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Ballistic seeds -- Insect predators -- Plant defense -- Science education -- Sonoran Desert birds & rodents

  • Light C, Fegley M, Stamp N (2019) Emphasizing iterative practices for a sequential course-based undergraduate research experience in microbial biofilms. FEMS Microbiology Letters, fnaa001

  • Stamp N (2019) At these colleges, students begin serious research their first year. The Conversation, 16 Sept

  • Light C, Fegley M, Stamp N (2019) Training program for Research Educators of sequential course-based undergraduate research experiences. FEMS Microbiology Letters, fnz165

  • Light C, Fegley M, Stamp N (2019) Role of Research Educator in sequential course-based undergraduate research experience program. FEMS Microbiology Letters, fnz140

  • Wahila MJ, Amey-Proper J, Jones WE, Stamp N, Piper LFP (2017) Teaching advanced science concepts through Freshman Research Immersion. European Journal of Physics 38, #025704

  • Tan-Wilson A, Stamp N (2015) College students' views of work-life balance in STEM research careers: Addressing negative preconceptions. CBE Life Sciences Education 14(fall):1-13

  • Stamp N, Tan-Wilson A, Silva A (2015) Preparing graduate students and undergraduates for interdisciplinary research. BioScience 65(4):431-439

  • Stamp N, Robinson DA Jr, Urban RA (2008) The Everglades Power-of-story 5E-teaching unit. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 89(1):62-73

  • Stamp N (2008) Plant defense. Encyclopedia of Ecology. Vol. 4: 2794-97. Elsevier, Oxford, UK

  • Stamp N (2007) Conceptual assessment in the biological sciences (CABS)

  • Liebert A, Gamboa G, Stamp N, Curtis T, Monnet K, Turillazzi S, P Starks (2006) Genetics, behavior and ecology of the invasive wasp Polistes dominulus in North America. Annales Zoologica Fennici 43:595-624

  • Stamp N, Armstrong M, Biger J (2006) Ecological misconceptions survey III: the challenge of identifying sophisticated understanding. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 87(2):168-174

  • Curtis T, Stamp N (2006) Effects of human presence on two social wasp species. Ecological Entomology 31:13-19

  • Stamp N, Armstrong M (2005) Using the “power of story” to overcome ecological misconceptions and build sophisticated understanding. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 86(3):177-183

  • Curtis TR, Aponte Y, Stamp NE (2005) Nest paper absorbency, toughness, and protein concentration of a native vs. an invasive social wasp. Journal of Chemical Ecology 31:1089-1100

  • Stamp N (2005) The problem with the messages of plant-herbivore interactions in ecology textbooks. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 86(1):27-31

  • Stamp N, Bradfield M, Li S, Alexander B (2004) Effect of competition on plant allometry and defense. American Midland Naturalist 151:50-64

  • Stamp NE, Meyerhoefer B (2004) Effects of prey quality on social wasps when given a choice of prey. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 110:45-51

  • Bradfield M, Stamp NE (2004) Effect of nighttime temperature on tomato defensive chemistry. Journal of Chemical Ecology 30:1695-1703

  • Stamp NE (2004) Can the growth-differentiation balance hypothesis be tested rigorously? Oikos 107:439-448

  • Stamp N (2004) Misconceptions about plant-herbivore interactions, especially plant defenses. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 85(4):201-205

  • Stamp N, O’Brien T (2005) GK-12 partnership: a model to advance change in science education. BioScience 55:70-77

  • Stamp N (2003) Out of the quagmire of plant defense hypotheses. Quarterly Review of Biology 78:23-55

  • Nadeau H, Stamp N (2003) Effect of prey quantity and temperature on foraging behavior and nest demography of social wasps.  Ecological Entomology 28:328-339

  • Stamp NE (2003) Theory of plant defensive level: example of process and pitfalls in development of ecological theory. Oikos 102:672-678

  • Armstrong T, Stamp NE (2003) Effects of prey quantity on predatory wasps (Polistes dominulus) when patch quality differs. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 54:310-319

  • Armstrong T, Stamp NE (2003) Colony productivity and foundress behaviour of a native wasp versus an invasive social wasp. Ecological Entomology 28:635-644

  • Harmon GD, Stamp NE (2002) Relative size early in population development determines reproductive status of individual Erodium cicutarium plants. American Midland Naturalist 147:32-43

  • Stamp N, Pagano A (2002) Workshops in university science education. BioScience 52:366-372

  • Stamp NE (2001) Effects of prey quantity and quality on predatory wasps. Ecological Entomology 26:292-301

  • Stamp NE (2001) Enemy-free space via host plant chemistry and dispersion: Assessing the influence of tritrophic interactions. Oecologia 128:153-163

  • Jarzomski CM, Stamp NE, Bowers MD (2000) Effects of plant phenology, nutrients and herbivory on growth and defensive chemistry of plantain. Oikos 88:371-379

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (2000) Foraging behaviour of caterpillars given a choice of plant genotypes in the presence of insect predators. Ecological Entomology 25:486-492

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (2000) Do enemies of herbivores influence plant growth and chemistry? Evidence from a seminatural experiment. Journal of Chemical Ecology 26:2367-2386

  • Crum DA, Weiser LA, Stamp NE (1998) Effects of prey scarcity and plant material as a dietary supplement on an insect predator. Oikos 81:549-557

  • Strohmeyer HH, Stamp NE, Jarzomski CM, Bowers MD (1998) Prey species and prey diet affect growth of invertebrate predators. Ecological Entomology 23:68-79

  • Weiser LA, Stamp NE (1998) Combined effects of allelochemicals, prey availability, and supplemental plant material on growth of a generalist insect predator. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 87:181-189

  • Stamp NE, Osier TL (1998) Response of five insect herbivores to multiple allelochemicals under fluctuating temperatures. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 88:81-96

  • Traugott MS, Stamp NE (1997) Effects of chlorogenic acid- and tomatine-fed caterpillars on performance of an insect predator. Oecologia 109:265-272

  • Stamp NE (1997) Behavior of harassed caterpillars and consequences for hostplants. Oikos 79:147-154

  • Stamp NE, Osier TL (1997) Combined effects of night-time temperature and allelochemicals on performance of a Solanaceae specialist herbivore. Ecoscience 4:286-295

  • Jansen MPT, Stamp NE (1997) Effects of light availability on host plant chemistry and the consequences for behavior and growth of an insect herbivore. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 82:319-333

  • Stamp NE, Osier TL (1997) Combined effects of night-time temperature and allelochemicals on performance of a generalist insect herbivore. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 83:63-72

  • Bowers MD, Stamp NE (1997) Effect of hostplant genotype and predators on iridoid glycoside content of pupae of a specialist insect herbivore, Junonia coenia (Nymphalidae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 25:571-580

  • Bowers MD, Stamp NE (1997) Fate of host-plant iridoid glycosides in lepidopteran larvae of Nymphalidae and Arctiidae. Journal of Chemical Ecology 23:2955-2965

  • Stamp NE, Yang Y, Osier TL (1997) Response of an insect predator to multiple allelochemicals under representative thermal regimes. Ecology 78:203-214

  • Wilkens TR, Spoerke J, Stamp NE (1996) Differential responses of growth and two soluble phenolics of tomato to resource availability. Ecology 77:247-258

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1996) Consequences for plantain chemistry and growth when its herbivores are attacked by predators. Ecology 77:535-549

  • Stamp NE, Yang Y (1996) Response of insect herbivores to multiple allelochemicals under different thermal regimes. Ecology 77:1088-1102

  • Yang Y, Stamp NE (1996) Simultaneous effects of temperature and multiple allelochemicals on the performance of a Solanaceae specialist caterpillar (Manduca sexta). Ecoscience 3:81-92

  • Yang Y, Stamp NE, Osier TL (1996) Effects of temperature, multiple allelochemicals and larval age on the performance of a Solanaceae specialist caterpillar. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 79:335-344

  • Traugott MS, Stamp NE (1996) Effects of chlorogenic acid- and tomatine-fed caterpillars on behavior of an insect predator. Journal of Insect Behavior 9:461-476

  • Stamp NE (1996) Getting the messages of ecology across to undergraduates. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 77:86-87

  • Wilkens RT, Shea G, Halbreich S, Stamp NE (1996) Resource availability affects trichome defenses of tomato plants with consequences for caterpillars. Oecologia 106:181-191

  • Osier TL, Traugott MS, Stamp NE (1996) Tomato allelochemicals affect a specialist insect herbivore (Manduca sexta) negatively but with no ill effects on a generalist insect predator (Podisus maculiventris). Oikos 77:481-488

  • Stamp NE (1996) Developing a theory of plant-insect herbivore interactions: are we there yet? Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 77:51-61

  • Stamp NE (1996) Cooperative learning exercises in ecology for undergraduates. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 77:152-153

  • Bozer SF, Traugott MS, Stamp NE (1996) Combined effects of allelochemical-fed and scarce prey on the generalist insect predator Podisus maculiventris. Ecological Entomology 21:328-334

  • Yang Y, Stamp NE (1995) Simultaneous effects of nighttime temperature and an allelochemical on performance of an insect herbivore. Oecologia 104:225-233

  • Stamp NE (1994) Simultaneous effects of potassium, rutin and temperature on performance of Manduca sexta caterpillars. Entomologia Experimentalis et  Applicata 72:135-143     

  • Stamp NE (1994) Interactive effects of rutin and constant versus alternating temperatures on performance of Manduca sexta caterpillars. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 72:125-133

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1994) Effect of temperature and leaf age on growth versus molting time of a generalist caterpillar fed plantain (Plantago lanceolata). Ecological Entomology 19:199-206

  • Stamp NE, Temple MP, Traugott MS, Wilkens RT M (1994) Temperature-allelochemical interactive effects on performance of Manduca sexta caterpillars. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 73:199-210

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1994) Effects of cages, plant age and mechanical clipping on plantain chemistry. Oecologia 99:66-71

  • Stamp NE (1993) A temperate region view of the interaction of temperature, food quality and predators on caterpillar foraging. In NE Stamp and TM Casey (eds) Caterpillars: Ecological and evolutionary constraints on foraging. Chapman and Hall, New York, pp 478-508

  • Stamp NE, Wilkens R (1993) On the cryptic side of life: Being unapparent to predators and the consequences on foraging and growth of caterpillars. In NE Stamp and TM Casey (eds) Caterpillars: Ecological and evolutionary constraints on foraging. Chapman and Hall, New York, pp 283-330

  • Paradise CJ, Stamp NE (1993) Episodes of unpalatable prey reduce consumption and growth of juvenile praying mantids. Journal of Insect Behavior 6:155-166

  • Stamp NE, Skrobola CM (1993) Failure to avoid rutin diets results in altered food utilization and reduced growth rate of Manduca sexta larvae. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 68:127-142

  • Bowers MD, Stamp NE (1993) Effects of plant age, genotype, and herbivory on Plantago performance and chemistry. Ecology 74:1778-1791

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1993) Presence of predatory wasps and stinkbugs alters foraging behavior of cryptic and noncryptic caterpillars on plantain (Plantago lanceolata). Oecologia 95:376-384

  • Horwath KL, Stamp NE (1993) Use of dietary rutin to study molt initiation in Manduca sexta larvae. Journal of Insect Physiology 39:987-1000

  • Bowers MD, Stamp NE, Collinge SK (1992) Early stage of host range expansion by a specialist herbivore, Euphydryas phaeton (Nymphalidae). Ecology 73:526-536

  • Harmon GD, Stamp NE (1992) Effects of post-dispersal seed predation on the ensuing plant population. American Journal of Botany 79:300-305

  • Stamp NE (1992) Theory of plant-insect herbivore interactions on the inevitable brink of re-synthesis. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 73:28-34

  • Bowers MD, Stamp NE (1992) Chemical variation within and between individuals of Plantago lanceolata (Plantaginaceae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 18:985-995

  • Stamp NE, Horwath KL (1992) Interactive effects of temperature and concentration of the phenolic rutin on growth, molt and food utilization of caterpillars. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 64:135-150

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1992) Behaviour of specialist and generalist caterpillars on plantain (Plantago lanceolata). Ecological Entomology 17:273-279

  • Stamp NE (1992) Relative susceptibility to predation of two species of caterpillar on plantain. Oecologia 92:124-129

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1992) Foraging behavior of specialist and generalist caterpillars on plantain (Plantago lanceolata) altered by predatory stinkbugs. Oecologia 92:596-602

  • Stamp NE (1991) Stability of growth and consumption rates and food utilization efficiencies when insects are given an excess of food. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 84:58-60

  • Paradise CJ, Stamp NE (1991) Prey recognition time of praying mantids (Dictyoptera: Mantidae) and consequent survivorship of unpalatable prey (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 4:265-273

  • Paradise CJ, Stamp NE (1991) Abundant prey can alleviate previous adverse effects on growth of juvenile praying mantids (Orthoptera: Mantidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 84:396-406

  • Stamp NE, Erskine T, Paradise CJ (1991) Effects of rutin-fed caterpillars on an invertebrate predator depend on temperature. Oecologia 88:289-295

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1991) Indirect effect on survivorship of caterpillars due to presence of invertebrate predators. Oecologia 88:325-330

  • Wulfson LS, Stamp NE (1991) Effects of potassium levels over the range occurring in host plants on the growth of an insect herbivore (Manduca sexta). Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 61:59-72

  • Bowers MD, Stamp NE, Fajer E (1991) Factors affecting calculation of nutritional indices for foliage-fed insects: an experimental approach. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 61:101-116

  • Stamp NE, Harmon GD (1991) Effect of potassium and sodium on fecundity and survivorship of Japanese beetles. Oikos 62:299-305

  • Stamp NE (1990) Growth versus molting time of caterpillars as a function of temperature, nutrient concentration and the phenolic rutin. Oecologia 82:107-113

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1990) Variation in food quality and temperature constrain foraging of gregarious caterpillars. Ecology 71:1031-1039

  • Stamp NE (1990) Production and effect of seed size in a grassland annual (Erodium brachycarpum: Geraniaceae). American Journal of Botany 77:874-882

  • Paradise CJ, Stamp NE (1990) Variable quantities of toxic prey cause different degrees of compensatory and inhibitory responses by juvenile praying mantids. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 55:213-222

  • Stamp NE, Lucas JR (1990) Spatial patterns and dispersal distances of explosively dispersing plants in Florida sandhill. Journal of Ecology 78:589-600

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1990) Phenology of nutritional differences between new and mature leaves and its effect on caterpillar growth. Ecological Entomology 15:447-454

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1990) Body temperature, behavior and growth of early-spring caterpillars (Hemileuca lucina: Saturniidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 44:143-155

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1990) Parasitism of New England buckmoth caterpillars (Hemileuca lucina: Saturniidae) by tachinid flies. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 44:199-200

  • Stamp NE (1989) Seed dispersal of four sympatric grassland annual species of Erodium. Journal of Ecology 77:1005-1020

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1988) Direct and indirect effects of predatory wasps (Polistes sp.: Vespidae) on gregarious caterpillars (Hemileuca lucina: Saturniidae). Oecologia 75:619-624

  • Cornell JC, Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1988) Variation and developmental change in activity of gregarious caterpillars (Hemileuca lucina: Saturniidae). Psyche 95:445-458

  • Stamp NE (1988) Efficacy of explosive vs. hygroscopic seed dispersal by an annual grassland species. American Journal of Botany 76:555-561

  • Stamp NE (1987) Availability of resources for predators of Chelone seeds and their parasitoids. American Midland Naturalist 117:265-279

  • Cornell JC, Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1987) Developmental changes in defense, escape and aggregation in buckmoths (Hemileuca lucina: Saturniidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 20:383-388

  • Bowers MD, Stamp NE (1987) Patterns of oviposition in the buckmoth Hemileuca lucina (Saturniidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 41:131-140

  • Stamp NE (1986) Physical constraints of defense and response to invertebrate predators by pipevine caterpillars (Battus philenor: Papilionidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 40:191-205

  • Stamp NE, Bowers MD (1986) Growth of buckmoths Hemileuca lucina and H. maia (Saturniidae) on their own and the other's hostplant. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 40:214-217

  • Stamp NE (1984) Self-burial behaviour of Erodium cicutarium seeds. Journal of Ecology 72:611-620

  • Stamp NE (1984) Effect of defoliation by checkerspot caterpillars (Euphydryas phaeton) and sawfly larvae (Macrophya nigra and Tenthredo grandis) on their host plants (Chelone spp.). Oecologia 63:275-280

  • Stamp NE (1984) Interactions of parasitoids and checkerspot caterpillars Euphydryas spp. (Nymphalidae). Journal of Research on Lepidoptera 23:2-18 (invited) 

  • Stamp NE (1984) Foraging behavior of tawny emperor caterpillars Asterocampa clyton (Nymphalidae). Journal of  the Lepidopterists' Society 38:186-191    

  • Stamp NE (1983) Overwintering aggregations of hackberry caterpillars Asterocampa clyton (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 37:145

  • Stamp NE, Lucas JR (1983) Ecological correlates of explosive seed dispersal. Oecologia 59:272-278

  • Stamp NE (1982) Behavioral interactions of parasitoids and Baltimore checkerspot caterpillars Euphydryas phaeton. Environmental Entomology 11:100-104

  • Stamp NE (1982) Searching behaviour of parasitoids for web-making caterpillars: a test of optimal searching theory. Journal of Animal Ecology 52:387-395

  • Stamp NE (1982) Aggregation behavior in Baltimore checkerspot caterpillars Euphydryas phaeton (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 36:31-41

  • Fritz RS, Stamp NE, Halverson TG (1982) Iteroparity and semelparity in insects. American Naturalist 120:264-268

  • Stamp NE (1982) Selection of oviposition sites by the Baltimore checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 36:290-302

  • Stamp NE (1982) Birds in riparian woodlands, pp 297-298. In DE Davis (ed) CRC Handbook of census methods for terrestrial vertebrates. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (invited)

  • Stamp NE, Ohmart RD (1982) Rodents of Sonoran Desert habitats, pp 335-336. In DE Davis (ed) CRC Handbook of census methods for terrestrial vertebrates. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (invited)

  • Stamp NE (1981) Effect of group size on parasitism in a natural population of the Baltimore checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton. Oecologia 49:201-206

  • Stamp NE (1981) Parasitism of single and multiple egg clusters of Euphydryas phaeton (Nymphalidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 89:89-97     

  • Stamp NE (1981) Behavior of parasitized aposematic caterpillars: advantageous to the parasitoid or host? American Naturalist 118:715-725

  • Stamp NE (1980) Egg deposition patterns in butterflies: why do some species cluster their eggs rather than deposit them singly? American Naturalist 115:367-380

  • Stamp NE, Ohmart RD (1979) Rodents in desert shrub and riparian woodland communities in Sonoran Desert. Southwestern Naturalist 24:279-289

  • Stamp NE (1979) New oviposition plant for Euphydryas phaeton (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 33:203-204

  • Stamp NE (1978) Breeding birds of riparian woodland in south-central Arizona. Condor 80:64-71

  • Stamp NE, Ohmart RD (1978) Resource utilization by desert rodents in lower Sonoran Desert. Ecology 59:700-707

  • Stamp NE (1977) Aggregation behavior of Chlosyne lacinia (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 31:35-40

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