PDFNOTE: We are still building this list and it will always be a very limited selection from a huge literature. Apologies for all the great papers we've not included. Please feel free to send suggestions of papers you'd like to see included to lries@umd.edu
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Battin, J., and T. D. Sisk. 2003. Assessing landscape-level influences of forest restoration on animal populations. In P. Friederici & W. W. Covington (eds.) Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Island Press, Covelo, CA.
Battin, J. 2004. When Good Animals Love Bad Habitats: Ecological Traps and the Conservation of Animal Populations. Conservation Biology 18:1482-1491.
Brand LA, George TL. 2001. Response of passerine birds to forest edge in coast redwood forest fragments. Auk 118:678–86
Brand, L. A., B.R. Noon and T.D. Sisk. 2006. Predicting abundance of desert riparian birds: validation and calibration of the effective area model. Ecological Applications 16:1090–1102. PDF
Brittingham MC, Temple SA. 1983. Have cowbirds caused forest songbirds to decline? BioScience 33:31–35
BurkeDM, Nol E. 1998. Influence of food abundance, nest-site habitat, and forest fragmentation on breeding ovenbirds. Auk 15:96–104
Cadenasso ML, Pickett STA, Weathers KC, Jones CG. 2003. A framework for a theory of ecological boundaries. BioScience 53:750–58
Chalfoun AD, Thompson FR, Ratnaswamy MJ. 2002. Nest predators and fragmentation: a review and meta-analysis. Conserv. Biol. 16:306–18
Clements FE. 1907. Plant Physiology and Ecology. New York: Holt
Ewers, R. M. and Didham, R. K. 2006. Continuous response functions for quantifying the strength of edge effects JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 43: 527-536
Ewers, R. M. and Didham, R. K. 2006. Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation. – Biol. Rev. 81: 117–142.
Ewers, R.M. and R.K. Didham. 2008. Pervasive impact of large-scale edge effects on a beetle community. PNAS 105:5426–5429.
Ewers, RM., CJ Marsh, OR Wearn. 2010. Making statistics biologically relevant in fragmented landscapes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25:699-704
Fagan WF, Cantrell RS, Cosner C. 1999. How habitat edges change species interactions. Am. Nat. 153:165–82
Fernandez C, Acosta FJ, Abella G, Lopez F, Dıaz M. 2002. Complex edge effect fields as additive processes in patches of ecological systems. Ecol. Model. 149:273–83
Fletcher, R.J. 2005. Multiple edge effects and their implications in fragmented landscapes. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 74:342-352
Fletcher, R.J., L. Ries, J. Battin, and A.D. Chalfoun. 2007. The role of habitat area and edge in fragmented landscapes: definitively distinct or inevitably intertwined? Canadian Journal of Zoology 85:1017-1030. PDF
Fonseca C.R. and F. Joner. 2007. Two-sided edge effect studies and the restoration of endangered ecosystems. RESTORATION ECOLOGY 15:613-619
Gates JE, Gysel LW. 1978. Avian nest dispersion and fledging success in field-forest ecotones. Ecology 59:871–83
Harper KA, MacDonald SE. 2001. Structure and composition of riparian boreal forest: new methods for analyzing edge influence. Ecology 82:649–59
Harris LD. 1988. Edge effects and conservation of biotic diversity. Conserv. Biol. 2:330–32
Hufkens, K., P. Scheunders, and R. Ceulemans. 2009. Ecotones in vegetation ecology: methodologies and definitions revisited ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH 24:977-986
Jules ES, Rathcke BJ. 1999. Mechanisms of reduced trillium recruitment along edges of old-growth forest fragments. Conserv. Biol. 13:784–93
Kennedy, CM, PP Marra, WF Fagan, and M. Neele. 2010. Landscape matrix and species traits mediate responses of Neotropical resident birds to forest fragmentation in Jamaica. ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS 80: 651-669
Kristan WB, Lynam AJ, Price MV, Rotenberry JT. 2003. Alternative causes of edgeabundance relationships in birds and small mammals of California coastal sage scrub. Ecography 26:29–44
Lahti DC. 2001. The “edge effect on nest predation” hypothesis after twenty years. Biol. Conserv. 99:365–74
Laurance WF. 2000. Do edge effects occur over large spatial scales? Trends Ecol. Evol. 15:134–35
Laurance, W. F. 2008. Theory meets reality: how habitat fragmentation research has transcended island biogeographic theory. – Biol. Conserv. 141: 1731–1744
Laurance WF, Yensen E. 1991. Predicting the impacts of edge effects in fragmented habitats. Biol. Conserv. 55:77–92
Lay DW. 1938. How valuable are woodland clearings to birdlife? Wilson Bull. 50:254–56
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Lidicker WZ. 1999. Responses of mammals to habitat edges: an overview. Landsc. Ecol. 14:333–43
Lindell CA, Riffell SK, Kaiser SA, Battin AL, Smith ML, and Sisk TD. 2007. Edge responses of tropical and temperate birds WILSON JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 119:205-220
Lindenmayer, D, and 26 coauthors, incl. T. Sisk. 2007. A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation. Ecology Letters 10:1-14.
Lowther PE. 1993. Brown-headed cowbird. In The Birds of North America, No. 47, ed. A Poole, F Gill. Philadelphia, PA: Birds N. Am.
Macreadie, PI, RM Connolly, GP Jenkins, JS Hindell, and MJ Keough. 2010. Edge patterns in aquatic invertebrates explained
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Malcolm JR. 1994. Edge effects in central Amazonian forest fragments. Ecology 75:2438–45
Mancke RG, Gavin TA. 2000. Breeding bird density in woodlots: effects of depth and buildings at the edges. Ecol. Appl. 10:598–611
McCollin D. 1998. Forest edges and habitat selection in birds: a functional approach. Ecography 21:247–60
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Ries, L., and W. F. Fagan. 2003. Habitat edges as a potential ecological trap for an insect predator. Ecological Entomology 28: 567-572. PDF
Ries, L., R.J. Fletcher Jr., J. Battin, and T.D. Sisk. 2004. Ecological responses to habitat edges: mechanisms, models and variability explained. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 35:491-522. PDF Supplemental material
Ries, L. and T.D. Sisk. 2004. A predictive model of edge effects. Ecology 85: 2917-2926. PDF
Ries, L. and T.D. Sisk. 2008. Edge effects are predicted by a simple model in a complex landscape. Oecologia 156:75-86. PDF
Ries, L. and T.D. Sisk. 2010. What is an edge species? The implications of sensitivity to habitat edges. Oikos 119:1636-1642. (PDF available 1 year after publication)
Ross WG, Kulhavy DL, Conner RN. 1997. Stand conditions and tree characteristics affect quality of longleaf pine for red-cockaded woodpecker cavity trees. For. Ecol. Manag. 91:145–54
Schlossberg, S. and King, D. I. 2008. Are shrubland birds edge specialists? – Ecol. Appl. 18: 1325–1330.
Sisk, T.D. 2007. Incorporating edges effects into landscape design. Chapter 14 in D. Lindenmayer and R. Hobbs (eds.) Managing and designing landscapes for conservation: moving from perspectives to principles. Blackwell. Sydney.
Sisk, T.D. and J. Battin. 2002. Habitat edges and avian habitat: geographic patterns and insights for western landscapes. Studies in Avian Biology 25: 30-48.
Sisk, T.D. and N.M. Haddad. 2002. Incorporating the effects of habitat edges into landscape models: Effective area models for cross-boundary management. Pages 208-240 in J. Liu and W. Taylor (eds.) Integrating Landscape Ecology into Natural Resource Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Sisk TD, Haddad NM, Ehrlich PR. 1997. Bird assemblages in patchy woodlands: modeling the effects of edge and matrix habitats. Ecol. Appl. 7:1170–80
Sisk, T.D., B.R. Noon, and H.M. Hampton. 2002. Estimating the effective area of habitat patches in variable landscapes. Pages 713-725 in Scott, Michael J., Patricia Heglund, Michael L. Morrison, Jonathon B. Haufler, Martin G. Raphael, William A. Wall, and Fred B. Samson, eds. Predicting species occurrences: issues of accuracy and scale. Island Press: Washington.
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