.J. Sanders, B. Guénard and M.D. Weiser. 2009. Geographic gradients in the diversity,abundance, size, and ecological consequences of ants. Ant Ecology, L. Lach C. Parr and K. Abbot, editors

  8. M. Kaspari and M.D. Weiser. 2007. The size-grain hypothesis: do macroarthropods see a fractal world? Ecological Entomology 32:279-282. | pdf |

  9. Weiser, M.D.,B. J. Enquist, B. Boyle, T. J. Killeen, P. M. Jørgensen, G. Fonseca, M. Jennings, A. J. Kerkhoff, T. E. Lacher Jr., A. Monteagudo, M.P. Núñez Vargas, O. L. Phillips, N. G. Swenson, R. Vásquez Martínez. 2007. Range size distributions and the latitudinal gradient in New World woody plant species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16(5): 679-688. | pdf |

  10. McGill, B., B. Maurer, and M.D. Weiser. 2006. Empirical evaluation of neutral theory. Ecology 87(6):1411-1423 | pdf |

  11. M.D. Weiser and M. Kaspari. 2006. Ecological morphospace of New World ants. Ecological Entomology 31:131-142. | pdf |

  12. Triantis, K.A., M. Mylonas, M.D. Weiser, K. Lika, and K. Vardinoyannis. 2005 Species richness, environmental heterogeneity and area: A case study based on land snails in Skyros archipelago (Aegean Sea, Greece). Journal of Biogeography 32(10):1727-1736. | pdf |

  13. Cahan, S. H., J.D. Parker, S.W. Rissing, R.A. Johnson, T.S. Polony, M.D. Weiser, and D.R. Smith. 2002. Extreme genetic differences between queens and workers in hybridizing Pogonomyrmex harvester ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269:1871-1877. | pdf |

  14. Enquist, B. J., J. Sanderson, and M.D. Weiser. 2002. Modeling macroscopic patterns in ecology. Science 295:5561-2. | pdf |

  15. Weiser, M.D.. 2002. Removal of Rhododendron macrophyllum petals by Camponotus modoc. Western North American Naturalist 62(4): 498-499 | pdf |

  16. Lomolino, M. V. and M.D. Weiser. 2001. Towards a more general species-area relationship: diversity on all islands, great and small. Journal of Biogeography 28(4) 431-445. | pdf |

  17. Kaspari, M. and M.D. Weiser. 2000. Ant activity along moisture gradients in a Neotropical forest. Biotropica 32(4) 319-325. | pdf |

  18. Kaspari, M. and M.D. Weiser. 1999. Interspecific scaling in ants: the size grain hypothesis. Functional Ecology 13(4):530-538. | pdf |

IN PREPARATION
  1. Weiser, M.D., B. Guénard, N.J. Sanders and R.R. Dunn. Compositional similarity and biogeographic provincialism of ants
  2. Guénard, B., M.D. Weiser and R.R. Dunn. Predicting global hotspots for new discoveries, an example with a new global database for ants
  3. Hulshof, C.M., N.G. Swenson and M.D. Weiser. Variability in height-diameter allometry across the continental United States
  4. Lucky, A., B. Guénard, M.D. Weiser and R.R. Dunn. Tracing the Rise of Ants-Out of the Wet, Hot, Dirt