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110 years of Avipoxvirus in the Galapagos Islands

scientific article published in 2011

2009 American Society of Naturalists awards E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award: Jonathan B. Losos

scientific article

A Brief Response to Brooker et al.'s Comment

scientific article published in December 2009

A Comparison of the Taxonomic Richness of Vascular Plants in China and the United States.

scientific article

A Graphical Method of Fitting Equations to Growth Curves

article

A Morphological Analysis of the Structure of Communities of Lizards in Desert Habitats

scientific article published in 1981

A biogeographical perspective on ecological systems: some personal reflections

article

A comprehensive framework for global patterns in biodiversity

scientific article published in 2004

A hemolysis-hemagglutination assay for characterizing constitutive innate humoral immunity in wild and domestic birds

scientific article published in January 2005

A latitudinal gradient in large-scale beta diversity for vascular plants in North America

scientific article published on August 2007

A molecular clock for malaria parasites

scientific article published in July 2010

ASPECT DIVERSITY IN MOTHS: A TEMPERATE-TROPICAL COMPARISON.

scientific article published on June 1975

Adaptation and diversification on islands

scientific article

Allometry of the duration of flight feather molt in birds

scientific article (publication date: June 2009)

An inverse association between West Nile virus serostatus and avian malaria infection status

scientific article

Application of Johnson et al.'s speciation threshold model to apparent colonization times of island biotas

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

Applying a regional community concept to forest birds of eastern North America ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 8 February 2011)

Are islands the end of the colonization road?

scientific article published on 26 June 2008

Area, climate heterogeneity, and the response of climate niches to ecological opportunity in island radiations of<i><scp>A</scp>nolis</i>lizards

scientific article published in 2016

Aspect Diversity in Moths: A Temperate-Tropical Comparison

scientific article published on 05 May 2006

Aspect diversity in moths revisited

scientific article

Avian Incubation: Behaviour, Environment, and Evolution D. Charles Deeming

scientific article published on 14 September 2012

Avian migration and the distribution of malaria parasites in New World passerine birds

scholarly article by Robert Ricklefs et al published 18 December 2016 in Journal of Biogeography

Avoid nest predation when predation rates are low, and other lessons: testing the tropical-temperate nest predation paradigm

scientific article published in 2010

Beta diversity of angiosperms in temperate floras of eastern Asia and eastern North America

scientific article published in 2004

Bimodality of plant height: fact or artifact? A response to Scheffer et al.

scientific article published on 22 October 2014

Biogeography and ecology: towards the integration of two disciplines

scientific article (publication date: 27 August 2011)

Biogeography and ecology: two views of one world

scientific article published on August 2011

Biological implications of the Weibull and Gompertz models of aging

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Birds of a feather

scientific article published in Nature

COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS OF AVIAN MALARIA PARASITES IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI

scholarly article by Robert Ricklefs et al published November 2005 in Ecological Monographs

Changes in plasma hormone levels correlate with fledging in nestling Leach’s storm-petrels ⬇️

scientific article published on August 3, 2010

Chemical characteristics of the foliage of some deciduous trees in southeastern Ontario

scientific article published on 23 April 2011

Clade extinction appears to balance species diversification in sister lineages of Afro-Oriental passerine birds

scientific article

Clade-specific morphological diversification and adaptive radiation in Hawaiian songbirds ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2002)

Cladogenesis and morphological diversification in passerine birds

scientific article published in Nature

Climate change and the integrity of science

scientific article

Co-infections of haemosporidian and trypanosome parasites in a North American songbird

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Colonization of the Lesser Antilles by land birds

scientific article published on June 2010

Comparative Historical Demography of Migratory and Nonmigratory Birds from the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola

scientific article published on 28 February 2012

Comparative gene evolution in haemosporidian (apicomplexa) parasites of birds and mammals

scientific article published on 23 November 2009

Constitutive innate immunity is a component of the pace-of-life syndrome in tropical birds

scientific article published in August 2005

Contrasting adaptive immune defenses and blood parasite prevalence in closely related Passer sparrows

scientific article published on 31 August 2006

Correction: Prevalence and Lineage Diversity of Avian Haemosporidians from Three Distinct Cerrado Habitats in Brazil.

scientific article published on 5 April 2011

Corticosterone, testosterone and life-history strategies of birds

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Darwin's bridge between microevolution and macroevolution

scientific article

Demographic history and genetic diversity in West Indian Coereba flaveola populations ⬇️

scientific article published on August 2, 2012

Description, molecular characterization, and patterns of distribution of a widespread New World avian malaria parasite (Haemosporida: Plasmodiidae), Plasmodium (Novyella) homopolare sp. nov.

scientific article

Development syndromes in New World temperate and tropical songbirds

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Different meal, same flavor: cospeciation and host switching of haemosporidian parasites in some non-passerine birds

scientific article

Dioecy and Its Correlates in the Flowering Plants

article

Disease-limited distributions? Contrasts in the prevalence of avian malaria in shorebird species using marine and freshwater habitats

article

Disentangling the effects of geographic distance and environmental dissimilarity on global patterns of species turnover

scientific article published in 2011

Disintegration of the ecological community

scientific article

Distributions of exotic plants in eastern Asia and North America

scientific article published in July 2006

Diversification and host switching in avian malaria parasites.

scientific article

Diversity anomalies and spatial climate heterogeneity

scientific article published in 2014

Diversity of avian haemosporidians in arid zones of northern Venezuela

scientific article

Diversity regulation at macro-scales: species richness on oceanic archipelagos

scientific article published in 2015

Diversity, loss, and gain of malaria parasites in a globally invasive bird ⬇️

scientific article

Does growth rate determine the rate of metabolism in shorebird chicks living in the Arctic?

scientific article published on 13 July 2007

Domestic exotics and the perception of invasibility

article

Dynamics of avian haemosporidian assemblages through millennial time scales inferred from insular biotas of the West Indies

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data

scientific article (publication date: August 2010)

Ecological and evolutionary determinants for the adaptive radiation of the Madagascan vangas

scientific article (publication date: 24 April 2012)

Ecological and life-history factors influencing the evolution of maternal antibody allocation: a phylogenetic comparison

scientific article

Ecology / Robert E. Ricklefs

written work by Robert E. Ricklefs

Ecology: is speciation driven by species diversity?

scientific article

Effectiveness and ecological implications of anuran defenses against snake predators

scientific article published in 1999

Effects of climate and topography on the diversity anomaly of plants disjunctly distributed in eastern Asia and eastern North America

scientific article published in 2021

Egg size and yolk steroids vary across the laying order in cockatiel clutches: a strategy for reinforcing brood hierarchies?

scientific article published on 19 June 2010

Embryo development and ageing in birds and mammals.

scientific article published in August 2006

Embryonic Growth of the Green Iguana Iguana iguana

Emma Lucy Braun's forest plots in eastern North America

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Environmental Heterogeneity and Plant Species Diversity: A Hypothesis

scientific article published on 26 July 2002

Environmental, geographical and time‐related impacts on avian malaria infections in native and introduced populations of house sparrows (<i>Passer domesticus</i>), a globally invasive species

scientific article published in 2023

Erratum to “Measuring circulating antioxidants in wild birds” [Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 147B (2007) 110–121]

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Estimating annual survival in sexually dimorphic species from proportions of first-year birds

scientific article

Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

scientific article (publication date: April 2007)

Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes

scientific article published in 2022

Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Underlying Geographic Variation in Innate Bird Songs ⬇️

journal article from 'The American Naturalist' published in 2023

Evolutionary assembly of flowering plants into sky islands

scientific article published on 29 March 2021

Evolutionary assembly of the Arctic flora

scientific article published on 26 November 2021

Evolutionary biology for the 21st century

scientific article

Evolutionary differentiation in the Neotropical montane region: molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of Buarremon brush-finches (Aves, Emberizidae).

scientific article published on 23 December 2006

Evolutionary diversification and the origin of the diversity-environment relationship

scientific article published in July 2006

Evolutionary diversification, coevolution between populations and their antagonists, and the filling of niche space

scientific article (publication date: 26 January 2010)

Evolutionary relationships, cospeciation, and host switching in avian malaria parasites

scientific article published in February 2004

Foliage chemistry and the distribution of Lepidoptera larvae on broad-leaved trees in southern Ontario

scientific article published on 17 May 2008

Foraging by deep-diving birds is not constrained by an aerobic diving limit: a model of avian depth-dependent diving metabolic rate

scientific article published on 27 February 2004

Genome size is not related to life-history traits in primates

scientific article published in April 2005

Geographical distribution and ecological conservatism of disjunct genera of vascular plants in eastern Asia and eastern North America

scientific article published on 23 March 2004

Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality ⬇️

scientific article published on January 27, 2012

Global Patterns of Tree Species Richness in Moist Forests: Distinguishing Ecological Influences and Historical Contingency

scientific article published in 1999

Global Patterns of Tree Species Richness in Moist Forests: Energy-Diversity Theory Does Not Account for Variation in Species Richness

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Global concordance in diversity patterns of vascular plants and terrestrial vertebrates.

scientific article

Global diversification rates of passerine birds ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions

scientific article published in 2021

Global phylogeography of the avian malaria pathogen Plasmodium relictum based on MSP1 allelic diversity

article

Global variation in the diversification rate of passerine birds

scientific article

Growth form and distribution of introduced plants in their native and non-native ranges in Eastern Asia and North America

article

Growth rate, protein accumulation, and catabolic enzyme activity of skeletal muscles of galliform birds

scientific article

Habitat‐independent spatial structure in populations of some forest birds in easternNorthAmerica ⬇️

scientific article published on August 20, 2012

Haemosporidian parasites and incubation period influence plumage coloration in tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae)

scientific article published in 2022

Haemosporidian parasites of resident and wintering migratory birds in The Bahamas

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Heritability of longevity in captive populations of nondomesticated mammals and birds

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

High flight costs, but low dive costs, in auks support the biomechanical hypothesis for flightlessness in penguins

scientific article (publication date: 4 June 2013)

Hippoboscid-transmitted Haemoproteus parasites (Haemosporida) infect Galapagos Pelecaniform birds: evidence from molecular and morphological studies, with a description of Haemoproteus iwa.

scientific article

Historical Biogeography and Extinction in the Hawaiian Honeycreepers

scientific article published on 14 August 2017

Historical Biogeography of the Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) in the Caribbean Region: A Mitchondrial DNA Assessment

scientific article published on August 1994

History and diversity: explorations at the intersection of ecology and evolution

scientific article

History and the species-area relationship in Lesser Antillean birds

scientific article published on 03 February 2004

Host Characteristics, Sampling Intensity, and Species Richness of Lepidoptera Larvae on Broad-Leaved Tress in Southern Ontario

scientific article published in 1983

Host associations and turnover of haemosporidian parasites in manakins (Aves: Pipridae).

scientific article

Host compatibility rather than vector–host-encounter rate determines the host range of avian Plasmodium parasites ⬇️

scientific article published on April 17, 2013

Host immune responses to experimental infection of Plasmodium relictum (lineage SGS1) in domestic canaries (Serinus canaria).

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Host life-history traits predict haemosporidian parasite prevalence in tanagers (Aves: Thraupidae)

scientific article published in 2022

Host phylogeography and beta diversity in avian haemosporidian (Plasmodiidae) assemblages of the Lesser Antilles ⬇️

scientific article published on March 22, 2011

Host specialization and geographic localization of avian malaria parasites: a regional analysis in the Lesser Antilles

scientific article published on 18 February 2005

Host species, and not environment, predicts variation in blood parasite prevalence, distribution, and diversity along a humidity gradient in northern South America.

scientific article

Host-pathogen coevolution, secondary sympatry and species diversification

scientific article (publication date: 12 April 2010)

How can we determine the molecular clock of malaria parasites?

scientific article published on 03 May 2013

How tree species fill geographic and ecological space in eastern North America

scientific article

INSENSITIVITY OF BRAIN GROWTH TO SELECTION OF FOUR-WEEK BODY MASS IN JAPANESE QUAIL.

scientific article published in November 1984

INVERSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FUNCTIONAL MATURITY AND EXPONENTIAL GROWTH RATE OF AVIAN SKELETAL MUSCLE: A CONSTRAINT ON EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSE.

scientific article published on August 1994

Immunogenetic response of the bananaquit in the face of malarial parasites

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Insights from comparative analyses of aging in birds and mammals

scientific article (publication date: April 2010)

Intercontinental Correlation of Geographical Ranges Suggests Stasis in Ecological Traits of Relict Genera of Temperate Perennial Herbs

scientific article published in June 1992

Interspecific associations between circulating antioxidant levels and life-history variation in birds

scientific article published on August 2008

Intrinsic aging-related mortality in birds

article

Intrinsic dynamics of the regional community

scientific article published on 24 March 2015

Is cell-mediated immunity related to the evolution of life-history strategies in birds?

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Island and taxon effects in parasitism revisited: avian malaria in the Lesser Antilles ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2003

Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur-Wilson

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

Leaf Traits and the Species Richness and Abundance of Lepidopteran Larvae on Deciduous Trees in Southern Ontario

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Life-history connections to rates of aging in terrestrial vertebrates

scientific article

Lifespan is unrelated to investment in reproduction in populations of mammals and birds in captivity

scientific article

Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of <scp>range‐size</scp> variation: A case study with American oaks (<i>Quercus</i> spp.)

scientific article published in 2022

Local host specialization, host-switching, and dispersal shape the regional distributions of avian haemosporidian parasites

scientific article

Low diversity and high intra-island variation in prevalence of avian Haemoproteus parasites on Barbados, Lesser Antilles

scientific article published on 23 July 2009

MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF ANTILLEAN THRASHERS, TREMBLERS, AND MOCKINGBIRDS (AVES: MIMIDAE)

scholarly article published in The Auk, January 2001

Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago

scientific article

Measuring circulating antioxidants in wild birds

article

Metabolic response to wind of downy chicks of Arctic-breeding shorebirds (Scolopacidae)

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

Metabolic responses of shorebird chicks to cold stress: hysteresis of cooling and warming phases

scientific article published in August 2003

Mixed species flock, nest height, and elevation partially explain avian haemoparasite prevalence in Colombia.

scientific article

Model for macroevolutionary dynamics ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2 July 2013)

Morphometric relationships of take-off speed in anuran amphibians

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

Naturalists, Natural History, and the Nature of Biological Diversity ⬇️

scientific article published on February 27, 2012

Nest attendance by tropical and temperate passerine birds: Same constancy, different strategy

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

New directions in island biogeography

article

No simple answers for ecological immunology: relationships among immune indices at the individual level break down at the species level in waterfowl

scientific article published in April 2006

On age and species richness of higher taxa

scientific article

Out of the Tropical Lowlands: Latitude versus Elevation

scientific article

Overlap in the Seasonal Infection Patterns of Avian Malaria Parasites and West Nile Virus in Vectors and Hosts

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

PATTERNS OF GROWTH IN BIRDS

article

Parasite misidentifications in GenBank: how to minimize their number?

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

Parental investment and avian reproductive rate: Williams's principle reconsidered

scientific article

Passerine morphology: external measurements of approximately one-quarter of passerine bird species

scientific article

Patterns of Parasite Abundance and Distribution in Island Populations of Galápagos Endemic Birds

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Patterns of parasite abundance and distribution in island populations of Galápagos endemic birds

scientific article

Patterns of phylogenetic relatedness of angiosperm woody plants across biomes and life-history stages

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Phylogenetic dispersion and diversity in regional assemblages of seed plants in China

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Phylogenetic diversity anomaly in angiosperms between eastern Asia and eastern North America

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Phylogenetic patterns of rarity in a regional species pool of tropical woody plants

article

Phylogenetic relationships of haemosporidian parasites in New World Columbiformes, with emphasis on the endemic Galapagos dove

scientific article

Phylogenetic relationships of the mockingbirds and thrashers (Aves: Mimidae)

scientific article (publication date: May 2012)

Phylogeny and Historical Biogeography of Acer I- Study History of the Infrageneric Classification ⬇️

scientific article published in September 2002

Plasmodium prevalence across avian host species is positively associated with exposure to mosquito vectors

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Population structure of avian malaria parasites

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Postglacial migration supplements climate in determining plant species ranges in Europe

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2011)

Potential biases in estimating the rate parameter of sigmoid growth functions

scientific article published in 2010

Prevalence and lineage diversity of avian haemosporidians from three distinct cerrado habitats in Brazil

scientific article

Prevalence of avian haemosporidian parasites is positively related to the abundance of host species at multiple sites within a region

scientific article published on 5 October 2016

Prevalence of blood parasites in European passeriform birds.

scientific article

Pre‐reproductive survival in a tropical bird and its implications for avian life histories ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Radiating despite a Lack of Character: Ecological Divergence among Closely Related, Morphologically Similar Honeyeaters (Aves: Meliphagidae) Co-occurring in Arid Australian Environments

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

Range Size and Local Abundance of Some North American Songbirds: A Positive Correlation

article

Rate of lineage origin explains the diversity anomaly in the world's mangrove vegetation

scientific article

Rates of nucleotide substitution in Cornaceae (Cornales)-Pattern of variation and underlying causal factors

scientific article published on 19 July 2008

Reciprocal specialization in multihost malaria parasite communities of birds: a temperate-tropical comparison

scientific article

Reconciling diversification: random pulse models of speciation and extinction

scientific article

Region effects influence local tree species diversity

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

Regional differences in rates of plant speciation and molecular evolution: a comparison between eastern Asia and eastern North America

scientific article published in October 2004

Relationship of minimum winter temperature and temperature seasonality to the northern range limit and species richness of trees in North America

scientific article published on 28 January 2022

Rerooting the evolutionary tree of malaria parasites ⬇️

scientific article published on July 5, 2011

Resource predictability and specialization in avian malaria parasites

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

Rooting and dating maples (Acer) with an uncorrelated-rates molecular clock: implications for north American/Asian disjunctions

scientific article

SPECIES RICHNESS WITHIN FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS.

scientific article

STAGE OF TAXON CYCLE AND DISTRIBUTION OF BIRDS ON JAMAICA, GREATER ANTILLES.

scientific article published on June 1970

Seasonal Occurrence of Night-Flying Insects on Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone

article by Robert E Ricklefs published 1975 in Journal of the New York Entomological Society

Small clades at the periphery of passerine morphological space

scientific article published on 07 April 2005

Speciation Rate Is Independent of the Rate of Evolution of Morphological Size, Shape, and Absolute Morphological Specialization in a Large Clade of Birds

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Species Diversity of Euglossa in Panama

scientific article published in 1969

Species Richness Within Families of Flowering Plants

scientific article published in 1994

Species formation by host shifting in avian malaria parasites

scientific article

Species limits in avian malaria parasites (Haemosporida): how to move forward in the molecular era.

scientific article published on 09 May 2014

Species richness and morphological diversity of passerine birds ⬇️

scientific article published on August 20, 2012

Species richness and niche space for temperate and tropical folivores ⬇️

scientific article published on July 21, 2011

Splendid isolation: historical ecology of the South American passerine fauna

article

Structure and organization of an avian haemosporidian assemblage in a Neotropical savanna in Brazil.

scientific article published on 3 September 2012

THE TEMPORAL COMPONENT OF DIVERSITY AMONG SPECIES OF BIRDS

scientific article published on 01 June 1966

Taxon Cycles in the West Indian Avifauna

article

Taxon richness and climate in angiosperms: is there a globally consistent relationship that precludes region effects?

scientific article

Testing the low latitude/high defense hypothesis for broad-leaved tree species ⬇️

scientific article published on January 22, 2012

The Correlation Between Ecology and Morphology in Deciduous Forest Passerine Birds

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

The Estimation of a Time Function of Ecological Use

scientific article published in 1970

The West Indies as a laboratory of biogeography and evolution

scientific article (publication date: 27 July 2008)

The causes of evolutionary radiations in archipelagoes: passerine birds in the Lesser Antilles

scientific article

The dynamic evolutionary history of the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) in the Caribbean revealed by a multigene analysis

scientific article

The ecology of emerging infectious diseases in migratory birds: an assessment of the role of climate change and priorities for future research

scientific article

The ecology of host immune responses to chronic avian haemosporidian infection

scientific article published on 2 September 2014

The effects of brood size on growth and steroid hormone concentrations in nestling eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) ⬇️

scientific article published on July 27, 2011

The evolution of morphological diversity in continental assemblages of passerine birds

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

The genome sequence and insights into the immunogenetics of the bananaquit (Passeriformes: Coereba flaveola).

scientific article

The global biogeography of avian haemosporidian parasites is characterized by local diversification and intercontinental dispersal

scholarly article by Vincenzo A Ellis et al published 16 July 2018 in Parasitology

The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

scientific article

The malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum in the endemic avifauna of eastern Cuba

scientific article

The physiology/life-history nexus

article

The relationship between local and regional species richness in birds of the Caribbean Basin

scientific article published on 20 September 2010

The relationship between local and regional species richness in birds of the Caribbean Basin

scientific article published on 12 March 2003

The role of exotic species in homogenizing the North American flora

scientific article

The roles of island area per se and habitat diversity in the species-area relationships of four Lesser Antillean faunal groups

scientific article published in 1999

The unified neutral theory of biodiversity: do the numbers add up?

scientific article published in June 2006

Time, species, and the generation of trait variance in clades

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Towards a phylogenetic framework for the evolution of shakes, rattles, and rolls in Myiarchus tyrant-flycatchers (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae).

scientific article published in April 2004

Tyrannosaur ageing

scientific article

Variation in the innate and acquired arms of the immune system among five shorebird species

scientific article

Winter temperature structures mangrove species distributions and assemblage composition in China

scientific article published on 06 October 2018

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