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Publications 2000 to Present
Books
Brown, J.H., and G.B. West, eds. 2000. Scaling in Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Lomolino, M.V., D.F. Sax, and J.H. Brown, eds. 2004. Foundations of Biogeography. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Lomolino, M. V., B. R. Riddle, and J. H. Brown. 2005. Biogeography, third edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc.
Storch, D., P.A. Marquet and J.H. Brown. 2007. Scaling Biodiversity, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Lomolino, M. V., B. R. Riddle, R.J. Whittaker and J. H. Brown. 2010. Biogeography, fourth edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc.
Chapters
Brown, J.H., G.B. West, and B.J. Enquist. 2000. Scaling in Biology: Patterns and processes, causes and consequences. In J.H. Brown and G.B. West, eds. Scaling in Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Curtin, C.G., and J.H. Brown. 2001. Climate and Herbivory in Structuring the Vegetation of the Malpai Borderlands. In G.L. Webster and C.J. Bahre, eds. Changing Plant Life of La Frontera. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM. (.pdf file)
Kelt, D.A., and J.H. Brown. 2001. Diversification of Body Sizes: Patterns and Processes in the Assembly of Terrestrial Mammal Faunas. In M.L. McKinney and J.A. Drake, eds. Biodiversity Dynamics. Columbia University Press, NY.
Brown, J.H. 2001. Concluding Remarks. In M.C. Press, N.J. Huntly and S. Levin, eds. Ecology: Achievement and Challenge. Blackwell Science.
Brown, J.H., J.F. Gillooly, G.B. West, and V.M. Savage. 2003. The next step in maco-ecology: From general empirical patterns to universal ecological laws. In T.M. Blackburn and K.J. Gaston, eds. Macrorecology: Concepts and Consequences. Blackwell Science.
Brown, J.H., Bedrick, E.J., Ernest, S.K.M., Cartron, J-L.E., and J.F. Kelly. 2004. Constraints on negative relationships: mathematical causes and ecological consequences. In M.L. Taper, S. Lele, and N. Lewin-Koh, eds. The Nature of Scientific Evidence. Johns Hopkins University Press .
Brown, J.H., and D. Sax. 2004. Gradients in species diversity: Why are there so many species in the tropics?. In Lomolino, M.V., D.F Sax, and J.H. Brown, eds. Foundations of Biogeography. University of Chicago Press.
Sax, D.F., Brown, J.H., White, E. and Gaines, S.D. 2005. The dynamics of species invasions: Insights into the mechanisms that limit species diversity. In, Sax, D.F., Stachowicz, J.J., and Gaines, S.D., eds. Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
White, E.P. and J.H. Brown. 2005. The Template: Patterns and Processes of Spatial Variation. In Lovett, Turner, and Weathers, eds. Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneos Landscapes. Springer.
Gillooly, J.F., A.P. Allen and J.H. Brown. 2006. Food web structure and dynamics; Reconciling alternative ecological currencies. In M. Pascual and J.A. Dunne, eds. Food Webs as Complex Adaptive Systems: Linking Structure to Dynamics.Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. (.pdf file)
Allen, A.P., J.F. Gillooly and J.H. Brown. 2007. Scaling species richness and distribution: Uniting the species-area and species-richness relationships. In D. Storch, P. Marquet and J.H. Borwn, eds. Scaling Biodiversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
Brown, J.H., a.P. Allen and J.F. Gillooly. 2007. The metabolic theory of ecology and the role of body size in marine and freshwater ecology. In A. Hildrew, D. Raffaelli and R. Edmonds-Brown, eds. Body Size: The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
Moses, M.E., S. Forrest, A.L. Davis, M.A. Lodde, J.H. Brown, 2008. Scaling theory for information networks. In J.R. Soc. Interface doi:10.1098/rsif.2008.0091 Published online. (.pdf file)
Hall S.R., Lafferty K.D., Brown J.H., Cáceres C.E., Chase J.M., Dobson A.P., Holt R.D., Jones C.G., Randolph S.E. & Rohani P. (2008) Is infectious Disease Just Another Type of Predator-Prey Interaction? In: Ostfeld R.S., Keesing F. & Eviner V.T., eds. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. (.pdf file)
Articles
Brown J.H., J.B. Fox, and D.A. Kelt. (2000) Assembly rules: desert rodent communities are structured at scales from local to continental. American Naturalist, 156:314-321 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., and M.V. Lomolino. (2000) Concluding remarks: historical perspective and the future of island biogeography theory. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 9:87-92 (.pdf file)
Cartron J.-L.E., J.F. Kelly, and J.H. Brown. (2000) Constraints on patterns of covariation: a case study in strigid owls. Oikos, 90:381-389 (.pdf file)
Curtain,C.G., D.A. Kelt, T.C. Frey and J.H. Brown. 2000. On the role of small mammals in mediating climatically driven vegetation change. Ecology Letters 3(4):309-317 (.pdf file)
Ernest S.K.M., J.H. Brown, and R.R. Parmenter. (2000) Rodents, plants, and precipitation: spatial and temporal dynamics of consumers and resources. Oikos, 88:470-482 (.pdf file)
Guo Q., J.H. Brown, and T. J. Valone. (2000) Abundance and distribution of desert annuals: are spatial and temporal patterns related? Journal of Ecology, 88:551-560 (.pdf file)
Guo Q., J.H. Brown, T.J. Valone, and S.D. Kachman. (2000) Constraints of seed size on plant distribution and abundance. Ecology, 80:2149-2155 (.pdf file)
Kelt D.A., and J.H. Brown. (2000) Species as units of analysis in ecology and biogeography: are the blind leading the blind? . Global Ecology & Biogeography, 9:213-217 (.pdf file)
Kelt D.A., P.A. Marquet, and J.H. Brown. (2000) Geographical ecology of South American desert small mammals: consequences of observations at local and regional scales. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 9:219-223 (.pdf file)
Sax D.F., and J.H. Brown. (2000) The paradox of invasion. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 9:363-371 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H. (2001) Mammals on mountainsides: elevational patterns of diversity. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 10:101-109 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., S.K.M. Ernest, J.M. Parody, and J.P. Haskell. (2001a) Regulation of diversity: maintenance of species richness in changing environments. Oecologia, 126:321-332 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., T.G. Whitham , S.K.M. Ernest, and C.A. Gehring. (2001b) Complex species interactions and the dynamics of ecological systems: long-term experiments. Science, 293:643-650 (.pdf file)
Ernest S.K.M., and J.H. Brown. (2001a) Delayed compensation for missing keystone species by colonization. Science, 292:101-104 (.pdf file)
Ernest S.K.M. and J.H. Brown. (2001b) Homeostasis and compensation: the role of resources in ecosystem stability. Ecology, 82:2118-2132 (.pdf file)
Gillooly J.F., J.H. Brown, G.B. West, V.M. Savage, and E.L. Charnov. (2001) Effects of size and temperature on metabolic rate. Science, 293:2248-2251 (.pdf file)
West G.B., J.H. Brown, and B.J. Enquist. (2001) A general model for otogenetic growth. Nature, 413:628-631 (.pdf file)
Allen A.P., J.H. Brown, and J.F. Gillooly. (2002) Global biodiversity, biochemical kinetics, and the energetic-equivalence rule. Science, 297:1545-1548 (.pdf file)
Belgrano A. and J.H. Brown. (2002) Ecology - Oceans under the macroscope. Nature, 419:128-129 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., V.K. Gupta, B.L. Li, B.T. Milne, C. Restrepo, and G.B. West. (2002) The fractal nature of nature: power laws, ecological complexity, and biodiversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 357:619-626 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., D.A. Kelt, and B.J. Fox. (2002) Assembly rules and competition in desert rodents. American Naturalist, 160:815-818 (.pdf file)
Ernest S.K.M., and J.H. Brown. (2002) Rain and rodents: complex dynamics of desert consumers. BioScience, 52:979-987 (.pdf file)
Gillooly J.F., E.L. Charnov, G.B. West, V.M. Savage, and J.H. Brown. (2002) Effects of size and temperature on developmental time. Nature, 417:70-73 (.pdf file)
Guo Q., Brown J.H. & Valone T.J. (2002) Long-term dynamics of winter and summer annual communities in the Chihuahuan Desert: a comparative study. Journal of Vegetation Science, 13, 575-584 (.pdf file)
Sax D.F., S.D. Gaines, and J.H. Brown. (2002) Species invasions exceed extinctions on islands worldwide: A comparative study of plants and birds. American Naturalist, 160:766-783 (.pdf file)
Smith K.F., and J.H. Brown. (2002) Patterns of diversity, depth range and body size among pelagic fishes along a gradient of depth. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 11:313-322 (.pdf file)
Smith K.F., Z.D. Sharp., and J.H. Brown. (2002) Isotopic composition of carbon and oxygen in desert fauna: investigations into the diet, physiology, and seasonality. Journal of Arid Environments, 52:419-430 (.pdf file)
Valone T.J., M. Meyer, J.H. Brown, and R.M. Chew. (2002) Timescale of perennial grass recovery in desertified arid grasslands following livestock removal. Conservation Biology, 16:995-1002 (.pdf file)
West G.B., B.J. Enquist, and J.H. Brown. (2002a) Ontogenetic growth - Modelling universality and scaling-Reply. Nature, 420:626-627 (.pdf file)
West G.B., W.H. Woodruff, and J.H. Brown. (2002) Allometric scaling of metabolism from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99:2473-2478 (.pdf file)
Allen A.P., J.H. Brown, and J.F. Gillooly. (2003) Response to comment on "Global biodiversity, biochemical kinetics, and the energetic-equivalence rule". Science, 299:346c (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., A.P. Allen, and J.F. Gillooly. (2003) Heat and biodiversity - Response. Science, 299:512-513 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., and J.F. Gillooly. (2003) Ecological food webs: high-quality data facilitate theoretical unification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100:1467-1468 (.pdf file)
Ernest S.K.M., B.J. Enquist, J.H. Brown, E.L. Charnov, J.F. Gillooly, V.M. Savage, E.P. White, F.A. Smith, E.A. Hadly, and J.P. Haskell J.P. (2003) Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use. Ecology Letters, 6:990-995 (.pdf file)
Gillooly J.F., E.L. Charnov, J.H. Brown, V.M. Savage, and G.B. West. (2003) Allometry: How reliable is the biological time clock? Reply. Nature, 424:270 (.pdf file)
Huston, M.A., J.H. Brown, A.P. Allen and J.F. Gillooly. (2003) Heat and biodiversity. Science 299:512-512 (.pdf file)
Jun J., Pepper J.W., Savage V.M., Gillooly J.F. & Brown J.H. (2003) Allometric scaling of ant foraging trail networks. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 5:297-303 (.pdf file)
Moses M.E., and J.H. Brown. (2003) Allometry of human fertility and energy use. Ecology Letters, 6:295-300 (.pdf file)
Smith F.A., S.K. Lyons, S.K.M. Ernest, K.E. Jones, D.M. Kaufman, T. Dayan, P.A. Marquet, J.H. Brown, and J.P. Haskell. (2003) Body mass of late quaternary mammals. Ecology, 84:3403 (.pdf file)
West G.B., V.M. Savage, J.F. Gillooly, B.J. Enquist, W.H. Woodruff, and J.H. Brown. (2003) Why does metabolic rate scale with body size? . Nature, 421:713 (.pdf file)
Ackerman J.L., D.R. Bellwood, and J.H. Brown. (2004) The contribution of small individuals to density-body size relationships: examination of energetic equivalence in reef fishes. Oecologia, 139:568-571 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., J.F. Gillooly, A.P. Allen, V.M. Savage, and G.B. West. (2004) Toward a metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology, 85:1771-1789 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., J.F. Gillooly, A.P. Allen, V.M. Savage, and G.B. West. (2004) Response to forum commentary on "toward a metabolic theory of ecology". Ecology, 85:1818-1821 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., and D.F. Sax. (2004) An Essay on some topics concerning invasive species. Austral Ecology, 29:530-536 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., and G.B. West. (2004) One rate to rule them all. New Scientist, 182:38-41 (.pdf file)
Jetz W., C. Carbone, J. Fulford, and J.H. Brown. (2004) The scaling of animal space use. Science, 306:266-268 (.pdf file)
Lyons S.K., F.A. Smith, and J.H. Brown. (2004a) Of mice, mastodons, and men: human mediated extinctions on four continents. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6:339-358 (.pdf file)
Lyons S.K., F.A. Smith, P.J. Wagner, E.P. White, and J.H. Brown. (2004b) Was a "hyperdisease" responsible for the late Pleistoncene megafaunal extinction? Ecology Letters, 7:859-868 (.pdf file)
Maurer B.A., J.H. Brown, T. Dayan, B.J. Enquist, S.K.M. Ernest, E.A. Hadly, J.P. Haskell, D. Jablonski, K.E. Jones, D.M. Kaufman, S.K. Lyons, K.J. Niklas, W.P. Porter, K. Roy, F.A. Smith, B. Tiffney, and M.R. Willig. (2004) Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6:783-797 (.pdf file)
Meehan T.D., W. Jetz, and J.H. Brown. (2004) Energetic determinants of abundance in winter landbird communities. Ecology Letters, 7:532-537 (.pdf file)
Pimm S.L., and J.H. Brown. (2004) Domains of diversity. Science, 304:832-833 (.pdf file)
Savage V.M., J.F. Gillooly, J.H. Brown, G.B. West, and E.L. Charnov. (2004) Effects of body size and temperature on population growth. American Naturalist, 163:429-441 (.pdf file)
Savage V.M., J.F. Gillooly, W.H. Woodruff, G.B. West, A.P. Allen, B.J. Enquist, and J.H. Brown. (2004) The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology. Functional Ecology, 18:257-282 (.pdf file)
Smith F.A., J.H. Brown, J.P. Haskell, S.K. Lyons, J. Alroy, E.L. Charnov, T. Dayan, B.J. Enquist, S.K.M. Ernest, E.A. Hadly, K.E. Jones, D.M. Kaufman, P.A. Marquet, B.A. Maurer, K.J. Niklas, W.P. Porter, B. Tiffney, and M.R. Willig. (2004) Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time. American Naturalist, 163:672-691 (.pdf file)
West G.B., and J.H. Brown. (2004) Life's universal scaling laws. Physics Today, 57:36-42 (.pdf file)
West G.B., J.H. Brown, and B.J. Enquist. (2004) Growth models based on first principles of phenomenology. Functional Ecology, 18:188-196 (.pdf file)
Allen A.P., J.F. Gillooly, and J.H. Brown. (2005) Linking the global carbon cycle to individual metabolism. Functional Ecology, 19:202-213 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., and D.F. (2005) Biological invasions and scientific objectivity: Reply to Cassey et al. (2005). Austral Ecology, 30:481-483 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H., G.B. West, and B.J. Enquist. (2005) Yes, West, Brown, and Enquist’s model of allometric scaling is both mathematically correct and biology relevant. Functional Ecology, 19:735-738 (.pdf file)
Friggens M.M., and J.H. Brown. (2005) Niche partitioning in the cestode communities of two elasmobranchs. Oikos, 106:76-84 (.pdf file)
Gillooly J.F., A.P. Allen, J.H. Brown, J.J. Elser, C.M. del Rio, V.M. Savage, G.B. West, W.H. Woodruff, and H.A. Woods. (2005) The metabolic basis of whole-organism RNA and phosphorus content. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102:11923-11927 (.pdf file)
Gillooly J.F., Allen A.P., West G.B. & Brown J.H. (2005b) The rate of DNA evolution.: Effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 140-145 (.pdf file)
Goheen J.R., White E.P., Ernest S.K.M. & Brown J.H. (2005) Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents. Ecology, 86, 567-573 (.pdf file)
West G.B. & Brown J.H. (2005) The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208, 1575-1592 (.pdf file)
Allen A.P., Gillooly J.F., Savage V.M. & Brown J.H. (2006) Kinetic effects of temperature on rates of genetic divergence and speciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 9130-9135 (.pdf file)
Anderson K.J., Allen A.P., Gillooly J.F. & Brown J.H. (2006) Temperature-dependence of biomass accumulation rates during secondary succession. Ecology Letters, 9, 673-682 (.pdf file)
Brown J.H. & Sibly R.M. (2006) Life history evolution under a production constraint. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 17595-17599 (.pdf file)
Gillooly J.F., Allen A.P., Savage V.M., Charnov E.L., West G.B. & Brown J.H. (2006) Response to Clarke and Fraser: effects of temperature on metabolic rate. Functional Ecology, 20, 400-404 (.pdf file)
Goheen, J.R., E.P. White, S.K.M. Ernest and J.H. Brown (2006) Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents: Reply. Ecology 87:2121-2125. (.pdf file)
Kodric-Brown A., Sibly R.M. & Brown J.H. (2006) The allometry of ornaments and weapons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 8733-8738 (.pdf file)
Lomolino M.V., Sax D.F., Riddle B.R. & Brown J.H. (2006) The island rule and a research agenda for studying ecogeographical patterns. Journal of Biogeography, 33, 1503-1510 (.pdf file)
Martiny J.B.H., Bohannen B.J.M., Brown J.H., Colwell R.K., Fuhrman J.A., Green J.L., Horner-Devine M.C., Kane M., Krumins J.A., Kuske C.R., Morin P.J., Naeem S., Øvreås L., Reysenbach A.L., Smith V.H. & Staley J.T. (2006) Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 4, 102-112 (.pdf file)
Brown, J.H. & Sax, D.F.(2007) Do biological invasions decrease biodiversity? Conservation Magazine, 8, 16-17 (.pdf file)
Enquist B.J., Allen A.P., Brown J.H., Gillooly J.F., Kerkhoff A.J., Niklas K.J., Price C.A. & West G.B. (2007) Does the exception prove the rule? Nature, 445, E9-E10 (.pdf file)
Hamilton M.J., Milne B.T., Walker R.S. & Brown J.H. (2007) Nonlinear scaling of space use in human hunter–gatherers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 4765-4769 (.pdf file)
Hamilton, M.J., Milne, B.T., Walker, R.S., Burger, O. & Brown, J.H. (2007) The complex structure of hunter-gatherer social networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Britain, 274, 2195-2202. (.pdf file)
Kodric-Brown, A. & Brown, J.H. (2007) Native fishes, exotic mammals, and the
conservation of desert springs. Frontiers in Ecologyand the Environment, 5, 549-553. (.pdf file)Kodric-Brown, A., Wilcox, C., Bragg, J.G. & Brown, J.H. (2007) Dynamics of fish in Australian desert springs: role of large-mammal disturbance. Diversity and Distributions, 13, 789-798. (.pdf file)
Nekola J.C. & Brown J.H. (2007) The wealth of species: ecological communities, complex systems and the legacy of Frank Preston. Ecology Letters, 10, 188-196 (.pdf file)
Savage V.M., Allen A.P., Brown J.H., Gillooly J.F., Herman A.B., Woodruff W.H. & West G.B. (2007) Scaling of number, size, and metabolic rate of cells with body size in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 4718-4723 (.pdf file)
Sax D.F., Stachowicz J.J., Brown J.H., Bruno J.F., Dawson M.N., Gaines S.D., Grosberg R.K., Hasting S.A., Holt R.D., Mayfield M.M., O'Connor M.I. & Rice W.R. (2007) Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 22, 465-471 (.pdf file)
Sibly R.M. & Brown J.H. (2007) Effects of body size and lifestyle on evolution of mammal life histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 17707-17712 (.pdf file)
Anderson-Teixeira K.J., Vitousek P.M. & Brown J.H. (2008) Amplified temperature dependence in ecosystems developing on the lava flows of Mauna Loa, Hawai’i. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 228-233 (.pdf file)
Ernest, S.K.M, J.H. Brown, K.M. Thibault, e.P. White and J.R. Goheen. (2008) Zero sum, the niche, and metacommunities: long-term dynamics of community assembly. The American Naturalist 172:E257-E269 (.pdf file)
Fuhrman, J.a., J.A. Steele, I. Hewson, M.s. Schwalbach, M.V. Brown, J.L. Green and J.H. Brown (2008) A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:7774-7778 (.pdf file)
Hou, C., W. Zuo, M.e. Moses, W.H. Woodruff, J.H. Brown and G.B. West (2008) Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny (2008) Science 322:736-739 (.pdf file)
Moses, M.E., C. Hou, W.H. Woodruff, G.B. West, J.C. Nekola, W. Zuo and J.H. Brown (2008) Revisiting a Model of Ontogenetic Growth: Estimating Model Parameters from Theory and Data. American Naturalist 171(5):632-645 (.pdf file)
Lima, M., S.K.M. Ernest, J.H. Brown, A. Belgrano and N.C. Stenseth (2008) Chihuahuan desert kangaroo rats: nonlinear effects of population dynamics, competition and rainfall. Ecology 89:2594-2603 (.pdf file)
Thibault, K.M., and J.H. Brown (2008) Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:3410-3415 (.pdf file)
Smith, F.A., S.K. Lyons, S.K. Morgan Ernest and J.H. Brown. (2008) Macroecology: more than the division of food and space among species on continents. Progress in Physical Geography 32(2):115-138 (.pdf file)
Davidson, A.D., M.J. Hamilton, A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown and G. Ceballos (2009) Multiple ecological pathways to extinction in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106:1702-1704 (.pdf file)
Enquist, B.J., G.B. West and J.H. Brown (2009) Extensions and evaluations of a general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106(17):7046-7051 (.pdf file)
Ernest, S.K.M., E.P. White and J.H. Brown (2009) Changes in a tropical forest support metabolic zero-sum dynamics. Ecology Letters 12:507-515 (.pdf file)
Hamilton, M.J., O. Burger, J. DeLong, R.s. Walker, M.E. Moses and J.H. Brown (2009) Population stability, cooperation and the invasibility of the human species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106(30):12255-12260 (.pdf file)
Koontz, T.L., A. Petroff, G.B. West and J.H. Brown (2009) Scaling relations for a functionally two-dimensional plant: Chamaestce Setiloba (euphorbiaceae). American Journal of Botany 96(5):877-884 (.pdf file)
Lomolino, M.V., and J.H. Brown (2009) The Reticulating Phylogeny of Island Biogeography Theory. The Quarterly Review of Biology 84:357-90 (.pdf file)
Okie, J.G., and J.H. Brown (2009) Niches, body sizes, and the disassembly of mammal communities on the Sund Shelf islands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106:19679-19684 (.pdf file)
Payne, J.L., a.G. boyer, J.H. Brown, S. Finnegan, M. Kowalewski, R.A. Krause Jr., S.K. Lyons, C.R. McClain, d.W. McShea, P.M. Novack-Gottshall, F.A. Smith, J.a. Stempieni, Jen and S.C. Wang (2009) Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and envrionmental opportunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106(1) (.pdf file)
Sibly, R.M. and J.H. Brown (2009) Mammal Reproductive Strategies Driven by Offspring Mortality-Size Relationships. The American Naturalist 176:E185-E199 (.pdf file)
West, G.B., Enquist, B.J. and J.H. Brown (2009) A general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106:7040-7045 (.pdf file)
Zuo, Wenyun, M.E. Moses, C. Hou, W.H. Woodruff, G.B. West and J.H. Brown (2009) Response to Comments on "Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny". Science 325:1206-c (.pdf file)
Zhiheng Wang, Z., J.H. Brown, Z. Tang and Fang (2009) Temperature dependence, spatial scale, and tree species diversity in eastern Asia and North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106:1388-1392 (.pdf file)
Banavar, J.R., M.E. Moses, J.H. Brown, J. Damuth, A. Rinaldo, R.M. Sibly (2010) A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:15816-15820 (.pdf file)
Boyer, A.G., J.L.E. Cartron, and J.H. Brown (2010) Interspecific pairwise relationships among body size, clutch size and latitude: deconstructing a macroecological triangle in birds. Journal of Biogeography 37:47-56 (.pdf file)
Davidson, A.D., E. Ponce, D.C. Lightfoot, E.L. Fredrickson, J.H. Brown, J. Cruzado, S.L. Brantley, R. Sierra-Corona, R. List, D. Toledo and G. Ceballos (2010) Rapid response of a grassland ecosystem to an experimental manipulation of a keystone rodent and domestic livestock. Ecology 91(11):3189-3200 (.pdf file)
DeLong, J.P., J.G. Okie, M.E. Moses, R.M. Sibly and J.H. Brown (2010) Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:12941-12946 (.pdf file)
Payne, J.L., C.R. McClain, A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, S. Finnegan, M. Kowalewski, R.A. Krause Jr., S.K. Lyons, D.W. McShea, P.M. Novack-gottshall, F.A. Smith, P. Spaeth, J.A. Stempien, S.C. Wang (2010) The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective. Photosynthesis Research 106(epublish) (.pdf file)
Smith F.A., M.J. Hamilton and J.H. Brown (2010) On the size selectivity of late Pleistocene extinctions: a mini forum based on Polishchuk. Evolutionary Ecology Research 12:403-412 (.pdf file)
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