Robert K. Colwell

Research interests

Publications

• Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax0149

• Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax0151

• Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

  Science · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aai9214

• Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014 · 10.1073/pnas.1316145111

• Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

  Ecological Monographs · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1890/13-0133.1

• Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation and comparison of assemblages

  Journal of Plant Ecology · 2012 · 10.1093/jpe/rtr044

• The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2009 · 10.1098/rspb.2009.0413

• Hutchinson's duality: The once and future niche

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 10.1073/pnas.0901650106

• Sufficient sampling for asymptotic minimum species richness estimators

  Ecology · 2009 · 10.1890/07-2147.1

• Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

  Science · 2008 · 10.1126/science.1162547

• Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1341

• Abundance‐Based Similarity Indices and Their Estimation When There Are Unseen Species in Samples

  Biometrics · 2006 · 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00489.x

• A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data

  Ecology Letters · 2004 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00707.x

• The Mid‐Domain Effect and Species Richness Patterns:What Have We Learned So Far?

  The American Naturalist · 2004 · 10.1086/382056

• Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis

  Science · 2004 · 10.1126/science.1101101

• INTERPOLATING, EXTRAPOLATING, AND COMPARING INCIDENCE-BASED SPECIES ACCUMULATION CURVES

  Ecology · 2004 · 10.1890/03-0557

• THE ANT FAUNA OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST: ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS THREE DIFFERENT WAYS

  Ecology · 2002 · 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0689:tafoat]2.0.co;2

• Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness

  Ecology Letters · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00230.x

• The mid-domain effect: geometric constraints on the geography of species richness

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2000 · 10.1016/s0169-5347(99)01767-x

• Nonbiological Gradients in Species Richness and a Spurious Rapoport Effect

  The American Naturalist · 1994 · 10.1086/285695

• Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1994.0091

• Terrestrial Arthropod Assemblages: Their Use in Conservation Planning

  Conservation Biology · 1993 · 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1993.740796.x

• The Planned Introduction of Genetically Engineered Organisms: Ecological Considerations and Recommendations

  Ecology · 1989 · 10.2307/1937535

• Predictability, Constancy, and Contingency of Periodic Phenomena

  Ecology · 1974 · 10.2307/1940366

• On the Measurement of Niche Breadth and Overlap

  Ecology · 1971 · 10.2307/1934144

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