Publications

  • Gumbs, R., Gray, C. L., Böhm, M., Burfield, I. J., Couchman, O. R., Faith, D. P., … & Rosindell, J. (2023). The EDGE2 protocol: Advancing the prioritisation of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species for practical conservation action. PLoS Biology, 21(2), e3001991.
  • LWK Ng, C Chisholm, LR Carrasco, ES Darling, F Guilhaumon, AO Mooers, CM Tucker, M Winter, D Huang. 2022. Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity to protect functional diversity of reef corals. Diversity and Distributions 28 (8), 1721-1734.
  • Mooers, A. and Tucker, C. 2021. Macroevolution: useful plants have deep evolutionary roots. New and Views, Nature Ecology and Evolution.
  • Frances, D. Barber, A. and Caroline M. Tucker. 2021. Trait-density relationships explain performance in cladoceran zooplankton. Ecology. e03294.
  • Nicolas Loiseau, Nicolas Mouquet, Nicolas Casajus, Matthias Grenié, Maya Guéguen, Brian Maitner, David Mouillot, Annette Ostling, Julien Renaud, Caroline Tucker, Laure Velez, Wilfried Thuiller, Cyrille Violle. 2020. Global distribution and conservation status of ecologically rare mammal and bird species. Nature Communications. 11: 5071.
  • Caroline M Tucker, Tracy Aze, Marc W Cadotte, Juan L Cantalapiedra, Chelsea Chisholm, Sandra Díaz, Richard Grenyer, Danwei Huang, Florent Mazel, William D Pearse, Matthew W Pennell, Marten Winter, Arne O Mooers. 2019. Assessing the utility of conserving evolutionary history. Biological Reviews. 94(5): 1740-1760.
  • K. Bodie Weedop, Arne O. Mooers, Caroline M. Tucker, William D. Pearse. The Effect of Phylogenetic Uncertainty and Imputation on EDGE Scores. 2019. Animal Conservation. Early View. Featured article.
  • K Bodie Weedop, AØ Mooers, CM Tucker, William D Pearse. Preserving evolutionary history with improved confidence. 2019. Animal Conservation. 22(6):541
  • Matthias Grenié, David Mouillot, Sébastien Villéger, Pierre Denelle, Valeriano Parravicini, Caroline M. Tucker, François Munoz, Cyrille Violle. 2018. Worldwide functional rarity of coral reef fishes: a new currency for conservation strategies. Biological Conservation. 226, 288-299.
  • Florent Mazel, Matthew W. Pennell, Marc Cadotte, Sandra Diaz, Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva, Richard Grenyer, Fabien Leprieur, Arne O. Mooers, David Mouillot, Caroline M. Tucker, and William Pearse. 2019. Reply to: “Global conservation of phylogenetic diversity captures more than just functional diversity”.  Nature Communications: 10(1): 858.
  • Florent Mazel, Matthew W. Pennell, Marc Cadotte, Sandra Diaz, Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva, Richard Grenyer, Fabien Leprieur, Arne O. Mooers, David Mouillot, Caroline M. Tucker, and William Pearse. 2018. Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably.Nature Communications: 9(1): 2888.
  • Cadotte, M.W. and Tucker, C.M. 2018. Difficult decisions: addressing non-congruence in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional measures for site priority. Biological Conservation. 225:128-133.
  • Caroline M. Tucker, T. Jonathan Davies, Marc W. Cadotte, and William D. Pearse. 2018. On the relationship between phylogenetic diversity and trait diversity. Ecology. 99(6), 1473-1479.
  • François Munoz, Adrien Taudière, Fabien Laroche, Matthias Grenié, Pierre Denelle, Caroline M. Tucker and Cyrille Violle. 2018. ecolottery: Coalescent-based simulation of ecological communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(3), 693-703.
  • Matthias Grenié, Pierre Denelle, C.M. Tucker, François Munoz, and Cyrille Violle 2017. funrar: an R package to characterize functional rarity. Diversity and Distributions. 226, 288-299.
  • Cadotte, M.W., Tucker, C.M. 2017. Should environmental filtering be abandoned? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 32(6), 429-437.
  • Marc W Cadotte, Caroline M Tucker. Embracing the nonindependence of the environmental filter: A reply to responses. 2017. Trends in ecology & evolution. 32(12):886-887.
  • Freschet, G. T., O. J. Valverde-Barrantes, C. M. Tucker, J. M. Craine, L. M. McCormack, C. Violle, F. Fort, C. B. Blackwood, K. R. Urban-Mead, and C. M. Iversen. 2017. Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation. Journal of Ecology. 105 (5), 1182-1196.
  • Tucker, C.M.Marc W. Cadotte, Silvia B. Carvalho, Jonathan Davies, Simon Ferrier, Susanne A. Fritz, Rich Grenyer, Matthew R. Helmus, Lanna S. Jin, Arne O. Mooers, Sandrine Pavoine, Oliver Purschke, David W. Redding, Dan. F. Rosauer, Marten Winter, Florent Mazel. 2017. A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology. Biological Reviews. 92 (2), 698-715.
  • Tucker, C.M., Shoemaker, L., Nemergut, D., Davies, K., Melbourne, B.A. 2015. Differentiating between niche and neutral assembly in metacommunities using null models of beta-diversity. Oikos. 125 (6), 778-789.
  • Pearse, W.D, Cadotte, M.W., Cavender-Bares, J., Ives, A.R., Tucker, C.M., Walker, S.C., Helmus, M.R. 2015. pez: Phylogenetics for the Environmental Sciences. Bioinformatics. 31 (17), 2888-2890.
  • Tucker, C.M. and Fukami, T. 2014. Environmental variability counteracts priority effects to facilitate species coexistence: evidence from nectar microbes. Proc. R. Soc. B. 281:1778.
  • Jeganmohan, S., Tucker. C.M., and Cadotte, MW. 2014. Colonization rates in a metacommunity altered by competition. PLoS ONE. 9:2, e88344.
  • Tucker, C.M., Cadotte, M.W. 2013. Unifying measures of biodiversity: understanding when richness and phylogenetic diversity should be congruent. Diversity and Distributions. 19:7, 845-854.
  • Tucker, C.M., Cadotte, M.W. 2013. Fire variability, not frequency explains species coexistence in a fire-dominated system. Journal of Applied Ecology. 50(3), 594-602.
  • Abrams, P., Tucker, C.M., Gilbert, B. 2012. Evolution of the storage effect. Evolution. 67(2), 315-327.
  • Tucker, C.M., Rebelo, A.G., Davies, J.D., Cadotte, M.W. 2012. The distribution of biodiversity: linking richness to geographical and evolutionary rarity in a biodiversity hotspot. Conservation Biology. 25:2, 593-601.
  • Tucker, C.M., Rebelo, T.R., Manne, L.L. 2011. How disturbance affects the distribution and abundance of species in a fire-adapted system. Ecography. 35:4, 348-355.
  • Tucker, C.M., Avila-Sakar, G. 2010 Ontogenetic changes in tolerance to herbivory among three ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana. Oecologia. 164:4, p1005-1015.