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EEB Papers - Nelson Hairston
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Professor Hairston studies freshwater organisms in lakes and their ecological and evolutionary response to environmental change. He is Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Environmental Science, past Chair of EEB, past Senior Associate Dean in Arts & Sciences, and a former member of the Cornell Board of Trustees. This archival collection represents just a sub-set of Prof. Hairston's publications. In some cases due to copyright restrictions we may only be able to share pre or "post-print" versions. Links to the actual published versions of each article (where available) can be found in the RELATED DOI field for each record.
A more complete and current listing of Prof. Hairston's work and scholarly output can be found on his EEB Department web page and the Hairston Lab web site, or through the links below.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0615-9843
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Data from: Consumer-resource dynamics is an eco-evolutionary process in a natural plankton community
(2019)For an important consumer-resource interaction in a natural lake (Oneida Lake, New York State) in 2015, the ecological process of grazer population growth rate was a function of both evolutionary changing mean resistance ... -
The interaction of photoperiod and temperature in diapause timing: a copepod example
(University of Chicago Press, 1995-08)In many organisms, photoperiod and temperature are thought to be the most significant token cues for seasonally timed life history events, including diapause in arthropods. A common pattern in many species of terrestrial ... -
The timing of copepod diapause as an evolutionarily stable strategy
(University of Chicago, 1984-06)Diaptomus sanguineus, a small freshwater copepod, avoids periods of intense fish predation by producing diapausing eggs. We developed a computer simulation of the copepod's life history and used it to compete populations ... -
Role of overlapping generations in maintaining genetic variation in a fluctuating environment
(University of Chicago, 1994-03)Population genetics theory suggests that temporally fluctuating selection on pheno- types can act to maintain genetic variance only under very restrictive conditions. However, this conclusion is based on models with discrete ... -
Temporal dynamics of a simple community with intraguild predation: an experimental test
(Ecological Society of America, 2013-04)We explore how adding complexity to a typical predator-prey interaction affects temporal dynamics. Intraguild predation webs contain competition, predation, and omnivory in a system of three species where theory and empirical ... -
Species-specific Daphnia phenotypes: a history of industrial pollution and pelagic ecosystem response
(Ecological Society of America, 2005-07)Phenotypic differences among species, even closely related species, may translate into distinct effects on ecosystem dynamics. In lakes, the generalist grazer genus Daphnia often has marked effects on the abundance of ... -
Rapid evolution of a life-history trait
(National Academy of Sciences, 1986-07)The copepod Diaptomus sanguineus begins diapause in permanent ponds in late March as an adaptation to avoid summer fish predation. During a study of copepod populations in two Rhode Island ponds, a severe drought dried one ... -
Prey evolution on the time scale of predator-prey dynamics revealed by allele-specific quantitative PCR
(National Academy of Sciences, 2006-07-11)Using rotifer-algal microcosms, we tracked rapid evolution resulting from temporally changing natural selection in ecological predator-prey dynamics. We previously demonstrated that predator-prey oscillations in rotifer-algal ... -
Photoprotection by carotenoid pigments in the copepod Diaptomus nevadensis
(National Academy of Sciences, 1976-03)Individuals of the copepod Diaptomus nevadensis that contain high concentrations of carotenoids survive significantly better in natural intensities of visible light than less pigmented copepods. Vertical migration and ... -
Partial photoperiodic control of diapause in three populations of the freshwater copepod Diaptomus sanguineus
(University of Chicago Press, 1986-08)Populations of the freshwater calanoid copepod Diaptomus sanguineus inhabiting three Rhode Island ponds switch from making subitaneous (immediately hatching) to diapausing eggs on different dates. From results of previous ...
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