Robert K. Colwell

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Robert K. Colwell

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Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness (2001) (5715)
Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. (1994) (4294)
Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map (2006) (2440)
Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies (2014) (2060)
Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being (2017) (1764)
A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data (2004) (1683)
INTERPOLATING, EXTRAPOLATING, AND COMPARING INCIDENCE-BASED SPECIES ACCUMULATION CURVES (2004) (1682)
Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation and comparison of assemblages (2012) (1647)
On the Measurement of Niche Breadth and Overlap. (1971) (1354)
Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics (2008) (1124)
Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation (2014) (815)
Terrestrial Arthropod Assemblages: Their Use in Conservation Planning (1993) (805)
THE ANT FAUNA OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST: ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS THREE DIFFERENT WAYS (2002) (628)
The Planned Introduction of Genetically Engineered Organisms: Ecological Considerations and Recommendations (1989) (625)
Statistical methods for estimating species richness of woody regeneration in primary and secondary rain forests of northeastern Costa Rica (1998) (623)
Nonbiological Gradients in Species Richness and a Spurious Rapoport Effect (1994) (617)
The Mid‐Domain Effect and Species Richness Patterns:What Have We Learned So Far? (2004) (579)
PREDICTABILITY, CONSTANCY, AND CONTINGENCY OF PERIODIC PHENOMENA' (1974) (567)
Abundance‐Based Similarity Indices and Their Estimation When There Are Unseen Species in Samples (2006) (536)
Hutchinson's duality: The once and future niche (2009) (529)
Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis (2004) (528)
Sufficient sampling for asymptotic minimum species richness estimators. (2009) (467)
Species Loss and Aboveground Carbon Storage in a Tropical Forest (2005) (425)
The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists? (2009) (405)
Community Organization Among Neotropical Nectar-Feeding Birds (1978) (400)
An estimate of the number of tropical tree species (2015) (350)
The coincidence of rarity and richness and the potential signature of history in centres of endemism (2004) (342)
Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity? (2019) (339)
BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT USING STRUCTURED INVENTORY: CAPTURING THE ANT FAUNA OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST (1997) (314)
Predicting continental-scale patterns of bird species richness with spatially explicit models (2007) (313)
Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology. (2009) (312)
Experimental Studies of the Niche (1975) (301)
EstimateS turns 20: statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples, with non‐parametric extrapolation (2014) (262)
EstimateS turns 20: statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples, with non‐parametric extrapolation (2014) (262)
Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes (2019) (255)
A comparison of taxon co-occurrence patterns for macro- and microorganisms. (2007) (254)
Vascular epiphyte distribution patterns: explaining the mid‐elevation richness peak (2006) (249)
Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves (2018) (240)
EVOLUTION OF SEX RATIO IN STRUCTURED DEMES (1981) (233)
Assessing the threat to montane biodiversity from discordant shifts in temperature and precipitation in a changing climate. (2011) (228)
Organization of Contiguous Communities of Amphibians and Reptiles in Thailand (1977) (223)
Group selection is implicated in the evolution of female-biased sex ratios (1981) (220)
Defining and observing stages of climate-mediated range shifts in marine systems (2014) (207)
The role of environment and mid-domain effect on moth species richness along a tropical elevational gradient (2007) (196)
Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities (2013) (195)
NULL MODELS IN ECOLOGY (1983) (184)
A novel statistical method for classifying habitat generalists and specialists. (2011) (182)
20. A Null Model for Null Models in Biogeography (1984) (180)
The Relationship between Species Diversity and Stability: An Experimental Approach with Protozoa and Bacteria (1968) (156)
Species Richness and Evolutionary Niche Dynamics: A Spatial Pattern–Oriented Simulation Experiment (2007) (155)
Competition and Coexistence in a Simple Tropical Community (1973) (146)
ESTIMATION OF SPECIES RICHNESS: MIXTURE MODELS, THE ROLE OF RARE SPECIES, AND INFERENTIAL CHALLENGES (2005) (142)
Estimating the Species Accumulation Curve Using Mixtures (2005) (141)
Beta diversity: synthesis and a guide for the perplexed (2010) (130)
Rensch’s Rule Crosses the Line: Convergent Allometry of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Hummingbirds and Flower Mites (2000) (127)
Managing consequences of climate‐driven species redistribution requires integration of ecology, conservation and social science (2018) (126)
Coextinction and persistence of dependent species in a changing world (2012) (123)
Species richness and distribution of ferns along an elevational gradient in Costa Rica (2006) (123)
Elevation and the Morphology, Flight Energetics, and Foraging Ecology of Tropical Hummingbirds (1979) (121)
Density compensation, species composition, and richness of ants on a neotropical elevational gradient (2011) (109)
III.1 Biodiversity: Concepts, Patterns, and Measurement (2009) (107)
Vulnerability and Resilience of Tropical Forest Species to Land‐Use Change (2009) (105)
Process, Mechanism, and Modeling in Macroecology. (2017) (101)
Ecological assessment. (1972) (99)
Biota: The Biodiversity Database Manager (1996) (99)
Seasonal and daily climate variation have opposite effects on species elevational range size (2016) (99)
Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms (2008) (89)
The Mid‐Domain Effect: There’s a Baby in the Bathwater (2005) (88)
Phylogenetic uncertainty revisited: Implications for ecological analyses (2015) (87)
A stochastic, evolutionary model for range shifts and richness on tropical elevational gradients under Quaternary glacial cycles (2010) (86)
Explaining the species richness of birds along a subtropical elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains (2013) (84)
Unveiling the species-rank abundance distribution by generalizing the Good-Turing sample coverage theory. (2015) (84)
Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages (2020) (80)
Effects of nectar consumption by the hummingbird flower mite Proctolaelaps kirmsei on nectar availability in Hamelia patens. (1995) (73)
Elevational species richness gradients in a hyperdiverse insect taxon: a global meta-study on geometrid moths (2017) (71)
RangeModel: tools for exploring and assessing geometric constraints on species richness (the mid‐domain effect) along transects (2008) (68)
Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity (2013) (64)
Competition for the Nectar of Centropogon valerii by the Hummingbird Colibri thalassinus and the Flower-Piercer Diglossa plumbea, and Its Evolutionary Implications (1974) (61)
Midpoint attractors and species richness: Modelling the interaction between environmental drivers and geometric constraints. (2016) (61)
Genetic engineering in agriculture. (1985) (60)
Elevational Patterns of Diversity and Abundance of Eusocial Paper Wasps (Vespidae) in Costa Rica (2009) (60)
Turning Up the Heat on a Hotspot: DNA Barcodes Reveal 80% More Species of Geometrid Moths along an Andean Elevational Gradient (2016) (54)
The river domain: why are there more species halfway up the river? (2006) (53)
A barrier runs through it... or maybe just a river. (2000) (52)
THE INFLUENCE OF BAND SUM AREA, DOMAIN EXTENT, AND RANGE SIZES ON THE LATITUDINAL MID-DOMAIN EFFECT (2005) (49)
Estimating the Richness of a Population When the Maximum Number of Classes Is Fixed: A Nonparametric Solution to an Archaeological Problem (2012) (48)
Thirty years of progeny from Chao’s inequality: Estimating and comparing richness with incidence data and incomplete sampling (2017) (48)
Ecological and biogeographic null hypotheses for comparing rarefaction curves (2015) (48)
Mobile hotspots and refugia of avian diversity in the mountains of south‐west China under past and contemporary global climate change (2017) (44)
POPULATION STRUCTURE AND SEXUAL SELECTION FOR HOST FIDELITY IN THE SPECIATION OF HUMMINGBIRD FLOWER MITES (1986) (43)
Life-History Patterns of Hummingbird Flower Mites in Relation to Host Phenology and Morphology (1994) (42)
How Ants Drop Out: Ant Abundance on Tropical Mountains (2014) (40)
Virtual Biodiversity Assessment Systems (2000) (39)
Ecological Consequences of Heterogeneity of Consumable Resources (1991) (38)
Tropical Tree Richness and Resource-Based Niches (1999) (38)
Moth body size increases with elevation along a complete tropical elevational gradient for two hyperdiverse clades (2018) (37)
Statistical Analysis of Paradigmatic Class Richness Supports Greater Paleoindian Projectile-Point Diversity in the Southeast (2016) (37)
Peaks, plateaus, canyons, and craters: the complex geometry of simple mid-domain effect models (2009) (35)
THE GEOGRAPHICAL ECOLOGY OF HUMMINGBIRD FLOWER MITES IN RELATION TO THEIR HOST PLANTS AND CARRIERS (1979) (34)
The Evolution of Ecology (1985) (33)
Understanding historical and current patterns of species richness of babblers along a 5000‐m subtropical elevational gradient (2014) (32)
Systematics and host plant affiliations of hummingbird flower mites of the Genera Tropicoseius Baker & Yunker and Rhinoseius Baker & Yunker (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae) (1998) (31)
Specimen‐Based Modeling, Stopping Rules, and the Extinction of the Ivory‐Billed Woodpecker (2012) (28)
Biodiversity: Species loss revisited (2011) (28)
Seen once or more than once: applying Good–Turing theory to estimate species richness using only unique observations and a species list (2017) (27)
The distributions of morphologically specialized hummingbirds coincide with floral trait matching across an Andean elevational gradient (2019) (25)
Detection and identification of mammalian DNA from the gut of museum specimens of ticks. (1992) (25)
Flower mites of Trinidad II. The genus Proctolaelaps (Acari: Ascidae) (1991) (25)
Hummingbirds of the Juan Fernández Islands: natural history, evolution and population status (2008) (25)
Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity (2019) (20)
HUTCHINSONIAN RATIOS AND STATISTICAL POWER (1989) (19)
Deciphering the enigma of undetected species, phylogenetic, and functional diversity based on Good-Turing theory. (2017) (19)
Environment-induced changes in selective constraints on social learning during the peopling of the Americas (2017) (18)
A strong Madagascan rainforest MDE and no equatorward increase in species richness: re-analysis of 'The missing Madagascan mid-domain effect', by Kerr J.T., Perring M. & Currie D.J. (Ecology Letters 9:149-159, 2006). (2007) (16)
Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity (2017) (15)
Correction: An estimate of the number of tropical tree species (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2015) 112 (7472-7477) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423147112) (2015) (14)
Distribution of megabenthic gastropods along environmental gradients: the mid-domain effect and beyond (2008) (13)
Sexual Sorting in Hummingbird Flower Mites (Mesostigmata: Ascidae) (1999) (13)
New Genus and Two New Species of Melicharini from Venezuela (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae) (1995) (11)
Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world’s most linguistically diverse nation (2021) (10)
Excelsotarsonemus kaliszewskii, a new genus and new species from Costa Rica (Acari: Tarsonemidae) (1995) (10)
Process-explicit models reveal the structure and dynamics of biodiversity patterns (2022) (10)
Female-biased sex ratios (reply) (1982) (9)
The polymerase chain reaction and sequencing of mite DNA (1992) (9)
Ecology and Biotechnology: Expectations and Outliers (1988) (9)
Proportional mixture of two rarefaction/extrapolation curves to forecast biodiversity changes under landscape transformation. (2019) (9)
Potential ecological and evolutionary problems of introducing transgenic crops into the environment. (1994) (8)
The flower mites of Trinidad III: The genus Rhinoseius (Acari: Ascidae) (1997) (6)
Cellulose acetate electrophoretic techniques for the genetic analysis of individual ascid mites (Mesostigmata: Ascidae) (1992) (6)
Comparison of methods for the determination of butyric acid in foodstuffs by gas-liquid chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography (1987) (6)
The arboreal ants of a Neotropical rain forest show high species density and comprise one third of the ant fauna (2020) (5)
Predicting the Ecosystem Consequences of Biodiversity Loss: the Biomerge Framework (2007) (5)
Biota: The Biodiversity Database Manager. (1997) (5)
Spatial scale and the synchrony of ecological disruption (2021) (4)
Monitoring recovery of tree diversity during tropical forest restoration: lessons from long-term trajectories of natural regeneration (2022) (4)
Making Sense of Ecological Complexity: A Personal and Conceptual Retrospective (1992) (4)
parasites and mutualists ? The sixth mass coextinction : are most endangered species (2009) (3)
Landscape dynamics promoted the evolution of mega-diversity in South American freshwater fishes (2021) (3)
Integration of Species and Ecosystem Approaches to Conservation (1997) (3)
A NEW TYPE OF ELECTRONIC CABLE FOR CHRONIC IMPLANTATION IN LIVING TISSUE. (1963) (3)
The Ice-Minus Case and a Scientifically Informed Judiciary (1987) (3)
Another reading of NAS gene report (1988) (2)
Lawrence B. Slobodkin (1928–2009): Integrating Theory, Models, and Experiments in Ecology (2009) (2)
Response to Qian et al. (2017): Daily and seasonal climate variations are both critical in the evolution of species’ elevational range size (2018) (2)
Biodiversity: Concepts, Dimensions, and Measures (2022) (2)
Alpine archaeology of Alta Toquima and the Mt. Jefferson Tablelands (Nevada) : the archaeology of Monitor Valley, contribution 4. (2020) (2)
Report on Workshop on Possible Ecological and Evolutionary Impacts of Bioengineered Organisms Released into the Environment (1984) (2)
Mechanism, Process, and Causation in Ecological Models: A Reply to McGill and Potochnik. (2017) (1)
Response to Qian et al (2017): Daily and seasonal climate variations are both critical in the evolution of species’ elevational range size (2017) (1)
THE EVOLUTION OF HOST-PLANT AFFILIATION, BODY SIZE AND SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN HUMMINGBIRD FLOWER MITES (ASCIDAE: RHINOSEIUS AND TROPICOSEIUS) (2022) (1)
Ecological Archives E090-073-A1 (2008) (1)
The world’s hotspot of linguistic and biocultural diversity under threat (2021) (1)
Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and (2008) (1)
Appendix G. A user's guide for program CLAM, with instructions and a link for downloading the program. (2016) (0)
Landscape dynamics and diversification of the megadiverse South American freshwater fish fauna (2023) (0)
Title: Midpoint attractors and species richness: Modeling the interaction between environmental drivers and geometric constraints Short title: Midpoint attractors and species richness (2016) (0)
Wings and stings [3] (2003) (0)
Trends in Ecology and Evolution Mechanism , process , and causation in ecological models (2017) (0)
REVIEWERS FOR THE AUK, 2003 (2003) (0)
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF *+4095 THE NICHE (2016) (0)
Resolution of Respect: Lawrence B. Slobodkin 1928–2009 (2011) (0)
Understanding the species richness pattern of babblers along an elevational gradient from historical and ecological viewpoints (2014) (0)
Comparison of methods for the determination of butyric acid in food-stuffs by gas-liquid chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography. (1987) (0)
. 1 Observed and estimated richness (2010) (0)
What Makes Models Mechanistic or Process-Based ? (2017) (0)
The Evolution of Ecology1 (1985) (0)
Spatially explicit paleoclimate reconstruction of South America for the last 800 thousand years (2018) (0)
Why spatial scale matters in predicting synchrony of ecological disruption (2020) (0)
SPURIOUS RAPOPORT EFFECT (1994) (0)
Spatial scale and the synchrony of ecological disruption (2021) (0)
14. Biogeographical Gradient Theory (2019) (0)
Demographic shifts, inter-group contact, and environmental conditions drive language extinction and diversification (2021) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Historical biogeography of South American freshwater fishes. (2006) (0)
Opinion Process , Mechanism , and Modeling in Macroecology (2017) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Drought, snails, and large-scale die-off of southern U.S. salt marshes. (2006) (0)
How Safe is Safe Enough? (1986) (0)
Appendix A. Description of vegetation inventory data sets used in this study. (2016) (0)

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