Publications

Please contact me at lshoema1(at)uwyo.edu for manuscript copies.

Collins, C., Elmendorf, S., Smith, J., Shoemaker, L.G., Szojka, M., Swift, M., and Suding, K. Accepted. Global change re-structures alpine plant communities under 15 years of warming, nitrogen, and snow addition: disentangling density independent and dependent effects. Ecology Letters. Link to pre-print

Sieben, A.J., Mihaljevic, J.R. and Shoemaker, L.G. Accepted. Quantifying mechanisms of coexistence in disease ecology. Ecology. Email lshoema1(at)uwyo.edu for a copy.

Bowler, C.H., Shoemaker, L.G., Weiss-Lehman, C.P., Towers, I., and Mayfield, M.M. Accepted. Positive effects of exotic species dampened by neighbourhood heterogeneity. Ecology.  Email lshoema1(at)uwyo.edu for a copy.

Aoyama, L.,Shoemaker, L.G., Gilbert, B., Collinge, S.K., Faist, A.M., Shackelford, N., Temperton, V.M., Barabas, G., Larios, L., Ladouceur, E., Godoy, O., Bowler, C., Hallett, L.M. Accepted. Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories. Ecological Applications, Early View. Link

Bowler, C.H., Weiss-Lehman, C.P., Towers, I., Mayfield, M.M.*, and Shoemaker, L.G.*, 2022. Accounting for demographic uncertainty increases predictions for species coexistence: A case study with annual plants. Ecology Letters, Early View. Link

Shoemaker, L.G.*, Hallett, L.M.*, Zhao, L., Reuman, D.C., Wang, S., Cottingham, K.L., Hobbs, R.J., Castorani, M.C.N., Downing, A.L., Dudney, J.C., Fey, S.B., Gherardi, L.A., Lany, N., Reyes, C.P., Rypel, A.L., Sheppard, L.W., Walter, J.A., and Suding, K.N. 2022. The long and the short of it: Mechanisms of synchronous and compensatory dynamics across temporal scales. Ecology e3650. Link

Weiss-Lehman, C.P., Werner, C.M., Bowler, C.H., Hallett, L.M., Mayfield, M.M., Godoy, O., Aoyama, L., Barabas, G., Chu, C., Ladouceur, E., Larios, L., and Shoemaker, L.G. 2022. Disentangling key species interactions in diverse and heterogeneous communities: A Bayesian sparse modeling approach. Ecology Letters 25(5):1263-1276. Link

Wisnoski, N.I. and Shoemaker, L.G. 2022. Seed banks alter metacommunity diversity: The interactive effects of competition, germination, and survival. Ecology Letters 25(4):740-753. Link

Leibold, M.A., Rudolph, F.J., Blanchet, F.G., De Meester, L., Gravel, D., Hartig, F., Peres-Neto, P., Shoemaker, L.G., and Chase, J.M. 2022. The internal structure of metacommunities. Oikos e08618. Link

Luo, M., Reuman, D., Hallett, L.M., Shoemaker, L.G., Zhao, L., Castorani, M., Dudney, J.C., Gherardi, L., Rypel, A.L., Sheppard, L., Walter, J.A., and Wang, S. 2021. The effects of dispersal on spatial synchrony in metapopulations differ by timescale. Oikos 130:1762-1772. Link

Shoemaker*, L.G., Walter, J.A.*, Gherardi, L.A., DeSiervo, M.H., and Wisnoski, N.I. 2021. Writing mathematical ecology: A guide for authors and readers. Ecosphere 12(8): e03701. Link

Walter, J.A., Shoemaker, L.G., Lany, N.K., Castorani, M.C., Fey, S.B., Dudney, J.C., Gherardi, L., Portales-Reyes, C., Rypel, A.L., Cottingham, K.L., Suding, K.N., Reuman, D.C., and Hallett, L.M. 2021. The spatial synchrony of species richness and its relationship to ecosystem stability. Ecology e03486. Link

Louthan, A.M., Peterson, M.L.*, and Shoemaker, L.G.* 2021. Climate sensitivity across latitude: scaling physiology to communities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36(10): 931-942. Link

Clark A.T., Arnoldi, J.F., Zelnik, Y.R., Barabas, G., Hodapp, D., Karakoc, C., König, S., Radchuk, V., Donohue, I., Huth, A., Jacquet, C., de Mazancourt, C., Mentges, A., Nothaaß, D., Shoemaker, L.G., Taubert, F., Wiegand, T., Wang, S., Chase, J.M., Loreau, M. and Harpole, S. 2021. General statistical scaling laws for stability in ecological systems. Ecology Letters 24(7): 1474-1486. Link

Porath-Krause, A., Campbell, R., Shoemaker, L.G., Sieben, A., Strauss, A.T., Shaw, A.K., Seabloom, E.W., and Borer, E.T. 2021. Pliant pathogens: Estimating viral spread when confronted with new vector, host, and environmental conditions. Ecology and Evolution 11:1877-1887. Link

Wilfahrt, P.A., Asmus, A.L., Seabloom, E.W., Henning, J.A., Adler, P., Arnillas, C.A., Bakker, J.D., Biederman, L., Brudvig, L.A., Cadotte, M., Daleo, P., Eskelinen, A., Firn, J., Harpole, W.S., Hautier, Y., Kirkman, K.P., Komatsu, K.J., Laungani, R., MacDougall, A., McCulley, R.L., Moore, J.L., Morgan, J.W., Mortensen, B., Ochoa Hueso, R., Ohlert, T., Power, S.A., Price, J., Risch, A.C., Schuetz, M., Shoemaker, L.G., Stevens, C., Strauss, A.T., Tognetti, P.M., Virtanen, R. and Borer, E.T. 2021. Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity. Ecology, e03504. Link

Shoemaker*, L.G., Barner, A.K.*, Bittleston, L.S., and Teufel, A.I. 2020. Quantifying the relative importance of variation in predation and the environment for species coexistence. Ecology Letters 23:939-950. Link

Zhao, L., Wang, S. Hallett, L.M., Rypel, A., Sheppard, L.W., Castorani, M.C.N., Shoemaker*, L.G.,  Cottingham, K.L., Suding, K., and Reuman, D.C. 2020. A new variance ratio metric to detect the timescale of compensatory dynamics. Ecosphere. Link

Shoemaker*, L.G., Sullivan, L.L.*, Donohue, I. Cabral, J.S., Williams, R.J., Mayfield, M.M., Chase, J.M., Chu, C. Harpole, W.S., Huth, A. HilleRisLambers, J., James, A.R.M., Kraft, N.J.B., May, F., Muthukrishnan, R., Satterlee, S., Taubert, F., Wang, X., Wiegand, T. Yang, Q. and Abbott. K.C. 2020. Integrating stochasticity into community ecology. Ecology 101(2) e02922. Link

Shoemaker, L.G., Hayhurst, E., Weiss-Lehman, C.P., Strauss, A.T., Porath-Krause, A., Borer, E.T., Seabloom, E.W., and Shaw, A.K. 2019. Pathogens manipulate the preference of vectors, slowing disease spread in a multi-host system. Ecology Letters 22:1115-1125. Link

Hallett, L.M., Shoemaker, L.G., White, C.T., and Suding, K.N. 2019. Rainfall variability maintains grass-forb species coexistence. Ecology Letters, 22:1658-1667. Link

Strauss, A.T., Shoemaker, L.G., Seabloom, E.W., and Borer, E.T. 2019. Coupling nested models with shared histories in community and disease ecology: feedbacks between transient within-host dynamics on among-host processes. Ecology 100(11) e02836. Link

Shoemaker, L.G. and Melbourne, B.A. 2016. Linking metacommunity paradigms to spatial coexistence mechanisms. Ecology 97(9):2436-2446. Link

Tucker, C.M.*, Shoemaker*, L.G., Davies, K.F., Nemergut, D.R., and Melbourne B.A. 2016. Differentiation between niche and neutral assembly in metacommunities using null models of beta diversity. Oikos 125:778–789. Link

Turbek, S. Chock, T. Donahue, K, Havrilla, C. Oliverio, A. Polutchko, S. Shoemaker, L.G. and Vimercati, L. 2016. Scientific writing made easy: A step-by-step guide to undergraduate writing in the biological sciences. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.  97:417–426. doi:10.1002/bes2.1258. Link

Cantor, M., L.G. Shoemaker, R.B. Cabral, C.O. Flores, M. Varga, and Whitehead. H. 2015. Multilevel animal societies can emerge from cultural transmission. Nature Communications 6:1:1-10. Link

Shoemaker, L.G. and Clauset, A. 2014. Body mass evolution and diversification within horses (family Equidae). Ecology Letters 17(2):211-220. Link

Dodson R.B., Rozance P.J., Bradley S.F., Petrash C.C., Shoemaker L.G., Kendall, S.H., and Ferguson V.L. 2012. Increased stiffness and extracellular matrix reorganization in intrauterine growth restricted (IUGR) fetal sheep. Journal of Pediatric Research sn1530-0447. Link

Myerburg M.M., Ebersole J.J., Shoemaker L.G., and Heschel M.S. 2011. Limited Plasticity of Biomass Allocation in Alpine Forbs, Pikes Peak, Colorado, U.S.A. Western North American Naturalist 71(3):431-435. Link

Education Materials

Shoemaker, L.G. and Barger, N.N. 2017. Namibia fairy circles: Pattern formation in a barren grassland. https://fairycirclesblog.wordpress.com.

Shoemaker, L.G. 2009. Fingerprints of Emissions and the Carbon Cycle: Stable and Radiocarbon Isotopes of Carbon Dioxide. Earth System Research Laboratory: Global Monitoring Division. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/outreach/isotopes/.