The White Lab

White, EP, Hurlbert AH.  2010.  The Combined Influence of the Local Environment and Regional Enrichment on Bird Species Richness. American Naturalist. 172:E35-E43. Abstract

Thibault, KM, Ernest SKM, White EP, Brown JH, Goheen JR.  2010.  Long-term insights into the influence of precipitation on community dynamics in desert rodents. . Journal of Mammalogy. 91:787-797. Abstract  Download: Thibault_etal_JMamm_2010.pdf (255.22 KB)

Ernest, SKM, White EP, Brown JH.  2009.  Changes in a tropical forest support metabolic zero-sum dynamics. Ecology Letters. 12:507-515. Download: ernest_skm_2009_e12_507.pdf (242.6 KB)

Price, CA, Ogle K, White EP, Weitz JS.  2009.  Evaluating scaling models in biology using hierarchical Bayesian approaches. Ecology Letters. 12:641-651. Download: price_ca_2009_e12_641.pdf (1.38 MB)

Morlon, H, White EP, Etienne R, Green JL, Ostling A, Alonso D, Enquist BJ, He F, Hurlbert AH, Magurran AE et al..  2009.  Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals. Ecology Letters. 12:488-501. Download: morlon_h_2009_e12_488.pdf (536.38 KB)

White, EP, Enquist BJ, Green JL.  2008.  On estimating the exponent of power-law frequency distributions. Ecology. 89:905-912. Download: white_ep_2008_e89_905.pdf (712.61 KB)

Stegen, JC, White EP.  2008.  On the relationship between mass and diameter distributions in tree communities. Ecology Letters. 11:1287-1293. Download: stegen_jc_2008_e11_1287.pdf (190.49 KB)

Ernest, SKM, Brown JH, Thibault KM, White EP, Goheen JR.  2008.  Zero-sum, the niche, and metacommunities: long-term dynamics of community assembly. American Naturalist. 32:E257-E269. Download: ernest_skm_2008_a172_e257.pdf (543.41 KB)

McClain, CR, White EP, Hurlbert AH.  2007.  Challenges in the application of geometric constraint models. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 16:257-264. Download: mcclain_cr_2007_g16_257.pdf (187.44 KB)

Hurlbert, AH, White EP.  2007.  Ecological correlates of geographical range occupancy in North American birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 16:764-773. Download: hurlbert_ah_2007_g16_764.pdf (225.91 KB)

White, EP, Gilchrist MA.  2007.  Effects of population level aggregation, autocorrelation, and interspecific association on the species-time relationship in two desert communities. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 9:1329-1347. Download: white_ep_2007_e9_1329.pdf (420.17 KB)

White, EP, Ernest SKM, Kerkoff AJ, Enquist BJ.  2007.  Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 22:323-330. Download: white_ep_2007_t22_323.pdf (589.49 KB)

White, EP.  2007.  Spatiotemporal scaling of species richness: patterns, processes and implications. Scaling Biodiversity. :325-346. Download: white_ep_2007_sb_325.pdf (549.24 KB)

McGill, BJ, Etienne R, Gray J, Alonso D, Anderson M, Benecha H, Dornelas M, Enquist BJ, He F, Hurlbert AH et al..  2007.  Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework. Ecology Letters. 10:995-1015. Download: mcgill_bj_2007_e10_995.pdf (1.02 MB)

Savage, VM, White EP, Moses ME, Ernest SKM, Enquist BJ, Charnov EL.  2006.  Comment on "The illusion of invariant quantities in life histories". Science. 312:198b. Download: savage_vm_2006_s312_198b.pdf (106.78 KB)

White, EP, Adler PB, Lauenroth WK, Gill RA, Greenberg D, Kaufman DM, Rassweiler A, Rusak JA, Smith MD, Steinbeck JR et al..  2006.  A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups. Oikos. 112:185-195. Download: white_ep_2006_o112_185.pdf (184.65 KB)

Goheen, JR, White EP, Ernest SKM, Brown JH.  2006.  Intraguild competition regulates species richness in desert rodents: reply. Ecology. 87:2121-2125. Download: goheen_jr_2006_e87_2121.pdf (129.17 KB)

Hurlbert, AH, White EP.  2005.  Disparity between range map and survey based analyses of species richness: patterns, processes, and implications. Ecology Letters. 8:319-327. Download: hurlbert_ah_2005_e8_319.pdf (658.74 KB)

Sax, DF, Brown JH, White EP, Gaines SD.  2005.  Dynamics of species invasions: Insights into the mechanisms that limit species diversity. Species Invasions: Insights to Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography. :447-465. Download: sax_df_2005_si_447.pdf (153.13 KB)

Adler, PB, White EP, Lauenroth WK, Kaufman DM, Rassweiler A, Rusak JA.  2005.  Evidence for a general species-time-area relationship. Ecology. 86:2032-2039. Download: adler_pb_2005_e86_2032.pdf (106.66 KB)

Goheen, JR, White EP, Ernest SKM, Brown JH.  2005.  Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents. Ecology. 86:567-573. Download: goheen_jr_2005_e86_567.pdf (501.81 KB)

White, EP, Brown JH.  2005.  The template: patterns and processes of spatial variation. Ecosystem function in heterogeneous landscapes. :31-47.

White, EP.  2004.  Factors affecting bat house occupancy in Colorado. 49:344-349. Download: white_ep_2004_s49_344.pdf (77.31 KB)

Thibault, KM, White EP, Ernest SKM.  2004.  Temporal dynamics in the structure and composition of a desert rodent community. Ecology. 85:2649-2655. Download: thibault_km_2004_e85_2649.pdf (602.09 KB)

Lyons, SK, Smith FA, Wagner PJ, White EP, Brown JH.  2004.  Testing the disease hypothesis for late-pleistocene extinctions using West Nile virus as a model. 7:859-868. Download: lyons_sk_2004_e7_859.pdf (167.07 KB)