Currently, publications are sorted by year of publication; other sorting options will be added in the future. Some of the publications (those with active links) are available to read in a PDF format. 1. Mares, M.A., R. Adams, T.E. Lacher, Jr., and M.R. Willig. 1980. Home range dynamics in chipmunks: Responses to experimental manipulation of population density and distribution. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 49:193-201.
2. Mares, M.A., M.R. Willig, and N.A. Bitar. 1980. Home range size in eastern chipmunks, Tamias striatus, as a function of number of captures: Statistical biases of inadequate sampling. Journal of Mammalogy 61:661-669.
3. Mares, M.A., M.R. Willig, K.E. Streilein, and T.E. Lacher, Jr. 1981. The mammals of northeastern Brazil: A preliminary assessment. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 50:81-137.
4. Mares, M.A., K.E. Streilein, and M.R. Willig. 1981. Experimental assessment of several population estimation techniques on an introduced population of eastern chipmunks. Journal of Mammalogy 62:315-328.
5. Mares, M.A., T.E. Lacher, Jr., M.R. Willig, N.A. Bitar, R. Adams, A. Klinger, and D. Tazik. 1982. An experimental analysis of social spacing in Tamias striatus. Ecology 63:267-273.
6. Coleman, B.D., M.A. Mares, M.R. Willig, and Y-H. Hsieh. 1982. Randomness, area and species richness. Ecology 63:1121-1133.
7. Lacher, T.E., Jr., M.R. Willig, and M.A. Mares. 1982. Food preference as a function of resource abundance with multiple prey types: An experimental analysis of optimal foraging theory. American Naturalist 120:297-316.
8. Willig, M.R. 1982. (Review of) Neoplatymops. In: Mammal Species of the World ( J.H. Honacki, K.E. Kinman, and J.W. Koeppl, Eds.). American Systematic Collections and Allen Press.
9. Willig, M.R., and T.E. Lacher, Jr. 1982. (Review of) Kerodon. In: Mammal Species of the World (J.H. Honacki, D.E. Kinman, and J.W. Koeppl, Eds.). American Systematic Collections and Allen Press.
10. Willig, M.R. 1983. Composition, microgeographic variation, and sexual dimorphism in Caatingas and Cerrado bat communities from Northeast Brazil. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum 23:1-131.
11. Willig, M.R., and A. Bauman. 1984. Notes on bats from the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico. CEER-T-194.
12. Mares, M.A., M.R. Willig, and T.E. Lacher, Jr. 1985. The Brazilian Caatinga in South American zoogeography: Tropical mammals in a dry region. Journal of Biogeography 12:57-69.
13. Willig, M.R. 1985. Ecology, reproductive biology, and systematics of Neoplatymops mattogrossensis (Chiroptera: Molossidae). Journal of Mammalogy 66:618-628.
14. Willig, M.R. 1985. Reproductive patterns of bats from Caatingas and Cerrado biomes in Northeast Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy 66:668-681.
15. Willig, M.R., and J.K. Jones, Jr. 1985. Neoplatymops mattogrossensis. Mammalian Species No. 244, Pp. 1-3. American Society of Mammalogists.
16. Willig, M.R. 1985. (Review of) The Cattle Egret: A Texas Focus and a World View (R. C. Telfair II). Southwestern Naturalist 30:622-623.
17. Willig, M.R. 1985. Reproductive activity of female bats from Northeast Brazil. Bat Research News 26:17-20.
18. Willig, M.R., R.W. Garrison, and A.J. Bauman. 1986. Population dynamics and natural history of a Neotropical walking stick, Lamponius portoricensis Rehn (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae). Texas Journal of Science 38:121-137.
19. Willig, M.R., R.D. Owen, and R.L. Colbert. 1986. Assessment of morphometric variation in natural populations: The inadequacy of the univariate approach. Systematic Zoology 35:195-203.
20. Willig, M.R. 1986. Bat Community structure in South America: A tenacious chimera. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 59:151-168.
21. Willig, M.R., and R.R. Hollander. 1987. Vampyrops lineatus. Mammalian Species No. 275, Pp. 1-4. American Society of Mammalogists.
22. Willig, M.R., and R.D. Owen. 1987. Fluctuating asymmetry in the cheetah: Methodological and interpretive concerns. Evolution 41:225-227.
23. Willig, M.R., and R.D. Owen. 1987. Univariate analyses of morphometric variation do not emulate the results of multivariate analyses. Systematic Zoology 36:398-400.
24. Willig, M.R. 1988. (Review of) Recent Advances in the Study of Bats (M.B. Fenton, P. Racey, and J.M.V. Rayner, Eds.). Journal of Mammalogy 69:657-658.
25.Van Den Bussche, R.A., M.R. Willig, R.K. Chesser, and R.B. Waide. 1988. Genetic variation and systematics of four taxa of Neotropical walking sticks (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 90:422-427.
26. Willig, M.R., and K.W. Selcer. 1989. Bat species density gradients in the New World: A statistical assessment. Journal of Biogeography 16:189-195.
27. Willig, M.R., and M.P. Moulton. 1989. The role of stochastic and deterministic processes in structuring Neotropical bat communities. Journal of Mammalogy 70:323-329.
28. Willig, M.R., and M.A. Mares. 1989. A comparison of bat assemblages from phytogeographic zones of Venezuela. In: Patterns in the Structure of Mammalian Communities (D.W. Morris, Z. Abramsky, B.J. Fox, and M.R. Willig, Eds.), Spec. Publ., The Museum, Texas Tech University 28:59-67.
29. Morris, D.W., Z. Abramsky, B.J. Fox, and M.R. Willig. 1989. Introduction. In: Patterns in the Structure of Mammalian Communities (D.W. Morris, Z. Abramsky, B.J. Fox, and M.R. Willig, Eds.), Spec Publ., The Museum, Texas Tech University 28:1-2.
30. Morris, D.W., Z. Abramsky, B.J. Fox, and M.R. Willig (Eds.). 1989. Patterns in the Structure of Mammalian Communities. Spec. Publ., The Museum, Texas Tech University 28:1-266. [Available from the Publisher: Texas Tech Press].
31. Willig, M.R., and M.A. Mares. 1989. Mammals from the Caatinga: An updated list and summary of recent research. Revista Brasileira de Biologia 49:361-367.
32. Gannon, M.R., M.R. Willig, and J.K. Jones, Jr. 1989. Sturnira lilium. Mammalian Species No. 333, Pp. 1-5. American Society of Mammalogists.
33. Willig, M.R. 1989. (Review of) The Short-tailed Fruit Bat ( T.H. Fleming). Journal of Mammalogy 70:681-682.
34. Willig, M.R. 1989. (Review of) Natural History of Vampire Bats ( A.M. Greenhall and U. Schmidt, Eds.). Bat Research News 30:22-23.
35. Willis, K.B., M.R. Willig, and J.K. Jones, Jr. 1990. Vampyrodes caraccioli. Mammalian Species No. 359, Pp. 1-4. American Society of Mammalogists.
36. Gannon, M.R., M.R. Willig, K.B. Willis, and M.P. Moulton. 1990. Intraspecific comparisons of diet of Cnemidophorous gularis (Sauria: Teiidae) in Central Texas. Texas Journal of Science 42:263-272.
37. Jusino-Atresino, R., S.A. Phillips, Jr., and M.R. Willig. 1990. Modification of temporal foraging activity of two Texas native ants in response to the red imported fire ant. Pp. 2-11, In: Proceedings of the 1990 Red Imported Fire Ant Conference (M.E. Mispagel, Ed.), Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas.
38. Willig, M.R., and T.E. Lacher, Jr. 1991. Food selection of a tropical mammalian folivore in relation to leaf-nutrient content. Journal of Mammalogy 72:314-321.
39. Sites, R.W., and M.R. Willig. 1991. Microhabitat associations of three sympatric species of Naucoridae (Insecta: Hemiptera). Environmental Entomology, 20:127-134.
40. Alvarez, J., M.R. Willig, J.K. Jones, Jr., and W.D. Webster. 1991. Glossophaga soricina. Mammalian Species No. 379, Pp. 1-7. American Society of Mammalogists.
41. Willig, M.R., and E.A. Sandlin. 1991. Gradients of species density and species turnover in New World bats: A comparison of quadrat and band methodologies, Pp. 81-96, In: Latin American Mammalogy: History, Biodiversity, and Conservation (M.A. Mares and D.J. Schmidly, Eds.). University of Oklahoma Press, Oklahoma, 468 pp.
42. 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.
43. Herrmann, D.P., R.W. Sites, and M.R. Willig. 1992. A laboratory flow tank with variable current and depths for replicating riffles and shallow streams. Texas Journal of Science 44:89-94.
44. Hollander, R.R., and M.R. Willig. 1992. Description of a new subspecies of the southern grasshopper mouse, Onychomys torridus, from western Mexico. Occasional Papers, The Museum, Texas Tech University 148:1-4.
45. 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.
46. Gannon, M.R., and M.R. Willig. 1992. Bat reproduction in the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Southwestern Naturalist 37:414-419.
47. Willig, M.R., G.R. Camilo, and S.J. Noble. 1993. Dietary overlap in frugivorous and insectivorous bats from edaphic Cerrado habitats of Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy 74:117-128.
48. Willig, M.R., R.L. Colbert, R.D. Pettit, and R.D. Stevens. 1993. Response of small mammals to conversion of a sand shinnery oak woodland into a mixed mid-grass prairie. Texas Journal of Science 45:29-43.
49. Camilo, G.R., and M.R. Willig. 1993. Diet of some common insects in the South Llano River. Texas Journal of Science 45:100-104.
50. 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.
51. 1993 Herrmann, D.P., R.W. Sites, and M.R. Willig. Influence of current velocity on substratum selection by Naucoridae (Hemiptera): An experimental approach via stream simulation. Environmental Entomology 22:571-576.
52. 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.
53. 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.
54. Grantham, O.K., D.L. Moorhead, and M.R. Willig. 1993. Feeding preference of an aquatic gastropod, Marisa cornuarietis: Effects of pre-exposure. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 12:431-437.
55. 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.
56. Lacher, T.E., Jr., and M.R. Willig. 1994. Univariate and multivariate approaches to the analysis of ecotoxicological data. Pp. 425-437, In: Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling: Integrated Studies of Agroecosystems (R.J. Kendall and T.E. Lacher, Jr., Eds.). Spec. Publ. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and Lewis Press, Chelsea, Mississippi.
57. Willig, M.R. 1994. Experimental design, statistical analysis and demographic models. Pp. 421-423, In: Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling: Integrated Studies of Agroecosystems (R.J. Kendall and T.E. Lacher, Jr., Eds.). Spec. Publ. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and Lewis Press, Chelsea, Mississippi.
58. Willig, M.R. 1994. Statistical approaches to data analysis in wildlife ecotoxicology. Pp. 489-495, In: Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling: Integrated Studies of Agroecosystems (R.J. Kendall and T.E. Lacher, Jr., Eds.). Spec. Publ. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and Lewis Press, Chelsea, Mississippi.
59. Hall, D.L., and M.R. Willig. 1994. Mammalian species composition, diversity, and succession in conservation reserve program grasslands. Southwestern Naturalist 39:1-10.
60. Sites, R.W., and M.R. Willig. 1994. Efficacy of mensural characters in discriminating among species of Naucoridae (Insecta: Hemiptera): Multivariate approaches and ontogenetic perspectives. Annals of Entomological Society of America 87:803-814.
61. Mares, M.A., and M.R. Willig. 1994. Inferring biome associations of recent mammals from samples of temperate and tropical faunas: Paleoecological considerations. Historical Biology 8:31-48
62. 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.
63. Secrest, M.F., and M.R. Willig. 1994. A modified flow tank design that facilitates choices of current velocity (riffle versus pool). Texas Journal of Science 46:237-240.
64. 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.
65. Sites, R.W., and M.R. Willig. 1994. Interspecific morphometric affinities in Ambrysus (Hemiptera: Naucoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 96:527-532.
66. 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.
67. Grantham, O.K., D.L. Moorhead, and M.R. Willig. 1995. Foraging strategy of the giant rams-horn snail, Marisa cornuarietis: An interpretive model. Oikos 72:333-342.
68. Williams, S.L., M.R. Willig, and F.A. Reid. 1995. Review of the Tonatia bidens complex (Mammalia: Chiroptera), with descriptions of two new subspecies. Journal of Mammalogy 76:612-626.
69. Camilo, G.R., and M.R. Willig. 1995. Dynamics of a food chain model from an arthropod-dominated lotic community. Ecological Modelling 79:121-129.
70. Gannon, M.R., and M.R. Willig. 1995. Ecology of ectoparasites from tropical bats. Environmental Entomology 24:1495-1503.
71. Willig, M.R., and R.R. Hollander. 1995. Secondary sexual dimorphism and phylogenetic constraints in bats: A multivariate approach. Journal of Mammalogy 76:981-992.
72. Sites, R.W., M.R. Willig, and R.S. Zack. 1996. Morphology, ontogeny, and adaptation of Ambrysus mormon (Hemiptera: Naucoridae): Quantitative comparisons among populations in different thermal environments. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 89:12-19.
73. Garrison, R.W., and M.R. Willig. 1996. Arboreal invertebrates. Pp. 183-245, In: The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest (D.P. Reagan and R.B. Waide, Eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois , 616 pp.
74. Willig, M.R., and M.R. Gannon. 1996. Mammals. Pp. 399-431, In: The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest (D.P. Reagan and R.B. Waide, Eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 616 pp.
75. Walker, L.R., W.L. Silver, M.R. Willig, and J. K. Zimmerman, Eds. 1996. Special issue: Long term responses of Caribbean ecosystems to disturbance. Biotropica 28:414-614.
76. 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.
77. 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.
78. Zimmerman, J.K, M.R. Willig, L.R. Walker, W.L. Silver. 1996. Introduction: Disturbance and Caribbean ecosystems. Biotropica 28:414-423.
79. Lyons, S.K., and M.R. Willig. 1997. Latitudinal patterns of range size: Methodological concerns and empirical evaluations for New World bats and marsupials. Oikos 79:568-580.
80. 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.
81. Willig, M.R., and M.R. Gannon. 1997. Gradients of species density and turnover in marsupials: A hemispheric perspective. Journal of Mammalogy 78:756-765.
82. Gannon, M.R., and M.R. Willig. 1998. Long-term monitoring protocol for bats: Lessons from the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Pp. 271-291, In: Forest Biodiversity in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean: Research and Monitoring (F. Dallmeier and J. Comisky, Eds.). The Parthenon Press, Cranforth, Lancashire, UK.
83. Kaufman, D.M., and M.R. Willig. 1998. Latitudinal patterns of mammalian species richness in the New World: The effects of sampling method and faunal group. Journal of Biogeography 25:795-805.
84. Lopez-Gonzalez, C., S.J. Presley, R.D. Owen, and M.R. Willig. 1998. Noteworthy records of bats (Chiroptera) from Paraguay. Mastozoologia Neotropical 5:41-45.
85. Moorhead, D.L., D.L. Hall, and M.R. Willig. 1998. Succession of macroinvertebrates in playas of the Southern High Plains, USA. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 17:430-442.
86. Willig, M.R., and S.K. Lyons. 1998. An analytical model of latitudinal gradients of species richness with an empirical test for marsupials and bats in the New World. Oikos 81:93-98.
87. 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.
88. 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. Pp. 293-322, In: Forest Biodiversity in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean: Research and Monitoring (F. Dallmeier and J. Comisky, Eds.). Parthenon Press, Cranforth, Lancashire, UK.
89. Hall, D.L., R.W. Sites, E.B. Fish, T.R. Mollhagen, D.L. Moorhead, and M.R. Willig. 1999. Playas of the Southern High Plains: The macroinvertebrate fauna. Pp. 635-665, In: Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and management (D. Batzer, R.B. Rader, and S. A. Wissinger, Eds.). John Wiley & Sons, New York.
90. Lyons, S.K., and M.R. Willig. 1999. A hemispheric assessment of scale-dependence in latitudinal gradients of species richness. Ecology 80:2483-2491.
91. Stevens, R.D., and M.R. Willig. 1999. Size assortment in New World bat communities. Journal of Mammalogy 80:644-658.
92. Waide, R.B., M.R. Willig, C. 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 & Systematics 30:257-300.
93. Walker, L.R. and M.R. Willig. 1999. An introduction to terrestrial disturbances. Pp. 1-15, In: Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
94. Willig, M.R., and M.A. McGinley. 1999. The response of animals to disturbance and their roles in patch generation. Pp. 633-657, In: Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
95. Willig, M.R. and L.R. Walker. 1999. Disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems: Salient themes, synthesis, and future directions. Pp. 747-767, In: Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
96. Wolf, C.F., D.L. Moorhead, and M.R. Willig. 1999. Urban playas of the Southern High Plains: The influence of water quality on macroinvertebrate diversity and community structure. Pp. 667-689, In: Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and management (D. Batzer, R.B. Rader, and S. A. Wissinger, Eds.). John Wiley & Sons, New York.
97. Stevens, R.D., and M.R. Willig. 2000. Community structure, abundance, and morphology. Oikos 88:48-56.
98. Stevens, R.D., and M.R. Willig. 2000. Density compensation in New World bat communities. Oikos 89:367-377.
99. Willig, M.R., S.J. Presley, R.D. Owen, and C. Lopez-Gonzalez. 2000. Composition and structure of bat assemblages in Paraguay: A subtropical-temperate interface. Journal of Mammalogy 81:386-401.
100. 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.
101. Scheiner, S.M., S.B. Cox, M. 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.
102. Sites, R.W., and M.R. Willig. 2000. Morphometric variation among populations of Ambrysus mormon Montandon (Heteroptera: Naucoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 102:533-541.
103. 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.
104. Willig, M.R. 2000. Latitude, common trends within. Pp. 701-714, In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (S. Levin, Ed.), Academic Press, San Diego, California.
105. Cramer, M.J., M.R. Willig, and C. Jones. 2001. Trachops cirrhosis. Mammalian Species No. 656, Pp. 1-6., American Society of Mammalogists 656:1-6.
106. Lopez-Gonzalez, C., S.J. Presley, R.D. Owen, M.R. Willig. 2001. Taxonomic Status of Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Paraguay. Journal of Mammalogy 82:138-160.
107. Mittelbach, G.G., C.F. Steiner, K.L. Gross, H.L. Reynolds, S.M. Scheiner, R.B. Waide, M.R. Willig and S.I. Dodson. 2001. What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity? Ecology 82:2381-2396.
108. Willig, M.R. 2001. Exploring biodiversity in time and space: Profitable directions for mammalogy in the 21st Century. Mastozoologia Neotropical 8:107-109.
109. Lyons, S.K., and M.R. Willig. 2002. Species richness, latitude, and scale-sensitivity. Ecology 83:47-58.
110. Stevens, R.D., and M.R.Willig 2002. Geographical ecology at the community level: Perspectives on the diversity of New World bats. Ecology 83:545-560.
111. Andelman, S.J., and M.R. Willig. 2002. Alternative configurations of conservation reserves for Paraguayan bats: Considerations of spatial scale. Conservation Biology 16:1352-1363.
112. 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.
113. Cramer, M.J., and M.R. Willig. 2002. Habitat heterogeneity, habitat associations, and rodent species diversity in a sand-shinnery-oak landscape . Journal of Mammalogy 83:743-753.
114. Rosenthal, J., F. Katz, G. Cragg, Y. Hallock, G. Johnson, L. Brady, M. Gottlieb, C. Tseng, R. Hawks J. Biswas, J. Roskoski, J. Rodman, E. Lyons, M. Willig, C Kramer-LeBlanc, and A. Bertinuson. 2002. Curtain has fallen on hopes of legal bioprospecting: local communities, too, could have benefited from better health care and conservation. Nature (Correspondence) 416:15.
115. Willig, M.R. 2003. Challenges to understanding dynamics of biodiversity in time and space. Paleobiology 29:30-33.
116. Willig, M.R., B.D. Patterson, and R.D. Stevens. 2003. Patterns of range size, richness, and body size in the Chiroptera. Pp. 580-621, In: Bat Ecology (T.H. Kunz and M. Brock Fenton, Eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
117. Patterson, B.D., M.R. Willig and R.D. Stevens. 2003. Trophic strategies, niche partitioning, and patterns of ecological organization. Pp 536-579, In: Bat Ecology (T.H. Kunz and M. Brock Fenton, Eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
118. Andelman, S.J., and M.R. Willig. 2003. Present patterns and future prospects for biodiversity in the Western Hemisphere. Ecology Letters 6:818-824.
119. Sites, R.W., M.R. Willig, and M.J. Linit. 2003. Macroecology of aquatic insects: A quantitative analysis of taxonomic richness and composition in the Andes Mountains of Northern Ecuador. Biotropica 35:226-239.
120. Willig, M.R., D.M. Kaufman, and R.D. Stevens. 2003. Latitudinal gradients of biodiversity: Pattern, process, scale, and synthesis. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics 34:273-309.
121. Stevens, R.D., S.B. Cox, R.E. Strauss, and M.R. Willig. 2003. Patterns of functional diversity across an extensive environmental gradient: Vertebrate consumers, hidden treatments and latitudinal trends. Ecology Letters 6:1099-1108.
122. Henriques, L.M.P., J.M. Wunderle, Jr., and M.R. Willig. 2003. Birds of the Tapajos National Forest, Brazilian Amazon: A preliminary assessment. Ornithologia Neotropical 14:307-338.
123. Bharti, A.R., J.E. Nally, M.A. Matthias, C.J. Ricaldi, M.M. Diaz, C.H. Estrada, M.A. Lovett, P.N. Lovett, M. Cespedes, G.R. Klimpel, R.H. Gilman, M.R. Willig, V. Pacheco, E. Gotuzzo, and J.M. Vinetz. 2003. Leptospirosis: A zoonotic disease of global importance. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 3:757-771.
124. Zak, J.C., and M.R. Willig. 2004. Analysis and interpretation of fungal biodiversity patterns. Pp. 59-76, In: Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods (G.M. Mueller, G.F. Bills, and M.S. Foster, Eds.). Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, Massachusetts.
125. 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.
126. Hall, D.L., M.R. Willig, D.L. Moorhead, R.W. Sites, E.B. Fish, and T.R. Mollhagen. 2004. Aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity of playa wetlands: The role of landscape and island biogeographic characteristics. Wetlands 24:77-91 .
127. Smith, F.A., J.H. Brown, J.P. Haskell, J. Alroy, E. Charnov, T. Dayan, B.J. Enquist, S.K.M. Ernest, E.A. Hadly, D. Jablosnki, K.E. Jones, D.M. Kaufman, S.K. Lyons, P.A. Marquet, B.A. Maurer, K.J. Niklas, W.P. Porter, K. Roy, B. Tiffney, and M.R. Willig. 2004. Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time. American Naturalist 163:672-692.
128. Stevens, R.D., M.R. Willig, and I. Gamarra de Fox. 2004. Comparative community ecology of bats in eastern Paraguay: Taxonomic, ecological, and biogeographic perspectives. Journal of Mammalogy 85:698-707.
129. Gorresen, P.M., and M.R. Willig. 2004. Landscape responses of bats to habitat fragmentation in Atlantic forest of Paraguay. Journal of Mammalogy 85:688-697.
130. 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.
131. Maurer, B.A., J. Alroy, 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.
132. Hice, C.L., P.M. Velazco, and M.R. Willig. 2004. Bats of the Reserva Nacional Allapahuayo-Mishana, northeastern Peru, with notes on community structure. Acta Chiropterologica 6:319-334.
133. Andelman, S.J., and M.R. Willig. 2004. Networks by design: A revolution in ecology. Science 305:1565-1567.
134. Harrell Yee, S., M.R. Willig, and D. L. Moorhead. 2005. Tadpole shrimp structure macroinvertebrate communities in playa lake microcosms. Hydrobiologia 541:139-148.
135. Wunderle, J.M., Jr., M.R. Willig, and L.M. Henriques. 2005. Avian distribution in treefall gaps and understory of terra firme forest in the lowland Amazon. Ibis 147:109-129.
136. Diaz, M.M. and M.R. Willig. 2005. Nuevos registros de Glironia venusta y Didelphis albiventris (Didelphimorphia) para Peru [New records of Glironia venusta y Didephis albiventris (Didelphimorphia) from Peru] . Mastozoologia Neotropical 11:185-192.
137. 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.
138. Scheiner, S.M., and M.R. Willig. 2005. Developing unified theories in ecology as exemplified with diversity gradients. American Naturalist 166:458-469.
139. Matthias, M.A., M.M. Diaz, K.J. Campos, M. Calderon, M.R. Willig, V. Pacheco, E. Gotuzzo, R.H. Gilman, and J.M. Vinetz. 2005. Diversity of bat-associated Leptospira in the Peruvian Amazon inferred by Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of 16s Ribosomal DNA sequences. Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 73:964-974.
140. Gorresen, P.M., M.R. Willig, and R.E. Strauss. 2005. Multivariate analysis of scale dependent associations between bats and landscape. Ecological Applications 15:2126-2136.
141. 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.
142. Cramer, M.J., and M.R. Willig. 2005. Habitat heterogeneity, species diversity, and null models. Oikos 108:209-218.
143. 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.
144. Stevens, R.D., M.R. Willig, and R.E. Strauss. 2006. Latitudinal gradients in the phenetic diversity of New World bat communities. Oikos 112:41-50.
145. 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.
146. Wunderle, J.M., Jr., L. M. Henriques, and M.R. Willig. 2006. Short-term responses of birds to forest gaps and understory: An assessment of reduced-impact logging in a lowland Amazon forest. Biotropica 38:235-255.
147. Higgins, C.L., M.R. Willig, and R.E. Strauss. 2006. The role of stochastic processes in producing nested patterns of species distribution. Oikos 114:159-167.
148. 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.
149. 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. Ritche, and M.R. Willig. 2007. Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities? Ecology Letters 10:680-689.
150. Castro-Arellano, I., S.J. Presley, L.N. Saldanha, M.R. Willig, J.M. Wunderle Jr. 2007. Effects of reduced impact logging on bat biodiversity in terra firme forest of lowland Amazonia . Biological Conservation 138:269-285.
151. Yee, D.A., and M.R. Willig. 2007. Colonisation of Heliconia caribaea by aquatic invertebrates: Resource and microsite characteristics. Ecological Entomology 32:603-612.
152. 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.
153. Willig, M.R., Presley, S.J., Bloch, C.P., Hice, C.L., Yanoviak, S.P., Diaz, M.M., Chauca, L.A., Pacheco, V., and Weaver, S.C. 2007. Phyllostomid bats of lowland Amazonia: Effects of habitat alteration on abundance. Biotropica 39:737-746.
154. Scheiner, S. M., and M.R. Willig. 2008. A general theory of ecology. Theoretical Ecology 1:21-28.
155. Presley, S.J., M.R. Willig, J.M. Wunderle, and L.N. Saldanha. 2008. Effects of reduced-impact logging and forest physiognomy on bat populations of lowland Amazonian forest. Journal of Applied Ecology 45:14-25.
156. Presley, S.J., and Willig, M.R. 2008. Intraspecific patterns of ectoparasite abundances on Paraguayan bats: Effects of host sex and body size. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24:75-83.
157. Willig, M.R., S.J. Presley, C.P. Bloch, and H.H. Genoways. 2008. Bats of the Caribbean: Effects of area, elevation, latitude, and hurricane-induced disturbance. Pp. 000-000 In: Island Bats: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation (T.H. Fleming and P.A. Racey, Eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois (Accepted October 2006).
158. Henriques, L.M.P., J.M. Wunderle, Jr., D.C. Oren, and M.R. Willig. 2008. Efeitos da exploração madeireira de baixo impacto sobre uma comunidade de aves de sub-bosque na Floresta Nacional do Tapajós, Pará, Brasil [Effects of low impact selective logging on an understory bird community in the Tapajós National Forest, Pará, Bazil]. Acta Amazonica 38:267-290.
159. 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.
160. 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.
161. Presley, S. J., M. R. Willig, I. Castro-Arellano, and S. C. Weaver. 2009. Effects of habitat conversion on activity patterns of phyllostomid bats in lowland Amazonian rainforest. Journal of Mammalogy 90:210-221.
162. Presley, S. J., M. R. Willig, L. N. Saldanha, J. M. Wunderle, and I. Castro-Arellano. 2009. Reduced-impact logging has little effect on temporal activity of frugivorous bats (Chiroptera) in lowland Amazonia. Biotropica 41:369-378.
163. Klingbeil, B.T., and M.R. Willig. 2009. Guild-specific responses of bats to landscape composition and configuration in fragmented Amazonian Rainforest. Journal of Applied Ecology 46:203-213.
164. 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.
165. 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. Pp. 000-000 in: Island Bats: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation (T.H. Fleming and P.A. Racey, Eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois (In Press).
166. Jones, G., D.S. Jacobs, T.H. Kunz, M.R. Willig, and P.A. Racey. 2009. Carpe noctem: The importance of bats as bioindicators. Endangered Species Research 8:93-115.
167. N.J. Gotelli, M.J. Anderson, H.T. Arita, A. Chao, R.K. Colwell, S.R. Connolly, D.J. Currie, R.R. Dunn, G.R. Graves, J.L. Green, J.-A. Grytnes, Y.-H. Jiang, W. Jetz, S.K. Lyons, C.M. McCain, A.E. Magurran, C. Rahbek, T. F.L.V.B. Rangel, J. Soberón, C.O. Webb, and M.R. Willig. 2009. Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology. Ecology Letters 12:873-886.
168. Willig, M.R., S.K. Lyons, and R.D. Stevens. 2009. Spatial methods for the macroecological study of bats. Pp. 216-245, in: Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats, 2nd Edition, (T.H. Kunz and S. Parsons, Eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
169. Castro-Arellano I., S. J. Presley, M. R. Willig, J. M. Wunderle, and L. N. Saldanha. 2009. Reduced-impact logging and temporal activity of understorey bats in lowland Amazonia. Biological Conservation 142:2131-2139.
170. Presley, S. J., and M. R. Willig. 2009. Bat metacommunity structure on Caribbean islands and the role of endemics. Global Ecology and Biogeography (in press).
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