Bold indicates graduate student.
Italics indicates postdoctoral fellow.
Underline indicates undergraduate student.
Publications:
Rogy, P., & Srivastava, D. S. 2024. Terrestrial subsidies and light affect an aquatic micro‐ecosystem in unexpected ways. Freshwater Biology, 69(6), 879-893. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.14252
Ospina‐Bautista, F. DS Srivastava, E Realpe, AM Fernández, 2024. Environmental heterogeneity at two spatial scales affects litter diversity–decomposition relationships. Ecology, e4280
Piccoli, GCO, PAP Antiqueira, DS Srivastava, GQ Romero. 2024. Trophic cascade within and across ecosystems: The role of anti‐predatory defences, predator type and detritus quality. Journal of Animal Ecology 93, 755–768. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14063
Srivastava, DS, J Bernardino, AT Marques, A Proença‐Ferreira, AF Filipe, Luís Borda-de-Água, João Gameiro. 2024. Editors are biased too: An extension of Fox et al. (2023)’s analysis makes the case for triple-blind review. Functional Ecology 38 (2), 278-283
Srivastava, D.S., N. Harris, N. Páez, P. Rogy, N.E. Westwood, P. Sandoval-Acuña, K. Seetharaman. 2023. Insects in the city: determinants of a contained aquatic microecosystem across an urbanized landscape. Ecology. 105(1), e4204. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4204
Rogy P, Srivastava DS. Bromeliads compete with microorganisms for nutrients in their phytotelm. Aquatic Botany. 2023 187:103653.
Srivastava, D.S., MacDonald, A. A., Pillar, V., Kratina, P., Debastiani, V., Guzman, L. M., Trzcinski, M., Dézerald, O., Barberis, I., de Omena, P., Romero, G., Ospina Bautista, F., Marino, N., Leroy, C., Farjalla, V., Richardson, B., Gonçalves, A., Corbara, B. Petermann, J.S., Richardson, M., Melnychuk, M.C., Jocque, M., Ngai, J.T., Talaga, S., Piccoli, G.O., Montero, G. Kirby, K.R., Starzomski, B.M., & Céréghino, R. Geographical variation in the trait-based assembly patterns of multitrophic invertebrate communities. Functional Ecology 37:73-86. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14096
Eyster, Harold N., Diane S. Srivastava, Maayan Kreitzman, and Kai MA Chan. “Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape.” Ecography (2022): e06240.
Rost-Komiya, B., Smith, M.A., Rogy, P. and Srivastava, D.S., 2022. Do bromeliads affect the arboreal ant communities on orange trees in northwestern Costa Rica?. PLoS ONE, 17.
Ruiz, T., Carrias, J.F., Bonhomme, C., Farjalla, V.F., Jassey, V.E., Leflaive, J., Compin, A., Leroy, C., Corbara, B., Srivastava, D.S. and Céréghino, R., 2022. Asynchronous recovery of predators and prey conditions resilience to drought in a neotropical ecosystem. Scientific reports, 12:1-10.
Céréghino, Régis; Trzcinski, Mark; MacDonald, Andrew; Marino, Nicholas; Acosta Mercado, Dimaris; Leroy, Céline; Corbara, Bruno; Romero, Gustavo; Farjalla, Vinicius; Barberis, Ignacio; Dézerald, Olivier; Hammill, Edd; Atwood, Trisha; Piccoli, Gustavo; Ospina Bautista, Fabiola; Carrias, Jean-François; Leal, Juliana; Montero, Guillermo; Antiqueira, Pablo; Freire, Rodrigo; Realpe, Emilio; Amundrud, Sarah; de Omena, Paula; Campos, Alice; Srivastava, Diane. 2022. Functional redundancy dampens precipitation change impacts on species-rich invertebrate communities across the Neotropics. Functional Ecology.00:1-14. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14048
Gustavo Q Romero, Thiago Gonçalves‐Souza, Tomas Roslin, Robert J Marquis, Nicholas AC Marino, Vojtech Novotny, Tatiana Cornelissen, Jerome Orivel, Shen Sui, Gustavo Aires, Reuber Antoniazzi, Wesley Dáttilo, Crasso PB Breviglieri, Annika Busse, Heloise Gibb, Thiago J Izzo, Tomas Kadlec, Victoria Kemp, Monica Kersch‐Becker, Michal Knapp, Pavel Kratina, Rebecca Luke, Stefan Majnarić, Robin Maritz, Paulo Mateus Martins, Esayas Mendesil, Jaroslav Michalko, Anna Mrazova, Samuel Novais, Cássio C Pereira, Mirela S Perić, Jana S Petermann, Sérvio P Ribeiro, Katerina Sam, M Kurtis Trzcinski, Camila Vieira, Natalie Westwood, Maria L Bernaschini, Valentina Carvajal, Ezequiel González, Mariana Jausoro, Stanis Kaensin, Fabiola Ospina, Jacob Cristobal‐Perez, Mauricio Quesada, Pierre Rogy, Diane Srivastava, Scarlett Szpryngiel, Ayco JM Tack, Tiit Teder, Martin Videla, Mari‐Liis Viljur, Julia Koricheva. 2022. Climate variability and aridity modulate the role of leaf shelters for arthropods: a global experiment. Global Change Biology 28: 3694-3710
Bledsoe, E.K., Burant, J.B., Higino, G.T., Roche, D.G., Binning, S.A., Finlay, K., J. Pither, L.S. Pollock, J.M. Sunday, D.S. Srivastava. 2021. Data rescue: saving environmental data from extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289, 20220938
Cássio Cardoso Pereira, …MK Trzcinski …N Westwood…F Ospina…P Rogy, DS Srivastava et al.(57 authors). 2021. Subtle structures with not-so-subtle functions: a dataset of arthropod constructs and their host plants. Ecology 103 (4), e3639.
Srivastava, D.S., L. Coristine, A.L. Angert, M. Bontrager, S.L. Amundrud, J.L. Williams, A.C. Y. Yeung, D.R. de Zwaan, P.L. Thompson, S.N. Aitken, J.M. Sunday, M.I. O’Connor, J. Whitton, N.E.M. Brown, C.D. MacLeod, L.W. Parfrey, J.R. Bernhardt, J. Carrillo, C.D.G. Harley, P.T. Martone, B.G. Freeman, M. Tseng, S.D. Donner. Wildcards in climate change biology. (2021) Ecological Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1471
Srivastava, D.S., M. Winter, L.J. Gross, J.P. Metzger, J.S. Baron, N. Mouquet, T.R. Meagher, B.S. Halpern, and V.D. Pillar. Maintaining momentum for collaborative working groups in a post-pandemic world. (2021) Nature Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01521-0
Ospina‐Bautista, F., Srivastava, D.S., González, A.L., Sparks, J.P., & Realpe, E. (2021). Predators override rainfall effects on tropical food webs. Biotropica. 53:1191-1202.
Guzman, L.M., Trzcinski, M.K., Barberis, I.M., Céréghino, R., Srivastava, D.S., Gilbert, B., Pillar, V.D., de Omena, P.M., MacDonald, A.A.M., Corbara, B. and Leroy, C., 2020. Climate influences the response of community functional traits to local conditions in bromeliad invertebrate communities. Ecography: doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05437.
Bonhomme, C., Céréghino, R., Carrias, J.F., Compin, A., Corbara, B., Jassey, V., Leflaive, J., Farjalla, V., Marino, N., Rota, T., Srivastava, D.S., and C. Leroy. In situ resistance, not immigration, supports invertebrate community resilience to drought intensification in a Neotropical ecosystem. 2020. Journal of Animal Ecology 00:1-12. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13392.
Segar ST, Fayle TM, Srivastava DS, Lewinsohn TM, Lewis OT, Novotny V, Kitching RL, Maunsell SC. 2020. On the Perils of Ignoring Evolution in Networks. Ecol. Lett. 15:243-50.
Tseng M, El-Sabaawi RW, Kantar MB, Pantel JH, Srivastava DS, Ware JL. 2020. Strategies and support for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in ecology and evolutionary biology. Nature Ecology & Evolution.4:1288-90.
Romero GQ, Marino NA, MacDonald AA, Céréghino R, Trzcinski MK, Mercado DA, Leroy C, Corbara B, Farjalla VF, Barberis IM, Dézerald O… & D.S.Srivastava. 2020. Extreme rainfall events alter the trophic structure in bromeliad tanks across the Neotropics. Nature Communications. 11:1-8.
Segar ST, Fayle TM, Srivastava DS, Lewinsohn TM, Lewis OT, Novotny V, Kitching RL, Maunsell SC. 2020. The role of evolution in shaping ecological networks. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 35:454-66.
Guzman, LM and DS Srivastava. 2020. Genomic variation among populations provides insight into the causes of metacommunity survival. Ecology 101 (12), e03182
Amundrud SL and DS Srivastava. 2020. Thermal tolerances and species interactions determine the elevational distribution of insects. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29:1315-1327
Gonzalez, A., RM Germain, DS Srivastava, E Filotas, LE Dee, D Gravel, PL Thompson, F Isbell, S Wang, S Kéfi, J Montoya, YR Zelnik, M Loreau. 2020. Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research. Ecology Letters 23: 757-776
Germain, RM, D Srivastava, AL Angert. 2020. Evolution of an inferior competitor increases resistance to biological invasion. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 419-425
Srivastava, DS, R Céréghino, MK Trzcinski, AAM MacDonald, NAC Marino, D Acosta Mercado, C Leroy, B Corbara, GQ Romero, VF Farjalla, IM Barberis, O Dézerald, E Hammill, TB Atwood, GCO Piccoli, F Ospina-Bautista, J‐F Carrias, JS Leal, G Montero, PAP Antiqueira, R Freire, E Realpe, SL Amundrud, PM de Omena, ABA Campos. 2020. Ecological response to altered rainfall differs across the Neotropics. Ecology, e02984
Rogy, P., E Hammill, MA Smith, B Rost-Komiya, DS Srivastava. 2020. Bromeliads affect the interactions and composition of invertebrates on their support tree. Oecologia 192:879-891
Srivastava, DS, JL Ware, JT Ngai, BM Starzomski, SL Amundrud. 2020. Habitat size thresholds for predators: why damselflies only occur in large bromeliads. Biotropica doi.org/10.1111/btp.12734
Nicholas A. C. Marino, Régis Céréghino, Benjamin Gilbert, Jana S. Petermann, Diane S. Srivastava, Paula M. de Omena, Fabiola Ospina Bautista, Vinicius F. Farjalla, Laura Melissa Guzman, Gustavo Q. Romero, M. Kurtis Trzcinski, Ignacio M. Barberis, Bruno Corbara, Vanderlei J. Debastiani, Olivier Dézerald, Pavel Kratina, Céline Leroy, A. Andrew M. MacDonald, Guillermo Montero, Valério D. Pillar, Barbara A. Richardson, Michael J. Richardson, Stanislas Talaga, Ana Z. Gonçalves, Gustavo C. O. Piccoli, Merlijn Jocqué. 2019. Species niches, not traits, determine abundance and occupancy patterns: a multi-site synthesis. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29: 295-308.
Segar ST, TM Fayle, DS Srivastava, TM Lewinsohn, OT Lewis, V Novotny, RL Kitching, SC Maunsell. 2020. The role of evolution in shaping ecological networks. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35:454-466.
Guzman, LM., MW Pennell, E. Nikelski, DS Srivastava. 2019. Successful integration of data science in undergraduate biostatistics courses using cognitive load theory. CBE Life Science Education 18: ar49.
Amundrud, SL & DS Srivastava 2019. Disentangling how climate change can affect an aquatic food web by combining multiple experimental approaches. Global Change Biology 25: 3528-3538
Guzman, L.M. and D.S. Srivastava. (2019). Prey body mass and richness underlie the persistence of a top predator Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20190622.
LeCraw, R.M. and D.S. Srivastava. (2019). Biogeographic context dependence of top-down control in bromeliad food webs. Ecology 100: e02692.
de Omena, P.M., Srivastava, D. S., & Romero, G. Q. (2019) Consumptive effects and mismatch in predator–prey turnover rates cause inversion of biomass pyramids. Oecologia 190: 159–168.
Srivastava, D.S. R.M. Germain, L.M. Guzman, S. Straus, C. Forbes, and P. Thompson (2019). Metacommunity ecology (book review). Quarterly Review of Biology 94:92
Amundrud, SL, Clay-Smith, SA, Flynn, BL, Higgins, KE, Reich, MS, Wiens, DRH & Srivastava, DS (2019). Drought alters the trophic role of an opportunistic generalist in an aquatic ecosystem. Oecologia 189: 733–744.
Guzman, LM, Germain, RM, Forbes, C, Straus, S, O’Connor, MI, Gravel, D, Srivastava, DS, Thompson, PL (2019). Towards a multi-trophic extension of metacommunity ecology. Ecology Letters 22: 19-33. Faculty of 1000 Prime recommended
Guzman, LM, Vanschoenwinkel, B, Farjalla, VF, Poon, A, Srivastava, DS (2019). A precipitation gradient drives change in macroinvertebrate composition and interactions within bromeliads. PlosONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200179
Dezerald, O, Srivastava, DS, Cereghino, R, Carrias, JF, Corbara, B, Farjalla, VF, Leroy, C, Marino, NAC, Piccoli, GCO, Richardson, BA, Richardson, MJ, Romero, GQ, Gonzalez, AL (2018) Functional traits and environmental conditions predict community isotopic niches and energy pathways across spatial scales. Functional Ecology 32: 2423- 2434.
Cereghino, R, Pillar, VD, Srivastava, DS, de Omena, PM, MacDonald, AAM, Barberis, IM, Corbara, B, Guzman, LM, Leroy, C, Bautista, FO, Romero, GQ, Trzcinski, MK, Kratina, P, Debastiani, VJ, Goncalves, AZ, Marino, NAC, Farjalla, VF, Richardson, BA, Richardson, MJ, Dezerald, O, Gilbert, B, Petermann, J, Talaga, S, Piccoli, GCO, Jocque, M, Montero, G (2018) Constraints on the functional trait space of aquatic invertebrates in bromeliads. Functional Ecology 32: 2435- 2447. Cover
Gonzalez, AL, Cereghino, R, Dezerald, O, Farjalla, VF, Leroy, C, Richardson, BA, Richardson, MJ, Romero, GQ, Srivastava, DS (2018) Ecological mechanisms and phylogeny shape invertebrate stoichiometry: A test using detritus-based communities across Central and South America. Functional Ecology 32: 2448- 2463.
Louca, S., M.F. Polz, F. Mazel, M.B.N. Albright, J.A. Huber, M.I. O’Connor, M. Ackermann, A.S. Hahn, D.S. Srivastava, S.A. Crowe, M. Doebeli and L.Wegener Parfrey (2018). Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 936- 943.
Pires, Aliny, Farjalla, V.F. and Srivastava, D.S. (2018). Is biodiversity able to buffer ecosystems from climate change? What we know and what we don’t. BioSciences 68: 273- 280
Pires, Aliny, Srivastava, D.S. Marino, N.A.C., MacDonald, A.A.M., Figueiredo-Barros, M.P. & Farjalla, V.F. (2018). Interactive effects of biodiversity loss and climate change on ecosystem functioning. Ecology 99: 1203- 1213.
Rodriguez-Perez, H., G. Borrel, C. Leroy, J-F. Carrias, C Bruno, DS Srivastava, R Céréghino. (2018) Simulated drought regimes reveal community resilience and hydrological thresholds for altered decomposition. Oecologia 187: 267- 279
Migliorini, G.H., Srivastava, D.S and Romero, G.Q. (2018). Leaf litter composition drives community structure and functioning in a natural aquatic microcosm. Freshwater Biology 63: 341-352
Amundrud, S. L., Videla, M., & Srivastava, D. S. (2018). Dispersal barriers and climate determine the geographic distribution of the helicopter damselfly Mecistogaster modesta. Freshwater Biology, 63(2), 214-223.
Srivastava, D. S. (2018). Messy Communities: The Established Researcher. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 99(1), 59-60.
LeCraw, R. M., Romero, G. Q., & Srivastava, D. S. (2017). Geographic shifts in the effects of habitat size on trophic structure and decomposition. Ecography, 40(12), 1445-1454.
Harrower, W. L., Srivastava, D. S., McCallum, C., Fraser, L. H., & Turkington, R. (2017). Temperate grassland songbird species accumulate incrementally along a gradient of primary productivity. PloS one, 12(10), e0186809.
González, A. L., Dézerald, O., Marquet, P. A., Romero, G. Q., & Srivastava, D. S. (2017). The Multidimensional Stoichiometric Niche. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5, 110. Editor Highlight
Gonçalves, A. Z., Srivastava, D.S., Oliveira, P.S., & Romero, G.Q. (2017) Effects of predatory ants within and across ecosystems in bromeliad food webs. Journal of Animal Ecology 86: 790-799.
Kratina, Pavel, et al. Environmental control of the microfaunal community structure in tropical bromeliads. Ecology and Evolution 7.5 (2017): 1627-1634.
Omena, Paula M., Diane S. Srivastava, and Gustavo Q. Romero. Does the strength of cross‐ecosystem trophic cascades vary with ecosystem size? A test using a natural microcosm. Freshwater Biology 62.4 (2017): 724-736.
Stork, N. E., Srivastava, D. S., Eggleton, P., Hodda, M., Lawson, G., Leakey, R. R. B., & Watt, A. D. (2016). Consistency of effects of tropical forest disturbance on species composition and richness relative to use of indicator taxa. Conservation Biology. 31: 924-933
Louca, Stilianos, et al. High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (2016): 0015. *Highlighted in a Nature Ecology & Evolution News and Views by Sean M. Gibbons entitled “Microbial community ecology: Function over phylogeny”.
Pires, Aliny PF, et al. Predicted rainfall changes disrupt trophic interactions in a tropical aquatic ecosystem. Ecology 97.10 (2016): 2750-2759.
Marino, N.A.C., Diane S. Srivastava, A. Andrew M. MacDonald, Juliana S. Leal, Alice B. A. Campos & Vinicius F. Farjalla. 2016. Rainfall and hydrological stability alters the impact of top-predators on food web structure and function. Global Change Biology. 23.2 (2017): 673-685
Farjalla, V.F., A. Gonzalez, R. Cereghino, O. Dezerald, N.A.C. Marino, G.C.O. Piccoli, B.A.Richardson, M.J. Richardson, G.Q.Romero and D.S. Srivastava. (2016). Terrestrial support of aquatic food webs depends on light inputs: a geographically replicated test using tank bromeliad ecosystems. Ecology. 97: 2147-2156.
Amundrud, S.L. and D.S. Srivastava. (2016). Trophic interactions determine the effect of drought on an aquatic ecosystem. Ecology 97: 1475-1483.
Trzcinski, M.K., D. S. Srivastava, B. Corbara, O. Dézerald, C. Leroy, J-F Carrias, A. Dejean and R. Céréghino.(2016). The effects of food web structure on ecosystem function exceeds those of precipitation. Journal of Animal Ecology. 85, 1147–1160
Marino N.A.C., D. S. Srivastava and V.F Farjalla. (2016). Predator kairomones change food web structure and function, regardless of cues from consumed prey. Oikos 125 (7), 1017-1026
Amundrud, S.L. and D.S. Srivastava. (2015). Drought sensitivity predicts habitat size sensitivity in an aquatic ecosystem. Ecology. 96(7): 1957-1965.
Cuke, M. and D. S. Srivastava. (2015). Divergent effects of tropical forest fragmentation and conversion on leaf litter decomposition. Landscape ecology. 31.5 (2016): 1037-1050
Amundrud, S.L., D.S. Srivastava and M.I. O’Connor. 2015. Indirect effects of predators control herbivore richness and abundance in a benthic eelgrass (Zostera marina) mesograzer community. Journal of Animal Ecology. 84: 1092-1102
Hammill, E., T.B. Atwood and D.S. Srivastava. 2015. Predation threat alters composition and functioning of bromeliad ecosystems. Ecosystems 18: 857-866
Hammill, E., R. G. Fitzjohn and D.S. Srivastava. 2015. Conspecific density modulates the effect of predation on dispersal rates. Oecologia 178: 1149-1158
Chen, Y., S.L. Amundrud and D.S. Srivastava. 2015 Spatial variance in soil microarthropod communities: niche, neutrality or stochasticity? Ecoscience 21(3–4), 405-418
Richardson, MJ, BA Richardson and DS Srivastava. The stability of invertebrate communities in bromeliad phytotelmata in a rain forest subject to hurricanes. 2015. Biotropica 47:201-207.
Petermann, J. S., P. Kratina, N. A. C. Marino, A. A. M. MacDonald and D. S. Srivastava. 2015. Resources Alter the Structure and Increase Stochasticity in Bromeliad Microfauna Communities. PlosONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118952
Chen, Y.H. and D.S. Srivastava. 2014. Latitudinal concordance between biogeographic regionalization, community structure, and richness patterns: a study on the reptiles of China. The Science of Nature 102:5.
Hammill, E., T.B Atwood, P. Corvalan and D.S. Srivastava. 2015. Behavioural responses to predation may explain shifts in community structure. Freshwater Biology 60:125-135.
LeCraw, R., P. Kratina and D.S. Srivastava. 2014. Food web complexity and stability across habitat connectivity gradients. Oecologia 176: 903-915.
Vellend, M., D.S. Srivastava, K.M. Anderson, C.D. Brown, J.E. Jankowski, E.J. Kleynhans, N.J. B. Kraft, A.D. Letaw, A.A.M. Macdonald, J.E. Maclean, I.H. Myers-Smith, A.R. Norris, X. Xue. 2014. Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities. Oikos 123: 1420-1430.
Petermann, J.S., V.F. Farjalla, M. Jocque, P. Kratina, A.A.M. MacDonald, N.A.C. Marino, P.M. de Omena, G.C.O. Picolli, B.A. Richardson, M.J. Richardson, G.Q. Romero, M. Videla and D.S. Srivastava. Dominant predators mediate the impact of habitat size on trophic structure in bromeliad invertebrate communities. 2015. Ecology 96: 428-439. Journal cover
González, A.L., G.Q. Romero and D.S. Srivastava. 2014. Detrital nutrient content determines growth rate and elemental composition of bromeliad‐dwelling insects.
Freshwater Biology 59 (4), 737-747 Journal cover
LeCraw, R., D.S. Srivastava and G.Q. Romero. 2014. Metacommunity size influences aquatic community composition in a natural mesocosm landscape. Oikos, 123: 903-911.
Atwood, T. B., Hammill, E., Srivastava, D. S. and Richardson, J. S. 2014. Competitive displacement alters top-down effects on carbon dioxide concentrations in a freshwater ecosystem. Oecologia, 175:353-361 [Trisha Atwood did a PhD with John Richardson, but worked under my field supervision for one chapter of her PhD]
Hammill, E. and D.S. Srivastava. 2013. Epiphytes or mutualists? Bromeliad-associated reductions in host-plant herbivory. Biotropica 46:78-82. Featured on MongaBay.com and Focusing on Wildlife news websites.
Stephens, A.E.A, D.S. Srivastava & J.H. Myers. Strength in numbers? Effects of multiple natural enemy species on plant performance. 2013. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280:20122756. Featured on ScienceDaily and other news websites.
Atwood, T.B., Hammill, E., Greig, H.S., Kratina, P., Shurin, J.B, Srivastava, D.S. and J. S. Richardson. Predator-induced reduction of freshwater carbon dioxide emissions. 2013. Nature Geoscience 6:191-194 [Trisha Atwood did a PhD with John Richardson, but worked under my field supervision for one chapter of her PhD] *chosen as a Faculty of 1000 recommended paper, one of 10 most read ecology papers in June 2013. Featured by New Scientist, Mother Jones, Vancouver Sun and other news outlets.
Srivastava, D.S., and Kratina, P. 2013. Is dispersal limitation more prevalent in the ocean? Oikos 122: 298 – 300.
Fenoglio, M.S., D. S. Srivastava, G. Valladares, L. Cagnolo & A. Salvo. 2012 Forest fragmentation reduces parasitism via species loss at multiple trophic levels. Ecology 93:2407.
Marino, N., D.S. Srivastava, V.F. Farjalla. 2012. Aquatic macroinvertebrate community composition in tank-bromeliads is determined by bromeliad species and its constrained characteristics. Insect Conservation and Diversity, doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00224.x
Zhu X, D.S. Srivastava, J.N.M. Smith, K. Martin. 2012. Habitat selection and reproductive success of Lewis’s Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) at its northern limit. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44346. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044346
Srivastava, D. S., M. W. Cadotte, A. A. M. MacDonald, R. G. Marushia, N. Mirotchnick.. 2012. Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems. Ecology Letters15: 637–648 *Chosen as a Faculty of 1000 recommended paper
Cardinale, B.J. J. E.Duffy, A.Gonzalez, D. U. Hooper, C. Perrings, P.Venail, A. Narwani, G. M. Mace, D. Tilman, D. A. Wardle, A.P. Kinzig, G.C. Daily, M. Loreau, J. B. Grace, A. Larigauderie, D. S. Srivastava, and S.Naeem. 2012. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature 486: 59-67. Featured in interviews with D. Srivastava on CTV and Voice of America
Farjalla, V.F., D.S Srivastava, N.A.C. Marino, F.D Azevedo, V. Dib, P. M Lopes, A.S. Rosado, R.L. Bozelli, F.A. Esteves. 2012. Ecological determinism increases with organism size Ecology 1752-59.
Srivastava, D.S. 2011. The challenge of biodiversity science [book review]. BioScience 61: 324
Srivastava, D.S. 2011. From Populations to Ecosystems: Theoretical Foundations for a New Synthesis [book review]Quarterly Review of Biology 86:218
Wong, A.R. and D.S. Srivastava. 2010. Red abaxial coloring reduces herbivory in Columnea consanguinea. Ecotropica 16: 93–99
Romero, G.Q. and D.S. Srivastava. 2010. Food web composition affects cross-ecosystem interactions and subsidies. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 1122–1131.
Starzomski, B.M., D. Suen and D.S. Srivastava. 2010. Predation and facilitation determine chironomid emergence in a bromeliad food web. Ecological Entomology 35:53-60.
Richardson, B.A., M.J. Richardson, G. Gonzalez, A.B. Shiels and D.S. Srivastava. 2010. A canopy trimming experiment in Puerto Rico: The response of litter invertebrate communities to canopy loss and debris deposition in a tropical forest subject to hurricanes. Ecosystems 13: 286-301.
Gilbert, B., R. Turkington and D.S. Srivastava. 2009. Dominant species and diversity: Linking relative abundance to controls of species establishment. American Naturalist 174: 850-862.
Srivastava, D.S. and T. Bell. 2009. Reducing horizontal and vertical diversity in a food web triggers extinctions and impacts functions. Ecology Letters 12: 1016–1028. [Tom Bell worked with me as a field assistant between his MSc. and PhD research]
Srivastava, D.S., B.J. Cardinale, A. L. Downing, J.E. Duffy, C. Jouseau, M. Sankaran, J. P. Wright. 2009. Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition. Ecology 90: 1073-1083
Cardinale, B.J. D.S. Srivastava, et al. 2009. Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems: a summary of 164 experimental manipulations of species richness. Ecological Archives E090-060.D1. Ecology 90:854
Srivastava, D.S., M.K. Trzcinski, B.A. Richardson and B. Gilbert. 2008. Why are predators more sensitive to habitat size than their prey? Insights from bromeliad-insect food webs. American Naturalist 172: 761-771. *featured on American Naturalist website
Starzomski, B.M., R. L. Parker, and D.S. Srivastava. 2008. Does regional species richness determine local species richness? An experimental test of saturation theory. Ecology 89: 1921-1930.
Gilbert, B., D. S. Srivastava, K. R. Kirby. 2008. Niche partitioning at multiple scales facilitates coexistence among mosquito larvae. Oikos 117: 944-950. [Kate Kirby worked with me as a field assistant between her MSc. and PhD.]
Cardinale, B.J., J. P. Wright, M.W. Cadotte, I.T. Carroll, A. Hector, D.S. Srivastava, M. Loreau_, and J.J. Weis. 2007. Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity: A meta-analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Starzomski, B.M. and D.S. Srivastava. 2007. Landscape geometry determines community response to disturbance. Oikos 116:690-699
Ngai, J.T. and D.S. Srivastava. 2006. Predators accelerate nutrient cycling in a bromeliad ecosystem Science 314:963
Cardinale, B.J. D.S. Srivastava, J.E. Duffy, J. P. Wright, A.L. Downing, M. Sankaran, C. Jouseau. 2006. Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems Nature 443:989-992
Srivastava, D.S. 2006. Habitat structure, trophic structure and ecosystem function: interactive effects in a bromeliad-insect community. Oecologia 149: 493-504.
Fox, J.E. and D.S. Srivastava. 2006. Predicting local–regional richness relationships using island biogeography models. Oikos 113: 376-382.
Srivastava, D.S. and M. Vellend. 2005. Biodiversity-ecosystem function research: Is it relevant to conservation? Annual Review of Ecology Evolution Systematics 36: 267-290.
Raffaelli, D., Solan, M., Cardinale, B.J., Downing, A.L., Engelhardt, K.A.M.,Ruesink, J.L., and D.S. Srivastava. 2005. Reinventing the wheel in ecology research? Response. Science 307: 1875-1876. [authorship alphabetical after first author]
Srivastava, D.S. 2005. Do local processes scale to global patterns? The role of drought and the species pool in determining treehole insect diversity Oecologia 145: 205-215.
He, F., Gaston, K.J., Connor, E.F., and Srivastava, D.S. 2005. The local-regional relationship: immigration, extinction and scale. Ecology 86: 360-365.
Srivastava D.S., Melnychuk M.C., Ngai J.T. 2005. Landscape variation in the larval density of a bromeliad-dwelling zygopteran, Mecistogaster modesta (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae). International Journal of Odonatology 8: 67-79
Solan M, Cardinale BJ, Downing AL, Engelhardt KAM, Ruesink JL, Srivastava DS. 2004. Extinction and ecosystem function in the marine benthos. Science 306: 1177-80. [equal contribution of authors, authorship alphabetical after first author]
Srivastava, D.S., J.Kolasa, J. Bengtsson, A. Gonzalez, S.P. Lawler, T.E. Miller, P. Munguia, T. Romanuk, D.C. Schneider, M.K. Trzcinski. 2004. Are natural microcosms useful model systems for ecology? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 379-384.
Stork, N.E., D.S. Srivastava, A.D. Watt, and T.B. Larsen. 2003. Butterfly diversity and silvicultural practice in lowland rainforests of Cameroon. Biodiversity and Conservation 12: 387-410.
Srivastava, D.S. 2002. The role of conservation in expanding biodiversity research. Oikos 98:351-360.
Melnychuk, M. and D.S. Srivastava. 2002.Vertical distibution of a bromeliad-dwelling damselfly larva (Mecistogaster modesta) in a Costa Rican rainforest. International Journal of Odonatology, 5 (1): 81-97.
Srivastava, D.S. and R.L. Jefferies. 2002. Intertidal plant communities of a sub-Arctic salt marsh, isostatic uplift and herbivory. Ecoscience 9: 112-118.
Ruesink, J.L. and D.S. Srivastava. 2001. Numerical and per capita responses to species loss: mechanisms maintaining ecosystem function in a community of stream insect detritivores. Oikos 93: 221-234. [equal contribution of authors]
Srivastava, D.S. 1999. Using local-regional richness plots to test for species saturation: Pitfalls and potentials. Journal of Animal Ecology 68: 1-17.
Srivastava, D.S. and J.H. Lawton 1998. Why more productive sites have more species: an experimental test of theory using tree-hole communities. American Naturalist 152:510-529.
Lawton, J.H., D.E. Bignell, B. Bolton, G.F. Bloemers, P. Eggleton, P.M. Hammond, M. Hodda, R.D. Holt, T.B. Larsen, N.A. Mawdsley, N.E. Stork, D.S. Srivastava, and A.D. Watt. 1997. Biodiversity inventories, indicator taxa and effects of habitat modification in tropical forest. Nature 391:72-76. [Authorship alphabetical after first author]
Srivastava, D.S., J.H. Lawton and G.D. Robinson. 1997. Spore-feeding: A new, regionally-vacant niche for bracken herbivores. Ecological Entomology 22:475-478.
Srivastava, D.S. and R.L. Jefferies. 1996. A positive feedback: herbivory, plant growth, salinity and the desertification of an arctic salt-marsh. Journal of Ecology 84: 31-42.
Srivastava, D.S. and R.L. Jefferies. 1995. Mosaics of vegetation and soil salinity: a consequence of goose foraging in an arctic salt marsh. Canadian Journal of Botany 73: 75-83.
Srivastava, D.S. and R.L. Jefferies. 1995. The effect of salinity on the leaf and shoot demography of two arctic forage species. Journal of Ecology 83: 421-430.
Srivastava, D.S., C.A. Staicer, B. Freedman. 1995. Aquatic vegetation of Nova Scotian lakes differing in acidity and trophic status. Aquatic Botany 51: 181-196.
Staicer, C.A., B. Freedman, D.S. Srivastava, N. Dowd, J. Kilgar, J. Hayden, F. Payne and T. Pollock. 1994. Use of lakes by black duck broods in relation to biological, chemical, and physical features. Hydrobiologia 279/280: 185-199.
(b) Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings
Starzomski, B. and D.S. Srivastava 2004. What science tells us about ecosystems, for ecosystem-based management. Proceedings of Science and Management of Protected Areas Conference, Victoria, B.C. 2003.
Staicer, C., D. Srivastava, N. Dowd, B. Freedman and T. Pollock. 1994. Influence of water quality on macrophytes and macroinvertebrates of lakes in the greater Kejimkujik area. In: Proceedings of the workshop on the Kejimkujik watershed studies (C. Staicer, M. Duggan and J. Kerekes, ed.), pp 155-169. Regional Environmental Monitoring and Research Coordinating Committee. Occassional Report 3.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Journals
Amundrud, S. L., & Srivastava, D. S. (2016). Phytotelm bromeliads as model systems to study ecosystem responses to environmental stress. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 97(4), 403-405.
Srivastava, D.S. 2006. The smaller majority (Book review). Discovery 35: 55-57.
Srivastava, D.S. and M.C. Melnychuk. 2002. Ground to canopy distribution of bromeliad-dwelling Mecistogaster modesta larvae (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae) in a Costa Rican rainforest. International Dragonfly Fund Reports (in press).
Srivastava, D.S. 2001. Masculinity. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 32(3):20.
Srivastava, D.S. 1999. El mundo en miniatura de las Bromelias [The minature world of bromeliads]. Rothschildia 6: 8-11.
Srivastava, D.S. 1998. The miniature world of bromeliads: linking insect diversity, functional groups and habitat size. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 29(4):43-45.
Srivastava, D.S. and J.L. Ruesink. 1998. Population growth and environmental destruction: it isn’t that simple! Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 79:219-221.
Conference Proceedings
Grayston, S., J. Addison, S. Berch, L. deMontigny, D. Dural, K. Egger, M. Jones, J. Lemieux, R. Modesto, W. Mohn, T. Panesar, C. Prescott, S. Simard and D. Srivastava. 2005. Potential of green-tree retention as a tool to maintain soil function after harvest. In Peterson, C. E. and D.A. Maguire (eds.). Balancing ecosystem values: innovative experiments for sustainable forestry. Proceedings of a conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-635. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 389p.
BOOKS
Chapters
Srivastava, DS, JL McCune, HK Lotze. 2017. Environmental change: a historical perspective In: Reflections on Canada Illuminating our Biggest Possibilities and Challenges at 150 Years (Ed. Philippe Tortell). Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Vancouver Canada (in press).
Cardinale, B., M. Loreau, M. Emmerson, D.S. Srivastava and M. Thomas. Towards a Food-web Perspective on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. In: The Ecological and Environmental Consequences of Biodiversity Loss (Eds. D. Bunker, S.Naeem, A. Hector, M. Loreau, C. Perrings), Oxford University Press (p105-120).
Duffy, J.E., D. E. Bunker, M. Emmerson, J. Griffin, K. E. Jones, C. Jouseau, J. McLaren, E. O’Gorman, C. Phillipson, M. Sankaran, M. Solan, D. S. Srivastava. Forecasting loss of global ecosystem services under realistic scenarios of biodiversity change. In: The Ecological and Environmental Consequences of Biodiversity Loss (Eds. D. Bunker, S.Naeem, A. Hector, M. Loreau, C. Perrings), Oxford University Press (p60-77).
Schmid, B., P. Balvanera, B.J. Cardinale, J.Godbold, A.B. Pfisterer, D. Raffaelli, M. Solan, D.S. Srivastava. Consequences of species loss for ecosystem functioning: a meta-analysis of data from biodiversity experiments. In: The Ecological and Environmental Consequences of Biodiversity Loss (Eds. D. Bunker, S.Naeem, A. Hector, M. Loreau, C. Perrings), Oxford University Press (p14-29).
Shurin, J and D. S. Srivastava. 2005. New perspectives on local and regional diversity: Beyond saturation. In: Metacommunities (Ed. By M. Holyoak, M. Leibold and R. Holt). University of Chicago, pp 399-417.
Watt, A.D., N.E. Stork, P. Eggleton and D.S. Srivastava. 1996. Impact of forest loss and regeneration on insect abundance and diversity. In: Forests and Insects (A.D. Watt, N.E. Stork and M.D. Hunter, ed.), Chapman and Hall, London, pp 271-284.
Jefferies, R.L., F.L. Gadallah, D.S. Srivastava and D.J. Wilson. 1995. Desertification and trophic cascades in arctic coastal ecosystems: a potential climatic change scenario? In: Global Change and Arctic Terrestrial Systems: Ecosystem Research Report 10 (T.V. Callaghan, U. Molau, M.J. Tyson, J.I. Holten, W.C. Oechel, T. Gilmanov, B. Maxwell and B. Sveinbjorinsson, eds.), pp 201-205. European Commission Directorate General XII, Brussels and Luxembourg.