Willows, Leaf Beetles, and their
Predators:
Adaptations to Elevation Gradients in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains
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Rank, Nathan E., Kasey Iturralde and Elizabeth P. Dahlhoff. "Role of contests in the scramble competition mating system of a leaf beetle" Journal of Insect Behavior 19 (no. 6, 2006): 699-716. pdf file
McMillan,D.M., Fearnley,S.L., Rank,N.E., and Dahlhoff,E.P. " Survival, growth and effects of environmental stress in larvae of the montane willow beetle Chrysomela aeneicollis." Functional Ecology (2005). pdf file
Neargarder,G., Dahlhof,E.P., and Rank,N.E. "Variation in thermal tolerance is linked to phosphoglucose isomerase genotype in a montane leaf beetle." Functional Ecology 17 (2003): 213-221. pdf file
Rank,N.E. and Dahlhoff,E.P. "Allele frequency shifts in response to climate change and physiological consequences of allozyme variation in a montane insect." Evolution 56, no. 11 (2003): 2278-2289. pdf file
Sears,A.L., Smiley,J.T., Hilker,M., Muller,F., and Rank,N.E. "Nesting behavior and prey use in two geographically separated populations of the specialist wasp Symmorphus cristatus (Vespidae: Eumeninae)." American Midland Naturalist 145:2, no. April, 2001 (2001): 233-246. pdf file
Dahlhoff,E.P. and Rank,N.E. "Functional and physiological consequences of genetic variation at phosphoglucose isomerase: Heat shock protein expression is related to enzyme genotype in a montane beetle." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 97, no. 18 (2000): 10056-10061. pdf file
Rank,N.E., Smiley,J.T., and Kopf,A., "Natural enemies and host plant relationships for Chrysomeline leaf beetles feeding on Salicaceae," in Ecological Studies, edited by P. H. A. Jolviet and M. I. Cox (Amsterdam: SPB Academic Publishing, 1996), 147-71.
Rank,N.E. "Host-plant effects on larval survival of a salicin-using leaf beetle Chrysomela aeneicollis Schaeffer (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)." Oecologia 97 (1994).
Rank,N.E. and Smiley,J.T. "Host-plant effects on Parasyrphus melanderi (Diptera: syrphidae) feeding on a willow leaf beetle Chrysomela aeneicollis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)." Ecological Entomology 19 (1994). pdf file
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Smiley,J.T. and Rank,N.E., "Bitterness of Salix along the north fork of Big Pine Creek, eastern California: species and community elevational trends," in Natural History of Eastern California and High-altitude Research, edited by Jr. C.A.Hall, V. Doyle-Jones, and B. Widawski (Los Angeles: University of California, 1991), 132-47. pdf file
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Smiley,J.T., Horn,J.M., and Rank,N.E. "Ecological effects of salicin at three trophic levels: new problems from old adaptations." Science 229 (1985): 649-51. pdf file
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