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List of works by Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

A dip into the deep seas

scientific article published in Nature

A fondness for fungi

scientific article published in Nature

Address of the President, Lord May of Oxford OM AC FRS, given at the Anniversary Meeting on 30 November 2005Threats to tomorrow's world

article by Robert May, Baron May of Oxford published 22 January 2006 in Notes and Records of the Royal Society

Age-dependent choice of sexual partners and the transmission dynamics of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on May 29, 1992

Age-related changes in the rate of disease transmission: implications for the design of vaccination programmes

scientific article

Aggregation of predators and insect parasites and its effect on stability

scientific article published in June 1974

An inordinate fondness for ants

scientific article published in Nature

Anthropology: Prehistory of Amazonian Indians

scientific article published on 01 November 1984

Antigenic Diversity Thresholds and the Development of AIDS ⬇️

scientific article published on November 15, 1991

Antigenic diversity thresholds and hazard functions.

scientific article published in January 1997

Applications of fractals in ecology ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1990

Arctic animals and climatic changes

journal article; published in Nature on 1979-09-01

Are exploited fish populations stable?

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Avian analyses

scientific article published in Nature

Back to the fundamentals: a reply to Barot et al.

scientific article published on 4 June 2015

Bacterial tick-tock

scientific article published in Nature

Biological diversity: How many species are there?

scientific article published in Nature

Biology writ large

scientific article published in Nature

Black-footed ferret update

scientific article published in Nature

Bottoms up for the oceans

scientific article published in Nature

British birds by number

scientific article published in Nature

Can we name Earth's species before they go extinct?

scientific article

Case studies of extinction

scientific article published in Nature

Caves as islands

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-8

Clutch size in plants

scientific article published in Nature

Coevolution of Calvaria and the dodo

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-11-01

Coevolution of hosts and parasites

scientific article (publication date: October 1982)

Coexistence and competition in HIV infections ⬇️

scientific article published on December 7, 1992

Coexistence with insect pests

journal article; published in Nature on 1976-11-01

Coinfection and the evolution of parasite virulence

scientific article

Complex systems. Complexity theory and financial regulation

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

Complex systems: ecology for bankers

scientific article published in February 2008

Consequences of helminth aggregation for the dynamics of schistosomiasis

scientific article published on 01 January 1978

Control of communicable diseases by age-specific immunization schedules ⬇️

scientific article published on January 16, 1982

Control of feline delinquency

scientific article published in Nature

Counting on science

scientific article published in Nature

Cropping natural animal populations

journal article; published in Nature on 1975-6

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes and viral turnover in HIV type 1 infection

scientific article published on December 1996

Detecting causality in complex ecosystems

scientific article

Deterministic models with chaotic dynamics

scientific article published in Nature

Dispersal in stable habitats

scientific article published in Nature

Dynamical evidence for causality between galactic cosmic rays and interannual variation in global temperature

scientific article

Ecological interactions in the Southern Ocean

journal article; published in Nature on 1979-1

Ecological science and tomorrow's world

scientific article

Ecology of human parasites

journal article; published in Nature on 1975-5

Ecology. Biodiversity conservation and the Millennium Development Goals

scientific article

Ecology. Tropical arthropod species, more or less?

scientific article

Ecology: Oceanic noise and fish stocks

Ecology: The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 target

scientific article

Ecology: ethics and amphibians

scientific article published in September 2004

Elephants in Uganda

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-7

Energy cost of food gathering

journal article; published in Nature on 1975-6

Environmental determination of sex in the reptiles

scientific article published in Nature

Epidemiology and genetics in the coevolution of parasites and hosts ⬇️

scientific article published on October 22, 1983

Epidemiology: dimensions of superspreading

scientific article published in November 2005

Erratum: Fundamental ecology is fundamental

scholarly article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Estimating extinction rates

scientific article published in Nature

European Union R&D Spending ⬇️

scientific article published on October 24, 2003

Evolutionarily stable dispersal strategies

scientific article published on 01 January 1980

Evolutionary games and spatial chaos

scientific article published in Nature

Exploiting exotic plants

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-1

Exploiting natural populations in an uncertain world

article

Financial complexity: Accounting for fraud--Response.

scientific article published in April 2016

Fisheries. Genetics, dynamics and politics

scientific article published on 01 June 1984

Fishing elevates variability in the abundance of exploited species

scientific article

Flight formations in geese and other birds

scientific article published in Nature

Fluctuations in abundance of tropical insects

journal article; published in Nature on 1979-04-01

Food lost to pests

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-6

Food-web assembly and collapse: mathematical models and implications for conservation

scientific article (publication date: 27 June 2009)

Fundamental ecology is fundamental

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

Gene Frequency Clines in the Presence of Selection Opposed by Gene Flow

scientific article published in November 1975

Genetic heterogeneity in helminths - a reply

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Global problems and global science

scientific article published in January 2005

Graeme Caughley and the emerging science of conservation biology

scientific article published on 01 October 1994

Group selection

journal article; published in Nature on 1975-4

Habitat destruction and the extinction debt

scientific article published in Nature

Harvesting natural populations in a randomly fluctuating environment

scientific article (publication date: 29 July 1977)

Harvesting whale and fish populations

journal article; published in Nature on 1976-9

Helminth infections of humans: mathematical models, population dynamics, and control.

scientific article

Here be dragons

scientific article published in Nature

Historic first with community ecology

journal article; published in Nature on 1974-10-01

Honeyguides and humans

scientific article published in Nature

How Many Species? [and Discussion]

scientific article (publication date: 29 November 1990)

How much do we know about the current extinction rate?

scientific article published on 01 October 1993

Hypercycles spring to life

scientific article published in Nature

Immunisation and herd immunity

scientific article published on March 1990

Inbreeding among zoo animals

scientific article published on 01 January 1980

Individual versus systemic risk and the Regulator's Dilemma

scientific article published on July 18, 2011

Infectious disease: can we avert a lethal flu pandemic?

scientific article

Interspecific competition, predation and species diversity: A comment ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 February 1972

Irreproducible results

journal article; published in Nature on 1976-8

Islands biogeography and the design of wildlife preserves

scientific article published in Nature

John Snow's legacy: epidemiology without borders

scientific article published on April 2013

Just so Stories and cautionary tales

scientific article published in Nature

Kelp, abalone and sea otters

journal article; published in Nature on 1976-3

Limits to similarity among coexisting competitors

scientific article published in Nature

Long-term biological consequences of nuclear war

scientific article published in Science

Management of multispecies fisheries

scientific article (publication date: 20 July 1979)

Marine species richness

Mathematics and casinos

journal article; published in Nature on 1976-12-01

Measles immunization strategies for an epidemiologically heterogeneous population: the Israeli case study

scientific article published in May 1993

Media should campaign on the basis of facts

journal article; published in Nature on 2005-10-05

Memorial to Bill Hamilton

scientific article published on June 2001

More evolution of cooperation

scientific article published in Nature

More than a seafood platter

scientific article published in Nature

More water for arid lands

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-5

Mortality and Recruitment Rate Evaluations in Heterogeneous Tropical Forests

article

Mutualistic interactions among species

scientific article published in Nature

Nations and numbers 1976

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-1

Nations and numbers 1977

journal article; published in Nature on 1978-02-01

Nations and numbers, 1975

journal article; published in Nature on 1976-5

Nature: the many benefits of ecosystem services

scientific article published in Nature

Network structure and the biology of populations

scientific article published on 3 April 2006

Networks and webs in ecosystems and financial systems

scientific article published on 18 February 2013

Networks of sexual contacts

article

No Signs of Hidden Language in Noncoding DNA

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

No room for loners

scientific article published in Nature

Nonlinear explanations

scientific article published in Nature

Now that's what you call chamber music

scientific article published in Nature

Nutrient retention in tropical rainforests

journal article; published in Nature on 1979-11-01

Obituary: Robert Hanbury Brown (1916-2002).

scientific article

Observations on related ecological exponents

scholarly article

Observer observed

scientific article published in Nature

Of winged beans and Wom Poms

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-4

Open questions: are the dynamics of ecological communities predictable?

scientific article

Optimal life-history strategies

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-6

Oscillations in continuous culture populations of Streptococcus pneumoniae: population dynamics and the evolution of clonal suicide.

scientific article published in March 2009

Oscillatory fluctuations in the incidence of infectious disease and the impact of vaccination: time series analysis

scientific article published on December 1984

Outward signs of breeding

scientific article published on 01 September 1981

PHYLOGENIES WITHOUT FOSSILS.

scientific article published in June 1994

Palaeoecology and ecology ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1994

Parasites, people and policy: infectious diseases and the Millennium Development Goals

scientific article published on 27 September 2007

Parasitoid theory: Against manichaeism ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Patterns in the abundance of parasites on plants

journal article; published in Nature on 1979-10-01

Patterns of ungulate reproduction

scientific article published on 01 January 1980

Periodical cicadas

scientific article published in Nature

Pests, pathogens and weeds

scientific article published in Nature

Plagues and peoples

scientific article published in March 2006

Political interference not needed in Iraqi science

scientific article published in Nature

Population biology of infectious diseases: Part I

scientific article (publication date: 2 August 1979)

Population biology of infectious diseases: Part II

scientific article (publication date: 9 August 1979)

Population genetics and cultural inheritance

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-7

Predaceous insects in aphids' clothing

journal article; published in Nature on 1978-3

Predators that switch

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-9

Predicted correspondence between species abundances and dendrograms of niche similarities

scientific article

Production and respiration in animal communities

journal article; published in Nature on 1979-11-01

Q&A: Extinctions and the impact of Homo sapiens ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 20 December 2012)

Raising Europe's game.

scientific article published in August 2004

Rats, pigs and men in New Guinea

journal article; published in Nature on 1978-10-01

Regulation and Stability of Host-Parasite Population Interactions: I. Regulatory Processes

scientific article (publication date: February 1978)

Relation between diversity and stability, in the real world

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Reply to Luo et al.: Robustness of causal effects of galactic cosmic rays on interannual variation in global temperature

scientific article published on 17 August 2015

Resisting resistance

scientific article published in Nature

Response to comments on "Can we name Earth's species before they go extinct?".

scientific article

Revealing the hidden costs of research

scientific article published in Nature

Robustness of cooperation

Science and society.

scientific article

Science as organized scepticism

scientific article published on December 2011

Scientific advance thrives on openness

scientific article published in Nature

Scientist support for biological weapons controls

scientific article

Size and complexity in model financial systems.

scientific article

Slugs and plants

journal article; published in Nature on 1975-11-01

Social insects and the evolution of altruism

journal article; published in Nature, 1976-03

Sociobiology: a new synthesis and an old quarrel ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 1976

Somatic selection for and against cancer

scientific article published in December 2003

Spatial Dynamics Group Report

article

Species coexistence and self-organizing spatial dynamics

scientific article published in Nature

Species conservation: The cautionary tale of the black-footed ferret

scientific article published in Nature

Species fragmentation or area loss?

Species uncertainties

scientific article

Stability and complexity in model ecosystems / Robert M. May. - 1973 ⬇️

book

Subnets of scale-free networks are not scale-free: sampling properties of networks

scientific article

Successional patterns and indices of diversity

journal article; published in Nature on 1975-11-01

Superinfection and the evolution of parasite virulence

scientific article published in January 1994

Systemic risk in banking ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article published on January 20, 2011

Systemic risk: the dynamics of model banking systems.

scientific article

Tampering with territories

scientific article published in Nature

Taxonomic bias in conservation research

scientific article

Taxonomy as destiny

scientific article published in Nature

Taxonomy of taxonomists

scientific article published in Nature

The Enlightenment and the Many Faces of Fundamentalism

scientific article published on February 1, 2003

The Evolution of Ecological Systems / Robert M. May. - (9.1978)

article

The Population Dynamics of Microparasites and Their Invertebrate Hosts

scientific article (publication date: 27 April 1981)

The Search for Patterns in the Balance of Nature: Advances and Retreats

scientific article published in 1986

The arithmetics of mutual help.

scientific article published on June 1995

The calling of chaos

scientific article published in Nature

The ecology of dragons

journal article; published in Nature on 1976-11-01

The ecology of the ecological literature

journal article; published in Nature, 1976-02

The economics of extinction

scientific article published in Nature

The evolution of cooperation

scientific article published in Nature in 1981 by R M May

The evolution of network topology by selective removal

scientific article published on December 2005

The evolutionary dynamics of HIV-1 quasispecies and the development of immunodeficiency disease.

scientific article

The hen harrier and the grouse

scientific article published in Nature

The impact, transmission and evolution of infectious diseases

scientific article published on 01 June 1982

The influence of different sexual-contact patterns between age classes on the predicted demographic impact of AIDS in developing countries

scientific article published on January 1989

The logic of vaccination

scientific article published on 01 November 1982

The moorland owners' grouse

scientific article published in Nature

The population biology of the interaction between HIV-1 and HIV-2: coexistence or competitive exclusion?

scientific article published in December 1996

The population dynamics of vertically and horizontally transmitted parasites

scientific article published in June 1995

The price of complexity in financial networks

scientific article published on 23 August 2016

The recombinant DNA debate

scientific article published on 01 December 1977

The species alias problem

scientific article published in Nature

The tropical rainforest

journal article; published in Nature on 1975-10-01

The voles of Hokkaido

scientific article published in Nature

Theoretical ecology : principles and applications / Robert M. May

written work by Robert M. May

Theoretical models of sheep BSE reveal possibilities

scientific article published in January 2002

Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood. 20 June 1931 -- 26 October 2005

biographical article

Thresholds and breakpoints in ecosystems with a multiplicity of stable states

scientific article published in Nature

Tomorrow's taxonomy: collecting new species in the field will remain the rate-limiting step

scientific article (publication date: 29 April 2004)

Tony Blair's era: good news, bad news

scientific article published in Nature

Tracking and forecasting ecosystem interactions in real time

scientific article published in January 2016

Transdisciplinary EU science institute needs funds urgently

scientific article published in February 2010

Transmission dynamics of HIV infection

scientific article

Two-stage vaccination programme against rubella

scientific article published on 01 December 1983

Uncertainties in extinction rates

scientific article published in Nature

Understanding the AIDS pandemic

scientific article published on May 1, 1992

Useful tropical legumes

journal article; published in Nature on 1981-12-01

Uses and abuses of mathematics in biology

scientific article

Vaccination against rubella and measles: quantitative investigations of different policies

scientific article

Virus dynamics and drug therapy

scientific article

Well does He?

scientific article published in Nature

Whaling: past, present and future

journal article; published in Nature on 1978-11-01

When to be incestuous

journal article; published in Nature on 1979-5

Which were the real New Zealanders?

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Why Lake Michigan is not green

scientific article published in Nature

Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance

scientific article published in April 2008

Why should we be concerned about loss of biodiversity

scientific article

Why worry about how many species and their loss?

scientific article (publication date: August 2011)

[Long-term effects of nuclear war]

scientific article published on 01 October 1984

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