Publications are separated into two sections (Books & Monographs and Scientific Journals). Within each section publications are sorted by year of publication and by alphabetical order within years. Some of the publications (those with active links) are available to read in a PDF format. Complete publication list.
Books & Monographs
3. Walker, L. R., W. L. Silver, M. R. Willig, and J. K. Zimmerman, editors. 1996. Special issue: long term responses of Caribbean ecosystems to disturbance. Biotropica 28:414-614.
4. Gannon, M. R., M. R. Duran, A. Kurta, and M. R. Willig. 2005. Bats of Puerto Rico: an Island Focus and Caribbean Perspective. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas.
5. Scheiner, S. M., and M. R. Willig, editors. 2011. Theory of Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
6. Brokaw, N. , T. A. Crowl, A. E. Lugo, W. H. McDowell, F. N. Scatena, R. B. Waide, and M. R. Willig, editors. 2012. A Caribbean Forest Tapestry: the Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
7. González, G., M. R. Willig, and R. B. Waide, editors. 2013. Ecological Gradient Analyses in a Tropical Landscape. Ecological Bulletins 54:1-250.
8. Willig, M. R., and L. R. Walker, editors. 2016. Long-Term Ecological Research: Changing the Nature of Scientists. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
Scientific Journals
32. Willig, M. R., and G. R. Camilo. 1991. The effect of Hurricane Hugo on six invertebrate species in the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Biotropica 23:455-461.
35. Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1992. Bat reproduction in the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Southwestern Naturalist 37:414-419.
36. Gannon, M. R., M. R. Willig, and J. K. Jones, Jr. 1992. Morphometric variation, measurement error, and fluctuating asymmetry in the red fig-eating bat (Stenoderma rufum). Texas Journal of Science 44:389-404.
39. Alvarez, J., and M. R. Willig. 1993. Effects of treefall gaps on the density of land snails in the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Biotropica 25:100-110.
41. Gannon, M. R., K. Pardieck, M. R. Willig, and R. B. Waide. 1993. Movement and home range of the Puerto Rican Screech-Owl (Otus nudipes) in the Luquillo Experimental Forest. Caribbean Journal of Science 29:174-178.
44. Sandlin, E. A., and M. R. Willig. 1993. Effects of age, sex, prior experience, and intraspecific food variation on diet composition of a tropical folivore (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae). Environmental Entomology 22:625-633.
47. Willig, M. R., E. A. Sandlin, and M. R. Gannon. 1993. Structural and taxonomic components of habitat selection in the Neotropical folivore Lamponius portoricensis (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae). Environmental Entomology 22:634-641.
48. Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1994. The effects of Hurricane Hugo on bats of the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto-Rico. Biotropica 26:320-331.
49. Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1994. Records of bat ectoparasites from the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 30:281-283.
58. Zak, J. C., M. R. Willig, D. L. Moorhead, and H. G. Wildman. 1994. Functional diversity of microbial communities: a quantitative approach. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 26:1101-1108.
60. Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1995. Ecology of ectoparasites from tropical bats. Environmental Entomology 24:1495-1503.
64. Garrison, R. W., and M. R. Willig. 1996. Arboreal invertebrates. Pages 183-245 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
65. Secrest, M. F., M. R. Willig, and L. L. Peppers. 1996. The legacy of disturbance on habitat associations of terrestrial snails in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Biotropica 28:502-514.
67. Willig, M. R., and M. R. Gannon. 1996. Mammals. Pages 399-431 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
68. Willig, M. R., D. L. Moorhead, S. B. Cox, and J. C. Zak. 1996. Functional diversity of soil bacterial communities in the tabonuco forest: interaction of anthropogenic and natural disturbance. Biotropica 28:471-483.
69. Zimmerman, J. K., M. R. Willig, L. R. Walker, and W. L. Silver. 1996. Introduction: disturbance and Caribbean ecosystems. Biotropica 28:414-423.
70. Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1997. The effect of lunar illumination on movement and activity of the red fig-eating bat (Stenoderma rufum). Biotropica 29:525-529.
73. Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1998. Long-term monitoring protocol for bats: lessons from the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Pages 271-291 in F. Dallmeier and J. Comisky, editors. Forest Biodiversity in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean: Research and Monitoring. The Parthenon Press, Cranforth, Lancashire, UK.
78. Willig, M. R., E. A. Sandlin, and M. R. Gannon. 1998. Structural and taxonomic correlates of habitat selection by a Puerto Rican land snail. Southwestern Naturalist 43:70-79.
79. Willig, M. R., M. F. Secrest, S. B. Cox, G. R. Camilo, J. F. Cary, J. Alvarez, and M. R. Gannon. 1998. Long-term monitoring of snails in the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico: heterogeneity, scale, disturbance, and recovery. Pages 293-322 in F. Dallmeier and J. Comisky, editors. Forest Biodiversity in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean: Research and Monitoring. The Parthenon Press, Cranforth, Lancashire, UK.
83. Waide, R. B., M. R. Willig, C. F. Steiner, G. Mittelbach, L. Gough, S. I. Dodson, G. P. Juday, and R. Parmenter. 1999. The relationship between productivity and species richness. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30:257-300.
84. Walker, L. R., and M. R. Willig. 1999. An introduction to terrestrial disturbances. Pages 1-15 in L. R. Walker, editor. Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
85. Willig, M. R., and M. A. McGinley. 1999. The response of animals to disturbance and their roles in patch generation. Pages 633-657 in L. R. Walker, editor. Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
86. Willig, M. R., and L. R. Walker. 1999. Disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems: salient themes, synthesis, and future directions. Pages 747-767 in L. R. Walker, editor. Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
88. Gross, K. L., M. R. Willig, L. Gough, R. Inouye, and S. B. Cox. 2000. Patterns of species density and productivity at different spatial scales in herbaceous plant communities. Oikos 89:417-427.
89. Parmesan, C., T. L. Root, and M. R. Willig. 2000. Impacts of extreme weather and climate on terrestrial biota. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 81:443-450.
90. Scheiner, S. M., S. B. Cox, M. R. Willig, G. G. Mittelbach, C. Osenberg, and M. Kaspari. 2000. Species richness, species-area curves and Simpson's paradox. Evolutionary Ecology Research 2:791-802.
98. Mittelbach, G. G., C. F. Steiner, S. M. Scheiner, K. L. Gross, H. L. Reynolds, R. B. Waide, M. R. Willig, S. I. Dodson, and L. Gough. 2001. What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity? Ecology 82:2381-2396.
101. Cox, S. B., M. R. Willig, and F. N. Scatena. 2002. Variation in nutrient characteristics of surface soils from the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico: a multivariate perspective. Plant and Soil 247:189-198.
112. Willig, M. R. 2003. Challenges to understanding dynamics of biodiversity in time and space. Paleobiology 29:30-33.
115. Andelman, S. J., C. M. Bowles, M. R. Willig, and R. B. Waide. 2004. Understanding environmental complexity through a distributed knowledge network. Bioscience 54:240-246.
116. Andelman, S. J., and M. R. Willig. 2004. Networks by design: a revolution in ecology. Science 305:1565-1566.
117. Chalcraft, D. R., J. W. Williams, M. D. Smith, and M. R. Willig. 2004. Scale dependence in the species-richness-productivity relationship: the role of species turnover. Ecology 85:2701-2708.
129. Scheiner, S. M., and M. R. Willig. 2005. Developing unified theories in ecology as exemplified with diversity gradients. American Naturalist 166:458-469.
130. Wilsey, B. J., D. R. Chalcraft, C. M. Bowles, and M. R. Willig. 2005. Relationships among indices suggest that richness is an incomplete surrogate for grassland biodiversity. Ecology 86:1178-1184.
133. Bloch, C. P., and M. R. Willig. 2006. Context-dependence of long-term responses of terrestrial gastropod populations to large-scale disturbance. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22:111-122.
134. Higgins, C. L., M. R. Willig, and R. E. Strauss. 2006. The role of stochastic processes in producing nested patterns of species distributions. Oikos 114:159-167.
136. Willig, M. R., and C. P. Bloch. 2006. Latitudinal gradients of species richness: a test of the geographic area hypothesis at two ecological scales. Oikos 112:163-173.
139. Bloch, C. P., C. L. Higgins, and M. R. Willig. 2007. Effects of large-scale disturbance on metacommunity structure of terrestrial gastropods: temporal trends in nestedness. Oikos 116:395-406.
141. Grace, J. B., T. M. Anderson, M. D. Smith, E. Seabloom, S. J. Andelman, G. Meche, E. Weiher, L. K. Allain, H. Jutila, M. Sankaran, J. Knops, M. Ritchie, and M. R. Willig. 2007. Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities? Ecology Letters 10:680-689.
142. Willig, M. R., C. P. Bloch, N. Brokaw, C. Higgins, J. Thompson, and C. R. Zimmermann. 2007. Cross-scale responses of biodiversity to hurricane and anthropogenic disturbance in a tropical forest. Ecosystems 10:824-838.
144. Yee, D. A., and M. R. Willig. 2007. Colonisation of Heliconia caribaea by aquatic invertebrates: resource and microsite characteristics. Ecological Entomology 32:603-612.
146. Presley, S. J., and M. R. Willig. 2008. Composition and structure of Caribbean bat (Chiroptera) assemblages: effects of inter-island distance, area, elevation and hurricane-induced disturbance. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17:747-757.
149. Scheiner, S. M., and M. R. Willig. 2008. A general theory of ecology. Theoretical Ecology 1:21-28.
150. Bloch, C. P., and M. R. Willig. 2009. Effects of competition on size and growth rates of Caracolus caracolla (L.) in Puerto Rico. Journal of Molluscan Studies 75:133-138.
152. Chalcraft, D. R., B. J. Wilsey, C. Bowles, and M. R. Willig. 2009. The relationship between productivity and multiple aspects of biodiversity in six grassland communities. Biodiversity and Conservation 18:91-104.
153. Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 2009. Island in the storm: disturbance ecology of plant-visiting bats in the hurricane-prone island of Puerto Rico. Pages 281-301 in T. H. Fleming and P. A. Racey, editors. Island Bats: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
160. Willig, M. R., S. J. Presley, C. P. Bloch, and H. H. Genoways. 2009. Macroecology of Caribbean bats: effects of area, elevation, latitude, and hurricane-induced disturbance. Pages 216-264 in T. H. Fleming and P. A. Racey, editors. Island Bats: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
164. Prates, M. O., D. K. Dey, M. R. Willig, and J. Yan. 2010. Intervention analysis of hurricane effects on snail abundance in a tropical forest using long-term spatio-temporal data. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 16:142-156.
165. Presley, S. J., C. L. Higgins, and M. R. Willig. 2010. A comprehensive framework for the evaluation of metacommunity structure. Oikos 119:908-917.
166. Presley, S. J., and M. R. Willig. 2010. Bat metacommunity structure on Caribbean islands and the role of endemics. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19:185-199.
167. Vance-Chalcraft, H. D., M. R. Willig, S. B. Cox, A. E. Lugo, and F. N. Scatena. 2010. Relationship between aboveground biomass and multiple measures of biodiversity in subtropical forest of Puerto Rico. Biotropica 42:290-299.
168. Presley, S. J., M. R. Willig, C. P. Bloch, I. Castro-Arellano, C. Higgins, and B. T. Klingbeil. 2011. A complex metacommunity structure for gastropods along an elevational gradient. Biotropica 43:480-488.
169. Willig, M. R., S. J. Presley, and C. P. Bloch. 2011. Long-term dynamics of tropical walking sticks in response to multiple large-scale and intense disturbances. Oecologia 165:357-368.
170. Willig, M. R., S. J. Presley, C. P. Bloch, I. Castro-Arellano, L. M. Cisneros, C. L. Higgins, and B. T. Klingbeil. 2011. Tropical metacommunities and elevational gradients: effects of forest type and other environmental factors. Oikos 120:1497-1508.
171. Scheiner, S. M., and M. R. Willig. 2011. A general theory of ecology. Pages 3-18 in S. M. Scheiner and M. R. Willig, editors. Theory of Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
172. Fox, G., S. M. Scheiner, and M. R. Willig. 2011. Theory of ecological gradients. Pages 283-307 in S. M. Scheiner and M. R. Willig, editors. Theory of Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
173. Willig, M. R., and S. M. Scheiner. 2011. The state of theory in ecology. Pages 333-347 in S. M. Scheiner and M. R. Willig, editors. Theory of Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
174. Scheiner, S. M., A. Chiarucci, G. A. Fox, M. R. Helmus, D. J. McGlinn, and M. R. Willig. 2011. The underpinnings of the relationship of species richness with space and time. Ecological Monographs 81:195-213.
175. Willig, M. R. 2011. Biodiversity and Productivity. Science 333:1709-1710.
177. Presley, S. J., L. M. Cisneros, B. D. Patterson, and M. R. Willig. 2012. Vertebrate metacommunity structure along an extensive elevational gradient in the tropics: a comparison of bats, rodents and birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21:968-976.
178. Brokaw, N., J. K. Zimmerman, M. R. Willig, G. R. Camilo, A. P. Covich, T. A. Crowl, N. Fetcher, B. L. Haines, D. J. Lodge, A. E. Lugo, R. W. Myster, C. M. Pringle, J. M. Sharpe, F. N. Scatena, T. D. Schowalter, W. L. Silver, J. Thompson, D. J. Vogt, K. A. Vogt, R. B. Waide, L. R. Walker, L. L. Woolbright, J. M. Wunderle, Jr., and X. Zou. 2012. Response to disturbance. Pages 201-271 in N. Brokaw, T. A. Crowl, A. E. Lugo, W. H. McDowell, F. N. Scatena, R. B. Waide, and M. R. Willig, editors. A Caribbean Forest Tapestry: the Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
179. Lugo, A. E., F. N. Scatena, R. B. Waide, E. A. Greathouse, C. M. Pringle, M. R. Willig, K. A. Vogt, L. R. Walker, G. Gonzalez, W. H. McDowell, and J. Thompson. 2012. Management implications and applications of long-term ecological research. Pages 305-360 in N. Brokaw, T. A. Crowl, A. E. Lugo, W. H. McDowell, F. N. Scatena, R. B. Waide, and M. R. Willig, editors. A Caribbean Forest Tapestry: the Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
180. Lugo, A. E., R. B. Waide, M. R. Willig, T. A. Crowl, F. N. Scatena, J. Thompson, W. L. Silver, W. H. McDowell, and N. Brokaw. 2012. Ecological paradigms for the Tropics: old questions and continuing challenges. Pages 3-41 in N. Brokaw, T. A. Crowl, A. E. Lugo, W. H. McDowell, F. N. Scatena, R. B. Waide, and M. R. Willig, editors. A Caribbean Forest Tapestry: the Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
181. McDowell, W. H., F. N. Scatena, R. B. Waide, N. Brokaw, G. R. Camilo, A. P. Covich, T. A. Crowl, G. Gonzalez, E. A. Greathouse, P. Klawinski, D. J. Lodge, A. E. Lugo, C. M. Pringle, B. A. Richardson, M. J. Richardson, D. A. Schafer, W. L. Silver, J. Thompson, D. J. Vogt, K. A. Vogt, M. R. Willig, L. L. Woolbright, X. Zou, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2012. Geographic and ecological setting of the Luquillo Mountains. Pages 72-163 in N. Brokaw, T. A. Crowl, A. E. Lugo, W. H. McDowell, F. N. Scatena, R. B. Waide, and M. R. Willig, editors. A Caribbean Forest Tapestry: the Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
182. Waide, R. B., and M. R. Willig. 2012. Conceptual overview: disturbance, gradients, and ecological response. Pages 42-71 in N. Brokaw, T. A. Crowl, A. E. Lugo, W. H. McDowell, F. N. Scatena, R. B. Waide, and M. R. Willig, editors. A Caribbean Forest Tapestry: the Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
183. Willig, M. R., C. P. Bloch, A. P. Covich, C. A. S. Hall, D. J. Lodge, A. E. Lugo, W. L. Silver, R. B. Waide, L. R. Walker, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2012. Long-term research in the Luquillo Mountains: synthesis and foundations for the future. Pages 361-441 in N. Brokaw, T. A. Crowl, A. E. Lugo, W. H. McDowell, F. N. Scatena, R. B. Waide, and M. R. Willig, editors. A Caribbean Forest Tapestry: the Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
185. Bloch, C. P., and M. R. Willig. 2012. Density compensation suggests interspecific competition is weak among terrestrial snails in tabonuco forest of Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 46:159-168.
188. Gonzalez, G., M. R. Willig, and R. B. Waide. 2013. Ecological gradient analyses in a tropical landscape: multiple perspectives and emerging themes. In: G. González, M. R. Willig, and R. B. Waide, editors. Ecological Gradient Analyses in a Tropical Landscape. Ecological Bulletins 54:13-20.
189. Willig, M. R., S. J. Presley, C. P. Bloch, and J. Alvarez. 2013. Population, community, and metacommunity dynamics of terrestrial gastropods in the Luquillo Mountains: a gradient perspective. In: G. González, M. R. Willig, and R. B. Waide, editors. Ecological Gradient Analyses in a Tropical Landscape. Ecological Bulletins 54:117-140.
190. Gonzalez, G., R. B. Waide, and M. R. Willig. 2013. Advancements in the understanding of spatiotemporal gradients in tropical landscapes: a Luquillo focus and global perspective. In: G. González, M. R. Willig, and R. B. Waide, editors. Ecological Gradient Analyses in a Tropical Landscape. Ecological Bulletins 54:245-250.
192. Schowalter, T. D., M. R Willig, and S. J. Presley. 2014. Canopy arthropod responses to experimental canopy opening and debris deposition in a tropical rainforest subject to hurricanes. Forest Ecology and Management 332:93-102.
193. Willig, M. R., C. P. Bloch, and S. J. Presley. 2014. Experimental decoupling of canopy opening and debris addition on tropical gastropod populations and communities. Forest Ecology and Management 332:103-117.
196. Ravishanker, N., V. Serhiyenko, and M. R. Willig. 2014. Hierarchical dynamic models for multivariate time series counts. Statistics and Its Interface 7:559-570.
197. Presley, S. J., S. M. Scheiner, and M. R. Willig. 2014. Evaluation of an integrated framework for biodiversity with a new metric for functional dispersion. PLoS ONE 9(8):e105818. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105818.
198. Shiels, A. B., G. González, and M. R. Willig. 2014. Responses to canopy loss and debris deposition in a tropical forest ecosystem: synthesis from an experimental manipulation simulating effects of hurricane disturbance. Forest Ecology and Management 332:124-133.
204. Presley, S. J., T. Dallas, B. T. Klingbeil, and M. R. Willig. 2015. Phylogenetic signals in host-parasite associations for Neotropical bats and Nearctic desert rodents. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 116: 312-347.
206. Shiels, A. B., G. Gonzalez, D. J. Lodge, M. R. Willig, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2015. Cascading effects of canopy opening and debris deposition from a large-scale hurricane experiment in a tropical rainforest. Bioscience 65:871-881.
207. Willig, M. R., and S. J. Presley. 2015. Biodiversity and metacommunity structure of animals along altitudinal gradients in tropical montane forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology doi:10.1017/S0266467415000589.
208. Prates, M. O., D. K. Dey, M. R. Willig, and J. Yan. 2015. Transformed Gaussian Markov random fields and spatial modeling of species abundance. Spatial Statistics 14:382-399.
209. Meyer, C. F., M. J. Struebig, and M. R. Willig. 2015. Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation. Pages 63-103 in C. Voigt and T. Kingston, editors. Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World. Springer, New York, New York.
212. Willig, M. R., and L. R. Walker. 2016. Preface. Pages xi-xiii in M. R. Willig and L. R. Walker, editors. Long-Term Ecological Research: Changing the Nature of Scientists. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
213. Willig, M. R., and L. R. Walker. 2016. Changing the nature of scientists: Participation in the Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Pages 3-47 in M. R. Willig and L. R. Walker, editors. Long-Term Ecological Research: Changing the Nature of Scientists. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
214. Walker, L. R., and M. R. Willig. 2016. Tradeoffs of participation in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program: Immediate and long-term consequences. Pages 433-437 in M. R. Willig and L. R. Walker, editors. Long-Term Ecological Research: Changing the Nature of Scientists. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
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