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Primary Research Papers

Sousa, W.P. 1979. Experimental investigations of disturbance and ecological succession in a rocky intertidal algal community. Ecological Monographs 49:227-254. (ESA Mercer Award)

Sousa, W.P. 1979. Disturbance in marine intertidal boulder fields: the nonequilibrium maintenance of species diversity. Ecology 60:1225-1239.

Sousa, W.P. 1980. The response of a community to disturbance: the importance of successional age and species' life histories. Oecologia 45:72-81.

Sousa, W.P., S.C. Schroeter, and S.D. Gaines. 1981. Latitudinal variation in intertidal algal community structure: the influence of grazing and vegetative propagation. Oecologia 48:297-307.

Connell, J.H. and W.P. Sousa. 1983. On the evidence needed to judge ecological stability or persistence. American Naturalist 121:789-824.

Sousa, W.P. 1983. Host life history and the effect of parasitic castration on growth: a field study of Cerithidea californica Haldeman (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) and its trematode parasites. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 73:273-296.

Sousa, W.P. 1984. The role of disturbance in natural communities. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 15:353-391.

Sousa, W.P. 1984. Intertidal mosaics: patch size, propagule availability, and spatially variable patterns of succession. Ecology 65:1918-1935.

Sousa, W.P. and J.H. Connell. 1985. Further comments on the evidence for multiple stable points in natural communities. American Naturalist 125:612-615.

Sousa, W.P. 1985. Disturbance and patch dynamics on rocky intertidal shores. Pages 101-124 in S.T.A. Pickett and P.S. White, eds. The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics. Academic Press, New York .

Foster, M.S. and W.P. Sousa. 1985. Succession. Pages 269-290 in M.M. Littler and D.S. Littler, eds. Handbook of Phycological Methods--Ecological Field Methods: Macroalgae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge .

Flessa, K.W. et al. 1986. Causes and consequences of extinction. Group report from Dahlem Conference No. 36, Pages 235-257 in D.M. Raup and D. Jablonski, eds. Patterns and Processes in the History of Life. Springer-Verlag , Berlin .

Sousa, W.P. and M. Gleason. 1989. Does parasitic infection compromise host survival under extreme environmental conditions: the case for Cerithidea californica (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)? Oecologia 80:456-464.

Sousa, W.P. 1990. Spatial scale and the processes structuring a guild of larval trematode parasites. Pages 41-67 in G.W. Esch, A.O. Bush, and J.M. Aho, eds. Parasite Communities: Patterns and Processes. Chapman and Hall, London .

Sousa, W.P. and E.D. Grosholz. 1990. The influence of habitat structure on the transmission of parasites. Pages 300-324 in S.S. Bell, E.D. McCoy, and H.R. Mushinsky, eds. Habitat Structure: The Physical Arrangement of Objects in Space, Chapman and Hall, London .

Sousa, W.P. 1991. Can models of soft-sediment community structure be complete without parasites? American Zoologist 31:821-830.

Sousa, W.P. and J.H. Connell. 1991. Grazing and succession. Pages 425-441 in D.M. John, S.J. Hawkins, and J.H. Price, eds. Plant-Animal Interactions in the Marine Benthos, Systematics Association Special Volume No. 46, Clarendon Press, Oxford .

Sousa, W.P. 1992. Interspecific interactions among larval trematode parasites of freshwater and marine snails. American Zoologist 32:583-592.

Sousa, W.P. 1993. Size-dependent predation on the salt-marsh snail Cerithidea californica Haldeman. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 166:19-37.

Sousa, W.P. 1993. Interspecific antagonism and species coexistence in a diverse guild of larval trematode parasites. Ecological Monographs 63:103-128.

Sousa, W.P. 1994. Patterns and processes in communities of helminth parasites. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: 52-57.

Sousa, W.P. 1994. Interactive versus isolationist helminth communities reconsidered: a reply to V. Haukisalmi. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: 344-345.

Blaustein, A.R., D.B. Wake, and W.P. Sousa. 1994. Amphibian declines: judging stability, persistence, and susceptibility of populations to local and global extinctions. Conservation Biology 8:60-71.

Sousa, W.P. and B.J. Mitchell. 1999. The effect of seed predators on plant distributions: is there a general pattern in mangroves? Oikos 86:55-66.

Sousa, W.P. 2001. Natural disturbance and the dynamics of marine benthic communities. Pages 85-130 in M.D. Bertness, S. Gaines, and M.E. Hay, eds. Marine Community Ecology, Sinauer Assoc., Sunderland , MA .

Gilbert,G.S. and W.P. Sousa. 2002. Host specialization among wood-decay polypore fungi in a Caribbean mangrove forest. Biotropica 34:396-404.

Sousa, W.P., P.G. Kennedy, and B.J. Mitchell. 2003. Propagule size and predispersal damage by insects affect establishment and early growth of mangrove seedlings. Oecologia 135:564-575.

Sousa, W.P., S.P. Quek, and B.J. Mitchell. 2003. Regeneration of Rhizophora mangle in a Caribbean mangrove forest: interacting effects of canopy disturbance and a stem-boring beetle. Oecologia 137: 436-445.

Wang, L., W.P. Sousa, P. Gong, and G.S. Biging. 2004. Comparison of IKONOS and QuickBird images for mapping mangrove species on the Caribbean coast of Panama . Remote Sensing of Environment 91:432-440.

Wang, L., W.P. Sousa, and P. Gong. 2004. Integration of object-based and pixel-based classification for mangrove mapping with IKONOS imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25:5655-5668.

Thomsen, M., C. D'Antonio, K.B. Suttle, and W.P. Sousa. 2006. Ecological resistance, seed density, and their interactions determine patterns of invasion in a California coastal grassland. Ecology Letters 9:160-170.

Kennedy, P.G. and W.P. Sousa. 2006. Forest encroachment into a Californian grassland: examining the simultaneous effects of facilitation and competition on tree seedling recruitment. Oecologia, in press.

Sousa, W.P., P.G. Kennedy, B.J. Mitchell, and B. M. Ordóñez L. 2006. Supply-side ecology in mangroves: do patterns of propagule dispersal and seedling establishment explain forest structure? Ecological Monographs, in review.

Book reviews

Sousa, W.P. 1982. Marine ecology for students. Science 217:49-50.