Recent Publications

Morlon, H., E. White, R. Etienne, J. Green, A. Ostling, D. Alonso, B. Enquist, F. He, A. Hurlbert, A. Magurran, B. A. Maurer, B. McGill, H. Olff, D. Storch, and T. Zillio. 2009. Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals. Ecology Letters 12: 488-501

Nesslage, G.M., B.A. Maurer, and S.H. Gage, 2007. Gypsy moth response to landscape structure differs from neutral model predictions: implications for invasion monitoring. Biological Invasions 9: 585-595

Maurer, B.A. 2006. Statistical mechanics of complex ecological aggregates. Ecological Complexity 2:71-85

McGill, B. J., B A. Maurer and M. D. Weiser. 2006. Empirical evaluation of neutral theory: Ecology: 87, 1411–1423

Holt, R. D., Keitt, T. H., Lewis, M. A., Maurer, B. A. and Taper, M. L. 2005. Theoretical models of species’ borders: single species approaches. Oikos 108: 18-27

McGill, B J. , E. A. Hadly, and B. A. Maurer. 2005. Community inertia of Quaternary small mammal assemblages in North America. PNAS 102:16701–16706

Fortin, M.J., T. H. Keitt, B. A. Maurer, M. L. Taper, Dawn M. Kaufman and T. M. Blackburn. 2005. Species’ geographic ranges and distributional limits: pattern analysis and statistical issues. Oikos 108: 7-17

Maurer, B. A. , J. H. Brown, T. Dayan, B. J. Enquist, S.K. Morgan Ernest, E. A. Hadly, J. P. Haskell, D. Jablonski, K. E. Jones, D. M. Kaufman, S. K. Lyons, K. J. Niklas, W. P. Porter, K. Roy, F. A. Smith, B. Tiffney and M. R. Willig. 2004. Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6: 783–797

Maurer, B.A., McGill, B. J. 2004. Neutral and non-neutral macroecology. Basic and Applied Ecology 5: 413—422

Smith, F. A. ,J. H. Brown, J. P. Haskell, S. K. Lyons,J. Alroy,E. L. Charnov, T. Dayan, Brian J. Enquist, S. K. M. Ernest, E. A. Hadly, D. Jablonski, K. E. Jones, D. M. Kaufman, P. A. Marquet, B. A. Maurer, K. J. Niklas, W. P. Porter, K. Roy, B. Tiffney, and M. R. Willig, 2004. Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across Space and Time. American Naturalist 163: 672-691

Ernest, S.K.M., B.J. Enquist, J.H. Brown, E.L. Charnov, J.F. Gillooly, V.M. Savage, E.P. White, F.A. Smith, E.A. Hadly, J.P. Haskell, S.K. Lyons, B.A. Maurer, K.J. Niklas, and B. Tiffney. 2003. Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use. Ecology Letters 6: 990-995

Maurer, B.A., and M.L. Taper. 2002. Connecting geographical distributions with population processes. Ecology Letters 5: 223-231

Gammon, D.E., and B.A. Maurer. 2002. Evidence for non-uniform dispersal in the biological invasions of two naturalized North American bird species. Global Ecology and Biogeography 11:155-161

Maurer, B.A. 2002. Big thinking. Nature 415:489-491

Hadly, E. A., and B.A. Maurer. 2001. Spatial and temporal patterns of species diversity in montane mammal communities of western North America. Evolutionary Ecology Research 3:477-486

Barnosky, A.D., E.A. Hadly, B.A. Maurer, and M.I. Christie. 2001. Temperate terrestrial vertebrate faunas in North and South America: interplay of ecology, evolution, and geography with biodiversity. Conservation Biology 15: 658-674

Maurer, B.A. 2000. Macroecology and consilience. Global Ecology and Biogeography 9: 275-280

Maurer, B.A. 1998. Ecological science and statistical paradigms: at the threshold. Science 279: 502-503

Books

Maurer, B.A. 1999. Untangling ecological complexity: the macroscopic perspective. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Maurer, B. A. 1994. Geographical population analysis: tools for the analysis of biodiversity. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Boston.