Faculty Publications
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Bieluch, K.H., Sclafani, A., Bolger, D.T., and Cox, M. (2021). Emergent learning outcomes from a complex learning landscape. Environmental Education Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2021.1947985.
Morrison, T.A., and D.T. Bolger. 2014. Connectivity and bottlenecks in a migratory wildebeest population. Oryx. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605313000537
Burkins, M. B. (2025), "Rethinking the Practice of Arctic Science Diplomacy," Routledge Handbook of Arctic Governance, Editors: Corine Wood-Donnelly and Elena Condé Perez.
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Schusler, T, CB Espedido, BK Rivera, M Hernández, AM Howerton, K Sepp, MD Engel, J Marcos, VB Chaudhary. 2021. Students of colour views on racial equity in environmental sustainability. Nature Sustainability, 1-8.
Cox, M. 2024. Common Boundaries: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Property. Agenda Publishing.
Culler, L.E., Stendahl, A.M., DeSiervo, M.H., Bliska, H.M., Virginia, R.A., and M.P. Ayres. 2021. Emerging mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes) as a resource subsidy for wolf spiders (Pardosa glacialis) in western Greenland. Polar Biology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02875-8 Link
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For an updated list of my current publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.
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Fox, C.A., Reo, N.J., Fessell, B. and Dituri, F. 2022. Native American Tribes and dam removal: restoring the Ottaway, Penobscot and Elwha rivers. Water Alternatives 15(1):13-37.
Friedland, A. and R. Relyea. Environmental Science for the AP Course, Fourth Edition (2023). Macmillan/W.H. Freeman. 753 pgs.
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Hansen, T. A., Wilson, E. J., Fitts, J. P., Jansen, M., Beiter, P., Steffen, B., Xu, B., Guillet, J., Münster, M., Kitzing, L. (2023, Forthcoming) "Five Grand Challenges of Offshore Wind Financing in the United States." Energy Research & Social Science.
G. Mavrommati, M.E. Borsuk, A.I. Kreiley, C. Larosee. S. Rogers, K. Burford, and R.B. Howarth. 2021. "A Methodological Framework for Understanding Shared Social Values in Deliberative Valuation." Ecological Economics 190: 107185.
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Brooks, R. O., R. Jones , and R. A. Virginia . 2002. Law and Ecology: The Rise of the Ecosystem Regime. Ashgate Publishers Ltd.: Aldershot , Brookfield USA , Singapore , Sydney . 411 pp. For the series, Ecology and Law in Modern Society, R. O. Brooks and R. A. Virginia, eds.
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Bliss, S, A Hill, A Bramsen, RI Graziano, SP Sahagun, F Krivak-Tetley. 2023. Non-market distribution serves society in ways markets cannot: A tentative defense of food charity from small-town New England. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 13(1): 281-312.
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Metzler, P., M. La Flèche, and J. Karst. 2019. Expanding and testing Fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphisms for identifying roots of boreal forest plant species. Applications in Plant Sciences 7(4): e1236. doi:10.1002/aps3.1236
Knorr, M. A., Contosta, A. R., Morrison, E. W., Muratore, T. J., Anthony, M. A., Stoica, I., Geyer, K. M., Simpson, M. J., & Frey, S. D. (2024). Unexpected sustained soil carbon flux in response to simultaneous warming and nitrogen enrichment compared with single factors alone. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02546-x
Muratore T.J., Knorr M.A., Simpson M.J., Stephens R.B., Phillips R.P. , S.D. Frey. (2024) Response of root respiration to warming and nitrogen addition depends on tree species. Global Change Biology.
Chari, Nikhil, Muratore, T.J.*, B. Taylor, S.D. Frey. 2021 (in press. 2024). Long-term soil warming drives different belowground responses in arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal trees. Global Change Biology. (*co-first author).
San Román, A. X., Srikanthan, N., Hamid, A. A., Muratore, T. J., Knorr, M. A., Frey, S. D., & Simpson, M. J. (2024). Long-term warming in a temperate forest accelerates soil organic matter decomposition despite increased plant-derived inputs.Biogeochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-024-01165-9
Stoica, I., Tabatabaei Anaraki, M., Muratore, T.J., Knorr, M., Frey, S. D., & Simpson, M. J. (2023). Chronic Warming and Nitrogen-Addition Alter Soil Organic Matter Molecular Composition Distinctly in Tandem Compared to Individual Stressors. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 7(3), 609–622. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.2c00380
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Ong, T.W., Roman-Alcalá, A., Jiménez-Soto, E., Jackson, E., Perfecto, I., Duff, H., 2024. Momentum for agroecology in the USA. Nature Food 5, 539–541. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-01006-w)
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Peach, M.E., Richardson, J.B., Friedland, A.J. 2021. Legacies of Nutrient Accumulation and Depletion in Residential Ecosystems. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00623-x
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Sneddon, C., Magilligan, F. J., & Fox, C. A. 2021. Peopling the environmental state: River restoration and state power. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2021.1913089.
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Shaw AK, Fouda L, Mezzini S, Kim D, Chatterjee N, Wolfson D, Abrahms B, Attias N, Beardsworth CE, Beltran R, Binning SA, Chan Y, Fronhofer EA, Hegemann A, Hurme ER, Iannarilli F, Kellner JB, McCoy KD, Rafiq K, Saastamoinen M, Sequeira AMM, Serota MW, Sumasgutner P, Tao Y, Torstenson M, Yanco S, Beck KB, Bertram MG, Beumer LT, Bradarić M, Clermont J, Ellis-Soto D, Faltusová M, Fieberg J, Hall RJ, Kölzsch A, Lai S, Lee-Cruz L, Lorreto MC, Loveridge A, Michelangeli M, Mueller T, Riotte-Lambert L, Sapir N, Scacco M, Teitelbaum CS, Cagnacci F (2025) "Perceived and Observed Biases within Scientific Communities: A Case Study in Movement Ecology." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292:2051. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.0679.
Shao C, Torstenson M, Shaw AK (2025) "Effect of Resistant Compartment on Pathogen Strategy in Partially Migratory Populations" PLOS One, 20(2) e0316640. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316640.
Torstenson M, Shaw AK (2025) "Strength of seasonality and type of migratory cue determine how the benefits of migration are affected by changing phenology" Oikos, 2025(1): e10862. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10862
Torstenson MS, Wolfson DW, Safran SM, Walton DJ, Hallberg AB, Kim D, Tan YF, Kramer GR, Andersen DE (2024) "Conservation of North American migratory birds: insights from emerging technologies" Avian Conservation and Ecology. https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-02749-190213
Shaw AK, Bisesi AT, Wojan C, Kim D, Torstenson M, Naven Narayanan, Lutz P, Ales R, Shao C (2024) "Six personas to adopt when framing theoretical research questions in biology" Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 291:20240803 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0803.
Torstenson M, Shaw AK (2024) "Pathogen evolution following spillover from a resident to a migrant host population depends on interactions between host pace of life and tolerance to infection." Journal of Animal Ecology, 93, 475-487. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14075
Shaw AK, Torstenson M, Craft ME, Binning SA (2023) "Gaps in modelling animal migration with evolutionary game theory: infection can favour the loss of migration." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378:20210506. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0506
Preprints
Verzuh T, Torstenson M, Tao Y, Fryxell J, Rutz C, Beltran R (preprint, in revision) "An urgent call to integrate movement ecology with conservation science" Authorea. December 16, 2024. doi: 10.22541/au.173437049.97671356/v1
Rice MM, Tumber-Dávila SJ, Baiz MD, Cheng, SJ, Darragh K, *Estien CO, Hammond JW, Ignace DD, Khadempour L, Gaynor KM, *Mills KL, Smith JA, Moore AC. Terminology in ecology and evolutionary biology disproportionately harms marginalized groups. PLoS Biol. 2025. 23(1) e3002933. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002933
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Adams, L. V., D. S. Dorough, S. Chatwood, W. Erasmus, H. Eriksen, S. Ford, R. A. Virginia, S. Watt-Cloutier. 2022. Accelerating Indigenous health and wellbeing: the Lancet Commission on Arctic and Northern Health. The Lancet: 399:613-614, February 12, 2022, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00153-2
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Books
Webster, D.G. 2015. Beyond the Tragedy: Evolution and Sustainability in Global Fisheries Governance. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/16/4/138/14873/Webster-D-G-2015-Bey…
Webster, DG. 2009. Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 391 p.
Welsh, S. G., and K. K. Coe. 2024. Mosses and Liverworts of the Altona Flat Rock: A Field Guide to the Bryophytes of Altona, New York. Middlebury Biology Department, Middlebury, VT. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380728183_Mosses_and_Liverwort…
Lincoln L. Davies, Alexandra B. Klass, Hari M. Osofsky, Uma Outka, Joseph P. Tomain and Elizabeth J. Wilson. 2026. Energy Law and Policy, 4rd Edition. West Academic Publishing.
Hansen, Silverman, Wilson, Baker, Offshore wind farms connected by an underwater power grid for transmission could revolutionize how the East Coast gets its electricity, The Conversation, July 2024