Mark A. Davis
Professor of Biology
MacalesterCollege
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Davis, M. A.,
Reich, P.B., Knoll, J., Dooley, L., Hundtoft, M., Attleson, I. 2007.
Elevated Atmospheric CO2: A Nurse Plant Substitute for Oak
Seedlings Establishing in Old Fields. Global Change Biology 13:
2308-2316.
Davis,
M. A.
2006. Invasion biology 1958-2005: The pursuit of science and
conservation. Chapter 2 in M. W. Cadotte, S. M. McMahon, T.
Fukami, eds. Conceptual ecology and invasions biology: reciprocal
approaches to nature. Springer, London.
Davis, M. A., Thompson, K., Grime, J. P. 2005. Invasibility: the
local
mechanism driving community assembly and species diversity.
Ecography 28: 696-704.
Davis, M.
A., Bier, L., Bushelle, E., Diegel, C., Johnson, A., Kujala,
B. 2005. Non-indigenous grasses impede woody succession. Plant
Ecology 178:249-264.
Davis, M. A., Curran,
C., Tietmeyer, A.,
and
Miller, A.2005. Dynamic
tree aggregation patterns in a species-poor temperate woodland
disturbed by fire. Journal of Vegetation Science 16: 167-174.
Davis, M.
A. et al. (15 coauthors) 2005. Vegetation change: a reunifying
concept in plant ecology. Perspectives in Plant Ecology,
Evolution and Systematics 7:69-76.
Davis,
M. A. and L. B. Slobodkin. 2004. Restoration ecology: the
challenge of social values and expectations. Frontiers in Ecology
and Evolution 2:44-45 (part of a forum, pp. 43-48).
Davis,
M. A. and L. B. Slobodkin. 2004. The science and values of
restoration ecology. Restoration Ecology 12: 1-3.
Davis, M. A. 2003. Biotic globalization: does competition from
introduced
species threaten biodiversity? Bioscience 53:481-489.
Davis,
M. A., K. Thompson. 2002. "Newcomers" invade the field
of invasion ecology: question the field's future. Bulletin of the
Ecological Society of America 83:196-197.
Davis,
M. A. and M. Pelsor. 2001. Experimental support for a
resource-based
mechanistic model of invasiblity. Ecology Letters 4:421-428.
Davis, M. A.,
K. Thompson, and J. P. Grime. 2001 Charles S. Elton and
the dissociation of invasion ecology from the rest of ecology.
Diversity
and Distributions 7:97-102.
Davis,
M. A., K. Thompson. 2001. Invasion Terminology: Should
ecologists define their terms differently than others? No, not if we
want
to be of any help! Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 82:206.
Davis, M.
A., D. Tilman, S. E. Hobbie, C. L. Lehman, P. B. Reich, J.M.
H. Knops, S. Naeem, M. E. Ritchie, and D. A. Wedin. 2001. Public access
and use of electronically archived data: ethical considerations.
Bulletin
of the Ecological Society of America 82:90-91.
Davis, M. A.,
J.
P. Grime, and K. Thompson. 2000. Fluctuating resources in plant
communities:
a general theory of invasibility. Journal of Ecology 88:528-536.
Davis, M. A.
and K. Thompson. 2000. Eight ways to be a colonizer; two
ways to be an invader. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
81:226-230.
Davis,
M. A., D. W. Peterson, P. B. Reich, M. Crozier, T. Query, E.Mitchell,
and J. Huntington. 2000. Thirty two years of savanna restoration using
fire: impact on the breeding bird community. Restoration Ecology
8:30-40.
Davis, M.
A., K. J. Wrage, P. B. Reich, M. G. Tjoelker, T. Schaeffer,C.
Muermann. 1999. Survival, growth, and photosynthesis of tree seedlings
competing with herbaceous vegetation along a multiple resource
gradient.
Plant Ecology 145:341-350
Davis, M.
A., K. J. Wrage & P. B. Reich. 1998. Competition between
tree seedlings and herbaceous vegetation: support for a theory of
resource
supply and demand. Journal of Ecology 86: 652-661.
Davis,
M. A., A. Duke, T. Ibsen, H. Tran, R. Rhodes. 1997. Spatial
Distribution
of Penstemon grandiflorus(Nutt.) and Geomys bursarius
in
a fragmented oak woodland in Minnesota, USA. Natural Areas Journal
17:136-143.
Faber-Langendoen,
D. and M. A. Davis. 1995. Fire frequency and its effect
on woody plant cover at Allison Savanna, East-Central Minnesota.
NaturalAreas
Journal 15:319-328.
Davis, M. A.,
B. Ritchie, N. Graff, & K. Gregg. 1995. An experimental
study of the effects of shade, conspecific crowding, pocket gophers and
surrounding vegetation on survivorship, growth and reproduction in Penstemongrandiflorus.
American Midland Naturalist 134:237-243.
Davis, M. A.
1992. The effects of pocket gophers on survival, growth,
and reproduction in large beardtongue. Proceedings of the Twelfth
NorthAmerican
Prairie Conference, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
Davis, M.
A., J. Villinski, K. Banks, J. Buckman-Fifield, J. Dicus,and
S. Hofmann. 1991. Combined effects of fire, mound building by pocket
gophers,
root loss and plant size on growth and reproduction in Penstemongrandiflorus.
American Midland Naturalist 125:150-161.
Davis, M.
A., J. Villinski, S. McAndrew, H. Scholtz, and E. Young. 1991.
Survivorship of Penstemon grandiflorus in an oak woodland:
combined
effects of fire and pocket gophers. Oecologia 86:113-118.
Davis, M.
A. and G. W. Johnson. 1991. A simple and inexpensive methodof
taking low altitude photographs of vegetation using a tethered balloon.
Prairie Naturalist 23:153-164.
Davis, M. A., K. Lemon, and A. Dybvig. 1987. The effect of burning
and
insect herbivory on seed production of two prairie forbs. Prairie
Naturalist
12:93-100.
Davis, M. A. 1987. The role of flower visitors in the explosive
pollination
of Thalia geniculata (Marantaceae), a Costa Rican marsh plant.
Bulletin
of the Torrey Botanical Club 114:34-38.
Davis, M. A. 1986. Geographic patterns in the flight ability of a
monophagous
beetle. Oecologia 69:407-412.
Davis, M. A., K. Lemon, and A. Dybvig. 1986. The impact of
prescribed
burning and herbivorous insects on seed production and viability in two
prairie forbs. Proceedings of the Tenth North American Prairie
Conference.Texas
Women'sUniversity, Denton, TX.
Davis, M. A. 1984. The flight and migration ecology of the red
milkweed
beetle (Tetraopes tetraophthalmus). Ecology 64:230-234.
Davis, M. A. 1981. The flight capacities of dispersing milkweed
beetles,
Tetraopes tetraophthalmus. Annals of the Entomological Society
of
America 74:385-386.
Davis, M. A. 1981. The effect of pollinators, predators, and
energyconstraints
on the floral ecology and evolution of Trillium erectum.Oecologia48:400-406.
Davis, M. A. 1980. Variation in flight duration among individual Tetraopes
beetles: Impliations for studies of insect flight. Journal of Insect
Physiology
26:403-406.
Davis, M. A. 1980. Why are most insects short fliers? Evolutionary
Theory
5:103-111.
Davis, M. A. 1980. Seasonal variation in the vagility of populations
of the Red Milkweed Beetle, Tetraopes tetraophthalmus.
Environmental
Entomology 9:432-435.
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