7000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean's Anthropocene biota

Globally important islands where eradicating invasive mammals will benefit highly threatened vertebrates

(2019) Nick D. Holmes et al.   PLoS One

Using the past to contextualize anthropogenic impacts on the present and future distribution of an endemic Caribbean mammal

(2019) L.M. Gibson et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

87Sr/86Sr and 14C evidence for peccary (Tayassuidae) introduction challenges accepted historical interpretation of the 1657 Ligon map of Barbados

(2019) Christina M. Giovas et al.   PLoS One

Structure, spatial dynamics, and stability of novel seed dispersal mutualistic networks in Hawaiʻi

(2019) Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni et al.   SCIENCE

The zooarchaeology and isotopic ecology of the Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami): Evidence for pre-Columbian anthropogenic management

(2019) Michelle J. LeFebvre et al.   PLoS One

Ancient DNA Reconstructs the Genetic Legacies of Precontact Puerto Rico Communities

(2019) Maria A Nieves-Colón et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Insights from the past: unique opportunity or foreign country?

(2019) Samuel T. Turvey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Columbus’ environmental impact in the New World: Land use change in the Yaque River valley, Dominican Republic

(2018) Henry Hooghiemstra et al.   HOLOCENE

Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) in the Lucayan Realm: Pre-Columbian Exploitation and Translocation

(2018) Michelle J. LeFebvre et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

(2017) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   SCIENCE

Ghost of invasion past: legacy effects on community disassembly following eradication of an invasive ecosystem engineer

(2017) Pamela L. Reynolds et al.   Ecosphere

The Beasts at Large – Perennial Questions and New Paradigms for Caribbean Translocation Research. Part I: Ethnozoogeography of Mammals

(2017) Christina M. Giovas   ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

The global avian invasions atlas, a database of alien bird distributions worldwide

(2017) Ellie E. Dyer et al.   Scientific Data

Managing shifting species: Ancient DNA reveals conservation conundrums in a dynamic world

(2016) Jonathan M. Waters et al.   BIOESSAYS

Priority effects: natives, but not exotics, pay to arrive late

(2016) Katharine L. Stuble et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Invasive mammal eradication on islands results in substantial conservation gains

(2016) Holly P. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

(2016) Nicole L. Boivin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From a thriving past to an uncertain future: Zooarchaeological evidence of two millennia of human impact on a large emblematic lizard (Iguana delicatissima) on the Guadeloupe Islands (French West Indies)

(2016) C. Bochaton et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

(2015) Tadashi Fukami   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Extinction biases in Quaternary Caribbean lizards

(2015) Melissa E. Kemp et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Por el camino verde: Long-term tropical socioecosystem dynamics and the Anthropocene as seen from Puerto Rico

(2015) Isabel C Rivera-Collazo   HOLOCENE

Genetic Evidence of Hybridization between the Endangered Native Species Iguana delicatissima and the Invasive Iguana iguana (Reptilia, Iguanidae) in the Lesser Antilles: Management Implications

(2015) Barbara Vuillaume et al.   PLoS One

Island biogeography of the Anthropocene

(2014) Matthew R. Helmus et al.   NATURE

The Puerto Rican parrot reintroduction program: Sustainable management of the aviary population

(2014) Joanne Earnhardt et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY

OXYGEN AND CARBON ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF HUMAN DENTAL ENAMEL FROM THE CARIBBEAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR INVESTIGATING INDIVIDUAL ORIGINS

(2012) J. E. LAFFOON et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Geographical structure and cryptic lineages within common green iguanas,Iguana iguana

(2012) Catherine L. Stephen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Founder takes all: density-dependent processes structure biodiversity

(2012) Jonathan M. Waters et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus

(2011) J. Kendal et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conservation implications of small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) predation in a hotspot within a hotspot: the Hellshire Hills, Jamaica

(2010) Delano S. Lewis et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Indirect effects of invasive species removal devastate World Heritage Island

(2009) Dana M. Bergstrom et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Trade, transport and trouble: managing invasive species pathways in an era of globalization

(2009) Philip E. Hulme   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration

(2009) Richard J. Hobbs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The rat and the octopus: initial human colonization and the prehistoric introduction of domestic animals to Remote Oceania

(2008) Atholl Anderson   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Continued survival of Hispaniolan solenodon Solenodon paradoxus in Haiti

(2008) Samuel T. Turvey et al.   ORYX