Urban, M.C., & L. De Meester. 2009. Community monopolization : local adaptation enhances priority effects in an evolving metacommunity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Online Early. [pdf]

Urban, M. C. 2008. Ecological Genetics. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Chichester. [pdf]

Urban, M. C. 2008. Salamander evolution across a latitudinal cline in gape-limited predation risk. Oikos. 117: 1037-1049. [pdf]

Urban, M. C. et al. 2008. The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 23(6): 311-317. [pdf]

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Urban, M. C., B. L. Phillips, D. K. Skelly, and R. Shine. 2008. The toad more traveled: the heterogeneous invasion dynamics of cane toads in Australia. American Naturalist. 171(3): E134-E148. [pdf]

Urban, M. C. 2008. The evolution of prey body size reaction norms in diverse communities. Journal of Animal Ecology. 77: 346-355. [pdf]

Urban, M. C. 2007. The growth-predation risk tradeoff under a growing gape-limited predation threat. Ecology. 88(10): 2587-2597. [pdf]

Urban, M. C. 2007. Predator size and phenology shape prey survival in temporary ponds. Oecologia. 154: 571-580. [pdf]

Urban, M. C. 2007. Risky prey behavior evolves in risky habitats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 104(36): 14377-14382. [pdf]

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Urban, M. C., B. L. Phillips, D. K. Skelly, and R. Shine. 2007. The cane toad’s (Chaunus [Bufo] marinus) increasing ability to invade Australia is revealed by a dynamically updated range model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 274: 1413-1419. [pdf]

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Urban, M. C. 2006. Maladaptation and mass-effects in a metacommunity: consequences for species coexistence. American Naturalist. 168(1): 28-40. [main-pdf] [App.-pdf]

Urban, M. C. and D. K. Skelly. 2006. Evolving metacommunities: Toward an evolutionary perspective on metacommunities. Ecology. 87(7): 1616-1626. [pdf]

Urban, M. C. 2006. Road facilitation of trematode infections in snails of northern Alaska. Conservation Biology. 20(4): 1143:1149. [pdf]

Urban, M. C., D. K. Skelly, D. Burchsted, W. Price, S. Lowry. 2006. Stream communities across a rural-urban landscape gradient. Diversity and Distributions. 12:337-350. [pdf]

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Urban, M. C. 2006. Conservation beyond community (Book Review). Conservation Biology. 20: 1330. [pdf]

Skelly, D. K., M. A. Halverson, L. K. Freidenburg, and M. C. Urban. 2005. Canopy closure and amphibian biodiversity in forested wetlands. Wetlands Ecology & Management. 13:261-268. [pdf]

Urban, M. C. 2004. Disturbance heterogeneity determines freshwater metacommunity structure. Ecology. 85(11): 2971-2978. [pdf]