Publications

Bogdziewicz, M., Crone, E. E., Zwolak, R. 2019. Do benefits of seed dispersal and caching by scatterhoarders outweigh the costs of predation? An example with oaks and yellow-necked mice. Journal of Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13307

Wróbel, A., Crone. E. E., Zwolak, R. 2019. Differential impacts of soil microbes on native and co-occurring invasive tree species. EcoSphere. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2802

Pelton, E. M., Schultz, C. B., Jepsen, S. J., Black, S. H., Crone, E. E. 2019. Western Monarch Population Plummets: Status, Probable Causes, and Recommended Conservation Actions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00258

Kerr, N. Z., Wepprich, T., Grevstad, F. S., Dopman, E. B., Chew, F. S., Crone, E. E. 2019. Developmental trap or demographic bonanza? Opposing consequences of earlier phenology in a changing climate for a multivoltine butterfly. Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.14959

Ramula, S., Kerr, N. Z., Crone, E. E. 2019. Using statistics to design and estimate vital rates in matrix population models for a perennial herb. Population Ecology. doi:10.1002/1438-390X.12024

Representative publications from topic areas

Crone, E.E. 2016. Contrasting effects of spatial heterogeneity and environmental stochasticity on population dynamics of a perennial wildflower. Journal of Ecology 104: 281-291.

Crone, E. E., E. S. Menges, M. M. Ellis, T. Bell, P. Bierzychudek, J. Ehrlén, T. N. Kaye, T. M. Knight, P. Lesica, W. F. Morris, G. Oostermeijer, P. F. Quintana-Ascensio, A. Stanley, T. Ticktin, T. Valverde, and J. L. Williams. 2011. How do plant ecologists use matrix population models? Ecology Letters 14:1-8.

Jäkäläniemi, A., E. E. Crone, P. Närhi, and J. Tuomi. 2011. Orchids do not pay costs at emergence for prolonged dormancy. Ecology 92:1538-1543.

Spatial ecology and conservation of butterflies

Brown, L.M. and E.E. Crone. 2016. Minimum area requirements for an at-risk butterfly based on movement and demography. Conservation Biology 30:103-112.

Schultz, C.B. and E.E. Crone. 2015. Using ecological theory to develop recovery criteria for an endangered butterfly.  Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 1111-1115.

Schultz, C. B. and E. E. Crone. 2001. Edge-mediated dispersal behavior in a prairie butterfly. Ecology 82:1879-1892.

Population dynamics of social insects

Crone, E.E. and N.M. Williams. 2016. Bumble bee colony dynamics: quantifying the importance of land use and floral resources for colony growth and queen production. Ecology Letters 19: 460-468.

Crone, E. E. 2013. Responses of social and solitary bees to pulsed floral resources. American Naturalist 182:465-473.

Williams, N. M., E. E. Crone, T. H. Roulston, R. L. Minckley, L. Packer, and S. G. Potts 2010. Ecological and life history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances. Biological Conservation 143:2280-2291.

Tree seed production and seedling establishment

Rapp, J.M. and E.E. Crone. 2014. Maple syrup production declines following masting. Forest Ecology and Management 335: 249-254.

Zwolak, R. and E. E. Crone. 2012. Quanitfying the outcome of plant-granivore interactions. Oikos 121:20-27.

Crone, E. E., E. Miller, and A. Sala. 2009. How do plants know when other plants are flowering? Resource depletion, pollen limitation, and mast-seeding in a perennial wildflower. Ecology Letters 12:1119-1126.

NOTE: for a full list of Elizabeth Crone's publications, download her CV.