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Publications 1990 to 1999
Books
Real, L., and J. H. Brown, eds. 1991. Foundations of Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Genoways, H.H., and J.H. Brown, eds. 1993. Biology of the Heteromyidae. Special Publication No. 10, American Society of Mammalogists.
Brown, J.H. 1995. Macroecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Brown, J.H. and M.V. Lomolino. 1998. Biogeography (2nd ed). Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
Chapters
Brown, J.H. 1991. New approaches and methods . In L. Real and J.H. Brown, eds. Foundations of Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Brown, J.H., and B.A. Harney. 1993. Population and community ecology of heteromyid rodents in temperate habitats. pp. 618-651, In H.H. Genoways and J.H. Brown, eds. Biology of the Heteromyidae. Special Publication No. 10, American Society of Mammalogists.
Brown, J.H. 1993. Assessing the effects of climate change on animals in western North America. pp. 267-293, In H.A. Mooney, E.R. Fuentes, and B.I. Kronberg, eds. Earth System Responses to Global Change: Contrasts Between North and South America. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
Brown, J.H., and L.C. Contreras. 1993. North-south comparisons: animals. pp. 295-297, In H.A. Mooney, E.R. Fuentes, and B.I. Kronberg, eds. Earth System Responses to Global Change: Contrasts Between North and South America. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
Brown, J.H., and D.E. Wilson. 1994. From natural history to evolutionary ecology. pp.377-397 In E.C. Birney and J.R. Choate, eds. 75 Years in Mammalogy. Special Publication No. 11, American Society of Mammalogists, Provo, UT.
Brown, J.H. 1994. Grand challenges in scaling up ecological research. pp. 21-26 In W.K. Michener, J.W. Brunt, and S.G. Stafford, eds. Environmental Information Management and Analysis: Ecosystem to global scales. Taylor and Francis, London.
Brown, J.H. 1994. Complex ecological systems. pp. 419-449 In G.A. Cowan, D. Pines, and D. Melzer, eds. Complexity: Metaphors, Models, and Reality. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Science of Complexity, Proceedings Volume XVIII, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
Brown, J.H. 1994. Organisms and species as complex adaptive systems: linking the biology of populations with the physics of ecosystems. pp. 16-24 In C.G. Jones and J.H. Lawton, eds. Linking Species and Ecosystems. Chapman and Hall, London.
Parmenter, R.R., S.I. Brantley, J.H. Brown, C.S. Crawford, D.C. Lightfoot, and T.L. Yates. 1996. Diversity of animal communities on southwestern rangelands: species patterns, habitat affinities, and land management. In N.E. West, ed. Biodiversity of Rangelands. Utah State University Press, Logan, UT.
Valone, T.J., and J.H. Brown. 1996. Desert rodents: long-term responses to natural changes and experimental manipulations. pp. 555-583 In M.L. Cody and J.A. Smallwood, eds. Long-term Studies of Vertebrate Communities. Academic Press, Orlando, FL.
Brown, J.H. 1998. The granivory experiments at Portal. In W.L. Resetarits, Jr. and J. Bernardo, eds. Experimental Ecology: Issues and Perspectives. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Kelt, D.A., and J.H. Brown. 1998. Diversification of body sizes: patterns and processes in the assembly of terrestrial mammal faunas. In M. McKinney and J. Drake, eds. Biodiversity Dynamics. Columbia University Press, New York. (.pdf file)
Kelt, D.A., and J.H. Brown. 1999. Community structure and assembly rules: confronting conceptual and statistical issues with data on desert rodents. In E. Weiher and P.A. Keddy, eds. The Search for Assembly Rules in Ecological Communities. Cambridge University Press. (.pdf file)
Articles
Brown J.H. & Heske E.J. (1990a) Control of a desert-grassland transition by a keystone rodent guild. Science, 250, 1705-1707 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H. & Heske E.J. (1990b) Temporal changes in a Chihuahuan desert rodent community. Oikos, 59, 290-302 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H. & Roughgarden J. (1990) Ecology for a changing earth. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 71, 173-188 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H. & Nicoletto P.F. (1991) Spatial scaling of species assemblages: body masses of North American land mammals. American Naturalist, 138, 1478-1512 (.pdf file)
Patterson B.D. & Brown J.H. (1991) Regionally nested patterns of species composition in granivorous rodent assemblages. Journal of Biogeography, 18, 395-402 (.pdf file)
Thompson D.B., Brown J.H. & Spencer W.D. (1991) Indirect facilitation of granivorous birds by desert rodents and ants: experimental evidence from foraging patterns. Ecology, 72, 852-863 (.pdf file)
Bowers M.A. & Brown J.H. (1992) Structure in a desert rodent community: use of space around Dipodomys spectabilis mounds. Oecologia, 92, 242-249 (.pdf file)
Maurer B.A., Brown J.H. & Rusler R.D. (1992) The micro and macro in body size evolution. Evolution, 46, 939-953 (.pdf file)
McDonald K.A. & Brown J.H. (1992) Using montane mammals to model extinctions due to global change. Conservation Biology, 6, 409-415 (.pdf file)
Bohning-Gaese K., Taper M.L. & Brown J.H. (1993) Are declines in North American insectivorous songbirds due to causes on the breeding range? . Conservation Biology, 7, 76-86 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., Marquet P.A. & Taper M.L. (1993) Evolution of body size: consequences of an energetic definition of fitness. American Naturalist, 142, 574-584 (.pdf file)
Fox B.J. & Brown J.H. (1993) Assembly rules for functional groups in North American desert rodent communities. Oikos, 67, 357-370 (.pdf file)
Heske E.J., Brown J.H. & Guo Q. (1993) Effects of kangaroo rat exclusion on vegetation structure and plant species diversity in the Chihuahuan desert. Oecologia, 95, 520-524 (.pdf file)
Hopf F.A., Valone T.J. & Brown J.H. (1993) Competition theory and the structure of ecological communities. Evolutionary Ecology, 7, 142-154 (.pdf file)
Kodric-Brown A. & Brown J.H. (1993a) Highly structured fish communities in Australian desert springs. Ecology, 74, 1847-1855 (.pdf file)
Kodric-Brown A. & Brown J.H. (1993b) Incomplete data sets in community ecology and biogeography: a cautionary tale. Ecological Applications, 3, 736-742 (.pdf file)
Bohning-Gaese K., Taper M.L. & Brown J.H. (1994) Avian community dynamics are discordant in space and time. Oikos, 70, 76-86 (.pdf file)
Heske E.J., Brown J.H. & Mistry S. (1994) Long-term experimental study of a desert rodent community: 13 years of competition. Ecology, 75, 438-445 (.pdf file)
Morton S.R., Brown J.H., Kelt D.A. & Reid J.R.W. (1994) Comparisons of community structure among small mammals of North American and Australian deserts. Australian Journal of Zoology, 42, 501-525 (.pdf file)
Valone T.J., Brown J.H. & Heske E.J. (1994) Interactions between rodents and ants in the Chihuahuan Desert: an update. Ecology, 75, 252-255 (.pdf file)
Bohning-Gaese K., Taper M.L. & Brown J.H. (1995) Individualistic species responses to spatial and temporal environmental variation. Oecologia, 101, 478-486 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H. (1995b) Organisms as engineers: a useful framework for studying effects on ecosystems? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 10, 51-52
Brown J.H. & McDonald W. (1995) Livestock grazing and conservation on southwestern rangelands. Conservation Biology, 9, 1644-1647 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., Mehlman D., H, & Stevens G.C. (1995) Spatial variation in abundance. Ecology, 76, 2028-2043 (.pdf file)
Ceballos G. & Brown J.H. (1995) Global patterns of mammalian diversity, endemism, and endangerment. Conservation Biology, 9, 559-568 (.pdf file)
Enquist B.J., Jordan M.A. & Brown J.H. (1995) Connections between ecology, biogeography, and paleobiology: relationship between local abundance and geographic distribution in fossil and recent mollusks. Evolutionary Ecology, 9, 586-604 (.pdf file)
Fox B.J. & Brown J.H. (1995) Reaffirming the validity of the assembly rule for functional groups: a reply to Wilson. Oikos, 73, 125-132 (.pdf file)
Guo Q., Thompson D.B., Valone T.J. & Brown J.H. (1995) The effects of vertebrate granivores and folivores on plant community structure in the Chihuahuan Desert. Oikos, 73, 251-259 (.pdf file)
Lomolino M.V., Brown J.H. & Davis R. (1995) Analyzing insular distribution patterns: statistical approaches and biological inferences. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 32, 435-437 (.pdf file)
Smith F.A., Betancourt J.L. & Brown J.H. (1995) Evolution of body size in the woodrat over the past 25,000 years of climate change. Science, 270, 2012-2014 (.pdf file)
Valone T.J. & Brown J.H. (1995) Effects of competition, colonization, and extinction on rodent species diversity. Science, 267, 880-883 (.pdf file)
Valone T.J., Brown J.H. & Jacobi C.L. (1995) Catastrophic decline of a keystone desert rodent, Dipodomys spectabilis: insights from a long-term study. Journal of Mammology, 76, 428-436 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H. & Kodric-Brown A. (1996) Biodiversity on the borderlands. Natural History, 105, 58-61
Brown J.H., Stevens G.C. & Kaufman D.M. (1996a) The geographic range: size, shape, boundaries, and internal structure. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 27, 597-623 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., Taper M.L. & Marquet P.A. (1996b) Darwinian fitness and reproductive power: Reply to Kozlowski. American Naturalist, 147, 1092-1097 (.pdf file)
Christensen N.L., Bartuska A.M., Brown J.H., Carpenter S., D'Antonio C., Francis R., Franklin J.F., MacMahon J.A., Noss R.F., Parsons D.J., Peterson C.H., Turner M.G. & Woodmansee R.G. (1996) The report of the Ecological Society of America committee on the scientific basis for ecosystem management. Ecological Applications, 6, 665-691 (.pdf file)
Guo Q. & Brown J.H. (1996) Temporal fluctuations and experimental effects in desert plant communities. Oecologia, 107, 568-577 (.pdf file)
Kelt D.A., Brown J.H., Heske E.J., Marquet P.A., Morton S.R., Reid J.R.W., Rogovin K.A. & Shenbrot G. (1996) Community structure of desert small mammals: comparisons across four continents. Ecology, 77, 746-761 (.pdf file)
Smith F.A. & Brown J.H. (1996) The changing role of women in North American mammalogy. Journal of Mammology, 77, 609-612 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H. & McDonald W. (1997) Historical and cultural perspectives on grazing: reply to Dudley. Conservation Biology, 11, 270-272 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., Valone T.J. & Curtin C.G. (1997) Reorganization of an arid ecosystem in response to recent climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94, 9729-9733 (.pdf file)
Guo Q. & Brown J.H. (1997) Interactions between winter and summer annuals in the Chihuahuan Desert. Oecologia, 111, 123-128 (.pdf file)
Silva M., Brown J.H. & Downing J.A. (1997) Differences in population density and energy use between birds and mammals: a macroecological perspective. Journal of Animal Ecology, 66, 327-340 (.pdf file)
Smith F.A., Brown J.H. & Valone T.J. (1997) Path analysis: a critical evaluation using long- term experimental data. American Naturalist, 149, 29-42 (.pdf file)
West G.B., Brown J.H. & Enquist B.J. (1997) A general model for the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology. Science, 276, 122-126 (.pdf file)
Bohning-Gaese K., González-Guzmán L.I. & Brown J.H. (1998) Constraints on dispersal and the evolution of the avifauna of the Northern Hemisphere. Evolutionary Ecology, 12, 767-783 (.pdf file)
Enquist B.J., Brown J.H. & West G.B. (1998) Allometric scaling of plant energetics and population density. Nature, 395, 163-165 (.pdf file)
Guo Q., Brown J.H. & Enquist B.J. (1998) Using constraint lines to characterize plant performance. Oikos, 83, 237-245 (.pdf file)
Smith F.A., Brown J.H. & Valone T.J. (1998) Path modeling methods and ecological interactions: a response to Grace and Pugesek. American Naturalist, 152, 160-161 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H. (1999a) The legacy of Robert MacArthur: From geographical ecology to macroecology. Journal of Mammology, 80, 333-344 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H. (1999b) Macroecology: Progress and Prospect, An invited mini-review. Oikos, 87, 3-14 (.pdf file)
Curtin C.G., Kelt D.A., Frey T.C. & Brown J.H. (1999) On the role of small mammals in mediating climatically driven vegetation change. Ecology Letters, 3, 309-317 (.pdf file)
Enquist B.J., Brown J.H. & West G.B. (1999a) Plant energetics and population density: Reply. Nature, 398, 573 (.pdf file)
Enquist B.J., West G.B., Charnov E.L. & Brown J.H. (1999b) Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants. Nature, 401, 907-911 (.pdf file)
Gido K.B. & Brown J.H. (1999) Invasion of North American drainages by alien fish species. Freshwater Biology, 42, 387-399 (.pdf file)
Kelt D.A., Rogovin K., Shenbrot G. & Brown J.H. (1999) Patterns in the structure of Asian and North American desert small mammal communities. Journal of Biogeography, 26, 825-841 (.pdf file)
Siemann E. & Brown J.H. (1999) Gaps in mammalian body size distribution re-examined. Ecology, 80, 2788-2792 (.pdf file)
West G.B., Brown J.H. & Enquist B.J. (1999a) The fourth dimension of life: fractal geometry and allometric scaling of organisms. Science, 284, 167-169 (.pdf file)
West G.B., Brown J.H. & Enquist B.J. (1999b) A general model for the structure and allometry of plant vascular systems. Nature, 400, 664-667 (.pdf file)
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