Publications

1. Holt, R.D. 1977. Predation, apparent competition, and the structure of prey communities. Theoretical Population Biology 12: 197-229.

2. Holt, R.D. 1979. Report on species border research. The Third Anolis Newsletter. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

3. MacLean, W.P. and R.D. Holt. 1979. Distributional patterns in St. Croix Sphaerodactylus lizards: the taxon cycle in action. Biotropica 11: 189-195.

4. Holt, R.D. 1979. Predation and the Structure of Ecological Communities. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University.

5. Holt, R.D. 1981. Review of "The Natural Selection of Populations and Communities," by D.S. Wilson. Bioscience 31: 66.

6. Holt, R.D. 1983. Optimal foraging and the form of the predator isocline. The American Naturalist 122: 521-541.

7. Holt, R.D. 1983. Immigration and the dynamics of peripheral populations. Pages 680-694 in K. Miyata and A. Rhodin, eds. Advances in Herpetology and Evolutionary Biology. Harvard University.

8. Holt, R.D. 1983. Models for peripheral populations: The role of immigration. Pages 25-32 in H.I. Freedman and C. Strobeck, eds. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics. Springer-Verlag Berlin.

9. Holt, R.D. 1984. Spatial heterogeneity, indirect interactions, and the coexistence of prey species. The American Naturalist 124: 377-406.

10. Gurri-Glass, G., R.D. Holt and N. Slade. 1985. Infanticide as an evolutionary stable strategy. Animal Behavior 33: 384-391.

11. Holt, R.D. and J. Pickering. 1985. Infectious disease and species coexistence: A model of Lotka-Volterra form. The American Naturalist 126: 196-211.

12. Holt, R.D. 1985. Population dynamics in two-patch environments: Some anomalous consequences of an optimal habitat distribution. Theoretical Population Biology 28: 181-208.

13. Holt, R.D. 1985. Density-independent mortality, non-linear competitive interactions, and species coexistence. Journal of Theoretical Biology 116: 479-493.

14. Holt, R.D. 1987. On the relation between niche overlap and competition: The effect of incommensurable niche dimensions. Oikos 48:110-114.

15. Holt, R.D. and B.P. Kotler. 1987. Short-term apparent competition. The American Naturalist 130:412-430.

16. Holt, R.D. 1987. Prey communities in patchy environments. Oikos 50:276-290.

17. Holt, R.D. 1987. Population dynamics and evolutionary processes: The manifold effects of habitat selection. Evolutionary Ecology 1:331-347.

18. Kotler, B.P. and R.D. Holt. 1989. Predation and competition. The interaction of two types of species interactions. Oikos 54:256-260.

19. Polis, G.A., C.A. Myers and R.D. Holt. 1989. The ecology and evolution of intraguild predation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 20: 297-330.

20. Louda, S.M., K.H. Keeler and R.D. Holt. 1990. Herbivore influences on plant performance and competitive interactions. Pages 413-444 in J.B. Grace and D. Tilman, eds. Perspectives in Plant Competition. Academic Press, New York.

21. Holt, R.D. 1990. The microevolutionary consequences of climate change. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 5: 311-315.

22. Holt, R.D. 1990. Birds under selection. Review of "Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population," by B.R. Grant and P.R. Grant. Science 249: 306-307.

23. Hochberg, M.E. and R.D. Holt. 1990. The coexistence of competing parasites. I. The role of cross-species infection. The American Naturalist 136: 517-541.

24. Jaenike, J. and R.D. Holt. 1991. Genetic variation for habitat preference: evidence and explanation. The American Naturalist 137: S67-S90 (supplement).

25. Holt, R.D. and K.C. Parker. 1991. Evolve: a desktop laboratory of evolution. Quarterly Review of Biology 66: 241-242.

26. Holt, R.D. 1992. Theoretical ecology. Pages 272-274 in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, volume 3. McGraw-Hill, New York.

27. Holt, R.D. 1992. Population ecology. Pages 191-196 in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, volume 3. McGraw-Hill, New York.

28. Holt, R.D. 1992. A neglected facet of island biogeography: The role of internal spatial dynamics in area effects. Theoretical Population Biology 41: 354-371.

29. Gaines, M.S., M. Johnson, R.D. Holt, G.R. Robinson and J. Diffendorfer. 1992. The effects of habitat fragmentation on small mammal populations. Pages 875-885 in D.R. McCullough and R.H. Barrett, eds. Wildlife 2001. Elsevier Press.

30. Polis, G.A. and R.D. Holt. 1992. Intraguild predation: the dynamics of complex trophic interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7: 151-155.

31. Holt, R.D. and M.S. Gaines. 1992. The analysis of adaptation in heterogeneous landscapes: Implications for the evolution of fundamental niches. Evolutionary Ecology 6:433-447.

32. McPeek, M.A. and R.D. Holt. 1992. The evolution of dispersal in spatially and temporally varying environments. The American Naturalist 6: 1010-1027.

33. Robinson, G.R., R.D. Holt, M.S. Gaines, S.P. Hamburg, M.L. Johnson, H.S. Fitch and E.A. Martinko. 1992. Diverse and contrasting effects of habitat fragmentation. Science 257: 524-526.

34. Cohen, J.E., R.D. Holt et al. 1993. Improving food webs. Ecology 74: 252-258.

35. Marquet, P.A., R.D. Holt et al. 1993. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of patchiness: a marine-terrestrial perspective. Pages 277-304 in T. Powell, S. Levin, and J. Steele, eds. Patch Dynamics in Marine and Terrestrial Environments. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

36. Holt, R.D. and M.P. Hassell. 1993. Environmental heterogeneity and the stability of host-parasitoid interactions. Journal of Animal Ecology 62:89-100.

37. Holt, R.D. and M.S. Gaines. 1993. The influence of regional processes on local communities. Examples from an experimentally fragmented landscape. Pages 260-276 in T. Powell, S. Levin, and J. Steele, eds. Patch Dynamics in Marine and Terrestrial Environments. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

38. Holt, R.D. 1993. In peace, and in war. Review of "Natural Enemies" by Michael J.Crawley. Nature 362: 301.

39. Holt, R.D. 1993. Ecology at the mesoscale: The influence of regional processes on local communities. Pages 77-88 in R. Ricklefs and D. Schluter, eds. Species Diversity in Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

40. Holt, R.D. and J.H. Lawton. 1993. Apparent competition and enemy-free space in insect host-parasitoid communities. The American Naturalist 142: 623-645.

41. Holt, R.D. 1993. Infectious diseases of wildlife, in theory and in practice. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8: 2-5.

42. Gaines, M.S., R.D. Holt et al. 1993. Population processes and biological diversity. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 57: 252-262.

43. Godfray, H.C.J., M.P. Hassell and R.D. Holt. 1994. The population dynamic consequences of phenological asynchrony between parasitoids and their hosts. Journal of Animal Ecology 63: 1-10.

44. Holt, R.D. 1994. Linking species and ecosystems: Where's Darwin? Pages 273-279 in C. Jones and J. Lawton, eds. Linking Species and Ecosystems. Chapman and Hall, London.

45. Holt, R.D., J. Grover and D. Tilman. 1994. Simple rules for interspecific dominance in systems with exploitative and apparent competition. The American Naturalist 144: 741-777.

46. Holt, R.D. and J.H. Lawton. 1994. The ecological consequences of shared natural enemies. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 25: 495-520.

47. Gaines, M.S., J.E. Diffendorfer, J. Foster, F.P. Wray and R.D. Holt. 1994. The effects of habitat fragmentation on population species of small mammals in eastern Kansas. Polish Ecological Studies 20: 159-171.

48. Gomulkiewicz, R. and R.D. Holt. 1995. When does evolution by natural selection prevent extinction? Evolution 49: 201-207.

49. Holt, R.D., D. Debinski, J. Diffendorfer, M. Gaines, E. Martinko, G. Robinson and G. Ward. 1995. Perspectives from an experimental study of habitat fragmentation in an agroecosystem. Pages 147-175 in D. Glen, M. Graves and H. Anderson, eds. Arable Ecosystems for the 21st Century. Wiley, New York.

50. Diffendorfer, J.E., M.S. Gaines and R.D. Holt. 1995. Habitat fragmentation and movements of three small mammals. Ecology 76: 827-839.

51. Holt, R.D., S.W. Pacala, T.W. Smith and J. Liu. 1995. Linking contemporary vegetation models and spatially explicit animal population models. Ecological Applications 5: 20-27.

52. Reed, A., R.D. Holt et al. 1995. Genetics and evolution of infectious diseases in natural populations. Pages 450-477 in B. Grenfell and A. Dobson, eds. Ecology of Infectious Diseases in Natural Populations. Cambridge University Press.

53. Diffendorfer, J.E., N.A. Slade, M.S. Gaines and R.D. Holt. 1995. Population dynamics of small mammals in fragmented and continuous old-field habitats. Pages 175-199 in W. Lidicker, ed. Landscape Approaches in Mammalian Ecology and Conservation. University of Minnesota Press.

54. Hochberg, M.E. and R.D. Holt. 1995. Refuge evolution and the population dynamics of coupled host-parasitoid associations. Evolutionary Ecology 9: 633-661.

55. Holt, R.D, G.R. Robinson and M.S. Gaines. 1995. Vegetation dynamics in an experimentally fragmented landscape. Ecology 76: 1610-1624.

56. Holt, R.D., 1996. Food webs in space: an island biogeographic perspective. Pages 313-323 in G. Polis and K. Winemiller, eds. Food Webs: Contemporary Perspectives. Chapman and Hall.

57. Holt, R.D. 1996. Temporal and spatial aspects of food web structure and dynamics. Pages 255-257 in G. Polis and K. Winemiller, eds. Food Webs: Contemporary Perspectives. Chapman and Hall.

58. Polis, G.A., R.D. Holt, B.A. Menge and K.O. Winemiller. 1996. Time, space, and life history: influences on food webs. Pages 435-460 in G. Polis and K. Winemiller, eds. Food Webs: Contemporary Perspectives. Chapman and Hall.

59. Holt, R.D. 1996. Demographic constraints in evolution: Towards unifying the evolutionary theories of senescence and niche conservatism. Evolutionary Ecology 10: 1-11.

60. Holt, R.D. 1996. Adaptive evolution in source-sink environments: Direct and indirect effects of density-dependence on niche evolution. Oikos 75: 182-192.

61. Maurer, B.A. and R.D. Holt. 1996. Effects of chronic pesticide stress on wildlife populations in complex landscapes: processes at multiple scales. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 15: 420-426.

62. Holt, R.D. 1996. Darwin goes to the doctor. Review of "Why We Get Sick," by R.M. Ness and G.C. Williams. Ecology 77: 983-984.

63. Smith, V.H. and R.D. Holt. 1996. Resource competition and within-host disease dynamics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 386-389.

64. Diffendorfer, J.E., R.D. Holt, N.A. Slade and M.S. Gaines. 1996. Small mammal community patterns in old fields: distinguishing site-specific from regional processes. Pages 421-466 in M.L. Cody and J.A. Smallwood, eds. Long-term Studies of Vertebrate Communities. Academic Press, New York.

65. Holt, R.D. and M.A. McPeek. 1996. Chaotic population dynamics favors the evolution of dispersal. The American Naturalist 148: 709-718.

66. Holt, R.D. 1996. Review of Species Diversity in Space and Time, by M. Rosenzweig. Quarterly Review of Biology 71: 568.

67. Holt, R.D. 1996. Rarity and evolution: some theoretical considerations. Pages 209-234 in W.E. Kunin and K.J. Gaston, eds. The Biology of Rarity. Chapman & Hall, London.

68. Holt, R.D. 1997. From metapopulation dynamics to community structure: some consequences of spatial heterogeneity. Pages 149-164 in I. Hanski and M. Gilpin, eds. Metapopulation Biology. Academic Press, New York.

69. Grover, J and R.D. Holt. 1997. Plants in trophic webs. Pages 556-567 in M.J. Crawley, ed. Plant Ecology, 2nd ed. Blackwell, Oxford.

70. Holt, R.D. and R. Gomulkiewicz. 1997. The evolution of species' niches: a population dynamic perspective. Pages 25-50 in H. Othmer, F. Adler, M. Lewis and J. Dallon, eds. Case Studies in Mathematical Modelling: Ecology, Physiology, and Cell Biology. Prentice-Hall.

71. Holt, R.D., J.H. Lawton, K.J. Gaston and T.M. Blackburn. 1997. On the relationship between range size and local abundance: back to basics. Oikos 78: 183-190.

72. Holt, R.D. and R. Gomulkiewicz. 1997. How does immigration influence local adaptation? A reexamination of a familiar paradigm. The American Naturalist 149: 563-572.

73. Holt, R.D. and G.A. Polis. 1997. A theoretical framework for intraguild predation. The American Naturalist. 149: 745-764.

74. Holt, R.D. and M.E. Hochberg. 1997. When is biological control evolutionarily stable (or is it)? Ecology 78: 1673-1683.

75. Holt, R.D. 1997. On the evolutionary stability of sink populations. Evolutionary Ecology 11: 723-732.

76. Holt, R.D. 1997. Community modules. Pages 333-349 in A.C. Gange and V.K. Brown, eds. Multitrophic Interactions in Terrestrial Ecosystems, 36th Symposium of the British Ecological Society. Blackwell Science.

77. Polis, G.A., W.B. Anderson and R.D. Holt. 1997. Toward an integration of landscape ecology and food web ecology: the dynamics of spatially subsidized food webs. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 28:289-316.

78. Lawton, J.H., R.D. Holt et al. 1998. Biodiversity inventories, indicator taxa and effects of habitat modification in tropical forest. Nature 391: 72-76.

79. Abrams, P.A., R.D. Holt and J.D. Roth. 1998. Apparent competition or apparent mutualism? Shared predation when populations cycle. Ecology 79: 201-212.

80. Grover, J.P. and R.D. Holt. 1998. Disentangling resource and apparent competition: realistic models for plant-herbivore communities. Journal of Theoretical Biology 191: 353-376.

81. Wilson, H.B., R.D. Holt and M.P. Hassell. 1998. Persistence and area effects in a stochastic tritrophic model. The American Naturalist 151: 587-596

82. Holt, R. D and M.E. Hochberg. 1998. The coexistence of competing parasites. II. Hyperparasitism and food chain dynamics. Journal of Theoretical Biology 193: 485-495.

83. Alexander, H.M. and R.D. Holt. 1998. The interaction between plant competition and disease. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 1: 206-220.

84. Holt, R.D., M.E. Hochberg and M. Barfield. 1999. Population dynamics and the evolutionary stability of biological control. Pages 219-230 in B. Hawkins and H. Cornell, eds. Theoretical Approaches to Biological Control. Academic Press, New York.

85. Hochberg, M.E. and R.D. Holt. 1999. The uniformity and density of pest exploitation as guides to success in biological control. Pages 71-88 in B. Hawkins and H. Cornell, eds. Theoretical Approaches to Biological Control. Academic Press, New York.

86. Holt, R.D., J.H. Lawton, G.A. Polis and N. Martinez. 1999. Trophic rank and the species-area relation. Ecology 80: 1495-1504.

87. Gomulkiewicz, R., R.D. Holt and M. Barfield. 1999. The effects of density dependence and immigration on local adaptation in a black-hole sink environment. Theoretical Population Biology 55: 283-296.

88. Diffendorfer, J.E., M.S. Gaines and R.D. Holt. 1999. Patterns and impacts of movements at different scales in small mammals. Pages 63-88 in G. Barrett and J. Peles, eds. Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals. Springer-Verlag, New York.

89. Schweiger, E.W., J. Diffendorfer, R. Pierotti and R.D. Holt. 1999. The relative importance of small-scale and landscape level heterogeneity in structuring small mammal distributions: An experimental study of habitat fragmentation. Pages 175-210 in G. Barrett and J. Peles, eds. Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals. Springer-Verlag, New York.

90. Holt, R.D. and M.A. Bowers. 1999. Experimental design at the landscape scale. Pages 263-286 in G. Barrett and J. Peles, eds. Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals. Springer-Verlag, New York.

91. Osenberg, C.W., O. Sarnelle, S.D. Cooper and R.D. Holt. 1999. Resolving ecological questions through meta-analysis: goals, metrics and models. Ecology 80: 1105-1117.

92. Yao, J., R.D. Holt, P. Rich and W. Marshall. 1999. Woody plant colonization in an experimentally fragmented landscape. Ecography 22:715-728.

93. Holt, R.D. 1999. Putting food webs into context (Review of "Vertical Food Web Interactions", eds. K. Dettner, G. Bauer and W. Volkl). Ecology 80: 2804-2806.

94. Shulenberger, L., T. Yalcinyaka, Y.C. Lai and R.D. Holt. 1999. Controlling transient chaos to prevent species extinction. Physics Letters A 260: 156-161.

95. Debinski, D. and R.D. Holt. 2000. A survey and overview of habitat fragmentation experiments. Conservation Biology 14: 1-13.

96. Holt, R.D. and T. Keitt. 2000. Alternative causes for range limits: a metapopulation perspective. Ecology Letters 3: 41-47.

97. Hochberg, M.E., R. Gomulkiewicz, R.D. Holt and J.N. Thompson. 2000. Weak sinks could cradle mutualisms - strong sources should harbor pathogens. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 13: 213-222.

98. Gomulkiewicz, R., J.N. Thompson, R.D. Holt, S.L. Nuismer and M.E. Hochberg. 2000. Hot spots, cold spots, and the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. The American Naturalist 156: 156-174.

99. Holt, R.D. 2000. A biogeographical and landscape perspective on within-host infection dynamics. Pages 583-588 in C.R. Bell, M. Brylinsky and P. Johnson-Green, eds. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium of Microbial Ecology. Atlantic Canada Society for Microbial Ecology, Halifax, Canada.

100. Schweiger, W., J. Diffendorfer, R.D. Holt and R. Pierotti. 2000. The interaction of habitat fragmentation, plant, and small mammal succession in an old field. Ecological Monographs: 70: 383-400.

101. Schmidt, K.A., J.M. Earnhardt, J.S. Brown and R.D. Holt. 2000. Habitat selection under temporal heterogeneity: sinking the ghost of competition past. Ecology 81: 2622-2630.

102. Holt, R.D. 2000. Trophic cascades in terrestrial systems: Reflections on Polis et al., Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 444-445.

103. Holt, R.D. 2000. Use it or lose it. Nature 407: 689-690.

104. Estes, J., K. Crooks and R.D. Holt. 2001. Predators, ecological role of. Pages 857-878 in S. Levin, ed. The Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Vol. 4. Academic Press.

105. Holt, R.D. 2001. Species coexistence. Pages 413-426 in S. Levin, ed. The Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Vol. 5. Academic Press.

106. Holt, R.D. and M.E. Hochberg. 2001. Indirect interactions, community modules, and biological control: a theoretical perspective. Pages 13-37 in E. Waijnberg, J.K. Scott and P.C. Quimby, eds. Evaluation of Indirect Ecological Effects of Biological Control. CAB International.

107. Holt, R.D. and M. Barfield. 2001. On the relationship between the ideal-free distribution and the evolution of dispersal. Pages 83-95 in J. Clobert E., Danchin, A. Dhondt and J. Nichols, eds. Dispersal. Oxford University Press.

108. Cook, W., R.D. Holt and J. Yao. 2001. Spatial variability in oviposition damage by periodical cicadas in a fragmented landscape. Oecologia 127: 51-61.

109. Harrison, M.A., Y.C. Lai and R. D. Holt. 2001. Dynamical mechanism for coexistence of dispersing species without trade-offs in spatially extended ecological systems. Physical Review E 63: 1-5.

110. Keitt, T.H., M.A. Lewis and R.D. Holt. 2001. Allee effects invasion pinning and species borders. The American Naturalist 157: 203-216.

111. Thompson, J.N., O.J. Reichman, P.J. Morin, G.A. Polis, M.E. Power, R.W. Sterner, C.A. Couch, L. Gough, R.D. Holt, D.U. Hooper, F. Keesing, C.R. Lovell, B.T. Milne, M.C. Molles, D.W. Roberts and S.Y. Strauss. 2001. Frontiers of ecology. Bioscience 51:15-24.

112. Harrison, M.A., Y.C. Lai and R.D. Holt. 2001. Dynamical mechanism for coexistence of dispersing species. Journal of Theoretical Biology 213: 53-72.

113. Dhamala, M., Y.C. Lai and R.D. Holt. 2001. How often are chaotic transients in spatially extended ecological systems? Phys. Lett. A 280: 297-302.

114. Holt, R. D. and M. Loreau. 2002. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: The role of trophic interactions, and the importance of system openness. Pages 246-262 in A. Kinzig and S. Pacala, eds. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function. Princeton University Press.

115. Chase, J.M., P.A. Abrams, J. Grover, S. Diehl, R.D. Holt, S. Richards, T. Case, W. Wilson, R. Nisbet and P. Chesson. 2002. The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis. Ecology Letters 5: 302-315.

116. Holt, R. D. and M. E. Hochberg. 2002. Virulence on the edge: a source-sink perspective. Pages 104-120 in U. Dieckmann, J.A.J. Metz, M.W. Sabelis and K. Sigmund, eds. Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

117. Hochberg, M. E. and R. D. Holt. 2002. Biogeographical perspectives on arms races. Pages 197-209 in U. Dieckmann, J.A.J. Metz, M.W. Sabelis and K. Sigmund, eds. Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases : In Pursuit of Virulence Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

118. Holt, R.D. 2002. Food webs in space: On the interplay of dynamic instability and spatial processes. Ecological Research 17: 261-273.

119. Cook, W. M. and R.D. Holt. 2002. Periodical cicada (Magicicada cassini) oviposition damage: visually impressive yet dynamically irrelevant. American Midland Naturalist 147: 214-224.

120. Cook, W. M., K. T. Lane, B. L. Foster and R.D. Holt 2002. Island theory, matrix effects and species richness patterns in habitat fragments. Ecology letters 5: 619-623.

121. Kawecki, T.J. and R.D. Holt 2002. Evolutionary consequences of asymmetric dispersal rates. The American Naturalist 160: 333-347.

122. Abrams, P.A. and R.D. Holt 2002. The impact of consumer-resource cycles on the coexistence of competing consumers. Theoretical Population Biology 62: 281-295.

123. Gonzalez, A. and R.D. Holt. 2002. The inflationary effects of environmental fluctuations in source-sink systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99: 14872-14877.

124. Holt, R.D., R. Gomulkiewicz and M. Barfield. 2003. The phenomenology of niche evolution via quantitive traits in a 'black-hole' sink. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 270: 215-224.

125. Holt, R.D. and M. Barfield. 2003. Impact of temporal variation on apparent competition and coexistence in open ecosystems. Oikos 101: 49-58

126. Holt, R.D. 2003. On the evolutionary ecology of species ranges. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 5: 159-178.

127. Holt, R.D. and D.M. Debinski. 2003. Reflections on landscape experiments and ecological theory: Tools for the study of habitat fragmentation. Pages 201-223 in G.A. Bradshaw and P. Marquet, eds. How Landscapes Change: Human Disturbance and Ecosystems in the Americas. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

128. Kelly, J. K., S. Williamson, M. Orive, M. Smith and R.D. Holt. 2003. Linking Dynamical and Population Genetic Models of Persistent Viral Infection. The American Naturalist 162: 14-28.

129. Peterson, A.T. and R.D. Holt. 2003. Niche Differentiation in Mexican Birds: Using Point Occurence Data to Detect Ecological Innovation. Ecology Letters 6: 774-782.

130. Lafferty, K.D. and R.D. Holt. 2003. How should environmental stress affect the population dynamics of disease? Ecology Letters 6: 654-664.

131. Palmer, M.A., P. Arzberger, J.E. Cohen, A. Hastings, R.D. Holt, J.L. Morse, D.W. Sumners and Z. Luthey-Schulter. 2003. Accelerating mathematical-biological linkages: Report of a joint NSF-NIH workshop. Held February 12-13, 2003 at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. 

132. Abrams, P. A., C. E. Brassil and R. D. Holt. 2003. Dynamics and responses to mortality rates of competing predators undergoing predator-prey cycles. Theoretical Population Biology 64: 163-176.

133. Loreau, M., N. Mouquet, and R.D. Holt. 2003. Meta-ecosystems: a framework for a spatial ecosystem ecology. Ecology Letters 6: 673-679.

134. Holt, R.D., A.P. Dobson, M. Begon, R.G. Bowers and E. Schauber. 2003. Parasite establishment and persistence in multi-host-species systems. Ecology Letters 6: 837-842.

135. Packer, C., R.D. Holt, A. Dobson and P. Hudson. 2003. Keeping the herds healthy and alert: impacts of predation upon prey with specialist pathogens. Ecology Letters 6: 797-802.

136. Holt, R.D., M. Barfield and A. Gonzalez 2003. Impacts of environmental variability in open populations and communities: “inflation” in sink environments. Theoretical Population Biology 64: 315-330.

137. Bonsall, M.B. and R.D. Holt. 2003. The effects of enrichment on the dynamics of apparent competitive interactions in stage-structured systems. The American Naturalist 162: 780-795.

138. Holt, R.D., T.M. Knight and M. Barfield. 2004. Allee effects, immigration, and the evolution of species' niches. American Naturalist 163: 253-262.

139. Ostfeld, R.S. and R.D. Holt. 2004. Are predators good for your health? Evaluating evidence for top down regulation of zoonotic reservoirs. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2: 13-20.

140. Huxel, G.R., A. Hastings, G.A. Polis and R.D. Holt. 2004. At the frontier of the integration of food web ecology and landscape ecology. Pages 434-452 in G.A. Polis, G.R. Huxel and M.Power, eds. Food Webs at the Landscape Scale: The Ecology of Trophic Flow across Habitats. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

141. Holt, R.D. 2004. Implications of system openness for local community structure and ecosystem function. Pages 96-114 in G.A. Polis, G.R. Huxel and M.Power, eds. Food Webs at the Landscape Scale: The Ecology of Trophic Flow across Habitats. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

142. Sears, A.L.W., R.D. Holt and G.A. Polis. 2004. Feast and Famine in food webs: the effects of pulsed productivity. Pages 359-386 in G.A. Polis, G.R. Huxel and M.Power, eds. Food Webs at the Landscape Scale: The Ecology of Trophic Flow across Habitats. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

143. Loreau, M. and R.D. Holt. 2004. Spatial flows and the regulation of ecosystems. The American Naturalist, 163: 606-615.

144. Leibold, M.A., M. Holyoak, N. Mouquet, P. Amarasekare, J. M. Chase, M. F. Hoopes, R. D. Holt, J. B. Shurin, R. Law, D. Tilman, M. Loreau and A. Gonzalez. 2004. The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology. Ecology Letters 7: 601-613.

145. Shurin, J.B., P. Amarasekare, J.M. Chase, R.D. Holt, M.F. Hoopes, R. Law and M.A. Leibold. 2004. Alternative stable states and regional community structure. Journal of Theoretical Biology 227: 359-368.

146. Holt, R.D., R. Gomulkiewicz and M. Barfield. 2004. Temporal variation can facilitate niche evolution in harsh sink environments. American Naturalist 164: 187-200 (plus electronic appendix).

147. Holt, R.D. and N. Slade. 2004. Constraints come in many colors. Pages 308-315 in M.L. Taper and S. Lele, eds. The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Empirical, Statistical and Philosophical Considerations. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

148. Holt, R.D. 2004. Reconciliation ecology, or resignation ecology? The challenge of living with nature. (Review of “Win-win ecology: how the earth’s species can survive in the midst of the human enterprise,” by Michael L. Rosenzweig). Ecology 85: 2056-2057.

149. Loreau, M., C. De Mazancourt and R.D. Holt. 2004. Ecosystems Evolution and Conservation. Pages 327-343 in R. Ferriere, U. Dieckmann and D. Couvet, eds. Evolutionary Conservation Biology. Cambridge University Press.

150. Holt, R.D. and R. Gomulkiewicz. 2004. Conservation implication of niche conservatism and evolution in heterogeneous environments. Pages 244-264 in R. Ferriere, U. Dieckmann and D. Couvet, eds. Evolutionary Conservation Biology. Cambridge University Press.

151. Kimbrell, T. and R.D. Holt. 2004. On the interplay of predator switching and prey evasion in determining the stability of predator-prey dynamics. Israel Journal of Science 50: 188-205. (Special issue on foraging ecology)

152. Holt, R.D. and T. Keitt. 2005. Species’ borders: a unifying theme in ecology. Oikos 108: 3-6.

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

154. Holt, R.D. and T. Boulinier. 2005. Ecosystems and parasitism: The spatial dimension. Pages 68-84 in F. Thomas, F. Renaud and I.F. Guegan, eds. Parasitism and Ecosystems. Oxford University Press.

155. Case, T.J., R.D. Holt and M. McPeek. 2005. The community context of species borders ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Oikos 108: 28-46.

156. Orive , M.E. , M.N. Stearns, J.K. Kelly, M. Barfield and R.D. Holt. 2005. Viral infection in internally structured hosts. I. Conditions for persistent infection. Journal of Theoretical Biology 232: 453-466.

157. Ziv, Y., M.L. Rosenzweig and R.D. Holt. 2005. SHALOM: A Landscape Simulation Model for Understanding Animal Biodiversity. Pages 70-88 in M. Shachak , J.R. Gosz, S.T.A. Pickett and A. Perevolotsky, eds. Diversity in Drylands: Toward a Unified Framework. Oxford University Press.

158. Polis, G.A., Y. Ayal, A. Bachi, S.R.X. Dall, D.E. Goldberg, R.D. Holt, S. Kark, B.P. Kotler and W.A. Mitchell. 2005. Interspecific Interactions and Species Diversity in Drylands. Pages 122-152 in M. Shachak , J.R. Gosz, S.T.A. Pickett and A. Perevolotsky, eds. Diversity in Drylands: Toward a Unified Framework. Oxford University Press.

159. Cook, W.M., J. Yao, B.L. Foster, R.D. Holt and L.B. Patrick. 2005. Secondary succession in an experimentally fragmented landscape: community patterns across space and time. Ecology 86: 1267-1279

160. Fryxell, J.M., J.F. Wilmshurst, A.R.E. Sinclair, D.T. Haydon, R.D. Holt and P.A. Abrams. 2005. Landscape scale, heterogeneity, and the viability of Serengeti grazers. Ecology Letters 8: 328-335

161. Knight, T.M. and R.D. Holt. 2005. Fire generates spatial gradients in herbivory: An example from a Florida sandhill ecosystem. Ecology 86: 587-593.

162. Smith, V.H., B.L. Foster, J.P. Grover, R.D. Holt, M.A. Leibold and F. deNoyelles Jr. 2005. Phytoplankton species richness scales consistently from laboratory microcosms to the world’s oceans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 102: 4393-4396.

163. Holt, R.D. and W.B. Anderson. 2005. Forward: In memory of Gary Polis. Pages ii-iii in M. Shachak , J.R. Gosz, S.T.A. Pickett and A. Perevolotsky, eds. Diversity in Drylands: Toward a Unified Framework. Oxford University Press.

164. Roy , M., R.D. Holt and M. Barfield. 2005. Temporal autocorrelation can enhance the persistence and abundance of metapopulations comprised of coupled sinks. The American Naturalist 166: 246 -261.

165. Kimbrell, T. and R.D. Holt 2005. Individual behaviour, space and predator evolution promote persistence in a two-patch system with predator switching. Evolutionary Ecology Research 7: 53-71

166. Holyoak, M., M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt, eds. 2005 Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press. 

167. Holyoak, M., M.A. Leibold , N.M. Mouquet, R.D. Holt and M.F. Hoopes. 2005. Metacommunities: a framework for large scale community ecology. Pages 1-31 in M. Holyoak, M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt, eds. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

168. Hoopes, M.F., R.D. Holt and M. Holyoak. 2005. The effects of spatial processes on two species interactions. Pages 35-67 in M. Holyoak, M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt, eds. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

169. Holt, R.D. and M.F. Hoopes 2005. Food web dynamics in a metacommunity context: modules and beyond. Pages 68-94 in M. Holyoak, M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt, eds. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

170. Holyoak, M. and R.D. Holt. 2005. Introduction: Empirical Perspectives. Pages 95-98 in M. Holyoak, M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt, eds. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

171. Chase, J.M., P. Amarasekare, K. Cottenie, A. Gonzalez, R.D. Holt, M. Holyoak, M.F. Hoopes, M.A. Leibold, M. Loreau, N. Mouquet, J.B. Shurin and D. Tilman. 2005. Competing theories for competitive metacommunities. Pages 335-354 in M. Holyoak, M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt, eds. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

172. Loreau, M., N. Mouquet and R.D. Holt. 2005. From metacommunities to meta-ecosystems. Pages 418-438 in M. Holyoak, M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt, eds. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

173. Leibold, M.A., R.D. Holt and M. Holyoak. 2005. Adaptive and co-adaptive dynamics in metacommunities: tracking environmental change at different spatial scales. Pages 439-464 in M. Holyoak, M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt, eds. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

174. Holt, R.D., M. Holyoak and M.A. Leibold. 2005. Future directions in metacommunity ecology. Pages 465-489 in M. Holyoak, M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt, eds. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

175. Holyoak, M., M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt. 2005. F. Coda. Pages 491-492 in M. Holyoak, M.A. Leibold and R.D. Holt, eds. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

176. Holt, R.D. 2005. On the integration of community ecology and evolutionary biology: historical perspectives, and current prospects. Pages 235-271 in B. Beisner and K. Cuddington, eds. Ecological Paradigms Lost: Routes of Theory Change. Academic Press.

177. Holt, R.D., M. Barfield and R. Gomulkiewicz. 2005. Theories of Niche Conservatism and Evolution: Could exotic species be potential tests? Pages 259-290 in D. Sax, J. Stachowicz, and S.D. Gaines, eds. Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

178. Knight, T.M., M.W. McCoy, J.M. Chase, K.A. McCoy and R.D. Holt. 2005. Trophic cascades across ecosystems. Nature 437: 880-884 (and electronic supplement).

179. Cumming, G. S., G. Barnes, M. Binford, R.D. Holt, S. Perez, M. Schmink, K. E. Sieving and J. Southworth. 2005. An exploratory framework for the empirical measurement of resilience. Ecosystems 8: 975-987.

180. Holt, R.D. 2006. Making a virtue out of a necessity: Hurricanes and the resilience of island communities. PNAS 103: 2005-2006.

181. Dennehy, J.J., N.A. Friedenberg, R.D. Holt and P.E. Turner. 2006. Viral ecology and the maintenance of novel host use. The American Naturalist 167: 429-439.

182. Keesing, F, R.D. Holt and R.S. Ostfeld. 2006. Effects of species diversity on disease risk. Ecology Letters 9: 485-498.

183. Holt, R.D. and A.P. Dobson. 2006. Introduction: Extending the principles of community ecology to address the epidemiology of host-pathogen communities. Pages 6-27 in S.K. Collinge and C. Ray, eds. Disease Ecology: Community Structure and Pathogen Dynamics. Oxford University Press.

184. Harding, K.C., J.M. McNamara and R.D. Holt. 2006. Understanding invasions in patchy habitats through metapopulation theory. Pages 371-403 in M. Cadotte and T. Fukami, eds. Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature. Springer.

185. Dobson, A.P., I. Cattadori, R.D. Holt , R.S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, K. Krichbaum, J.R. Rohr, S.E. Perkins and P.J. Hudson. 2006. Sacred cows and sympathetic squirrels: The importance of biological diversity to human health. PLOS Medicine 3: 714-718.

186. Holt, R.D. 2006. Asymmetry and stability. Nature 442: 252-253.

187. Cook, W.M. and R.D. Holt. 2006. Fire frequency and mosaic burning effects on a tallgrass prairie ground beetle assemblage. Biodiversity and Conservation 15: 2301-2323.

188. Holt, R.D. and M. Barfield. 2006. Within-host pathogen dynamics: some ecological and evolutionary consequence of transients, dispersal mode, and within-host spatial heterogeneity. Pages 45-66 in Z. Feng, U. Dieckmann and S. Levin, eds. Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts, and Data Analyses. American Mathematical Society.

189. Holt, R.D. 2006. Emergent neutrality. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 531-533.

190. Cook, W.M. and R.D. Holt. 2006. Influence of multiple factors on insect colonization of heterogeneous landscapes: a review and case study with periodical cicadas (Homoptera : Cicadidae). Annals of the American Entomological Society of America 99: 809-820.

191. Knight, T.M., J.M. Chase, H. Hillebrand and R.D. Holt. 2006. Predation on mutualists can reduce the strength of trophic cascades. Ecology Letters 9: 1173-1178.

192. Holdo, R.M., R.D. Holt, M.B. Coughenour and M.E. Ritchie. 2007. Plant productivity and soil nitrogen as a function of grazing, migration, and fire in an African savanna. Journal of Ecology 95: 115-128.

193. Martcheva, M., S.S. Pilyugin and R.D. Holt. 2007. Subthreshold and superthreshold coexistence of pathogen variants: The impact of host age-structure. Mathematical Biosciences 207: 58-77.

194. Kimbrell, T. and R.D. Holt. 2007. Canalization breakdown and evolution in a source-sink system. The American Naturalist 169: 370-382.

195. Holt, R.D. and M. Roy. 2007. Predation can increase the prevalence of infectious disease. The American Naturalist 169: 690-699.

196. Long, Z.T., O.L. Petchey and R.D. Holt. 2007. The effects of immigration and environmental variability on the persistence of an inferior competitor. Ecology Letters 10: 574-585.

197. Sax, D.F., J.J. Stachowicz, J.H. Brown et al. 2007. Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 22: 465-471.

198. Holt, R.D. and T. Kimbrell. 2007. Foraging and population dynamics. Pages 365-395 in D. Stephens, J. Brown and R. Ydenberg, eds. Foraging: Behavior and Ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

199. Martcheva, M., B.M. Bolker and R.D. Holt. 2007. Vaccine-induced pathogen strain replacement: what are the mechanisms? Journal of the Royal Society Interface 5 :3-13.

200. Borer, E.T., C.J. Briggs and R.D. Holt. 2007. Predators, parasitoids, and pathogens: a cross-cutting examination of intraguild predation theory. Ecology 88: 2681-2688.

201. Holt, R.D. and G.R. Huxel. 2007. Alternative prey and the dynamics of intraguild predation: theoretical perspectives. Ecology 88: 2706-2712.

202. Holt, R.D. 2007. In ecology and evolution, when I say “I”, should I mean “We”? Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 53: 1-7.

203. Kimbrell, T., R.D. Holt and P. Lundberg. 2007. The influence of vigilance on intraguild predation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 249: 218-234.

204. Holt, R.D. 2007. Cultural amnesia in the ecological sciences. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 53: 121-128.

205. Holt, R.D. 2007. The unraveling of nature’s information webs: The next depressing frontier in conservation? Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 53: 229-236.

206. Holt, R.D. 2008. Theoretical perspectives on resource pulses. Ecology 89: 671-681.

207. Hall, S.R., K.D. Lafferty, J.H. Brown, C.E. Caceres, J.M. Chase, A.P. Dobson, R.D. Holt, C.G. Jones, S.E. Randolph and P. Rohani. 2008. Is infectious disease just another type of predator-prey interaction? Pages 223-241 in R.S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing and V.T. Eviner, eds. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

208. Holt, R.D. 2008. The community context of disease emergence: could changes in predation be a key driver? Pages 324-346 in R.S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing and V.T. Eviner, eds. Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

209. Roy, M. and R.D. Holt. 2008. Effects of predation on host-pathogen dynamics in SIR models. Theoretical Population Biology 73: 319-331.

210. Filin, I., R.D. Holt and M. Barfield. 2008. The relation of density regulation to habitat specialization, evolution of a species’ range, and the dynamics of biological invasions. The American Naturalist 172: 233-247.

211. Holt, R.D. 2008. Charismatic mesofauna: Butterflies as inspiration and test for theory that integrates ecology and evolution. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 54: 1-5.

212. Forde, S., B. Bohannon, J. Thompson and R.D. Holt. 2008.  Coevolution drives temporal changes in fitness and diversity across environments in a bacteria-bacteriophage interaction. Evolution 62: 1830–1839.

213. Knight, T.M., M. Barfield and R.D. Holt. 2008. Evolutionary dynamics as a component of stage-structured matrix models: an example using Trillium grandiflorum. The American Naturalist 172: 375-392.

214. Holt, R.D., P.A. Abrams, J.M. Fryxell and T. Kimbrell. 2008. Reticulate food webs in space and time: Messages from the Serengeti. Pages 241-276 in A.R.E. Sinclair, C. Packer, S.A.R. Mduma and J.M. Fryxell, eds. Serengeti III: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics. The University of Chicago Press.

215. Fryxell, J.M., P.A. Abrams, R.D. Holt, J.F. Wilmshurst, A.R.E. Sinclair and R. Hilborn. 2008. Spatial dynamics and coexistence of the Serengeti grazer community. Pages 277-300 in A.R.E. Sinclair, C. Packer, S.A.R. Mduma and J.M. Fryxell, eds. Serengeti III: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics. The University of Chicago Press.

216. Roy, M., K. Harding and R.D. Holt. 2008. Generalizing Levins metapopulation model in explicit space: Models of intermediate complexity. Journal of Theoretical Biology 255:152-161.

217. Holt, R.D. 2008. On the uses and abuses of comparative demography. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 54:159-163.

218. Holt, R.D. and M. Barfield. 2008. Habitat selection and niche conservatism. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 54: 295-309.

219. Holt, R.D. 2008. Habitats and seasons. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 54: 279-285.

220. McCoy, M.W., M. Barfield and R.D. Holt. 2009. Predator shadows: Complex life histories as generators of spatially patterned indirect interactions across ecosystems. Oikos 118: 87-100.

221. Holt, R.D. and M. Barfield. 2009. Trophic interactions and range limits: The diverse roles of predation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 1435-1442.

222. Holdo, R.M., R.D. Holt and J.M. Fryxell. 2009. Grazers, browsers, and fire influence the extent and spatial pattern of tree cover in the Serengeti. Ecological Applications 19:95-109.

223. Holdo, R.M., R.D. Holt and J.M. Fryxell. 2009. Opposing rainfall and plant nutritional gradients best explain the wildebeest migration in the Serengeti. The American Naturalist 173: 431-445.

224. Collins, C.D., R.D. Holt and B.L. Foster. 2009. Patch size effects on plant species decline in an experimentally fragmented landscape. Ecology 90: 2577–2588.

225. Holt, R.D. and M. Barfield. 2009. Metapopulation perspectives on the evolution of species’ niches. Pages 191-213 in S. Cantrell, C.Cosner and S. Ruan, eds. Spatial Ecology. CRC Press.

226. Holt, R.D. 2009. Prince Kropotkin meets the Hutchinsonian niche. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 55:1-10.

227. Holt, R.D. 2009. Up against the edge: invasive species as testbeds for basic questions about evolution in heterogeneous environments. Molecular Ecology 18: 4347–4348.

228. Holdo, R.M., A.R.E. Sinclair, A.P. Dobson, K.L. Metzger, B.M. Bolker, M.E. Ritchie and R.D. Holt. 2009. A disease-mediated trophic cascade in the Serengeti and its implications for ecosystem C. PLoS Biol 7:e1000210. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000210.