publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications - contact me (smvamosi+ucalgary.ca) for PDF reprints
Wohlfahrt B* & Vamosi SM. 2009. Antagonistic selection or trait compensation? Diverse patterns of predation-induced prey mortality due to the interacting
effects of prey phenotype and the environment. Evolutionary Biology, in press.
Vamosi SM & Queenborough SA. 2009. Breeding systems and phylogenetic diversity of seed plants along a large-scale elevational gradient.
Journal of Biogeography, in press.
Yee DA, Taylor S** & Vamosi SM. 2009. Beetle and plant density as cues initiating dispersal in two species of adult predaceous
diving beetles. Oecologia 160: 25-36.
Queenborough SA, Mazer SJ, Vamosi SM, Garwood NC, Valencia R & Freckleton RP. 2009. Seed mass, abundance, and breeding system among tropical
forest species: do dioecious species exhibit compensatory reproduction or abundances? Journal of Ecology 97: 555-566.
Vamosi SM, Heard SB, Vamosi JC & Webb CO. 2009. Emerging patterns in the comparative analysis of phylogenetic community structure.
Molecular Ecology 18: 572-592. [Invited Review]
∫ 2007 → 2008
Vamosi JC & Vamosi SM. 2008. Extinction risk escalates in the tropics. PLoS ONE 3(12): e3886.
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Open-access article online
Popular press: UToday,
Calgary Herald,
InTheNews,
Science Daily,
El Telégrafo,
La Opinión,
PhysOrg,
e! Science News,
Mongabay
Vamosi SM, Mazer SJ & Cornejo F. 2008. Breeding systems and seed size in a Neotropical flora: testing evolutionary hypotheses.
Ecology 89: 2461-2472.
Sikes DS, Vamosi SM, Trumbo ST, Ricketts M** & Venables C*. 2008. Molecular systematics and biogeography of Nicrophorus
in part - the investigator species group (Coleoptera: Silphidae) using mixture model MCMC. Molecular Phylogenetics and
Evolution 48: 646-666.
Przeczek K**, Mueller C** & Vamosi SM. 2008. The evolution of aposematism is accompanied by increased diversification.
Integrative Zoology 3: 149-156.
Vamosi SM & Lesack TL**. 2007. Direct effects of larval competition on development time and fecundity in seed beetles.
Evolutionary Ecology Research 9: 1131-1143.
(requires institutional access)
Wohlfahrt B*, Mikolajewski DJ, Joop G & Vamosi SM. 2007. Ontogenetic changes in the association between
antipredator responses and growth variables. Ecological Entomology 32: 567-574.
(requires institutional access)
Vamosi SM, Naydani CJ** & Vamosi JC. 2007. Body size and species richness along geographical gradients in Albertan diving
beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) communities. Canadian Journal of Zoology 85: 443-449.
(requires institutional access) |
Supplementary data
Vamosi JC & Vamosi SM. 2007. Body size, rarity, and phylogenetic community structure: insights from
diving beetle assemblages of Alberta. Diversity and Distributions 13: 1-10.
(requires institutional access)
∫ 2005 → 2006
Vamosi SM. 2006. A reconsideration of the reproductive biology of the Atlantic forest in the Volta Velha Reserve. Biodiversity and Conservation
15: 1417-1424.
(requires institutional access)
Vamosi JC, Vamosi SM & Barrett SCH. 2006. Sex in advertising: dioecy alters the net
benefits of attractiveness in Sagittaria latifolia (Alismataceae).
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273: 2401-2407.
(requires institutional access)
Vamosi SM. 2006. Contemporary evolution of armour and body size in a recently introduced population of
threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus. Acta Zoologica Sinica 52: 483-490. [Invited submission]
Colgoni A** & Vamosi SM. 2006. Sexual dimorphism and allometry in two seed beetles (Coleoptera: Bruchidae).
Entomological Science 9: 171-179.
(requires institutional access)
Vamosi SM. 2005. Interactive effects of larval host and competition on adult fitness: an
experimental test with seed beetles (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Functional Ecology 19: 859-864.
Vamosi SM. 2005. On the role of enemies in divergence and diversification of prey: a review and
synthesis. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83: 894-910.
[Invited Review]
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Introduction by Morris DW
Vamosi SM & Vamosi JC. 2005. Endless tests: guidelines for analysing non-nested sister-group comparisons.
Evolutionary Ecology Research 7: 567-579.
Vamosi JC & Vamosi SM. 2005. Present day risk of extinction may exacerbate the lower species richness of dioecious clades. Diversity
and Distributions 11: 25-32.
(requires institutional access)
∫ 2002 → 2004
Vamosi JC & Vamosi SM. 2004. The role of diversification in causing the correlates of dioecy. Evolution 58: 723-731.
Vamosi SM & Schluter D. 2004. Character shifts in the defensive armor of sympatric sticklebacks. Evolution 58: 376-385.
Rundle HD, Vamosi SM & Schluter D. 2003. Experimental test of predation's effect on divergent selection during character displacement in
sticklebacks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 100: 14943-14948.
Vamosi SM. 2003. The presence of other fish species affects speciation in threespine sticklebacks. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5: 717-730.
Vamosi SM. 2002. Predation sharpens the adaptive peaks: survival trade-offs in sympatric sticklebacks. Annales Zoologici Fennici 39: 237-248.
Vamosi SM & Schluter D. 2002. Impacts of trout predation on fitness of sympatric
sticklebacks and their hybrids. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269: 923-930.
∫ 2000 & earlier
Hendry AP, Vamosi SM, Latham SJ, Heilbuth JC & Day T. 2000. Questioning species realities. Conservation Genetics 1: 67-76.
Vamosi SM, Hatfield T & Schluter D. 2000. A test of ecological selection against
young-of-the-year hybrids of sympatric sticklebacks. Journal of Fish Biology 57: 109-121.
Mooers AØ, Vamosi SM & Schluter D. 1999. Using phylogenies to test macroevolutionary hypotheses of trait evolution in cranes
(Gruinae). American Naturalist 154: 249-259.
Vamosi SM & Schluter D. 1999. Sexual selection against hybrids between sympatric
sticklebacks: evidence from a field experiment. Evolution 53: 874-880.
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TREE News & Comment
Rundle HD & Vamosi SM. 1996. Selection may be strongest when resources are scarce: a comment on Wilson. Evolutionary Ecology 10: 559-563.
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(lo res)
Fryxell JM, Vamosi SM, Walton RA & Doucet CM. 1994. Diet mixing and the functional response of beavers. Oikos 71: 207-214.
Other Publications
Vamosi SM. 2010. Natural history, ecology and evolution of a remarkable adaptive radiation [Review of: Losos, J.B. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree:
Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.]. Evolution, in press.
Vamosi SM. 2007. Endless tests: guidelines for analysing non-nested sister-group comparisons. An
addendum. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9: 717.
(requires institutional access)
Vamosi SM. 2006. A reconsideration of the reproductive biology of the Atlantic forest in the Volta Velha Reserve. In:
Forest Diversity and Management (Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, Vol. 2). Hawksworth DL, Bull AT (eds.), Springer.
pp. 357-364.
(Special issue of Biodiversity and Conservation reprinted as a
book)
Scott EC, ... Vamosi SM et al. 2004. The morphology of Steve. Annals of Improbable Research 10(4): 24-29.
(* indicates graduate student coauthor)
(** indicates undergraduate student coauthor)