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2007. Pfister, C.A. Intertidal invertebrates locally enhance primary production. In press. Ecology. pdf

2007. Peacor, S. D., J. R. Bence, C. A. Pfister. The effect of size-dependent growth and environmental factors on animal size variability. Theoretical Population Biology 71:80-94. pdf

2006. Morris, W. F. , S. Tuljapurkar, C. Haridas, E. Menges, C. Horvitz, and C. Pfister. Sensitivity of the population growth rate to demographic variability within and between phases of the disturbance cycle. Ecology Letters 9:1331-1341. pdf

2006. Pfister, C. A. Concordance between short-term experiments and long-term censuses in tidepool fishes. Ecology 87:2905-2914. pdf

2006. Edwards, K. E. , C. A. Pfister, K. L. Van Alstyne. Nitrogen content in the brown alga Fucus gardneri and its relation to light, herbivory and wave exposure. Journal Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 336:99-109. pdf

2006. Peacor. S. D. & C. A. Pfister. Experimental and model analyses of the effects of
competition on individual size variation in wood frog Rana sylvatica tadpoles.  J Animal Ecology 75:990-999.
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2006. Boyce, M.S. C. V. Haridas, C. T. Lee. (and C. L. Boggs, E. M. Bruna, T. Coulson, D. Doak, J. M. Drake, J. M. Gailliard, C. C. Horvitz, S. Kalisz, B. E. Kendall, T. Knight, M. Masrandrea, E. S. Menges, W. F. Morris, C. A. Pfister, S. D Tuljapurkar). Demography in an increasingly variable world. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:141-148. pdf

Pfister, C.A. and M. Wang. Beyond size: Matrix projection models for populations where size is an incomplete descriptor. Ecology 86: 2673-2683. 2005. pdf

Doak, D.F., F. M. Morris, C. Pfister, B.E. Kendall and E.M. Bruna. Correctly estimating how environmental stochasticity influences fitness and population growth. The American Naturalist 166: E14-E21. 2005. pdf

Kusumo, H. , C. A. Pfister, J. T. Wootton. Dominant (AFLP) and Codominant (Microsatellite) Markers for the Kelp Postelsia palmaeformis (Laminariales). Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 372-375. 2004. pdf

Pfister, C. A. The consequences of size variability in a juvenile fish. Environmental Biology of Fishes 66:383-390. 2003. pdf

Pfister, C. A. and S. D. Peacor. Variable performance of individuals: the role of population density and endogenously formed landscape heterogeneity. Journal of Animal Ecology72:725-735. 2003. pdf

Pfister, C. A. and K. L. Van Alstyne. An experimental assessment of the effects of nutrient enhancement on the intertidal kelp Hedophyllum sessile (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae). Journal of Phycology 39:285-290. 2003. pdf

Pfister, C. A. and F. R. Stevens. Individual variation and environmental stochasticity: implications for matrix model predictions. Ecology 84:496-510. 2002. pdf

Pfister, C. A. and F. R. Stevens. The genesis of size variability in plants and animals. Ecology 83:59-72. 2001. pdf

Lopez, J. E. and C. A. Pfister. Local population dynamics in metapopulation models: implications for conservation. Conservation Biology 15:1700-1709. 2000. pdf

Heppell, S. , Pfister, C. A. and de Kroon, H. Elasticity analysis in population biology: methods and applications. Ecology 81:605-606. 1999.

Pfister, C. A. Recruitment. Pages 181-196 in: M. H. Horn, K. L. M. Martin, and M. A. Chotkowski (eds.). Intertidal Fish Ecology, Behavior, and Physiology, Academic Press. 1999. pdf

Carlson, H. R. and C. A. Pfister. A seventeen-year study of the rose star Crossaster papposus population in a coastal bay in southeast Alaska. Marine Biology 133:223-230. 1998b. pdf

Pfister, C. A. Extinction, colonization, and species occupancy in tidepool fishes. Oecologia 114:118-126. 1998a. pdf

Pfister, C. A. Patterns of variance in stage-structured populations: evolutionary predictions and ecological implications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 95:213-218. 1998. pdf

Wootton, J. T. and C. A. Pfister. The motivation and context for experiments in ecology. Pages 350-369 in: W. J. Resetarits and J. Bernardo (eds.). Issues and Perspectives in Experimental Ecology. Oxford University Press. 1997.

Pfister, C. A. Demographic consequences of within-year variation in recruitment. Marine Ecology Progress Series.153:229-238. 1996. pdf

Pfister, C. A. and A. Bradbury. Harvesting red sea urchins: recent effects and future predictions. Ecological Applications 6:298-310. 1996.

Wootton, J. T., M. E. Power, R. T. Paine, and C. A. Pfister. Effects of productivity, consumers, competitors, and El Niņo events on food chain patterns in a rocky intertidal community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93:13855-13858. 1996. pdf

Pfister, C. A. Consequences of recruitment variation in an assemblage of tidepool fishes. Ecology 77:1928-1941. 1995. pdf

Pfister, C. A. Estimating competition coefficients from census data: a test with field manipulations of tidepool fishes. The American Naturalist 146:271-291. 1992. pdf

Pfister, C. A. The cost of reproduction in an intertidal kelp: patterns of allocation and life history consequences. Ecology 73:1586-1596. 1992.

Pfister, C. A. Sculpin diversity in tidepools. Northwest Environmental Journal. 8:156-157. 1991.

Pfister, C. A. Reproductive plasticity in the kelp Alaria nana (Phaeophyceae). Journal of Phycology 27:763-766. 1988. pdf

Pfister, C. A. and M. E. Hay. Associational plant refuges: convergent patterns in marine and terrestrial systems result from differing mechanisms. Oecologia 77:118-129. 1987. pdf

Hay, M. E., J. E. Duffy, C. A. Pfister, and W. Fenical. Chemical defense against diverse marine herbivores: are amphipods insect equivalents? Ecology 68:1567-1580.

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