Relyea Lab Publications

Publications of Rick Relyea

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2008

Relyea, R. A., and J. T. Hoverman. 2008. Interactive effects of predators and a pesticide on aquatic communities. Oikos 117:__-__.

Auld, J. R., and R. A. Relyea. 2008. Are there interactive effects of mate availability and predation risk on life history and defense in a simultaneous hermaphrodite? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:__-__.

Relyea, R. A., and N. Diecks. 2008. An unforeseen chain of events: Lethal effects of pesticides at sublethal concentrations. Ecological Applications 18:__-__.

Relyea, R. A. 2008. Multiple stressors and indirect food web effects of contaminants on herptofauna. Pages __-__ in D. Sparling, ed. Ecotoxicology of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2nd edition.

Relyea, R. A. 2008. The effects of pesticides on amphibians. Pages __-__ in M. Hoffman, ed. Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Ediciones.

Schoeppner, N. M., and R. A. Relyea. 2008. Detecting small environmental differences: Risk-response curves for predator-induced behavior and morphology. Oecologia 154:743-754.

Hoverman, J. T., and R. A. Relyea. 2008. Temporal variation in predation risk: A mechanism underlying priority effects. Oikos 117:23-32.

2007

Hoverman, J. T., and R. A. Relyea. 2007. The rules of engagement: How prey defend themselves against combinations of predators. Oecologia 154:551-560.

Werner, E. E., D. K. Skelly, R. A. Relyea, and K. L. Yurewicz. 2007. Amphibian species richness across environmental gradients. Oikos 116: 1697-1712.

Werner, E. E., K. L. Yurewicz, D. K. Skelly, and R. A Relyea. 2007. Turnover in a metacommunity: The role of local and regional factors. Oikos 116:1713-1725.

Relyea, R. A. 2007. Getting out alive: How predators affect the decision to metamorphose. Oecologia 152:389-400.

Hoverman, J. T. and R. A. Relyea. 2007. How flexible is phenotypic plasticity? Developmental windows for the induction and reversal of inducible defenses. Ecology 88:693-705.

2006

Relyea, R. A., and J. T. Hoverman 2006. Assessing the ecology in ecotoxicology: A review and synthesis in freshwater systems. Ecology Letters 9:1157-1171.

Relyea, R. A. 2006. The effects of pesticides, pH and predatory stress in amphibians under mesocosm conditions. Ecotoxicology 15:503-511.

Relyea, R. A. 2006. The impact of insecticides and herbicide on the biodiversity and productivity of aquatic communities: Response. Ecological Applications 16: 2027-2034.

Clausen, J. C., I. M. Ortega, C. M. Glaude, R. A. Relyea, G. Garay. and O. Guineo. 2006. Classification of wetlands in a Patagonian National Park, Chile. Wetlands 26:217-229.

2005

Miner, B. G., S. E. Sultan, S. G. Morgan, D. K. Padilla, and R. A. Relyea. 2005. Ecological consequences of phenotypic plasticity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:685-692.

Relyea, R. A. 2005. Constraints on inducible defenses: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and phenotypic trade-offs. Pages 189-207 in P. Barbosa and I. Castellanos, eds. Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.

Hoverman, J. T., J. R. Auld, and R. A. Relyea. 2005. Putting prey back together again: Integrating predator-induced behavior, morphology, and life history. Oecologia 144:481-491.

Relyea, R. A., N. M. Schoeppner, and J. T. Hoverman. 2005. Pesticides and amphibians: The importance of community context. Ecological Applications 15:1125-1134.

Relyea, R. A. 2005. The lethal impact of Roundup® on aquatic and terrestrial amphibians. Ecological Applications15:1118-1124.

Relyea, R. A. 2005. The lethal impacts of Roundup and predatory stress on six species of North American tadpoles. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 48:351-357.

Relyea, R. A. 2005. The impact of insecticides and herbicides on the biodiversity and productivity of aquatic communities. Ecological Applications 15:618-627.

Relyea, R. A. 2005. The heritability of inducible defenses in tadpoles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18:856-866.

Relyea, R. A., and J. R. Auld. 2005. Predator- and competitor-induced plasticity: How changes in foraging morphology affect phenotypic trade-offs. Ecology 86:1723-1729.

Schoeppner, N. M., and R. A. Relyea. 2005. Damage, digestion, and defense: The roles of alarm cues and kairomones for inducing prey defenses. Ecology Letters 8:505-512.

2004

Relyea, R. A. 2004. Fine-tuned phenotypes: Tadpole plasticity under 16 combinations of predators and competitors. Ecology 85:172-179.

Relyea, R. A. 2004. Synergistic impacts of malathion and predatory stress on six species of North American tadpoles. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23:1080-1084.

Relyea, R. A. 2004. The growth and survival of five amphibian species exposed to combinations of pesticides. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23:1737-1742.

Relyea, R. A., and J. R. Auld. 2004. Having the guts to compete: How intestinal plasticity explains costs of inducible defenses. Ecology Letters 7:869-875.

Relyea, R. A. 2004. Integrating phenotypic plasticity when death is on the line: Insights from predator-prey systems. Pages 176-194 in M. Pigliucci and K. Preston, eds. The Evolutionary Biology of Complex Phenotypes. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.

Lawrence, R. K., S. Demarais, R. A. Relyea, S. P. Haskell, W. B. Ballard, and T. L. Clark. 2004. Desert mule deer survival in southwest Texas. Journal of Wildlife Management 68: 561-569.

Sih, A., J. Kerby, A. Bell, and R. A. Relyea. 2004. Response to Schmidt: Pesticides, mortality and population growth rate. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:460-461.

2003

Relyea, R. A. 2003. How prey respond to combined predators: A review and an empirical test. Ecology 84:1827-1839.

Relyea, R. A. 2003. Predator cues and pesticides: A double dose of danger for amphibians. Ecological Applications 13:1515-1521.

Relyea, R. A. 2003. Predators come and predators go: The reversibility of predator-induced traits. Ecology 84:1840-1848.

Relyea, R. A., and J. T. Hoverman. 2003. The impact of larval predators and competitors on the morphology and fitness of juvenile tree frogs. Oecologia 134:596-604.

Skelly, D. K., K. L. Yurewicz, E. E. Werner, and R. A. Relyea. 2003. Quantifying decline and distributional change in amphibians. Conservation Biology 17:744-751.

2002

Relyea, R. A. 2002. Competitor-induced plasticity in tadpoles: consequences, cues, and connections to predator-induced plasticity. Ecological Monographs 72:523-540.

Relyea, R. A. 2002. Costs of phenotypic plasticity. American Naturalist 159:272-282.

Relyea, R. A. 2002. Local population differences in phenotypic plasticity: Predator-induced changes in wood frog tadpoles. Ecological Monographs 72:77-93.

Relyea, R. A. 2002. The many faces of predation: How selection, induction, and thinning combine to alter prey phenotypes. Ecology 83:1953-1964.

Relyea, R. A., and K. L. Yurewicz. 2002. Predicting community outcomes from pairwise interactions: Integrating density- and trait-mediated effects. Oecologia 131:569-579.

2001

Relyea, R. A. 2001. Morphological and behavioral plasticity of larval anurans in response to different predators. Ecology 82:523-540.

Relyea, R. A. 2001. The lasting effects of adaptive plasticity: Predator-induced tadpoles become long-legged frogs. Ecology 82:1947-1955.

Relyea, R. A. 2001. The relationship between predation risk and anti-predator responses in larval anurans. Ecology 82:541-554.

Relyea, R. A., and N. Mills. 2001. Predator-induced stress makes the pesticide carbaryl more deadly to grey treefrog tadpoles (Hyla versicolor). PNAS 98:2491-2496.

2000

Relyea, R. A. 2000. Trait-mediated effects in larval anurans: Reversing competition with the threat of predation. Ecology 81:2278-2289.

Relyea, R. A., and E. E. Werner. 2000. Morphological plasticity of four larval anurans distributed along an environmental gradient. Copeia 2000:178-190.

Relyea, R. A., R. K. Lawrence, and S. Demarais. 2000. Home range of desert mule deer: Testing the body-size and habitat productivity hypotheses. Journal of Wildlife Management 64:146-153.

1999

Relyea, R. A., and E. E. Werner. 1999. Quantifying the relation between predator-induced behavior and growth performance in larval anurans. Ecology 80:2117-2124.

1998

Van Buskirk, J., and R. A. Relyea. 1998. Natural selection for phenotypic plasticity: Predator-induced morphological responses in tadpoles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 65:301-328.

1994

Relyea, R. A., and S. Demarais. 1994. Desert mule deer activity during the breeding season. Journal of Mammalogy 75:940-949.

Relyea, R. A., I. M. Ortega, and S. Demarais. 1994. Activity monitoring in mule deer: Assessing telemetry accuracy. Wildlife Society Bulletin 22:656-661.

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2008

2007

Relyea, R. A. 2007. Getting out alive: How predators affect the decision to metamorphose. Oecologia 152:389-400.

Hoverman, J. T. and R. A. Relyea. 2007. How flexible is phenotypic plasticity? Developmental windows for the induction and reversal of inducible defenses. Ecology 88:693-705.

2006

Relyea, R. A., and J. T. Hoverman 2006. Assessing the ecology in ecotoxicology: A review and synthesis in freshwater systems. Ecology Letters 9:1157-1171.

Relyea, R. A. 2006. The effects of pesticides, pH and predatory stress in amphibians under mesocosm conditions. Ecotoxicology 15:503-511.

Relyea, R. A. 2006. The impact of insecticides and herbicide on the biodiversity and productivity of aquatic communities: Response. Ecological Applications 16: 2027-2034.

Clausen, J. C., I. M. Ortega, C. M. Glaude, R. A. Relyea, G. Garay. and O. Guineo. 2006. Classification of wetlands in a Patagonian National Park, Chile. Wetlands 26:217-229.

2005

Miner, B. G., S. E. Sultan, S. G. Morgan, D. K. Padilla, and R. A. Relyea. 2005. Ecological consequences of phenotypic plasticity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:685-692.

Relyea, R. A. 2005. Constraints on inducible defenses: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and phenotypic trade-offs. Pages 189-207 in P. Barbosa and I. Castellanos, eds. Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.

Hoverman, J. T., J. R. Auld, and R. A. Relyea. 2005. Putting prey back together again: Integrating predator-induced behavior, morphology, and life history. Oecologia 144:481-491.

Relyea, R. A., N. M. Schoeppner, and J. T. Hoverman. 2005. Pesticides and amphibians: The importance of community context. Ecological Applications 15:1125-1134.

Relyea, R. A. 2005. The lethal impact of Roundup® on aquatic and terrestrial amphibians. Ecological Applications15:1118-1124.

Relyea, R. A. 2005. The lethal impacts of Roundup and predatory stress on six species of North American tadpoles. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 48:351-357.

Relyea, R. A. 2005. The impact of insecticides and herbicides on the biodiversity and productivity of aquatic communities. Ecological Applications 15:618-627.

Relyea, R. A. 2005. The heritability of inducible defenses in tadpoles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18:856-866.

Relyea, R. A., and J. R. Auld. 2005. Predator- and competitor-induced plasticity: How changes in foraging morphology affect phenotypic trade-offs. Ecology 86:1723-1729.

Schoeppner, N. M., and R. A. Relyea. 2005. Damage, digestion, and defense: The roles of alarm cues and kairomones for inducing prey defenses. Ecology Letters 8:505-512.

2004

Relyea, R. A. 2004. Fine-tuned phenotypes: Tadpole plasticity under 16 combinations of predators and competitors. Ecology 85:172-179.

Relyea, R. A. 2004. Synergistic impacts of malathion and predatory stress on six species of North American tadpoles. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23:1080-1084.

Relyea, R. A. 2004. The growth and survival of five amphibian species exposed to combinations of pesticides. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23:1737-1742.

Relyea, R. A., and J. R. Auld. 2004. Having the guts to compete: How intestinal plasticity explains costs of inducible defenses. Ecology Letters 7:869-875.

Relyea, R. A. 2004. Integrating phenotypic plasticity when death is on the line: Insights from predator-prey systems. Pages 176-194 in M. Pigliucci and K. Preston, eds. The Evolutionary Biology of Complex Phenotypes. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.

Lawrence, R. K., S. Demarais, R. A. Relyea, S. P. Haskell, W. B. Ballard, and T. L. Clark. 2004. Desert mule deer survival in southwest Texas. Journal of Wildlife Management 68: 561-569.

Sih, A., J. Kerby, A. Bell, and R. A. Relyea. 2004. Response to Schmidt: Pesticides, mortality and population growth rate. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:460-461.

Relyea, R. A. 2003. How prey respond to combined predators: A review and an empirical test. Ecology 84:1827-1839.

Relyea, R. A. 2003. Predator cues and pesticides: A double dose of danger for amphibians. Ecological Applications 13:1515-1521.

Relyea, R. A. 2003. Predators come and predators go: The reversibility of predator-induced traits. Ecology 84:1840-1848.

Relyea, R. A., and J. T. Hoverman. 2003. The impact of larval predators and competitors on the morphology and fitness of juvenile tree frogs. Oecologia 134:596-604.

Skelly, D. K., K. L. Yurewicz, E. E. Werner, and R. A. Relyea. 2003. Quantifying decline and distributional change in amphibians. Conservation Biology 17:744-751.

Relyea, R. A. 2002. Competitor-induced plasticity in tadpoles: consequences, cues, and connections to predator-induced plasticity. Ecological Monographs 72:523-540.

Relyea, R. A. 2002. Costs of phenotypic plasticity. American Naturalist 159:272-282.

Relyea, R. A. 2002. Local population differences in phenotypic plasticity: Predator-induced changes in wood frog tadpoles. Ecological Monographs 72:77-93.

Relyea, R. A. 2002. The many faces of predation: How selection, induction, and thinning combine to alter prey phenotypes. Ecology 83:1953-1964.

Relyea, R. A., and K. L. Yurewicz. 2002. Predicting community outcomes from pairwise interactions: Integrating density- and trait-mediated effects. Oecologia 131:569-579.

Relyea, R. A. 2001. Morphological and behavioral plasticity of larval anurans in response to different predators. Ecology 82:523-540.

Relyea, R. A. 2001. The lasting effects of adaptive plasticity: Predator-induced tadpoles become long-legged frogs. Ecology 82:1947-1955.

Relyea, R. A. 2001. The relationship between predation risk and anti-predator responses in larval anurans. Ecology 82:541-554.

Relyea, R. A., and N. Mills. 2001. Predator-induced stress makes the pesticide carbaryl more deadly to grey treefrog tadpoles (Hyla versicolor). PNAS 98:2491-2496.

Relyea, R. A. 2000. Trait-mediated effects in larval anurans: Reversing competition with the threat of predation. Ecology 81:2278-2289.

Relyea, R. A., and E. E. Werner. 2000. Morphological plasticity of four larval anurans distributed along an environmental gradient. Copeia 2000:178-190.

Relyea, R. A., R. K. Lawrence, and S. Demarais. 2000. Home range of desert mule deer: Testing the body-size and habitat productivity hypotheses. Journal of Wildlife Management 64:146-153.

Relyea, R. A., and E. E. Werner. 1999. Quantifying the relation between predator-induced behavior and growth performance in larval anurans. Ecology 80:2117-2124.

Van Buskirk, J., and R. A. Relyea. 1998. Natural selection for phenotypic plasticity: Predator-induced morphological responses in tadpoles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 65:301-328.

Relyea, R. A., and S. Demarais. 1994. Desert mule deer activity during the breeding season. Journal of Mammalogy 75:940-949.

Relyea, R. A., I. M. Ortega, and S. Demarais. 1994. Activity monitoring in mule deer: Assessing telemetry accuracy. Wildlife Society Bulletin 22:656-661.