IN PRESS OR INVITED

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

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

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

Dunn, RR, Sanders, NJ (invited). Ant communities along gradients. What we know and where we should go. (Book Chapter).

Sanders, NJ, Kaspari, M, Dunn, RR (invited). Diversity along elevational and latitudinal gradients. Are there general rules? Ecography.

2007

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: 24-33 PDF

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 Biology. XX-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. PDF, PDF 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. Recovery of faunal communities during tropical forest regeneration. Conservation Biology. 18: 302-309.PDF

Dunn, R.R. 2004. Las Hormigas de Pampa Grande. In "Historia Natural de Pampa Grande , Bolivia ." (http://www.museonoelkempff.org/informacionDis/pampa-grande.htm).

Earlier Publications

Dunn, R.R. 2000. The Insect Poet. American Entomologist. 46: 70-72.

Dunn, R.R. 2000. Isolated trees as centers of ant diversity in active and fallow fields. Biological Conservation. 95: 317-321.

Dunn, R.R. 2000. Bromeliads in successional forests and forest remnant trees in a tropical montane forest, Las Palmeras, Ecuador. Selbyana. 21: 137-143.