Books
1)
Schmitz, O.J. 2007. Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation.
Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies series. Island Press
Publishing
2)
Schmitz, O.J. 2009. Resolving
Ecosystem Complexity.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
2009
1)
Barton, B.T., A.P. Beckerman, and O.J. Schmitz. 2009.Climate change affects direct and indirect interactions in
an old-field food web. Ecology 90:2346-2351.
2)
Barton, B.T. and O.J. Schmitz. 2009. Experimental warming
transforms multiple predator effects in a grassland food web. Ecology Letters
12:1317-1325.
3)
Jones, H.P. and O.J. Schmitz. 2009. Rapid recovery of ecosystems
from disturbances. PLoS One 4: e5653.
4)
Schmitz, O.J. 2009. Effects of predator functional diversity on
grassland ecosystem function.Ecology 90:2339-2345
5)
Schmitz O.J. 2009. Perspectives on
sustainability of ecosystem services and functions. In: T. Graedel
and E. van der Voet (eds.) Mesuring Sustainability. Strungman
Forum Report, volume 4:
6)
Seto, K., S. Bringezu, R. deGroot, K. Erb, T. Graedel, N. Ramankutty, A. Reenberg, O. Schmitz and D. Skole.
2008
1)
Filin, I, Schmitz, O.J. and O. Ovadia. 2008. Consequences of individual size variation on
the survival of an insect herbivore: An analytical model and an experimental
field testing using the Red-legged Grasshopper. Journal of Orthopteran
Research in press.
2)
Peckarsky, B.L., P.A. Abrams.
D. Bolnick, J.H. Grabowski, B. Luttbeg,
J.L. Orrock, S.D. Peacor,
E.L. Preisser, O.J. Schmitz and G.C. Trussell. 2008. Revisiting
the classics: Considering non-consumptive effects in textbook examples of predator-prey interactions. Ecology
89:2416-2425.
3)
Schmitz, O.J. 2008. Effects of predator hunting mode on grassland
ecosystem function. Science 319:952-954.
4)
Schmitz, O.J. 2008. Herbivory from
individuals to ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 39:133-152.
5)
Schmitz, O.J. 2008. Predators avoiding predation. Proceedings of
the National
6)
Schmitz, O.J., J.H. Grabowski, B.L. Peckarsky,
E.L. Preisser, G.C. Trussell,
and J.R. Vonesh. 2008. From
individuals to ecosystems: toward an integration of evolutionary and ecosystem
ecology. Ecology 89:2436-2445.
2007
1) Ovadia, O., H. zu Dohna, G. Booth and O.J.
Schmitz. 2007. Consequences of body
size variation among herbivores on the strength of plant-herbivore interactions
in a seasonal environment. Ecological Modelling
206:119-130.
2)
Preisser, E.L., J.L. Orrock, and O.J. Schmitz. 2007. Predator hunting mode and
habitat domain affect the strength of non-consumptive effects in predator-prey
interactions. Ecology 88: 2744-2751.
3)
Schmitz O.J. 2007. Predator diversity and trophic
interactions. Ecology 88:2415-2426.
4)
Schmitz O.J. 2007. Indirect effects in communities and
ecosystems. In: S. Levin (ed.) The
5)
Schmitz, O.J. and A.P. Beckerman. 2007. Food webs. In:
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd:
6)
Schmitz, O.J., H.P. Jones and B.T. Barton. 2007. Scavengers. In:
S.E. Jorgensen (ed.) Encyclopedia of Ecology.
2006
1)
Koellner, T. and O.J. Schmitz.
2006. Biodiversity, ecosystem function and investment risk. BioScience
26:977-985.
2)
Lee, J,
3)
Schmitz, O.J. 2006. Predators have large effects on ecosystem
properties by changing plant diversity not plant biomass. Ecology 86:1432-1437.
4)
Schmitz, O.J., E.L. Kalies and M.G.
Booth. 2006. Alternative dynamic regimes and trophic control of plant succession.
Ecosystems 9:659-672.
2005
1)
Grear, J. and O.J. Schmitz. 2005. Linking
spatial distribution of a forest floor insect to grouping behavior and
scattering effects of predators. Ecology 86:960-971.
2)
Schmitz O,J, 2005. Behavior of
predators and prey and links with population level processes. Pages 256-278 In: P. Barbosa and I. Castellanos (eds.) Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions:
3)
Schmitz, O.J. 2005. Pushing the boundaries of ecosystems.
Perspectives on Science and Medicine 48:301-306.
4)
Schmitz, O.J. 2005. Scaling from plot experiments to landscapes:
studying grasshoppers to inform forest ecosystem management. Oecologia 145: 225-234.
2004
1)
Krivan, V. and O.J. Schmitz. 2004. Trait and
density mediated indirect interactions in simple food webs. Oikos
107:239-250.
2)
Ovadia, O. and O.J. Schmitz. 2004. Scaling
from individuals to food webs: the role of size-dependent predation risk.
3)
Ovadia, O. and O.J. Schmitz. 2004. Weather
variation and trophic interaction strength: sorting the signal from the noise. Oecologia 140:398-406.
4)
Schmitz O.J., 2004. From mesocosms to
the field: the role and value of cage experiments in understanding top-down
effects in ecosystems. Pages 277-302 In: W.W. Weisser
and
5)
Schmitz, O.J. 2004. Perturbation and abrupt shift in trophic
control of biodiversity and productivity. Ecology Letters 7: 403-409.
6)
Schmitz, O.J., V. Krivan and O. Ovadia. 2004. Trophic cascades: the primacy of
trait-mediated indirect interactions. Ecology Letters 7:153-163.
2003
1)
Bolker, B., M. Holyoak,
V. Krivan, L. Rowe and O.J. Schmitz. 2003. Connecting
theoretical and empirical studies of trait-mediated interactions. Ecology
84:1101-1114.
2)
Burns, C.E., K.M. Johnston and O.J. Schmitz. 2003. Global
climate change and mammalian species diversity in US National Parks.
Proceedings of the National
3)
Krivan, V. and O.J. Schmitz. 2003. Adaptive
foraging and flexible food web topology. Evolutionary Ecology Research
5:623-652.
4)
Schmitz, O.J. 2003. Top predator control of plant biodiversity and
productivity in an old field ecosystem. Ecology Letters 6:156-163.
5)
Schmitz, O.J., F.R. Adler and A.A. Agrawal.
2003. Linking Individual-scale trait plasticity to community dynamics. Ecology
84: 1081-1082.
6)
Schmitz, O.J. E. Post, C.E. Burns and K.M. Johnston. 2003.
Ecosystem responses to global climate change: moving beyond color-mapping. BioScience 53: 1199-1205.
2002
1)
Ovadia, O. and O.J. Schmitz. 2002. Linking
individuals with ecosystems: experimentally identifying the relevant
organizational scale for predicting trophic abundances. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA 99:12927-12931.
2)
Schmitz, O.J. and L. Sokol-Hessner.
2002. Linearity in the aggregate effects of multiple predators on a food web.
Ecology Letters 5:168-172.
3)
Sokol-Hessner, L. and O.J.
Schmitz. 2002. Aggregate effects of multiple predator species on a shared prey.
Ecology 83:2367-2372.
2001
1)
Schmitz O.J 2001. From interesting details to dynamical
relevance: on effective use of empirical insights in theory development. Oikos 94:39-50.
2)
Schmitz, O.J. and K.B. Suttle. 2001.
Effects of top predator species on the nature of indirect effects in an old
field food web. Ecology 82: 2072-2081
2000
1)
Luttbeg, B. and O.J. Schmitz. 2000. Predator
and prey models with flexible individual behavior and imperfect information.
American Naturalist 155:669-683.
2)
Schmitz, O.J. 2000. Combining field experiments with
individual-based modeling to identify the dynamically-relevant organizational
scale in a field system. Oikos 89:471-484.
3)
Schmitz, O.J., P. Hamback and A.P.
Beckerman. 2000. Trophic cascades in terrestrial systems: a review of the
effect of top predator removals on plants. American Naturalist 155:141-153.
4)
Vogt, K.A., O.J. Schmitz, K.H. Beard, J.L. OHara
and M. Booth. 2000. Conservation biology-contemporary issues. In:
1999
1)
Belovsky, G.E., J.M. Fryxell and O.J. Schmitz. 1999. Natural selection and
herbivore nutrition: optimal foraging theory and what it tells us about the
structure of ecological communities. 5th International Symposium on the
Nutrition of Herbivores. American Society of Animal Science.
2)
Abrams, P.A. and O.J. Schmitz. 1999. The effect of risk of
mortality on the foraging behavior of animals faced with time- and gut-capacity
constraints. Evolutionary Ecology Research 1:285-301.
1998
1)
Schmitz, O.J. 1998. Direct and indirect effects of predation and
predation risk in old-field interaction webs. American Naturalist 151:327-342.
2)
Schmitz, O.J., J.L. Cohon, K.D. Rothley and A.P. Beckerman. 1998. Reconciling variability
and optimal behavior using multiple criteria in optimality models. Evolutionary
Ecology 12: 73-94.
3)
Uriarte, M. and O.J. Schmitz. 1998. Trophic
control across a natural productivity gradient with sap-feeding herbivores. Oikos 82:552-560.
1997
1)
Beckerman, A.P., M. Uriarte and O.J.
Schmitz. 1997. Experimental evidence for a behavior-mediated trophic cascade in
a terrestrial food chain. Proceedings of the National
2)
3)
Rothley, K.D., O.J. Schmitz and J.L. Cohon. 1997. Foraging to balance conflicting demands: novel
insights from grasshoppers under predation risk. Behavioral Ecology 8: 551-559.
4)
Schmitz, O.J. 1997. Press perturbations and the predictability
of ecological interactions in a food web. Ecology 78: 55-69.
5)
Schmitz, O.J., A.P. Beckerman and S.Litman.
1997. Functional responses of adaptive consumers and community stability with
emphasis on the dynamics of plant-herbivore systems. Evolutionary Ecology
11:773-784.
6)
Schmitz, O.J., A.P. Beckerman and K. O'Brien. 1997.
Behaviorally-mediated trophic cascades: effects of predation risk on food web
interactions. Ecology 78:1388-1399.
7)
Schmitz, O.J. and G. Booth. 1997. Modeling food web complexity:
the consequences of individual-based, spatially explicit behavioral ecology on
trophic interactions. Evolutionary Ecology 11:379-398.
8)
Schmitz, O.J. and A.R.E. Sinclair 1997. Rethinking the role of
deer in forest ecosystem dynamics. In: W.J. McShea,
J. Rappole and B. Underwood (eds.) The
Science of Overabundance: Deer Ecology and Population Management. Smithsonian
Press.
1996
1)
Johnson, K.H., K.A. Vogt, H.J. Clark, O.J. Schmitz and D.J. Vogt.
1996 Biodiversity and the productivity and stability of ecosystems. Trends in
Ecology and Evolution 11:372-377.
1995
2)
Schmitz, O.J. 1995. Functional responses of optimal consumers
and the potential for regulation of resource populations. Wildlife Research
22:101-113.
3)
Sinclair, A.R.E., D.S. Hik, O.J.
Schmitz, G.G.E. Scudder, D.H. Turpin and N.C. Larter.
1995 Biodiversity and the need for habitat renewal. Ecological Applications
5:579-587.
1994
1)
Schmitz, O.J. 1994. Resource edibility and trophic exploitation
in an old-field food web. Proceedings of the National
2)
Schmitz, O.J. and T.D. Nudds. 1994.
Parasite-mediated competition in deer and moose: how strong is the effect of meningeal worm on moose? Ecological Applications 4:91-103.
3)
Belovsky, G.E. and O.J.
Schmitz. 1994. Plant defenses and optimal foraging by mammalian herbivores.
Journal of Mammalogy 75:816-832.
1993
1)
Schmitz, O.J. 1993. Trophic exploitation in grassland food
chains: simple models and a field experiment. Oecologia
93:327-335
2)
Belovsky, G.E. and O.J.
Schmitz 1993. Owen-Smith's evaluation of herbivore foraging models: what is
constraining? Evolutionary Ecology 7: 525-529.
1992
1)
Schmitz, O.J. 1992. Exploitation in model food chains with mechanistic
consumer-resource dynamics. Theoretical Population Biology 41:161-183.
2)
Schmitz, O.J. 1992. Optimal diet selection by white-tailed deer:
balancing reproduction with starvation risk. Evolutionary Ecology 6:125-141.
3)
Schmitz, O.J., D.S. Hik and A.R.E.
Sinclair. 1992. Plant chemical defense and twig selection by snowshoe hare: an
optimal foraging perspective. Oikos 65:295-300.
1991
1)
Belovsky, G.E. and O.J.
Schmitz. 1991. Mammalian herbivore optimal foraging and the role of plant
defenses. In R.T. Palo and C.T. Robbins (eds.) Plant chemical defenses
and mammalian herbivory. CRC Press,
2)
Belovsky, G.E., O.J.
Schmitz, J.B. Slade and T.J. Dawson. 1991. Effects of thorns and spines on
Australian herbivores of different body sizes. Oecologia
88:520-528
3)
Schmitz, O.J. 1991. Thermal constraints and optimization of
winter feeding and habitat choice by white-tailed deer. Holarctic
Ecology 14:104-111.
4)
Schmitz, O.J. and M.E. Ritchie. 1991. Optimal diet selection
with variable nutrient intake:balancing
reproduction with starvation risk. Theoretical Population Biology 39:100-114.
1990
1)
Schmitz, O.J. 1990. Wildlife management implications of foraging
theory:evaluating deer
supplemental feeding. Journal of Wildlife Management 54:522-532.
2)
Lavigne, D.M. and O.J. Schmitz. 1990. Global
warming and increasing population density: a prescription for seal plagues.
Marine Pollution Bulletin 21:280-284.
1987
1)
Schmitz, O.J. and D.M. Lavigne. 1987.
Factors affecting body size in sympatric
1986
1)
Lavigne, D.M., S. Innes, G.W. Worthy, K.M. Kovacs,O.J. Schmitz and J.P. Hickie.
1986. Metabolic rates of seals and whales. Canadian Journal of Zoology
64:279-284
1985
1)
Schmitz, O.J. and G.B. Kolenosky.
1985. Wolves and coyotes in
2)
Schmitz, O.J. and G.B. Kolenosky.
1985. Hybridization between wolf and coyote in captivity. Journal of Mammalogy 66:402-405.
1984
1)
Schmitz, O.J. and D.M. Lavigne. 1984.
Intrinsic rate of increase, body size and specific metabolic rate in marine
mammals. Oecologia 62:305-309.
Additional publications supported by funding to my lab
Booth, G. 1997. Gecko: a continuous 2-D world
for ecological modeling. Artificial Life 3:147-163.
Rothley, K.D. 1999.
Designing bioreserve networks to satisfy multiple
conflicting demands. Ecological Applications 9:741-750.
Beckerman, A.P. 2000. Counterintuitive
outcomes of interspecific competition between two
grasshopper species along a resource gradient. Ecology 81:948-957.
Hamback, P. 2001. Direct
and indirect effects of herbivory: Feeding by spittlebugs affects pollinator
visitation rates and seed set of Rhudbekia hirta. Ecoscience 8: 45-50.
Koenig, S.E. 2001. The
breeding biology of Black-billed Parrot Amazona agilis and Yellow-billed Parrot Amazona collaria in Cockpit
Rothley, K.D. 2001. Manipulative,
multi-standard test of a white-tailed deer habitat suitability model.
Journal of Wildlife Management 65:953-963.
Beckerman, A.P. 2002. The distribution of Melanoplus femurrubrum,: fear and freezing in
Rothley,
K.D. 2002. Use of multiobjective optimization
models to examine behavioural trade-offs of
white-tailed deer habitat use in forest harvesting experiments. Canadian
Journal of
Ovadia,
O. and H. zu Dohna. 2003. The effect of
intra- and inter-specific aggression on patch residence time in
Ovadia,
O. 2003. Ranking hotspots of varying sizes: a lesson from the
nonlinearity of the species-area relationship. Conservation Biology 17:1-3.
Booth, M.G. 2004. Micorrhizal networks mediate overstorey-understorey competition in a temperate forest.
Ecology Letters 7: 538-546.
Burns,
C.E., B.J. Goodwin and R.S. Ostfeld 2005. A prescription for longer life? Bot fly parasitism of the white-footed mouse. Ecology 86:753-761.
Burns, C.E. 2005. Behavioral ecology of disturbed
landscapes: The response of territorial animals to relocation. Behavioral
Ecology 16:898-905
Grear, J. and C.E. Burns. 2007. Evaluating
effects of low quality habitats on regional population growth in Peromyscus leucopus:
Insights from field-parameterized spatial matrix models. Landscape Ecology 22:
45-60
Burns,
C.E. and J. Grear. 2008. Effects of
habitat loss on white-footed mice: Testing matrix model predictions with
landscape-scale perturbation experiments. Landscape Ecology 17:817-831.
Stamieszkin, K. 2009.
Management of a marine protected area for sustainability and conflict
resolution: lessons from