Recent Publications by members of the Post Lab

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2012

Layman, C.A., M.S. Araujo, R. Boucek, C.M. Hammerschlag-Peyer, E. Harrison, Z.R. Jud, P. Matich, A.E. Rosenblatt, J. Vaudo, L.A. Yeager, D.M. Post, and S. Bearhop. 2012. Applying stable isotopes to examine food web structure: an overview of analytical tools. Biological Reviews 87:000-000. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00208.x

Schielke, E.G., E.P. Palkovacs, and D.M. Post. 2012. Eco-evolutionary feedbacks drive niche differences in alewives. Biological Theory in press.

Takimoto, G. and D.M. Post. 2012. Environmental determinants of food-chain length: a meta-analysis. Ecological Research 27:000-000. doi:10.1007/s11284-012-0943-7

Takimoto, G., D.M. Post, D.A. Spiller, and R.D. Holt. 2012. Effects of productivity, disturbance, and ecosystem size on food-chain length: insights from a metacommunity model of intraguild predation. Ecological Research 27:481-493. doi:10.1007/s11284-012-0929-5

Walsh, M.R., and D.M. Post. 2012. The impact of intraspecific variation in a fish predator on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity and investment in sex in Daphnia ambigua. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28:80-89. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02403.x

Walsh, M.R., J.P. DeLong, T.C. Hanley, and D.M. Post. 2012. A cascade of evolutionary change alters consumer-resource dynamics and ecosystem function. Proc. R. Soc. B. 279:000-000 doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0496

2011

Casey, M.M., and D.M. Post.  2011.  The problem of isotopic baseline: reconstructing the diet and trophic position of fossil animals. Earth-Science Reviews 106:131-148.   doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.02.001

Walsh, M.R., and D.M. Post. 2011. Interpopulation variation in a fish predator drives evolutionary divergence in prey in lakes. Proc. R. Soc. B. 278:2628-2637. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2634

Walters, A. W., and D. M. Post. 2011. How low can you go? Impacts of a low flow disturbance on aquatic insect communities. Ecological Applications 21:163–174. doi:10.1890/09-2323.1

Walters, A.W. 2011. Resistance of aquatic insects to a low-flow disturbance: exploring a trait-based approach. J. North American Benthological Society 30:346-356. doi:10.1899/10-041.1

2010

Jones, A.W., C.M. Dalton, E.S. Stowe, and D.M. Post. 2010. Contribution of declining anadromous fishes to the reproductive investment of a common piscivorous seabird, the double-crested cormorant (phalacrocorax auritus). Auk 127:696-703. doi:10.1525/auk.2010.09200

Sabo, J.L., J.C. Finlay, T. Kennedy, and D.M. Post. 2010.  The role of discharge variation in scaling of drainage area and food chain length in rivers. Science 330:965-967. doi:10.1126/science.1196005

Schielke, E.G., and D.M. Post. 2010. Size matters: comparing stable isotope ratios of tissue plugs and whole organisms. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 8:348-351. doi: 10.4319/lom.2010.8.348

West, D.C., A.W. Walters, S. Gephard, and D.M. Post. In press. Nutrient loading by anadromous alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus): contemporary patterns and predictions for restoration efforts. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67:1211-1220. doi:10.1139/F10-059

2009

Dalton, C.M., D. Ellis, and D.M. Post. 2009. The impact of double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) predation on anadromous alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) in south-central Connecticut, USA. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66(2): 177–186. doi:10.1139/F08-198

Palkovacs, E.P., and D.M. Post. 2009. Experimental evidence that phenotypic divergence in predators drive community divergence in prey. Ecology 90(2): 300-305. doi:10.1890/08-1673.1

Post, D.M., and E.P. Paklovacs. 2009. Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in community and ecosystem ecology: interactions between the ecological theater and the evolutionary play. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364: 1629-1640. doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0012

Post, D.M. and A.W. Walters. 2009. Nutrient excretion rates of anadromous alewives during their spawning migration. Transactions of the American Fishery Society 138(2): 264–268. doi:10.1577/T08-111.1

Sabo, J.L., J.C. Finlay and D.M. Post. 2009. Food chains in freshwater. The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2009. 1162:187-220. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04445.x

Walters, A.W., R.T. Barnes, and D.M. Post. 2009. Anadromous alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) contribute marine-derived nutrients to coastal stream food webs. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66(3): 439–448. doi:10.1139/F09-008

2008

Layman, C.A., and D.M. Post. 2008. Can stable isotope ratios provide for community-wide measures of trophic structure?: Reply. Ecology 89:2358–2359. (pdf)

Paetzold, A., M. Lee, and D.M. Post. 2008. Marine resource flows to terrestrial arthropod predators on a temperate island - the role of subsidies between systems of similar productivity. Oecologia 157:653-659. (pdf)

Palkovacs, E.P., K.B. Dion, D.M. Post, and A. Caccone. 2008. Independent evolution of landlocked alewife populations and rapid, parallel evolution of phenotypic traits. Molecular Ecology 17:582-597. (pdf)

Palkovacs, E.P., and D.M. Post. 2008. Eco-evolutionary interactions between predators and prey: can predator-induced changes to prey communities feedback to shape predator foraging traits? Evolutionary Ecology Research 10:699-720 (pdf)

Post, D.M., E.P. Palkovacs, E.G. Schielke, and S.I. Dodson. 2008. Intraspecific phenotypic variation in a predator affects zooplankton community structure and cascading trophic interactions. Ecology 89:2019-2032. (pdf)

Sabo, J. L. and D. M. Post. 2008. Quantifying periodic, stochastic and catastrophic variation in the environment using time series of environmental conditions. Ecological Monographs 78:19-40. (pdf)

Takimoto, G., D.A. Spiller, and D. M. Post. 2008. Ecosystem size, but not disturbance, determines food-chain length on islands in the Bahamas. Ecology 89:3001-3007 (pdf)

Walters, A.W. and D.M. Post. 2008. An experimental disturbance alters fish size structure, but not food chain length in streams. Ecology 89:89:3261-3267. (pdf)

2007

Post, D.M. 2007. Testing the productive space hypothesis: rational and power. Oecologia 153:973-984. (pdf)

Post, D.M., D.A. Arrington, C.A. Layman, G. Takimoto, J. Quattrochi, and C. G. Montaña. 2007. Getting to the fat of the matter: models, methods and assumptions for dealing with lipids in stable isotope analyses. Oecologia 152:179-189. (pdf) (appendix a)

Post, D.M. and G. Takimoto. 2007. Proximate structural mechanisms for variation in food-chain length. Oikos 116:775-782. (pdf)

Post, D.M., M.W. Doyle, J.L. Sabo, and J.C. Finlay. 2007. The problem of boundaries in defining ecosystems: a potential landmine for uniting geomorphology and ecology. Geomorphology 89:111-126. (pdf)

Layman, C.A., D.A. Arrington, C.G. Montaña and D.M. Post. 2007. Can stable isotope ratios provide for community-wide measures of trophic structure? Ecology 88:42-48. (pdf)

2005

Puth, L.M., and D.M. Post. 2005. Studying invasion: have we missed the boat? Ecology Letters 8:715-721. (pdf)

2004

Moore, J.C, E.L. Berlow, D.C. Coleman, P.C. de Ruiter, Q. Dong, A. Hastings, N.C. Johnson, K.S. McCann, K. Melville, P.J. Morin, K. Nadelhoffer, A.D. Rosemond, D.M. Post, J.L. Sabo, K.M. Scow, M.J. Vanni, and D.H. Wall. 2004. Detritus, trophic dynamics, and biodiversity. Ecology Letters 7:584-600.

2003

Post, D.M. 2003. Individual variation in the timing of ontogenetic niche shifts in largemouth bass. Ecology 84:1298–1310. (pdf)

2002

Williams, J.W., D.M. Post, L.C. Cwynar, A.F. Lotter, and A.J. Levesque. 2002. Vegetation responses to past rapid climate change. Geology 30:971-974. (pdf)<

Post, D.M. 2002. The long and short of food-chain length. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:269-277. (pdf)

Post, D.M. 2002. Using stable isotopes to estimate trophic position: models, methods, and assumptions. Ecology 83:703-718. (pdf)

2001

Hairston, H.G., Jr., C.L. Holtmeier, W. Lampert, L.J. Weider, D.M. Post, J.M. Fischer, C.E. Cáceres, J.A. Fox, and U. Gaedke. 2002. Natural selection for grazer resistance to toxic cyanobacteria: the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. Evolution 55:2203-2214.

Shurin, J., S. Gergel, D. Kaufman, D. Post, E. Seabloom, and J. Williams. 2001. Letter: in defense of ecology. The Scientist 15:6.

2000

Post, D.M., M.L. Pace, and N.G. Hairston Jr. 2000. Ecosystem size determines food-chain length in lakes. Nature 405:1047-1049.(pdf)

Post, D.M., M.E. Conners, and D.S. Goldberg. 2000. Prey preference by a top predator and the stability of linked food chains. Ecology 81:8-14.(pdf)

1999 and older

Hairston, N.G., Jr., W. Lampert, C.E. Cáceres, C.L. Holtmeier, L.J. Weider, U. Gaedke, J.M. Fischer, J.A. Fox, D.M. Post. 1999. Dormant eggs record rapid evolution. Nature 401:446.

Sanderson, B.L., T.R Hrabik, J.J. Magnuson, and D.M. Post. 1999. Cyclic dynamics of a yellow perch (Perca flavescens) population in an oligotrophic lake: evidence for the role of intraspecific interactions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56:1534-1542.

Kitchell, J.F., D.E. Schindler, B.R. Herwig, D.M. Post, M.H. Olson, and M. Oldham. 1999. Nutrient cycling at the landscape scale: the role of diel foraging migrations by geese at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico. Limnology and Oceanography 44:828-836.

Post, D.M., J.P. Taylor, J.F. Kitchell, M.H. Olson, D.E. Schindler, and B.R. Herwig. 1998. The role of migratory waterfowl as nutrient vectors in managed wetlands. Conservation Biology 12:910-920.(pdf)

Post, D.M., J.F. Kitchell, and J.R. Hodgson. 1998. Interactions among adult demography, spawning date, growth rate, predation, overwinter mortality, and the recruitment of largemouth bass in a northern lake. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:2588-2600. (pdf)

Post, D.M., S.R. Carpenter, D.L. Christensen, K.L. Cottingham, J.F. Kitchell, D.E. Schindler, and J.R. Hodgson. 1997. Seasonal effects of variable recruitment of a dominant piscivore on pelagic food web structure. Limnology and Oceanography 42:722-729. (pdf)

Post, D.M., and J.F. Kitchell. 1997. Trophic ontogeny and life history effects on interactions between age-0 fishes and zooplankton. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Advances in Limnology 49:1-12.

Hansson, S., D.M. Post, J.F. Kitchell, and T.S. Mc Comish. 1997. Interactions of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) and alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) in southern Lake Michigan: a model analysis. Pages 7-20 in Forage Fishes in Marine Ecosystems. Alaska Sea Grant Program. AK-SG-97-01.

Carpenter, S.R., J.F. Kitchell, K.L. Cottingham, D.E. Schindler, D.L. Christensen, D.M. Post, and N. Voichick. 1996. Chlorophyll variability, phosphorus input and grazing: evidence from whole-lake experiments. Ecology 77:725-735.

Johnson, J.M. and D.M. Post. 1996. Morphological constraints on intra-cohort cannibalism in age-0 largemouth bass. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 125:809-812.(pdf)

Carpenter, S.R., D.L. Christensen, J.J. Cole, K.L. Cottingham, X. He, J.R. Hodgson, J.F. Kitchell, S.E. Knight, M.L. Pace, D.M. Post, D.E. Schindler, N. Voichick. 1995. Biological control of eutrophication in lakes. Environmental Science & Technology 29:784-786.

Post, D.M., T.M. Frost, and J.F. Kitchell. 1995. Morphological responses by Bosmina longirostris and Eubosmina tubicen to changes in copepod predator populations during a whole-lake acidification experiment. Journal of Plankton Research 17:1621-1632.

In review

Hanley, T.C., E.C. Hatton, and D.M. Post. In review. The effects of freezing, filtering and storage duration on total nitrogen and total phosphorus analysis of freshwater samples.  Submitted to L&O Methods.

Howeth, J.G., J.J. Weis, J. Brodersen, E.C. Hatton, and D.M. Post. Intraspecific variation in a predator affects multi-trophic metacommuity structure. Submitted to Ecology.

Jones, A.W., E.P. Palkovacs and D.M. Post.  In review.  Recent parallel divergence in body shape between alewife life history forms reflects differences in constructed niches.  Submitted to Plos One .

La Pierre, K.J., L.M. Puth, D.M. Post. In review. Intraspecific variation in a fish predator has cryptic cascading consequences for algal community structure. Submitted to Oecologia.

Twining, C.W. and D.M. Post. In review. Cladoceran remains reveal presence of a keystone size-selective planktivore. Submitted to Journal of Paleolimnology.

Weis, J.J., and D.M. Post. Keystone predation does not alter primary producer community composition: results from an aquatic mesocosm study. Submitted to Hydrobiologia.