List of works by Robert Dunn

A century of avifaunal turnover in a small tropical rainforest fragment

article

A global database of ant species abundances

scientific article

A hero with a butterfly net

scientific article published in Nature

A jungle in there: bacteria in belly buttons are highly diverse, but predictable

scientific article published in 2012

A keystone ant species promotes seed dispersal in a "diffuse" mutualism

scientific article published on 30 May 2007

A new (old), invasive ant in the hardwood forests of eastern North America and its potentially widespread impacts ⬇️

scientific article

A physiological trait-based approach to predicting the responses of species to experimental climate warming

scientific article

American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research

article

An Ant Mosaic Revisited: Dominant Ant Species Disassemble Arboreal Ant Communities but Co-Occur Randomly

article

An ant mosaic revisited: Dominant ant species disassemble arboreal ant communities but co-occur randomly

journal article from 'Biotropica' published in 2007

Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family

scientific article

Ant-mediated seed dispersal in a warmed world

scientific article

Ants sow the seeds of global diversification in flowering plants

scientific article published in 2009

Are winter-active species vulnerable to climate warming? A case study with the wintergreen terrestrial orchid, Tipularia discolor

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Arthropods of the great indoors: characterizing diversity inside urban and suburban homes.

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Beyond thermal limits: comprehensive metrics of performance identify key axes of thermal adaptation in ants

article

Biodiversity and socioeconomics in the city: a review of the luxury effect.

scientific article

Biodiversity gradients in obligate symbiotic organisms: exploring the diversity and traits of lichen propagules across the United States

Biodiversity on Broadway--enigmatic diversity of the societies of ants (Formicidae) on the streets of New York City ⬇️

scientific article

Canopy and litter ant assemblages share similar climate-species density relationships

scientific article

Changes in ant community composition caused by 20 years of experimental warming vs. 13 years of natural climate shift

article

Children's attitudes towards animals are similar across suburban, exurban, and rural areas

scientific article published in 2019

Citizen Science in Schools: Students Collect Valuable Mammal Data for Science, Conservation, and Community Engagement

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure

scientific article published in June 2015

Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

scientific article

Climatic warming destabilizes forest ant communities

scientific article

Coextinction and Persistence of Dependent Species in a Changing World

article

Common garden experiments reveal uncommon responses across temperatures, locations, and species of ants

scientific article

Conservation implications of divergent global patterns of ant and vertebrate diversity

article

Contemporary climatic analogs for 540 North American urban areas in the late 21st century

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Continental-scale distributions of dust-associated bacteria and fungi.

scientific article

Convergent evolution of seed dispersal by ants, and phylogeny and biogeography in flowering plants: A global survey

article

Correction to ‘Diversity and evolution of the primate skin microbiome’.

scientific article

Data sets matter, but so do evolution and ecology

article

Democratizing evolutionary biology, lessons from insects

scientific article

Detecting flying insects using car nets and DNA metabarcoding

scientific article published on 31 March 2021

Dispersal traits linked to range size through range location, not dispersal ability, in Western Australian angiosperms

article

Disruption of ant-seed dispersal mutualisms by the invasive Asian needle ant (Pachycondyla chinensis)

article

Diversity and evolution of the primate skin microbiome

scientific article published in January 2016

Do cities simulate climate change? A comparison of herbivore response to urban and global warming

scientific article

Dominance-diversity relationships in ant communities differ with invasion

article by Xavier Arnan et al published 30 May 2018 in Global Change Biology

Draft genomes expand our view of ant genome size variation across climate gradients

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Drivers of Microbiome Biodiversity: A Review of General Rules, Feces, and Ignorance

article

Early pest development and loss of biological control are associated with urban warming

scientific article

Ecological Analyses of Mycobacteria in Showerhead Biofilms and Their Relevance to Human Health

article

Ecologists, educators, and writers collaborate with the public to assess backyard diversity in The School of Ants Project

article

Ecology of sleeping: the microbial and arthropod associates of chimpanzee beds.

scientific article published on 16 May 2018

Ectoparasites in black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) from the largest reintroduced population of the Conata Basin, South Dakota, USA.

scientific article published on 5 February 2014

Effects of Treefall Gap Disturbances on Ant Assemblages in a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest

article

Effects of short-term warming on low and high latitude forest ant communities

article

Elevational gradients in phylogenetic structure of ant communities reveal the interplay of biotic and abiotic constraints on diversity

article

Emus as non-standard seed dispersers and their potential for long-distance dispersal

article

Endemism in host-parasite interactions among island populations of an endangered species

article

Environmental and historical imprints on beta diversity: insights from variation in rates of species turnover along gradients.

scientific article published on 7 August 2013

Everything you know about calories is wrong.

scientific article published in September 2013

Evolution of the indoor biome

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

Exoskeletons and economics: indoor arthropod diversity increases in affluent neighbourhoods

scientific article published on August 2016

Experimental winter warming modifies thermal performance and primes acorn ants for warm weather.

scientific article

External immunity in ant societies: sociality and colony size do not predict investment in antimicrobials

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Fine-scale heterogeneity across Manhattan's urban habitat mosaic is associated with variation in ant composition and richness

article

Flying insect biomass is negatively associated with urban cover in surrounding landscapes

scientific article published on 28 April 2022

Foraging by forest ants under experimental climatic warming: a test at two sites

scientific article

Fungi identify the geographic origin of dust samples

scientific article

GSDR: A Global Sub-Daily Rainfall Dataset

scientific article published in 2019

Geographic Gradients

article

Getting ahead of the curve: cities as surrogates for global change

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Global Mapping of Ecosystem Disservices: The Unspoken Reality that Nature Sometimes Kills us

article

Global divergence of the human follicle mite Demodex folliculorum: Persistent associations between host ancestry and mite lineages ⬇️

scientific article

Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants

article

Global drivers of human pathogen richness and prevalence.

scientific article published on 14 April 2010

Global models of ant diversity suggest regions where new discoveries are most likely are under disproportionate deforestation threat

scientific article

GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

article

Habitat and species identity, not diversity, predict the extent of refuse consumption by urban arthropods

scientific article

Heat tolerance predicts the importance of species interaction effects as the climate changes

scientific article published on 24 May 2017

Heating up the forest: open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities at Harvard and Duke Forests

article

High diversity in an urban habitat: are some animal assemblages resilient to long-term anthropogenic change?

article

Higher immunocompetence is associated with higher genetic diversity in feral honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)

Home life: factors structuring the bacterial diversity found within and between homes

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

Homogenizing an urban habitat mosaic: arthropod diversity declines in New York City parks after Super Storm Sandy

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

How many and which ant species are being accidentally moved around the world? ⬇️

retracted scientific article

How many and which ant species are being accidentally moved around the world? ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 August 2013

Human indoor climate preferences approximate specific geographies

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Influence of Polymer Seed Coatings, Soil Raking, and Time of Sowing on Seedling Performance in Post-Mining Restoration

article

Interactions in a warmer world: effects of experimental warming, conspecific density, and herbivory on seedling dynamics

article

Is it easy to be urban? Convergent success in urban habitats among lineages of a widespread native ant.

scientific article

Isolated trees as foci of diversity in active and fallow fields

article

Key players and hierarchical organization of prairie dog social networks

article

Lactobacilli Dominance and Vaginal pH: Why Is the Human Vaginal Microbiome Unique?

scientific article

Leveraging natural capital to solve the shared education and conservation crisis

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Life Inside an Acorn: How Microclimate and Microbes Influence Nest Organization in Temnothorax Ants

article

Long-term trends in the occupancy of ants revealed through use of multi-sourced datasets

scientific article

Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small

scientific article published in 2018

Managing the tropical landscape: a comparison of the effects of logging and forest conversion to agriculture on ants, birds, and lepidoptera

article

Mean latitudinal range sizes of bird assemblages in six Neotropical forest chronosequences

article

Microbial communities respond to experimental warming, but site matters

scientific article

Microbial diversity of extreme habitats in human homes

scientific article

Molecular analysis of environmental plant DNA in house dust across the United States

article

More individuals but fewer species: testing the 'more individuals hypothesis' in a diverse tropical fauna

scientific article

Motivation and support services in citizen science insect monitoring: A cross-country study

scientific article published on 20 October 2021

On the use of indices to study extreme precipitation on sub-daily and daily timescales

scientific article published in 2019

Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology.

scientific article published in September 2009

Phosphorus Limits Tropical Rain Forest Litter Fauna

article

Predicting future coexistence in a North American ant community

scientific article

Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity

article

Public questions spur the discovery of new bacterial species associated with lignin bioconversion of industrial waste

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Quantifying the human cost of global warming

Scholarly article, 2023

Radiocarbon analysis reveals expanded diet breadth associates with the invasion of a predatory ant. ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 November 2017

Rarity and Diversity in Forest Ant Assemblages of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

article

Redispersal of seeds by a keystone ant augments the spread of common wildflowers

article

Reduced cellular immune response in social insect lineages

scientific article

Responses of arthropod populations to warming depend on latitude: evidence from urban heat islands

scientific article

Resuspension of postlarval soft-shell clams Mya arenaria through disturbance by the mud snail Ilyanassa obsoleta

scientific article published in 1999

Road size and carrion beetle assemblages in a New York forest

article

School of Ants goes to college: integrating citizen science into the general education classroom increases engagement with science

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Shared and unique responses of insects to the interaction of urbanization and background climate.

scientific article published on 30 October 2015

Simplification of vector communities during suburban succession

Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis

scientific article

Species loss on spatial patterns and composition of zoonotic parasites

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Stable isotopes reveal links between human food inputs and urban ant diets

scientific article published in May 2015

Stomatal acclimation to vapour pressure deficit doubles transpiration of small tree seedlings with warming

scientific article

Strong influence of regional species pools on continent-wide structuring of local communities.

scientific article published on 15 June 2011

Structure of Chimpanzee Gut Microbiomes across Tropical Africa

scientific article

Symbiosis in the Soil: Citizen Microbiology in Middle and High School Classrooms

scientific article

Temperature alone does not explain phenological variation of diverse temperate plants under experimental warming

scientific article

Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains

article

Temporal variability is a personalized feature of the human microbiome

scientific article

The Ecosystem Services of Animal Microbiomes.

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

The Evolution of Stomach Acidity and Its Relevance to the Human Microbiome

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

The Future of Environmental DNA in Forensic Science

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

The Global Synanthrome Project: A Call for an Exhaustive Study of Human Associates

scientific article

The Habitats Humans Provide: Factors affecting the diversity and composition of arthropods in houses.

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

The Tragedy of the Unexamined Cat: Why K-12 and University Education Are Still in the Dark Ages and How Citizen Science Allows for a Renaissance

scientific article

The biogeography of prediction error: why does the introduced range of the fire ant over-predict its native range?

scholarly article by Matthew C. Fitzpatrick et al published 22 August 2006 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

The biogeography of prediction error: why does the introduced range of the fire ant over-predict its native range?

article

The diversity of arthropods in homes across the United States as determined by environmental DNA analyses

scientific article

The ecology of a keystone seed disperser, the ant Rhytidoponera violacea ⬇️

scientific article

The ecology of insect-yeast relationships and its relevance to human industry

scientific article published in March 2018

The ecology of microscopic life in household dust

scientific article

The effect of habitual and experimental antiperspirant and deodorant product use on the armpit microbiome

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

The fantastical lives of fungi

scientific article

The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

scientific article published in 2022

The importance of species range attributes and reserve configuration for the conservation of angiosperm diversity in Western Australia

article

The mixed effects of experimental ant removal on seedling distribution, belowground invertebrates, and soil nutrients

article

The neglected geography of human pathogens and diseases.

scientific article

The pigeon paradox: dependence of global conservation on urban nature

scientific article

The river domain: why are there more species halfway up the river?

article

The role of citizen science in addressing grand challenges in food and agriculture research

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?

scientific article

The southern megalopolis: using the past to predict the future of urban sprawl in the Southeast U.S.

scientific article

The sudden emergence of pathogenicity in insect-fungus symbioses threatens naive forest ecosystems

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

The toughest animals of the Earth versus global warming: Effects of long-term experimental warming on tardigrade community structure of a temperate deciduous forest

scientific article

Thermal reactionomes reveal divergent responses to thermal extremes in warm and cool-climate ant species

scientific article

Too big to be noticed: cryptic invasion of Asian camel crickets in North American houses ⬇️

scientific article

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity

article

Tracing the rise of ants - out of the ground

scientific article published in 2013

Tradeoffs in the evolution of caste and body size in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole

scientific article

Tradeoffs, competition, and coexistence in eastern deciduous forest ant communities

scientific article

Ubiquity and diversity of human-associated Demodex mites

scientific article published in 2014

Unexpected phenological responses of butterflies to the interaction of urbanization and geographic temperature

article

Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants

article

Urban stress is associated with variation in microbial species composition-but not richness-in Manhattan

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

Urban warming drives insect pest abundance on street trees

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Urban warming reduces aboveground carbon storage.

scientific article published in October 2016

Urbanization disrupts latitude-size rule in 17-year cicadas

scientific article published on 2 February 2018

Use antimicrobials wisely

scientific article

Use of standardized bioinformatics for the analysis of fungal DNA signatures applied to sample provenance

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Using evolutionary tools to search for novel psychoactive plants

article

Using historical and experimental data to reveal warming effects on ant assemblages

scientific article

Using host associations to predict spatial patterns in the species richness of the parasites of North American carnivores

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

Using physiology to predict the responses of ants to climatic warming

scientific article published on 26 July 2013

Variation in photosynthesis and stomatal conductance among red maple (Acer rubrum) urban planted cultivars and wildtype trees in the southeastern United States.

scientific article

Variation in range size and dispersal capabilities of microbial taxa.

scientific article

Variation in seed dispersal along an elevational gradient in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

article

Warm and arid regions of the world are hotspots of superorganism complexity

scientific article published on 09 February 2022

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

article

When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid-domain effect

article

Who likes it hot? A global analysis of the climatic, ecological, and evolutionary determinants of warming tolerance in ants

article

eDNA‐based biomonitoring at an experimental German vineyard to characterize how management regimes shape ecosystem diversity

scientific article published in 2020

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