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Krueger KJ, Devitz A-C, Baselga-Cervera B, Crouse KN, Pinto-Ledezma JN, Shaw AK (submitted) "Making Community Norms Explicit: The 5R Process to Enhance Community Engagement in Academic Departments"
Naven Narayanan, Shaw AK (submitted) "Context-dependent dispersal mutualisms mediate coexistence of unequal competitors in a metapopulation."
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- Interview in the blog Dynamic Ecology: New feature: interviews with authors of really interesting papers! This week: Shaw et al. (2024) on the different “personas” you can adopt as a theoretician
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- press release: Understanding mutualism can help control the spread of invasive species
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- UdeM Interview. Migrating between two UMs
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- Addendum Population Ecology (2025) 68: e70011. DOI: 10.1002/1438-390x.70011
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- press release: Retention is a major factor in racial disparities in academia
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- article Corrigendum: Ecology Letters (2020): 23 (9): 1426-1427 DOI 0.1111/ele.13569
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- work that won Lindsay the 2020 Population Ecology Young Author Award
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- UMN media coverage: Predicting how native plants return to abandoned farm fields
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- article Erratum: Ecology (2018) 99 2904. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2520
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- work that won Sophie the 2016 MCED Award for Innovative Contributions to Ecological Modelling (bachelors/masters category)
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- part of work that won Allison the 2014 MCED Award for Innovative Contributions to Ecological Modelling
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- This paper describes the outcomes from a workshop at the 2013 ESA meeting
- This workshop/paper resulted in the formation of the new ESA Early Career Ecologist Section
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- this article is part of a special issue in honor of Chris Cosner
- part of work that won Allison the 2014 MCED Award for Innovative Contributions to Ecological Modelling
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- media (Princeton University): How red crabs on Christmas Island speak for the tropics
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- watch my talk at MBI about this paper
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- *authors contributed equally, names alphabetical.
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- Nature Geoscience media coverage: Plugging the Leaks
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- this article is part of a special issue on partial migration
- article Erratum: Oikos (2012) 121: 1713. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.21040.x/full
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- one of 25 most cited articles in Environmental Microbiology during 2008-2009
Shaw AK (submitted) "Loss of migratory pollinators shapes dynamics of plant populations at stopover sites"
In Revision
Binning SA, Shaw AK (submitted) "Overcoming the curse of knowledge: guidelines for reporting system specific details on parasites and host migration"
In press
2026
73. Schlatter E, Shaw AK, Webb C, Buston P (2026) "Evolution of interspecific variation in marine larval dispersal kernels: the role of larval navigation ability" Oikos 3: e11231. DOI: 10.1002/oik.11231
2025
72. Torstenson M, Shaw AK (2025) "Population response to extreme climate events depends on population spatial distribution. " Ecosphere 16(8): e70369. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.70369
71. Shaw AK, Fouda L, Mezzini S, Kim D, Chatterjee N, Wolfson D,Abrahms B, Attias N, Beardsworth CE, Beltran R, Binning SA, Blincow KM, Chan Y-C, Fronhofer EA, Hegemann A, Hurme ER, Iannarilli F, Kellner JB, McCoy KD, Rafiq K, Saastamoinen M, Sequeira AMM, Serota MW, Sumasgutner P, Tao Y, Torstenson M, Yanco SW, Beck KB, Bertram MG, Beumer LT, Bradarić M, Clermont J, Ellis-Soto D, Faltusová M, Fieberg J, Hall RJ, Kölzsch A, Lai S, Lee-Cruz L, Loretto M-C, Loveridge A, Michelangeli M, Mueller T, Riotte-Lambert L, Sapir N, Scacco M, Teitelbaum CS, Cagnacci F (2025) "Perceived and observed biases within scientific communities: a case study in movement ecology." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292(2051). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0679
70. Wojan C, Shaw AK, Craft ME (2025) "Parasite spatial distribution shapes parasite aggregation on host populations, but not at high parasite density." Ecosphere 16(6):e70324. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.70324
69. Shao C, Torstenson M, Shaw AK (2025) "Effect of resistant compartment on pathogen strategy in partially migratory populations" PLoS ONE 20(2): e0316640. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0316640
68. Naven Narayanan, Lutz P, Shaw AK (2025) "Coexistence of coinvading species with mutualism and competition." Ecology 106(2): e70039. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70039
67. Torstenson M, Shaw AK (2025) "Strength of seasonality and type of migratory cue determine the fitness consequences of changing phenology for migratory animals" Oikos 2025(1): e10862. DOI: 10.1111/oik.10862
2024
66. Shaw AK, Bisesi AT, Wojan C, Kim D, Torstenson M, Naven Narayanan, Lutz P, Ales R, Shao C (2024) "Six personas to adopt when framing theoretical research questions in biology" Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291:20240803. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2024.0803
65. Baines C, Shaw AK (2024) "Parasite prevalence is determined by infection state- and risk-dependent dispersal of the host." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: 379 (1907). DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0130
64. Torstenson M, Shaw AK (2024) "Pathogen evolution following spillover from a resident to a migrant host population depends on interactions between host life history speed and cost of infection" Journal of Animal Ecology 93(4): 475-487. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14075
63. Naven Narayanan, Shaw AK (2024) "Mutualisms impact species’ range expansion speeds and spatial distributions." Ecology 105(1): e4171. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4171
2023
62. Shaw AK, Levet M, Binning SA (2023) "A unified evolutionary framework for understanding parasite infection and host migratory behaviour." Ecology Letters 26(11): 1987-2002. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14301
61. Sullivan LL, Shaw AK (2023) "Take me for a ride: herbivores can facilitate plant re-invasions." Ecology 104(10): e4132. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4132
60. Shaw AK, Lutscher F, Popovic L (2023) "Pushed to the edge: spatial sorting can slow down invasions." Ecology Letters 26(8): 1293-1300. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14237
59. Moore CM*, Shaw AK*, Bruninga-Socolar B, Caves E, Karnish AT, Kiesewetter K, Nelson A, Pringle E (2023) "The Movement Ecology of Mutualism (CSEE/ESA 2022, OOS17)." Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 104(2):e02063. DOI: 10.1002/bes2.2063
58. Shaw AK, Torstenson M, Craft ME, Binning SA (2023) "Gaps in modelling animal migration with evolutionary game theory: infection can favour the loss of migration." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378: 20210506. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0506
57. Gorton AJ, Shaw AK (2023) "Using theoretical models to explore dispersal variation and fragmentation in urban environments." Population Ecology 65(1):17-24. DOI: 10.1002/1438-390X.12135
2022
56. Shaw AK (2022) "How to outrun your parasites (or mutualists): symbiont transmission mode is key." Oikos 11: e09374. DOI: 10.1111/oik.09374
55. Lutscher F, Popovic L, Shaw AK (2022) "How mutation shapes the rate of population spread in the presence of a mate-finding Allee effect." Theoretical Ecology 16: 255–269. DOI: 10.1007/s12080-022-00540-2
54. Hall RJ, Altizer S, Peacock SJ, Shaw AK. Animal migration and infection dynamics: recent advances and future frontiers. In: Ezenwa VO, Altizer SA, Hall RJ, editors. Animal Behavior and Parasitism. Oxford University Press, 2022. DOI:10.1093/oso/9780192895561.003.0007
53. Weiss-Lehman C, Shaw AK (2022) "Understanding the drivers of dispersal evolution in range expansions and their ecological consequences." Evolutionary Ecology 36:181-197. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-022-10166-9
52. Shaw AK (2022) "Diverse perspectives from diverse scholars are vital for theoretical biology." Theoretical Ecology 15: 143–146. DOI: 10.1007/s12080-022-00533-1
51. Binning SA, Craft ME, Zuk M, Shaw AK (2022) "How to study parasites and host migration: A roadmap for empiricists." Biological Reviews 97(3):1161-1178. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12835
2021
50. Shaw AK, Accolla C, Chacón JM, Mueller TL, Vaugeois M, Yang Y, Sekar N, Stanton DE (2021) "Differential retention contributes to racial/ethnic disparity in U.S. academia." PLoS ONE 16(12): e0259710. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259710
49. Kim D, Shaw AK (2021) "Migration and tolerance shape host behavior and response to parasites infection" Journal of Animal Ecology 90(10): 2315-2324. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13539
48. Shaw AK, Naven Narayanan, DE Stanton (2021) "Let’s move out together: a framework for the intersections between movement and mutualism." Ecology 102(8): e03419. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3419
47. Sullivan LL, Michalska-Smith MJ, Sperry KP, Moeller DA, Shaw AK (2021) "Consequences of ignoring dispersal variation in network models for landscape connectivity." Conservation Biology 35(3): 944-954. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13640
46. Porath-Krause A, Campbell R, Shoemaker L, Sieben A, Strauss AT, Shaw AK, Seabloom EW, Borer ET (2021) "Pliant pathogens: Estimating viral spread when confronted with new vector, host, and environmental conditions." Ecology and Evolution 11(4): 1877–1887. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7178
45. Balstad LJ, Binning SA, Craft ME, Zuk M, Shaw AK (2021) "Parasite intensity and the evolution of migratory behavior." Ecology 102(2): e03229. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3229
44. Shaw AK, White LA, Michalska-Smith M, Borer ET, Craft ME, Seabloom EW, Snell-Rood E, Travisano M (2021) "Lessons from movement ecology for the return to work: modeling contacts and the spread of COVID-19" PLoS ONE 16(1): 20190590. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242955
2020
43. Strauss AT, Henning JA, Porath-Krause A, Asmus AL, Shaw AK, Borer ET, Seabloom EW (2020) "Vector demography, dispersal, and the spatial spread of disease: Experimental epidemics under elevated resource supply." Functional Ecology 34: 2560–2570. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13672
42. Peace A, Pattemore D, Broussard M, Fonseka D, Tomer N, Bosque-Pérez NA, Crowder D, Shaw AK, Jesson L, Howlett B, Jochym M, Li J (2020) "Orchard layout and plant traits influence fruit yield more strongly than pollinator behaviour and density in a dioecious crop." PLoS ONE 15(10): e0231120. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231120
41. Miller TEX, Angert AL, Brown CD, Lee-Yaw JA, Lewis M, Lutscher F, Marculis NG, Melbourne BA, Shaw AK, Szűcs M, Tabares O, Usui T, Weiss-Lehman C, Williams JL (2020) "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion." Ecology 101(10): e03139. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3139
40. Naven Narayanan, Binning SA, Shaw AK (2020) "Infection state can affect host migratory decisions." Oikos 129:1493-1503. DOI: 10.1111/oik.07188
39. Shaw AK, Binning SA (2020) "Recovery from infection is more likely to favor the evolution of migration than social escape from infection." Journal of Animal Ecology 89(6): 1448-1457. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13195
38. Muthukrishnan R, Sullivan LL, Shaw AK, Forester JD (2020) "Plasticity in seed production alters the range of possible coexistence conditions in a competition-colonization trade-off" Ecology Letters 23(5): 791-799. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13477
37. Ashby BA*, Shaw AK*, Kokko H (2020) "An inordinate fondness for species with intermediate dispersal abilities." Oikos 129(3): 311-319. DOI: 10.1111/oik.06704
36. Leach D, Shaw AK, Weiss-Lehman C (2020) "Stochasticity in social structure and mating system drive extinction risk." Ecosphere 11(2): e03038. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3038
35. Shaw AK (2020) "Causes and consequences of individual variation in animal movement." Movement Ecology 8:12. DOI: 10.1186/s40462-020-0197-x
34. Chacón JM, Shaw AK, Harcombe WR (2020) "Increasing growth rate slows adaptation when genotypes compete for diffusing resources." PLOS Computational Biology 16(1): e1007585. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007585
33. Weiss-Lehman C, Shaw AK (2020) "Spatial population structure determines extinction dynamics in climate-induced range shifts." The American Naturalist 195(1): 31-42. DOI: 10.1086/706259
2019
32. Leverett LD, Shaw AK (2019) "Facilitation and competition interact with seed dormancy to affect population dynamics in annual plants." Population Ecology 61(4): 457-468. DOI: 10.1002/1438-390X.12021
31. Shaw AK, Craft ME, Zuk M, Binning SA (2019) "Host migration strategy is shaped by forms of parasite transmission and infection cost." Journal of Animal Ecology 88(10) 1601--1602. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13050
30. Sperry KP, Shaw AK, Sullivan LL (2019) "Apps can help bridge restoration science and restoration practice." Restoration Ecology 27:934-937. DOI: 10.1111/rec.12999
29. Shoemaker LG, Hayhurst E, Weiss-Lehman C, Strauss AT, Porath-Krause A, Borer E, Seabloom E, Shaw AK (2019) "Pathogens manipulate the preference of vectors, slowing disease spread in a multi-host system" Ecology Letters 22 (7): 1115-1125. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13268
28. Shaw AK, Igoe M, Power AG, Bosque-Pérez NA, Peace A (2019) "Modeling approach influences dynamics of a vector-borne pathogen system." Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 81(6): 2011–2028. DOI: 10.1007/s11538-019-00595-z
27. Shaw AK, D'Aloia CC, Buston PA (2019) "The evolution of marine larval dispersal kernels in spatially structured habitats: analytical models, individual-based simulations, and comparisons with empirical estimates." The American Naturalist 193(3): 424-435. DOI: 10.1086/701667
2018
26. Shaw AK, Sherman J, Barker FK, Zuk M (2018) "Metrics matter: the effect of parasite richness, intensity and prevalence on the evolution of host migration." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285(1891): 20182147. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2147
25. Sullivan LL*, Clark AT*, Tilman D, Shaw AK (2018) "Mechanistically-derived dispersal kernels explain species-level patterns of recruitment and succession." Ecology 99(11): 2415-2420. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2498
24. Shaw AK, Kokko H, Neubert MG (2018) "Sex differences and Allee Effects shape the dynamics of sex-structured invasions" Journal of Animal Ecology 87:36–46. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12658
2017
23. Binning SA, Shaw AK, Roche DG (2017) "Parasites and host performance: incorporating infection into our understanding of animal movement." Integrative and Comparative Biology 57(2):267-280. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icx024
22. Gnanadesikan GE, Pearse WD, Shaw AK (2017) "Evolution of mammalian migrations for refuge, breeding and food." Ecology and Evolution 7(15): 5891–5900. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3120
21. Shaw AK, Peace A, Power AG, Bosque-Pérez NA (2017) "Vector population growth and condition-dependent movement drive the spread of plant pathogens." Ecology 98(8): 2145–2157. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1907
20. Sullivan LL, Li B, Miller TEX, Neubert MG, Shaw AK (2017) "Density dependence in demography and dispersal generates fluctuating invasion speeds." PNAS 114(19): 5053-5058. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1618744114
2016
19. Shaw AK (2016) "Drivers of animal migration and implications in changing environments." Evolutionary Ecology 30(6): 991-1007. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-016-9860-5
18. Umbers KDL, Silla AJ, Bailey J, Shaw AK, Byrne PG (2016) "Dietary carotenoids change the colour of Southern corroboree frogs." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 119: 436-444. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12818
17. Shaw AK, Binning S (2016) "Migratory recovery from infection as a selective pressure for the evolution of migration." The American Naturalist 187(4): 491-501. DOI: 10.1086/685386
16. Johns S, Shaw AK (2016) "Theoretical insight into three disease-related benefits of migration." Population Ecology 58(1): 213-221. DOI: 10.1007/s10144-015-0518-x
2015
15. Reluga TC, Shaw AK (2015) "Resource distribution drives the adoption of migratory, partially migratory, or residential strategies." Theoretical Ecology 8: 437-447. DOI: 10.1007/s12080-015-0263-y
14. Shaw AK, Kokko H (2015) "Dispersal evolution in the presence of Allee effects can speed up or slow down invasions." The American Naturalist 185(5): 631-639. DOI: 10.1086/680511
13. Shaw AK, Stanton DE, Supp SR, Budden A, Eby S, Reynolds PL, Salguero-Gómez R, Scholes DR, Zimmerman NB (2015) "Ecology postdocs in academia: primary concerns and possible solutions." Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 96: 140–152. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9623-96.1.140
2014
12. Reluga TC, Shaw AK (2014) "Optimal migratory behavior in spatially-explicit seasonal environments." Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 19: 3359-3378. DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.3359
11. Shaw AK, Kokko H (2014) “Mate finding, Allee effects, and selection for sex-biased dispersal.” Journal of Animal Ecology 83(6): 1256–1267. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12232
10. Shaw AK, Jalasvuori M, Kokko H (2014) "Population-level consequences of risky dispersal." Oikos 123(8): 1003–1013. DOI: 10.1111/oik.01229
2013
9. Shaw AK, Kelly KA (2013) "Linking El Niño, local rainfall, and migration timing in a tropical migratory species." Global Change Biology 19: 3283-3290. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12311
8. Shaw AK, Levin SA (2013) "The evolution of intermittent breeding." Journal of Mathematical Biology 66(4-5): 685-703. DOI: 10.1007/s00285-012-0603-0
7. Shaw AK, Couzin ID (2013) "Migration or residency? The evolution of movement behavior and information usage in seasonal environments." The American Naturalist 181(1): 114-124. DOI: 10.1086/668600
2012
6. Shaw AK*, Stanton DE* (2012) "Leaks in the pipeline: separating structural inertia from ongoing gender differences in academia." Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 279: 3736-3741. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0822
5. Shaw AK, Galaz JL, Marquet P (2012) "Population dynamics of the vicuña (Vicugna vicugna): the influence of density-dependence, rainfall and spatial distribution." Journal of Mammalogy 93 (3): 658-666. DOI: 10.1644/11-MAMM-A-257.1
2011
4. Shaw AK, Levin SA (2011) "To breed or not to breed: a model of partial migration." Oikos 120(12): 1871-1879. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19443.x
3. Miller TEX*, Shaw AK*, Inouye BD, Neubert MG (2011) "Sex-biased dispersal and the speed of two-sex invasions." The American Naturalist 177(5): 549-561. DOI: 10.1086/659628
2. Shaw AK, Tsvetkova M, Daneshvar R (2011) "The effect of gossip on social networks." Complexity 16(4): 39-47. DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20334
2008
1. Shaw AK, Halpern AL, Beeson K, Tran B, Venter JC, Martiny JBH (2008) "It's all relative: ranking the diversity of aquatic bacterial communities". Environmental Microbiology 10(9): 2200-2210. DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01626.x