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Sanders NJ, Suarez AV, Andersen AN, Dunn RR, Eubanks MD, Feener DH, Gilbert LE, Gordon DM, Hoffmann BD, Holway DA, Hooper-Bùi LM, Krushelnycky PD, Lach L, LeBrun EG, Lester PJ, O’Dowd DJ, Plowes R, Simberloff D, Tillberg CV, Tsutsui ND, Wilder SM (In review) Invasive species are drivers, not passengers, of diversity loss.

Sanders NJ, Suarez AV, Andersen AN, Dunn RR, Eubanks MD, Feener DH, Gilbert LE, Gordon DM, Hoffmann BD, Holway DA, Hooper-Bùi LM, Krushelnycky PD, Lach L, LeBrun EG, Lester PJ, O’Dowd DJ, Plowes R, Simberloff D, Tillberg CV, Tsutsui ND, Wilder SM (In review) Invasive species are drivers, not passengers, of diversity loss.

Sanders NJ, Pogue MG, Dunn RR (In revision) Environmental factors shape an elevational gradient in moth (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) diversity in a temperate system.

Patrick MA*, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (In revision) The effects of treefall gap disturbances on litter ant assemblages in a tropical montane cloud forest.

McGlynn, TP, Weiser M, Dunn RR (In Review) More individuals but fewer species--Tests of the More Individuals Hypothesis from experiments on a diverse tropical fauna.

Dunn RR, Pecaravic M, Danoff-Burg J (In Review) Cryptic persistence of native species in an invaded island landscape.


2009

 

Dunn RR, Harris NC, Colwell RK, Koh LP, Sodhi, NS (In Press) The sixth mass (co)-extinction--are most endangered species parasites and mutualists. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

Dunn, R.R., N.J. Sanders, S.B. Menke, M.D. Weiser, M.C. Fitzpatrick, E. Laurent, J.-P. Lessard, D. Agosti, A. Andersen, C. Bruhl, X. Cerda, A. Ellison, B. Fisher, H. Gibb, N. Gotelli, A. Gove, B. Guénard, M. Janda, M. Kaspari, J.T. Longino, J. Majer, T.P. McGlynn, S.B. Menke, C. Parr, S. Philpott, M. Pfeiffer, J. Retana, A. Suarez, H. Vasconcelos. 2009. Climatic Drivers of Hemispheric Asymmetry in Global Patterns of Ant Species Richness. Ecology Letters. PDF (Press, Blog)

Lessard J-P*, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (2009) Spatial variation in the abiotic environment mediates local interactions and shapes ground-dwelling ant assemblages. Insectes Sociaux 52: 000-000


Lengyel S, Gove AD, Latimer AM, Majer JD & Dunn RR. 2009. Ants sow the seeds of global diversification in flowering plants. PloS ONE 4(5): e5480. Available online free at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005480

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 (Invited).

Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, et al. 2009. A diversity of elevational diversity gradients. In Data mining for global trends in mountain biodiversity Edited by Körner C and Spehn E (Invited).

Dunn, RR. 2009 If co-extinctions are common, why are so many species specialists? (Book Chapter). PDF


2008

Zelikova TJ*, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (2008) Variation in seed dispersal by ants along an elevational gradient in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Acta Oecologica 34: 000-000. PDF PDF

Fitzpatrick MC*, Gove AD, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR (2008) Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse in a global biodiversity hotspot: The Banksia (Proteaceae) of Western Australia. Global Change Biology 14: 1337-1352.PDF

Fitzpatrick MC*, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (2008) Datasets matter, but so do evolution and ecology: A response to Peterson and Nakazawa. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 562-565.

Dunn, RR, Gove, A, Barraclough, TG, Givnish, TJ, Majer, JD (2008) Convergent evolution of an ant-plant mutualism across plant families, continents and time. Evolutionary Ecology Research. PDF


2007


Lessard J-P**, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (2007) Rarity and diversity in ant assemblages in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Southeastern Naturalist 6: 215-228 (Invited)

Gove, A, Majer, JD, Dunn, RR (2007) A keystone ant species promotes seed dispersal in a "diffuse" mutualism. PDF

Dunn RR, et al. (22 co-authors) (2007) Global Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Biodiversity and Biogeography—A New Database and its Possibilities. Myrmecological News 11: 000-000.PDF

Geraghty MJ**, Dunn, RR, Sanders NJ (2007) Bergmann's rule in ants: are patterns along latitudinal and elevational gradients congruent? Myrmecological News 11: 000-000. PDF

Dunn RR, Parker C, Sanders NJ (2007) Null models and temporal patterns of diversity: assessing the biotic and abiotic controls on ant community structure. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 91: 191-201 PDF

Sanders NJ, Lessard J-P**, Fitzpatrick, MC*, Dunn RR (2007) Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains. Global Ecology and Biogeography doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01714.x PDF

Sanders NJ, Crutsinger GM*, Dunn RR, Majer JD, Delabie JHC (2007) An ant mosaic revisited: dominant ant species disassemble arboreal ant communities but co-occur randomly. Biotropica 39: 422-427 PDF

Dunn RR, Parker C, Geraghty M**Sanders NJ (2007) Reproductive phenologies in a diverse temperature ant fauna. Ecological Entomology 32: 135-142 PDF

Dunn, R.R., Danoff-Burg, J (2007) Road size and Carrion Beetle Assemblages in a New York Forest. Journal of Insect Conservation. XX: XXX-XXX.

Fitzpatrick MC *, Weltzin JF, Sanders NJ, Dunn, RR (2007) The biogeography of prediction error: Why doesn't the introduced range of the fire ant predict its native range or vice versa? Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 24-33PDF


2006

Gove, A. D., 2006. Do isolated trees encourage arboreal ant foraging at ground level? Agriculture Ecosystems and the Environment. 113: 272-276. PDF

Gove, A.D., Majer, J.D. and Rico-Gray, V. 2005. Methods for conservation outside of formal reserve systems: the case of ants in the seasonally dry tropics of Veracruz, Mexico. Biological Conservation. 126: 328-338. PDF

Cancela, M.C., R. R. Dunn, E. van Etten and B. Lamont. 2006. Long-distance dispersal of “ant-dispersed” seeds by Emus in Western Australia. Ecography. 29: 632-640. PDF

Dunn, R. R., Gavin, M., Sanchez, M. and J. Solomon. 2006. The pigeon paradox or how the future of conservation depends on pests. Conservation BiologyXX-XXX. PDF

S. R. Turner, B. Pearce*, D. Rokich, R. R. Dunn, D. J. Merritt, K. W. Dixon and J. D.Majer. 2006. Broadcast seeding in post-mining restoration. Restoration Ecology, 14 (2) 267-277. PDF

Dunn, R. R., Gove, A. & Majer, J. 2006. Seed dispersal mutualisms with ants and patterns of plant diversity in western Australia. (In: eds Vilela, E. F., Santos, I. A., Schoereder, J. H. Campos, L. A. O. & Serrão, J. E.). Fronteiras do conhecimento em Insetos Socais. Editora Universidade Federal de Viçosa, MG. 178 p. 2006. Preprint

McGlynn, T., R.R. Dunn, D.J. Salinas* and D. Clark. 2006. Soil nutrients predict rain forest litter faunal density. Biotropica. XX-XXX.

Kluge, J., Kessler, M., & Dunn, R. R. 2006. What drives elevational patterns of diversity? A test of geometric constraints, climate, and species pool effects for pteridophytes on an elevational gradient in Costa Rica. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 15: 358-371.PDF

Dunn, R.R., R.K. Colwell, and C. Nilsson. 2006. The River Domain: Why are there so many species half way up the river? Ecography. 29 (2), 251-259 PDF with supplement


2005

Dunn, R.R. Review of “A Plague of Rats and Rubbervines: The Growing Threat of Species Invasions." Biological Invasions (in press).

Dunn, R.R., and T. Romdal. 2005. The effects of local forest conversion on mean geographic range size of Neotropical bird assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 14 (4): 359-366. PDF

N.S. Sodhi, T.M. Lee*, L.P. Koh* and R.R. Dunn. 2005. A century of avifaunal losses from a small tropical rainforest fragment. Animal Conservation. 8: 217-222.PDF

Dunn, R.R. 2005. Insect extinctions, the neglected majority. Conservation Biology. 19 (4): 1030-1036.PDF


2004

Koh, L.P., R.R. Dunn (Joint First Author), N.S. Sodhi, R.K. Colwell, H.C. Proctor, & V.S. Smith. 2004. Species co-extinctions and the biodiversity crisis. Science 305: 1632-1634. PDFPDF of supplement (all the good stuff)

Dunn, R.R. 2004. Managing the tropical landscape: a comparison of the effects of logging and forest conversion to agriculture on ants, birds, and Lepidoptera. Forest Ecology and Management 191: 215-224. PDF

Dunn, R.R. 2004. Recover