Names in bold are [were] Anderson lab members:
In review/press
Donaldson, J., R. Holdo, T. Morrison, D. Griffith and T.M. Anderson. The Serengeti National Park meteorological and soil moisture data. In review, Ecology data paper.
Baldwin, R.W., J.T. Beaver, M. Messinger, J. Muday, M. Windsor, M.R. Silman and T.M. Anderson. N-Mixture models provide reliable population density estimates of a large, free-ranging ungulate from camera trap data. In review, Journal of Applied Ecology.
2022
(83) Pansu, J., M.C. Hutchinson, T.M. Anderson, M. te Beest, C.M. Begg, K.S. Begg, A. Bonin, L. Chama, S. Chamaille-Jammes, E. Coissac, J.P.G.M. Cromsigt, M.Y. Demmel, J.E. Donaldson, J. A. Guyton, C. Hansen, C.I. Imakando, A. Iqbal, D.F. Kalima, G.I.H. Kerley, S. Kurukura, M. Landman, R.A. Long, I.N. Mununo, C.M. Nutter, K. Parr, A.B. Potter, S. Siachoono, P. Taberlet, E. Waiti, T.R. Kartzinel and R.M. Pringle. 2022. Cryptic dietary niche differentiation structures diverse large-herbivore assemblages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, p.e2204400119. Link to paper
(82) Cory, S., W.K. Smith and T.M. Anderson . First-year Acacia seedlings are anisohydric ‘water-spenders’ but differ in their rates of water use. American Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16032 Link to paper
(81) Donaldson, J.E., R. Holdo, J. Sarakikya, and T.M. Anderson. 2022. Fire, grazers, and browsers interact with grass competition to determine tree establishment in an African savanna. Ecology, p.e3715. Link to paper
(80) Holdo, R.M., J.E. Donaldson, Rugemalila, D.M. and T.M. Anderson. 2022. Sapling growth gradients interact with homogeneous disturbance regimes to explain savanna tree cover discontinuities. Ecological Monographs, p.e1514. Link to paper
2020
(79) Beaudrot, L., M.S. Palmer, T.M. Anderson and C. Packer. 2020. Mixed-species groups of Serengeti grazers: a test of the stress gradient hypothesis. EcologyEcology, 101, p.e03163. Link to paper
(78) Rugemalila, D.M., S. Cory, W.K. Smith and T.M. Anderson. 2020. The role of microsite sunlight environment on growth, architecture, and resource allocation in dominant Acacia tree seedlings, in Serengeti, East Africa. Plant Ecology 221, 1187–1199. Link to paper
(77) Quigley, K.Q., D.M. Griffith, G. Donati and T.M. Anderson. 2020. Soil nutrients and precipitation are major drivers of global patterns of grass leaf silicification. Ecology 101: e03006. Link to paper
(76) Holdo, R., D. Onderdonk, A.G. Barr, M. Mwita and T.M. Anderson. 2020. Spatial transitions in tree cover are associated with soil hydrology, but not with grass biomass, fire frequency, or herbivore biomass in Serengeti savannahs. Journal of Ecology 108: 586-597. Link to paper
2019
(75) Veldman, J.W., Aleman, J.C., Alvarado, S.T., Anderson, T.M., Archibald, S., Bond, W.J., Boutton, T.W., Buchmann, N., Buisson, E., Canadell, J.G. and de Sá Dechoum, M., 2019. Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”. Science 366: p.eaay7976. Link to paper
(74) Borer, E.T., E.M.Lind, J. Firn, E.W. Seabloom, T.M. Anderson, E.S. Bakker, L. Biederman, K.J. La Pierre, A.S. MacDougall, J.L. Moore, A.C. Risch, M. Schutz and C.J. Stevens. 2019. More salt, please: global patterns, responses and impacts of foliar sodium in grasslands. Ecology Letters 22: 1136–1144. Link to paper
(73) Probert, J.R., C.L. Parr, R.M. Holdo, T.M. Anderson, S. Archibald, C.J. Courtney-Mustaphi, A.P. Dobson, J.E. Donaldson, G.C. Hopcraft, G.P. Hempson, T.A. Morrison & C.M. Beale. 2019. Anthropogenic modifications to fire regimes in the wider Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. Global Change Biology 25: 3406–3423. Link to paper
(72) Griffith, D.G. and T.M. Anderson. The ‘plantspec’ R package: a tool for spectral analysis of plant stoichiometry”. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10: 673–679. Link to paper
2018
(71) Koerner, Sally E., et al. 2018. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution (2018): 1. Link to paper
(70) Anderson, T.M., P.M. Ngoti, M.L. Nzunda, D.M. Griffith, J.D.M. Speed, F. Fossøy, E. Røskaft and B.J. Graae. 2020. The burning question: does fire affect habitat selection and forage preference of black rhinos (Diceros bicornis) in East African savannas? Oryx 54:234 – 243. Link to paper
(69) S.A. Hepler, R. Erhardt and T.M. Anderson. 2018. Identifying drivers of spatial variation in occupancy with limited replication camera trap data. Ecology 99 2152-2158. Link to paper
(68) Morrison, T., R.M. Holdo, D. Rugemalila, M. Nzunda and T.M. Anderson. 2019. Grass competition overwhelms effects of herbivores and precipitation on seedling establishment in Serengeti. Journal of Ecology 107: 216-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13010 Link to paper
(67) Anderson, T.M., D.M. Griffith, J.B. Grace, E.M. Lind, P.B. Adler, L.A. Biederman, D.M. Blumenthal, P. Daleo, J. Firn, N. Hagenah, W.S. Harpole, A.S. MacDougall, R.L. McCulley, S.M. Prober, A.C. Risch, M. Sankaran, M. Schütz, E. Seabloom, L. Sullivan, P. Wragg and E.T. Borer. 2018. Herbivory and eutrophication modulate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient. Ecology 99:822-831. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2175. Link to paper
(66) Beale, C.M., C.J. Courtney Mustaphi, T.A Morrison, S. Archibald, T.M. Anderson, A.P. Dobson, J.E. Donaldson, G.P. Hempson, J. Probert and C.L. Parr. 2018. Pyrodiversity interacts with rainfall to increase bird and mammal richness in African savannas. Ecology Letters. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12921. Link to paper
(65) Hempson, G.P., Parr, C.L., Archibald, S., Anderson, T. M., Courtney Mustaphi, C. J., Dobson, A.P., Donaldson, J.E., Morrison, T.A., Probert, J. and Beale, C.M. 2018. Continent-level drivers of African pyrodiversity. Ecography. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.03109. Link to paper
2017
(64) Griffith, D.M., C.E.R. Lehmann, C.A.E. Strömberg, C.L. Parr, R.T. Pennington, M. S, J. Ratnam, C.J. Still, R.L. Powell, N.P. Hanan, J.B. Nippert, C.P. Osborne, S. Good, T.M. Anderson, R.M. Holdo, J.W. Veldman, G. Durigan, K.W. Tomlinson, W.A. Hoffmann, S. Archibald and W.J. Bond. 2017. Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes”. Science 358:eaao1309. Link to paper
(63) Rugemalila D.M., T. Morrison T., T.M. Anderson and R.M. Holdo. 2017. Seed production, infestation, and viability in Acacia tortilis (synonym: Vachellia tortilis) and Acacia robusta (synonym: Vachellia robusta) across the Serengeti rainfall gradient. Plant Ecology 218:909-922. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12526 Link to paper
(62) Griffith, D.M., T.M. Anderson and E.W. Hamilton. 2017. Ungulate grazing drives higher ramet turnover in sodium adapted Serengeti grasses. Journal of Vegetation Science 28:815-823. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12526 Link to paper
2016
(61) Houlahan, J., S. McKinney, T.M. Anderson and B. McGill. 2016. The priority of prediction in ecological understanding. Oikos DOI: 10.1111/oik.03726. Link to paper
(60) Anderson, T.M., S. White, B. Davis, R. Erhardt, M. Palmer, A. Swanson, M. Kosmala and C. Packer. 2016. Spatial distribution of African savannah herbivores: species associations and habitat occupancy in a landscape context. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Series B 371: 20150314. Link to paper
(59) Quigley, K.M., G.L. Donati, and T.M. Anderson. Variation in the soil ‘silicon landscape’ explains plant silica accumulation across an environmental gradient in Serengeti. 2016. Plant and Soil 410:217–229. Link to paper
(58) Griffith, D.M., K.M. Quigley and T.M. Anderson. 2016. Leaf thickness controls variation in leaf mass per area (LMA) among grazing-adapted grasses in Serengeti. Oecologia 181:1035–1040. Link to paper
(57) Rugemalila, D., R. Holdo and T.M. Anderson. 2016. Precipitation and elephants, not fire, shape tree community composition in Serengeti. Biotropica 48: 476–482 Link to paper
(56) Grace, J.B., T. M. Anderson, E.W. Seabloom, E.T. Borer, P.B. Adler, W.S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, H. Hillebrand, E.M. Lind, M. Partel, J.D. Bakker, Y.M. Buckley, M.J. Crawley, E.I. Damschen, K.F. Davies, P.A. Fay, J. Firn, D.S. Gruner, A. Hector, J.M.H. Knops, A.S. MacDougall, B.A. Melbourne, J.W. Morgan, J.L. Orrock, S.M. Prober, M.D. Smith. 2016. Integrative modeling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness. Nature 529:390–393. doi:10.1038/nature16524. Link to paper
(55) Morrison, T.A., R. Holdo, and T.M. Anderson. 2016. Elephant damage, not fire or rainfall, explains mortality of overstory trees in Serengeti. Journal of Ecology 104:409–418. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12517 Link to paper
2015
(54) Seabloom, et. al. 2015. Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications: 6(7710); doi:10.1038/ncomms8710. Link to paper
(53) Anderson, T.M., J. Bukombe and K. Metzger. 2015. Spatial and temporal drivers of plant structure and diversity in Serengeti savannas. Pages 105-124 in A.R.E. Sinclair, K.L. Metzger, S.A.R. Mduma and J.M. Fryxell (eds), Serengeti IV: Sustaining Biodiversity in a Coupled Human-Natural System, University of Chicago Press. Link to book
(52) Griffith, D.M., T.M. Anderson, C.P. Osborne, C.A.E. Strömberg, E.J. Forrestel, and C.J. Still. 2015. Biogeographically distinct controls on C3 and C4 grass distributions: merging community with physiological ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24:304–313. Link to paper
(51) Anderson, T.M., T. Morrison, D. Rugemalila and R.M. Holdo. 2015. Compositional decoupling of savanna canopy and understory tree communities in Serengeti. Journal of Vegetation Science 26: 385-394. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12241 Link to paper
2014
(50) Quigley, K.M., and T.M. Anderson. 2014. Leaf silica concentration in Serengeti grasses increases with watering but not clipping: insights from a common garden study and literature review. Frontiers in Plant Science, 21 October 2014 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00568. Link to paper
(49) Holdo, R.M., T.M. Anderson and T. Morrison. 2014. Precipitation, fire and shifting demographic bottlenecks in Serengeti tree populations. Landscape Ecology 29:1613-1623. Link to paper
(48) Eby, S.L., T.M. Anderson, E.P. Mayemba and M.E. Ritchie. 2014. The effect of fire on mammalian herbivores: the role of body size and vegetation characteristics. The Journal of Animal Ecology 83:1196–1205. Link to paper
(47) Arnold, S.G., T.M. Anderson and R.M. Holdo. 2014. Edaphic, nutritive, and species assemblage differences between hotspots and matrix vegetation: two African case studies. Biotropica 46:387–394. Link to paper Biotropica Editor’s Choice – July Issue
(46) Borer, E.T. et al. 2014. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature 508:517–520. Link to paper
(45) Lehmann, C., T.M. Anderson, M. Sankaran, S.I. Higgins, S. Archibald, W.A. Hoffmann, N.P. Hanan, R.J. Williams, R. Fensham, J. Felfili, L. Hutley, J. Ratnam, J. San Jose, R. Montes, D. Franklin, J. Russell-Smith, C.M. Ryan, G. Durigan, P. Hiernaux, R. Haidar, D.M.J.S. Bowman and W.J. Bond. 2014. Savanna vegetation-fire-climate relationships differ among continents. Science 343: 548-552. Link to paper
(44) Anderson, T.M., M. Schütz and A. Risch. 2014. Endozoochorous seed dispersal and the evolution of germination strategies in Serengeti plants. Journal of Vegetation Science, 25:636-647. Link to paper
2013
(43) Griffith, D.M., and T.M. Anderson. 2013. Responses of African grasses in the genus Sporobolus to defoliation and sodium stress: tradeoffs, cross-tolerance, or independent responses? Plants 2:712-725. Link to paper
(42) Seabloom, E. et al. 2013. Dominance by invasive species is the real embarrassment of richness: invasion in grassland ecosystems. Global Change Biology 19:3677-3687. Link to paper
(41) Gaughan, A., R. Holdo and T.M. Anderson. 2013. Using short-term MODIS time-series to quantify tree cover in an African savanna. Journal of International Remote Sensing 39:6865-6882. Link to paper
(40) Anderson, T.M., B. Kumordzi, W. Fokkema, H. Valls-Fox and H. Olff. 2013. Distinct physiological responses underlie defoliation tolerance in African lawn and bunch grasses. International Journal of Plant Sciences 174:769–778. Link to paper
2012
(39) Folmer, E.O., M. van der Geest, E. Jansen, J.A. van Gils, T.M. Anderson, T. Piersma and H. Olff. 2012. Seagrass – sediment feedbacks: exploring the use of a non-recursive structural equation model. Ecosystems 15:1380–1393. Link to paper
(38) Risch, A., T.M. Anderson and M. Schütz. 2012. Soil CO2 emissions associated with termitaria in tropical savanna: Evidence for hot-spot compensation. Ecosystems 15:1147-1157. Link to paper
(37) van der Plas, F., T.M. Anderson & H. Olff. 2012. Trait similarity patterns within grass and grasshopper communities: multitrophic community assembly at work. Ecology 93:836–846. Link to paper
(36) Anderson, T.M. Plant-Animal Interactions. 2012. Berkshire Encyclopedia, Vol 5: Ecosystem Management and Sustainability. Link to paper
(35) Grace et al. 2012. Response to Comments on “Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness”: towards a multivariate representation of the multiple mechanisms controlling productivity and diversity. Science 335:1441. Link to paper
(34) Anderson, T.M., M. Schütz and A.C. Risch. 2012. Seed germination cues and the importance of the soil seed bank across an environmental gradient in the Serengeti. Oikos 121:306-312. Link to paper
(33) Hopcraft, J.G.C., T.M. Anderson, S.P. Vila, E.P. Mayemba and H. Olff. 2012. Body size and the division of niche space: Food and predation differentially shape the distribution of Serengeti grazers. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 201-213. Link to paper
2011
(32) Baskerville, E.B., A.P. Dobson, T. Bedford, S. Allesina, T.M. Anderson and M. Pascual. 2011 Spatial guilds in the Serengeti food web revealed by a Bayesian group model. PLoS Computational Biology 7(12):e1002321. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002321. Link to paper
(31) Adler, P. et al. 2011. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science 333:1750-1753. Link to paper
(30) Ratnam, J., W. Bond, R. Fensham,W. Hoffmann, S. Archibald, C. Lehmann, S. Higgins, T.M. Anderson and M. Sankaran. 2011. When is a “forest” a savanna, and why does it matter? Global Ecology and Biogeography 20:653-660. Link to paper
(29) Buitenwerf, R., N. Stevens, C.M. Gosling, T.M. Anderson and H. Olff. 2011. Interactions between large herbivores and litter removal by termites across a rainfall gradient in a South African savanna. Journal of Tropical Ecology 27:375–382. Link to paper
(28) Anderson, T.M., J. Shaw and H. Olff. 2011. Ecology’s cruel dilemma, phylogenetic trait evolution and the assembly of Serengeti plant communities. Journal of Ecology 99:797-806. Link to paper
2010
(27) Anderson, T.M. 2010. Community Ecology: Top-down turned upside down. Invited dispatch, Current Biology 20:R854-R855 Link to paper
(26)Dobson, A.P., M. Borner, A.R.E. Sinclair, P.J. Hudson, T.M. Anderson, et al. 2010. Road will ruin Serengeti. Nature 467:272-273. Link to paper
(25) Anderson, T.M., J.G.C. Hopcraft, S.L. Eby, M.E. Ritchie, J.B. Grace and H. Olff. 2010. Landscape-scale analyses suggest both nutrient and antipredator advantages to Serengeti herbivore hotspots. Ecology 91:1519-1529. Link to paper
(24) Grace, J.B., T.M. Anderson, H. Olff, and S. Scheiner. 2010. On the specification of structural equation models for ecological systems. Ecological Monographs 80:67-87. Link to paper
2009
(23) Reed, D.N., T.M. Anderson, J. Dempewolf, K.L. Metzger, and S. Serneels. 2009. The spatial distribution of vegetation types in the Serengeti ecosystem: the influence of rainfall and topographic relief on vegetation patch characteristics. The Journal of Biogeography 36:770-782. Link to paper
(22) Sankaran, M., and T.M. Anderson. 2009. Management and restoration in African savannas: interactions and feedbacks. Pages 136-155 in R. Hobbs and K. Suding (eds) New Models for Ecosystem Dynamics. Island Press, Washington. Link to paper
2008
(21) Anderson, T.M., J. Dempewolf, K.L. Metzger, D.N. Reed, and S. Serneels. 2008. Generation and maintenance of heterogeneity in the Serengeti ecosystem. Pages 135-182 in A.R.E. Sinclair, C. Packer, S.A.R. Mduma and J.M. Fryxell (eds) Serengeti III: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago. Link to paper
(20) Lachance, M.A., J.M. Bowles, T.M. Anderson, and W.T. Starmer. 2008. Metschnikowia shivogae sp. nov., a yeast species associated with insects of morning glory flowers in East Africa. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58:2241-2244. Link to paper
(19) Anderson, T.M. 2008. Plant compositional change over time increases with rainfall in Serengeti grasslands. Oikos 117:675-682. Link to paper
2007
(18) Anderson, T.M., M.E. Ritchie, E. Mayemba, S. Eby, J.B. Grace, and S.J. McNaughton. 2007. Forage nutritive quality in the Serengeti ecosystem: the roles of fire and herbivory. The American Naturalist 170:343-357. Link to paper
(17) Grace, J.B., T.M. Anderson, M. Smith, E. Seabloom, S. Andelman, G. Meche, E. Weiher, L.K. Allain, H. Jutila, M. Sankaran, J. Knops, M. Ritchie, and M. Willig. 2007. Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities? Ecology Letters 10:680-689. Link to paper
(16) Anderson, T.M., M.E. Ritchie, and S.J. McNaughton. 2007. Rainfall and soils modify plant community response to grazing in Serengeti National Park. Ecology 88:1191-1201. (Recommended by Faculty of 1000) Link to paper
(15) Anderson, T.M., W.T. Starmer and M. Thorne. 2007. Bimodal root diameter distributions in Serengeti grasses exhibit plasticity in response to defoliation and soil texture: implications for nitrogen uptake. Functional Ecology 21:50-60. Link to paper
(14) Anderson, T.M., K.L. Metzger, and S.J. McNaughton. 2007. Multi-scale analysis of plant species richness in Serengeti grasslands. Journal of Biogeography 34:313-323. Link to paper
2006
(13) Anderson, T.M., Y. Dong, and S.J. McNaughton. 2006. Nutrient acquisition and physiological responses of dominant Serengeti grasses to variation in soil texture and grazing. Journal of Ecology 94:1164-1175.Link to paper
(12) LaChance, M.A., T.M. Anderson, and W.T. Starmer. 2006. A new subclade of haplontic Metschnikowia species associated with insects of morning glory flowers in Africa and description of Metschnikowia aberdeeniae sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56:1141-1145. Link to paper
2004
(11) Anderson, T.M., M.A. Lachance, and W.T. Starmer. 2004. The relationship of phylogeny to community structure: the cactus yeast community. The American Naturalist 164:709-721. (Recommended by Faculty of 1000) Link to paper
(10) Anderson, T.M., S.J. McNaughton, and M.E. Ritchie. 2004. Scale-dependent relationships between the spatial distribution of a limiting resource and plant species diversity in an African grassland ecosystem. Oecologia 139:277-287. Link to paper
Before 2004
(9) Anderson, M.T., and D.A. Frank. 2003. Defoliation effects on reproductive biomass: importance of scale and timing. Journal of Range Management 56:501-516. Link to paper
(8) Kiesecker, J.M., D.P. Chivers, M.T. Anderson, and A.R. Blaustein. 2002. Effect of predator diet on life history shifts of red-legged frogs, Rana aurora. Journal of Chemical Ecology 28:1007-1015.
(7) Anderson, M.T., J.M. Kiesecker, D.P. Chivers, and A.R. Blaustein. 2001. The direct and indirect effects of temperature on a predator-prey relationship. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79:1834-1841.
(6) Chivers, D.P., J.M. Kiesecker, A. Marco, J. Devito, M.T. Anderson, and A.R. Blaustein. 2001. Predator induced life history changes in amphibians: egg predation induces hatching. Oikos 92:135-142.
(5) Anderson, M.T., and A. Mathis. 1999. Diets of two sympatric neotropical salamanders, Bolitoglossa mexicana and B. rufescens, with notes on reproduction for B. rufescens. Journal of Herpetology 33:601-607.
(4) Kiesecker, J.M., D.P Chivers, A. Marco, C. Quilchano, M.T. Anderson, and A.R. Blaustein. 1999. Identification of a disturbance signal in larval red-legged frogs (Rana aurora). Animal Behaviour 57:1295-1300.
(3) Chivers, D.P., J.M. Kiesecker, E.L. Wildy, M.T. Anderson, and A.R. Blaustein. 1997. Chemical alarm signaling in salamanders: intra- and interspecific responses. Ethology 103:599-613.
(2) Kiesecker, J.M., M.T. Anderson, D.P. Chivers, E.L. Wildy, J. Devito, A. Marco, A.R. Blaustein, J.J. Beatty, and R.M. Storm. 1997. Natural history notes on Plethodon dunni (Dunn’s Salamander) cannibalism. Herpetological Review 27:194.
(1) Chivers, D.P., J.M. Kiesecker, M.T. Anderson, E.L. Wildy, and A.R. Blaustein. 1996. Avoidance response of a terrestrial salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) to chemical alarm cues. Journal of Chemical Ecology 22:1709-1716.
