Recent Publications

Books

• Stevens, M. H. H. A Primer of Ecology with R. UseR! Series, Springer (2009), corrected printing, September 2010. (see also: the R package, primer)
• McCarthy, B. C. and M. H. H. Stevens. An Introduction to Biological Data Analysis Using R. Roberts and Company Publishing, Inc. (anticipated 2010).

Selected Papers

• Li, W. and M.H.H. Stevens. 2010. High community dissimilarity at low productivity causes the productivity-richness relation to vary with observational scale. Community Ecology, 11:27-34.
• Li, W. and M.H.H. Stevens. 2010. How enrichment, ecosystem size, and their effects on species richness co-determine the stability of microcosm communities. Oikos, 119:686-695.
• Banta, J. A., M. H. H. Stevens, and M. Pigliucci. 2010. Theoretical models do not account for the effect of nutrient levels on tolerance to apical meristem damage in Arabidopsis thaliana. Oikos 119:359-369.
• Reiss, P.T., M.H.H. Stevens, Z. Shehzad, E. Petkova, and M.P. Milham. On Distance-Based Permutation Tests for Between-Group Comparisons. Biometrics 66:636-643.
  
• Bolker B.M., M.E. Brooks, C.J. Clark, S.W. Geange, J.R. Poulsen, M.H.H. Stevens, and J.S. White. 2009. Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24:127-135.
• Farruggia, F.G, M. H. H. Stevens, and M. Vincent. 2008. A floristic description of a neotropical coastal savanna in Belize. Caribbean Journal of Science 44:53-69.
• Banta, J.A., S. C. Stark, M. H. H. Stevens, T. H. Pendergast IV, A. Baumert, and W. P. Carson. 2008. Light reduction predicts widespread patterns of dominance between asters and goldenrods. Plant Ecology 199:65-76.
• Berry, E.J, D.L. Gorchov, B.A. Endress, and M.H.H. Stevens. 2008. Source-sink dynamics within a plant population: The impact of substrate and herbivory on palm demography. Population Ecology 50:63-77.
  
• Stevens, M. H.H., Sanchez, M., Lee, J., and Finkel, S.E. (2007). Diversification rates increase with population size and resource concentration in an unstructured habitat. Genetics, 177:2243-2250.
• Berry, E.J., Gorchov, D.L., Endress, B.A., and Stevens, M. H.H. (2008). Source-sink dynamics within a plant population: the impact of substrate and herbivory on palm demography. Population Ecology, 50: 63-77.
  
• Nowlin, W.H., M.J. González, M.J. Vanni, M.H.H. Stevens, M. W. Fields, and J. J. Valente. Periodical cicadas affect dynamics, productivity and stability of woodland pond ecosystems. Ecology 88:2174-2186.
• Stevens, M.H.H. 2006. Placing local plant species richness in the context of environmental drivers of metacommunity richness. Journal of Ecology, 94:58-65.
• Stevens, M.H.H., S.A. Schnitzer, D. E. Bunker, and W. P. Carson. 2004. Establishment limitation reduces species recruitment and species richness as soil resources rise. Journal of Ecology, 92:339-347.
• Stevens, M.H.H., O. L. Petchey, P. E. Smouse. 2003. Stochastic relations between species richness and the variability of species composition. Oikos, 103:479-488.
• Stevens, M.H.H. and W. P. Carson. 2002. Resource quantity, not resource heterogeneity, maintains plant diversity. Ecology Letters 5:420-426.
• Stevens, M.H.H. and W.P. Carson. 2001. Phenological complementarity, species diversity, and ecosystem function. Oikos 92:291-296.
• Stevens, M.H.H. and W.P. Carson. 1999. Assessing the significance of assemblage level thinning. Journal of Ecology 87:490-502.