Tulane University

Graduate Student Publications


2006

Vincent, S.E., B.R. Moon, R. Shine and A. Herrel. 2006. The functional meaning of "prey size" in snakes: influence of prey dimensions on feeding function and performance in water snakes (Nerodia fasciata, Serpentes, Colubridae). Oecologia, accepted pending revisions.

Johnson, M.D., T.W. Sherry, R.T. Holmes, and P.P. Marra. 2006. Measuring habitat quality for a migratory songbird wintering in natural and agricultural areas. In press, Conservation Biology.

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2005

Lailvaux, S.P., J. Hathway, J. Pomfret and R.J. Knell. 2005. Horn size predicts physical performance in the beetle Euoniticellus intermedius (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Functional Ecology (in press).

Brown, D.R., and T.W. Sherry. 2005. Population response of resident Jamaican birds to food supplementation: evidence of dry-season limitation. Accepted for publication, Biotropica.

Johnson, M.D., A.M. Strong, and T.W. Sherry. 2005. Migrants in tropical bird communities: the Balanced Breeding Limitation Hypothesis. Accepted for publication, Journal of Avian Biology.

Sigel, B., T.W. Sherry, and B.E. Young. 2005. Avian community response to lowland tropical rainforest isolation: 40 years of change at La Selva Biological Station. In press, Conservation Biology.

Johnson, M.D., T.W. Sherry, A.M. Strong, and A. Medori. 2005. Migrants in Neotropical bird communities: an assessment of the breeding currency hypothesis. Journal of Animal Ecology 74:333-341.

Sherry, T.W., M.D. Johnson, and A.M. Strong. 2005. Does winter food limit populations of migratory birds? Pp. 414-425 in R. Greenberg and P.P. Marra (eds.), Birds of Two Worlds: the Ecology and Evolution of Migration. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.

Vincent, S.E., P.D. Dang, D.J. Irschick, and J.M. Rossel. 2005. Do juvenile gape-limited predators compensate for their small size when feeding? Journal of Zoology, London, accepted pending revisions. Both P.D. Dang and J.M. Rossel are EEB undergraduates.

Vincent, S.E. and S.P. Laillvaux 2005. Female morphology, web design, and the potential for multiple mating in Nephila clavipes: Do fat-bottomed girls make the spider world go round? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. (in press)

Vincent, S.E., A. Herrel and D.J. Irschick 2005. Comparisons of aquatic versus terrestrial predatory strikes in the pitviper, Agkistrodon piscivorus. Journal of Experimental Zoology. (in press)

Vincent, S.E., Shine, R. and Brown G.P. 2005. Does foraging mode influence sensory modalites for prey detection? A comparison between males and female filesnakes (Acrochordus arafurae Acrochordidae). Animal Behaviour, accepted pending revisions.

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2004

Buckley, C.R., S.F. Michael, and D.J. Irschick, 2004. Early hatching and substrate type decrease jumping performance in a direct-developing frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui. Functional Ecology. (in press).

Irschick, D.J., E. Carlisle, J. Elstrott, M. Ramos, C. Buckley, B. Vanhooydonck, J. Meyers, and A. Herrel, 2004. A comparison of habitat use, morphology, clinging performance, and escape behavior among two divergent green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis) populations. Biological Journal of Linnean Society. (in press).

Cashner, M.F. 2004. Are Spotted Bass (Micropterus punctulatus) attracted to Schreckstoff? A test of the predator attraction hypothesis. Copeia 2004 3: 592-598.

Clements, M.D., H.L. Bart, Jr. and D.L. Hurley. 2004. Isolation and characterization of two distinct Growth Hormone cDNAs from the tetraploid smallmouth buffalofish (Ictiobus bubalus)", General and Comparative Endocrinology 136: 411-418.

Irschick, D.J. and S. Lailvaux, 2004. Age-specific forced polymorphism in vertebrates: Implications for demographic studies examining ontogenetic changes in morphology and function. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. (in press)

Lailvaux, S., A. Herrel, B. Vanhooydonck, J. Meyers and D.J. Irschick, 2004. Performance capacity, fighting tactics and the evolution of life-stage male morphs in the Green Anole Lizard (Anolis carolinensis). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. (in press).

Tercek, M.T. and J. Whitebeck. 2004. Heat avoidance life history strategy controls the distribution of geothermal Agrostis in Yellowstone. Ecology 85(7):1955-1966.

Vincent S., A. Herrel, and D.J. Irschick. 2004. Sexual dimorphism in head shape and diet in the cottonmouth snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus). Journal of Zoology, London. 264:53-59.

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2003

Woltmann, S. 2003. Bird community responses to disturbance in a forestry concession in lowland Bolivia. Biodiversity and Conservation 12:1921-1936.

Woltmann, S. and D.A. Cimprich. 2003. Effects of weather on autumn hawk movements at Fort Morgan, Alabama. Southeastern Naturalist 2:317-326.

Moore, F.R., M.S. Woodrey, J.J. Buler, S. Woltmann and T.R. Simmons. 2003. Understanding the stopover of migratory birds: a scale dependent approach. in C.J. Ralph and T.D. Rich editors. Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration in the Americas. Partners in Flight, Albany, CA, USA. (in press)

Joachim, R.D., J.M. Guill, and D.C. Heins, 2003. Female reproductive life-history traits of the rock darter, Etheostoma rupestre, from Flat Creek, Alabama. American Midland Nationalist. (in press)

Guill, J.M., D.C. Heins and C. S. Hood. 2003. Phylogeny and body shape variation in darters. Systematic Biology 00: 00-00. (in press)

Guill, J.M., C.S. Hood and D.C. Heins. 2003 Body shape variation within and among three species of darters (Perciformes: Percidae). Ecology of Freshwater Fish 12: 134-140.

Vincent, S.E., A. Herrel, and D.J. Irschick. 2003. Ontogeny of intersexual head shape and prey selection in the pitviper Agkistrodon piscivorus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. (in press)

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2002

Coulson, J.O. 2002. Mississippi Kites use Swallow-Tailed Kite nests. Journal of Raptor Research 36: 155-156.

Machado, M.D., D.C. Heins, and H.L. Bart, Jr., 2002. Microgeographical variation in ovum size of the blacktail shiner, Cyprinella venusta Girard, in relation to streamflow. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 11:11-19.

Strong, A.M., and T.W. Sherry. 2002. Body condition of Swainson's Warblers wintering in Jamaica, with emphasis on the conservation value of Caribbean dry forests. The Wilson Bulletin. (in press)

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2001

Strong, A.M., and T.W. Sherry. 2001. Body condition of Swainson’s warblers wintering in Jamaica, with emphasis on the conservation value of Caribbean dry forests. The Wilson Bulletin, 113: 410-418.

Chen, N., T.S. Bianchi, and B.A. McKee, 2001. Historical Trends of Hypoxia on the Louisiana Shelf: the Application of Pigments as Biomarkers. Organic Geochemistry, 32 (4): 451-621.

Coulson, J.O. 2001. Swallow-tailed Kites carry passerine nests with nestlings to their nests. The Wilson Bulletin 113: 340-342.

Engelhaupt, E. and T.S. Bianchi, 2001. Temporal variability in the sources and composition of high-molecular-weight dissolved organic carbon in a tidal stream in southern Louisiana (Bayou Trepagnier). Limnology & Oceanography, 46: 917-926.

Tarr, M., W. Wang, T.S. Bianchi, and E. Engelhaupt, 2001. Mechanisms of ammonia and amino acid photo production from aquatic, humic and colloidal matter. Water Res. (in press)

Johnson, M.D. and T. W. Sherry, 2001. Effects of food availability on the distribution of migratory warblers among habitats in Jamaica. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70: 546-560.

Piller, K.R., H.L. Bart, Jr. and C.A. Walser, 2001. Morphological variation of the redfin darter, Etheostoma whipplei, with comments on the status of the subspecific populations. Copeia, 2001: 802-807.

Strong, A.M. and M.D. Johnson, 2001. Exploitation of a seasonal resource by non-breeding plain and white-crowned pigeons: implications for conservation of tropical dry forest. The Wilson Bulletin, 113: 73-77.

Tuberty, Shea R., and Milton Fingerman, 2001. Vitellogenesis and its endocrine control in decapod crustaceans. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 8: 105-115.

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2000

Bennett, A., T.S. Bianchi, and J. C. Means, 2000. Effects of PAH contamination and grazing on the abundance and composition of microphytobenthos in salt marsh sediments (Pass Fourchon, LA): II. A field experiment. Estuarine, Coastal, & Shelf Science, 50: 425-439.

Wang, W., M. Tarr, T.S. Bianchi, and E. Engelhaupt, 2000. Ammonium Photoproduction from aquatic humic and colloidal matter. Aquatic Geochemistry, 6: 275-292.

Bianchi, T. S., P. Westman, C. Rolff, E. Engelhaupt, T. Andren, and R. Elmgren, 2000. Cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea: Natural or Human-Induced? Limnolology & Oceanography, 45 (3): 716-726. (Selected as featured article in L&O).

Guill, J.M. and D. C. Heins, 2000. Interannual variation in clutch and egg size of the banded darter, Etheostoma zonale. Copeia, 2000: 230-233.

Johnson, M.D., 2000. Effects of shade tree species and crop structure on the bird and arthropod communities in a Jamaican coffee plantation. Biotropica, 32: 133-145.

Johnson, M.D. and A. M. Strong, 2000. Length-weight relationships of Jamaican arthropods. Entomological News, 111: 270-281.

Johnson, M.D., 2000. Evaluation of an arthropod sampling technique useful in measuring food availability for forest insectivores. The Journal of Field Ornithology, 71: 88-109.

Piller, K.R., 2000. Hidden Treasures of Louisiana Streams. Louisiana Conservationist.

Strong, A.M., 2000. Divergent foraging strategies of two ground-foraging neo-tropical migrant warblers: Implications for habitat use patterns. The Auk, 117: 381-392.

Strong, A.M., and T. W. Sherry, 2000. Habitat-specific effects of food abundance on the condition of ovenbirds wintering in Jamaica. Journal of Animal Ecology, 69: 883-895.

Strong, A.M., T. W. Sherry, and R. T. Holmes, 2000. Bird predation on herbivorous insects: indirect effects on sugar maple saplings. Oecologia, 125: 370-379.

Valderrama, C., 2000. Vertical Distribution of Orb-weaving Spiders in a Colombian Cloud Forest. Nadkarni, Nalini and Nathaniel T. Wheelwright (eds.) The Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest, Monteverde, Costa Rica, Oxford University Press.

Walser, C.A., B. Falterman, and H. L. Bart, Jr., 2000. Impact of introduction of the rough shiner (Notropis baileyi) on the native fish community of the Chattahoochee River system. American Midland Naturalist, 144: 393-405.

Zou, E. and M. Fingerman, 2000. External features of an intersex fiddler crab, UCA Pugilator (Bosc, 1802) (Decapoda, Brachyura). Crustaceana, 73 (4): 417-423.

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