Bruna Lab Publications

Athayde et al. 2006
J. Ethnobiology

Bruna et al. 2005
Acta Amazonica

Bruna et al. 1996
P. Roy. Soc. Lond. B

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In review / In revision

Bruna, E. M., I. J. Fiske* and M. Trager*. In revision. Evaluating the effect of habitat fragmentation on plant populations: is what we know demographically irrelevant?
Izzo, T. J., H. L. Vasconcelos, B. D. Inouye, andE. M. Bruna. In review. Cooperative colony founding alters the likelihood of interspecific competition between Amazonian plant-ants.
Nogueira Ribeiro, M. B.*, E. M. Bruna, and W. Mantovani. In revision. Herbaceous plant communities in secondary forests with contrasting land-use histories.
Fiske, I. , E. M. Bruna, and B. M. Bolker. In revision. Do small sample sizes bias estimates of population growth rates?
Izzo, T.J. G. Q. Romero, H. L. Vasconcelos, E. M. Bruna, B. D. Inouye, and P. C. O. Trivelin. In revision. Resident ants do not improve nutrition in the ant-plants Cecropia purpurascens and Hirtella myrmecophila from the Central Amazon: tests using the stable isotope 15N.

2008

Stocks, G.*, L. Seales*, E. Maehr*, F. Paniagua*, and E. M. Bruna. In press. The geographical and institutional distribution of ecological research in the tropics. Biotropica.
Costa, A. N., H. L. Vasconcelos, E. H. M. Vieira-Neto, and E. M. Bruna. 2008. Do herbivores exert top-down effects in Neotropical savannas? Estimates of biomass consumption by leaf-cutter ants. Journal of Vegetation Science 19:849-854.
Bruna, E. M., M. R., Darrigo, A. M. Furuya Pacheco, and H. L. Vasconcelos. 2008. Interspecific variation in the defensive responses of ant mutualists to plant volatiles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94:241-249
Morris, W. F., C. A. Pfister, S. Tuljapurkar, C. V. Haridas, C. Boggs, M. S. Boyce, E. M. Bruna, D. R. Church, T. Coulson, D. F. Doak, S. Forsyth, J-M. Gaillard, C. C. Horvitz, S. Kalisz, B. E. Kendall, T. M. Knight, C. T. Lee, E. S. Menges. 2008. Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability. Ecology 89(1) 19-25.

2007

Vasconcelos, H. L., A. N. Costa, E. H. M. Vieira-Neto, and E. M. Bruna. In press. Efeitos da herbivoria por formigas do gênero Atta Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) sobre a vegetação do Cerrado. Pp. 480-494 In: Insetos Sociais: da biologia a aplicação. Vilela, E.F.; Santos, I.A.; Schoereder, J.H.; Lino Neto, J.; Campos, L.A.O. & Serrão, J.E. (Eds.). Editora da Universidade Federal de Viçosa. Viçosa, MG.
Girão, L. C., A. V. Lopes, M. Tabarelli, and E. M. Bruna. 2007. Changes in tree reproductive traits reduce functional diversity in a fragmented Atlantic Forest landscape. PLoS One 9:e908.

2006

Trager, M*. and E. M. Bruna. 2006. Effects of plant age, experimental nutrient addition and ant occupancy on herbivory in a neotropical myrmecophyte. Journal of Ecology 94: 1156-1163.
De Athayde, Simone Ferreira, G. M. da Silva, J. Kaiabi, M. Kaiabi, H. R. De Souza, E. M. Bruna, and K. Ono. 2006. Participatory management of “Arumă” (Ischnosiphon gracilis,Marantaceae) amongst the Kaiabi people in the Brazilian Amazon. The Journal of Ethnobiology 26(1): 36-59 (cover article).
Vasconcelos, H. L. E. H. M. Vieira-Neto, F. M. Mundim, and E. M. Bruna. 2006. Roads alter the colonization dynamics of a keystone herbivore in Neotropical savannas. Biotropica 38(5):661-665.
Boyce, M. S. C. V. Haridas, C. Lee, and The Stochastic Demography Working Group. 2006. Demography in an increasingly variable world. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21(3): 141-148.
Kainer, K. A., M. Schmink, J. R. Stepp, H. Covert, E. M. Bruna, J. L. Dain, S. Espinosa and S. Humphries. 2006. A framework for graduate education for tropical conservation and development. Conservation Biology 20(1): 3-13.

2005

Bruna, E. M. and M. B. Nogueria Ribeiro*. 2005. The compensatory responses of an understory herb to experimental damage are habitat-dependent. American Journal of Botany 92(12): 2101-2106.
Doak, D. F. W. F. Morris, C. A. Pfister, B. Kendall, and E. M. Bruna. 2005. Correctly estimating how environmental stochasticity influences fitness and population growth. American Naturalist.166(1): E14-25.
Bruna, E. M. and K. A. Kainer. 2005. A delicate balance in Amazonia. Science. 307:1044-1045.
Bruna, E. M. and M. K. Oli. 2005. Demographic consequences of habitat fragmentation for an Amazonian understory plant: analysis of life-table response experiments. Ecology 86(7): 1816-1824.
Lapola*, D. M., E. M. Bruna, C. G. de Willink, and H. L. Vasconcelos. 2005. Ant-tended hemiptera in Amazonian myrmecophytes: patterns of abundance and implications for mutualism function. Sociobiology 46(2): 433-442
Bruna E. M. and W. J. Kress. 2005. Forest fragments and tropical plant reproduction in Amazonian Brazil. Pp. 141-146 in G. A. Krupnick and W. J. Kress (eds.) Plant conservation: a natural history approach. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA .
Bruna, E. M., H. L. Vasconcelos, and S. Heredia. 2005. The effect of habitat fragmentation on communities of mutualists: a test with Amazonian ants and their host plants. Biological Conservation 124(2005): 209-216. Digital Appendix: list of ant-plant species surveyed.
Bruna, E. M. and M. B. Nogueira-Ribeiro*. 2005. Regeneration and population structure of Heliconia acuminata in Amazonian secondary forests with contrasting land-use histories. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21:127-131.

2004

Bruna, E. M. 2004. Biological impacts of deforestation and fragmentation. Pages 85-90 in The Encyclopaedia of Forest Sciences. J. Burley, J Evans, and J Youngquist, (eds.). Elsevier Press, London.
Bruna, E. M., W. J. Kress, F. Marques, and O. F. da Silva. 2004. Heliconia acuminata reproductive success is independent of local floral density. Acta Amazonica 34(3): 467-471 (cover article)
Lapola*, D. M., E. M Bruna, and H. L. Vasconcelos. 2004. Amizade tęnue: relaçőes mutualísticas entre plantas e formigas na Amazônia. Cięncia Hoje 34(204): 28-33.
Bruna, E. M., D. M. Lapola*, and H. L. Vasconcelos. 2004. Interspecific variation in defensive responses of obligate ant-plant inhabitants: are there consequences for host plants? Oecologia 238:558-565.
Nakazono, E., E. M. Bruna, and R. C. G. Mesquita. 2004. Experimental harvesting of Arumă (Ischnosiphon polyphyllus, Marantaceae), a nontimber forest product in the central Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management 190:219-225.

2003

Lapola*, D. M., E. M Bruna, and H. L. Vasconcelos. 2003. Contrasting induced responses by ants inhabiting Maieta guianensis (Melastomataceae). Biotropica 35(2):295-300.
Bruna, E. M. 2003. Are plant populations in fragmented habitats recruitment limited? Tests with an Amazonian herb. Ecology, 84(4): 932-947.
Bruna, E. M. 2003. "For the Love of Nature". Science's Next Wave Online Magazine (Invited Essay).

2002

Bruna, E. M. and W. J. Kress. 2002. Habitat fragmentation and the demographic structure of an Amazonian understory herb (Heliconia acuminata). Conservation Biology, 16(5): 1256-1266.
Bruna, E. M., O. Nardy*, S. Y. Strauss, and S. P. Harrison. 2002. Experimental assessment of Heliconia acuminata growth in a fragmented Amazonian landscape. Journal of Ecology, 90(4): 639-649.
Bruna, E. M. 2002. Effects of forest fragmentation on Heliconia acuminata seedling recruitment in the central Amazon. Oecologia, 132:235-243.
Laurance, W.F., T. E. Lovejoy, H. L. Vasconcelos, E. M. Bruna, R. K. Didham, P. C. Stouffer, C. Gascon, R. O. Bierregaard, S. G. Laurance, and E. Sampaio. 2002. Ecosystem decay of Amazonian forest fragments: A 22-year investigation. Conservation Biology, 16(3): 605-618.
Bruna, E. M. 2002. A biologist’s guide to fragmenting the Amazon (including why it’s a bad idea). Conservation Biology, 16(5): 1446-1448. (book review).

2000

Hoeksema, J. D. and E. M. Bruna. 2000. Pursuing the big questions about interspecific mutualism: a review of theoretical approaches. Oecologia, 125: 321-330.

1999

Bruna, E. M. 1999. Seeds in rainforest fragments. Nature, 402:139
Harrison, S. and E. Bruna. 1999. Habitat fragmentation and large-scale conservation: what do we know for sure? Ecography, 22: 225-232.

1996

Bruna, E. M., R. N. Fisher, and T. J. Case. 1996. Morphological and genetic evolution appear decoupled in Pacific skinks (Emoia). Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B, 263:681-688 (cover article).
Bruna, E. M., R. N. Fisher, and T. J. Case. 1996 New evidence of habitat segregation between cryptic species of Pacific skinks (Emoia cyanura and E. impar). Copeia, 1996: 998-1005.

1995

Bruna, E. M., R. N. Fisher, and T. J. Case. 1995. Cryptic species of Pacific skinks (Emoia): further support form Mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Copeia, 1995: 981-983.