Lab Publications and Presentations

PUBLICATIONS

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• RUSSELL, G. J. & A. ROSALES (In press) Sociability leads to instability: site-switching cascades in a colonial species. Theoretical Ecology.
• HARRIS, G. M., G. J. RUSSELL, R. I. VAN AARDE & S. L. PIMM (2008) Rules of habitat use by elephants (Loxodonta africana) in southern Africa: insights for regional management. Oryx 42(1): 66–75.
• ADENEY, J. M., J. R. GINSBERG, G. J. RUSSELL & M. F. KINNAIRD (2006) Effects of an ENSO-related fire on a tropical forest bird community in Sumatra. Animal Conservation 9(3): 292–301.
• RUSSELL, G. J., T. M. REED, J. M. DIAMOND & S. L. PIMM (2006) Breeding birds on small islands: island biogeography or optimal foraging? Journal of Animal Ecology 75(2): 324–339.
• FERRAZ, G., G. J. RUSSELL, T. E. LOVEJOY, P. C. STOUFFER, R. O. BIERREGAARD & S. L. PIMM (2004) Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 24: 14069–14073.
• RUSSELL, G. J., O. L. BASS & S. L. PIMM (2002) The effects of hydrological patterns and untimely, breeding-season flooding on the numbers and distribution of wading birds in Everglades National Park. Animal Conservation 5: 185–199.
• LOCKWOOD, J. L., G. J. RUSSELL, J. L. GITTLEMAN, C. C. DAEHLER, M. L. MCKINNEY and A. PURVIS (2002) A metric for analyzing taxonomic patterns of extinction risk. Conservation Biology 16: 1137–1142.
• FUKAMI, T., C. R. ZIMMERMAN, G. J. RUSSELL & J. A. DRAKE (1999) Self-organized criticality in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14(8): 321.
• RUSSELL, G. J., T. M. BROOKS, M. L. MCKINNEY & C. G. ANDERSON (1998) Present and future taxonomic selectivity in bird and mammal extinctions. Conservation Biology 12: 1365–1376.
• RUSSELL, G. J. (1998) Turnover dynamics across ecological and geological scales. Pages 377–404 in Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa and Communities (M. L. McKinney and J. A. Drake, eds.). Columbia University Press, Columbia, NY.
• PIMM, S. L., J. L. GITTLEMAN, G. J. RUSSELL & T. M. BROOKS (1996) Extinction rates — response. Science 273: 297.
• PIMM, S. L., G. J. RUSSELL, J. L. GITTLEMAN & T. M. BROOKS (1995) The future of biodiversity. Science 269: 347–350.
• RUSSELL, G. J., J. M. DIAMOND, S. L. PIMM & T. M. REED (1995) Centuries of turnover: community dynamics at three timescales. Journal of Animal Ecology 64: 628–641.
• SMITH, W. O. JR., & G. J. RUSSELL (1995) Phytoplankton biomass and nutrient distributions in the Amazon River plume: environmental correlates. Geo-Marine Letters 15: 195–198.
• CURNUTT, J., J. LOCKWOOD, H.-K. LUH, P. NOTT & G. RUSSELL (1994) Hotspots and species diversity. Nature 367: 326–327.
• PIMM, S. L., J. M. DIAMOND, T. M. REED, G. J. RUSSELL & J. M. VERNER (1993) Times to extinction for small populations of large birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 90: 10871–10875.

PRESENTATIONS

2008

• BROTHERSON, T., K. ALIAGA & G. J. RUSSELL. Island Biogeography with Active Dispersal. Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.

ARTICLES IN POPULAR PRESS

• Pimm et al. 1993 was the subject of an article in the New York Times on December 14th., 1993.
• Pimm et al. 1995 was the subject of an article in the New York Times on July 25th., 1995.