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2023

  • Ann Marie Gawel, Evan Fricke, Andrea Colton & Haldre Rogers. Non-native mammals are weak candidates to substitute ecological function of native avian seed dispersers in an island ecosystem. Biotropica. link

2022

  • Evan Fricke, Chia Hsieh, Owen Middleton, Daniel Gorczynski, Caroline Cappello, Oscar Sanisidro, John Rowan, Jens-Christian Svenning & Lydia Beaudrot. Collapse of terrestrial mammal food webs since the Late Pleistocene. Science. free-access referral link

  • Isabel Donoso, Evan Fricke, Sandra Hervías-Parejo, Haldre Rogers & Anna Traveset. Drivers of ecological and evolutionary disruptions in the seed dispersal process: research trends and biases. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. link

  • Evan Fricke, Alejandro Ordonez, Haldre Rogers & Jens-Christian Svenning. The effect of defaunation on plants’ capacity to track climate change. Science. free-access referral link

2021

  • Haldre Rogers, Isabel Donoso, Anna Traveset & Evan Fricke. Cascading impacts of seed disperser loss on plant communities and ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. link

  • James Knighton, Evan Fricke, Jaime Evaristo, Hugo Jan de Boer & Martin Joseph Wassen. Phylogenetic underpinning of groundwater use by trees. Geophysical Research letters. link

  • Martin Kastner, Henry S. Pollock, Julie A. Savidge, Evan C. Fricke & Haldre S. Rogers. Functional robustness of seed dispersal by a remnant frugivore population on a defaunated tropical island. Biotropica. 53, 359-366. link

2020

  • Evan C. Fricke & Jens-Christian Svenning. Accelerating homogenization of the global plant-frugivore meta-network. Nature. 585, 74-78.  link

  • Ethan B. Linck, Evan C. Fricke & Haldre S. Rogers. Varied abundance and functional diversity across the bird communities of the Mariana Islands. Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 132, 22-28.  link

  • Henry S. Pollock, Evan C. Fricke, Evan M. Rehm, Martin Kastner, Nicole Suckow, Julie A. Savidge, and Haldre S. Rogers. Såli (Micronesian starling – Aplonis opaca) as a key seed dispersal agent across a tropical archipelago. Journal of Tropical Ecology36, 56-64.  link

  • Noelle Beckman, Clare Aslan, Haldre Rogers, Oleg Kogan, Judith Bronstein, James Bullock, Florian Hartig, Janneke HilleRisLambers, Ying Zhou, Damaris Zurell, Jedediah Brodie, Emilio Bruna, Stephen Cantrell, Robin Decker, Edu Effiom, Evan Fricke, Katie Gurski, Alan Hastings, Jeremy Johnson, Bette Loiselle, Maria Miriti, Mike Neubert, Liba Pejchar, John Poulsen, Gesine Pufal, Onja Razafindratsima, Manette Sandor, Katrina Shea, Sebastian Schreiber, Eugene Schupp, Rebecca Snell, Christopher Strickland & Jenny Zambrano. Advancing an interdisciplinary framework to study seed dispersal ecology. AoB Plants. 11, plz048.  link

2019

  • Evan C. Fricke, Joshua J. Tewksbury & Haldre S. Rogers. Linking intra-specific trait variation and plant function: seed size mediates performance trade-offs within species. Oikos. 128, 1716-1725.  link

  • Eugene Schupp, Rafal Zwolak, Landon Jones, Rebecca Snell, Noelle Beckman, Clare Aslan, Brittany Cavazos, Edu Effiom, Evan Fricke, Flavia Montaño-Centellas, John Poulsen, Onja Razafindratsima, Manette Sandor & Katriona Shea. Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal are diverse and pervasive. AoB Plants. 11, plz067.  link

  • Haldre S. Rogers & Evan C. Fricke. Maternal microbes complicate coexistence for tropical trees. Commentary in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences117, 7166-7168.  link

  • Clare Aslan, Noelle Beckman, Haldre Rogers, Judith Bronstein, Damaris Zurell, Florian Hartig, Katriona Shea, Liba Pejchar, Mike Neubert, John Poulsen, Janneke HilleRisLambers, Maria Miriti, Bette Loiselle, Edu Effiom, Jenny Zambrano, Eugene Schupp, Gesine Pufal, Jeremy Johnson, James Bullock, Jedediah Brodie, Emilio Bruna, Stephen Cantrell, Robin Decker, Evan Fricke, Katie Gurski, Alan Hastings, Oleg Kogan, Jim Powell, Onja Razafindratsima, Manette Sandor, Sebastian Schreiber, Rebecca Snell, Christopher Strickland & Joy Zhou. Employing plant functional groups to advance seed dispersal ecology and conservation. AoB Plants. 11, plz006.  link

  • Rebecca S. Snell, Noelle G. Beckman, Evan C. Fricke, Bette A. Loiselle, Carolina S. Carvalho, Landon R. Jones, Nathanael I. Lichti, Nicky Lustenhouwer, Sebastian Schreiber, Christopher Strickland, Lauren Sullivan, Brittany Cavazos, Itamar Giladi, Alan Hastings, Kimberly Holbrook, Eelke Jongejans, Oleg Kogan, Flavia Montaño-Centellas, Javiera Rudolph, Haldre Rogers, Rafal Zwolak & Eugene Schupp. The consequences of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal for plant demography, communities, evolution, and global change. AoB Plants. 11, plz016.  link

  • Evan C. Fricke, John Bender, Evan M. Rehm & Haldre S. Rogers. Functional outcomes of mutualistic network interactions: a community-scale study of frugivore gut passage on germination. Journal of Ecology. 107, 757-767.  pdf link

  • Evan M. Rehm, Evan C. Fricke, John Bender, Julie Savidge & Haldre S. Rogers. Animal movement drives variation in seed dispersal distance in a plant-animal network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B286, 20182007.  link

  • Phillip J. Dugger, Pedro G. Blendinger, Katrin Böning-Gaese, Lackson Chama, Marta Correia, D. Matthias Dehling, Carine Emer, Nina Farwig, Evan C. Fricke, Mauro Galetti, Daniel García, Ingo Grass, Ruben Heleno, Fábio A. F. Jacomassa, Kim McConkey, Marcia C. Muñoz, Eike L. Neuschulz, Larissa Nowak, Augusti Piratelli, Marco A. Pizo, Marta Quitián, Susanna Rodríguez-Echeverría, Haldre S. Rogers, Román A. Ruggera, Francisco Saavedra, Mariano S. Sánchez, Vinicio Santillán, Dana G. Schabo, Fernanda Ribero da Silva, Sérgio Timóteo, Anna Traveset, Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt & Matthias Schleuning. Seed-dispersal networks are more specialized in the Neotropics than in the Afrotropics. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28, 248-261.  link

2018

  • Evan C. Fricke, Joshua J. Tewksbury & Haldre S. Rogers. Defaunation leads to interaction deficits, not interaction compensation, in an island seed dispersal network. Global Change Biology 24, e190-200.  pdf  link

  • Monika H. Egerer, Evan C. Fricke & Haldre S. Rogers. Seed dispersal as an ecosystem service: Frugivore loss leads to decline of a socially valued plant, Capsicum frutescensEcological Applications. 28, 655-667 pdf  link

  • Sofia Gripenberg, Jadranka Rota, Jorma Kim, S. Joseph Wright, Nancy C. Garwood, Evan C. Fricke, Paul-Camilo Zalamea & Juha-Pekka Salminen. Seed polyphenols in a diverse tropical plant community. Journal of Ecology 106, 87-100.  pdf  link

2017

  • Evan C. Fricke, Joshua J. Tewksbury, Elizabeth. M. Wandrag & Haldre S. Rogers. Mutualistic strategies minimize coextinction in plant-disperser networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284, 20162302.  pdf  html

  • Evan C. Fricke & S. Joseph Wright. Measuring the demographic impact of conspecific negative density dependence. Oecologia 184, 259-266.  pdf  html

  • Haldre S. Rogers, Eric Buhle, Janneke HilleRisLambers, Evan C. Fricke, Ross Miller & Joshua J. Tewksbury. Effects of an invasive predator cascade to plants via mutualism disruption. Nature Communications 8, 14557.  pdf  html

2016

  • Evan C. Fricke & S. Joseph Wright. The mechanical defence advantage of small seeds. Ecology Letters 19, 987-991.  pdf  html

  • Evan C. Fricke, David C. Haak, Douglas J. Levey & Joshua J. Tewksbury (2016) Gut passage and secondary metabolites alter the source of predation for bird-dispersed chili seeds. Oecologia 181, 905-910.  pdf  html

2015

  • Evan C. Fricke, Katherine M. Blizzard, Damon P. Gannon & Robert A. Mauck. Model of burrow selection predicts pattern of burrow switching by Leach’s Storm-Petrels. Journal of Field Ornithology 86, 326-336.  pdf  html

2014

  • Evan C. Fricke, Joshua J. Tewksbury & Haldre S. Rogers. Multiple natural enemies cause distance-dependent mortality at the seed-to-seedling transition. Ecology Letters 17, 539-598.  pdf  html

2013

  • Evan C. Fricke, Melissa J. Simon, Karen M. Reagan, Douglas J. Levey, Jeffrey A. Riffell, Tomás A. Carlo & Joshua J. Tewksbury. When condition trumps location: seed consumption by fruit-eating birds removes pathogens and predator attractants. Ecology Letters 17, 1031-1036.  pdf  html  write-up in JEB