In review
Sanders NJ, Suarez AV, Andersen AN, Dunn RR, Eubanks MD, Feener DH, Gilbert LE, Gordon DM, Hoffmann BD, Holway DA, Hooper-Bùi LM, Krushelnycky PD, Lach L, LeBrun EG, Lester PJ, O’Dowd DJ, Plowes R, Simberloff D, Tillberg CV, Tsutsui ND, Wilder SM (In review) Invasive species are drivers, not passengers, of diversity loss.
McCain CE, Sanders NJ (In review) Metabolic theory and elevational diversity of vertebrate ectotherms.
Souza L*, Bunn WA*, Weltzin JF, Sanders NJ (In review) Biotic and abiotic factors associated with early establishment and patterns of abundance of an invasive species across spatial scales.
Patrick MA*, Sanders NJ (In revision) The effects of treefall gap disturbances on litter ant assemblages in a tropical montane cloud forest.
Souza L*, Bunn WA*, Simberloff D, Lawton M*, Sanders NJ (In review) Biotic and abiotic influences on the native and exotic richness relationship across spatial scales: favorable environments for native species are highly invasible.
Bunn WA*, Jenkins MA, Brown CB**, Sanders NJ (In review) Temporal change within and among forest communities: the influence of historic disturbance and environmental gradients.
Wittman SE*, Sanders NJ, Ellison AM, Jules, ES, Ratchford JS, Gotelli NJ (In review) Effects of species interactions and thermal constraints on ant community structure.
Souza L*, Weltzin JF, Sanders NJ (In review) Differential effects of dominant plant species on community structure and control the establishment of an exotic species in an old-field ecosystem.
Lessard JP*, Fordyce JA, Gotelli NJ, Sanders NJ (In review) Invasive species disassemble the phylogenetic structure of ant communities.
2009
Rodriguez-Cabal M, Stuble KL, Nuñez MA, Sanders NJ (2009) Quantitative analysis of the effects of the exotic Argentine ant on seed dispersal mutualisms. Biology Letters
Lessard J-P*, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (2009) Spatial variation in the abiotic environment mediates local interactions and shapes ground-dwelling ant assemblages. Insectes Sociaux 52: 000-000
Belote RT*, Sanders NJ, Jones RH (2009) Disturbance alters local-regional richness relationships in Appalachian forests. Ecology 90: 000-000
Crutsinger GM*, Sanders NJ, Classen AT (2009) Contrasting the effects of intra- and inter-specific variation on litter dynamics. Basic and Applied Ecology 10: 000-000
Crutsinger GM, Cadotte MW, Sanders NJ (2009) Plant genetics shapes inquiline community structure across spatial scales. Ecology Letters 12: 295-292
Dunn RR, Agosti D, Andersen AN, Bruhl CA, Cerda X, Ellison AM, Fisher BL, Fitzpatrick MC, Gibb H, Gotelli NJ, Gove AD, Guenard B, Janda M, Kaspari M, Laurent EJ, Lessard JP, Longino JT, Majer JD, Menke SB, McGlynn TP, Parr CL, Philpott SM, Pfeiffer M, Retana J, Suarez AV, Vasconcelos HL, Weiser MD, and Sanders NJ (2009) Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness. Ecology Letters 12: 324-333
Bini LM, Diniz-Filho JA, Rangel TFLVB, Akre SB, Albaladejo RG, Albuquerque FS, Aparicio A, Araújo MB, Baselga A, Beck J, Bellocq MI, Böhning-Gaese K, Borges PAV, Castro-Parga I, Chey VK, Chown SB, De Marco P, Dobkin DS, Ferrer-Castán D, Field R, Filloy J, Fleishman E, Gómez JF, Hortal J, Iverson JB, Kerr JT, Kissling WD, Kitching IJ, León-Cortés JL, Lobo JM, Montoya D, Morales-Castillo I, Moreno JC, Oberdorff T, Olalla-Tárraga MÁ, Pausas JG, Qian H, Rahbek C, Rodríguez MÁ, Rueda M, Ruggiero A, Sackmann P, Sanders NJ, Terrible LC, Vetaas OR, Hawkins BA (2009) Parameter estimation in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression. Ecography 32: 193-204
Wang X*, Fang J, Sanders NJ, White PS, Tang Z* (2009) Regional diversity patterns in relation to climate in forests of Northeast China. Ecography 31: 000-000
Sanders NJ (In press) Global databases and global ant diversity: it’s about time and space. In Ant Ecology Edited by Lach L, Parr C, and Abbott K (Invited)
Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (In press) Climatic gradients drive patterns of ant diversity and composition at local, regional and global scales. In Ant Ecology Edited by Lach L, Parr C, and Abbott K (Invited)
Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, et al. (In press) A diversity of elevational diversity gradients. In Data mining for global trends in mountain biodiversity Edited by Körner C and Spehn E (Invited)
2008
Nuñez MA, Crutsinger GM, Simberloff D, Sanders NJ (2008) A walk in which woods? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6:160-161
Crutsinger GM*, Reynolds WN*, Classen AT, Sanders NJ (2008) Disparate effects of plant genotypic diversity on above- and below-ground communities. Oecologia 158: 65-75
Crutsinger GM*, Sanders NJ, Albrect BR, Abreu IN, Wardle DA (2008) Ecosystem retrogression leads ot increased insect abundance and herbivory across an island chronosequence. Functional Ecology 22: 816-823 [note: Functional Ecology will not let us post the PDF of this file, so you can purchase it from them for only $29.95, if your library doesn't subscribe. Please contact us if you have any questions about this manuscript.]
Zelikova TJ*, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (2008) Variation in seed dispersal by ants along an elevational gradient in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Acta Oecologica 34: 155-162
Nygard JP*, Sanders NJ, Connor EF (2008) The impacts of the invasive Argentine Ant and native ant species on the insect community on willow ( Salix lasiolepis ). Ecological Entomology 33: 789-795
Fitzpatrick MC*, Gove AD, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR (2008) Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse in a global biodiversity hotspot: The Banksia (Proteaceae) of Western Australia. Global Change Biology 14: 1337-1352
Fitzpatrick MC*, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (2008) Datasets matter, but so do evolution and ecology: A response to Peterson and Nakazawa. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 562-565
Crutsinger GM*, Habenicht MN**, Classen AT, Schweitzer JA, Sanders NJ (2008) Galling by Rhopalomyia solidaginis alters architecture of Solidago altissima and affects nutrient dynamics in an old-field ecosystem. Plant and Soil 303: 95-103
Heller NE*, Sanders NJ, Shors JW*, Gordon DM (2008) Rainfall facilitates spread and time diminishes impact of the invasive Argentine ant. Oecologia 155: 385-395
Crutsinger GM*, Collins MD, Fordyce JA, Sanders NJ (2008) Temporal dynamics in non-additive responses of arthropods to host-plant genotypic diversity. Oikos 117: 255-264
Crutsinger GM*, Souza L*, Sanders NJ (2008) Intraspecific diversity as a barrier to plant invasions. Ecology Letters 11: 16-23
2007
Lessard J-P**, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (2007) Rarity and diversity in ant assemblages in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Southeastern Naturalist 6: 215-228 (Invited)
Sanders NJ, Weltzin JF, Crutsinger GM*, Fitzpatrick MC*, Nuñez MA*, Oswalt CM**, Lane KE* (2007) Multiple controls on a plant invasion: Insects mediate the interactive effects of propagule supply and resource availability . Ecology 88: 2383-2391
Dunn RR, Sanders NJ, Fitzpatrick MF*, Laurent E, Lessard J-P* and 22 co-authors. (2007) Global ant biodiversity and biogeography – a new database and its possibilities. Myrmecologische Nachrichten (Myrmecological News) 10: 77-83
Geraghty MJ**, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ (2007) Bergmann's rule in ants: are patterns along latitudinal and elevational gradients congruent? Myrmecologische Nachrichten (Myrmecological News) 10: 51-58
Hawkins BA, Diniz-Filho JAF, Bini LM, Araujo MB, Field R, Hortal J, Kerr JT, Rahbek C, Rodriguez MA, Sanders NJ (2007) Metabolic theory and diversity gradients: where do we go from here? Ecology 88:1898-1902
Hawkins BA, Araújo, MB, Cabrero-Sañudo FJ, Diniz-Filho JAF, Ferrer-Castán D, Field R, Gómez JF, Hortal J, Kerr JT, Lobo JM, Montoya D, Olalla- Tárraga MÁ, Pausas JG, Rodríguez M Á, Sanders NJ, Suzart de Albuquerque F, Williams P (2007) A global evaluation of Metabolic Theory as an explanation of diversity gradients. Ecology 88: 1877-1888
Crawford KM ** , Crutsinger GM * , Sanders NJ (2007) Genotypic diversity mediates the distribution of an ecosystem engineer. Ecology 88:2114-2120
Hellmann JJ, Sanders NJ (2007) The patterns of and threats against global insect diversity. Issues in Environmental Science and Technology Pages 32-54. [click here request a reprint]
Dunn RR, Parker C, Sanders NJ (2007) Null models and temporal patterns of diversity: assessing the biotic and abiotic controls on ant community structure. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91: 191-201
Palladini JD*, Sanders NJ, Jones MG*, Jules ES (2007) The recovery of ant communities in regenerating temperate coniferous forests. Forest Ecology and Management 242: 619-624.
Sanders NJ, Gotelli NJ, Wittman SE*, Ratchford JS, Ellison AM, Jules ES (2007) Assembly rules for ant communities across spatial scales and habitats. Journal of Biogeography 34: 632-641
Sanders NJ, Lessard J-P**, Dunn RR, Fitzpatrick MC* (2007) Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 640-649
Sanders NJ, Crutsinger GM*, Dunn RR, Majer JD, Delabie JHC (2007) An ant mosaic revisited: dominant ant species disassemble arboreal ant communities but co-occur randomly. Biotropica 39: 422-427
Dunn RR, Parker C, Geraghty M**, Sanders NJ (2007) Reproductive phenologies in a diverse temperature ant fauna. Ecological Entomology 32: 135-142
Dunn RR, McCain CE, Sanders NJ. (2007) When does a null model explain diversity?: Scale and range size mediate the mid-domain effect. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 305-312
Fitzpatrick MC * , Weltzin JF, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR (2007) The biogeography of prediction error: Why doesn't the introduced range of the fire ant predict its native range or vice versa? Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 24-33
2006
Crutsinger GM * , Collins MD * , Fordyce JA, Gompert Z * , Nice CC, Sanders NJ (2006) Plant genotypic diversity predicts community structure and governs an ecosystem process. Science 313: 966-968
Heller NE, Sanders NJ, Gordon DM (2006) Linking temporal and spatial scales in the study of an Argentine ant invasion. Biological Invasions 8: 501-507
2005
Ratchford JS, Wittman SE, Jules ES, Ellison AM, Gotelli NJ, Sanders NJ (2005) The effects of fire, local environment, and time on ant assemblages in fens and forests. Diversity and Distributions 11: 487-497
Crutsinger GM, Sanders NJ (2005) Aphid-tending ants affect secondary users in leaf shelters and rates of herbivory on Salix hookeriana in a coastal dune habitat. American Midland Naturalist 152: 296-304
2004
Sanders NJ, Belote RT, Weltzin JF (2004) Multitrophic effects of elevated CO2 on understory plant and arthropod communities. Environmental Entomology 33: 1609-1616
Sanders NJ (2004) The short-term effects of fire on the invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile. The Southwesern Naturalist 49: 246-250
2003
Sanders NJ, Gotelli NJ, Heller NE*, Gordon DM (2003) Community disassembly by an invasive ant species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100: 2474-2477
Sanders NJ and Gordon DM (2003) Resource-dependent interactions and the organization of desert ant communities. Ecology 84: 1024-1031
Sanders NJ, Moss J*, Wagner D (2003) Patterns of ant species richness along elevational gradients in an arid ecosystem. Global Ecology and Biogeography 12: 93-102
Weltzin JF, Belote RT*, Sanders NJ (2003) Biological invaders in a greenhouse world: will elevated carbon dioxide fuel plant invasions? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1: 146-153 (Invited)
2002
Sanders NJ (2002) Elevational gradients in ant distributions: area, species richness, and Rapoport's rule. Ecography 25: 25-32
Sanders NJ and Gordon DM (2002) Resources and the flexible allocation of work in the desert ant Aphaenogaster cockerelli. Insectes Sociaux 49: 371-379
Collins MD*, Vasquez DP*, Sanders NJ (2002) Species-area curves, homogenization, and the loss of diversity. Evolutionary Ecology Research 4: 457-464
Barton KE*, Sanders NJ, Gordon DM (2002) The effects of proximity and colony age on interspecific interference competition between the desert ants Pogonomyrmex barbatus and Aphaenogaster cockerelli. The American Midland Naturalist 148: 176-182
2001
Sanders NJ, Barton KE*, Gordon DM (2001) Long-term dynamics of the distribution of the invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile , and native ant taxa in Northern California. Oecologia 127: 123-130
2000
Sanders NJ and Gordon DM (2000) The effects of interspecific interactions on resource use and behavior in a desert ant. Oecologia 125: 436-443
