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(2019). portalr: an R package for summarizing and using the Portal Project Data. Journal of Open Source Software.

(2019). Temporal changes in species composition affect a ubiquitous species? use of habitat patches. Ecology.

(2019). PhenoCam Dataset v2.0: Vegetation Phenology from Digital Camera Imagery, 2000-2018. ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center.

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(2019). PhenoCam Dataset v2.0: Digital Camera Imagery from the PhenoCam Network, 2000-2018. ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center.

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(2019). Invasion intensity influences scale-dependent effects of an exotic species on native plant diversity. Scientific Reports.

(2019). Established rodent community delays recovery of dominant competitor following experimental disturbance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

(2019). Developing an automated iterative near-term forecasting system for an ecological study. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

(2019). Developing a modern data workflow for regularly updated data. PLoS biology.

(2019). Datastorr: a workflow and package for delivering successive versions of'evolving data'directly into R. GigaScience.

(2019). An experimental investigation of top--down effects of consumer diversity on producer temporal stability. Journal of Ecology.

(2018). Developing a modern data workflow for living data. bioRxiv.

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(2018). The Portal Project: a long-term study of a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem. bioRxiv.

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(2018). The Portal Project: a long-term study of a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem. BioRxiv.

(2018). Long-term community change through multiple rapid transitions in a desert rodent community. Ecology.

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(2018). Impact of exotic invasion on the temporal stability of natural annual plant communities. Oikos.

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(2018). Experimental removal of community-dominant kangaroo rats affects rodent ectoparasites. 2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5–10).

(2018). Developing an automated iterative near-term forecasting system for an ecological study. bioRxiv.

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(2018). Developing a modern data workflow for evolving data. BioRxiv.

(2017). Rodent granivory strengthens relationships between seed size and plant abundance in a desert annual community. Journal of Vegetation Science.

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(2017). Repeated regime shifts in a desert rodent community. bioRxiv.

(2017). Do persistent rare species experience stronger negative frequency dependence than common species?. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

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(2017). Do persistent rare species experience stronger negative frequency dependence than common species?. Global ecology and biogeography.

(2017). Community-level regulation of temporal trends in biodiversity. Science advances.

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(2016). Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona (1977--2013). Ecology.

(2016). Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona (1977--2013). Ecology.

(2015). Using life history trade-offs to understand core-transient structuring of a small mammal community. Ecosphere.

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(2015). A process-independent explanation for the general form of Taylor’s Law. The American Naturalist.

(2014). Species-level and community-level responses to disturbance: a cross-community analysis. Ecology.

(2014). Assemblage time series reveal biodiversity change but not systematic loss. Science.

(2013). The EcoData retriever: improving access to existing ecological data. PloS one.

(2013). Species Assemblages, Macroecology, and Global Change.

(2013). Self-limitation as an explanation for species' relative abundances and the long-term persistence of rare species.

(2013). Niche opportunities and invasion dynamics in a desert annual community. Ecology letters.

(2013). Big data and the future of ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

(2012). Strong self-limitation promotes the persistence of rare species. Ecology.

(2012). An experimental test of the response of macroecological patterns to altered species interactions. Ecology.

(2011). Long-term vegetation trends on grazed and ungrazed Chihuahuan desert rangelands. Rangeland Ecology and Management.

(2011). Climate Change and Community Dynamics: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Resource-Driven Changes in a Desert Rodent Community.

(2010). Redundant or complementary? Impact of a colonizing species on community structure and function. Oikos.

(2010). OOS 29-4: Why long-term data is important for understanding community responses to perturbations: A Chihuahuan Desert example. The 95th ESA Annual Meeting.

(2010). Long-term insights into the influence of precipitation on community dynamics in desert rodents. Journal of Mammalogy.

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(2010). Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understanding species richness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

(2010). Balancing biodiversity in a changing environment: extinction debt, immigration credit and species turnover. Trends in ecology & evolution.

(2009). The relative importance of stabilizing mechanisms of coexistence. Nature Precedings.

(2009). Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals. Ecology Letters.

(2009). Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona, USA. Ecology.

(2008). Zero sum, the niche, and metacommunities: long-term dynamics of community assembly. The American Naturalist.

(2008). Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

(2008). Chihuahuan Desert kangaroo rats: nonlinear effects of population dynamics, competition, and rainfall. Ecology.

(2007). Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework. Ecology letters.

(2007). Spatiotemporal scaling of species richness: patterns, processes, and implications. Scaling biodiversity (eds D. Storch, PA Marquet & JH Brown).

(2007). Reduced rodent biodiversity destabilizes plant populations. Ecology.

(2007). Livestock, soil compaction and water infiltration rate: evaluating a potential desertification recovery mechanism. Journal of Arid Environments.

(2007). Effects of population-level aggregation, autocorrelation, and interspecific association on the species--time relationship in two desert communities. Evolutionary Ecology Research.

(2007). Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions. Trends in ecology & evolution.

(2007). Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural ecological communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

(2006). Positive and negative effects of exotic Erodium cicutarium on an arid ecosystem. Biological Conservation.

(2006). Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents: reply. Ecology.

(2006). A comparison of the species--time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups. Oikos.

(2005). Seasonal changes in spatial patterns of two annual plants in the Chihuahuan Desert, USA. Plant Ecology.

(2005). Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents. Ecology.

(2005). Interactions between granivorous and omnivorous ants in a desert grassland: results from a long-term experiment. Ecological Entomology.

(2005). Evidence for a general species--time--area relationship. Ecology.

(2005). Body size, energy use, and community structure of small mammals. Ecology.

(2004). Trade-offs in community properties through time in a desert rodent community. The American Naturalist.

(2004). Temporal dynamics in the structure and composition of a desert rodent community. Ecology.

(2003). Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use. Ecology Letters.

(2003). Examination of interaction effects of multiple disturbances on an arid plant community. The Southwestern Naturalist.

(2003). A mechanistic examination of diversity-stability relationships in annual plant communities. Oikos.

(2002). Timescale of perennial grass recovery in desertified arid grasslands following livestock removal. Conservation Biology.

(2002). Rain and rodents: complex dynamics of desert consumers: although water is the primary limiting resource in desert ecosystems, the relationship between rodent population dynamics and precipitation is complex and nonlinear. AIBS Bulletin.

(2002). On ectotherm abundance in a seasonal environment—studies of a desert ant assemblage. Ecology.

(2002). Long-term dynamics of winter and summer annual communities in the Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Vegetation Science.

(2002). Isotopic composition of carbon and oxygen in desert fauna: investigations into the effects of diet, physiology, and seasonality. Journal of arid environments.

(2002). Effects of regional pool size on local diversity in small-scale annual plant communities. Ecology Letters.

(2001). The effect of topography on the foraging costs of heteromyid rodents. Journal of arid environments.

(2001). Regulation of diversity: maintenance of species richness in changing environments. Oecologia.

(2001). Mesquite establishment in arid grasslands: an experimental investigation of the role of kangaroo rats. Journal of Arid Environments.

(2001). Homeostasis and compensation: the role of species and resources in ecosystem stability. Ecology.

(2001). Delayed compensation for missing keystone species by colonization. Science.

(2001). Complex species interactions and the dynamics of ecological systems: long-term experiments. Science.

(2000). Species as units of analysis in ecology and biogeography: are the blind leading the blind?. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

(2000). Rodents, plants, and precipitation: spatial and temporal dynamics of consumers and resources. Oikos.

(2000). On the role of small mammals in mediating climatically driven vegetation change. Ecology Letters.

(2000). Density-dependent invariance, dimensionlesslife-histories and the energy-equivalence rule. Evolutionary Ecology Research.

(2000). Constraints of seed size on plant distribution and abundance. Ecology.

(2000). Assembly rules: desert rodent communities are structured at scales from local to continental. The American Naturalist.

(2000). Abundance and distribution of desert annuals: are spatial and temporal patterns related?. Journal of Ecology.

(1999). Untangling ecological complexity: the macroscopic perspective.

(1999). Patterns in the structure of Asian and North American desert small mammal communities. Journal of Biogeography.

(1999). On the relative importance of history and ecology in structuring communities of desert small animals. Ecography.

(1999). Foraging under multiple costs: the importance of predation, energetic, and assessment error costs to a desert forager. Oikos.

(1999). Fire and grazing in a shrub-invaded arid grassland community: independent or interactive ecological effects?. Journal of Arid Environments.

(1998). Using constraint lines to characterize plant performance. Oikos.

(1998). The desert granivory experiments at Portal. Experimental ecology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

(1998). Species richness and biomass: dissection of the hump-shaped relationships. Ecology.

(1998). Plant-soil interactions in deserts. Biogeochemistry.

(1998). Microhabitat differentiation in Chiuhuahuan desert plant communities. Plant Ecology.

(1997). Rodents, plants, and precipitation: spatial and temporal dynamics. Resource.

(1997). Reorganization of an arid ecosystem in response to recent climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

(1997). Path analysis: a critical evaluation using long-term experimental data. The American Naturalist.

(1997). Interactions between winter and summer annuals in the Chihuahuan Desert. Oecologia.

(1996). Temporal fluctuations and experimental effects in desert plant communities. Oecologia.

(1996). Effects of bannertail kangaroo rat mounds on small-scale plant community structure. Oecologia.

(1996). Desert rodents: Long-term responses to natural changes and experimental manipulations. Long-term studies of vertebrate communities.

(1996). Community structure of desert small mammals: comparisons across four continents. Ecology.

(1996). Biodiversity on the borderlands.. Natural History.

(1995). The effects of vertebrate granivores and folivores on plant community structure in the Chihuahuan Desert. Oikos.

(1995). Population ecology of the western harvest mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis: a long-term perspective. Journal of Mammalogy.

(1995). Effects of grazing on the abundance and diversity of annual plants in Chihuahuan desert scrub habitat. Oecologia.

(1995). Effects of competition, colonization, and extinction on rodent species diversity. Science.

(1995). Catastrophic decline of a desert rodent, Dipodomys spectabilis: insights from a long-term study. Journal of Mammalogy.

(1994). Long-term experimental study of a Chihuahuan Desert rodent community: 13 years of competition. Ecology.

(1994). Interactions between rodents and ants in the Chihuahuan Desert: an update. Ecology.

(1994). Comparisons of community structure among small mammals of North-American and Australian deserts. Australian Journal of Zoology.

(1994). Comparison of niche-packing and community organization in desert rodents in Asia and North-America. Australian Journal of Zoology.

(1993). Assembly rules for functional groups in North American desert rodent communities. Oikos.

(1990). Temporal changes in a Chihuahuan Desert rodent community. Oikos.

(1990). Control of a desert-grassland transition by a keystone rodent guild. Science.

(1989). Macroecology: the division of food and space among species on continents. Science.

(1989). Comparative population ecology of eleven species of rodents in the Chihuahuan Desert. Ecology.

(1988). Comparative structure of harvester ant communities in arid Australia and North America. Ecological Monographs.

(1987). Granivory: patterns, processes, and consequences of seed consumption on two continents. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural.

(1987). Composition of desert rodent faunas: combinations of coexisting species. Annales Zoologici Fennici.

(1987). A method for distinguishing dispersal from death in mark-recapture studies. Journal of Mammalogy.

(1985). Experimental manipulation of a desert rodent community: food addition and species removal. Ecology.

(1982). Body Size and Coexistnce in Desert Rodents: Chance or Community Structure?. Ecology.

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(1980). Effects of predation and competition on survivorship, fecundity, and community structure of desert annuals. Ecology.

(1979). Granivory in desert ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.

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(1979). An experimental study of competition between seed-eating desert rodents and ants. American Zoologist.

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(1977). Competition between seed-eating rodents and ants in desert ecosystems. Science.