Publications

Books

1. W.F. Morris and D.F. Doak, Quantitative Conservation Biology: Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis (2002), Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. .
2. W.F. Morris, M. Groom, D. Doak, P. Kareiva, J. Fieberg, L. Gerber, P. Murphy, and D. Thomson, A Practical Handbook for Population Viability Analysis (1999), The Nature Conservancy, Washington, DC. .

Papers Published

1. Morris, W.F., R.A. Hufbauer, A.A. Agrawal, J.D. Bever, V.A. Borowicz, G.S. Gilbert, J.L. Maron, C.E. Mitchell, I.M. Parker, A.G. Power, M.E. Torchin, and D.P. Vázquez, Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis, Ecology, vol. 88 (2007), pp. 1021-1029 .
2. Mitchell, C.E., A.A. Agrawal, J.D. Bever, G.S. Gilbert, R.A. Hufbauer, J.N. Klironomos, J.L. Maron, W.F. Morris, I.M. Parker, A.G. Power, E.W. Seabloom, M.E. Torchin, and D.P. Vázquez, Beyond enemy release: biotic interactions and plant invasions, Ecology Letters, vol. 9 (2006), pp. 726-740 .
3. Parrent, J.L., Morris, W.F., and R. Vilgalys, Effects of a CO2 – enriched atmosphere on community composition and diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi, Ecology, vol. 87 (2006), pp. 2278-2287 .
4. Morris, W.F., S. Tuljapurkar, C.V. Haridas, E.S. Menges, C.C. Horvitz, & C.A. Pfister, Sensitivity of the population growth rate to demographic variability within and between phases of the disturbance cycle, Ecology Letters, vol. 9 (2006), pp. 1331-1341 .
5. Ness, J.H., W.F. Morris, and J.L. Bronstein, Integrating quality and quantity of mutualistic service to contrast ant species visiting Ferocactus wislizeni, Ecology, vol. 87 (2006), pp. 912-921 .
6. Boyce, M.S., C. Haridas, C. Lee, C.L. Boggs, E.M. Bruna, T. Coulson, D. Doak, J.M. Drake, J.-M. Gaillard, C.C. Horvitz, S. Kalisz, B.E. Kendall, T. Knight, E.S. Menges, W.F. Morris, C.A. Pfister, S.D. Tuljapurkar, Demography in an increasingly variable world., Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 21 (2006), pp. 141-148 .
7. Gross, K., W.F. Morris, M.S. Wolosin, and D.F. Doak, Modeling vital rates improves estimation of population projection matrices., Population Ecology, vol. 48 (2006), pp. 79-89 .
8. Dwyer, G., and W.F. Morris, Resource-dependent movement and the speed of biological invasions., American Naturalist, vol. 167 (2006), pp. 165-176 .
9. Morris, W.F., B. Traw, and J. Bergelson, On testing for a trade-off between constitutive and induced resistance., Oikos, vol. 112 (2006), pp. 102-110 .
10. Morris, W.F., W.G. Wilson, J.L. Bronstein, and J.H. Ness, Environmental forcing and the competitive dynamics of a guild of cactus-tending ant mutualists., Ecology, vol. 86 (2005), pp. 3190–3199 .
11. Vázquez, D.P., W.F. Morris, and P. Jordano, Interaction frequency as a surrogate of population-level effects of animal mutualists on plants, Ecology Letters, vol. 8 (2005), pp. 1088-1094 .
12. Doak, D.F., W.F. Morris, C. Pfister, B. Kendall, E. Bruna, and C. Lee, Correctly estimating how environmental stochasticity influences fitness and population growth, American Naturalist, vol. 166 (2005), pp. E14 (electronic version). .
13. W.F. Morris and D.F. Doak, How general are the determinants of the stochastic population growth rate across nearby sites?, Ecological Monographs, vol. 75 (2005), pp. 119-137 .
14. Doak, D.F., K. Gross, and W.F. Morris, Understanding and predicting the effects of sparse data on demographic analyses, Ecology, vol. 86 (2005), pp. 1154-1163 .
15. T.S. Feldman, W.F. Morris, and W.G. Wilson, When can two plant species facilitate each other’s pollination?, Oikos, vol. 105 (2004), pp. 197-207 .
16. W.F. Morris and D.F. Doak, Buffering of life histories against environmental stochasticity: accounting for a spurious correlation between the variabilities of vital rates and their contributions to fitness, American Naturalist, vol. 163 (2004), pp. 579-590 .
17. J.L. Bronstein, W.G. Wilson, and W.F. Morris, Ecological dynamics of mutualist/antagonist communities., American Naturalist, vol. 162 (2003), pp. S24-S39 .
18. W.F. Morris, J.L. Bronstein, and W.G. Wilson, Three-way coexistence in obligate mutualist-exploiter interactions: the potential role of competition, American Naturalist, vol. 161 (2003), pp. 860-875 .
19. W.G. Wilson, W.F. Morris, and J.L. Bronstein, Coexistence of mutualists and exploiters on spatial landscapes, Ecological Monographs, vol. 73 (2003), pp. 397-413 .
20. W.F. Morris, Which mutualists are most essential?: buffering of plant reproduction against the extinction of pollinators, in The Importance of Species: Perspectives on Expendability and Triage, Pages 260-280, edited by P. Kareiva and S. Levin (editors) (2003), Princeton University Press, Princeton. .
21. L.C. Moyle, J.R. Stinchcombe, B.R. Hudgens, and W.F. Morris, Conservation genetics in the recovery of endangered animal species: a review of U.S. endangered species recovery plans (1977-1998), Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 26 no. 2 (2003), pp. 85-95 .
22. Morris, W.F., P.L. Bloch, B.R. Hudgens, L.C. Moyle, and J.R. Stinchcombe, Population viability analysis in endangered species recovery planning: Past use and recommendations for future improvement, Ecological Applications (2002) .
23. J. Stinchcombe, L. C. Moyle, B. R. Hudgens, P. L. Bloch, S. Chinnadurai, and W.F. Morris, The influence of the academic conservation biology literature on endangered species recovery planning, Conservation Ecology, vol. 6 no. 2 (2002), pp. 15  [abs].
24. Underwood, NC, WF Morris, KG Gross, and JR Lockwood, Induced resistance to Mexican bean beetles in soybean: variation among genotypes and correlation with constitutive resistance, Oecologia, vol. 122 (2000), pp. 83-89 .
25. D.F. Doak and W.F. Morris, . 1999. Detecting population-level consequences of ongoing environmental change without long-term monitoring, Ecology, vol. 80 (1999), pp. 1537-1551 .
26. Doak, D.F. and W.F. Morris, Detecting population-level consequences of ongoing environmental change without long-term monitoring, Ecology, vol. 80 (1999), pp. 1537-1551 .

Papers Accepted

1. Morris, W.F., C.A. Pfister, S. Tuljapurkar, C.V. Haridas, C. Boggs, M.S. Boyce, E.M. Bruna, D.R. Church, T. Coulson, D.F. Doak, S. Forsyth, J.M. Gaillard, C.C. Horvitz, S. Kalisz, B.E. Kendall, T.M. Knight, C.T. Lee, and E.S. Menges, Longevity determines sensitivity of plant and animal populations to changing climatic variability, Ecology, in press (2008) .
2. Morales, M.A., W.F. Morris, and W.G. Wilson, Allee dynamics generated by protection mutualisms can drive oscillations in trophic cascades., Theoretical Ecology, in press. (2008) .
3. Abbott, K.C., W.F. Morris, and K. Gross, Simultaneous effects of food limitation and inducible resistance on herbivore population dynamics., Theoretical Population Biology, in press. (2008) .

Book Chapters

1. W.F. Morris, Life History, in S.A. Levin, Ed., Guide to Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, in press (2008) .

Other

1. W.F. Morris, Herbivory, in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Ninth Edition (2000), McGraw-Hill, New York. .