Andrew H. Altieri
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Box G-W
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912 USA
Email: Andrew_Altieri@Brown.edu
Phone: 401-378-3635
Fax: 401-863-2100

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• Thomsen, M.S., T. Wernberg, A. H. Altieri, F. Tuya, D. Gulbransen, K. McGlathery, M. Holmer, B.R. Silliman (2010) Habitat cascades: the conceptual context and global relevance of facilitation cascades via habitat formation and modification. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50:158-175.
• Altieri, A.H., B.K. van Wesenbeeck, M.D. Bertness, and B.R. Silliman (2010) Facilitation cascade explains positive relationship between native biodiversity and invasion success. Ecology 91: 1269-1275.
*Selected by the Faculty of 1000 Biology
• Bertness, M.D., C. Holdredge, and A.H. Altieri (2009) Substrate mediates consumer control of salt marsh cordgrass on Cape Cod, New England. Ecology 90: 2108-2117.
• Altieri, A.H, G.C. Trussell, P.J. Ewanchuk, G. Bernatchez, and M.E.S. Bracken (2009) Consumers control diversity and functioning in a natural marine ecosystem. PLoS ONE 4: e5291.
• Holdredge, C., M.D. Bertness, and A.H. Altieri (2009) Crab herbivory driven die-off of New England salt marshes. Conservation Biology 23: 617-692.
• Altieri, A.H. (2008) Dead zones enhance key fisheries species by providing predation refuge. Ecology 89: 2808-2818.
*Selected for Ecological Society of America’s monthly podcast (Field Talk, 10/08).
• Van Wesenbeeck, B.K., C.M. Crain, A.H. Altieri, and M.D. Bertness (2007) Distinct habitat types arise along a continuous hydrodynamic stress gradient due to the interplay of competition and facilitation. Marine Ecology Progress Series 349: 63-71.
• Altieri, A.H., B.R. Silliman, M.D. Bertness (2007) Hierarchical organization via a facilitation cascade in intertidal cordgrass bed communities. American Naturalist 169: 195-206.
• Zabin, C.J. and Altieri, A. (2007) A Hawaiian limpet facilitates recruitment of a competitively dominant invasive barnacle. Marine Ecology Progress Series 137: 175-185.
• Altieri, A.H. (2006) Inducible variation in hypoxia tolerance across the intertidal-subtidal distribution of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 325: 295-300.
• Altieri, A.H. and J.D. Witman (2006) Local extinction of a foundation species in a hypoxic estuary: integrating individuals to ecosystem. Ecology 87: 717-730.
• Van de Koppel, J., A. H. Altieri, B.R. Silliman, J. F. Bruno, and M. D. Bertness (2006) Scale-dependent interactions and community structure on cobble beaches. Ecology Letters 9: 45-50.
• Lindsey, E. L., A.H. Altieri, J.D. Witman (2006) Influence of biogenic habitat on the recruitment and distribution of a subtidal xanthid crab. Marine Ecology Progress Series 306: 223-231.
• Altieri, A.H. (2003) Settlement cues in the locally dispersing temperate cup coral Balanophyllia elegans. Biological Bulletin 204: 241-245.
• Silliman, B.R., C.A. Layman, and A.H. Altieri (2003) Symbiosis between an alpheid shrimp and a xanthoid crab in salt marshes of mid-Atlantic states, U.S.A. Journal of Crustacean Biology 23: 876-879.