ORROCK LAB
Ecological Research At Washington University in St. Louis
Publications
 

Orrock, J. L. and B. J. Danielson.  In press. Temperature and cloud cover, but not predator urine, affect winter foraging of mice. 
Ethology.

Motheral, S. M., and J. L. Orrock.  In press. Gastropod herbivore preference for seedlings of two native and two exotic grass species.
American Midland Naturalist

Vellend, M. and J. L. Orrock.  In press.  Ecological and genetic models of diversity: Lessons across disciplines.  For: The Theory of Island Biogeography at 40: Impacts and Prospects.  J. Losos and R. E. Ricklefs, editors. 

Haddad, N. M., B. Hudgens*, E. I. Damschen, D. Levey, J. L. Orrock, J. Tewksbury, and A. Weldon. In press. Assessing both positive and negative effects of corridors. For: Perspectives from Source-Sink Dynamics. (*Secondary authors all contributed equally to the work)

Seabloom, E. W., E. T. Borer, B. A. Martin, and J. L. Orrock.  2009. Effects of long-term consumer manipulations on invasion in oak savannah communities. Ecology 90: 1356-1365. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L., M. S. Witter, and O. J. Reichman.  2009.  Native consumers and seed limitation constrain the restoration of a native perennial grass in exotic habitats.
Restoration Ecology 17: 148-157. [Reprint]

Damschen, E. I., L. A. Brudvig*, N. M. Haddad, D. J. Levey, J. L. Orrock, and J. J. Tewksbury.  2008.  The movement ecology and dynamics of plant communities in fragmented landscapes.  (*Secondary authors all contributed equally to the work)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 19078-19083. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L., J. H. Grabowski, S. D. Peacor, B. L. Peckarsky, E. L. Preisser, A. Sih, and E. E. Werner.  2008.  Consumptive and non-consumptive effects of predators on metacommunities of competing prey.
Ecology 89: 2426-2435. [Reprint]

Peckarsky, B. L., D. I. Bolnick, L. M. Dill, J. H. Grabowski, B. Luttbeg, J. L. Orrock, S. D. Peacor, E. L. Preisser, O. J. Schmitz, and G. C. Trussell.  2008. Revisiting the classics: Considering non-consumptive effects in textbook examples of predator-prey interactions.
Ecology 89: 2416-2425. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L., M. S. Witter, and O. J. Reichman.  2008.  Apparent competition with an exotic plant reduces native plant establishment
Ecology 89: 1168-1174. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. and B. A. Allan.  2008. Sin Nombre virus infection in deer mice, Channel Islands, California. 
Emerging Infectious Diseases 14: 1965-1966. [Reprint]

Preisser, E. L., J. L. Orrock, and O. J. Schmitz.  2007.  Predator hunting mode and habitat domain affect the strength of non-consumptive effects in predator-prey interactions.
Ecology 88: 2744-2751. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. and E. I. Damschen.  2007.  The effect of burial depth on removal of seeds of Phytolacca americana.
Southeastern Naturalist 6: 151-158. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. 2006.  Useful distraction: Ritualized behavior as an opportunity for recalibration.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29: 625-626. [Reprint and original paper by Boyer and Lienard]

Orrock, J. L., D. J. Levey, B. J. Danielson, and E. I. Damschen.  2006.  Seed predation, not seed dispersal, explains the landscape-level abundance of an early-successional plant.
Journal of Ecology 94: 838-845. [Reprint]

Damschen, E. I., N. M. Haddad, J. L. Orrock, D. J. Levey, and J. J. Tewksbury.  2006.  Corridors increase plant species richness at large scales. 
Science 313: 1284-1286. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. and R. J. Fletcher, Jr. 2005. Changes in community size affect the outcome of competition. 
American Naturalist 166: 107-111. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L.  2005. Conservation corridors affect the fixation of novel alleles.
Conservation Genetics 6: 623-630. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. and E. I. Damschen.  2005. Corridors cause differential seed predation.
Ecological Applications 15: 793-798. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. and B. J. Danielson. 2005. Patch shape, connectivity, and foraging by the oldfield mouse, Peromyscus polionotus
Journal of Mammalogy 86: 569-575. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L.  2005. The effect of gut passage by two species of avian frugivores on seeds of Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana
Canadian Journal of Botany 83: 427-431. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. and E. I. Damschen.  2005. Fungi-mediated mortality of seeds of two oldfield plant species. 
Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 132: 613-617. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. and B. J. Danielson.  2005. A note on the status of the endangered red-backed vole, Clethrionomys gapperi, in Iowa. 
Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science 112: 24-25. [Reprint]

Brinkerhoff, R. J., N. M. Haddad, and J. L. Orrock.  2005. Corridors and olfactory predator cues affect small mammal behavior. 
Journal of Mammalogy 86: 662-669. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. and B. J. Danielson.  2004. Rodents balancing a variety of risks: invasive fire ants and indirect and direct indicators of predation risk.  
Oecologia 140: 662-667. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L., B. J. Danielson, and J. Brinkerhoff.  2004. Rodent foraging is affected by indirect, but not by direct, cues of predation risk. 
Behavioral Ecology 15: 433-437. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L., B. J. Danielson, M. J. Burns, and D. J. Levey. 2003. Spatial ecology of predator-prey interactions:  corridors and patch shape influence seed predation.
Ecology 84: 2589-2599. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L., D. Farley, and J. F. Pagels.  2003. Does fungus consumption by the woodland jumping mouse vary with habitat or the abundance of other small mammals?  Canadian Journal of Zoology 81: 753-756. [Reprint]

McShea, W. J., J. F. Pagels, J. L. Orrock, E. Harper, and K. Koy.  2003. Mesic deciduous forest as patches of small mammal richness within an Appalachian mountain forest.  Journal of Mammalogy 84: 627-643. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. and J. F. Pagels.  2003. Tree communities, microhabitat characteristics, and small mammals associated with the endangered rock vole, Microtus chrotorrhinus, in Virginia. 
Southeastern Naturalist 2: 547-558. [Reprint]

Tewksbury, J. J., D. J. Levey, N. M. Haddad, S. Sargent, J. L. Orrock, A. Weldon, B. J. Danielson, J. Brinkerhoff, E. I. Damschen, and P. Townsend.  2002.  Corridors affect plants, animals, and their interactions in fragmented landscapes. 
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99: 12923-12926. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L. and J.F. Pagels.  2002. Fungus consumption by the southern red-backed vole, Clethrionomys gapperi, in the southern Appalachians. 
American Midland Naturalist 147: 413-418. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L., J.F. Pagels, W.J. McShea, and E.K. Harper.  2000. Predicting presence and abundance of a small mammal species: the effect of scale and resolution. 
Ecological Applications 10: 1356-1366. [Reprint]

Orrock, J. L., E.K. Harper, J.F. Pagels, and W.J. McShea.  1999.  Additional records of the rock vole, Microtus chrotorrhinus (Mammalia: Muridae), in Virginia. 
Banisteria: Journal of the Virginia Natural History Society 14: 36-38. [Reprint]

 
     
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