Boston University Department of Biology

Graduate Student Publications

Graduate Students in bold; Mentors in italics.

Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution

2012

• Booth W, Brent CS, Calleri DV, Rosengaus RB, Traniello JFA, Vargo EL (2012). Population genetic structure and colony breeding system in dampwood termites (Zootermopsis angusticollis and Z. nevadensis nuttingi). Insectes Sociaux 59:127-137.
• Faircloth BC, McCormack JE, Crawford NG, Harvey M, Brumfield RT, Glenn TC (2012). Ultraconserved elements anchor thousands of genetic markers for target enrichment spanning multiple evolutionary timescales. Systematic Biology. In Press. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.12.007
• McCormack JE, Faircloth BC, Crawford NG, Gowaty PA, Brumfield RT, Glenn TC (2012). Ultraconserved Elements Are Novel Phylogenomic Markers that Resolve Placental Mammal Phylogeny when Combined with Species Tree Analysis. Genome Research. In Press. doi: 10.1101/gr.125864.111
• Mertl AL, Traniello JFA, Ryder Wilkie KT, Constantino R (2012). Associations of two ecologically significant social insect taxa in an Amazonian rainforest: is there a relationship between ant and termite species richness? Psyche, in press.
• Norris AL, Kunz TH (2012). Effects of solar radiation on animal thermoregulation. In:Solar Radiation (E. B. Babatunde, ed.) InTech, In press.
• Reinmann A, Templer PH, Campbell JL (2012). Severe soil frost reduces losses of carbon and nitrogen from the forest floor during simulated snowmelt: a laboratory experiment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 44: 65-74.

2011

• Kunz TH, Braun de Torrez E, Bauer DM, Lobova TA, Fleming TH (2011). Ecosystem services provided by bats. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1223: 1-38.
• Chaverri G, Kunz TH (2011). All-offspring natal philopatry in a neotropical bat. Animal Behaviour. In press.
• Kusumi K, Kulathinal RJ, Abzhanov A, Boissinot S, Crawford NG, Faircloth BC, Glenn TC, Janes DE, Losos JB, Menke DB, Poe S, Sanger TJ, Schneider CJ, Stapley J, Wade J, Wilson-Rawls J (2011). Developing a community-based genetic nomenclature for anole lizards. BMC genomics, 12(1), 554.
• D'Aloia CC, Majoris JE, Buston PM (2011). Predictors of the distribution and abundance of a tube sponge and its resident goby. Coral Reefs 30: 777-786.
• Sorenson MD, DaCosta JM (2011). Genotyping HapSTR loci: phase determination from direct sequencing of PCR products. Molecular Ecology Resources 11: 1068-1075.
• Primack RB, Drayton B (2011). Editorial: An important review of plant reintroductions. Biological Conservation, in press.
• Primack RB, Ellwood E (2011). Evolution and biodiversity conservation. In: Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia; Evolution. Gale, Cengage Learning.
• Lee SD, Ellwood ER, Park SY, Primack RB (2011). Late-arriving barn swallows linked to population declines. Biological Conservation, 144: 2182-2187.
• Fuller NW, Reichard JD, Nabhan ML, Fellows SR, Pepin LC, Kunz TH (2011). Individual recovery of little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus) from wing damage associated with white-nose syndrome. EcoHealth, In press.
• Akitsugu S, Kobayashi R, Fukuda K, Saito T, Hood WH, Kunz TH, Oftedal O, Urashima T (2011). Chemical characterization of milk oligosaccharides of the island flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Animal Science Journal. In press.
• Hood WR, Oftedal OT, Kunz TH (2011). Is tissue maturation necessary for flight? Changes in body composition during postnatal growth in the big brown bat. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 181: 432-435.
• Akitsugu S, Kobayashi R, Fukuda K, Saito T, Hood WH, Kunz TH, Oftedal O, Urashima T (2011). Chemical characterization of milk oligosaccharides of the island flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Animal Science Journal (in press).
• Hughey MC, Nicolás A, Vonesh JR, Warkentin KM (2011). Wasp predation drives the assembly of fungal and fly communities on frog egg masses. Oecologia. Online first doi: 10.1007/s00442-011-2137-3.
• Jarrín–V J, Kunz TH (2011). A new species of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from the Choco forests of Ecuador. Zootaxa, 2755: 1–35.
• Thomassen HA , Fuller T, Buermann W, Milá B, Kieswetter CM , Jarrín-V. P, Cameron SE, Mason E, Schweizer R , Schlunegger J, Chan J, Wang O, Peralvo M, Schneider CJ, Graham CH, Pollinger JP, Saatchi S, Wayne RK, Smith TB (2011). Mapping evolutionary process: a multi-taxa approach to conservation prioritization. Evolutionary Applications (in press).
• Meyer CFJ, Aguiar LMS. Aguirre LF, Baumgarten J, Clarke FM, Cosson J-F, Villegas SE, Fahr J, Faria D, Furey N, Henry M, Hodgkison R, Jenkins RKB, Jung KG, Kingston T, Kunz TH, MacSwiney Gonzalez MC, Moya I, Pons J-M, Racey PA, Rex K, Sampaio EM, Stoner KE, Voigt CC, von Staden D, Weise CD, Kalko EKV (2011). Estimating species richness and detectability in tropical bat surveys. Journal of Applied Ecology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.01976.x.
• Voigt CC, Zubaid A, Kunz TH, Kingston T (2011). Sources of assimilated proteins in Old- and New-World phytophagous bats. Biotropica, 43:108–113.
• Kunz TH, Foster JT, Frick WF, Kilpatrick AM, McCracken GF, Moore MS, Reichard JD, Robbins AH, Reeder DM (2011). White-nose syndrome: An overview of ongoing and future research needs. Pp.195-209, In: Vories, K.C. and A.H. Caswell. (eds.) Proceedings of Protection of Threatened Bats at Coal Mines: A Technical Interactive Forum. USDOI Office of Surface Mining and Coal Research Center, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.
• Moore MS, Kunz TH (2011). White-nose syndrome: a fungal diseases of North American hibernating bats. In: Encyclopedia of Caves (D.C. Culver and W.B. White, eds.). Academic Press, New York, In press.
• Muñoz-Romo M, Burgos JF, Kunz TH (2011). The dorsal patch of males of the Curaçaoan long-nosed bat, Leptonycteris curasoae (Phyllostomidae: Glossophaginae) as a visual signal. Acta Chiropterologica 13: 207-215.
• Muñoz-Romo M, Burgos JF, Kunz TH (2011). Smearing behavior of male Leptonycteris curasoae (Chiroptera) and female responses to the odor of dorsal patches. Behaviour, 148: 461-483.
• Kunz TH, Murray SW, Fuller NW (2011). Bats. In: Encyclopedia of Caves (D.C. Culver and W.B. White, eds.). Academic Press, New York, In press.
• Muscedere ML, Berglund JL, Traniello JFA (2011). Polymorphism and division of labor during foraging cycles in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex octospinosus (Formicidae; Attini). J. Insect Behavior 24: 94-105.
• Muscedere ML, Traniello JFA, Gronenberg W (2011). Coming of age in an ant colony: cephalic muscle maturation accompanies behavioral development in Pheidole dentata. Naturwissenschaften 98: 783-793.
• Polgar C. Primack RB (2011). Leaf out dates highlight a changing climate. Arnoldia, in press.
• Polgar CA, Primack RB (2011). Leaf-out phenology of temperate woody plants: From trees to ecosystems. New Phytologist. [In Press; early online doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03803.x]
• Reichard JD, Fuller NW, Kunz TH (2011). Condition of wings is an important criterion of bat health: A response to Francl et al. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, In press.
• Reichard JD, Kunz TH, Keller C, Prajapati SI (2011). Vascular contrast enhanced microCT imaging of “radiators” in the Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis). Journal of Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging. In press.
• Templer PH, Reinmann AB (2011). Multi-factor global change experiments: What have we learned about terrestrial carbon storage and exchange? New Phytologist 192: 797-800.
• Socci AM, Templer PH (2011). Temporal patterns of inorganic nitrogen uptake by mature sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) and red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) trees using two common approaches. Plant Ecology and Diversity, in press.
• Templer PH, Schiller AF, Fuller NW, Socci AM, Campbell JL, Drake JE, Kunz TH (2011). Impact of a reduced winter snowpack on litter arthropod abundance and diversity in a northern hardwood forest ecosystem. Biology and Fertility of Soils, in press.
• Spottiswoode CN, Stryjewski KF, Quader S, Colebrook-Robjent JFR, Sorenson MD (2011). Ancient host specificity within a single species of brood parasitic bird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 43: 17738-17742.
• Touchon JC, Urbina J, Warkentin KM (2011). Habitat-specific constraints on induced hatching in a treefrog with reproductive mode plasticity. Behavioral Ecology. [In Press; early online doi: 10.1093/beheco/arq192]
• Touchon JC, Warkentin KM (2011). Thermally contingent defense: natural variation in temperature affects development, cumulative risk, and expression of predator-induced morphology and color in a Neotropical treefrog tadpole. Journal of Animal Ecology 80: 79-88.
• Wilder AP, Frick WF, Langwig KE, Kunz TH (2011). Risk factors associated with mortality from white-nose syndrome among hibernating bat colonies. Biology Letters. DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0355.

2010

• Allen LC, Richardson CR, McCracken GF, Kunz TH (2010). Birth size and post-natal growth in cave-and bridge roosting Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). Journal of Zoology (London), 280:8-16.
• Turmelle AS, Allen LC, French BA, Jackson FR, Kunz TH, McCracken GF, Rupprecht CE (2010). Response to vaccination with a commercial inactivated rabies vaccine in a captive colony of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 41:42-46.
• Rosengaus RB, Traniello JFA, Bulmer MS (2010). Ecology, Behavior and Evolution of Disease Resistance in Termites. Pp. 165-192 in Biology of Termites: a Modern Synthesis. Bignell, D.E., Roisin, Y. and Lo, N., eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Caldwell, MS, JG McDaniel, KM Warkentin (2010). Is it safe? Red-eyed treefrog embryos assessing predation risk use two features of rain vibrations to avoid false alarms. Animal Behaviour 79: 255-260.
• Caldwell MS, Johnston GR, McDaniel JG, K.M. Warkentin KM (2010). Vibrational signaling in the agonistic interactions of red-eyed treefrogs. Current Biology 20: 1012-1017
• Calleri DV, Rosengaus RB, Traniello JFA (2010). Disease resistance in the drywood termite Incisitermes schwarzi (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae): does nesting ecology affect immunocompetence? Journal of Insect Science 10:44.
• Chaverri G, Kunz TH (2010). Ecological determinants of social systems: perspectives on the role of roosting ecology in the social behavior of tent-roosting bats. Pp. 275-318, In: Advances in the Study of Behavior (R. Macedo, ed.), Elsevier, New York.
• Crawford NG (2010). SMOGD: Software for the Measurement of Genetic Diversity. Molecular Ecology Resources. 10: 556-557.
• Ellwood ER, Primack RB, Talmadge M (2010). Effects of climate change on spring bird arrival times in Thoreau’s Concord spanning 1851 to 2007. The Condor. 112(4): 754-762.
• Kunz TH, Hood WH, Nadolny L (2010). Lactation and postnatal growth. Pp. 221-238, In: Bats in Captivity, Volume 2 (S. Barnard, ed.). Logos Press, Washington, D.C., 484 pp.
• Kunz TH, Hood WH, Nadolny L (2010). Reproductive patterns and parental care. Pp. 43-55, In: Bats in Captivity,Volume 2 (S. Barnard, ed.). Logos Press, Washington, D.C., 484 pp.
• Frick WF, Pollock JF, Hicks A, Langwig K, Reynolds DS, Turner G, Butchowski C, Kunz TH (2010). A once common bat faces rapid extinction in the northeastern United States from a fungal pathogen. Science, 329:679-682.
• Mertl AL, Sorenson MD, Traniello JFA (2010). Community-level interactions and functional ecology of major workers in the hyperdiverse ground-foraging Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Amazonian Ecuador. Insectes Sociaux 57: 441-452.
• Mertl AL, Sorenson M, Traniello JFA ( 2010). Interspecific variation and ecological correlates in the hyperdiverse ground-foraging Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) community of Amazonian Ecuador. Insectes Sociaux 57, 441-452.
• Ibáñez I, Primack RB, Miller-Rushing AJ, Ellwood ER, Higuchi H, Lee SD, Kobori H, Silander JA (2010). Variability in the effects of climate change on spring and autumn phenology and growing season length in East Asia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 365:3247-3260.
• Davis CC, Willis CG, Primack RB, Miller-Rushing AJ (2010). The importance of phylogeny to the study phenological response to global climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365 (1555): 3201-3213.
• Miller-Rushing AJ, Primack RB, Sekercioglu C (2010). Conservation consequences of climate change for birds. In A. P. Moller, W. Fiedler, and P. Berthold (eds.). Effects of Climate Change on Birds. Oxford University Press.
• Willis CG, Ruhfel BR, Primack RB, Miller-Rushing AJ, Losos JB, Davis CC (2010). Favorable climate change response explains non-native species' success in Thoreau’s woods. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8878.
• Primack RB, E. Ellwood E, Miller-Rushing AJ, Marrs R, Mulligan A (2010). Do gender, nationality, or academic age affect review decisions? An analysis of submissions to the journal Biological Conservation. Biological Conservation 142: 2415-2418.
• Norris AL, Houser DS, Crocker DE (2010). Environment and activity affect skin temperature in breeding adult male elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 4205-4212.
• Vetterkind S, Lee E, Sundberg E, Poythress RH, Tao TC, Preuss U, Morgan KG (2010). Par-4: a new activator of myosin phosphatase. Mol Biol Cell, 21(7), 1214-24.
• Reichard JD, Prajapati SI, Austad SN, Keller C, Kunz TH (2010). Thermal windows on Brazilian free-tailed bats facilitate thermoregulation during prolonged flight. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50: 358-370.
• Reichard JD, Fellows S, Frank AJ, Kunz TH (2010). Thermoregulation during flight: body temperature and sensible heat loss from free-ranging Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 50:358-370. (cover photo).
• Frick WF, Reynolds DS, Kunz TH (2010). Influence of climate and reproductive timing on demography of little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus). Journal of Animal Ecology, 79:128-136.
• Rosengaus RB, Traniello JFA, Bulmer MS (2010). Ecology, Behavior and Evolution of Disease Resistance in Termites. Pp. 165-192 in Biology of Termites: a Modern Synthesis. Bignell, D.E., Roisin, Y. and Lo, N., eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
• Ryder Wilkie KT, Mertl AL, Traniello JFA (2010). Species diversity and distribution patterns of the ants of Amazonian Ecuador. PLoS ONE 10.1371/journal.pone.0013146.
• Touchon JC, Warkentin KM (2010). Short- and long-term effects of the abiotic egg environment on viability, development and vulnerability to predators of a Neotropical anuran. Functional Ecology 24: 566-575.

2009

• Allen LC, Turmelle AS, Mendonca MT, McCracken GF, Kunz TH (2009). Roosting ecology and variation in adaptive and innate immune system function in the Brazilian free-tailed baat (Tadarida brasiliensis). Journal of Comparative Physiology, 179:315-323.
• Turmelle AS, Allen LC, Jackson FR, Kunz TH, Rupprecht CE, McCracken GF (2009). Ecology of rabies virus exposure in maternity colonies of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) in Texas. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 10:165-175
• Balakrishnan CN, Sefc KM, MD Sorenson (2009). Incomplete reproductive isolation following host shift in brood parasitic indigobirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 276: 219-228.
• Warkentin KM, Caldwell MS (2009). Assessing risk: embryos, information, and escape hatching. In R. Dukas & J.M. Ratcliffe (Eds) Cognitive Ecology II. University of Chicago Press. pp. 177-200.
• Caldwell MS, McDaniel JG, Warkentin KM (2009). Frequency information in the vibration-cued escape hatching of red-eyed treefrogs. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 566-575.
• Kunz TH, Adams RA, Hood WR (2009). Methods for assessing postnatal growth and development of bats. Pp. 273-324, In: Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats, 2nd edition (T.H. Kunz and S. Parsons, eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 901 pp.
• Mertl AL, Ryder Wilkie KT, Traniello JFA (2009). Species Richness, Density and Composition of Litter-nesting Ant Communities along an Amazonian Flooding Gradient. Biotropica 41:633-641.
• Mertl AL, Traniello JFA (2009). Behavioral evolution in the major worker subcaste of twig-nesting Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): does morphological specialization influence task plasticity? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63:1411-1426.
• Primack RB, Ibáñez I, Higuchi H , Lee SD, Miller-Rushing AJ, Wilson A, Silander JA, Jr. (2009). Spatial and interspecific variability in phenological responses to warming temperatures. Biological Conservation 142: 2569-2577.
• Primack RB, Higuchi H, Miller-Rushing AJ (2009). The impact of climate change on cherry trees and other species in Japan. Biological Conservation 142: 1943-1949.
• Willis CG, Ruhfel B, Primack RB, Miller-Rushing AJ, Davis CC (2009). Reply to McDonald et al.: Climate change, not deer herbivory, has shaped species decline in Concord, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 106: E29.
• Primack RB, Miller-Rushing AJ, Dharaneeswaran K (2009). Changes in the flora of Thoreau’s Concord. Biological Conservation 142: 500-508.
• Primack RB, Miller-Rushing AJ (2009). The role of botanical gardens in climate change research. Invited Tansley Review Article, New Phytologist 182: 303-313.
• Miller-Rushing AJ, Primack RB, Templer PH, Rathbone S, Mukunda S (2009). Long-term relationships among atmospheric CO2, stomata, and water use efficiency in individual trees. American Journal of Botany 96: 177-186.
• Muñoz-Romo M, Kunz TH (2009). Dorsal patch and chemical signaling in males of the long-nosed bat, Leptonycteris curasoae (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 90:1139-1147.
• Muscedere ML, Willey TA, Traniello JFA (2009). Age and task efficiency in the ant Pheidole dentata: young minor workers are not specialist nurses. Anim. Behav. 77, 911-918.
• Muscedere ML, Seid M, Johnson N, Willey T, Gillis B, Traniello JFA (2009). Brains, neurotransmitters, nursing, and foraging in the ant Pheidole dentata. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49: E122-E122.
• Reichard JD, Gonzalez LE, Casey CM, Allen LC, Hristov NI, Kunz TH (2009). Evening emergence behavior and seasonal dynamics in large colonies of Brazilian free-tailed bats. Journal of Mammalogy, 90:1478-1486.
• Reichard JD,Kunz TH (2009). White-nose syndrome inflicts lasting injuries to the wings of little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus). Acta Chiropterologica, 11:457-464.
• Reynolds DS, Sullivan JC, Kunz TH (2009). Evaluation of total body electrical conductivity (TOBEC) to estimate the body composition of a small mammal, Myotis lucifugus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Journal of Wildlife Management, 73:1197-1206.
• Richardson CS, Heeren T, Widmaier EP, Kunz TH (2009). Macro- and micro-geographic variation in metabolism and hormone correlates in big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 82:798-811.
• Ryder-Wilkie KT, AL Mertl & JFA Traniello (2009). Diversity of ground-dwelling ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in primary and secondary forests in Amazonian Ecuador. Myrmecol. News 12: 139-147
• Southworth LO, Matthieu J, Chen TC, Holick MF, Kunz TH. (2009). Natural variation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in free-ranging New World tropical bats (Chiroptera). Acta Chiropterologica, 11:451-456.
• Touchon, JC, KM Warkentin. (2009). Short- and long-term effects of the abiotic egg environment on viability, development and vulnerability to predators of a Neotropical anuran. Functional Ecology. [Online 5 Oct. 2009, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01650.x] In Press.
• Touchon, JC, Warkentin KM (2009). Negative synergism of rainfall patterns and predators affects frog egg survival. Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 715-723.

2008

• Chaverri G, Schneider CJ, Kunz TH (2008). Mating system of the tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Journal of Mammalogy, in press
• Federico P, Hallam TG, McCracken GF, Purucker ST, Grant WE, Correa Sandoval AN, Westbrook JK, Medellín RA, Cleveland CJ, Sansone CG, Betke M, Horn JW, Moreno-Valdez A, López JD, Kunz TH(2008). Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) as insect predators in transgenic and conventional cotton crops. Ecological Applications, in press
• Harrigan RJ, Mazza ME, Sorenson MD (2008). Computation versus cloning: evaluation of two methods for haplotype determination. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 1239-1248.
• Betke M, Hirsh DE, Makris NC, McCracken GF, Procopio M, Hristov NI, Teng S, Bacchi A, Reichard JD, Horn JW, Crampton S, Cleveland CJ, Kunz TH (2008). Thermal imaging reveals significantly smaller Brazilian free-tailed bat colonies than previously estimated. Journal of Mammalogy 89: 18-24
• Horn JW, TH Kunz TH (2008). Analyzing NEXRAD Doppler radar images to assess population changes and nightly dispersal patterns of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). Integrative and Comparative Biology, 48: 24-39. (cover photo)
• Horn JW, Arnett EB, TH Kunz TH (2008). Behavioral responses of bats to operating wind turbines. Journal of Wildlife Management 72: 123-132
• Federico P, Hallam TG, McCracken GF, Purucker ST, Grant WE, Correa Sandoval AN, Westbrook JK, Medellín RA, Cleveland CJ, Sansone CG, Betke M, Horn JW, Moreno-Valdez A, López JD, Kunz TH (2008). Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) as insect predators in transgenic and conventional cotton crops. Ecological Applications, 18:826-837.
• Kunz TH, Gauthreaux SA Jr, Hristov NI, Horn JW, Jones G, Kalko EKV, Larkin RP McCracken GF, Swartz SW, Srygley RB, Dudley R, Westbrook JK, Wikelski M (2008). Aeroecology: probing and modeling the aerosphere. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 48: 1-11.
• Jarrín-V J, Kunz TH (2008). Taxonomic history of the genus Anoura (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with insights into the challenges of morphological species delimitation. Acta Chiropterologica 10:257-269.
• Jarrin P, Kunz TH (2008). Observations on the taxonomic history of the genus Anoura (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with insights into the challenges of morphological species delineation. Acta Chiropterologica, 10:257–269.
• Miller-Rushing AJ,, Lloyd-Evans TL, Primack RB, Satzinger P (2008). Bird migration times, climate change, and declining population sizes. Global Change Biology, in press
• Miller-Rushing AJ, Primack RB (2008). A comparison of the impacts of winter temperatures on two birch (Betula) species. Tree Physiology, in press
• Miller-Rushing AJ, Primack RB (2008). Archival data show biological responses to climate change in Boston. In C. Wright and T. Penna [eds.], Remaking Boston: the city and environmental change over the centuries. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, in press
• Miller-Rushing AJ, Primack RB, Stymeist R (2008). Interpreting variation in bird migration times as observed by volunteers. Auk, in press
• Willis CG, Ruhfel B, Primack RB, Miller-Rushing AJ, Davis CC (2008). Phylogenetic patterns of species loss in Thoreau's woods are driven by climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 105: 17029–17033.
• Miller-Rushing AJ, Inouye D, Primack RB (2008). How well do first flowering dates measure plant responses to climate change? The effects of population size and sampling frequency. Journal of Ecology 96: 1289–1296.
• Miller-Rushing AJ, Primack RB (2008). Global warming and flowering times in Thoreau’s Concord: a community perspective. Ecology 89: 332–341.
• Miller-Rushing AJ, Primack RB (2008). The impact of climate change on the flora of Thoreau’s Concord. Arnoldia, 66 (3): 2-9.
• Muñoz M, Kunz TH (2008). Dorsal patch and novel precopulatory behavior of males in the Curacaoan long-nosed bats, Leptonycteris curasoae (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Journal of Mammalogy, in press
• Muñoz-Romo M, Herrera EA, Kunz TH (2008). Roosting behavior, social structure, and group stability of the big fruit-eating bat Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Mammalian Biology, in press
• Njabo KY, Bowie RCK, Sorenson MD (2008). Phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomy of the African wattle-eyes (Aves: Passeriformes: Platysteiridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 136-149.
• Primack RB, Miller-Rushing AJ (2008). Tracking global warming in public gardens and arboreta. Public Gardens, in press
• Reitzel AM, Darling JA, Sullivan JC, Finnerty JR (2008). Global population genetic structure of the starlet anemone Nematostella vectensis: multiple introductions and implications for conservation policy. Biological Invasions, in press
• Reitzel AM, Sullivan JC, Traylor-Knowle N, Finnerty JR (2008). A genomic inventory of stress responsive elements in the model organism Nematostella vectensis. Biological Bulletin, in press.
• Reynolds RS, Sullivan JC, Kunz TH (2008). Evaluation of total body electrical conductivity (TOBEC) to estimate the body composition of a small mammal, Myotis lucifugus (Chiroptera: Vespertilioniadae). Journal of Wildlife Management, in press
• Seid MA, Goode K, Li C, Traniello JFA (2008). Age- and subcaste-related patterns of serotonergic immunoreactivity in the optic lobes of the ant Pheidole dentata. Devel. Neurobiol. 68, 1325-1333.
• Moran Y, Weinberger H, Sullivan JC, Reitzel AM, Finnerty JR, Gurevitz M (2008). Concerted evolution of sea anemone neurotoxin genes is revealed through analysis of the Nematostella vectensis genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution, in press
• Sullivan JC, Reitzel AM, Finnerty JR (2008). Upgrades to StellaBase facilitate medical and genetic studies on the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. Nucleic Acids Research 36: D607-D611
• Touchon JC, Warkentin KM 2008. Reproductive mode plasticity: Aquatic and terrestrial oviposition in a treefrog. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105:7495-7499.
• Touchon JC, Warkentin KM (2008). Fish and dragonfly nymph predators induce opposite shifts in color and morphology of tadpoles. Oikos 117: 634-640.
• Gomez-Mestre I, Touchon JC, Saccoccio VL, Warkentin KM (2008). Genetic variation in pathogen-induced early hatching of toad embryos. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
• Townsend KL, Kunz TH, Widmaier EP (2008). Changes in body mass, plasma leptin, and mRNA levels of leptin receptor isoforms during the premigration/prehibernation period in Myotis lucifugus. Journal Comparative Physiology B 178: 217-223