In Review

Heinen, J.L., Coco*, M.W., A.S. Johnson*, M.S. Marcuard*, D.N White*, M.N. Peterson, R.A. Martin, and R.B. Langerhans. in review. Environmental drivers of variation in demographics, habitat use, and behavior during a post-Pleistocene radiation of Bahamas mosquitofish.

*undergraduate authors

Reisch, R., R.A. Martin, and R.B. Langerhans. Life-history evolution in Bahamas mosquitofish (Gambusia hubbsi): on the relative roles of predation and other environmental factors, as well as the covariation between life histories and morphology.

In Press

Martin, R.A., and D.W. Pfennig. In press. Ecology predicts widespread disruptive selection in the wild. BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Reisch, R., R.A. Martin, and R.B. Langerhans. In press. Predation’s role in life-history evolution of a livebearing fish and a test of the Trexler-DeAngelis model of maternal provisioning. American Naturalist.

J. Paull, Martin, R.A., and D.W. Pfennig. In press. Increased competition as a cost of specialization during the evolution of resource polymorphism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Pfennig, K.S., S. Allenby, R.A. Martin, A. Monroy, and C.D. Jones. In press. A suite of molecular markers for identifying species, detecting introgression, and describing population structure in spadefoot toads (Spea spp.). Molecular Ecology Resources.

2011

Reisch, R., R.A. Martin, D. Bierbach, M. Plath, R.B. Langerhans, and L. Arias-Rodriguez. 2011. Natural history, diet, and life history of Priapella chamulae Schartl, Meyer & Wilde 2006 (Teleostei: Poeciliidae). Aqua, International Journal of Icthyology 18:95-102.

Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig. 2011. Evaluating the targets of selection during character displacement. Evolution 65:2946-2958.

Martin, R.A.  2011. Evaluating a novel technique for individual identification of anuran tadpoles using decimal coded wire tags. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6:155-160.

Diamond, S.E., A.M. Frame, R.A. Martin and L.B. Buckley. 2011. Species’ traits predict phenological responses to climate change in butterflies. Ecology 92:1005-1012.

(Featured as a Nature Research Highlight, “Climate change ecology: Butterflies break out earlier. 2011. Nature, 469:134)

Pfennig D.W. and R.A. Martin, 2010. Proximate basis of character displacement in spadefoot toads: Different mechanisms in different species. Evolution 64:2331-2341.

Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig, 2010. Maternal investment influences expression of resource polymorphism in amphibians: Implications for the evolution of novel resource-use phenotypes. PLoS ONE 5(2)e9117.

(subject of an article on The New Scientists’ web page by Michael Marshall (Zoologger) (“What turns a tadpole into a killer?”, February 17, 2010))

Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig, 2010. Field and experimental evidence that competition and ecological opportunity promote resource polymorphism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100:73-88.

Martin, R.A. and D.W. Pfennig, 2009, Disruptive selection in natural populations: The roles of ecological specialization and resource competition. The American Naturalist 174:268-281.

Pfennig D.W. and R.A. Martin, 2009, A maternal effect mediates rapid population divergence and character displacement in spadefoot toads. Evolution 63:898-909.

Pfennig D.W., A.M. Rice, and R.A. Martin, 2007. Field and experimental evidence for competitions role in phenotypic divergence. Evolution  61:257-271.

Pfennig D.W., A.M. Rice, and R.A. Martin, 2006. Ecological opportunity and phenotypic plasticity interact to promote character displacement and species coexistence. Ecology 87:769-779.

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Martin, R.A., 2012. The ecology of mate choice: dicey climates and sexual selection. The Signal 13. (Monthly newsletter of the W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology at North Carolina State University.)

Martin, R.A., 2010. Coping with an arid habitat. The Signal 12.