Hi Everyone! Here are some readings that might be useful as a general background. Let me know if you have trouble tracking down .pdf's, or if you want to borrow any of the books. Some of the books might be a good investment if you think this kind of stuff will be a long-term interest!
General overview of invertebrates, conservation biology, biogeography, Palau
Anderson, T.R., Hessen, D.O., Boersma, M., Urabe, J., & Mayor, D.J. (2017) Will Invertebrates Require Increasingly Carbon-Rich Food in a Warming World? The American naturalist
Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., Benavides, L.R., Sharma, P., Schwendinger, P.J., Karunarathna, I., & Giribet, G. (2007) Biogeography of the world: a case study from cyphophthalmid Opiliones, a globally distributed group of arachnids. Journal of biogeography, 34, 2070–2085.
Brusca, R.C., Moore, W., & Shuster, S.M. (2016) Invertebrates. Sinauer.
Cameron, E.K., Vilà, M., & Cabeza, M. (2016) Global meta-analysis of the impacts of terrestrial invertebrate invaders on species, communities and ecosystems. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology, 25, 596–606.
Colin, P.L. (2009) Marine environments of Palau. Indo-Pacific Press, San Diego.
Dawson, M.N. (2012) Species richness, habitable volume, and species densities in freshwater, the sea, and on land. Frontiers of Biogeography, 4
Dawson, M.N., Axmacher, J.C., Beierkuhnlein, C., Blois, J.L., Bradley, B.A., Cord, A.F., Dengler, J., He, K.S., Heaney, L.S., Jansson, R., & Others (2016) A second horizon scan of biogeography: Golden Ages, Midas touches, and the Red Queen. Frontiers of biogeography, 8.
Dendy, J., Cordell, S., Giardina, C.P., Hwang, B., Polloi, E., & Rengulbai, K. (2015) The role of remnant forest patches for habitat restoration in degraded areas of Palau. Restoration Ecology, 23, 872–881.
Gaylord, B., Kroeker, K.J., Sunday, J.M., Anderson, K.M., Barry, J.P., Brown, N.E., Connell, S.D., Dupont, S., Fabricius, K.E., Hall-Spencer, J.H., Klinger, T., Milazzo, M., Munday, P.L., Russell, B.D., Sanford, E., Schreiber, S.J., Thiyagarajan, V., Vaughan, M.L.H., Widdicombe, S., & Harley, C.D.G. (2015) Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory. Ecology, 96, 3–15.
Gillespie, R.G. (2013) Adaptive radiation: convergence and non-equilibrium. Current biology: CB, 23, R71–4.
Gillespie, R.G., Baldwin, B.G., Waters, J.M., Fraser, C.I., Nikula, R., & Roderick, G.K. (2012) Long-distance dispersal: a framework for hypothesis testing. Trends in ecology & evolution, 27, 47–56.
Graham, N.R., Gruner, D.S., & Lim, J. (2017) Island ecology and evolution: challenges in the Anthropocene. The Environmentalist, .
Gressitt, L.J. (1954) Introduction. Bernice P. Bishop Museum,
Hofmann, G.E., Barry, J.P., Edmunds, P.J., Gates, R.D., Hutchins, D.A., Klinger, T., & Sewell, M.A. (2010) The Effect of Ocean Acidification on Calcifying Organisms in Marine Ecosystems: An Organism-to-Ecosystem Perspective. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 41, 127–147.
Kralj-Fišer, S. & Schuett, W. (2014) Studying personality variation in invertebrates: why bother? Animal behaviour, 91, 41–52.
Lasky, J.R., Keitt, T.H., Weeks, B.C., & Economo, E.P. (2017) A hierarchical model of whole assemblage island biogeography. Ecography, 40, 982–990.
Leigh, E.G., Hladik, A., Hladik, C.M., & Jolly, A. (2007) The biogeography of large islands, or how does the size of the ecological theater affect the evolutionary play. Revue d’écologie, 62, 105–168.
Leigh, E.G., Jr, Vermeij, G.J., & Wikelski, M. (2009) What do human economies, large islands and forest fragments reveal about the factors limiting ecosystem evolution? Journal of evolutionary biology, 22, 1–12.
Lim, J.Y. & Marshall, C.R. (2017) The true tempo of evolutionary radiation and decline revealed on the Hawaiian archipelago. Nature, 543, 710–713.
Lohman, D.J., de Bruyn, M., Page, T., von Rintelen, K., Hall, R., Ng, P.K.L., Shih, H.-T., Carvalho, G.R., & von Rintelen, T. (2011) Biogeography of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 42, 205–226.
Meyerhof, M.S., Wilson, J.M., Dawson, M.N., & Michael Beman, J. (2016) Microbial community diversity, structure and assembly across oxygen gradients in meromictic marine lakes, Palau. Environmental microbiology, 18, 4907–4919.
Neall, V.E. & Trewick, S.A. (2008) The age and origin of the Pacific islands: a geological overview. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 363, 3293–3308.
New, T. (1995) Introduction to invertebrate conservation biology. Oxford University Press,
Paulay, G. & Meyer, C. (2002) Diversification in the tropical pacific: comparisons between marine and terrestrial systems and the importance of founder speciation. Integrative and comparative biology, 42, 922–934.
Reiners, W.A., Lockwood, J.A., & Others (2010) Philosophical foundations for the practices of ecology. Cambridge University Press New York, NY,
Rominger, A.J., Goodman, K.R., Lim, J.Y., Armstrong, E.E., Becking, L.E., Bennett, G.M., Brewer, M.S., Cotoras, D.D., Ewing, C.P., Harte, J., Martinez, N.D., O’Grady, P.M., Percy, D.M., Price, D.K., Roderick, G.K., Shaw, K.L., Valdovinos, F.S., Gruner, D.S., & Gillespie, R.G. (2016) Community assembly on isolated islands: macroecology meets evolution. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology, 25, 769–780.
Santos, A.M.C., Field, R., & Ricklefs, R.E. (2016) New directions in island biogeography. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology, 25, 751–768.
Shea, K. & Chesson, P. (2002) Community ecology theory as a framework for biological invasions. Trends in ecology & evolution, 17, 170–176.
Steinbauer, M.J., Field, R., Grytnes, J.-A., Trigas, P., Ah-Peng, C., Attorre, F., Birks, H.J.B., Borges, P.A.V., Cardoso, P., Chou, C.-H., & Others (2016) Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology, 25, 1097–1107.
Traxmandlová, I., Ackerman, J.D., Tremblay, R.L., Roberts, D.L., Štípková, Z., & Kindlmann, P. (2017) Determinants of orchid species diversity in world islands. The New phytologist, .
Ulrich, W., Kryszewski, W., Sewerniak, P., Puchałka, R., Strona, G., & Gotelli, N.J. (2017) A comprehensive framework for the study of species co-occurrences, nestedness and turnover. Oikos , .
Whittaker, R.J., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Matthews, T.J., Borregaard, M.K., & Triantis, K.A. (2017) Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature’s laboratories. Science, 357.
General overview of invertebrates, conservation biology, biogeography, Palau
Anderson, T.R., Hessen, D.O., Boersma, M., Urabe, J., & Mayor, D.J. (2017) Will Invertebrates Require Increasingly Carbon-Rich Food in a Warming World? The American naturalist
Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., Benavides, L.R., Sharma, P., Schwendinger, P.J., Karunarathna, I., & Giribet, G. (2007) Biogeography of the world: a case study from cyphophthalmid Opiliones, a globally distributed group of arachnids. Journal of biogeography, 34, 2070–2085.
Brusca, R.C., Moore, W., & Shuster, S.M. (2016) Invertebrates. Sinauer.
Cameron, E.K., Vilà, M., & Cabeza, M. (2016) Global meta-analysis of the impacts of terrestrial invertebrate invaders on species, communities and ecosystems. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology, 25, 596–606.
Colin, P.L. (2009) Marine environments of Palau. Indo-Pacific Press, San Diego.
Dawson, M.N. (2012) Species richness, habitable volume, and species densities in freshwater, the sea, and on land. Frontiers of Biogeography, 4
Dawson, M.N., Axmacher, J.C., Beierkuhnlein, C., Blois, J.L., Bradley, B.A., Cord, A.F., Dengler, J., He, K.S., Heaney, L.S., Jansson, R., & Others (2016) A second horizon scan of biogeography: Golden Ages, Midas touches, and the Red Queen. Frontiers of biogeography, 8.
Dendy, J., Cordell, S., Giardina, C.P., Hwang, B., Polloi, E., & Rengulbai, K. (2015) The role of remnant forest patches for habitat restoration in degraded areas of Palau. Restoration Ecology, 23, 872–881.
Gaylord, B., Kroeker, K.J., Sunday, J.M., Anderson, K.M., Barry, J.P., Brown, N.E., Connell, S.D., Dupont, S., Fabricius, K.E., Hall-Spencer, J.H., Klinger, T., Milazzo, M., Munday, P.L., Russell, B.D., Sanford, E., Schreiber, S.J., Thiyagarajan, V., Vaughan, M.L.H., Widdicombe, S., & Harley, C.D.G. (2015) Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory. Ecology, 96, 3–15.
Gillespie, R.G. (2013) Adaptive radiation: convergence and non-equilibrium. Current biology: CB, 23, R71–4.
Gillespie, R.G., Baldwin, B.G., Waters, J.M., Fraser, C.I., Nikula, R., & Roderick, G.K. (2012) Long-distance dispersal: a framework for hypothesis testing. Trends in ecology & evolution, 27, 47–56.
Graham, N.R., Gruner, D.S., & Lim, J. (2017) Island ecology and evolution: challenges in the Anthropocene. The Environmentalist, .
Gressitt, L.J. (1954) Introduction. Bernice P. Bishop Museum,
Hofmann, G.E., Barry, J.P., Edmunds, P.J., Gates, R.D., Hutchins, D.A., Klinger, T., & Sewell, M.A. (2010) The Effect of Ocean Acidification on Calcifying Organisms in Marine Ecosystems: An Organism-to-Ecosystem Perspective. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 41, 127–147.
Kralj-Fišer, S. & Schuett, W. (2014) Studying personality variation in invertebrates: why bother? Animal behaviour, 91, 41–52.
Lasky, J.R., Keitt, T.H., Weeks, B.C., & Economo, E.P. (2017) A hierarchical model of whole assemblage island biogeography. Ecography, 40, 982–990.
Leigh, E.G., Hladik, A., Hladik, C.M., & Jolly, A. (2007) The biogeography of large islands, or how does the size of the ecological theater affect the evolutionary play. Revue d’écologie, 62, 105–168.
Leigh, E.G., Jr, Vermeij, G.J., & Wikelski, M. (2009) What do human economies, large islands and forest fragments reveal about the factors limiting ecosystem evolution? Journal of evolutionary biology, 22, 1–12.
Lim, J.Y. & Marshall, C.R. (2017) The true tempo of evolutionary radiation and decline revealed on the Hawaiian archipelago. Nature, 543, 710–713.
Lohman, D.J., de Bruyn, M., Page, T., von Rintelen, K., Hall, R., Ng, P.K.L., Shih, H.-T., Carvalho, G.R., & von Rintelen, T. (2011) Biogeography of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 42, 205–226.
Meyerhof, M.S., Wilson, J.M., Dawson, M.N., & Michael Beman, J. (2016) Microbial community diversity, structure and assembly across oxygen gradients in meromictic marine lakes, Palau. Environmental microbiology, 18, 4907–4919.
Neall, V.E. & Trewick, S.A. (2008) The age and origin of the Pacific islands: a geological overview. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 363, 3293–3308.
New, T. (1995) Introduction to invertebrate conservation biology. Oxford University Press,
Paulay, G. & Meyer, C. (2002) Diversification in the tropical pacific: comparisons between marine and terrestrial systems and the importance of founder speciation. Integrative and comparative biology, 42, 922–934.
Reiners, W.A., Lockwood, J.A., & Others (2010) Philosophical foundations for the practices of ecology. Cambridge University Press New York, NY,
Rominger, A.J., Goodman, K.R., Lim, J.Y., Armstrong, E.E., Becking, L.E., Bennett, G.M., Brewer, M.S., Cotoras, D.D., Ewing, C.P., Harte, J., Martinez, N.D., O’Grady, P.M., Percy, D.M., Price, D.K., Roderick, G.K., Shaw, K.L., Valdovinos, F.S., Gruner, D.S., & Gillespie, R.G. (2016) Community assembly on isolated islands: macroecology meets evolution. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology, 25, 769–780.
Santos, A.M.C., Field, R., & Ricklefs, R.E. (2016) New directions in island biogeography. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology, 25, 751–768.
Shea, K. & Chesson, P. (2002) Community ecology theory as a framework for biological invasions. Trends in ecology & evolution, 17, 170–176.
Steinbauer, M.J., Field, R., Grytnes, J.-A., Trigas, P., Ah-Peng, C., Attorre, F., Birks, H.J.B., Borges, P.A.V., Cardoso, P., Chou, C.-H., & Others (2016) Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology, 25, 1097–1107.
Traxmandlová, I., Ackerman, J.D., Tremblay, R.L., Roberts, D.L., Štípková, Z., & Kindlmann, P. (2017) Determinants of orchid species diversity in world islands. The New phytologist, .
Ulrich, W., Kryszewski, W., Sewerniak, P., Puchałka, R., Strona, G., & Gotelli, N.J. (2017) A comprehensive framework for the study of species co-occurrences, nestedness and turnover. Oikos , .
Whittaker, R.J., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Matthews, T.J., Borregaard, M.K., & Triantis, K.A. (2017) Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature’s laboratories. Science, 357.
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