Publications
2010
Colautti, Robert I, Christopher G Eckert, Spencer C. H. Barrett. (2010) Evolutionary constraints on adaptive evolution during range expansion in an invasive plant. PROCEEDINGS of the ROYAL SOCEITY B-Biological Sciences 277:1799-1806.
Colautti, Robert I, Spencer C. H. Barrett. (2010). Natural Selection and Genetic Constraints on Flowering Phenology in an Invasive Planttically structured damage to Asteraceae: susceptibility of native and exotic. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE 171:960-971.
Hill, S. B., & Kotanen, P. M. (2010). Phylogenetically structured damage to Asteraceae: susceptibility of native and exotic species to foliar herbivores. BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS doi: 10.1007/s10530-010-9726-7.
Kasumovic, Michael M., Damian O. Eliasc, Senthurran Sivalinghema, Andrew C. Masona and Maydianne C.B. Andrade. (2010) Examination of prior contest experience and the retention of winner and loser effects. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY 21:404-409.
Kasumovic, Michael M., Andrew C. Masona, Maydianne C.B. Andrade, Damian O. Elias. (2010). Vibratory communication in the jumping spider Phidippus clarus: polyandry, male courtship signals, and mating success. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY 211308-1314.
Kasumovic, Michael M., Andrew C. Masona, Maydianne C.B. Andrade, Damian O. Elias. (2010). The relative importance of RHP and resource quality in contests with ownership asymmetries. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY doi: 10.1093/beheco/arq161
MacDonald, Andrew M., and Peter M. Kotanen. (2010). Leaf damage has weak effects on growth and fecundity of common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia). BOTANY 88:158-164.
MacDonald, Andrew M., and Peter M. Kotanen. (2010) The effects of disturbance and enemy exclusion on performance of an invasive species, common ragweed, in its native range. OECOLOGIA 162: 977-986
McCauley, Shannon J. and Locke Rowe. (2010) Notonecta exhibit threat-sensitive, predator-induced dispersal. BIOLOGY LETTERS 6:449-452.
Mooers, A.O., Doak, D.F., Findlay, C.S., Green, D.M., Grouios, C., Manne, L.L., Rashvand, A., Rudd, M.A. & J. Whitton. (2010). Science and policy and species at risk in Canada. BIOSCIENCE 60:843-849.
Punzalan, David, F. Helen Rodd, and Locke Rowe (2010) Temporally variable multivariate sexual selection on sexually dimorphic traits in a wild insect population. THE AMERICAN NATURALIST 175:401–414.
Scheiner, Samuel M. (2010) Toward a conceptual framework for biology. QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 85:293-318.
Simonsen, Anna K., and John R. Stinchcombe (2010). Quantifying evolutionary genetic constraints in the ivyleaf morning glory, Ipomoea hederacea. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE 171:972-986.
Thaler, Jennifer S., Anurag A. Agrawal and Rsayko Halitschke (2010). Salicylate-mediated interactions between pathogens and herbivores. ECOLOGY 91: 1075-1082.
2009
Dinnage, Russell. (2009) Disturbance Alters the Phylogenetic Composition and Structure of Plant Communities in an Old Field System. PLoS ONE 4: e7071.
Franks, Steven J., and Arthur E. Weis. (2009) Climate change alters reproductive isolation and potential gene flow in an annual plant. EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS 2:481-488.
Friedman, Jannice, and Spencer C. H. Barrett. (2009) Friedman, Jannice, and Spencer C. H. Barrett. (2009) The consequences of monoecy and protogyny for mating in wind-pollinated Carex. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 181: 489–497.
Friedman, Jannice, and Spencer C. H. Barrett. (2009) Wind of change: new insights on the ecology and evolution of pollination and mating in wind-pollinated plants. ANNALS OF BOTANY 103:1515-1527.
Hill, Steven B., and Peter M. Kotanen. (2009) Evidence that phylogenetically novel non-indigenous plants experience less herbivory. OECOLOGIA 161: 581-590.
Johnson, Marc T. J., Mark Vellend and John R. Stinchcombe. (2009) Evolution in plant populations as a driver of ecological changes in arthropod communities. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 364:1593-1605.
Johnson, Marc T. J., Russell Dinnage, Alice Y. Zhou, and Mark D. Hunter. (2008) Environmental variation has stronger effects than plant genotype on competition among plant species. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 96: 947–955.
Kasumovic, Michael M., Damian O. Elias, David Punzalan, Andrew C. Mason and Maydianne C.B. Andrade. (2009) Experience affects the outcome of agonistic contests without affecting the selective advantage of size. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 77: 1533-1538.
Liang, Yiqing and Ivana Stehlik, (2009) Relationship between shade and herbivory in Asarum canadense (Wild Ginger). JOURNAL OF UNDERGRADUATE LIFE SCIENCES 3.
McGoey, Brechann V. and John R. Stinchcombe. (2009) Interspecific competition alters natural selection on shade avoidance phenotypes in Impatiens capensis. New Phytologist 183:880-891.
Pitcher, T. E., S. M. Doucet, J.-M. J. Beausoleil, and D. Hanley. (2009) Secondary sexual characters and sperm traits in coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 74:1450–1461.
Punzalan, D., M. Cooray, F. Helen Rodd, and L. Rowe. (2009) Condition dependence of sexually dimorphic colouration and longevity in the ambush bug Phymata americana. JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 21:1297–1306.
Whitear, Amelia K, and Ivana Stehlik. (2009) Use of auditory predation cues in the Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris. JOURNAL OF UNDERGRADUATE LIFE SCIENCES 3.
2008
Barrett, Spencer C. H., Robert I. Colautti, Christopher G. Eckert. (2008) Plant reproductive systems and evolution during biological invasion. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 17:373-383.
Campitelli, B.E., Ivana Stehlik and John R. Stinchcombe. (2008) Leaf variegation is associated with reduced herbivore damage in Hydrophyllum virginianum. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 86:306-313.
Earon, E.J.P., C.D. Fulord, N.H.M. Li, R. Huq and C.A. Rabbath. (2008) Intellegence aloft: Robust, autonomous, off-the-shelf UAV teaming. IEEE CANADIAN REVIEW, Summer 2008:23-28.
Elias, Damian O., Michael M. Kasumovic, David Punzalan, Maydianne C.B. Andrade and Andrew C. Mason. (2008) Assessment during aggressive contests between male jumping spiders. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 76:901-910.
Fazekas, Aron J., Kevin S. Burgess, Prasad R. Kesanakurti, Sean W. Graham, Steven G. Newmaster, Brian C. Husband, Diana M. Percy, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, and Spencer C. H. Barrett. (2008) Multiple multilocus DNA barcodes from the plastid genome discriminate plant species equally well. PLoS ONE 3:e2802.
Franks, Steven J., John C. Avise, William E. Bradshaw, Jeffrey K. Conner, Julie R. Etterson, Susan J. Mazer, Ruth G. Shaw and Arthur E. Weis. (2008) The Resurrection Initiative: Storing ancestral genotypes to capture evolution in action. BIOSCIENCE 58:870–873.
Friedman, Jannice and Spencer C. H. Barrett. (2008) High outcrossing in the annual colonizing species Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Asteraceae). ANNALS OF BOTANY. 101:1303-1309.
Friedman, Janice and Spencer C. H. Barrett (2008) The consequences of monoecy and protogyny for mating in wind-pollinated Carex. NEW PHYTOLOGIST (in press).
Johnson, Marc T.J. (2008) Bottom-up effects of plant genotype on aphids, ants, and predators. ECOLOGY 89:145-54.
Judge, Kevin A., Janice J. Ting, and Darryl T. Gwynne. (2008) Condition dependence of male life span and calling effort in a field cricket. EVOLUTION doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00318.x.
MacKay, J., & Kotanen, P. M. (2008) Local escape of an invasive plant, common ragweed ( Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.), from above-ground and below-ground enemies in its native area. Journal of Ecology, 96(6), 1152-1161.
Majetic, Cassie J., Robert A. Raguso and Tia-Lynn Ashman. (2008) The Impact of Biochemistry vs. Population Membership on Floral Scent Profiles in Colour Polymorphic Hesperis matronalis. Annals of Botany 102: 911–922.
Mooney, Kailen A., Patricia Jones, Anurag A. Agrawal. (2008) Coexisting congeners: demography, competition, and interactions with cardenolides for two milkweed-feeding aphids. OIKOS 117: 450-458.
Porter, Teresita M., C.W. Schadtb, L. Rizvic, A.P. Martind, S.K. Schmidtd, L. Scott-Dentond, R. Vilgalyse and J.M. Moncalvoa. (2008) Widespread occurrence and phylogenetic placement of a soil clone group adds a prominent new branch to the fungal tree of life. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION 46:635-644.
Porter, Teresita M., Jane E. Skillman, Jean-Marc Moncalvo. (2008) Fruiting body and soil rDNA sampling detects complementary assemblage of Agaricomycotina (Basidiomycota, Fungi) in a hemlock-dominated forest plot in southern Ontario. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 17: 3037-3050.
Punzalan , David , F. Helen Rodd and Locke Rowe. (2008) Contemporary sexual selection on sexually dimorphic traits in the ambush bug Phymata americana. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY 19:860-870.
Punzalan, David, F. Helen Rodd and Locke Rowe. (2008) Sexual selection mediated by the thermoregulatory effects of male colour pattern in the ambush bug Phymata americana. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 275:483-492.
Thaler Jennifer S., and Celine A.M. Griffin. (2008) Relative importance of consumptive and non-consumptive effects of predators on prey and plant damage: the influence of herbivore ontogeny. ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA 128 34-40.
Viswanathan, D.V., G. McNickle, And J. S. Thaler. (2008) Heterogeneity of plant phenotypes caused by herbivore-specific induced responses influences the spatial distribution of herbivores. ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY 33:86-94.
2007
Baltzer, J. L. and Sean C. Thomas. (2007) Physiological and morphological correlates of whole-plant light compensation point in temperate deciduous tree seedlings. Oecologia 153:209-223.
Johnson, M.T.J. (2007) Genotype-by-environment interactions leads to variable selection on life-histroy strategy in Commom Eveing Primrose (Oenothera biennis). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20:190-200.
Johnson, M.T.J. and A.A. Agrawal. (2007) Covariation and composition of arthropod species across plant genotypes of evening primrose, Oenothera biennis. Oikos 116:941-956.
Johnson, M.T.J. (2007) Bottom-up effects of plant genotype on aphids, ants and predators. Ecology (in press).
Kotanen, Peter M. (2007) Effects of fungal seed pathogens under conspecific and heterospecific trees in a temperate forest Canadian Journal of Botany 85:918-925.
Viswanathan, D.V., O.A. Lifchits and J.S. Thaler. (2007) Consequences of sequential attack for resistance to herbivores when plants have specific induced responses. Oikos 116:1389-1399.
Way, Danielle A., Seth D. Seegobin1 and Rowan F. Sage1 (2007) The effect of carbon and nutrient loading during nursery culture on the growth of black spruce seedlings: a six-year field study. New Forests 34:307-312.
2006
Fletcher, Q.E., and R. Boonstra. (2006) Impact of live trapping on stress response of the meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus). Journal of Zoology. 270:473-478.
Johnson, M.T.J., M.J. Lajeunesse, and A.A. Agrawal. (2006) Additive and interactive effects of plant genotypic diversity on arthropod communities and plant fitness. Ecology Letters 9:24-34.
McGuire, R.J., and M.T.J. Johnson. (2006) Plant genotype and induced responses affect resistance to herbivores on Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) Ecological Entomology: 31:20-31.
O’Hanlon-Manners and P.M. Kotanen. (2006) Losses of temperate trees to soil fungi: effects of habitat and host ecology. Plant Ecology 187:49-58.
2005
Agrawal, A.A. (2005) Natural selection on common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) by a community of specialized insect herbivores. Evolutionary Ecology Research: 7:651-667.
Agrawal, A.A., P.M. Kotanen, C.E. Mitchell, J. Klironomos, A.G. Power, and W. Godsoe (2005) Enemy release? An experiment with congeneric plant pairs and diverse above- and belowground enemies. Ecology 86: 2979-2989.
Baltzer, J.L., and S.C. Thomas (2005) Leaf optical responses to light and soil nutrient levels in temperate deciduous trees. American Journal of Botany 92: 214-223.
Conner, J.K. and A.A. Agrawal (2005) Mechanisms of constraints: The contributions of selection and genetic variance to the maintenance of cotyledon number in wild radish. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18: 238-242.
Genton B. P.M. Kotanen, P.-O. Cheptou, C. Adolphe and J.A. Shykoff (2005) Enemy release but no evolutionary loss of defence during ragweed invasion of France: an inter-continental reciprocal transplant experiment. Oecologia 146: 414-414.
Genton, B.J., J.A. Shykoff and T. Giraud (2005). High genetic diversity in French invasive populations of common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, as a result of multiple sources of introduction. Molecular Ecology 14:4275-4285.
Johnson, M.T.J. and A.A. Agrawal (2005). Plant genotype and the environment interact to shape a diverse arthropod community on evening primrose (Oenothera biennis). Ecology 86: 874-885.
Kurashige, N.S. and A.A. Agrawal (2005) Phenotypic plasticity to light competition and herbivory in Chenopodium album (Chenopodiaceae). American Journal of Botany 92: 21-26.
Rodriguez-Saona, C. and J.S. Thaler. (2005) Herbivore-induced responses and patch heterogeneity affect abundance of arthropods on plants. Ecological Entomology 30: 156-163.
Viswanathan, D.V., A.J.T. Narwani, and J.S. Thaler (2005) Specificity in induced plant responses shapes patterns of herbivore occurrence on Solanum dulcamara. Ecology 86: 886-896.
Wolfe B.E. and J.N. Klironomos (2005) Breaking new ground: soil communities and exotic plant invasion. Bioscience 55: 477-487.
2004
Agrawal, A.A. (2004) Plant defense and density dependence in the population growth of herbivores. American Naturalist 164: 113-120.
Agrawal, A.A. (2004) Resistance and susceptibility of milkweed to herbivore attack: Consequences of competition, root herbivory, and plant genetic variation. Ecology 85: 2118-2133.
Agrawal, A.A., J.K. Conner, and J.R. Stinchcombe (2004) Evolution of plant resistance and tolerance to frost damage. Ecology Letters 7: 1199-1208.
Agrawal, A.A., N. Underwood, and J.R. Stinchcombe (2004) Intraspecific variation in the strength of density dependence in aphid populations. Ecological Entomology 29: 521-526.
Barrett, R.D.H. and A.A. Agrawal (2004) Interactive effects of genotype, environment and ontogeny on resistance of cucumber (Cucumis sativus) to the generalist herbivore, Spodoptera exigua. Journal of Chemical Ecology 30: 37-51.
Griffin, S.R. and S.C.H. Barrett (2004) Genetic variation in Trillium erectum (Melanthiaceae), a widespread forest herb in eastern North America. Canadian Journal of Botany 82: 316-321.
Griffin, S.R. and S.C.H. Barrett (2004) Post-glacial history of Trillium grandiflorum (Melianthaceae) in eastern North America: inferences from phylogeography. American Journal of Botany 91: 465-473.
O'Hanlon-Manners, D.L. and P.M. Kotanen (2004) Evidence that fungal pathogens inhibit recruitment of a shade-intolerant tree, White Birch (Betula papyrifera), in understory habitats. Oecologia 140: 650-653.
O'Hanlon-Manners, D.L. and P.M. Kotanen (2004) Logs as refuges from fungal pathogens for seeds of Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Ecology 85: 284-289.
Schafer, M. and P.M. Kotanen (2004) Impacts of naturally-occurring soil fungi on seeds of meadow plants. Plant Ecology 17: 19-35.
Thaler, J.S., B. Owen, and V.J. Higgins (2004) The role of the jasmonate response in plant susceptibility to diverse pathogens with a range of lifestyles. Plant Physiology 135: 530-538.
Van Zandt, P.A. and A.A. Agrawal (2004) Community-wide impacts of herbivore-induced plant responses in milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Ecology 85: 2616-2629.
Van Zandt, P.A. and A.A. Agrawal (2004) Specificity of induced plant responses to specialist herbivores of the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. Oikos 104: 401-409.
2003
Agrawal, A.A. and P.M. Kotanen (2003) Herbivores and the success of exotic plants: a phylogenetically controlled experiment. Ecology Letters 6: 1-4.
Agrawal, A.A. and P.A. Van Zandt (2003) Ecological play in the coevolutionary theater: Genetic and environmental determinants of attack by a specialist weevil on milkweed. Journal of Ecology 91: 1049-1059.
Bennett, A.M.R. (2003) Host location behaviour in Pelecinus polyturator (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario 134: 131-134.
Dorken, M.E. and S.C.H. Barrett (2003) Life-history differentiation and the maintenance of monoecy and dioecy in Sagittaria latifolia (Alismataceae). Evolution 57: 1973-1988.
Rotem, K. and A.A. Agrawal (2003) Density dependent population growth of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, on the host plant Leonurus cardiaca. Oikos 103: 559-565.
Schafer, M. and P.M. Kotanen (2003) The influence of soil moisture on losses of buried seeds to fungi. Acta Oecologica 24: 255-263.
2002
Blaney, C.S. and P.M. Kotanen (2002) Persistence in the seed bank: an experimental comparison of native and alien plants. Écoscience 9: 509-517.
Griffin, S.R. and S.C.H. Barrett (2002) Factors affecting low seed : ovule ratios in a spring woodland herb, Trillium grandiflorum (Melanthiaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 163: 581-590.
2001
Blaney, C.S. and P.M. Kotanen (2001) Effects of fungal pathogens on seeds of native and exotic plants: a test using congeneric pairs. Journal of Applied Ecology 38: 1104-1113.
Blaney, C.S. and P.M. Kotanen (2001) Post-dispersal losses to seed predators: an experimental comparison of native and exotic old field plants. Canadian Journal of Botany 79: 284-292.
Sage, T.L., S.R. Griffin, V. Pontieri, P. Drobac, W.W. Cole, and S.C.H. Barrett (2001) Stigmatic self-incompatibility and mating patterns in Trillium grandiflorum and T. erectum (Melanthiaceae). Annals of Botany 88: 829-841.
1999
Darling, D.C. (1999) Life history and immature stages of Steffanolampus salicetum (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Perilampidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario 130: 3-14.
Wright, S.I. and S.C.H. Barrett (1999) Size-dependent gender modification in an hermaphroditic perennial herb. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 266: 225-232.
