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2008
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.
Krivov,
S., R.J. Williams, and F.
Villa. In press.
GrOWL: A tool for visualizing and editing OWL ontologies.
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web.
Williams, R.J. 2008.
Effects of network and
dynamical model structure on species persistence in large model food
webs.
Theoretical Ecology DOI 10.1007/s12080-008-0013-5.
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
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.
Krivov,
S., F. Villa, and R.J. Williams.
2006.
On visualization of OWL ontologies.
In Semantic Web:
Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences.
C. Baker and K. Cheung, eds. Springer.
Martinez,
N.D., R.J. Williams, and J.A.
Dunne. 2006.
Dviersity, 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.
Williams, R.J.,
N.D. Martinez, and J. Golbeck. 2006.
Ontologies for ecoinformatics.
Journal of Web Semantics 4:237-242.
Bowers, S., D. Thau, R.J. Williams, and B. Ludaescher. 2005.
Data procurement for enabling scientific workflows: on explorign inter-ant parasitism.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3372:57-63.
C. Bussler, V. Tannen, and I. Fundulaki, eds. Springer-Verlag.
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.
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.
ACM Symposium on
Applied Computing (SAC 2005), Multimedia and Visualization Section
1027-1217.
2004
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.
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)
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 Institute Working Paper 01-07-037)
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 Seventh LASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging 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.
2002
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)
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 USA 99:12917-12922.
(previously, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 02-03-010)
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 USA 99:12913-12916.
(previously,
Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 01-07-037)
2000
Williams, R.J., and N. D. Martinez.
2000.
Simple rules yield complex food webs.
Nature 404:180-183.
1993
Armi,
L., and R. Williams. 1993.
The hydraulics of a stratified fluid flowing through a contraction.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 251:355-375.
1991
Williams, R., and Armi, L. 1991.
Two-layer hydraulics with comparable internalwave speeds.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 230:667-691.
Williams, R. 1991.
The hydraulics of layered and stratified fluids flowing through a
contraction.
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, San Diego.
1990
Williams, R., and Armi, L. 1990.
The planetary boundary layer of the deep western boundary current.
Deep-Sea Research 38:392-399.
Armi,
L., and Williams, R. 1990.
The deep western boundary current off the Newfoundland Ridge.
Deep-Sea Research 38:371-391.
1982
Dyer,
I., A.B. Baggeroer, J.D. Zittel, and R.
Williams.
1982.
Acoustic backscattering from the basin and margins of the Arctic Ocean.
Journal of Geophycial Research- Oceans and Atmosphere 87:9477-9488.
1981
Williams, R. 1981.
Backscattering of low frequency sound from the topographic features of
the Arctic Ocean Basin.
Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.