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Matthew C I Medeiros; Gabriel L Hamer; Robert E Ricklefs
Host compatibility rather than vector-host-encounter rate determines the host range of avian Plasmodium parasites.
Robert E Ricklefs
Habitat-independent spatial structure in populations of some forest birds in eastern North America.
Robert E Ricklefs
Species richness and morphological diversity of passerine birds.

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2013: Matthew C I Medeiros; Gabriel L Hamer; Robert E Ricklefs
Host compatibility rather than vector-host-encounter rate determines the host range of avian Plasmodium parasites.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2013;280(1760):20122947.
2013: Robert E Ricklefs
Habitat-independent spatial structure in populations of some forest birds in eastern North America.
The Journal of animal ecology 2013;82(1):145-54.
2012: Robert E Ricklefs
Species richness and morphological diversity of passerine birds.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012;109(36):14482-7.
2012: Robert J Marquis; Robert E Ricklefs; Luis Abdala-Roberts
Testing the low latitude/high defense hypothesis for broad-leaved tree species.
Oecologia 2012;169(3):811-20.
2012: Eva Bellemain; Eldredge Bermingham; Anna Fahey; Oscar E Gaggiotti; Robert E Ricklefs
Demographic history and genetic diversity in West Indian Coereba flaveola populations.
Genetica 2012;140(4-6):137-48.
2012: Irby J Lovette; Robert E Ricklefs; Dustin R Rubenstein; John P Sullivan; Amanda L Talaba; Robert M Zink; Brian S Arbogast; Carlos A Botero; Robert L Curry; Rebecca B Harris; Eldredge Bermingham
Phylogenetic relationships of the mockingbirds and thrashers (Aves: Mimidae).
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2012;63(2):219-29.
2012: Robert E Ricklefs
Naturalists, natural history, and the nature of biological diversity.
The American naturalist 2012;179(4):423-35.
2012: Robert E Ricklefs; Susanne S Renner
Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2012;335(6067):464-7.
2011: Corinne P Kozlowski; Robert E Ricklefs
The effects of brood size on growth and steroid hormone concentrations in nestling eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis).
General and comparative endocrinology 2011;173(3):447-53.
2011: Maria Svensson-Coelho; Robert E Ricklefs
Host phylogeography and beta diversity in avian haemosporidian (Plasmodiidae) assemblages of the Lesser Antilles.
The Journal of animal ecology 2011;80(5):938-46.
2011: Robert E Ricklefs; David G Jenkins
Biogeography and ecology: towards the integration of two disciplines.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2011;366(1576):2438-48.
2011: Iris I Levin; Sarah L O'Brien; Larisa Lee Cruz; Don Dearborn; Robert C Fleischer; Frank Hailer; Tatjana A Iezhova; Robert E Ricklefs; Diego Santiago-Alarcon; E A Schreiber; Gediminas Valkiūnas; Patricia G Parker
Hippoboscid-transmitted Haemoproteus parasites (Haemosporida) infect Galapagos Pelecaniform birds: evidence from molecular and morphological studies, with a description of Haemoproteus iwa.
International journal for parasitology 2011;41(10):1019-27.
2011: Robert E Ricklefs
Applying a regional community concept to forest birds of eastern North America.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011;108(6):2300-5.
2011: Patricia G Parker; Elizabeth L Buckles; Heather Farrington; Kenneth Petren; Noah Kerness Whiteman; Robert E Ricklefs; Jennifer L Bollmer; Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui
110 years of Avipoxvirus in the Galapagos Islands.
PloS one 2011;6(1):e15989.
2010: Corinne P Kozlowski; Robert A Mauck; Kathleen M O'Reilly; Jon Philipsborn; Robert E Ricklefs
Changes in plasma hormone levels correlate with fledging in nestling Leach's storm-petrels.
General and comparative endocrinology 2010;169(1):91-7.
2010: Robert E Ricklefs; Diana C Outlaw
A molecular clock for malaria parasites.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2010;329(5988):226-9.
2010: Robert E Ricklefs
Colonization of the Lesser Antilles by land birds.
Ecology 2010;91(6):1811-21.
2010: Robert E Ricklefs
Life-history connections to rates of aging in terrestrial vertebrates.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010;107(22):10314-9.
2010: Robert E Ricklefs
Host-pathogen coevolution, secondary sympatry and species diversification.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2010;365(1543):1139-47.
2010: Diego Santiago-Alarcon; Diana C Outlaw; Robert E Ricklefs; Patricia G Parker
Phylogenetic relationships of haemosporidian parasites in New World Columbiformes, with emphasis on the endemic Galapagos dove.
International journal for parasitology 2010;40(4):463-70.
2010: Robert E Ricklefs
Parental investment and avian reproductive rate: Williams's principle reconsidered.
The American naturalist 2010;175(3):350-61.
2010: Diana Cumings Outlaw; Robert E Ricklefs
Comparative gene evolution in haemosporidian (apicomplexa) parasites of birds and mammals.
Molecular biology and evolution 2010;27(3):537-42.
2010: Robert E Ricklefs
Evolutionary diversification, coevolution between populations and their antagonists, and the filling of niche space.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010;107(4):1265-72.
2009: Brianne Addison; Kirk C Klasing; W Douglas Robinson; Suzanne H Austin; Robert E Ricklefs
Ecological and life-history factors influencing the evolution of maternal antibody allocation: a phylogenetic comparison.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2009;276(1675):3979-87.
2009: D C Outlaw; Robert E Ricklefs
On the phylogenetic relationships of haemosporidian parasites from raptorial birds (Falconiformes and Strigiformes).
The Journal of parasitology 2009;95(5):1171-6.
2009: L Maria; E Svensson; Robert E Ricklefs
Low diversity and high intra-island variation in prevalence of avian Haemoproteus parasites on Barbados, Lesser Antilles.
Parasitology 2009;136(10):1121-31.
2009: Robert E Ricklefs
Aspect diversity in moths revisited.
The American naturalist 2009;173(3):411-6.
2008: Robert E Ricklefs
Disintegration of the ecological community.
The American naturalist 2008;172(6):741-50.
2008: Susanne S Renner; Guido W Grimm; Gerald M Schneeweiss; Tod F Stuessy; Robert E Ricklefs
Rooting and dating maples (Acer) with an uncorrelated-rates molecular clock: implications for north American/Asian disjunctions.
Systematic biology 2008;57(5):795-808.
2008: Qiu-Yun Jenny Xiang; Jeffrey L Thorne; Tae-Kun Seo; Wenheng Zhang; David T Thomas; Robert E Ricklefs
Rates of nucleotide substitution in Cornaceae (Cornales)-Pattern of variation and underlying causal factors.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2008;49(1):327-42.
2008: Alan A Cohen; Kevin J McGraw; Popko Wiersma; Joseph B Williams; W Douglas Robinson; Tara R Robinson; Jeffrey D Brawn; Robert E Ricklefs
Interspecific associations between circulating antioxidant levels and life-history variation in birds.
The American naturalist 2008;172(2):178-93.
2008: Eva Bellemain; Robert E Ricklefs
Are islands the end of the colonization road?
Trends in ecology & evolution 2008;23(8):461-8.
2008: Robert E Ricklefs
Foliage chemistry and the distribution of Lepidoptera larvae on broad-leaved trees in southern Ontario.
Oecologia 2008;157(1):53-67.
2008: Robert E Ricklefs; Eldredge Bermingham
The West Indies as a laboratory of biogeography and evolution.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2008;363(1502):2393-413.
2008: Diego Santiago-Alarcon; Noah K Whiteman; Patricia G Parker; Robert E Ricklefs; Gediminas Valkiūnas
Patterns of parasite abundance and distribution in island populations of Galápagos endemic birds.
The Journal of parasitology 2008;94(3):584-90.
2008: Gediminas Valkiūnas; Carter T Atkinson; Staffan Bensch; Ravinder N M Sehgal; Robert E Ricklefs
Parasite misidentifications in GenBank: how to minimize their number?
Trends in parasitology 2008;24(6):247-8.
2008: Hong Qian; Robert E Ricklefs
Global concordance in diversity patterns of vascular plants and terrestrial vertebrates.
Ecology letters 2008;11(6):547-53.
2008: Robert E Ricklefs; Carlos Daniel Cadena
Heritability of longevity in captive populations of nondomesticated mammals and birds.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2008;63(5):435-46.
2008: Eva Bellemain; Eldredge Bermingham; Robert E Ricklefs
The dynamic evolutionary history of the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) in the Caribbean revealed by a multigene analysis.
BMC evolutionary biology 2008;8():240.
2007: Robert E Ricklefs
Estimating diversification rates from phylogenetic information.
Trends in ecology & evolution 2007;22(11):601-10.
2007: Susanne S Renner; L Beenken; G W Grimm; Alexander Kocyan; Robert E Ricklefs
The evolution of dioecy, heterodichogamy, and labile sex expression in Acer.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2007;61(11):2701-19.
2007: Robert E Ricklefs; Carlos Daniel Cadena
Lifespan is unrelated to investment in reproduction in populations of mammals and birds in captivity.
Ecology letters 2007;10(10):867-72.
2007: Joseph B Williams; B Irene Tieleman; G Henk Visser; Robert E Ricklefs
Does growth rate determine the rate of metabolism in shorebird chicks living in the Arctic?
Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ 2007;80(5):500-13.
2007: Robert E Ricklefs; J B Losos; T M Townsend
Evolutionary diversification of clades of squamate reptiles.
Journal of evolutionary biology 2007;20(5):1751-62.
2007: Carlos Daniel Cadena; John Klicka; Robert E Ricklefs
Evolutionary differentiation in the Neotropical montane region: molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of Buarremon brush-finches (Aves, Emberizidae).
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2007;44(3):993-1016.
2007: Lee A Dyer; Michael S Singer; John T Lill; John O Stireman; Grant Gentry; Robert J Marquis; Robert E Ricklefs; H F Greeney; D L Wagner; Helena C Morais; Ivone R Diniz; Thomas A Kursar; Phyllis D Coley
Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests.
Nature 2007;448(7154):696-9.
2007: Robert E Ricklefs
History and diversity: explorations at the intersection of ecology and evolution.
The American naturalist 2007;170 Suppl 2():S56-70.
2007: Hong Qian; Robert E Ricklefs
A latitudinal gradient in large-scale beta diversity for vascular plants in North America.
Ecology letters 2007;10(8):737-44.
2007: Robert E Ricklefs; Russell E Shea
Estimating annual survival in sexually dimorphic species from proportions of first-year birds.
Ecology 2007;88(6):1408-19.
2007: Russell E Shea; John M Olson; Robert E Ricklefs
Growth rate, protein accumulation, and catabolic enzyme activity of skeletal muscles of galliform birds.
Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ 2007;80(3):306-16.
2007: Robert E Ricklefs
Tyrannosaur ageing.
Biology letters 2007;3(2):214-7.
2007: Gary G Mittelbach; Douglas W Schemske; Howard V Cornell; Andrew P Allen; Jonathan M Brown; Mark B Bush; Susan P Harrison; Allen H Hurlbert; Nancy Knowlton; Harilaos A Lessios; Christy M McCain; Amy R McCune; Lucinda A McDade; Mark A McPeek; Thomas J Near; Trevor D Price; Robert E Ricklefs; Kaustuv Roy; Dov F Sax; Dolph Schluter; James M Sobel; Michael Turelli
Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography.
Ecology letters 2007;10(4):315-31.
2006: Hong Qian; Robert E Ricklefs
The role of exotic species in homogenizing the North American flora.
Ecology letters 2006;9(12):1293-8.
2006: Robert E Ricklefs; Andrea E Schwarzbach; Susanne S Renner
Rate of lineage origin explains the diversity anomaly in the world's mangrove vegetation.
The American naturalist 2006;168(6):805-10.
2006: Kelly A Lee; Lynn B Martin; Dennis Hasselquist; Robert E Ricklefs; Martin Wikelski
Contrasting adaptive immune defenses and blood parasite prevalence in closely related Passer sparrows.
Oecologia 2006;150(3):383-92.
2006: Robert E Ricklefs
Global variation in the diversification rate of passerine birds.
Ecology 2006;87(10):2468-78.
2006: Robert E Ricklefs
Embryo development and ageing in birds and mammals.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2006;273(1597):2077-82.
2006: Robert E Ricklefs
Evolutionary diversification and the origin of the diversity-environment relationship.
Ecology 2006;87(7 Suppl):S3-13.
2006: Qinfeng Guo; Hong Qian; Robert E Ricklefs; Weimin Xi
Distributions of exotic plants in eastern Asia and North America.
Ecology letters 2006;9(7):827-34.
2006: Robert E Ricklefs
The unified neutral theory of biodiversity: do the numbers add up?
Ecology 2006;87(6):1424-31.
2006: Kevin D Matson; Alan A Cohen; Kirk C Klasing; Robert E Ricklefs; Alex Scheuerlein
No simple answers for ecological immunology: relationships among immune indices at the individual level break down at the species level in waterfowl.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2006;273(1588):815-22.
2006: Robert E Ricklefs
Time, species, and the generation of trait variance in clades.
Systematic biology 2006;55(1):151-9.
2006: Luisa Mendes; Theunis Piersma; Dennis Hasselquist; Kevin D Matson; Robert E Ricklefs
Variation in the innate and acquired arms of the immune system among five shorebird species.
The Journal of experimental biology 2006;209(Pt 2):284-91.
2005: John O Stireman; Lee A Dyer; Daniel H Janzen; Michael S Singer; John T Lill; Robert J Marquis; Robert E Ricklefs; Grant Gentry; Winnie Hallwachs; Phyllis D Coley; J A Barone; H F Greeney; H Connahs; P Barbosa; Helena C Morais; Ivone R Diniz
Climatic unpredictability and parasitism of caterpillars: implications of global warming.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005;102(48):17384-7.
2005: Carlos Daniel Cadena; Robert E Ricklefs; Iván Jiménez; Eldredge Bermingham
Ecology: is speciation driven by species diversity?
Nature 2005;438(7064):E1-2; discussion E2.
2005: B Irene Tieleman; Joseph B Williams; Robert E Ricklefs; Kirk C Klasing
Constitutive innate immunity is a component of the pace-of-life syndrome in tropical birds.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2005;272(1573):1715-20.
2005: Robert E Ricklefs
Small clades at the periphery of passerine morphological space.
The American naturalist 2005;165(6):651-9.
2005: Serge Morand; Robert E Ricklefs
Genome size is not related to life-history traits in primates.
Genome / National Research Council Canada = Génome / Conseil national de recherches Canada 2005;48(2):273-8.
2005: Sylvia M Fallon; Eldredge Bermingham; Robert E Ricklefs
Host specialization and geographic localization of avian malaria parasites: a regional analysis in the Lesser Antilles.
The American naturalist 2005;165(4):466-80.
2005: Kevin D Matson; Robert E Ricklefs; Kirk C Klasing
A hemolysis-hemagglutination assay for characterizing constitutive innate humoral immunity in wild and domestic birds.
Developmental and comparative immunology 2005;29(3):275-86.
2004: Qiu-Yun Jenny Xiang; Wen Heng Zhang; Robert E Ricklefs; Hong Qian; Zhi-Duan Chen; Jun Wen; Jian L Hua
Regional differences in rates of plant speciation and molecular evolution: a comparison between eastern Asia and eastern North America.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2004;58(10):2175-84.
2004: Robert E Ricklefs; Eldredge Bermingham
Application of Johnson et al.'s speciation threshold model to apparent colonization times of island biotas.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2004;58(8):1664-73.
2004: Robert E Ricklefs
Cladogenesis and morphological diversification in passerine birds.
Nature 2004;430(6997):338-41.
2004: Alex Scheuerlein; Robert E Ricklefs
Prevalence of blood parasites in European passeriform birds.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2004;271(1546):1363-70.
2004: Hong Qian; Robert E Ricklefs
Taxon richness and climate in angiosperms: is there a globally consistent relationship that precludes region effects?
The American naturalist 2004;163(5):773-9; discussion 780-5.
2004: Sylvia M Fallon; Robert E Ricklefs; S C Latta; Eldredge Bermingham
Temporal stability of insular avian malarial parasite communities.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2004;271(1538):493-500.
2004: Erpur Hansen; Robert E Ricklefs
Foraging by deep-diving birds is not constrained by an aerobic diving limit: a model of avian depth-dependent diving metabolic rate.
The American naturalist 2004;163(3):358-74.
2004: Robert E Ricklefs; Eldredge Bermingham
History and the species-area relationship in Lesser Antillean birds.
The American naturalist 2004;163(2):227-39.
2004: Robert E Ricklefs; Sylvia M Fallon; Eldredge Bermingham
Evolutionary relationships, cospeciation, and host switching in avian malaria parasites.
Systematic biology 2004;53(1):111-9.
2003: Robert E Ricklefs
Global diversification rates of passerine birds.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2003;270(1530):2285-91.
2003: Sylvia M Fallon; Robert E Ricklefs; B L Swanson; Eldredge Bermingham
Detecting avian malaria: an improved polymerase chain reaction diagnostic.
The Journal of parasitology 2003;89(5):1044-7.
2003: Inho Choi; Jae Han Shim; Robert E Ricklefs
Morphometric relationships of take-off speed in anuran amphibians.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Comparative experimental biology 2003;299(2):99-102.
2003: Robert E Ricklefs; Joseph B Williams
Metabolic responses of shorebird chicks to cold stress: hysteresis of cooling and warming phases.
The Journal of experimental biology 2003;206(Pt 16):2883-93.
2003: Robert E Ricklefs; Alex Scheuerlein; A Cohen
Age-related patterns of fertility in captive populations of birds and mammals.
Experimental gerontology 2003;38(7):741-5.
2003: Sylvia M Fallon; Eldredge Bermingham; Robert E Ricklefs
Island and taxon effects in parasitism revisited: avian malaria in the Lesser Antilles.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2003;57(3):606-15.
2002: George S Bakken; Joseph B Williams; Robert E Ricklefs
Metabolic response to wind of downy chicks of Arctic-breeding shorebirds (Scolopacidae).
The Journal of experimental biology 2002;205(Pt 22):3435-43.
2002: José L Tella; Alex Scheuerlein; Robert E Ricklefs
Is cell-mediated immunity related to the evolution of life-history strategies in birds?
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2002;269(1495):1059-66.
2002: John T Lill; Robert J Marquis; Robert E Ricklefs
Host plants influence parasitism of forest caterpillars.
Nature 2002;417(6885):170-3.
2002: Robert E Ricklefs; Sylvia M Fallon
Diversification and host switching in avian malaria parasites.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2002;269(1494):885-92.
2002: Robert E Ricklefs; Alex Scheuerlein
Biological implications of the Weibull and Gompertz models of aging.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2002;57(2):B69-76.
2002: Irby J Lovette; Eldredge Bermingham; Robert E Ricklefs
Clade-specific morphological diversification and adaptive radiation in Hawaiian songbirds.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2002;269(1486):37-42.
2002: J M Fair; Robert E Ricklefs
Physiological, growth, and immune responses of Japanese quail chicks to the multiple stressors of immunological challenge and lead shot.
Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology 2002;42(1):77-87.
2001: Robert E Ricklefs; Eldredge Bermingham
Nonequilibrium diversity dynamics of the Lesser Antillean avifauna.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2001;294(5546):1522-4.
2001: Robert E Ricklefs; Alex Scheuerlein
Comparison of aging-related mortality among birds and mammals.
Experimental gerontology 2001;36(4-6):845-57.
2000: Robert E Ricklefs; Susanne S Renner
Evolutionary flexibility and flowering plant familial diversity: a comment on Dodd, Silvertown, and Chase.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2000;54(3):1061-5.
2000: A E Schwarzbach; Robert E Ricklefs
Systematic affinities of Rhizophoraceae and Anisophylleaceae, and intergeneric relationships within Rhizophoraceae, based on chloroplast DNA, nuclear ribosomal DNA, and morphology.
American journal of botany 2000;87(4):547-64.
1999: J M Fair; Erpur Hansen; Robert E Ricklefs
Growth, developmental stability and immune response in juvenile Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica).
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 1999;266(1430):1735-42.
1998: Robert E Ricklefs
Evolutionary theories of aging: confirmation of a fundamental prediction, with implications for the genetic basis and evolution of life span.
The American naturalist 1998;152(1):24-44.
1997: Robert E Ricklefs
Hatching asynchrony in birds.
Trends in ecology & evolution 1997;12(6):229.
1996: Robert E Ricklefs
Phylogeny and ecology.
Trends in ecology & evolution 1996;11(6):229-30.