Papers Published or In Press:
S. K. Lyons. 1995. Areography of New World Bats and Marsupials. Mastozoologia Neotropical 2:229-231.
S. K. Lyons and M. R. Willig. 1997. Latitudinal patterns of
range size: methodological concerns and empirical evaluations for New World
Bats and Marsupials. Oikos 79:568-580.
M. R. Willig and S. K. Lyons. 1998. An analytical model of
latitudinal gradients of species richness with an empirical test for Marsupials
and Bats in the New World. Oikos 80:93-98.
S. K. Lyons and M. R. Willig. 1999. A hemispheric assessment
of scale-dependence in latitudinal gradients of species richness. Ecology.
80(8): 2483-2491. (Special Feature)
S. K. Lyons. 2000. Environmental Assessment. Chapter 3 in (C.
Lohrmann, ed.) Customer-owned Outside Plant Design manual: Underground and Buried.
BICSI Course OSP 102. (non-peer reviewed technical manual)
S. K. Lyons and M. R. Willig. 2002. Species richness, latitude,
and scale-sensitivity. Ecology 83: 47-58.
S. K. Lyons. 2003. A quantitative assessment of the range shifts
of Pleistocene mammals. Journal of Mammalogy (Special Feature). 84:
385-402.
F. A. Smith, S. K. Lyons, S. K. M. Ernest, K. E. Jones, D.
M. Kaufman, T. Dayan, P. A. Marquet, J. H. Brown, and J. P. Haskell. 2003. The
body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3402.
S. K. M. Ernest, B. J. Enquist, J. H. Brown, E. L. Charnov, J. F. Gillooly,
V. M. Savage, E. P. White, F. A. Smith, E. A. Hadly, J. P. Haskell, S.
K. Lyons, B. A. Maurer, K. J. Niklas, B. Tiffney. 2003. Thermodynamic
and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use.
Ecology Letters. 6:990-995.
S. K. Lyons, F. A. Smith and J. H. Brown. 2004. Of mice mastodons
and men: human mediated extinction on four continents. Evolutionary Ecology
Research. 6:339-358.
F. A. Smith, J. H. Brown, J. P. Haskell, S. K. Lyons, J. Alroy,
E. L. Charnov, T. Dayan, B. J. Enquist, S. K. M. Ernest, E. A. Hadly, D. Jablonski,
K. E. Jones, D. M. Kaufman, P. A. Marquet, B. A. Maurer, K. J. Niklas, W. P.
Porter, K. Roy, B. Tiffney, and M. R. Willig. 2004. Similarity of mammalian
body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time The American
Naturalist. 163:672-691.
S. K. Lyons, F. A. Smith, J. H. Brown, and E. P. White. 2004. Was a "hyperdisease" responsible for the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction? Ecology Letters. 7:859-868.
B. A. Maurer, J. Alroy, J. H. Brown, T. Dayan, B. Enquist, S. K. M. Ernest, E. Hadly, J. P. Haskell, D. Jablonski, K. E. Jones, D. M. Kaufman, S. K. Lyons, K. Niklas, W. Porter, K. Roy, F. A. Smith, B. Tiffney, and M. R. Willig. Convergence in Body Size Distributions of Small-bodied Flying Vertebrates. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 6:783-797.
J. S. Madin and S. K. Lyons. 2005. Incomplete sampling of geographic ranges weakens or reverses the positive relationship between animal species geographic range size and its body size. Evolutionary Ecology Researc. 7:607-617.
S. K. Lyons. 2005. A quantitative model for assessing the community dynamics of Pleistocene mammals. The American Naturalist. 165(6):E1-E18.
M. R. Willig, S. K. Lyons, and R. D. Stevens. Spatial methods for the macroecological study of bats. In: Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats (T. Kunz and S. Parsons, eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press (in press).
V. Millien, S. K. Lyons, L. Olson, F. A. Smith, T. Wilson,
Y. Yom-Tov. Ecotypic variation in the context of global climate change: revisiting
the rules. (invited review paper, Ecology Letters, in press).
Manuscripts submited or in preparation:
F. A. Smith and S. K. Lyons. Body size patterns of very large
mammals: does water matter? (in revision, Evolution).
S. K. Lyons. The past and future of biogeography. (invited book review, Journal of Mammalian Evolution).
S. K. Lyons. Quantitative measures of change in Pleistocene mammal distributions and community composition: Time and space. (in prep.)
S. K. Lyons. The effects of biotic and abiotic factors on the range shifts of Pleistocene mammals. (in prep.)
M. R. Willig and S. K. Lyons. Integrated understanding of latitudinal gradients of species richness: Null models and geometric constraints. (in prep.)
Books:
F. A. Smith and S. K. Lyons, editors. Body Size: Linking pattern
and process across space, time and taxonomic group. University of Chicago Press.
(in prep.)