Publications
Herbivory. Encyclopedia of Earth.
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2009. Shared Insights across the Ecology of Coral Reefs and African Savannas: Are Parrotfish Wet Wildebeest? BioScience. 70:647–658.
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2020. Predator release of the gastropod Cyphoma gibbosum increases predation on gorgonian corals. Oecologia. 154:167–173.
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2007. The Long Arm of Species Loss: How Will Defaunation Disrupt Ecosystems Down to the Microbial Scale? BioScience. 69:443–454.
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2019. Habitat selection by large herbivores in a southern African savanna: the relative roles of bottom-up and top-down forces. Ecosphere. 4:art139.
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2013. Chemically mediated competition between microbes and animals: microbes as consumers in food webs. Ecology. 87:2821–2831.
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2006. Feeding complementarity versus redundancy among herbivorous fishes on a Caribbean reef. Coral Reefs. 30:351–362.
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2011. Nitrogen Identity Drives Differential Impacts of Nutrients on Coral Bleaching and Mortality. Ecosystems. 23:798–811.
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2020. Nutrient versus herbivore control of macroalgal community development and coral growth on a Caribbean reef. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 389:71–84.
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2009. Herbivore species richness and feeding complementarity affect community structure and function on a coral reef. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105:16201.
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2008. Nutrient supply from fishes facilitates macroalgae and suppresses corals in a Caribbean coral reef ecosystem. Scientific reports. 3
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2013. Recent advances in plant-herbivore interactions. F1000Research. 6
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2017. Herbivore size matters for productivity–richness relationships in African savannas. Journal of Ecology. 105:674–686.
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2017. Comparing aquatic and terrestrial grazing ecosystems: is the grass really greener? Oikos. 122:306–312.
burkepile_oikos_2013.pdf (563.42 KB)
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The importance of individual and species-level traits for trophic niches among herbivorous coral reef fishes. Proc. R. Soc. B.
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2017. Animal pee in the sea: consumer-mediated nutrient dynamics in the world's changing oceans. Global Change Biology. 23:2166–2178.
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2017. Estimates of fish and coral larvae as nutrient subsidies to coral reef ecosystems. Ecosphere. 9:e02216.
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2018. Resource partitioning along multiple niche axes drives functional diversity in parrotfishes on Caribbean coral reefs. Oecologia. 179:1173–1185.
adam_et_al_oecologia_2015.pdf (2.22 MB)
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2015. 
Herbivory and the resilience of Caribbean coral reefs: knowledge gaps and implications for management. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES. 520:1–20.
adam_et_al_meps_2015.pdf (869.35 KB)
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Comparative analysis of foraging behavior and bite mechanics reveals complex functional diversity among Caribbean parrotfishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 597:207–220.
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2018. Groups of roving midnight parrotfish (Scarus coelestinus) prey on sergeant major damselfish (Abudefduf saxatilis) nests. Marine Biodiversity. 47:1–2.
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