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Charles, G.K., L.M. Porensky, C. Riginos, K.E. Veblen, T.P. Young. 2017. Grazing intensity stimulates herbaceous productivity, but herbivore identity constrains variability in an African savanna. Ecological Applications 27(1), 143-155. |
Ord, T.J., G.K. Charles, M. Palmer, J.A. Stamps. 2016. Plasticity in social communication and its implications for the colonization of novel habitats. Behavioral Ecology 27(1), 341-351. |
LoPresti, E.F., I.S. Pearse, G.K. Charles. 2015. The siren song of a sticky plant: columbines provision mutualist arthropods by attracting and killing passerby insects. Ecology 96(11), 2862-2869. |
Zefferman, E., J.T. Stevens, G.K. Charles, M. Dunbar-Irwin, T. Emam, S. Fick, L. Morales, K.M. Wolf, D.J.N. Young, T.P. Young. 2015. Plant communities in harsh sites are less invaded: a summary of observations and proposed explanations. Annals of Botany plv056. |
Pringle, R.M., J.R. Goheen, T.M. Palmer, G.K. Charles, E. Defranco, R. Hohbein, A.T. Ford, C. Tarnita. 2014. Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in an African savanna. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281(1785). |
Kartzinel, T.R., J.R. Goheen, G.K. Charles, E. Defranco, J.E. Maclean, T. Otieno, T.M. Palmer, R.M. Pringle. 2014. Plant and small mammal responses to large-herbivore exclusion in a semi-arid African savanna: the first five years of the UHURU experiment. Ecology 95(3):787. |
Caro, T., G.K. Charles, D.J. Clink, J.R. Riggio, A. Weill, C. Whitesell. Terrestrial protected areas: threats and solutions. 2014. Pages 61-77. In: Sample, V. Alaric; Bixler, R. Patrick (editors). Forest conservation and management in the Anthropocene: conference proceedings. Proceedings RMRS-P-71. Fort Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Research Station. |
Goheen, J.R., T.M. Palmer, G.K. Charles, K.M. Helgen, S.T. Kinyua, J.E. Maclean, H.S. Young, R.M. Pringle. 2013. Piecewise disassembly of a large-herbivore community across a rainfall gradient: The UHURU experiment. PLoS One 8(2): e55192. |
Charles, G.K., T.J. Ord. 2012. Factors leading to the evolution and maintenance of a male ornament in territorial species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 11, 127–31. |
Ord, T.J., G.K. Charles, R.K. Hofer. 2010. Evolutionary ancestry determines whether communicating animals exploit periods of quiet in noisy environments. The American Naturalist 177:54-64. |