STRI Staff Publications: Recent submissions

  • Asymmetric Dispersal and Colonization Success of Amazonian Plant-Ants Queens 
    Bruna, Emilio M.; Izzo, Thiago J.; Inouye, Brian D.; Uriarte, Maria; Vasconcelos, Heraldo L. (2011)
    Background: The dispersal ability of queens is central to understanding ant life-history evolution, and plays a fundamental role in ant population and community dynamics, the maintenance of genetic diversity, and the spread ...
  • Long Distance Dispersal and Connectivity in Amphi-Atlantic Corals at Regional and Basin Scales 
    Nunes, Flavia L. D.; Norris, Richard D.; Knowlton, Nancy (2011)
    Among Atlantic scleractinian corals, species diversity is highest in the Caribbean, but low diversity and high endemism are observed in various peripheral populations in central and eastern Atlantic islands and along the ...
  • Population Genetics of an Ecosystem-Defining Reef Coral <I>Pocillopora damicornis</I> in the Tropical Eastern Pacific 
    Combosch, David J.; Vollmer, Steven V. (2011)
  • Understory Bird Communities in Amazonian Rainforest Fragments: Species Turnover through 25 Years Post-Isolation in Recovering Landscapes 
    Stouffer, Philip C.; Johnson, Erik I.; Bierregaard, Richard O., Jr.; Lovejoy, Thomas E. (2011)
    Inferences about species loss following habitat conversion are typically drawn from short-term surveys, which cannot reconstruct long-term temporal dynamics of extinction and colonization. A long-term view can be critical, ...
  • Do epigeal termite mounds increase the diversity of plant habitats in a tropical rain forest in Peninsular Malaysia? 
    Beaudrot, Lydia; Du, Yanjun; Rahman Kassim, Abdul; Rejmanek, Marcel; Harrison, Rhett D. (2011)
    The extent to which environmental heterogeneity can account for tree species coexistence in diverse ecosystems, such as tropical rainforests, is hotly debated, although the importance of spatial variability in contributing ...
  • Top-Down Control of Herbivory by Birds and Bats in the Canopy of Temperate Broad-Leaved Oaks (<I>Quercus robur</I>) 
    Bohm, Stefan M.; Wells, Konstans; Kalko, Elisabeth Klara Viktoria (2011)
    The intensive foraging of insectivorous birds and bats is well known to reduce the density of arboreal herbivorous arthropods but quantification of collateral leaf damage remains limited for temperate forest canopies. We ...
  • Advances in the Use of DNA Barcodes to Build a Community Phylogeny for Tropical Trees in a Puerto Rican Forest Dynamics Plot 
    Kress, W. John; Erickson, David L.; Swenson, Nathan G.; Thompson, Jill; Uriarte, Maria; Zimmerman, Jess K. (2010)
    Species number, functional traits, and phylogenetic history all contribute to characterizing the biological diversity in plant communities. The phylogenetic component of diversity has been particularly difficult to quantify ...
  • The Missing Part of Seed Dispersal Networks: Structure and Robustness of Bat-Fruit Interactions 
    Ribeiro Mello, Marco Aurelio; Darcie Marquitti, Flavia Maria; Guimarães, Paulo R., Jr.; Kalko, Elisabeth Klara Viktoria; Jordano, Pedro; Martinez de Aguiar, Marcus Aloizio (2011)
    Mutualistic networks are crucial to the maintenance of ecosystem services. Unfortunately, what we know about seed dispersal networks is based only on bird-fruit interactions. Therefore, we aimed at filling part of this gap ...
  • Monoculture of Leafcutter Ant Gardens 
    Mueller, Ulrich G.; Scott, Jarrod J.; Ishak, Heather D.; Cooper, Michael; Rodrigues, Andre (2010)
    Background: Leafcutter ants depend on the cultivation of symbiotic Attamyces fungi for food, which are thought to be grown by the ants in single-strain, clonal monoculture throughout the hundreds to thousands of gardens ...
  • Marine Biodiversity in the Caribbean: Regional Estimates and Distribution Patterns 
    Miloslavich, Patricia; Manuel Diaz, Juan; Klein, Eduardo; Jose Alvarado, Juan; Diaz, Cristina; Gobin, Judith; Escobar-Briones, Elva; Jose Cruz-Motta, Juan; Weil, Ernesto; Cortes Nunez, Jorge; Carolina Bastidas, Ana; Robertson, D. Ross; Zapata, Fernando; Martin, Alberto; Castillo, Julio; Kazandjian, Aniuska; Ortiz, Manuel (2010)
    This paper provides an analysis of the distribution patterns of marine biodiversity and summarizes the major activities of the Census of Marine Life program in the Caribbean region. The coastal Caribbean region is a large ...
  • What Noseleaves Do for FM Bats Depends on Their Degree of Sensorial Specialization 
    Vanderelst, Dieter; De Mey, Fons; Peremans, Herbert; Geipel, Inga; Kalko, Elisabeth Klara Viktoria; Firzlaff, Uwe (2010)
    Background: Many bats vocalizing through their nose carry a prominent noseleaf that is involved in shaping the emission beam of these animals. To our knowledge, the exact role of these appendages has not been thoroughly ...
  • Large-Range Movements of Neotropical Orchid Bees Observed via Radio Telemetry 
    Wikelski, Martin C.; Moxley, Jerry; Eaton-Mordas, Alexander; Lopez-Uribe, Margarita M.; Holland, Richard; Moskowitz, David; Roubik, David Ward; Kays, Roland (2010)
    Neotropical orchid bees (Euglossini) are often cited as classic examples of trapline-foragers with potentially extensive foraging ranges. If long-distance movements are habitual, rare plants in widely scattered locations ...
  • Does tropical forest fragmentation increase long-term variability of butterfly communities? 
    Leidner, Allison K.; Haddad, Nick M.; Lovejoy, Thomas E. (2010)
  • High-Pitched Notes during Vocal Contests Signal Genetic Diversity in Ocellated Antbirds 
    Araya-Ajoy, Yi-men; Chaves-Campos, Johel; Kalko, Elisabeth Klara Viktoria; DeWoody, J. Andrew (2009)
  • The Genome Sequence of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into Its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle 
    Suen, Garret; Teiling, Clotilde; Li, Lewyn; Holt, Carson; Abouheif, Ehab; Bornberg-Bauer, Erich; Bouffard, Pascal; Caldera, Eric J.; Cash, Elizabeth; Cavanaugh, Amy; Denas, Olgert; Elhaik, Eran; Fave, Marie-Julie; Gadau, Juergen; Gibson, Joshua D.; Graur, Dan; Grubbs, Kirk J.; Hagen, Darren E.; Harkins, Timothy T.; Helmkampf, Martin; Hu, Hao; Johnson, Brian R.; Kim, Jay; Marsh, Sarah E.; Moeller, Joseph A.; Munoz-Torres, Monica C.; Murphy, Marguerite C.; Naughton, Meredith C.; Nigam, Surabhi; Overson, Rick; Rajakumar, Rajendhran; Reese, Justin T.; Scott, Jarrod J.; Smith, Chris R.; Tao, Shu; Tsutsui, Neil D.; Viljakainen, Lumi; Wissler, Lothar; Yandell, Mark D.; Zimmer, Fabian; Taylor, James; Slater, Steven C.; Clifton, Sandra W.; Warren, Wesley C.; Elsik, Christine G.; Smith, Christopher D.; Weinstock, George M.; Gerardo, Nicole M.; Currie, Cameron Robert (2011)
    Leaf-cutter ants are one of the most important herbivorous insects in the Neotropics, harvesting vast quantities of fresh leaf material. The ants use leaves to cultivate a fungus that serves as the colony&#39;s primary ...
  • An Insect Herbivore Microbiome with High Plant Biomass-Degrading Capacity 
    Suen, Garret; Scott, Jarrod J.; Aylward, Frank O.; Adams, Sandra M.; Tringe, Susannah G.; Pinto-Tomas, Adrian A.; Foster, Clifton E.; Pauly, Markus; Weimer, Paul J.; Barry, Kerrie W.; Goodwin, Lynne A.; Bouffard, Pascal; Li, Lewyn; Osterberger, Jolene; Harkins, Timothy T.; Slater, Steven C.; Donohue, Timothy J.; Currie, Cameron Robert (2010)
  • Genetic Evidence for Hybrid Trait Speciation in Heliconius Butterflies 
    Salazar, Camilo A.; Baxter, Simon W.; Pardo-Diaz, Carolina; Wu, Grace; Surridge, Alison; Linares, Mauricio; Bermingham, Eldredge; Jiggins, Chris D. (2010)
    Homoploid hybrid speciation is the formation of a new hybrid species without change in chromosome number. So far, there has been a lack of direct molecular evidence for hybridization generating novel traits directly involved ...
  • Does Sex Speed Up Evolutionary Rate and Increase Biodiversity? 
    Melián, Carlos J.; Alonso, David; Allesina, Stefano; Condit, Richard S.; Etienne, Rampal S. (2012)
    Most empirical and theoretical studies have shown that sex increases the rate of evolution, although evidence of sex constraining genomic and epigenetic variation and slowing down evolution also exists. Faster rates with ...
  • Action Potential Energy Efficiency Varies Among Neuron Types in Vertebrates and Invertebrates 
    Sengupta, Biswa; Stemmler, Martin; Laughlin, Simon B.; Niven, Jeremy (2010)
    The initiation and propagation of action potentials (APs) places high demands on the energetic resources of neural tissue. Each AP forces ATP-driven ion pumps to work harder to restore the ionic concentration gradients, ...
  • Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes 
    Mora, Camilo; Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio; Ayala Bocos, Arturo; Ayotte, Paula M.; Banks, Stuart; Bauman, Andrew G.; Beger, Maria; Bessudo, Sandra; Booth, David J.; Brokovich, Eran; Brooks, Andrew; Chabanet, Pascale; Cinner, Joshua E.; Cortes Nunez, Jorge; Cruz-Motta, Juan J.; Cupul Magana, Amilcar; DeMartini, Edward E.; Edgar, Graham J.; Feary, David A.; Ferse, Sebastian C. A.; Friedlander, Alan M.; Gaston, Kevin J.; Gough, Charlotte; Graham, Nicholas A. J.; Green, Alison; Guzmán, Héctor M.; Hardt, Marah; Kulbicki, Michel; Letourneur, Yves; Lopez Perez, Andres; Loreau, Michel; Loya, Yossi; Martinez, Camilo; Mascarenas-Osorio, Ismael; Morove, Tau; Nadon, Marc-Olivier; Nakamura, Yohei; Paredes, Gustavo; Polunin, Nicholas V. C.; Pratchett, Morgan S.; Bonilla, Hector Reyes; Rivera, Fernando; Sala, Enric; Sandin, Stuart A.; Soler, German; Stuart-Smith, Rick; Tessier, Emmanuel; Tittensor, Derek P.; Tupper, Mark; Usseglio, Paolo; Vigliola, Laurent; Wantiez, Laurent; Williams, Ivor; Wilson, Shaun K.; Zapata, Fernando A. (2011)
    Difficulties in scaling up theoretical and experimental results have raised controversy over the consequences of biodiversity loss for the functioning of natural ecosystems. Using a global survey of reef fish assemblages, ...

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