All Stories

  1. Epistasis and an oligogenic architecture underlie the strength of a plant-herbivore interaction

    Article • September 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Matt Barbour

  2. An experimental test of the effects of temperature and resource quality on carrying capacity

    Article • Biology Letters, December 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Matt Barbour

  3. The Equilibrium Conundrum

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2025, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  4. The Roles of Space and Food‐Web Complexity in Mediating Ecological Recovery

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2025, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  5. Empirically measuring eco-evolutionary stability

    Article • October 2025, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  6. Plasticity in a key life‐history trait contributes to population cycles in an insect herbivore

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, September 2025, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  7. Linking plant genes to arthropod community dynamics: current progress and future challenges

    Article • Plant and Cell Physiology, February 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Matt Barbour

  8. Evolution of ontogenetic niches promotes species coexistence in a surprising way

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, August 2023, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  9. Genome-wide association study of aphid abundance highlights a locus affecting plant growth and flowering inArabidopsis thaliana

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, August 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Matt Barbour

  10. Genome-wide association study highlights escape from aphids by delayed growth inArabidopsis thaliana

    Article • November 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Matt Barbour

  11. Understanding climate change response in the age of genomics

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, June 2022, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  12. A keystone gene underlies the persistence of an experimental food web

    Article • Science, April 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Matt Barbour

  13. Reconciling resilience across ecological systems, species and subdisciplines

    Article • Journal of Ecology, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour, Dr Iain Stott

  14. Genetic and plastic rewiring of food webs under climate change

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, June 2021, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  15. Genetic diversity increases food-web persistence in the face of climate warming

    Article • June 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Matt Barbour

  16. Loss of consumers constrains phenotypic evolution in the resulting food web

    Article • Evolution Letters, April 2020, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  17. Urbanization reshapes a food web

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, December 2019, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  18. Ecological character displacement destabilizes food webs

    Article • October 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Matt Barbour

  19. Phenotypic evolution is more constrained in simpler food webs

    Article • January 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Matt Barbour

  20. Trait plasticity is more important than genetic variation in determining species richness of associated communities

    Article • Journal of Ecology, July 2018, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  21. Caught in the web: Spider web architecture affects prey specialization and spider-prey stoichiometric relationships

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, May 2018, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  22. Partitioning plant genetic and environmental drivers of above and belowground community assembly

    Article • August 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Matt Barbour

  23. Warming-Induced Changes to Body Size Stabilize Consumer-Resource Dynamics

    Article • The American Naturalist, June 2017, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Matt Barbour

  24. Genetic variation in resistance to leaf fungus indirectly affects spider density

    Article • Ecology, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour, Heather Slinn

  25. Freedom to move: Arctic caterpillar (Lepidoptera) growth rate increases with access to new willows (Salicaceae)

    Article • The Canadian Entomologist, April 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Matt Barbour

  26. Rattlesnake hunting behavior

    Article • Herpetologica, March 2016, Herpetologists League

    Dr Matt Barbour

  27. Genetic variation increases food-web complexity

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Matt Barbour, Dr. Miguel A Fortuna

  28. Plant genetics determines insect herbivore communities

    Article • Functional Ecology, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  29. Tail shakes affect snakes

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Matt Barbour

  30. Field video recordings reveal factors influencing predatory strike success of free-ranging rattlesnakes (Crotalus spp.)

    Article • Animal Behaviour, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Matt Barbour

  31. Diel Cycles in Chemosensory Behaviors of Free‐Ranging Rattlesnakes Lying in Wait for Prey

    Article • Ethology, March 2012, Wiley

    Dr Matt Barbour

  32. Robotic Squirrel Models

    Article • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, December 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Matt Barbour