Publications

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2008

Berlow, E.L., U. Brose, and N.D. Martinez.  2008.
The "Goldilocks factor" in food webs.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105:4079-4080.

 Dunne, J.A., R.J. Williams, N.D. Martinez, R.A. Wood, and D.E. Erwin.  2008.
Compilation and network analyses of Cambrian food webs.
PLoS Biology 5:e102. DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060102.

Lafferty, K.D., S. Allesina, M. Arim, C.J. Briggs, G. DeLeo, A. Dobson, J.A. Dunne, P.T.J. Johnson, A.M. Kuris, D.J. Marcogliese, N.D. Martinez, J. Memmott, P.A. Marquet, J.P. McLaughlin, E.A. Mordecai, M. Pascual, R. Poulin, and D.W. Thieltges. In press.
Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links.
Ecology Letters 11:533-546.

Piechnik, D.A., S.P. Lawler, and N.D. Martinez.  2008.
Food-web assembly during a classic biogeographic study: species' "trophic breadth" corresponds to colonization order. 
Oikos 117:665-674.

Williams, R.J., and N.D. Martinez. 2008.
Success and its limits among structural models of complex food webs.
Journal of Animal Ecology 77:512-519.

2007

Srinivasan, U.T., J.A. Dunne, J. Harte, and N.D. Martinez.  2007.
Response of complex food webs to realistic extinction sequences.
Ecology 88:671-682.

Williams, R.J., U. Brose, and N.D. Martinez.  2007.
Homage to Yodzis and Innes 1992: scaling up feeding-based population dynamics to complex ecological networks.
Pages 37-52 in From Energetics to Ecosystems: The Dynamics and Structure of Ecological Systems.
N. Rooney, K.S. McCann, and D.L.G. Noakes, eds. Springer.

2006

Brose, U., T. Jonsson, E.L. Berlos, P. Warren, C. Banasek-Richter, L.-F. Bersier, J.L. Blanchard, T. Bery, S.R. Carpenter, M.-F. Cattin Blandenier, L. Cushing, H.A. Dawah, T. Dell, F. Edwards, S. Harper-SMith, U. Jacob, M.E. Ledger, N.D. Martinez, J. Memmott, K. Mintenbeck, J.K. Pinnegar, B.C. Rall, T.S. Rayner, D. C. Reuman, L. Ruess, W. Ulirich, R.J. Williams, G. Woodward, and J.E. Cohen.  2006.
Consumer-resource body size relationships in natural food webs.
Ecology 87:2411-2417.

Brose, U., R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez. 2006.
Allometric scaling enhances stability in complex food webs.
Ecology Letters 9:1228-1236.

Martinez, N.D.  2006.
Network evolution: exploring the change and adaptation of complex ecological systems over deep time.
Pages 287-301 in Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs. 
M. Pascual and J.A. Dunne, eds. Oxford University Press.

Martinez, N.D., and L.J. Cushing.  2006.
Additional model complexity reduces fit to complex food-web structure.
Pages 87-89 in Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs. 
M. Pascual and J.A. Dunne, eds. Oxford University Press.

Martinez, N.D., R.J. Williams, and J.A. Dunne. 2006.
Diversity, complexity, and persistence in large model ecosystems.
Pages 163-185 in Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs. 
M. Pascual and J.A. Dunne, eds. Oxford University Press.

 Romanuk, T.N., B. Beisner, N.D. Martinez, and J. Kolasa.  2006.
Non-omnivorous generality promotes population stability.
Biology Letters 2:374-377.

Romanuk, T.N., L.J. Jackson, J.R. Rost, E. McCauley, and N.D. Martinez.  2006.
The structure of food webs along river networks.
Ecography 29:1-8.

Williams, R.J., N.D. Martinez, and J. Golbeck. 2006.
Ontologies for ecoinformatics.
Journal of Web Semantics 4:237-242.

2005

 Brose, U., L. Cushing, E.L. Berlow, T. Jonsson, C. Banasek-Richter, L.-F. Bersier, J.L. Blanchard, T. Brey, S.R. Carpenter, M.-F. Cattin Blandenier, J.E. Cohen, H.A. Dawah, T. Dell, F. Edwards, S. Harper-Smith, U. Jacob, R.A. Knapp, M.E. Ledger, J. Memmott, K. Mintenbeck, J.K. Pinnegar, B.C. Rall, T. Rayner, L. Ruess, W. Ulrich, P. Warren, R.J. Williams, G. Woodward, P. Yodzis, and N.D. Martinez.   2005. 
Body sizes of consumers and their resources.
Ecology 86:2545, Ecological Archives EO86-135.

Brose, U., E.L. Berlow, and N.D. Martinez.  2005.
Scaling up keystone effects from simple to complex ecological networks.
Ecology Letters 8:1317-1325.

Brose, U., E.L. Berlow, and N.D. Martinez.  2005.
From food webs to ecological networks: linking non-linear trophic interactions with nutrient competition.
Pages 27-36 in Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change.
P.C. de Ruiter, V. Wolters, and J.C. Moore, eds.  Academic Press.

Dell, A.I., G.D. Kokkoris, C. Banasek-Richter, L.-F. Bersier, J.A. Dunne, M. Kondoh, T.N. Romanuk, and N.D. Martinez.  2005.
How do complex food webs persist in nature?
Pages 425-436 in Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change.
P.C. de Ruiter, V. Wolters, and J.C. Moore, eds.  Academic Press.

Dunne, J.A., U. Brose, R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez.  2005.
Modeling food-web structure and dynamics: implications for complexity-stability.
Pages 117-129 In Aquatic Food Webs: An Ecosystem Approach.
A. Belgrano, U. Scharler, J.A. Dunne, and R.E. Ulanowicz, eds.  Oxford University Press.
(previously, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 04-07-021)

Harper-Smith, S., E.L. Berlow, R.A. Knapp, R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez.  2005.
Communicating ecology through food webs: visualizing and quantifying the effects of stocking alpine lakes with trout.
Pages 407-423 in Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change.
P.C. de Ruiter, V. Wolters, and J.C. Moore, eds.  Academic Press.

Yoon, I., S. Yoon, R.J. Williams, N.D. Martinez, and J.A. Dunne. 2005.
Interactive 3D visualization of highly connected ecological networks on the WWW.
20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005), Mulitmedia and Visualization Section 1207-1217.

2004

Brose, U., and N.D. Martinez. 2004.
Estimating the richness of species with variable mobility.
Oikos. 105:292-300.

Brose, U., A. Ostling, K. Harison, and N. D. Martinez. 2004.
Unified spatial scaling of species and their trophic interactions.
Nature 428:167-171.

Dunne, J.A., R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez. 2004.
Network structure and robustness of marine food webs.
Marine Ecology Progress Series 273:291-302.
(previously, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 03-04-024)

Williams, R.J., and N.D. Martinez.  2004.
Diversity, complexity, and persistence in large model ecosystems.
Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 04-07-022.

Williams, R.J., and N.D. Martinez. 2004.
Stabilization of chaotic and non-permanent food-web dynamics.
European Physics Journal B 38:297-303.
(previously, Santa Fe Insitute Working Paper 01-07-037)

Williams, R.J., and N.D. Martinez. 2004.
Limits to trophic levels and omnivory in complex food webs: theory and data. 
American Naturalist 163:458-468.
(previously, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 02-10-056)

Yoon, I., R.J. Williams, E. Levine, S. Yoon, J.A. Dunne, and N.D. Martinez.  2004.
Webs on the Web (WOW): 3D visualization of ecological networks on the WWW for collaborative research and education.
Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Visualization and Data Analysis Section 124-132.

Yoon, S., I. Yoon, R.J. Williams, N.D. Martinez, and J.A. Dunne. 2004.
3D visualization and analysis of ecological networks.
Proceedings of the 7th LASTED International Conference on COmputer Graphics and Impaging 224-229.

2003

Brose, U., N.D. Martinez, and R.J. Williams. 2003. 
Estimating species richness: sensitivity to sample coverage and insensitivity to spatial patterns. 
Ecology 84:2364-2377.

Brose, U., R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez. 2003.
Comment on "Foraging adaptation and the relationship between food-web complexity and stability.
Science 301:918b-918c.
(Originally accepted titled: The Niche model recovers the negative complexity-stability relationship effect in adaptive food webs.)

2002

Dunne, J.A., R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez. 2002.
Food-web structure and network theory: the role of connectance and size .
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:12917-12922.
(previously, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 02-03-010)

Dunne, J.A, R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez.  2002.
Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance
Ecology Letters 5:558-567.
(previously, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 02-03-013)

Williams, R.J., E.L. Berlow, J.A. Dunne, A.-L. Barabási, and N.D. Martinez. 2002.
Two degrees of separation in complex food webs.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:12913-12916.
(previously, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 01-07-037)

2000

Memmott, J., N.D. Martinez, and J.E. Cohen. 2000.
Predators, parasites and pathogens: species richness, trophic generality, and body sizes in a natural food web.
Journal of Animal Ecology 69:1-15.

Willliams, R.J., and N.D. Martinez .2000.
Simple rules yield complex food webs.
Nature 404:180-183.

1999

Martinez, N.D., B.A. Hawkins, H.A. Dawah, and B. Feifarek. 1999.
Effects of sample effort ond characterization of food-web structure.
Ecology 80:1044-1055.

Holt, R.D., J.H. Lawton, G.A. Polis and N.D. Martinez.1999.
Trophic rank and the species-area relation.
Ecology 80:1495-1504.

1998

Martinez, N.D. and J.A. Dunne. 1998.
 in Time, space, and beyond: Scale issues in food-web research.
Pages 207-226 in Ecological Scale: Theory and Applications.
D. Peterson and V.T. Parker, eds. Columbia University Press.

1997

Hawkins B.A., N.D. Martinez, and F. Gilbert. 1997.
Source food webs as estimators of community web structure.
International Journal of Ecology 18:575-586.

1996

Bengtsson, J., and N.D. Martinez. 1996.
Cause and effect in food webs: do generalities exist?
Pages 179-184 in Food Webs: Integration of Patterns and Dynamics
G.A. Polis and K.O. Winemiller, eds. Chapman and Hall.

Martinez, N.D. 1996.
Defining and measuring functional aspects of biodiversity. (Very Large 13MB File)
Pages 114-148 in Biodiversity: A Science of Numbers and Difference.
K.J. Gaston, ed. Blackwell Scientific.

1995

Martinez, N.D. 1995.
Unifying ecological subdisciplines with ecosystem food webs.
Pages 166-175 in Linking Species and Ecosystems.
C.G. Jones and J.H. Lawton, eds. Chapman and Hall.
(1993 Cary Conference Proceedings)

Martinez, N.D. and J.H. Lawton. 1995.
Scale and food-web structure--from local to global.
Oikos 73:148-154.

1994

Martinez, N.D. 1994.
Scale-dependent constraints on food-web structure.
American Naturalist 144:935-53.

1993

Cohen, J.E., R.A. Beaver, S.H. Cousins, D.L. DeAngelis, L. Goldwasser, K.L. Heong, R.D. Holt, A.J. Kohn, J.H. Lawton, N.D. Martinez, R. O'Malley, L.M. Page, B.C. Patten, S.L. Pimm, G.A. Polis, M. Rejmnek, T.W. Schoener, K. Schoenly, W.G. Sprules, J.M. Teal, R.E. Ulanowicz, P.H. Warren, H.M. Wilbur, and P. Yodzis. 1993.
Improving food webs.
Ecology 74:252-258.

Martinez, N.D. 1993.
Effect of scale on food web structure.
Science 260:242-243.

Martinez, N.D. 1993.
Effect of scale on food web structure.
Science 260:1412.
(retraction of editorial error)

Martinez, N.D. 1993.
Effects of resolution on food web structure.
Oikos 66:403-412.

1992

Martinez, N.D. 1992.
Constant connectance in community food webs.
American Naturalist 139:1208-1218.

1991

Martinez, N.D. 1991.
Artifacts or attributes? Effects of resolution on the Little Rock Lake food web.
Ecological Monographs 61:367-392.

Martinez, N.D. 1991.
Effects of scale on food web structure.
Dissertation.  Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley.

1990

Martinez, N.D. 1990.
New wave ecology.   (Symposium review)
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 71:130-132.

1989

Martinez, N.D.  1989.
Constant connectance and constraint in community food webs.
Master's Project.  Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley.

1988

Martinez, N.D. 1988.
Artifacts or attributes? Effects of resolution on the food-web patterns in Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin.
Masters Thesis. University of Wisconsin, Madison.


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