PUBLICATIONS

THE BRONSTEIN LABORATORY

Publications

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Conceptual Papers

J.L. Bronstein (2011) Mutualism and symbiosis. in: Oxford Online Bibliography: Ecology. In press.

Bronstein, J.L. (2011) Antagonisms and mutualisms: interactions among plant/animal interactions. In: K. del Claro and Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi (eds), Plant-Animal Interactions in the Tropics (in Portuguese), in press.

Bshary, R. and J.L. Bronstein (2011). A general scheme to predict partner control mechanisms in pairwise cooperative interactions between unrelated individuals. Ethology 117: 271-283.

Kiers, E.T., T.M. Palmer, A.R. Ives, J.F. Bruno, and J.L. Bronstein (2010). The global breakdown of mutualistic interactions among species. in press, Ecology Letters 13: 1459-1474. Selected as a “must-read” by the Faculty of 1000.

Irwin, R., J.L. Bronstein, J. Manson, and L.E. Richardson. (2010) Nectar-robbing: ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 41: 271-292.

Bronstein, J.L. (2009). The evolution of facilitation and mutualism. Journal of Ecology 97: 1160-1170.

J.L. Bronstein (2009) Mutualism. in: Princeton Guide to Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

J.L. Bronstein and J.N. Holland (2008). Mutualism. In: Sven Erik Jørgensen and Brian D. Fath (Editors-in-Chief), Population Dynamics. Vol. [3] of Encyclopedia of Ecology, 5 vols. pp. 2485-2491. Oxford: Elsevier.

J.L. Bronstein, I. Izhaki, R. Nathan, J.J. Tewksbury, O. Speigel, and A. Lotan (2007) Fleshy-fruited plants and frugivores in desert ecosystems. in: A.J. Dennis, E.W. Schupp, R.J. Green and D.W. Westcott (ed), Seed dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World. Cambridge University Press.

J.L. Bronstein, T.E. Huxman, and G. Davidowitz (2006) Plant-mediated effects linking herbivory and polllination. pp. 79-103 in: Ecological Communities: Plant Mediation in Indirect Interaction Webs. T. Ohgushi, T.G. Craig, and P.W. Price (editors). Cambridge University Press.

J.L. Bronstein, R. Alarcon, and M. Geber (2006). Tansley Review: Evolution of insect/plant mutualisms. New Phytologist 172(3):412-428. Full Text

J.N. Holland, J.H. Ness, A. Boyle and J.L. Bronstein (2005) Mutualisms as consumer-resource interactions. in: P. Barbosa (ed), Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions. Oxford University Press, pp. 17-33.

R.S. Bshary and J.L. Bronstein. (2004) Game structures in mutualisms: what can the evidence tell us about the kinds of models we need? Advances in the Study of Behavior 34:59-104. Full Text

J.H. Ness and J.L. Bronstein. (2004) The effects of invasive ants on prospective ant mutualists. Biological Invasions 6: 445-461. Abstract

L.S. Adler and J.L. Bronstein. (2004) Attracting antagonists: Does floral nectar increase leaf herbivory? Ecology 85: 1519-1526. Abstract

J.L. Bronstein, U. Dieckmann, and R. Ferrière. (2004) Coevolutionary dynamics and the conservation of mutualisms. pp. 305-326 in: Evolutionary Conservation Biology. R. Ferrière, U. Dieckmann, and D. Couvet (editors), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

J.L. Bronstein (2003) The scope for exploitation within mutualistic interactions. in: Genetics and Evolution of Cooperation (P. Hammerstein, editor), MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp. 185-202.

C.T. Bergstrom, J.L. Bronstein, R. Bshary, R.C. Connor, M. Daly, S.A. Frank, H. Gintis, L. Keller, O. Leimar, R. Noë, and D.C. Queller. (2003) Interspecific mutualism: puzzles and predictions. in: Genetics and Evolution of Cooperation (P. Hammerstein, editor), MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 241-256.

J.L. Bronstein and P. Barbosa. (2002) Multi-trophic/multi-species mutualistic interactions: the role of non-mutualists in shaping and mediating mutualisms. Pp. 44-65 in Multitrophic Level Interactions. B. Hawkins and T. Tscharntke (editors), Cambridge University Press.

J.L. Bronstein (2001) Mutualisms. in: Evolutionary Ecology: Perspectives and Synthesis (C. Fox, D. Fairbairn, and D. Roff, editors), Oxford University Press, New York. pp. 315-330.

J.L. Bronstein (2001) The costs of mutualism. American Zoologist 41: 127-141.

J.L. Bronstein (2001) The exploitation of mutualisms. Ecology Letters 4: 277-287.

K.G. Murray, S. Kinsman and J.L. Bronstein. (1999) Plant/animal interactions. in: The Natural History of a Tropical Cloud Forest (N. Nadkarni and N. Wheelwright, editors), Oxford University Press. pp. 245-302.

J.L. Bronstein. (1998) The contribution of ant-plant protection studies to our understanding of mutualism. Biotropica 30: 150-161.

J.L. Bronstein. (1995) The plant/pollinator landscape. pp. 256-288 in Mosaic Landscapes and Ecological Processes, L. Hansson, L. Fahrig, and G. Merriam (eds). Chapman and Hall, New York.

J.L. Bronstein. (1994) Our current understanding of mutualism. Quarterly Review of Biology 69: 31-51.

J.L. Bronstein. (1994) Conditional outcomes of mutualistic interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:214-217.

Theoretical Papers

Jones, E.I., R. Ferriere, and J.L. Bronstein (2009). Eco-evolutionary dynamics of mutualists and exploiters. American Naturalist 174: 780-794.

Ferrière, R., M. Gauduchon, and J.L. Bronstein (2007). Evolution and persistence of obligate mutualists and exploiters: competition for partners and evolutionary immunization. Ecology Letters 10: 115-126. Abstract

W.F. Morris, W.G. Wilson, J.L. Bronstein, and J.H. Ness (2005) Environmental forcing and the temporal dynamics of a competitive guild of cactus-tending ants. Ecology 86: 3190-3199. Abstract

J.L. Bronstein, W.G. Wilson, and W.F. Morris. (2003) The ecological dynamics of mutualist/ antagonist communities. American Naturalist 162: S24-S39.

W.G. Wilson, W.F. Morris, and J.L. Bronstein. (2003) Coexistence of mutualists and exploiters in spatial landscapes. Ecological Monographs 73: 397-413.

W.F. Morris, J.L. Bronstein, and W.G. Wilson. (2003) Three-way coexistence in obligate mutualist-exploiter communities: the potential role of competition. American Naturalist 161: 860-875.

R. Ferrière, J.L. Bronstein, S. Rinaldi, M. Gauduchon, and R. Law. (2002) Cheating and the evolutionary stability of mutualism. Proceedings of Royal Society of London, Series B 269: 773-780.

J.N. Holland, D.L. DeAngelis, and J.L. Bronstein. (2002) Population dynamics and mutualism: Functional responses of benefits and costs. American Naturalist 159: 231-244.

R. Law, J.L. Bronstein, and R. Ferrière (2001) On mutualists and cheaters: plant-insect coevolution in pollinating seed-parasite systems. Journal of Theoretical Biology 212: 373-389.

Protection Mutualisms

Irwin, R., J.L. Bronstein, J. Manson, and L.E. Richardson. (2010) Nectar-robbing: ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 41: 271-292.

Alarcón, R., J.A. Riffell, G. Davidowitz, J.G. Hildebrand, and J.L. Bronstein. (2010). Sex-dependent variation in the floral preferences of a hawkmoth (Manduca sexta). Animal Behaviour 80: 289-296.

Bronstein, J.L., T.H. Huxman, and G. Davidowitz (2009). Reproductive biology of Datura wrightii: the benefits of associating with an herbivorous pollinator. Annals of Botany 103: 1435-1443.

Riffell, J.A., R. Alarcón, L. Abrell, G. Davidowitz, J.L. Bronstein, and J.G. Hildebrand (2008). Behavioral consequences of innate preferences and olfactory learning in hawkmoth-flower interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 3404-3409.

Alarcón, R., G. Davidowitz, and J.L. Bronstein (2008). Nectar usage in a southern Arizona hawkmoth community. Ecological Entomology 33: 503-509.

Palmer, T.M., D.F. Doak, M.L. Stanton, J.L. Bronstein, E.T. Kiers, T.P. Young, and J.R. Goheen (2010). Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107: 17234-17239.

Ness, J.H., W.F. Morris, and J.L. Bronstein (2009). For ant-protected plants, the best defense is a hungry offense. Ecology 90:2823-2831.

J.H. Ness, W.F. Morris, and J.L. Bronstein (2006). Integrating quality and quantity of mutualistic service to contrast ant species visiting Ferocactus wislizeni, a plant with extrafloral nectaries. Ecology 87: 912-921. Abstract

W.F. Morris, W.G. Wilson, J.L. Bronstein, and J.H. Ness (2005) Environmental forcing and the temporal dynamics of a competitive guild of cactus-tending ants. Ecology 86: 3190-3199. Abstract

J.L. Bronstein. (1998) The contribution of ant-plant protection studies to our understanding of mutualism. Biotropica 30: 150-161.

Pollination Mutualisms

F. Kjellberg, J.L. Bronstein, G. van Ginkel, J.M. Greeff, J.C. Moore, N. Bossu-Dupriez, M. Chevolot and G. Michaloud (2005) Clutch size: a major sex ratio determinant in fig pollinating wasps? Comtes Rendu Biologies 328: 471-476. Abstract

J.N. Holland., J.L. Bronstein, and D.L. DeAngelis. (2004) Testing hypotheses for excess flower production and fruit-to-flower ratios in a pollinating seed-consuming mutualism. Oikos 105 633-640. Abstract

J.H. Holland, R. Wyatt, J.L. Bronstein, J.H. Ness (2003) Relating the biology of flower-to-fruit survivorship to the ecology and evolution of fruit-to-flower ratios. in: Recent Research Developments in Plant Sciences 1: 75-84

F. Kjellberg, E. Jousselin, J.L. Bronstein, A. Patel, J. Yokoyama and J-Y. Rasplus (2001) Pollination mode in fig wasps: the predictive power of correlated traits. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 268: 1113-1121.

M. Hossaert-McKey and J.L. Bronstein (2001) Self-pollination and its costs in a monoecious fig (Ficus aurea, Moraceae) in a highly seasonal subtropical environment. American Journal of Botany 88: 685-692.

J.L. Bronstein. (1999) The biology of Anidarnes bicolor (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae, Sycophaginae), a galler of Ficus aurea. Florida Entomologist 82: 454-461.

J.L. Bronstein, D. Vernet, and M. Hossaert-McKey. (1998) Do fig wasps interfere with each other during oviposition? Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 87:321-324.

J.L. Bronstein and Y. Ziv. (1997) Costs of two non-mutualistic species in a yucca/yucca moth mutualism. Oecologia 112: 379-385.

J.L. Bronstein and M. Hossaert-McKey. (1996) Variation in reproductive success within a subtropical fig/pollinator mutualism. Journal of Biogeography 23:433-446.

M.C. Anstett, F. Kjellberg, and J.L. Bronstein. (1996) Waiting for wasps: consequences for the pollination dynamics of Ficus pertusa L. Journal of Biogeography 23:459-466.

C.M. Smith and J.L. Bronstein. (1996) Site variation in reproductive synchrony in three neotropical figs. Journal of Biogeography 23:477-486.

M.C. Anstett, J.L. Bronstein, and M. Hossaert-McKey. (1996) Resource allocation: a conflict in the fig/fig wasp mutualism? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 9:417-426.

Y. Ziv and J.L. Bronstein. (1996) Infertile seeds: a role in the yucca/yucca moth mutualism? Evolutionary Ecology 10: 63-76.

J.L. Bronstein and M. Hossaert-McKey. (1995) Hurricane Andrew and a Florida fig/pollinator mutualism: resilience of an obligate interaction. Biotropica 27: 373-381.

J.L. Bronstein. (1995) The plant/pollinator landscape. pp. 256-288 in Mosaic Landscapes and Ecological Processes, L. Hansson, L. Fahrig, and G. Merriam (eds). Chapman and Hall, New York.

Other Stuff

Lanan, M.A., A. Dornhaus, and J.L. Bronstein (2011). The function of polydomy: the ant Crematogaster torosa preferentially forms new nests near food sources and fortifies outstations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65: 959-968.

Boyle, W.A., C.J. Conway, and J.L. Bronstein (2011). Why do some, but not all, tropical birds migrate? A comparative study of diet breadth and fruit preference. Evolutionary Ecology 25: 219-236.

Estes, A.M, D.J. Hearn, J.L. Bronstein, and E.A. Pierson (2009). The olive fly endosymbiont, 'Candidatus Erwinia dacicola', switches from an intracellular existence to an extracellular existence during host insect development. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75: 7097-7106.

J.H. Ness, J.L. Bronstein, A.N. Andersen, and J.N. Holland. (2004) Ant body size predicts the dispersal distance of ant-adapted seeds: implications for mutualism disruption by invasive ants. Ecology 85: 1244-1250. Abstract