Recent Publications: William Murdoch

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McCauley, E., Nisbet, R. M., Murdoch, W. W., deRoos, A. M., and W. S. C. Gurney. 2000. Large-amplitude cycles of Daphnia and its algal prey in enriched environments. Nature, 402: 653-656.
McCauley, E., Kendall, B., Janssen, A., Wood, S., Murdoch, W.W., Hosseini, P., Briggs, C.J., Ellner, S., Nisbet, R.M., Sabelis, M., Turchin, P. 2000. Inferring colonization processes from population dynamics in spatially structured predator-prey system. Ecology, 81: 3350-3361.
Ellner, S.P., McCauley, E., Kendall, B., Briggs, C.J., Hosseini, P., Wood, S., Janssen, A., Sabelis, M.W., Turchin, P., Nisbet, R.M., Murdoch, W. W. 2001. Habitat structure and population persistence in an experimental community. Nature, 412:538-543.
Shea, K, Possingham, H., Murdoch, W., and Roush, R. 2002. Active adaptive management in insect pest and weed control: Intervention with a plan for learning. Ecological Applications, 12: 927-936.
Murdoch, W.W., Kendall, B.E, Nisbet, R.M., Briggs, C.J., McCauley, E., and Bolser, R. 2002. Few-species models for many-species communities. Nature 417: 541-543.
Murdoch, W.W. and Briggs, C.J. 2002. Spatial dynamics of measles epidemics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 399-401.
Turchin, P., Briggs, C.J., Ellner, S.P., Fischlin, A., Kendall, B.E., McCauley, E., Murdoch, W.W. Wood, S.N. 2002. Population cycles of the Larch Budmoth in Switzerland. Pp. 130-141 in A. Berryman (ed.) Population Cycles: The Case for Trophic Interactions. Oxford University Press, New York.
Murdoch, W.W., Briggs, C.J. and R.M. Nisbet. Consumer-Resource Dynamics. 2003. Princeton University Press. 459 pp.
Murdoch, W.W., Briggs, C.J., Nisbet, R.M., Kendall, B.E., McCauley E. 2003. Resource vs. Consumer Cycles: Reply to Rohani et al. Ecology Letters. 6: 384-387.
Turchin, P. Wood, S.N., Ellner, S.P., Kendall, B.E., Murdoch, W.W., Fischlin, A., Casas, J., McCauley, E., Briggs, C.J. 2003. Dynamical effects of plant quality and parasitism on population cycles of larch budmoth. Ecology 84: 1207-1214.
Borer, E.T., Murdoch, W.W., Swarbrick, S. L. 2003. Parasitoid coexistence: linking spatial field patterns with mechanism. Ecology 85: 667-678.
Yoo, H.J.S., Stewart-Oaten, A., and Murdoch, W.W. 2003. Converting visual census data into absolute abundance estimates: a method for calibrating timed counts of a sedentary insect population. Ecological Entomology 28: 490-499.
Borer, E.T., Briggs, C.J., Murdoch, W.W. and Swarbrick, S.L. 2003. Testing intraguild predation theory in a field system: does numerical dominance shift along a gradient of resource productivity? Ecology Letters 6: 929-935.
Myers, R.A., Levin, S.A., Lande, R., James, F.C., Murdoch, W.W., Paine, R.T. Hatcheries and endangered salmon. 2004. Science 303: 1980.
Nisbet, R.M., McCauley, E., Gurney, W.S.C., Murdoch, W.W. and Wood, S.N. 2004. Formulating and testing a partially specified dynamic energy budget model. Ecology 85: 3132-39.
Casas, J., Swarbrick, S.J., Murdoch, W.W. 2004. Foraging behavior of the parasitoid Aphytis melinus in the refuge of its host, California red scale. Ecological Entomology 29: 657-665.
Kendall, B.E., Ellner, S.P., McCauley, E., Wood, S.N. Briggs, C.J., Murdoch, W.W., Turchin, P. 2005. Population cycles in the pine looper moth: dynamical tests of mechanistic hypotheses. Ecological Monographs 75: 259-276.
Murdoch, W.W., Briggs, C.J., Swarbrick, S. 2005. Host suppression and stability in a parasitoid-host system: experimental demonstration. Science 309: 610-613. [Abstract] [Paper]
Murdoch, W.W. 2005. Ecological theory and biological control of insect pests. In K.M Heinz, R.E. Frisbie, C.E. Bogran (eds), "Entomology and the Land Grant University," Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Murdoch, W.W., Swarbrick, S. J., Briggs, C. J. In press. Biological control: lessons from a study of California red scale. Population Ecology.