MacDonald, Z.G., Deane, D.C., He, F., Lamb, C.T., Sperling, F.A.H., Acorn, J.H., & Nielsen, S.E. 2021. Distinguishing effects of area per se and isolation from the sample-area effect for true islands and habitat fragments. Ecography 44:1-16.

MacDonald, Z.G., Acorn, J.H., Zhang, J. & Nielsen, S.E. 2019. Perceptual range, targeting ability, and visual habitat detection by greater fritillary butterflies Speyeria cybele (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and Speyeria atlantis. Journal of Insect Science 19(4), 1.

MacDonald, Z.J., Anderson, I.D., Acorn, J.H. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. The theory of island biogeography, the sample‐area effect, and the habitat diversity hypothesis: complementarity in a naturally fragmented landscape of lake islands. Journal of Biogeography 45:2730–2743.

MacDonald, Z.G., Anderson, I.D., Acorn, J.H. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. Decoupling habitat fragmentation from habitat loss: butterfly species mobility obscures fragmentation effects in a naturally fragmented landscape of lake islands. Oecologia (in press).

Bell, A.J., Phillips, I.D., Nielsen, S.E., Spence, J.R. 2017. Species triats modify the species-area relaationship in ground-beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages on islands in a boreal lake. PLoS ONE 12(12): e0190174

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