Chapter 10 Suggested Readings
Blanco, J. F. and F. N. Scatena. 2007. The spatial arrangement of Neritina virginea
(Gastropoda: Neritidae) during upstream migration in a split-channel reach. River
Research and Applications 23:235–45.
Blanco, J. F. and F. N. Scatena. 2006. Hierarchical contribution of river-ocean connectivity, water chemistry, hydraulics, and substrate to the distribution of diadromous snails in Puerto Rican streams. Journal of the North American
Benthological Society 25:82-98.
Blanco, J. F. and F. N. Scatena. 2005. Floods, habitat hydraulics and upstream migration of Neritina virginea (Gastropoda: Neritidae) in northeastern Puerto Rico. Caribbean
Journal of Science 41:55-74.
Three detailed studies that shed light on the details of the upstream, mass migration of a tropical snail.
Carey, J. R. 2001. Insect biodemography. Annual Review of Entomology 46:79–110.
A comprehensive review of life tables and survivorship in insect populations, including a complete cohort life table for 1.2 million Mediterranean fruit flies.
Ehrlich, P. R. and I. Hanski. 2004. On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for
Population Biology.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Includes excellent summaries of research on metapopulations of the Glanville fritillary butterfly in Finland.
Grant, R. B. and P. R. Grant. 1989. Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Exceptional long-term study of the large cactus finch on Genovesa Island—destined to be a classic study in ecology.
Hellgren, E. C., R. T. Kazmaier, D. C. Ruthven, and D. R. Synatzske. 2000. Variation in tortoise life history: demography of Gopherus berlandieri. Ecology 81:1297–1310.
Excellent study providing a life table and estimates of demographic parameters along with comparisons to other tortoise populations.
Hengeveld, R. 1989. Dynamics of Biological Invasions.
New York: Chapman and Hall.
Excellent and readable introduction to biological invasions; includes an introduction to the history of the Eurasian collared dove in Europe. Includes a quantitative approach to studying population expansion.

Hitch, A. T. and P. L. Leberg. 2007. Breeding distributions of North American bird species moving north as a result of climate change. Conservation Biology 21:534–39.
Kullman, L. 2008. Thermophilic tree species reinvade subalpine Sweden—early responses to anomalous late Holocene climate warming. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine
Research 40:104–10.
Two excellent summaries of changes in distributions of species (North American birds and trees) in response to climate warming in North America and northern Europe.
Hyrenbach, K. D. and R. C. Dotson. 2003. Assessing the susceptibility of female black footed albatross ( Phoebastria nigripes ) to longline fisheries during the post-breeding dispersal: an integrated approach. Biological Conservation 112:391–404.
A modern approach to following dispersal of a far-ranging pelagic seabird, using satellite tracking.
Roland, J., N. Keyghobadi, and S. Fownes. 2000. Alpine Parnassius butterfly dispersal: effects of landscape and population size. Ecology 81:1642-53.
Matter, S. F., M. Ezzeddine, E. Duermit, J. Mashburn, R. Hamilton, T. Lucas, and J.
Roland. 2009. Interactions between habitat quality and connectivity affect immigration but not abundance or population growth of the butterfly, Parnassius smintheus . Oikos 118:1461-70.
Two studies from the long-term research of a metapopulation of the Rocky Mountain
Parnassian butterfly being conducted in southwest Alberta, Canada.
Romagosa, C. M. and T. McEneaney. 1999. Eurasian collared-dove in North America and the Caribbean. North American Birds 53:348–53.
Summary of the movement and occurrence of the Eurasian collared dove across North
America and in the Caribbean. Provides a complement to the European spread of the species presented in chapter 10.
Winston, M. L. 1992. Biology and management of Africanized bees. Annual Review of
Entomology 37:173–93.
Detailed review of the spread of Africanized honeybees from their point of introduction in
Brazil. Management implications and potential economic impact integrated with basic biology.
Withey, J. C. and J. M. Marzluff. 2005. Dispersal by juvenile American crows ( Corvus brachyrhynchos ) influences population dynamics across a gradient of urbanization .
The Auk 122:205–21.

This study, which probes the dynamics of American crow populations in the Seattle area, demonstrates the importance of immigration to recent growth of an urban population.