Publications

Cebrian, J.$, J.B. Shurin$, E.T. Borer, B.J. Cardinale, J.T. Ngai*, M.D. Smith and W.F. Fagan.  2009.  Producer nutritional quality controls ecosystem trophic structure.  Public Library of Science ONE 4: e4929$Contributed equally to the work. PDF

Thompson, R., B. Hemberg, B.M Starzomski and J.B. Shurin. 2009. The ubiquity of omnivory. Vehr. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30: 761-764. PDF

J.B. Shurin, K. Cottenie and H. Hillebrand. 2009. Spatial autocorrelation and dispersal limitation in freshwater organisms. Oecologia 159: 151-159 . PDF

Elser, J.J., M.E.S. Bracken, E.E. Cleland, D.S. Gruner, W.S Harpole, H. Hillebrand, J.T. Ngai, E.W. Seabloom, J.B. Shurin, J.E. Smith.  2007. Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. Ecology Letters 10: 1135-1142. PDF Featured in Nature's News and Views, Faculty of 1000 and Thomson-Reuters ScienceWatch.

Hillebrand, H., D.S. Gruner, M.E. Bracken, E.E. Cleland, J.J. Elser, W.S. Harpole, J.T. Ngai, E.W. Seabloom, J.B. Shurin and J.E. Smith.  2007. Plant community structure and productivity regulate top-down versus bottom up control of autotroph diversity across ecosystems.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104: 10904-10909 . PDF Featured in Faculty of 1000.

White, L.F. and J.B. Shurin.  2007. Diversity effects on invasion vary with life history stage in marine macroalgae.  Oikos 116: 1193-1203 .  PDF

Hall, S.R., J.B. Shurin, S. Diehl and R.M. Nisbet.  2007.  Food quality, nutrient limitation of secondary production, and the strength of trophic cascades.  Oikos 116: 1128-1143 .  PDF

Longmuir, A., J.B. Shurin and J.L. Clasen.  2007.  Independent gradients of producer, consumer and microbial diversity in lake plankton.  Ecology 88: 1663-1674 .  PDF Featured cover photo article.

Thompson, R.M., M. Hemberg, B.M. Starzomski and J.B. Shurin.  Trophic levels and trophic tangles: the prevalence of omnivory in real food webs.  Ecology 88: 612-617 .  PDF

Shurin, J.B.  2007.  How is diversity related to species turnover through time?  Oikos 116: 957-965 .  PDF

Shurin, J.B., S.E. Arnott, H. Hillebrand, A. Lonmuir, B. Pinel-Alloul, M. Winder, N.D. Yan.  2007.  Diversity-stability relationship varies with latitude in zooplankton.  Ecology Letters 10: 127-134.  PDF

Shurin, J.B.  2006.  News and Views: A pitcher of things to come.  Nature 443: 399-400.  PDF

Shurin, J.B., D.S. Gruner and H. Hillebrand.  2006.  All wet or dried up?  Real differences between aquatic and terrestrial food webs.  Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 273: 1-9 . PDF

Shurin, J.B. and E.W. Seabloom. 2005.  The strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems: Predictions from allometry and energetics. Journal of Animal Ecology 74:1029-1038. PDF

Havel, J.E., J.B. Shurin and J.R. Jones. 2005. Biotic and abiotic constraints on spread of the exotic cladoceran Daphnia lumholtzi (Sars). Ecoscience 12:376-385.

Chase, J.M., P. Amarasekare, K. Cottenie, A. Gonzalez, R. Holt, M. Holyoak, M. Hoopes, R. Law, M. Leibold, M. Loreau, N. Mouquet, J.B. Shurin, and D. Tilman. 2005. Towards a really unified theory for metacommunities. Book chapter in Metacommunities (ed. M. Holyoak, R. Holt and M. Leibold).

Hillebrand, H. and J.B. Shurin. 2005  Biodiversity and freshwater food webs. Invited book chapter in Aquatic Food Webs, ed. A. Belgrano. PDF

Smith, S. and J.B. Shurin. 2005. What do invasions tell us about saturation?Chapter in Conceptual Ecology and Invasions Biology, ed. M. Cadotte, S. McMahon, and T. Fukami.  In press. PDF

Halpern,B.S., E.T. Borer, E.W. Seabloom and J.B. Shurin. Stabilizing and destabilizing effects of species and trophic diversity in multi-trophic systems. 2005  Ecology Letters 8:189-194. PDF

Shurin, J.B. and D.S. Srivastava. 2005. New perspectives on local and regional diversity: beyond saturation. Book chapter in Metacommunities (ed. M. Holyoak, R. Holt and M. Leibold), in press. PDF

Borer, E.T., E.W. Seabloom, J.B. Shurin, K. Anderson, C.A. Blanchette, B.R. Broitman, S.D. Cooper, and B. Halpern. 2005. What determines the strength of a trophic cascade? Ecology 86:528-537. PDF

Havel, J.E., and J.B. Shurin. 2004. Mechanisms, effects and scales of dispersal in freshwater zooplankton. Limnology and Oceanography 49: 1229-1238. PDF

Leibold, M. A., M. Holyoak, N. Mouquet, P. Amarasekare, J.M. Chase, M. Hoopes, R. Holt, J.B. Shurin, R. Law, D. Tilman, M. Loreau, and A. Gonzalez. 2004. The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology. Ecology Letters 7: 601-613. PDF

Shurin, J.B., P. Amarasekare, J.M. Chase, R.D. Holt, M.F. Hoopes and M.A. Leibold. 2004. Alternative stable states and regional community structure. Journal of Theoretical Biology 227: 359-368. PDF

Cohen, G.M. and J.B. Shurin. 2003. Scale-dependence and mechanisms of dispersal in freshwater zooplankton. Oikos 103: 603-617. PDF

Wilson, W.G., P. Lundberg,  D. Vasquez, J.B. Shurin, M.D. Smith, W. Langford, K.L. Gross and G.G. Mittelbach. 2003. Biodiversity and species interactions: Extending Lotka-Volterra community theory. Ecology Letters 6:944-952. PDF

Shurin, J.B. and J.E. Havel. 2002. Hydrologic connections and overland dispersal in an exotic freshwater crustacean.  Biological Invasions 4:431-439. PDF

Havel, J.E., J.B. Shurin and J.R. Jones. 2002. Estimating dispersal from patterns of spread: Spatial and local control of lake invasions. Ecology 83:3306-3318. PDF

Shurin, J.B., E.T. Borer, E.W. Seabloom, K. Anderson, C.A. Blanchette, B.R. Broitman, S.D. Cooper, and B. Halpern. 2002. A cross-ecosystem comparison of the strength of trophic cascades. Ecology Letters 5: 785-791. PDF *Highlighted in Science’s Editor’s Choice (Science 298: 1517).

Borer, E.T., K.A. Anderson, C.A. Blanchette, B.R. Broitman, S.D. Cooper, B. Halpern, E.W. Seabloom, and J.B. Shurin. 2002. Topological approaches to food web analyses: a few modifications may improve our insights. Oikos 99: 397-401. PDF

Shurin, J.B and E.G. Allen.  2001. Effects of competition, predation, dispersal on local and regional species richness. American Naturalist 158: 624-637. PDF

Shurin, J.B. 2001. Interactive effects of predation and dispersal on zooplankton communities. Ecology 82: 3404-3416. PDF

Shurin, J.B., S.E. Gergel, D.M. Kaufman, D.M. Post, E.W. Seabloom, and J. Williams.  2001.   Letter: In defense of ecology. The Scientist 15:6. PDF

Shurin, J.B. 2000. Dispersal limitation, invasion resistance, and the structure of pond zooplankton communities. Ecology 81: 3074-3086. *Winner of 2002 Thomas M. Frost Award for Excellence in Graduate Research, Ecological Society of America Aquatic Section. PDF

Shurin, J.B., J.E. Havel, M.A. Leibold and B. Pinel-Alloul. 2000. Local and regional zooplankton species richness: A scale-independent test for saturation. Ecology 81: 3062-3073. PDF

Chase, J.M., M.A. Leibold, A.L. Downing, and J.B. Shurin. 2000. The effects of productivity, herbivory, and plant species turnover in grassland food webs. Ecology 81: 2485-2497.

Leibold, M.A., J.M. Chase, J.B. Shurin and A.L. Downing. 1997. Species turnover and the regulation of trophic structure. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 28:467-494.

Shurin, J.B. and S.I. Dodson.  1997. Effects of cyanobacteria and nonylphenol on environmental sex determination and development in Daphnia. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 16(6):1269-1276.