Publications

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Ph.D. Dissertation
Taxonomic, functional and phenetic components of latitudinal gradients in biodiversity:  perspectives on the community ecology of New World bats.  Texas Tech University, 2002.

M.S. Thesis
Ecomoprhological structure of bat communities:  alternative models and environmental gradients.  Texas Tech Univeristy. 1996.

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
1)    B. D. Patterson, M. R. Willig, and R. D. Stevens.  2003.  Trophic strategies, niche partitioning, and patterns of ecological organization. Pages 536-579, in Kunz, T. H., and M. Brock Fenton, editors.  Bat Ecology.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago Illinois, USA.

2)    M. R. Willig, B. D. Patterson, and R. D. Stevens.  2003.  Patterns of range size, richness, and body size.  Pages 580-621, in Kunz, T. H., and M. Brock Fenton, editors.  Bat Ecology.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago Illinois, USA.

3)    M. R. Willig, S. K. Lyons and R. D. Stevens.  2009. Spatial methods for the macroecological study of bats.  Pages 216-245 in Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats, edited by T. H. Kunz.

4)    J. S. Tello, and R. D. Stevens.  2012.  Murciélagos, características ambientales y efectos de mitad de dominio (bats, environmental characteristics and mid-domain effects). In: Tirira, D., Burneo, S. and Boada, C. (eds.). Investigación y conservación de los murciélagos del Ecuador.

5)    S. Saldivar, V. Rojas, D. Gimenez, A. M. Abba, R. Ayala, R. Barreto, J. L. Cartes, H. del Castillo, E. Cuellar, N. U. de la Sancha, I Gamarra de Fox, A. J. Giordano, M. Kowelewski, J. Lopez, V. Martinez, N. Mujica, N. Neris, M. L. Ortiz, F. Ramirez, S. D. Rios, M. Ruiz Diaz, J. Sanchez, P. Smith, R. Stevens, P. Teta, J. J. Thompson, J. Torres, M. Valazquez, M. Velilla, L. Villalba and A. Weiler.  2018.  Los mamiferos amenazados del Paraguay.  Pp. 27-33.  Asociación Paraguaya de Mastozoología y Secretaría del Ambiente.

6)    V. Martínez, I. Gamarra de Fox, R. D. Stevens, M. L. Ortiz N. de la Sancha and M. Ruíz-Díaz. 2018.  Chiroptera. En Libro Rojo de Mamiferos del Paraguay. Pp.63-77.  Asociación Paraguaya de Mastozoología y Secretaría del Ambiente.

7)    J. D. Stuhler, A. N. Kildow and R. D. Stevens.  2019.  Ecology of Platyrrhinus lineatus in Atlantic Forest of Paraguay:  reproductive patterns, activity, seasonality and morphometric variability.  From Field to Laboratory: A Memorial Volume in Honor of Robert J. Baker, Special Publications of the Museum of Texas Tech 71: 221-238.

8)    S. L. Beauchamp, F. B. Stangl Jr., D. J. Schmidly, R. D. Stevens and R. D. Bradley.  2019.  Systematic review of Botta’s pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) from Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, with description of a new taxon.  From Field to Laboratory: A Memorial Volume in Honor of Robert J. Baker, Special Publications of the Museum of Texas Tech 71: 512-542.

9)    E. E. Stukenholtz, T. A. Hailu, S. Childers, C. Leatherwood, L. Evans, D. Roulain, D. Townsley, M. Treider, R. N. Platt, D. A. Ray, J. C. Zak, and R. D. Stevens.  2019.  Ecology of pigeons:  population monitoring, resources selection and management practices.  Wildlife Population Monitoring Ebook.

10)    R. D. Stevens, de Moraes Weber, M. and Villalobos, F.  2020.  Contemporary Biogeography.  In: Phyllostomid bats:  A unique mammalian radiation (T. H. Fleming, L. Davalos and M. M. Mello eds.).  University of Chicago Press.

11)    R. D. Stevens and Estrada-Villegas, S.  2020.  Community Ecology.  In: Phyllostomid bats:  A unique mammalian radiation (T. H. Fleming, L. Davalos and M. M. Mello eds.).  University of Chicago Press.

Refereed Journal Articles
1.    Willig, M. R., R. L. Colbert, R. D. Pettit, and R. D. Stevens.  1993.  Response of small mammals to the conversion of a sand shinnery oak woodland into a mixed midgrass prairie.  Texas Journal of Science 45: 29-43.

2.    R. D. Stevens.  1996.  Structure of bat communities:  alternative models and environmental gradients.  Mastozoologia Neotropical 3: 199-201.

3.    R. D. Stevens, and C. R. Werth.  1999.  Interpopulational comparison of dose-mediated antheridiogen response in Onoclea sinsibilis.  American Fern Journal 89: 221-231.

4.    R. D. Stevens and M. R. Willig.  1999.  Size assortment in New World bat communities.  Journal of Mammalogy 80: 644-658.

5.    R. D. Stevens and M. R. Willig.  2000.  Community structure, abundance, and morphology.  Oikos 88: 48-56.

6.    R. D. Stevens and M. R. Willig.  2000.  Density compensation in New World bat communities. Oikos 89: 367-377.

7.    R. D. Stevens.  2001.  Twinning in the big fruit-eating bat Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera:  Phyllostomidae) from Eastern Paraguay.  Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 66: 178-180.

8.    R. D. Stevens, and M. R. Willig.  2002.  Geographical ecology at the community level:  perspectives on the diversity of New World bats.  Ecology 83: 545-560.

9.    M. R. Willig, D. M. Kaufman, and R. D. Stevens.  2003.  Latitudinal gradients in biodiversity:  pattern, process, scale, and synthesis.  Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 34: 273-309.

10.    R. D. Stevens, S. B. Cox, M. R. Willig, and R. E. Strauss.  2003.  Patterns of functional diversity across an extensive environmental gradient:  vertebrate consumers, hidden treatments, and latitudinal trends.  Ecology Letters 6: 1099-1108.

11.    R. D. Stevens.  2003.  Taxonomic, functional, and phenetic components of biodiversity:  perspectives on the community ecology of New World bats.  Mastozoologia Neotropical 10: 188-190.

12.    R. D. Stevens.  2004.  Untangling latitudinal richness gradients at higher taxonomic levels:  familial perspectives on the diversity of New World bat communities.  Journal of Biogeography 31:  665-674.

13.    D. P. Vazquez and R. D. Stevens.  2004.  The latitudinal gradient in niche breadth:  concepts and evidence.  American Naturalist 164: E1-E19.

14.    R. D. Stevens, M. R. Willig, and I. Gamarra de Fox.  2004.  Comparative community ecology of bats in Eastern Paraguay: taxonomic, ecological, and biogeographic perspectives.  Journal of Mammalogy 85: 698-707.

15.    A. T. Moles, D. I. Warton, R. D. Stevens, and M. Westoby.  2004.  Does a latitudinal gradient in seedling survival favour larger seeds in the tropics?  Ecology Letters 7: 911-914.

16.    R. D. Stevens.  2005.  Functional morphology meets macroecology:  ecological determinants of size and shape distributions of New World bats.  Evolutionary Ecology Research 7: 837-851.  

17.    R. D. Stevens, M. R. Willig, and R. E. Strauss.  2006.  Latitudinal gradients in the phenetic diversity of New World bat communities.  Oikos 112: 41-50.

18.    S. B. Cox, C. P. Bloch, R. D. Stevens, and L. F. Huenneke.  2006.  Productivity and diversity in an arid ecosystem:  a long-term perspective.  Plant Ecology 86: 1-12.

19.    R. D. Stevens.  2006.  Historical processes enhance patterns of diversity along latitudinal gradients.  Proceedings of the Royal Society 273: 2283-2289.

20.    D. A. Ray, H. J. T. Pagan, M. L. Thompson and R. D. Stevens.  2007.  Bats with -hATs: evidence for an active DNA transposon in genus Myotis.  Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 632-639.

21.    J. E. Houlahan, Cottenie, K, Cumming, G. S., Currie, D. J., Ernest, S. K. M., Findlay, C. S., Fuhlendorf, S. D., Gaedke, U., Legendre, P., Magnuson, J. J., McArdle, B. H., Muldavin, E. H., Noble, D., Russell, R., Stevens, R. D., Willis, T. J., Woiwod, I. P., Wondzell, S. M.  2007.  Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural communities.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 3273-3277.

22.    R. D. Stevens, C. Lopez-Gonzalez and S. J. Presley.  2007. Geographical ecology of Paraguayan bats:  spatial integration and metacommunity structure of interacting assemblages.  Journal of Animal Ecology 76:  1086-1093 (Featured in Faculty of 1000 Biology).

23.    R. D. Stevens.  2008. Murcielagos del Paraguay (Book Review).  Journal of Mammalogy 89: 519.

24.    A. Bravo†, K. E. Harms, R. D. Stevens and L. H. Emmons.  2008.  Collpas:  activity hotspots for frugivorous bats (Phyllostomidae) in the Peruvian Amazon.  Biotropica 40: 203-210.  
25.    J. S. Tello†, R. D. Stevens and C. W. Dick.  2008.  Patterns of species occurrence and density compensation:  a test for interspecific competition in bat ectoparasite infracommunities.  Oikos 117: 693-702.

26.    P. H. Rosso, J. T. Cronin, and R. D. Stevens.  2008.  Monitoring the invasion of Phragmites australis in coastal marshes of Louisiana, USA, using multisource remote sensing data.  Proceedings of the International Society of Optical Engineering 7110: 1-9.

27.    J. E. Houlahan, Cottenie, K., Cumming, G.S., Currie, D.J., Findlay, C.S., Gaedke, U., Legendre, P., Magnuson, J.J., McArdle, B.H., Stevens, R.D., Woiwod, I.P., Wondzell, S.M.  2008.  The utility of covariances:  a response to Ranta et al.  Oikos 117: 1912-1913.

28.    R. D. Stevens and J. S. Tello†. 2009. Micro- and macro- habitat associations in Mojave Desert rodent communities.  Journal of Mammalogy 90: 388-403.

29.    S. J. Presley, C. L. Higgins, C. López-González, and R. D. Stevens.  2009.  Elements of metacommunity structure of Paraguayan bats: multiple gradients require analysis of multiple axes of variation.  Oecologia 160: 781-793.

30.    R. D. Stevens, Celia Lopez-Gonzalez, Eve McCulluch†, Flavia Netto and Maria Luisa Ortiz.  2010.  Myotis levis indeed occurs in Paraguay.   Mastozoologia Neotropical 17:  195-200.

31.    J. S. Tello† and R. D. Stevens.  2010.  Multiple environmental determinants of species richness:  energy, heterogeneity, and seasonality.  Ecography 33: 796-808.

32.    Bloch, C. P., R. D. Stevens and M. R. Willig.  2011.  Body size, foraging, and community structure in bats.  Ecography 34: 460-468.

33.    Stevens, R. D. and J. S. Tello*.  2011.  Diversity begets diversity:  relative roles of structural and resource heterogeneity in determining patterns of community structure.  Journal of Mammalogy 92: 387-395.

34.    Stevens, R. D.  2011.  Relative effects of time for speciation and tropical niche conservatism on the latitudinal diversity gradient of phyllostomid bats.  Proceedings of the Royal Society 278: 2528-2536.

35.    McCulloch, E. S.* and R. D. Stevens.  2011.  Rapid development and screening of microsatellite loci for Artibeus lituratus and their utility for 6 related species within Phyllostomidae.  Molecular Ecology Resources 11: 903-913.

36.    Tello, J. S.* and R. D. Stevens.  2012.  Can stochastic geographical evolution
re-create macroecologicalrichness–environment correlations?  Global Ecology and Biogeography 21: 213-223.

37.    Sagot, M.* and R. D. Stevens.  2012.  The evolution of group stability and roost lifespan:  perspectives from tent-roosting bats. Biotropica 44: 90-97.

38.    López-González, C., S. J. Presley, A. Lozano, R. D. Stevens, and C. L. Higgins.  2012.  Metacommunity structure of Mexican bats: a test of contemporary paradigms in an area of high geographic and environmental complexity.  Journal of Biogeography 39: 177-192.

39.    Stevens, R. D., M. M. Gavilanez*, J. S. Tello* and D. A. Ray.  2012.  Phylogenetic structure illuminates mechanistic effect of environmental heterogeneity on community organization.   Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 455-462.  

40.    Stevens, R. D. and H. N. Amarilla-Stevens.  2012.  Seasonal environments, episodic density compensation and the dynamics of chiropteran frugivore guilds in Paraguayan Atlantic Forest.  Biodiversity and Conservation 21: 267-279.

41.    Meganathan, P. R., H. J. T. Pagan, E.S. McCulloch*, R. D Stevens, D. A. Ray.  2012.  Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of three bats species and whole genome mitochondrial analyses reveal patterns of codon bias and lend support to a basal split in Chiroptera. Gene 492: 121-129.

42.    Pagan, H. J. T., J. Macas, P. Novak, E. S. McCulloch*, R. D. Stevens and D. A. Ray.  2012.  Survey sequencing reveals elevated DNA transposon activity, novel elements, and variation in repetitive landscapes among vesper bats.  Genome Biology and Evolution 4: 575-585.

43.    Stevens, R. D. and J. S. Tello*. 2012.  Do desert rodents form metacommunities?  Journal of Mammalogy 93: 1029-1041.

44.    Stevens, R. D., J. S Tello* and M. M. Gavilanez*.  2012.  Stronger tests of mid-domain effects on latitudinal gradients of biodiversity:  functional, phylogenetic and phenetic perspectives. PLoS One 8: e56853.

45.    Gavilanez-E., M. M.* and R. D. Stevens.  2012.  Role of environmental and historical factors in the structure of Neotropical primate communities: contrasting taxonomic and phylogenetic perspectives.  Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 607-619.

46.    McCulloch, E. S.*, A. Whitehead, J. S. Tello*, C. M. José Rolon Mendoza, M. Maldonado and R. D. Stevens.  2013.  Fragmentation of Atlantic Forest does not yet prevent gene flow of an important seed-dispersing bat.  Molecular Ecology 22: 4619-4633.

47.    Sagot, M., B. Rodriguez-Herrera, and R. D. Stevens.  2013.  Macro and Microhabitat associations of the Peter’s tent-roosting bat (Uroderma bilobatum):  Human-induced selection and colonization?  Biotropica 45: 511-519.

48.    Stevens, R. D., M. Johnson and E. S. McCulloch.  2013.  Absolute and relative secondary-sexual dimorphism in wing morphology:  a multivariate test of the “big mother” hypothesis.  Acta Chiropterologica 15: 163-170.

49.    Stevens, R. D.   2013.  Gradients of bat diversity in Atlantic Forest of South America: effects of environmental seasonality, sampling effort and spatial autocorrelation.  Biotropica 45: 764-770.

50.    Sagot, M.*, C. D. Phillips, R. D. Stevens and R. J. Baker.  2014.  Development and characterization of seventeen microsatellite loci for Peter's tent-making bat (Uroderma bilobatum).  Consevation Genetics Resources 6: 87-89.

51.    Lopez-Gonzalez, C., S. J. Presley, A. Lozano*, R. D. Stevens and C. L. Higgins.  2015.  Ecological biogeography of Mexican bats:  the relative contributions of habitat heterogeneity, beta diversity, and environmental gradients to species richness and composition patterns.  Ecography 38: 261-272.

52.    Stevens, R. D. and J. S. Tello.  2014.  On the measurement of dimensionality of biodiversity.  Global Ecology and Biogeography 23: 1115-1125.

53.    Weber, M. M.*, R. D. Stevens, M. L. Lorini and C. E. V. Grelle.  2014.  Have old species reached most environmentally suitable areas?  A case study with South American phyllostomid bats.  Global Ecology and Biogeography 23: 1177-1185.

54.    Patrick, L. E.*, and R. D. Stevens.  2014.  Investigating sensitivity of phylogenetic community structure metrics using North American desert bats.  Journal of Mammalogy 95: 1240-1253.

55.    Stevens, R. D. and M. M. Gavilanez*.  2015.  Dimensionality of community structure:  phylogenetic, phenetic and functional perspectives along biodiversity and environmental gradients.  Ecography 38: 861-865.

56.    Platt, R. N. II, Y. Zhang, D. J. Witherspoon, J. Xing, M. S. Keith, L. B. Jorde, R. D. Stevens and D. A. Ray.  2015.  Targeted capture of phylogenetically informative Ves SINE insertions in genus Myotis.  Genome Biology and Evolution 7: 1664-1675.

57.    Stevens, R. D. and R. N. Platt.  2015.  Patterns of secondary sexual size dimorphism in New World Myotis and a test of Rensch’s Rule.  Journal of Mammalogy 96: 1128-1134.

58.    Ray, D. A., H. J. T. Pagan, R. N. Platt, S. Schaack and R. D. Stevens.  2015.  Differential SINE evolution in vesper and non-vesper bats.  Mobile DNA 6: 1-10.

59.    Stevens, R. D.  2015.  A mammalian species new to the fauna of Louisiana.  Southwestern Naturalist 60: 389-390.

60.    Patrick, L. E. and R. D. Stevens.  2016.   Phylogenetic community structure of North American desert bats: influence of environment at multiple spatial and taxonomic scales.  Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 1118-1130.

61.    Stevens, R. D., M. Johnson and E. S. McCulloch.  2016.  Geographic variation of wing morphology of Artibeus lituratus:  environmental, genetic and spatial correlates of phenotypic differences.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118: 734-744.

62.    Muylaert, R. L.*, R. D. Stevens and M. C. Ribeiro.   2016.  Threshold effect of habitat loss on bat richness in savanna-forest landscapes. Ecological Applications 26: 1854-867.

63.    Aguirre, L. A., F. Montano*, M. M. Gavilanez and R. D. Stevens.  2016.  Taxonomic and phylogenetic determinants of functional composition of Bolivian bat assemblages.  PLoS One 11: E0158170.

64.    Garcia, C. J.*, J. Q. Francis, C. Rios-Blanco*, J. D. Stuhler*, G. D. Langlois*, E. E. Bohlender*, M. A. Madden, C. D. Dunn, R. D. Bradley and R. D. Stevens.  2016.  New distributional records of mammals in Texas.  Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University 343: 1-6.

65.    Duncan, N. P.*, S. S. Kahl, C. J. Salice, R. D. Stevens and S. S. Gray.  2016.  Pronghorn Habitat Suitability in the Texas Panhandle.  Journal of Wildlife Management 80: 1471-1478.

66.    Sagot, M*, C. D. Phillips, R. J. Baker and R. D. Stevens. 2016.  Human-modified habitats change patterns of population genetic structure and group cohesion in Peter’s tent-roosting bats.  Ecology and Evolution 6: 6050-6063.

67.    Sikes R. S. and the Animal Care and Use Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists.  2016.  2016 Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research and education.  Journal of Mammalogy 97: 663-688.

68.    Weber, M. M., R. D. Stevens, J. A. F. Diniz-Filho and C. E. V. Grelle.  2017.  Is there correlation between abundance and environmental suitability derived from ecological niche modeling?  A meta-analysis.  Ecography 40: 817-828.

69.    Martin, C. M.*, E. B. Arnett, R. D. Stevens, and M. C. Wallace.  2017.  Reducing bat fatalities at wind facilities while improving economic efficiency of operation mitigation.  Journal of Mammalogy 98: 378-385.

70.    J. Yeong-Seok*, R. D. Stevens and J. T. Baccus.  2017.  Peninsula effect and species richness gradient in terrestrial mammals on the Korean Peninsula and other peninsulas.  Mammal Review: 47: 266-276.

71.    D. J. Schmidly, R. D. Bradley, L. C. Bradley and R. D. Stevens.  2017.  A timeline of significant events in the development of North American Mammalogy.  Special Publications of the Museum of Texas Tech University 66: 1-37.

72.    R. D. Stevens, C. J. Garcia, E. Bohlender and B. Gregory.  2017.  Distributional update for bats of Louisiana.  Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech 348: 1-12.

73.    R. N. Platt II, B. C. Faircloth, K. A. M. Sullivan, T. Kerian, T. C. Glenn, M. W. Vandewege, T. E. Lee, R. J. Baker, R. D. Stevens, D. A. Ray.  2017.  Conflicting evolutionary histories of the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in New World Myotis.  Systematic Biology 67: 236-249.

74.    R. L. Muylaert*, R. D. Stevens, C. E. L. Esbérard, M. A. R. Mello, G. S. T. Garbino, L. H. Varzinczak, D. Faria, M. M. Weber, P. K. Rogeri, A. L. Regolin, H. F. Magalhães de Oliveira, L. Moraes Costa, M. A. S. Barros, G. Sabino-Santos Jr, M. A. Crepaldi de Morais, V. S. Kavagutti, F. C. Passos, E.-L. Marjakangas, F. G. Motta Maia, M. C. Ribeiro and M. Galetti.  2018.  ATLANTIC BATS: a dataset of bat communities from the Atlantic Forests of South America.  Ecology 98: 3227.

75.    E. E. Bohlender*, N. Borray-Escalante*, J. Perez-Torres and R. D. Stevens.  2018.  Dietary variation during reproduction in Seba’s short-tailed fruit bat.  Journal of Mammalogy 99: 440-449.

76.    M. K. Halsey*, J. D. Stuhler*, M. A. Madden*, E. E. Bohlender*, S. C. BrothersU, A. KildowU, S. C. de la Piedra*, C. J. Garcia*, D. S. Camp, C. Rios-Blanco and R. D. Stevens.  2018.  New Distributional Records of Mammals in Texas: Orders Carnivora, Chiroptera and Rodentia.  Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University 354: 1-6.

77.    K. Airaldi-Wood*, M. E. Torres. M. B. Barreto, A. Weiler, G. Gonzalez de Weston, G. Zarate y R. D. Stevens.  2018.  Quiropteros del campus de la Universidad Nacional de Asuncion Paraguay.  Boletin del Museo Nacional de Historia Nacional del Paraguay 22: 45-56.

78.    E. E. Bohlender*, Perez-Torres, J. and R. D. Stevens.  2018.  Variation in vaginal cytology, progesterone and estrogen metabolites of Seba’s short-tailed fruit bat (Carollia perspecillata) during the estrous cycle and gestation.  Mastozoologia Neotropical 25: 151-162.

79.    R. D. Stevens and J. Sebastian Tello.  2018.  A latitudinal gradient in dimensionality of biodiversity.  Ecography 41: 2016-2026.

80.    J. E. Houlahan, K. Cottenie, G. S. Cumming, D. J. Currie, C. S. Findlay, S. D. Fuhlendorf, U. Gaedke, P. Legendre, E. H. Muldavin, R. Russell, R. D. Stevens, T. J. Willis, I. P. Woiwod and S. M.. Wondzell.  2018.  Negative relationships between species richness and temporal variability in abundance are common in natural systems.  Ecology 99: 2592-2604.

81.    D. Castillo-FigueroaU, E. E. Bohlender*, J. Perez-Torres and R. D. Stevens.  2018.  Cases of induced alloparental care in Sebas short-tailed fruit bat.  Neotropical Biology and Conservation 13: 347-349.

82.    R. D. Stevens, R. J. Rowe, and C. Badgley.  2018.  Gradients of mammalian diversity through space and time.  Journal of Mammalogy 100: 1069-1086.83.
   
83.  D. A. Ray, J. R. Grimshaw*, M. K. Halsey*, J. M. Korstian*, A. B. Osmanski*, K. A. M. Sullivan*, K. A. Wolf, H. Reddy, N. Foley, R. D. Stevens, B. Knisbacher, O. Levy, B. Counterman, N. B. Edelman and J. Mallet.  Simultaneous TE analysis of 19 heliconiine butterflies yields novel insights into rapid TE-based genome diversification and multiple SINE births and deaths.  Genome Biology and Evolution 11: 2162-2177.

84.    M. A. M. Mello, G. M. F. Felix, R. B. P. Pineiro, R. L. Muyleart, C. Geiselmann, S. Santana, M. Tschapka, N. Lofti, R. A. Rodrigues and R. D. Stevens.  2019.  Interactions between interactions in a continent-wide multilayer network.  Nature Ecology and Evolution 1-8.

85.    D. A. LimonU, C. J. Garcia*, B. B. Gregory, R. D. Stevens, M. A. Barnes.  2019.  The status of Pseudogymnoascus destructans in Louisiana.  Southwestern Naturalist 63: 216-219.

86.    E. L. Marjakangas, N. Abrego, V. Grotan, R.A.F. de Lima, C. Bello, R. S. Bovendorp, L. Culot, E. Hasui, F. Lima, R. A. Muylaert, B. B. Niebuhr, A. A. Oliveira, L. A. Pereira, P. I. Prado, R. D. Stevens, M. H. Vancine, M. C. Rieiro, M. Galetti and O. Ovaskainen.  2020.  Fragmented tropical forests lose mutualistic plant-animal interactions.  Diversity and Distributions 26: 154-168.

87.    A. Ghosh, M. G. Johnson, A. B. Osmanski, T. C. Glenn, S. Louha, N. J. Bayona, J. Gongora, R. E. Green, S. Isberg, R. D. Stevens and D. A. Ray.  2020.  A high-quality reference genome assembly of the saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, reveals patterns of selection in Crocodylidae.  Genome Biology and Evolution 12: 3635–3646.

88.    M. A. Turcios-Casco, H. D. Avila-Palma, R. Laval, R. D. Stevens, J. A. Soler-Orellano, E. J. Ordonez Trejo, D. I. Ordonez Mazier.  2020.  A systematic revision of bats (Chiroptera) of Honduras:  an updated checklist with corroboration of historical specimens and new records.  Zoosystematics and Evolution 96: 411-429.

89.    R. D. Bradley, L. C. Bradley, K. MacDonald, H. N. Stevens and R. D. Stevens.  2020.  Nomenclatural, curatorial, and archival best practices for symbiotypes and other type materials in natural history collections.  Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University 366: 1-17.

90.    R. D. Stevens, C. J. Garcia, M. A. Madden, B. B. Gregory and R. W. Perry.  2020.  Seasonality of the bat community of the Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana.  Southeastern Naturalist, 19: 524-536.

91.    R. D. Stevens and J. Grimshaw.  2020. Relative effects of ecological drift and selection on structure of an Atlantic Forest bat community.  Oecologia 193: 645-654.

92.    R. D. Stevens.  2020.  Editor’s choice.  Journal of Mammalogy 101: 1436-1437.

93.    R. D. Stevens and J. D. Stuhler* and J. R. Grimshaw*.  2020.  Chiropteran metacommunity structure in Atlantic Forest of South America.  Journal of Biogeography 47: 2141-2155.

94.    B. A. Foraker*, D. A. Gredell*, J. F. Legako, R. D. Stevens, J. D. Tatum*, K. E. Belk* and D. R. Woerner.  2020.  Flavor, tenderness, and related chemical changes of aged beef strip loins.  Meat and Muscle Biology 4: 1.

95.    M. A. Krishnamoorthy, C. J. Garcia, E. E. Guest, M. K. Halsey, J. Parlos, T. J. Soniat, J. D. Stuhler, E. E. Stukenholtz, S. C. Verla, B. Andersen, J. R. Grimshaw, L. L. Lindsey, R. W. Manning, R. Martin, R. M. Pitts, C. A. Rickert, C. Rios-Blanco, H. G. Wilson, R. D. Bradley and R. D. Stevens.  2021.  New county records for 21 species across Texas from Orders Cingulata, Carnivora, Chiroptera, Rodentia and Sociomorpha.  Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University 372: 1-11.

96.    R. D. Stevens and H. N. Amarilla Stevens.  2021.  Dietary patterns of phyllostomid bats in interior Atlantic Forest of eastern Paraguay.  Journal of Mammalogy 102: 685-694.

97.    M. K. Halsey, J. D. Stuhler, R. N. Platt II, D. A. Ray and R. D. Stevens.  Cheeky business:  comparing DNA yield of whisker and buccal samples for minimally invasive mammalian genetic research.  Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University 374: 1-9.

98.    T. J. Soniat, H. Sihaloho, R. D. Stevens, T. D. Little C. D. Phillips, and R. D. Bradley. 2021.  Temporal-dependent effects of DNA degradation on frozen tissues archived at -80OC.  Journal of Mammalogy 102: 375-383.

99.    B. A. Kohli, R. D. Stevens, E. A. Rickart and R. J. Rowe.  Mammals on mountainsides revisited:  functional and phylogenetic diversity reveal complex assembly processes.  Journal of Biogeography 48: 1606-1621.

100.    R. D. Stevens, C. J. Garcia, E. E. Guest, A. Hargrove, M. A. Krishnamoorthy, C. F. Rickert, E. M. Sanchez, C. A. Triplett, H. Wilson and S. J. Robertson.  Seasonality of use of bridges as day-roosts by bats in the Trans-Pecos of Texas.  Therya 12: 207.

101.    E. E. Stukenholtz*, T. A. Hailu, S. Childers, C. Leatherwood, L. Evans, D. Roulain, D. Townsley, M. Treider, R. Neal Platt II, S. R. Fritts, D. A. Ray, J. C. Zak and R. D. Stevens.  A pigeon’s eye view of a college campus.  2021.  Southwestern Naturalist, In Press.

102.    J. C. Perkins. K. P. Jefferson, M. H. Hamilton, R. C. Dowler and R. D. Stevens.  Effect of seasonality and bait type on Plains spotted skunk capture efficacy and sex ratio.  Southeastern Naturalist 20: 241-251.

103.    R. D. Stevens.  Dietary affinities, resource overlap and core structure of Atlantic Forest phyllostomid bat communities.  Mammal Review, In Press.

104.    M. A. Turcios-Casco, C. de Sales Dambros, G. Franzoi Dri, N. Caceres, R. D. Stevens and R. Cazzolla Gatti.  Variation in taxonomic and functional diversity of New World leaf-nosed bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) along environmental gradients in Honduras.  Mammalian Biology, In Press.

105.    N. U. de la Sancha, S. Boyle, N. E. McIntyre, D. Brooks, A. Yanosky, E. Cuellar, F. Mereles, and R. D. Stevens 2021.  The disappearing Dry Chaco, one of the last dry forest systems on earth.  Landscape Ecology 36:  2997–3012.

106.    N. Y. O. Kusi, K. L. Lewis, G. D. Morgan, G. L. Ritchie, S. K. Deb, R. D. Stevens and H. Y. Santim.  Cotton cultivar response to potassium fertilizer application in Texas’ southern high plains.  Agronomy Journal, In Press.

107.    M. Volleth, F. A. A. Khan, S. Müller, D. A. Ray, R. J. Baker, D. Arenas, V. Trifonov, T. Liehr, K.-G. Heller, R. D. Stevens and C. G. S. Caio.  Cytogenetic investigations in Bornean Rhinolophoidea revealed cryptic diversity in R. sedulus entailing classification of Peninsular Malaysia specimens as a new species.  Acta Chiropterologica 23: 1-20.

108.  J. R. Grimshaw, D. A. Ray and R. D. Stevens.  2021.  Ecological niche models for bats of greatest conservation need in Louisiana.  Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University 378: 1-15.

109.  R. D. Stevens.  Reflections of Grinnellian and Eltonian niches on the distribution of phyllostomid bats in Atlantic Forest of South America.  2022.  Journal of Biogeography 49: 94-103.

110.  J. R. Grimshaw, R. D. Stevens and D. A. Ray.  2022.  Landscape patterns of genetic diversity of bat species of greatest conservation need in Louisiana.  Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University 380: 1-12.

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111.  R. D. Stevens.  2022.  Dietary affinities, resource overlap and core structure of Atlantic Forest phyllostomid bat communities.  Mammal Review 52: 177-191.

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112.  G. L. Florez-Montero, R. L. Muylaert, M. R. Norgueira, C. Geiselman, S. E. Santana, R. D. Stevens, M. Tschapka, R. A. Rodriguez and M. A. R. Mello.  2022.  NeoBat Interactions:  a data set of bat-plant interaction in the Neotropics.  Ecology E3640.

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113.  B. S. Avirineni, A, Singh, R. C. Zapata, R. D. Stevens, C. D. Phillips and P. K. Chelikani.  2022.  Diets containing egg or whey protein and inulin fiber improve energy balance, body composition and modulate gut microbiota in exercising obese rats.  Resubmitted to Molecular Nutrition and Food Research 66: 2270019.

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114.  R. D. Stevens.  2022.  Broad-scale gradients of resource utilization by phyllostomid bats in Atlantic Forest:  patterns of dietary overlap, turnover and the efficacy of ecomorphological approaches. Oecologia 198: 785-799.

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115.  J. M. Korstian, N. Paulat, R. N. Platt, R. D. Stevens and D. A. Ray.  2022.  SINE-based phylogenomics reveals extensive introgression and incomplete lineage sorting in Myotis.  Genes 13: 399.

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116.  S. Estrada-Villegas, J. Pérez-Torres, B. J. McGill and Richard D. Stevens.  2022.  Environmental seasonality regulates community evenness in Neotropical bat communities.  Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 216.

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117.  G. D. Langlois, R. D. Cox, P. S. Gipson and R. D. Stevens.  2022.  The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is recolonizing the Llano Estacado.  Western North American Naturalist 82: 190-195.

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118.  E. E. Stukenholtz, T. A. Hailu, S. Childers, C. Leatherwood, L. Evans, D. Roulain, D. Townsley, M. Treider, R. Neal Platt II, S. R. Fritts, D. A. Ray, J. C. Zak and R. D. Stevens.  2022.    A pigeon’s eye view of a college campus.  Southwestern Naturalist 66: 13-24..

 

119.  B. A. Andersen, L. M. McGuire, T. B. Wigley, D. E. Miller, and R. D. Stevens.  2022.  Habitat associations of overwintering bats in managed pine forest landscapes.  Forests 13: 803.