Ernest Lab

Ernest, SKM, White EP, Brown JH.  2009.  Changes in a tropical forest support metabolic zero-sum dynamics. Ecology Letters. 12:507-515. Download: ernest_skm_2009_e12_507.pdf (242.6 KB)

Ernest, SKM, Valone TJ, Brown JH.  2009.  Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona, USA. Ecology. 90:1708.

Ernest, SKM, Brown JH, Thibault KM, White EP, Goheen JR.  2008.  Zero-sum, the niche, and metacommunities: long-term dynamics of community assembly. American Naturalist. 32:E257-E269. Download: ernest_skm_2008_a172_e257.pdf (543.41 KB)

Smith, FA, Lyons SK, Ernest SKM, Brown JH.  2008.  Macroecology: more than the division of food and space among species on continents. Progress in Physical Geography. 32:115-138.

Lima, M, Stenseth NC, Ernest SKM, Brown JH, Belgrano A.  2008.  Chihuahuan Desert kangaroo rats:non-linear effects of intra-population processes, interspecific competition, and summer rainfall. Ecology. 89:2594-2603.

Ernest, SKM.  2008.  Homeostasis. Encyclopedia of Ecology. :1879-1884.

White, EP, Ernest SKM, Kerkoff AJ, Enquist BJ.  2007.  Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 22:323-330. Download: white_ep_2007_t22_323.pdf (589.49 KB)

Houlahan, JE, Currie DJ, Cottenie K, Cummings GS, Ernest SKM, Findlay CS, Fuhlendorf SD, Gaedke U, Legendre P, Magnuson JJ et al..  2007.  Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. 104:3273-3277.

Goheen, JR, White EP, Ernest SKM, Brown JH.  2006.  Intraguild competition regulates species richness in desert rodents: reply. Ecology. 87:2121-2125. Download: goheen_jr_2006_e87_2121.pdf (129.17 KB)

Savage, VM, White EP, Moses ME, Ernest SKM, Enquist BJ, Charnov EL.  2006.  Comment on "The illusion of invariant quantities in life histories". Science. 312:198b. Download: savage_vm_2006_s312_198b.pdf (106.78 KB)

Charnov, EL, Ernest SKM.  2006.  The offspring/clutch size tradeoff in mammals. American Naturalist. 167:578-582.

Goheen, JR, White EP, Ernest SKM, Brown JH.  2005.  Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents. Ecology. 86:567-573. Download: goheen_jr_2005_e86_567.pdf (501.81 KB)

Ernest, SKM.  2005.  Body size, energy use, and community structure of small mammals. Ecology. 86:1407-1413.

Thibault, KM, White EP, Ernest SKM.  2004.  Temporal dynamics in the structure and composition of a desert rodent community. Ecology. 85:2649-2655. Download: thibault_km_2004_e85_2649.pdf (602.09 KB)

White, EP, Ernest SKM, Thibault KM.  2004.  Tradeoffs in community properties through time in a desert rodent community. American Naturalist. 164:670-676. Download: white_ep_2004_a164_670.pdf (128.31 KB)

Chesson, PL, Gebauer RLE, Schwinning S, Huntly N, Wiegand K, Ernest SKM, Sher A, Novoplansky A, Weltzin JF.  2004.  Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments. Oecologia. 141:236-253.

Maurer, BA, Brown JH, Dayan T, Enquist BJ, Ernest SKM, Hadly EA, Haskell JP, Jablonski D, Jones KE, Kaufman DM et al..  2004.  Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 6:783-797.

Brown, JH, Bedrick EJ, Ernest SKM, Catron JE, Kelly JF.  2004.  Constraints on negative relationships: mathematical causes and ecological consequences. The nature of scientific evidence: empirical, statistical, and philosophical considerations. :298-308.

Ernest, SKM, Enquist BJ, Brown JH, Charnov EL, Gillooly JF, Savage VM, White EP, Smith FA, Hadley EA, Haskell JP et al..  2003.  Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use. 6:990-995. Download: ernest_skm_2003_e6_990.pdf (165.74 KB)

Ernest, SKM.  2003.  Life history characteristics of placental nonvolant mammals. Ecology. 84:3402-3402.

Valone, TJ, Nordell SE, Ernest SKM.  2002.  Effects of fire and grazing on an arid grassland ecosystem. Southwestern Naturalist. 47:557-565.

Brown, JH, Ernest SKM.  2002.  Rain and rodents: complex dynamics of desert consumers. BioScience. 52:979-987.

Ernest, SKM, Brown JH.  2001.  Homeostasis and compensation: the role of species and resources in ecosystem stability. Ecology. 82:2118-2132.

Brown, JH, Whitham TG, Ernest SKM, Gehring CA.  2001.  Complex species interactions and the dynamics of ecological systems: long-term experiments. Science. 293:643-650.

Ernest, SKM, Brown JH.  2001.  Delayed compensation for missing keystone species by colonization. Science. 292:101-104.