Publications

Books

Stevens, M.H.H. 2023. Basic Ecological Concepts and Data in R. Open Source/Quarto. [Book Type: Textbook]. https://hankstevens.quarto.pub/introduction-to-ecology/

Stevens, M.H.H. 2024. A Primer of Ecology using R. Open Source/Github. [Book Type: Textbook]. https://hankstevens.github.io/Primer-of-Ecology/

Unique user activity over one year, by Google Analytics.
Unique active users of Primer over the past year (updated Sept 2024-Sept 2025, Google Analytics)

Stevens, M. H. H. 2024. A Primer of Ecosystem Modeling. Open Source, hosted on Github. https://hankstevens.github.io/ecosystems-primer/

Stevens, M.H.H. 2009. A Primer of Ecology with R. Use R! Series (eds. R. Gentleman, K. Hornik, G. Parmigiani). Springer, NY. 401 pp.

Journal articles, book reviews, and other

  1. Stevens, M.H.H., N.M. Blumenthal, and M.C. Fisk. 2025. Data and Code in support of Nitrogen and phosphorus co-limitation of forest growth in northern hardwood forests; Blumenthal et al. 2025 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/83dfe28aeb72ab797319847a17b2bc85.
  2. Blumenthal, N.M., M. H. H. Stevens, S. Goswami, R. D. Yanai, T. J. Fahey, and M. C. Fisk. Nitrogen and phosphorus co-limitation of tree growth in northern hardwood forests. Ecology 106:e70217.
  3. Ascanio, A., J.T. Bracken, M.H.H. Stevens, and T. Jezkova. 2024. New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation. Ecological Monographs, 94(3).DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1622.
  4. Collins, R., M.H.H. Stevens, S. Truslow, R. Klopf, R.H. Huish. 2024. Plant size and cost of flowering interact to govern population growth rate in a rare endemic plant species, smooth coneflower (Echinacea laevigata (C.L. Boynt. & Beadle) S.F. Blake). Natural Areas Journal, 44:128-140.
  5. Keane, B., M.H.H. Stevens, and N.G. Solomon. 2024. Influence of genetic similarity and social setting on extra-pair parentage in prairie voles. Journal of Mammalogy, gyae097, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae097.
  6. Stevens, M.H.H. 2022. Review of Insights From Data With R: An Introduction for the Life and Environmental Sciences. Quarterly Review of Biology 97:300-301.
  7. Russell, V. L., M. H. H. Stevens, A. L. Zeisler, and T. Jezkova. 2022. Identifying Environmental Facwtors Driving Differences in Climatic Niche Overlap in Peromyscus Mice. Journal of Mammalogy, 103(1), 45-56.
  8. Bowen, A. K. M., Beauchamp, V. B. , and Stevens, M. H. H. (2020). Evaluating the efficacy of removal treatments for wavyleaf basket grass (Oplismenus undulatifolius).  Invasive Plant Science and Management 13:176-188.
  9. Bowen, A. K. M., & Stevens, M. H. H. (2020). Temperature, topography, soil characteristics, and NDVI drive habitat preferences of a shade-tolerant invasive grass. Ecology and Evolution. 10:10785-10797.
  10. Ross, N. J. and M. H. H. Stevens. 2019. Placing human landscape legacies in a dynamic systems framework. American Journal of Botany, 106:517–519.
  11. Bowen, A. K. M., & Stevens, M. H. H. (2018). Predicting the effects of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, Buprestidae) on hardwood swamp forest structure and composition in southern Michigan. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 145(1), 41–54.
  12. Parlin, A. F., do Amaral, J. P. S., Dougherty, J. K., Stevens, M. H. H., & Schaeffer, P. J. (2017). Thermoregulatory performance and habitat selection of the eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina). Conservation Physiology, 5(1), cox070.
  13. Li, W., & Stevens, M. H. H. (2017). Community temporal variability increases with fluctuating resource availability. Scientific Reports, 7(45280).
  14. Ross, N. J., Stevens, M. H. H., Rupiper, A. W., Harkreader, I., & Leben, L. a. (2014). The ecological side of an ethnobotanical coin: Legacies in historically managed trees. American Journal of Botany, 101(10), 1618–30.
  15. Li, W., & Stevens, M. H. H. (2012). Fluctuating resource availability increases invasibility in microbial microcosms. Oikos, 121(3), 435–441.
  16. Larkin, C. C., Kwit, C., Wunderle, J., Helmer, E. H., Stevens, M. H. H., Roberts, M., & Ewert, D. (2012). Disturbance type and plant successional communities in Bahamian dry forests. Biotropica, 44(1), 10–18.
  17. Potter, J.L., S. L. Wade, N.C. Walz, A. Cassedy, M.H.H. Stevens, K. O. Yeates, H. G. Taylor. 2011. Parenting style is related to executive dysfunction after brain injury in children. Rehabilitation Psychology, 56(4): 351-358.
  18. Reiss, P. T., Stevens, M. H. H., Shehzad, Z., Petkova, E., & Milham, M. P. (2010). On distance-based permutation tests for between-group comparisons. Biometrics, 66(2), 636–643.
  19. Li, W., & Stevens, M. H. H. (2010). How enrichment, ecosystem size, and their effects on species richness co-determine the stability of microcosm communities. Oikos, 119(4), 686–695.
  20. Li, W., & Stevens, M. H. H. (2010). High community dissimilarity at low productivity causes the productivity-richness relation to vary with observational scale. Community Ecology, 11(1), 27–34.
  21. Banta, J., Stevens, M. H. H., & Pigliucci, M. (2010). A comprehensive test of the “limiting resources” framework applied to plant tolerance to apical meristem damage. Oikos, 119(2), 359–369.
  22. Stolze-Rybczynski, J., Cui, Y., Stevens, M. H. H., Davis, D., Fischer, M., & Money, N. P. (2009). Adaptation of the spore discharge mechanism in the Basidiomycota. PLoS ONE, in press.
  23. Bolker, B. M., Brooks, M. E., Clark, C. J., Geange, S. W., Poulsen, J. R., Stevens, M. H. H., & White, J.-S. S. (2008). Generalized linear mixed models : a practical guide for ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 24, 127-135.
  24. Moore, R. C., & Stevens, M. H. H. (2008). Local Patterns of Nucleotide Polymorphism Are Highly Variable in the Selfing Species Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 66(2), 116–129.
  25. Kumar, N., Stevens, M. H. H., & Kiss, J. (2008). Plastid movement in statocytes of the arg1 (altered response to gravity) mutant. American Journal of Botany, 95, 177–184.
  26. Berry, E., Gorchov, D. L., Endress, B., & Stevens, M. H. H. (2008). Source-sink dynamics within a plant population: the impact of substrate and herbivory on palm demography. Population Ecology, 50, 63–77.
  27. Banta, J. A., Stark, S. C., Stevens, M. H. H., Pendergast, J., Baumert, A., & Carson, W. P. (2008). Light reduction predicts widespread patterns of dominance between asters and goldenrods. Plant Ecology, 199(1), 65–76.
  28. Palmieri, M., Schwind, M. A., Stevens, M. H. H., Edelman, R. E., & Kiss, J. Z. (2007). Effects of the myosin ATPase inhibitor 2,3-butanedione monoxime on amyloplast kinetics and gravitropism of Arabidopsis hypocotyls. Physiologia Plantarum, 130, 613–626.
  29. Stevens, M. H. H., Sanchez, M., Lee, J., & Finkel, S. (2007). Diversification rates increase with population size and resource concentration in an unstructured habitat. Genetics, 177, 2243–2250.
  30. Nowlin, W. H., Gonzalez, M. J., Vanni, M. J., Stevens, M. H. H., Fields, M. W., & Valente, J. J. (2007). Allochthonous subsidy of periodical cicadas affects the dynamics and stability of pond communities. Ecology, 88(9), 2174–2186.
  31. Hochstedler, W., Slaughter, B., Gorchov, D. L., Saunders, L., & Stevens, M. H. H. (2007). Forest floor plant community response to experimental control of the invasive biennial, Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard). Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 134(2), 155–165.
  32. Fine, P., Miller, Z. J., Mesones, I., Irazuzta, S., Appel, H. M., Stevens, M. H. H., … Coley, P. D. (2006). The growth-defense trade-off and habitat specialization by plants in Amazonian forests. Ecology, 87(7 SUPPL.), 150–162.
  33. Stevens, M. H. H., Shirk, R., & Steiner, C. (2006). Water and fertilizer have opposite effects on plant species richness in a mesic early successional habitat. Plant Ecology, 183, 27–34.
  34. Stevens, M. H. H., & Steiner, C. (2006). Effects of predation and nutrient enrichment on a food web with edible and inedible prey. Freshwater Biology, 51, 666–671.
  35. Stevens, M. H. H. (2006). Placing local plant species richness in the context of environmental drivers of metacommunity richness. Journal of Ecology, 94, 58–65.
  36. Athy, E., Keiffer, C., & Stevens, M. H. H. (2006). Effects of mulch on seedlings and soil on a closed landfill. Restoration Ecology, 14(2), 233–241.
  37. Stevens, M. H. H., Schnitzer, S. P., Bunker, D., & Carson, W. P. (2004). Establishment limitation reduces species recruitment and species richness as soil resources rise. Journal of Ecology, 92(2), 339–347.
  38. Stevens, M. H. H., Petchey, O., & Smouse, P. (2003). Stochastic relations between species richness and the variability of species composition. Oikos, 103, 479–488.
  39. Stevens, M. H. H., & Carson, W. P. (2002). Resource quantity, not resource heterogeneity, maintains plant diversity. Ecology Letters, 5(3), 420–426.
  40. Stevens, M. H. H., & Carson, W. P. (2001). Phenological complementarity, species diversity, and ecosystem function. Oikos, 92(2), 291–296.
  41. Stevens, M. H. H., & Carson, W. P. (1999). Plant density determines species richness along an experimental fertility gradient. Ecology, 80, 455–465.
  42. Stevens, M. H. H., & Carson, W. P. (1999). The significance of assemblage level thinning for species richness. Journal of Ecology, 87(3), 490–502.
  43. Stevens, M. H. H., & Cummins, K. W. (1999). Effects of long-term disturbance on riparian vegetation and in-stream characteristics. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 14(1), 1–17.

Software

Oksanen, J. et al. (2025). vegan: Community Ecology Package. http://cran.r-project.org/package=vegan Ordination methods, diversity analysis and other functions for community and vegetation ecologists.

Stevens, M. H. H. (2021). primer: Functions and data for A Primer of Ecology with R https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=primer, latest version on Github.