Publications

A. J.  Bohonak, M. Holland, M. Zeller, B. Santer, C. M. Kearns, N. G. Hairston, Jr. (in press) The population genetic consequences of diapause in Eudiaptomus copepods. in press: Arch. f. Hydrobiologie

J. R. Meyer, S. P. Ellner, N. G., Hairston, Jr., L. E. Jones, T. Yoshida. (in press) Evolution on the time scale of predator-prey dynamics revealed by allele-specific quantitative PCR. in press: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

Yoshida, T., L. E. Jones, S. P. Ellner, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 2006.  Mechanisms for consumer diversity.  Nature 439: E1-E2 (electronic publication).  

Hairston, N. G., Jr., S. P. Ellner, M. A. Geber, T. Yoshida, J. A. Fox.  2005. Rapid evolution and the convergence of ecological and evolutinary time.  Ecology Letters 8:1114-1127.

Fussmann, G.G., S.P. Ellner, N.G. Hairston, Jr., L.E. Jones, K.W. Shertzer, and T. Yoshida. 2005.  Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of experimental plankton communities. Advances in Ecology 37:221-243

Hairston, N.G., Jr., C.M. Kearns, L.J. Perry, and S.W. Effler. 2005.  Species-specific phenotypes and the changing effects of Daphnia grazing on phytoplakton abundance: a history of industrial pollution and pelagic ecosytem response. Ecology 86:1669-1678.

Kerfoot, W.C., G. G. Mittelbach, N. G. Hairston, Jr., and J. J. Elser.  2004. Planktonic biodiversity: scaling up and down.  Limnology and Oceanography 49:1225-1228.

Yoshida, T., N.G. Hairstion, Jr., and S.P. Ellner.  2004.  Evolutionary tradeoff between defense against grazing and competitive ability in a simple unicellular alga, Chlorella vulgarisProceedings of the Royal Society of London  B 271:1947-1953.

Yoshida, T., L.E. Jones, S.P. Ellner and N.G. Hairston, Jr. 2003. Rapid evolution drives cological dynamics in a predator-prey system.  Nature  424:303-306.

Fussmann, G.F., S.P. Ellner and N.G. Hairston, Jr. 2003.  Evolution as a critical component of plankton dynamics.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270:1015-1022.

Shertzer, K.W., S.P. Ellner, G.F. Fussmann and N.G. Hairston, Jr. 2002. Predator-prey cycles in a live aquatic microcosm: testing hypotheses of mechanism.  Journal of Animal Ecology 71:802-815.

Baron, J.S., N.L. Poff, P.L. Angermeier, D.N. Dahm, P.H. Glieck, N.G. Hairston, Jr., R.B.   Jackson, C.A. Johnston, B.G. Richter and A.D. Steinman. 2002. Meeting ecological and societal needs for freshwater.  Ecological Applications 12:1247-1260.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. and C. M. Kearns.  2002.  Temporal dispersal:  Ecological and evolutionary aspects of zooplankton egg banks and the role of sediment mixing. Integrative and Comparative Biology  42:481-491.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. and G. G. Fussmann.  2002. Lake ecosystems.  In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.  Nature Publishing Group.  Web publication:  http://www.els.net/

Hairston, N. G., Jr., C. L. Holtmeier, W. Lampert, L. J. Weider, D. M. Post, J. M. Fischer, C. E. Cáceres, J. A. Fox, and U. Gaedke.  2001.  Natural selection for grazer resistance to toxic cyanobacteria:  evolution of phenotypic plasticity?  Evolution 55:2203-2214.

Gross, E.M., R.L, Johnson and N.G. Hairston, Jr. 2001. Experimental evidance for changes in submersed marcophyte species composition caused by the herbivore Acentria ephimerella (Lepidoptera). Oecologia 127:105-114.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 2001. Dormancy and diapause. In Levin, S. A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Vol.2. Academic Press, New York.

Johnson, R.L., P.J. Van Dusen, J.A. Toner and N.G. Hairston, Jr. 2000. Eurasian watermilfoil biomass associated with insect herbivores in New York. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management 38:82-88.

Duffy, M. A., L. J. Perry, C. M. Kearns, L. J. Weider and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 2000. Paleogenetic evidence for a past invasion of Onondaga Lake, New York, by exotic Daphnia curvirostris using mtDNA from dormant eggs. Limnology and Oceanography 45:1409-1414.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., A.-M. Hansen, and W. R. Schaffner. 2000. The effect of diapause emergence on the seasonal dynamics of a zooplankton assemblage. Freshwater Biology 45:133-145.

Santer, B., E. Blohm-Sievers, C. E. Cáceres and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 2000. Life-history
            variation in the coexisitin freshwater copepods Eudiaptomus gracilis and
            Eudiaptomus graciloides. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 149:441-458.

Fussman, G.F., S.P. Ellner, K.W. Shertzer and N.G. Hairston, Jr. 2000. Crossing the
            Hopf Bifurcation in a live predator-prey system. Science 290: 1358-1360

Post, D. M., M. L. Pace, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 2000. Ecosystem size determines
            food-chain length in lakes. Nature. 405:1047-1049.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., W. Lampert, C. E. Cáceres, C. L. Holtmeier, L. J. Weider, M.,
            U. Gaedke, J. Fischer J. A. Fox, and D. M. Post. 1999. Rapid evolution revealed
            by dormant eggs. Nature 401:446.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., L. J. Perry, A. J. Bohonak, M. Q. Fellows, C. M. Kearns, and D.
            R. Enstgrom. 1999. Population biology of a failed invasion: Paleolimnology of
            Daphnia exilis
in upstate New York. Limnology and Oceanography 44:477-486.

Ellner, S., N. G. Hairston, Jr., C. M. Kearns, and D. Babaï. 1999. The roles of fluctuating
            selection and long-term diapause in microevolution of diapause timing in a
            freshwater copepod. Evolution. 53:111-122.

Ellner, S., N. G. Hairston, Jr., and D. Babaï. 1998. Long-term diapause and spreading of
            risk across the life cycle. Archiv für Hydrobiologie Advances in Limnology
           
52:297-312.

Cáceres, C. E. and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1998. Benthic-pelagic coupling in freshwater
            zooplankton: The role of the benthos. Archiv für Hydrobiologie. Advances in
           
Limnology 52:163-174.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1998. Time travelers: What's timely in diapause research. Archiv für
           
Hydrobiologie. Advances in Limnology 52:1-15.

Johnson, R. L., E. M. Gross, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1998. Eurasian watermilfoil decline
            in Cayuga Lake associated with herbivory by the aquatic moth larva Acentria
           
ephemerella. Aquatic Ecology 31:283-289.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and A. J. Bohonak. 1998. Copepod reproductive strategies:
            Life-history theory and phylogenetic pattern. Journal of Marine Systems 15:23-34.

Hansen, A.-M. and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1998. Food limitation in a wild cyclopoid
            copepod population: Direct and indirect life history responses. Oecologia
           
115:320-330.

Walton, W. E., J. A. Emiley, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1997. Effect of prey size on the
            estimation of behavioral visual resolution for sunfish. Canadian Journal of
            Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
54:2502-2508.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and N. G. Hairston, Sr. 1997. Does food web complexity
            eliminate trophic-level dynamics? American Naturalist 149:1001-1007.

Kearns, C. M., N. G. Hairston, Jr. and D. H. Kesler. 1996. Particle transport by benthic
            invertebrates: its role in egg bank dynamics. Hydrobiologia 332:63- 70.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., C. M. Kearns and S. Ellner.  1996.  Phenotypic variation in a
            zooplankton egg bank.  Ecology 77:2382-2392.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1996. Zooplankton egg banks as biotic reservoirs in changing
            environments. Limnology and Oceanography 41:1087-1092.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1996. Book review of "How many people can the earth support?" by
            J.E. Cohen. Limnology and Oceanography 41:578-579.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., S. Ellner and C. M. Kearns. 1996. Overlapping generations: the
            storage effect and the maintenance of biotic diversity. In Rhodes, O. E. Jr., R. K.
            Chesser and M. H. Smith (eds). Population dynamics in ecological space and
            time. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. pp. 109-145.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and C. E. Cáceres. 1996. Distribution of crustacean diapause:
            micro- and macroevolutionary pattern and process. In Fryer, G. and V. Alekseev
            (eds). 1st International Symposium on Crustacean Diapause. Hydrobiologia
           
320:27-44.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1995. Autochthonous science. Book review of "The Caspian Sea" by
            Kosarev, A. N. and E. A. Yablonskaya. Quarterly Review of Biology 70:526-527.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and C. M. Kearns. 1995. The interaction of photoperiod and
            temperature in diapause timing: a copepod example. Biological Bulletin 189:42-48.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., R. A. Van Brunt, C. M. Kearns, and D. R. Engstrom. 1995. Age
            and survivorship of diapausing eggs in a sediment egg bank. Ecology 76:1706-1711.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and R. A. Van Brunt. 1994. Diapause dynamics of two diaptomid
            copepod species in a large lake. Hydrobiologia 292/293:209-218.

Walton, W. E., S. S. Easter, Jr., C. Malinoski, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1994. Size-related
            changes in the visual resolution of sunfish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and
           
Aquatic Science. 51:2017-2020.

Schaffner, W. R., N. G. Hairston, Jr., and R. W. Howarth. 1994. Feeding rates and
            filament clipping by crustacean zooplankton consuming cyanobacteria.
            Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie,
           
Verhandlungen 25:2375-2381.

Ellner, S. P. and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1994. Role of overlapping generations in
            maintaining genetic variation in a fluctuating environment. American Naturalist
           
143:403-417.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and N. G. Hairston, Sr. 1993. Cause-effect relationships in
            energy flow, trophic structure, and interspecific interactions. American Naturalist
           
142:379-411.

Walton, W. E., N. G. Hairston, Jr., and J. K. Wetterer. 1992. Growth-related constraints
            on diet selection by sunfish. Ecology 73:429-437.

De Stasio, B. T., Jr., and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1992. Environmental variability and the
            persistence of multiple emergence strategies. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
           
53:313-334.

Morin, A., K. D. Hambright, N. G. Hairston, Jr., D. M. Sherman, and R. W. Howarth.
            1991. Consumer control of gross primary production in replicate freshwater
            ponds. Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie,
           
Verhandlungen 24:1512-1516.

Hambright, K. D., R. W. Drenner, S. R. McComas, and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  1991.
            Gape-limited piscivores, prey size refuges, and the trophic cascade. Archiv für
           
Hydrobiologie 121:389-404.

Lohner, L., N. G. Hairston, Jr., and W. Schaffner. 1990.Determination of diapausing
            eggs of copepods in preserved samples. Limnology and Oceanography 35:763-766.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., T. A. Dillon, and B. T. De Stasio, Jr. 1990. A field test for the cues of
            diapause in a freshwater copepod. Ecology 71:2218-2223.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and T. A. Dillon. 1990. Fluctuating selection and response in a
            population of freshwater copepods. Evolution 44:1796-1805.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1990. Problems with the perception of zooplankton research by
            colleagues outside aquatic sciences. Limnology and Oceanography 35:1214-1216.

Braner, M. and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1989. From cohort data to life table parameters
            via stochastic modeling. In L. McDonald, B. Manly, J. Lockwood, and J. Logan
            (editors). Estimation and Analysis of Insect Populations. Lecture Notes in
           
Statistics 55:81-92. Springer.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and B. T. De Stasio, Jr. 1988. Rate of evolution slowed by a dormant
            propagule pool. Nature 336:239-242.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1988. Interannual variation in seasonal predation: its origin and
            ecological importance. Limnology and Oceanography 33:1245- 1253.

Black, R. W. and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1988. Predator driven changes in community
            structure. Oecologia 77:468-479.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., M. Braner, and S. Twombly. 1987. Perspective on prospective
            methods for obtaining life table data. Limnology and Oceanography 32:517-520.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and E. J. Olds. 1987. Population differences in the timing of
            diapause: a test of hypotheses. Oecologia 71:339-344.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1987. Diapause as a predator avoidance adaptation. In W. C.
            Kerfoot and A. Sih, editors. Predation: Direct and Indirect Impacts on Aquatic
            Communities. University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and E. J. Olds. 1986. Partial photoperiodic control of diapause in
            three populations of the freshwater copepod Diaptomus sanguineus. Biological
           
Bulletin 171:135-142.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and W. E. Walton. 1986. Rapid evolution of a life-history trait.
            Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 83:4831- 4833.

Meise, C. J., W. R. Munns, Jr., and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1985. An analysis of the feeding
            behavior of Daphnia pulex. Limnology and Oceanography 30:862- 870.

Li, K. T., J. K. Wetterer, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1985. Fish size, visual resolution, and
            prey selectivity. Ecology 66:1729-1735.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and S. Twombly. 1985. Obtaining life history data from cohort
            analyses: a critique of current methods. Limnology and Oceanography 30:886-893.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., E. J. Olds, and W. R. Munns, Jr. 1985. Bet-hedging and
            environmentally cued diapause strategies of diaptomid copepods. Internationale
           
Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, Verhandlungen
           
22:3170- 3177.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and E. J. Olds. 1984. Population differences in diapause timing:
            adaptation in a spatially heterogeneous environment. Oecologia 61:42- 48.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and W. R. Munns, Jr. 1984. The timing of copepod diapause as
            an evolutionarily stable strategy. American Naturalist 123:733- 751.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., W. E. Walton, and K. T. Li. 1983. The causes and consequences of
            sex-specific mortality in a freshwater copepod. Limnology and Oceanography
           
28:935-947.

Gentile, J. H., S. M. Gentile, G. Hoffman, J. F. Heltsche, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1983.
            The effects of chronic mercury exposure on survival, reproduction, and population
            dynamics of Mysidopsis bahia. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2:61-68.

Black, R. W. and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 1983. Cyclomorphosis in Eubosmina longispina in a
            small North American lake. Hydrobiologia 102:61-67.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., K. T. Li, and S. S. Easter, Jr. 1982. Fish vision and the detection of
            planktonic prey. Science 218:1240-1242.

Gentile, J. H., S. M. Gentile, N. G. Hairston, Jr., and B. K. Sullivan. 1982. The use of
            life-tables for evaluating the chronic toxicity of pollutants to Mysidopsis bahia.
            Hydrobiologia 93:179-187.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1981. The interaction of salinity, predators, light and copepod
            color. In W. D. Williams, editor. Salt Lakes: Proceedings of an International
            Symposium on Athalassic Salt Lakes. Hydrobiologia 81:151-158.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1980. The vertical distribution of diaptomid copepods in relation to
            body pigmentation. Pp. 281-290.  In W. C. Kerfoot, editor. Evolution and Ecology of
            Zooplankton Communities. University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1980. On the diel variation of copepod pigmentation. Limnology
           
and Oceanography 25:742-747.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1979. Fitness, survival and reproduction. Systematic Zoology
           
28:392-395.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1979. The effect of temperature on carotenoid photoprotection in the
            copepod Diaptomus nevadensis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
           
62A:445-448.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1979. The relationship between pigmentation and reproduction in
            two species of Diaptomus (Copepoda). Limnology and Oceanography 24:38-44.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1979. The adaptive significance of color polymorphism in two
            species of Diaptomus (Copepoda). Limnology and Oceanography 24:15- 37.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1978. Carotenoid photoprotection in Diaptomus kenai.
            Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie,
           
Verhandlungen 20:2541-2545.

Hairston, N. G., Jr. 1976. Photoprotection by carotenoid pigments in the copepod
            Diaptomus nevadensis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
           
73:971-974.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., and R. A. Pastorok. 1975. Response of Daphnia population size
            and age structure to predation. Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und
           
Angewandte Limnologie, Verhandlungen 19:2898-2905.

Edited Volumes

Kerfoot, W. C., J. J. Elser, G. G. Mittelbach, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. (editors).  Biocomplexity of pelagic ecosystems.  Special Issue of Limnology and Oceanography vol. 49 (4, part 2), 245 pp.

Brendonck, L., L. De Meester, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. (editors). 1998. Evolutionary and ecological aspects of crustacean diapause. Archiv für Hydrobiologie Advances in Limnology 52, 561 pp.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., J. T. Lehman, and J. G. Stockner (editors). 1988. W. T. Edmondson Celebratory Issue of Limnology and Oceanography 33 (6, part 1), 198 pp.