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Billings, S. A. and F. Ballantyne.  Linking adaptive microbial responses to warming and substrate characteristics to apparent temperature sensitivities of organic matter decomposition.  Ecology Letters.
Accepted or In Press
Alexander, H. M., B. L. Foster, F. Ballantyne, C. D. Collins, J. Antonovics and R. D. Holt.  Metapopulations and metacommunities:  combining spatial and temporal perspectives in plant ecology.  Journal of Ecology.
Ballantyne, F. Commentary on classic paper (Taylor, 1961) in Smith, F.A., J.L. Gittleman and J.H. Brown. Foundations of Macroecology. University of Chicago Press.
2011
Ballantyne, F., O. M. E. Schofield and S. A. Levin.  The emergence of regularity and variability in marine ecosystems:  the combined role of physics, chemistry and biology.  Scientia Marina  75(4):719-731.
Menge, D. N. L., F. Ballantyne and J. S. Weitz.  Dynamics of nutrient uptake strategies:  lessons from the tortoise and the hare.  Theoretical Ecology 4(2):163-177.
2010
Ballantyne, F. and D. Menge and J. S. Weitz.  2010.  A discrepancy between predictions of saturating nutrient uptake models and nitrogen to phosphorus stoichiometry in the surface ocean.  Limnology and Oceanography 55(3):997-1008.
Thorp, J. H., J. E. Flotemersch, M. D. Delong, A. F. Casper, M. C. Thoms, F. Ballantyne, B. S. Williams, B.J. O‘Neill and C. S. Haase. 2010. Linking Ecosystem Services, Rehabilitation, and River Hydrogeomorphology. Bioscience 60(1):67-74.
2008
Ballantyne, F., D. Menge, A. Ostling and P. Hosseini. 2008. Nutrient recycling affects autotroph and ecosystem stoichiometry. The American Naturalist 171(4):511-523.

Hurlbert, A. H., F. Ballantyne, and S. Powell. 2008. Shaking a leg and hot to trot: the effects of body size and temperature on running speed in ants. Ecological Entomology 33:144-154.

2007
Wielgus, J., F. Ballantyne, E. Sala and L. Gerber. 2007. Viability analysis of reef fish populations based on limited demographic information. Conservation Biology 21(2):447-454.
Ballantyne, F. and A. J. Kerkhoff. 2007. The observed range for temporal mean-variance scaling exponents can be explained by reproductive correlation. Oikos 116:174-180.
2005
Ballantyne, F. 2005. The upper limit for the exponent of Taylor's power law is a consequence of deterministic population growth. Evolutionary Ecology Research 7(8):1213-1220.
Ballantyne, F. and A. J. Kerkhoff. 2005. Reproductive correlation and mean-variance scaling of reproductive output for a forest model. The Journal of Theoretical Biology 235(3):373-380.
Gerber, L., S. Heppell, F. Ballantyne and E. Sala. 2005. The Use of Life History Information in Managing Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of California. The Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62(4):863-871.
2004
Ballantyne, F. 2004. The relative importance of herbivory and carnivory on the distribution of energy in a stochastic tri-trophic food web. Journal of Theoretical Biology 226(3):349-357.
2003
Kerkhoff, A. J. and F. Ballantyne. 2003. The scaling of reproductive variability in trees. Ecology Letters 6(9):850-856.
1997
Losey, J. E., A. R. Ives, J. Harmon, F. Ballantyne and C. Brown. 1997. A polymorphism maintained by opposite patterns of parasitism and predation. Nature 388(6639):269-271.

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