Louthan, A. M., D. F. Doak, J. R. Goheen, T. M. Palmer and R. M. Pringle. Climatic stress attenuates the effect of species interactions on population growth and range limits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, accepted.
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Prior, K. M. and T. M. Palmer. Economy of scale: third partner strengthens a keystone ant-plant mutualism. Ecology, PDF
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Palmer, T. M., C. Riginos, R. E. Damiani, N. Morgan, J. S. Lemboi, J. Lengingiro, J. C. Ruiz-Guajardo and R. M. Pringle. 2017. Influence of neighboring plants on the dynamics of an ant-acacia protection mutualism. Ecology, in press.
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Palmer, T. M., and T. P. Young. 2017. Integrating ecological complexity into our understanding of ant-plant mutualism: ant-acacia interactions in African savannas. Pages 200-222 in P. S. Oliveira and S. Koptur, editors. Ant-plant interactions in a changing world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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Titcomb, G., B. F. Allen, L. Njoroge, T. Ainsworth, T. Hedulnd, J. R. Goheen, T. M. Palmer, R. M. Pringle, M. G. Campana, R. Fleischer, L. Henson, J. N. Mantas, and H. Young. 2017. Interacting effects of wildlife loss and climate on ticks and tick-borne disease. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20170475 PDF
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Petipas, R. H., J. B. Gonzalez, T. M. Palmer, and A. K. Brody. 2017. Habitat-specific AMF symbioses enhance drought tolerance of a native Kenyan grass. Acta Oecologica 78:71-78. PDF
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Long, R. A., Wambua, A., J. R. Goheen, T. M. Palmer and R. M. Pringle. 2017. Climatic variation modulates the indirect effects of large herbivores on small-mammal habitat use. Journal of Animal Ecology 86:739-746. PDF
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Ruiz-Guajardo, J. C., D. Grossenbacher, R. Grosberg, T. M. Palmer and M. L. Stanton. 2017. Density influences aggression, expansion, and post-conflict survival of the acacia-ant Crematogaster mimosae (Santschi). Ecological Monographs 87:246-259. PDF
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Young, H. S., D. J. McCauley, R. Dirzo, C. L. Nunn, M. G. Campana, B. Agwanda, E. R. Otarola-Castillo, E. R. Castilla, R. M. Pringle, K. E. Veblen, D. J. Salkeld, K. Stewardson, R. Fleischer, E. F. Lambin, T. M. Palmer and K. M. Helgen. 2017. Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Ser. B. 372:20160116. PDF
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Aslan, C., J. L. Bronstein, H. S. Rogers, K. Gedan, J. Brodie, T. M. Palmer and T. P. Young. 2016. Leveraging nature’s backup plans to incorporate interspecific interactions and resilience into restoration. Restoration Ecology, 24:434-440. PDF
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Abonyo, E. A., N. K. Maniania, C. M. Warui, E. D. Kokwaro, T. M. Palmer, D. F. Doak, and A. K. Brody. 2016. Effects of entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae on non-target ants associated with Odontotermes spp. (Isoptera: Termitidae) termite mounds in Kenya. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 36:128-134. PDF
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Coverdale, T. C., T. R. Kartzinel, K. L. Grabowski, R. K. Shriver, A. A. Hassan, J. R. Goheen, T. M. Palmer and R. M. Pringle. 2016. Elephants in the understory: opposing direct and indirect effects of consumption and ecosystem engineering. Ecology 97: 3219-3230. PDF
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Milligan, P. D., K. M. Prior and T. M. Palmer. 2016. An invasive ant reduces diversity but does not disrupt a key ecosystem function in an African savanna. Ecosphere 7: e01502. PDF
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Pringle, R. M., K. M. Prior, T. M. Palmer, T. P. Young, and J. R. Goheen. 2016. Large herbivores promote habitat specialization and beta diversity of African savanna trees. Ecology 97:2640-2657. PDF
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Palmer, T. M., A. Stier, R. D. Holt and E. G. Pringle. 2015. Mutualism in a community context. Pages 159-180 in J. L. Bronstein, ed. Mutualism. Oxford University Press.
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Aslan, C., J. L. Bronstein, H. S. Rogers, K. Gedan, J. Brodie, T. M. Palmer and T. P. Young. 2016. Leveraging nature’s backup plans to incorporate interspecific interactions and resilience into restoration. Restoration Ecology 24:434-440. PDF
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Ceballos, G, P. R. Ehrlich, A. Barnosky, A. García, R. M. Pringle, and T. M. Palmer. 2015. No excuse for complacency: we are entering the sixth mass extinction. Science Advances 1:e1400253 PDF
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Fraser, L. H., J. Pither, A. Schmidt, A. Jentsch, M. Sternberg, M. Zobel, D. Askarizadeh, S. Bartha, C. Beierkuhnlein, J. Bennett, A. Bittel, B. Boldgiv, I. Boldrin, E. Bork, L. Brown, M. Cabido, J. Cahill, C. N. Carlyle, G. Campetella, S. Chelli, O. Cohen, A. M. Csergo, S. Díaz, L. Enrico, D. Ensing, A. Fidelis, B. Foster, H. Garris, J. R. Goheen, H. A. L. Henry, S. Hoffmann, M. Hohn, M. Jouri, J. Klironomos, K. Koorem, A. Lkhagva, R. L. Lodge, R. Long, P. Manning, R. Mitchell, M. Moora, S. C. Müller, C. Nabinger, K. Naseri, G. E. Overbeck, T. M. Palmer, S. Parsons, M. Pesek, V. D. Pillar, R. M. Pringle, K. Roccaforte, Z. Shang, R. Stahlmann, G. Stotz, S. Sugiyama, S. Szentes, D. Thompson, R. Tungalag, S. Undrakhbold, M. van Rooyen, C. Wellstein, J. B. Wilson, T. Zupo. Unimodal relationship between grassland richness and biomass supported by worldwide experimental evidence. 2015. Science 349:302-305. PDF
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Pringle, R. M., D. M. Kimuyu, R. L. Sensenig, T. M. Palmer, C. Riginos, K. E. Veblen and T. P. Young. 2015. Synergistic indirect effects of fire and elephants on arboreal fauna. Journal of Animal Ecology in press.
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Ford, A. T., J. R. Goheen, T. O. Otieno, L. Bidner, L. A. Isbell, T. M. Palmer, D. Ward, R. Woodroffe and R. M. Pringle. 2014. Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny. Science 346:346-349. PDF
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Riginos, C., M. A. Karande, D. I. Rubenstein, and T. M. Palmer. 2015. Disruption of a protective ant-plant mutualism by an invasive ant increases elephant damage to savanna trees. Ecology 96:654-661. PDF
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Ford, A. T., J. R. Goheen, D. J. Augustine, M. F. Kinnaird, T. G. O’Brien, T. M. Palmer, R. M. Pringle, and R. Woodroffe. 2015. Recovery of African wild dogs suppresses prey but does not trigger a trophic cascade. Ecology in press.
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Tarnita, C. E., T. M. Palmer and R. M. Pringle. 2014. Colonization and competition dynamics can explain incomplete sterilization parasitism in ant-plant symbioses. Ecology Letters 17:1290-1298. PDF
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Young, H. S., D. J. McCauley, R. Dirzo, J. R. Goheen, B. Agwanda, C. Brook, A. W. Ferguson, F. Keesing, S. N. Kinyua, M. M. McDonough, T. M. Palmer, R. M. Pringle, D. R. Salkeld, T. P. Young and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Context-dependent effects of large wildlife declines on small mammal communities in central Kenya. Ecological Applications, in press.
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Pringle, R. M., J. R. Goheen, T. M. Palmer, G. K. Charles, E. DeFranco, R. Hohbein, A. T. Ford, B. Torto and C. E. Tarnita. 2014. Herbivory as a complex interaction: Direct, indirect, and net effects of browsers on Solanum campylacanthum in an African savanna. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20132647 PDF
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Louthan, A. M., D. F. Doak, J. R. Goheen, T. M. Palmer and R. M. Pringle. 2014. Mechanisms of plant–plant interactions: concealment from herbivores is more important than abiotic-stress mediation in an African savannah. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: PDF
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Ngatia, L., R. K. Ramesh, P. K. R. Nair, R. M. Pringle, T. M. Palmer and B. Turner. 2014. Seasonal patterns in decomposition and nutrient release from East African savanna grasses grown under contrasting nutrient conditions. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 188:12-19. PDF
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Seifert, M. G. and T. M. Palmer. Spine form in an African acacia determines defensive efficacy against browsers of different sizes and feeding strategies. Journal of Ecology, in press.
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Kartzinel, T. R., J. R. Goheen, G. K. Charles, E. DeFranco, J. E. Maclean, T. Otieno, T. M. Palmer and R. M. Pringle. 2014. Context-dependent responses of plants and small mammals to the exclusion of large herbivores in an African savanna: the first five years of the UHURU experiment. Ecology 95:787 Available here
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Rudolph, K. E. and T. M. Palmer. 2013. Carbohydrates as fuel for defense, foraging and colony growth – a field test with the tropical plant-ant Crematogaster nigriceps in Laikipia, Kenya. Biotropica 45:620-627. PDF
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Young, H. S., D. J. McCauley, K. M. Helgen, E. Otarola-Castillo, J. R. Goheen, T. M. Palmer, R. M. Pringle, T. P. Young and R. Dirzo. 2013. Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: Observations and experiments in an African savanna. Journal of Ecology 101:1030-1041. PDF
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Rubin, B. E., R. M. Anderson, D. Kennedy, T. M. Palmer, M. L. Stanton, and I. R. Lovette. Polygyny in the nest-site limited acacia-ant Crematogaster mimosae. 2013. Insectes Sociaux DOI 10.1007/s00040-013-0287-5
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Poulsen, J. R., C. J. Clark and T. M. Palmer. 2013. Ecological erosion of an Afrotropical forest and potential consequences for tree recruitment and forest biomass. Biological Conservation 163:122-130. PDF
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Louthan, A. M., D. F. Doak, J. R. Goheen, T. M. Palmer and R. M. Pringle. 2013. Climatic stress mediates the impacts of herbivory on plant population structure and components of individual fitness. Journal of Ecology 101:1074-1083. PDF
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Palmer, T. M., M. L. Stanton, T. P. Young, J. S. Lemboi, J. R. Goheen, and R. M. Pringle. 2013. A role for indirect facilitation in supporting diversity in a guild of African acacia ants. Ecology 94:1531-1539. PDF
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Palmer, T. M. and A. K. Brody. 2013. Enough is enough: the effects of symbiotic ant abundance on herbivory, growth and reproduction in an African acacia. Ecology 94:683-691. PDF
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Goheen, J. R., T. M. Palmer, G. K. Charles, K. M. Helgen, S. N. Kinyua, J. E. Maclean, H. S. Young, R. M. Pringle. In press. Piecewise disassembly of a large-herbivore community across a rainfall gradient: the UHURU experiment. PLoS One 8:e55192. PDF
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Siefert, A. W., S. G. Kiama, M. G. Siefert, J.R. Goheen, T. M. Palmer and M. Maden. 2012. Skin shedding and tissue regeneration in African spiny mice (Acomys). Nature 489:561-565. PDF
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E. Toby Kiers, M. Duhamel, Y. Beesetty, J. A. Mensah, O. Franken, E. Verbruggen, C. Fellbaum, G. A. Kowalchuk, M. M. Hart, A. Bago, T. M. Palmer, S. A. West, P. Vandenkoornhuyse, J. Jansa and H. Bücking. 2011. Reciprocal rewards stabilize cooperation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis. Science 333:880-882. PDF
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Stanton, M. L. and T. M. Palmer. 2010. The high cost of mutualism: effects of four species of East African ant symbionts on their myrmecophyte host tree. Ecology 92:1073-1082. PDF
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Kiers, E. T., T. M. Palmer, A. R. Ives, J. Bruno, and J. L. Bronstein. 2010. Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective. Ecology Letters 13:1459-1474. PDF
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Palmer, T. M., D. F. Doak, M. L. Stanton, T. P. Young, J. L. Bronstein, E. T. Kiers, J. R. Goheen and R. M. Pringle. 2010. Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases fitness in a multi-species mutualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:17234-17239. PDF
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Goheen, J. R. and T. M. Palmer*. 2010. Defensive plant-ants stabilize megaherbivore-driven landscape change in an African savanna. Current Biology 20:1768-1772. (*authors contributed equally) PDF
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Pringle, R. M., D. F. Doak, A. K. Brody, R. Joque and T. M. Palmer. 2010. Spatial pattern enhances ecosystem function. PLoS Biology 8:1000377. PDF
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Fox-Dobbs, K., D. F. Doak, A. K. Brody and T. M. Palmer. 2010. Termites create spatial structure and govern ecosystem function by affecting nitrogen fixation in an East African savanna. Ecology 91:1296-1307. PDF
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Kuria, S. K., M. H. Villet, T. M. Palmer and M. L. Stanton. 2010. A comparison of two sampling methods for surveying herbivore impacts on beetle communities in the canopy of Acacia drepanolobium. African Journal of Ecology 18:87-98. PDF
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Goheen, J. R., T. M. Palmer, F. Keesing, C. Riginos and T. P. Young. 2010. Large herbivores facilitate savanna tree establishment via diverse and indirect pathways. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:372-382. PDF
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Brody, A. K., T. M. Palmer, K. Fox-Dobbs and D.F. Doak. 2010. Termites, vertebrate herbivores and the fruiting success of Acacia drepanolobium. Ecology 91:399-407. PDF
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Palmer, T. M., M. L. Stanton, T. P. Young, J. R. Goheen, R. M. Pringle and R. Karban. 2008. Putting ant-acacia mutualisms to the fire. Science 319:1759-1761. PDF
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Palmer, T. M., M. L. Stanton, T. P. Young, J. R. Goheen, R. M. Pringle and R. Karban. 2008. Breakdown of an ant-plant mutualism follows the loss of large herbivores from an African savanna. Science 319:192-195. PDF
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Palmer, T. M. and A. K. Brody. 2007. Mutualism as reciprocal exploitation: African plant-ants defend foliar but not reproductive structures. Ecology 88:3004-3011. PDF
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Goheen, J. R., T. P. Young, F. Keesing and T. M. Palmer. 2007. Consequences of herbivory by large mammals to reproductive fitness of a savanna tree. Journal of Ecology 95:129-138. PDF
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Wood, W. F., T. M. Palmer and M. L. Stanton. 2006. Volatiles in the mandibular gland of Tetraponera penzigi: a plant ant of the whistling thorn acacia. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 34:536-538. PDF
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Young, T. P., T. M. Palmer and M. E. Gadd. 2005. Competition and compensation among cattle, zebras, and elephants in a semi-arid range land in Laikipia, Kenya. Biological Conservation 122:351-359. PDF
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Stanton, M. L., T. M. Palmer and T. P. Young. 2005. Ecological barriers to early colony establishment in three coexisting acacia-ant species in Kenya. Insectes Sociaux 52: 393-401. PDF
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O’Reilly, L. O., D. Ogada, T. M. Palmer and F. Keesing. 2006. Effects of fire on bird diversity and abundance in an East African savanna. African Journal of Ecology 44:165-170. PDF
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Palmer, T. M. 2004. Wars of attrition: colony size determines competitive outcomes in a guild of African acacia-ants. Animal Behaviour 68: 993-1004. PDF
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Huntzinger, P. M., R. Karban, T. P. Young, and T. M. Palmer. 2004. Relaxation of induced indirect defenses of acacias following removal of mammalian herbivores. Ecology 85:609-614. PDF
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Palmer, T. M. 2003. Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences competition and coexistence in an African acacia ant guild. Ecology 84:2843-2855. PDF
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Palmer, T. M., M. L. Stanton, and T. P. Young. 2003. Competition and coexistence: exploring mechanisms that restrict and maintain diversity within mutualist guilds. American Naturalist 162: S63-79. PDF
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Palmer, T. M., T. P. Young and M. L. Stanton. 2002. Burning bridges: Priority effects and the persistence of a competitively subordinate acacia-ant in Laikipia, Kenya. Oecologia 133:372-379. PDF
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Collinge, S.K. and T. M. Palmer. 2002. The influences of patch shape and boundary contrast on insect response to fragmentation in California grasslands. Landscape Ecology 17:647-656. PDF
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Stanton, M. L., T. M. Palmer and T. P. Young. 2002. Competition-colonization trade-offs in a guild of African Acacia-ants. Ecological Monographs 72:347-363. PDF
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Wood, W. F., T. M. Palmer and M. L. Stanton. 2002. A comparison of volatiles in mandibular glands from three Crematogaster ant symbionts of the whistling thorn acacia. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 30:217-222. PDF
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Gadd, M. E., T. P. Young, and T. M. Palmer. 2001. Effects of simulated shoot and leaf herbivory on vegetative growth and plant defense in Acacia drepanolobium. Oikos 92:515-521. PDF
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Palmer, T. M., T. P. Young, M. L. Stanton and E. Wenk. 2000. Short-term dynamics of an acacia-ant community in Laikipia, Kenya. Oecologia 123:425-435. PDF
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Stanton, M. L., T. M. Palmer, T. P. Young, A. Evans, and M. L. Turner. 1999. Sterilization and canopy modification of a swollen thorn acacia tree by a plant-ant. Nature 401:578-581. PDF
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Young, T. P., B. D. Okello, D. Kinyua and T. M. Palmer. 1998. KLEE: a long-term multi-species herbivore exclusion experiment in Laikipia, Kenya. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 14:94-102. PDF
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Ives, A.R., J. Foufopoulos, E. Klopfer, J. Klug and T. M. Palmer. 1995. Bottle or big-scale experiments: how do we study ecology? Ecology: 77(3):681-685. PDF
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Palmer, T. M. 1995. The influence of spatial heterogeneity on the behavior and growth of two herbivorous stream insects. Oecologia: 104:476-486. PDF
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Cooper, S. M. and T. M. Palmer. 1994. Observations on the dietary choice of free-ranging juvenile ostriches. Ostrich 65(3-4):251-255. PDF
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Palmer, T. M. and M. Zimmerman. 1994. Pollen competition and sporophyte fitness in Brassica campestris: Does intense pollen competition result in individuals with better pollen? Oikos 69:80-86. PDF