Ernest Lab

Brown JH, Ernest MSK, White EP.  In Press.  Introduction to ‘Macroecology before Macroecology’. Foundations of Macroecology.

Allington GRH, Koons D, Ernest SKM, Schutzenhofer MR, Valone TJ.  In Press.  Niche opportunities, and invasion dynamics in a desert annual community. Ecology Letters.

Anderson-Teixeira KJ, Smith FA, Ernest SKM.  2012.  Climate Change. Metabolic Ecology: a scaling approach. :280-292.

Supp SR, Xiao X, Ernest MSK, White EP.  2012.  An experimental test of the response of macroecological patterns to altered species interactions. Ecology. 93:2505-2511.

Evans AR, Jones D, Boyer AG, Brown JH, Costa DP, Ernest SKM, Fitzgerald EMG, Fortelius M, Gittleman JL, Hamilton MJ et al..  2012.  Maximum rate of mammal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 109:4023-4336.

Yenni GM, Adler PB, Ernest SKM.  2012.  Strong self-limitation promotes the persistence of rare species. Ecology. 93:456-461.

Thibault KM, White EP, Hurlbert AH, Ernest MSK.  2011.  Multimodality in the individual size distributions of bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 20(1):145-153.

Thibault KM, Supp SR, Giffin M, White EP, Ernest SKM.  2011.  Species composition and abundance of mammalian communities. Ecology . 92:2316. Abstract

Smith FA, Boyer AG, Brown JH, Costa D, Dayan T, Ernest SKM, Evans A, Fortelius M, Gittleman J, Hamilton M et al..  2010.  The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals. Science. 330:1216-219.

White EP, Ernest SKM, Adler PB, Hurlbert AH, Lyons SK.  2010.  Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understand biological diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 365:3633-3643.

Thibault KM, Ernest SKM, White EP, Brown JH, Goheen JR.  2010.  Long-term insights into the influence of precipitation on community dynamics in desert rodents. Journal of Mammalogy. 91:787-797. Abstract

Supp SR, White EP.  2010.  Measures of journal quality should separate reviews from original research. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution. 3:16-19.

Thibault KM, Ernest MSK, Brown JH.  2010.  Redundant or complementary? Impact of a colonizing species on community structure and function Oikos. 119:1719-1726.

Ernest SKM, White EP, Brown JH.  2009.  Changes in a tropical forest support metabolic zero-sum dynamics. Ecology Letters. 12:507-515.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Goheen JR, White EP, Ernest SKM, Brown JH.  2006.  Intraguild competition regulates species richness in desert rodents: reply. Ecology. 87:2121-2125.

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

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