2008

2007

• Smith, R.A., K.A. Mooney and A. A. Agrawal. Coexistence of three specialist aphids on the common milkweed Asclepias syriaca.  Ecology. 

• Agrawal, A. A. and M. Fishbein. Phylogenetic escalation and decline of plant defense strategies. PNAS 105: 10057–10060. PDF

• Mooney, K. A. and A. A. Agrawal. Plant genotype shapes ant-aphid interactions: implications for community structure and indirect plant defense. American Naturalist 171: E195–E205. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., A. C. Erwin, and S. C. Cook. Natural selection and predicted response for ecophysiological traits of swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) in the field. Journal of Ecology 96:536–542. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A., M.J. Lajeunesse, and A. Fishbein. Evolution of latex and its constituent defensive chemistry in milkweeds (Asclepias): a phylogenetic test of plant defense escalation.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 128: 126–138. PDF

• Rasmann, S. and A.A. Agrawal. In defense of roots: A research agenda for studying plant resistance to belowground herbivory.  Plant Physiology 146: 875–880. PDF

• Mooney, K. A., P. Jones and A. A. Agrawal. Coexisting congeners: demography, competition, and interactions with cardenolides for two milkweed-feeding aphids.  Oikos 117:450-458. PDF

• Mooney, K.A. and A.A. Agrawal. Phenotypic plasticity in plant-herbivore interactions. Pages 43-57 in K. J. Tilmon (editor), The evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects: Specialization, speciation, and radiation. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. PDF

• Larson E.L., S.M. Bogdanowicz, A.A. Agrawal, M.T.J. Johnson, and R.G. Harrison. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis). Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 434–436. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. Macroevolution of plant defense strategies. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22:103-109. PDF

• Johnson, MTJ. Genotype-by-environment interactions leads to variable selection on life-history strategy in Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20:190-200. PDF

• Morris, W.F., R.A. Hufbauer, A.A. Agrawal, J.D. Bever, V.A. Borowicz, G.S. Gilbert, J.L. Maron, C.E. Mitchell, I.M. Parker, A.G. Power, M.E. Torchin, and D.P. Vázquez. Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis. Ecology 88:1021-1029. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., D. A. Ackerly, F. Adler, B. Arnold, C. Cáceres, D. F. Doak, E. Post, P. Hudson, J. Maron, K. A. Mooney, M. Power, D. Schemske, J. J. Stachowicz, S. Y. Strauss, M. G. Turner, E. Werner. Filling key gaps in population and community ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:145-152. PDF

• Johnson, M. T. J. and A. A. Agrawal. Covariation and composition of arthropod species across plant genotypes of evening primrose, Oenothera biennis. Oikos 116-941-956. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A., J.A. Lau, and P.A. Hambäck. Community heterogeneity and the evolution of interactions between plants and insect herbivore. Quarterly Review of Biology 81:349-376. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. and M. Fishbein. Plant defense syndromes. Ecology 87:S132–S149. PDF

• Battisti, A., M. Stastny, E. Buffo, and S. Larsson. A rapid altitudinal range expansion in the pine processionary moth produced by the 2003 climatic anomaly. Global Change Biology 12:662-671. PDF

• Johnson, M.T.J, M.J. Lajeunesse, and A.A. Agrawal. Additive and synergistic effects of plant genotypic diversity on arthropod communities and plant fitness. Ecology Letters 9:24–34. PDF

• Mooney, K.A.  2006.  The disruption of an ant-aphid mutualism increases the effects of insectivorous birds on pine herbivores. Ecology 87: 1805-1815. PDF

• Mooney, K.A., Linhart, Y.B.  2006. Contrasting cascades:  Insectivorous birds increase pine but not parasitic mistletoe growth. J. Animal Ecology 75: 350-357. PDF

• Mitchell, C.E., A.A. Agrawal, J.D.  Bever, G.S. Gilbert, R.A. Hufbauer, J.N. Klironomos, J.L. Maron, W.F. Morris, I.M. Parker, A.G. Power, E.W. Seabloom, M.E. Torchin, and D.P. Vázquez. Biotic interactions and plant invasions. Ecology Letters 9:726-740. PDF

• McGuire, R. and A.A. Agrawal. Trade-offs between the shade-avoidance response and plant resistance to herbivores? Tests with mutant Cucumis sativus. Functional Ecology 19:1025–1031. PDF

• McGuire, R. and M.T.J. Johnson. Plant genotype and induced responses affect resistance to herbivores on evening primrose (Oenothera biennis). Ecological Entomology 31:20-31. PDF

• Stastny, M., A. Battisti, E. Petrucco-Toffolo, F. Schlyter, and S. Larsson. Host-plant use in the range expansion of the pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pityocampa. Ecological Entomology 31:481-490. PDF

• Ives, A.R and A.A. Agrawal. (editors). Empirically motivated theory. Ecology 87:3137-3211. PDF

• Webb, C., J.B. Losos, and A.A. Agrawal (editors). Special Issue: Integrating phylogenies in to community ecology. Ecology 87:S1-S163. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A., P.M. Kotanen, C.E. Mitchell, A.G. Power, W. Godsoe and J. Klironomos. Enemy Release? An experiment with congeneric plant pairs and diverse above- and below-ground enemies. Ecology 86:2979–2989. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A.  Future directions in the study of induced plant responses to herbivory.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 115:97-105. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A.  Natural selection on common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) by a community of specialized insect herbivores.  Evolutionary Ecology Research 7:651-667. PDF

• A.A. Agrawal. Corruption of journal impact factors. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:157 PDF

• Stastny, M., U. Schaffner, and E. Elle. Do vigour of introduced populations and escape from specialist herbivores contribute to invasiveness? Journal of Ecology 93:27-37. PDF

• Battisti, A., M. Stastny, S. Netherer, C. Robinet, A. Schopf, A. Roques, and S. Larsson. Expansion of geographic range in the pine processionary moth caused by increased winter temperatures. Ecological Applications 15:2084-2096. PDF

• Kurashige, N.S. and A.A. Agrawal. Phenotypic plasticity to shading and herbivory in Chenopodium album. American Journal of Botany 92: 21-26 PDF

• Johnson, M.T.J. and A.A. Agrawal.  Plant genotype and the environment interact to shape a diverse arthropod community on evening primrose (Oenothera biennis). Ecology 86:874-885. PDF (with appendices)

• Conner, J.K. and A.A. Agrawal. Mechanisms of constraints: The contributions of selection and genetic variance to the maintenance of cotyledon number in wild radish. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18:238-242 PDF

• Ellison, A.M. and A.A. Agrawal. (editors). The statistics of rarity.  Ecology 86:1079-1163. PDF

• Fortin, M.-J. and A.A. Agrawal. (editors). Landscape ecology comes of age.  Ecology 86:1965-2017. PDF

• Hawkins, B.A. and A.A. Agrawal. (editors). Latitudinal gradients.  Ecology 86:2261-2328. PDF

• Inouye, B.D. and A.A. Agrawal. Ant mutualists alter the composition and attack rate of the parasitoid
  community for the gall wasp Disholcaspis eldoradensis (Cynipidae). Ecological Entomology 29:692-696 PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. and D.A. Spiller. Polymorphic buttonwood: Effects of disturbance on resistance to
  herbivores in green and silver morphs of a Bahamian shrub. American Journal of Botany 91(12):1990-1997. PDF

• Van Zandt, P.A., and A.A. Agrawal.  Community-wide impacts of herbivore-induced plant responses in milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca).  Ecology 85: 2616-2629. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A., N. Underwood, and J.R. Stinchcombe.  Intraspecific variation in the strength of density dependence in aphid populations.  Ecological Entomology 29:521-526.  PDF

• Agrawal, A.A., J.K. Conner, and J.R. Stinchcombe.  Evolution of plant resistance and tolerance to frost damage.  Ecology Letters 7:1199-1208. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. Resistance and susceptibility of milkweed to herbivore attack: Consequences of competition, root herbivory, and plant genetic variation. Ecology 85:2118-2133. PDF with appendices.

• Agrawal, A.A. Plant defense and density dependence in the population growth of herbivores. American Naturalist 164:113-120. PDF with appendices

• Lempa, K., A. A. Agrawal, J-P. Salminen, Teija Turunen, V. Ossipov, S. Ossipova, E. Haukioja , and K. Pihlaja. An analysis of rapid Rapid herbivore-induced changes in of mountain birch phenolics and nutritive compounds and their effects on the effects on performance of the major defoliator, Epirrita autumnata. Journal of Chemical Ecology 30:303-321 PDF

• Barrett, R.D.H. and A.A. Agrawal. Interactive effects of genotype, environment and ontogeny on resistance of cucumber (Cucumis sativus) to the generalist herbivore, Spodoptera exigua. Journal of Chemical Ecology 30: 37-51 PDF

• Van Zandt, P.A. and A.A. Agrawal. Specificity of induced plant responses to specialist herbivores of the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. Oikos 104: 401-409 PDF

• Irwin, R.E., L.S. Adler and A.A. Agrawal. (editors). Special Feature: Community and evolutionary ecology of nectar. Ecology 85:1477-1533. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. (editor) Forum: The metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology 85:1771-1821 PDF

• Mopper, S. and A.A. Agrawal. (editors). Special Feature: Phytohormonal ecology. Ecology 85:3-77 PDF

• Johnson, M.T.J. and A.A. Agrawal. The ecological play of predator-prey dynamics in an evolutionary theatre. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18:549-551. PDF

• Rotem, K. and A.A. Agrawal. Density dependent population growth of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, on the host plant Leonurus cardiaca. Oikos 103-559-565. PDF

• Dicke, M., A.A. Agrawal, and J. Bruin. Plants talk, but are they deaf? Trends in Plant Science 8:403-405. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. and P.M. Kotanen. Herbivores and the success of exotic plants: A phylogenetically controlled
  experiment. Ecology Letters 6:712-715. PDF

• Spiller, D. A. and Agrawal, A. A. Intense disturbance enhances plant susceptibility to herbivory: Natural and experimental evidence. Ecology 84:890-897. PDF

• A.A. Agrawal and N. S. Kurashige. A role for isothiocyanates in plant resistance against the specialist herbivore Pieris rapae. Journal of Chemical Ecology 29:1403-1415. PDF

• Rotem, K., A.A. Agrawal, and L. Kott. Parental effects in Pieris rapae in response to variation in food quality: Adaptive plasticity across generations? Ecological Entomology 28:211–218. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. and J.S. Thaler. Solving the two-body problem. Science Magazine's Next Wave.

• Agrawal, A. A. and P.A. Van Zandt. Ecological play in the coevolutionary theatre: genetic and environmental determinants of attack by a specialist weevil on milkweed. Journal of Ecology 91:1049–1059 PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. (editor). Special Feature: Community Genetics. Ecology 84:543-601. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. (editor). Special Feature: Selection studies in ecology: Concepts, methods, and directions. Ecology 84:1649-1712. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. (editor). Special Feature: Underground processes in plant communities. Ecology 84:2256-2334. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. (editor). Special Feature: Why omnivory. Ecology 84: 2521-2567. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. Maternal effects associated with herbivory: Mechanisms and consequences of transgenerational induced plant resistance. Ecology 83:3408-3415. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., J. K. Conner, M. T. Johnson, and R. Wallsgrove. Ecological genetics of induced plant defense against herbivores: Additive genetic variation and costs of phenotypic plasticity. Evolution 56:2206-2213. PDF

• Karban, R. and A.A. Agrawal. Herbivore offense. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33:641-664. PDF

• Gardner, S.N. and A.A. Agrawal. Induced plant defense and the evolution of counter-defenses in herbivores. Evolutionary Ecology Research 4:1131-1151. PDF

• Agrawal, A.A. and Malcolm, S. Once upon a milkweed. Natural History 111(7): 48-53. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., F. Vala, and M. W. Sabelis. Induction of preference and performance after acclimation to novel hosts in a phytophagous spider mite: adaptive plasticity? American Naturalist 159:553-565. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., A. Janssen, J. Bruin, M. A. Posthumus, and M. W. Sabelis. An ecological cost of plant defense: Attractiveness of bitter cucumber plants to natural enemies of herbivores. Ecology Letters 5:377-385. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., Kosola, K. R, and D. Parry. Gypsy moth defoliation and N-fertilization affect hybrid poplar regeneration following coppicing. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:1491-1495. PDF

• Fordyce, J. A. and A. A. Agrawal. The role of plant trichomes and caterpillar group size on growth and defence of the pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor. Journal of Animal Ecology 70:997-1005. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Phenotypic plasticity in the interactions and evolution of species. Science 294:321-326. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Transgenerational consequences of plant responses to herbivory: An adaptive maternal effect? American Naturalist 157:555-569. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. and M. F. Sherriffs. Induced plant resistance and susceptibility to late-season herbivores of wild radish. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94:71-75. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. and R. G. Colfer. Consequences of thrips-infested plants for attraction of conspecifics and parasitoids. Ecological Entomology 25:493-496. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. and J. A. Fordyce. Induced indirect defense in a lycaenid-ant association: The regulation of a resource in a mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. PDF | Commentary in Science magazine

• Agrawal, A. A. Benefits and costs of induced plant defense for Lepidium virginicum (Brassicaceae). Ecology 81:1804-1813. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Mechanisms, ecological consequences and agricultural implications of tri-trophic interactions. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 3:329-335. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Overcompensation of plants in response to herbivory and the by-product benefits of mutualism. Trends in Plant Science 5:309-313. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. and C. N. Klein. What omnivores eat: Direct effects of induced plant resistance on herbivores and indirect consequences for diet selection by omnivores. Journal of Animal Ecology 69:525-535. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., R. Karban, and R. Colfer. How leaf domatia and induced plant resistance affect herbivores, natural enemies and plant performance. Oikos 89:70-80. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. and R. Karban. Specificity of constitutive and induced resistance: Pigment glands influence mites and caterpillars on cotton plants. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 96:39-49. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Specificity of induced resistance in wild radish: Causes and consequences for two specialist and two generalist caterpillars. Oikos 89:493-500. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Host range evolution: Adaptation of mites and trade-offs in fitness on alternate hosts. Ecology 81:500-508. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., J. A. Rudgers, L. W. Botsford, D. Cutler, J. B. Gorin, C. J. Lundquist, B. W. Spitzer, A. L. Swann. Benefits and constraints on plant defense against herbivores: Spines influence the legitimate and illegitimate flower visitors of yellow star thistle, Centaurea solstitialis L. (Asteraceae). Southwestern Naturalist 45:1-5. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., C. Laforsch, and R. Tollrian. Transgenerational induction of defenses in animals and plants. Nature 401:60-63. PDF | News & Views (PDF) | Daphnia pictures (PDF)

• Agrawal, A. A., P. M. Gorski, and D. W. Tallamy. Polymorphism in plant defense against herbivory: Constitutive and induced resistance is Cucumis sativus. Journal of Chemical Ecology 25:2285-2304 . PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Induced plant defense: Evolution of induction and adaptive phenotypic plasticity. Pages 251-268 in A. A. Agrawal, S. Tuzun, and E. Bent, editors. Inducible plant defenses against pathogens and herbivores: Biochemistry, ecology, and agriculture . American Phytopathological Society Press. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., S. Y. Strauss, and M. J. Stout. Costs of induced responses and tolerance to herbivory in male and female fitness components of wild radish. Evolution 53:1093-1104. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., S. Tuzun, and E. Bent (editors). Inducible plant defenses against pathogens and herbivores: Biochemistry, Ecology, and Agriculture. American Phytopathological Society Press. Cover & Table of Contents | to purchase this book

• Karban, R., A. A. Agrawal, J. S. Thaler, and L. S. Adler. Induced plant responses and information content about risk of herbivory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14:443-447 PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Induced responses to herbivory in wild radish: Effects on several herbivores and plant fitness. Ecology 80: 1713-1723. PDF

• Gardner, S. N., A. A. Agrawal, J. Gressel, and M. Mangel. Strategies to Delay the Evolution of Resistance in Pests: Dose Rotations and Induced Plant Defenses. Pages 189-196 in Aspects of Applied Biology 53 (Challenges in Applied Population Biology). PDF

• Strauss, S. Y. and A. A. Agrawal. Ecology and evolution of plant tolerance to herbivory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14:179-185. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. and B. J. Dubin-Thaler. Induced responses to herbivory in the neotropical ant-plant association between Azteca ants and Cecropia trees: Response of ants to potential inducing cues. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 45: 47-54. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A., C. Kobayashi, and J. S. Thaler. Influence of prey availability and induced host plant resistance on omnivory by western flower thrips. Ecology 80:518-523. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. and R. Karban. Why induced defenses may be favored over constitutive strategies in plants. Pages 45-61 in R. Tollrian and C. D. Harvell, editors. The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses . Princeton University Press, Princeton. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Induced responses to herbivory and increased plant performance. Science 279: 1201-1202. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Leaf damage and associated cues induce aggressive ant recruitment in a neotropical ant plant. Ecology 79: 2100-2112. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. and M. T. Rutter. Dynamic anti-herbivore defense in ant-plants: The role of induced responses. Oikos 83: 227-236. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Algal defense, grazers, and their interactions in aquatic trophic cascades. Acta Oecologica 19: 331-337. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Effects of leaf domatia and induced plant resistance on omnivores in cotton. Pages 127-130 in Hoddle, M. S. (editor). Innovation in Biological Control Research : Proceedings of the California Conference on Biological Control. Berkeley, CA.

• Agrawal, A. A. and R. Karban. Domatia mediate plant-arthropod mutualism. Nature 387:562-563. PDF

• Karban, R., A. A. Agrawal, and M. Mangel. The benefits of induced defenses against herbivores. Ecology 78:1351-1355. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Do leaf domatia mediate a plant - mite mutualism? An experimental test of the effects on herbivores and predators. Ecological Entomology 22: 371-376. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Reforestation in Ecuador’s dry forest. Desert Plants 12: 12-14. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Evolution will not evolve us. Global Biodiversity 6: 21-23. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Natural history, seed predation, and germination of Prosopis juliflora relevant to a reforestation project in Southwestern Ecuador. Tropical Ecology 37:193-201. PDF

• Agrawal, A. A. Seed germination of Loxopterygium guasango, a threatened tree of coastal Northwestern South America. Tropical Ecology 37:273-276. PDF

• Agrawal, A. and S. L. Stephenson. Recent successional changes in a former chestnut-dominated forest in southwestern Virginia. Castanea 60: 107-113. PDF

• Agrawal, A. Use of dendrochronological methods to estimate an ecological impact date of the chestnut blight. Virginia Journal of Science 46: 41-47. PDF