Publications
2023
Libby, E., C. Kempes, and J.G. Okie. 2023. Metabolic compatibility and the rarity of endosymbioses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(17) e2206527120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2206527120.
Fahimi, P., C.F. Matta, and J.G. Okie. 2023. Are size and mitochondrial power of cells inter-determined? Journal of Theoretical Biology 572:111565. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2023.111565.
2022
Burger, J.R., Okie, J.G., Hatton, I.A., Weinberger, V.P., Shrestha, M., Liedtke, K.J., Be, T., Cruz, A.R., Feng, X., Hinojo-Hinojo, C. 2022. Global city densities: re-examining urban scaling theory. Frontiers in Conservation Science 3: 125.
Jiang, X, D.J. Van Horn, J.G. Okie, H.N. Buelow, E. Schwartz, D.R. Colman, K. Feeser, C.D. Takacs-Vesbach. 2022. Limits to the Three Domains of Life: Lessons from an Antarctic Salinity Gradient. Extremophiles 26:15. DOI: 10.1007/s00792-022-01262-3.
Storch, D., I. Simova, J. Smyčka, E. Bohdalková, A. Toszogyova, J.G. Okie. 2022. Biodiversity dynamics in the Anthropocene: How human activities change equilibria of species richness. Ecography 44:1-19.
2020
Okie, J.G., A.T. Poret-Peterson, Z.M.-P. Lee, L. Eguiarte, A. Richter, L.D. Alcaraz-Peraza, L.E. Eguiarte, J.L. Siefert, V. Souza, C.L. Dupont, and J.J. Elser. 2020. Genomic adaptations in information processing underpin trophic strategy in a whole-ecosystem nutrient experiment. eLife 9:e49816. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.49816.
2019
Storch, D., E. and J.G. Okie. 2019. The carrying capacity for species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28:1519-1532.
2018
Storch, D., E. Bohdalková, and J.G. Okie. 2018. The more-individuals hypothesis revisited: the role of community abundance in species richness regulation and the productivity-diversity relationship. Ecology Letters 21: 930-937. (Supporting Online Material).
Feeser, K.L., D.J. Van Horn, H.N. Buelow, D.R. Colman, T. McHugh, J.G. Okie, E. Schwartz, and C.D. Takacs-Vesbach. 2018. Local and regional scale heterogeneity drive bacterial community diversity and composition in a polar desert. Frontiers in Microbiology 9:1928.
Bo Wu, F. Liu, M. D. Weiser, D. Ning, J. G. Okie, L. Shen, B. Chai, J. Li, Y. Deng, K. Feng, L. Wu, S. Chen, J. Zhou, and Z. He. Temperature determines the diversity and structure of N2O-reducing microbial assemblages. Functional Ecology 32: 1867-1878.
Tests my metabolic environmental filtering theory of diversity (Okie et al. 2015) with a multi-scale study spanning over 3000 km and 30o in latitude
Zhang, C., D. Niu, M. Song, J.J. Elser, J.G. Okie, ad H. Fu. Effects of rainfall manipulations on carbon exchange of cyanobacteria and moss-dominated biological soil crusts. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 124: 24-31.
Elser, J.E., J.G. Okie, Z. Lee, and V. Souza. 2018. The Effects of Nutrients and N:P Ratio on Microbial Communities: Testing the Growth Rate Hypothesis and Its Extensions in Lagunita Pond (Churince). In: Ecosystem Ecology and Geochemistry of Cuatro Cienegas (Garcia-Oliva F., Elser J., Souza V., editors). Springer, Cham.
2017
Cockerill, K., M. Armstrong, J. Richter, and J.G. Okie. 2017. Environmental Realism - Challenging Solutions. Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland.
Chapter 1 - Why Challenge Solutions
Chapter 2 - River Management and Restoration: Addressing Yesterday's Solutions
Chapter 3 - The Human Nature of Infectious Disease
Chapter 4 - The Unpredictable Materiality of Radioactive Waste
Chapter 5 - Integrating Science and Society for Environmental Realism
2016
Okie, J.G., V.H. Smith, and M. Martin-Cereceda. 2016. Major evolutionary transitions of life, metabolic scaling, and the number and size of mitochondria and chloroplasts. Proc. Roc. Soc. B 283:20160611. (Supplemental Material).
2015
Okie, J.G., D.J. Van Horn, D. Storch, J.E. Barrett, M.N. Gooseff, L. Kopsova, and C.D. Takacs-Vesbach. 2015. Niche and metabolic principles explain patterns of diversity and distribution: theory and a case study with soil bacterial communities. Proc. Roc. Soc. B 282:20142630.
Subsequent tests of theory: In protist communities from forest soils and latitudinal gradient in soil bacteria.
Hammond, S.T., J.H. Brown, J.R. Burger, T.P. Flanagan, T.S. Fristoe, N. Mercado-Silva, J.C. Nekola, J.G. Okie. 2015. Food spoilage, storage, and transport: Implications for a sustainable future. Bioscience 8:758-768.
Marquet, P.A., A.P. Allen, J.H. Brown, J. Dunne, B.J. Enquist, J.F. Gillooly, P.A. Gowaty, J.L. Green, D. Storch, J. Harte, S.P. Hubbell, J. O´Dwyer, J.G. Okie, M. Ritchie, A. Ostling, and G.B. West. 2015. On the importance of first principles in ecological theory development. Bioscience 65:342-343.
2014
Marquet, P.A., A.P. Allen, J.H. Brown, J. Dunne, B.J. Enquist, J.F. Gillooly, P.A. Gowaty, J.L. Green, D. Storch, J. Harte, S.P. Hubbell, J. O´Dwyer, J.G. Okie, M. Ritchie, A. Ostling, and G.B. West. 2014. On theory in ecology. Bioscience 64:701-710.
Schwartz, E., H.N. Buelow, M.N. Gooseff, J.E. Barrett, J.G. Okie, C.D. Takacs-Vesbach, and D.J. Van Horn. Characterizationof Growing Bacterial Populations in McMurdo Dry Valley Soils through Stable Isotope Probing with 18O-water. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 89:415-424.
Saarinen, J.J., A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, S.K.M. Ernest, A.R. Evans, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, J.G. Okie, R.M. Sibly, F.A. Smith, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, M.D. Uhen. 2014. Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: intrinsic biological processes and extrinsic forcing. Proc. Roc. Soc. B: 281:20132049.
Brown, J.H., C.D. Allen. W.R. Burnside, M. Chang, A.D. Davidson, T.S. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, S.T. Hammond, A. Kodric-Brown, N. Mercado-Silva, J.C. Nekola, J.G. Okie, and W.H. Woodruff. 2013. Macroecology Meets Macroeconomics: Resource Scarcity and Global Sustainability. Ecological Engineering 65:24-32.
Van Horn, D.J., J.G. Okie, H.N. Buelow, M.N. Gooseff, J.E. Barrett, and C.D. Takacs-Vesbach. 2014. Soil microbial community response to increased moisture and organic resources along a salinity gradient in Antarctica. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80: 3034-3043.
2013
Okie, J.G., A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, S.K.M. Ernest, A.R. Evans, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, , J.J. Saarinen, F.A. Smith, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, M.D. Uhen, and R.M. Sibly. 2013. Effects of allometry, productivity, and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution. Proc R Soc B 280: 20131007. (Appendix).
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Nekola, J.C., J.H. Brown, A. Kodric-Brown, and J.G. Okie. 2013. Global sustainability versus the Malthusian-Darwinian dynamic: A response to Rull. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:444.
Okie, J.G. 2013. General models for the spectra of surface area scaling strategies of cells and organisms: fractality, geometric dissimilitude, and internalization. American Naturalist 181:421-439. (Appendix).
Winner of the American Naturalist Student Paper Award
Paper's theory used in 2014 Ecology Letters paper and 2015 Proceedings B paper by Hirst, Glazier, and Atkinson to test metabolic scaling hypotheses
Theoretical predictions confirmed by lab study in 2016 Journal of Evolutionary Biology paper by Neustupa
Nekola, J.C., C.D. Allen, J.H. Brown, W.R. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, T.S. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, S.T. Hammond, A. Kodric-Brown, N. Mercado-Silva, and J.G. Okie. 2013. The Malthusian-Darwinian dynamic and the trajectory of civilization. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:127-130.
Media: Featured in Scientific American online article on human macroecology
Hammond, S.T., J.H. Brown, J.R. Burger, M. Chang, T.P. Flanagan, T.S. Fristoe, S.T. Hammond, A. Kodric-Brown, and J.G. Okie. 2013. Bankrupting nature for the (temporary) wealth of nations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 28:576-577.
Nekola, J.C., J.H. Brown, A. Kodric-Brown, J.G. Okie. 2013. Global sustainability versus the Malthusian-Darwinian dynamic: a reply to Rull. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:444.
Brown, J.H., J.R. Burger, W. Burnside, M. Chang, A. Davidson, T. Fristoe, M. Hamilton, S. Hammond, A. Kodric-Brown, N. Mercado-Silva, J. Nekola, and J.G. Okie. 2013. Gasoline and Fertility. Nautilus 001: http://nautil.us/issue/1/what-makes-you-so-special/gasoline-and-fertility.
2012
Burger, J.R., C.D. Allen, J. H. Brown, W.R. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, T.S. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, N. Mercado-Silva, J.C. Nekola, J.G. Okie, and W. Zuo. 2012. The macroecology of sustainability. PLoS Biology 10(6):e1001345.
Recommended as "Must Read" by Faculty of 1000 Biology
Collins, S.L., S.E. Koerner, J.A. Plaut, J.G. Okie, D. Brese, L.B. Calabrese, A. Carvajal, R.J. Evansen, and E. Nonaka. 2012. Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation. Functional ecology 26:1450-1459.
Okie, J.G. 2012. Microorganisms, in Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach (eds R.M. Sibly, J.H. Brown, and A. Kodric-Brown), Jon Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
Evans, A.R., D.O. Jones, A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, S.K.M. Ernest, E.M.G. Fitzgerald, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, J.G. Okie, J.J. Saarinen, R.M. Sibly, F.A. Smith, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, and M.D. Uhen. 2012. The maximum rate of mammal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:4187-4190.PNAS Commentary by David Polly
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2011
Brown, J.H., W. Burnside, A.D Davidson, J.P. DeLong, B. Dunn, M.J. Hamilton, J.C. Nekola, J.G. Okie, N.M. Silva, and W. Zuo. 2011. Energetic limits to economic growth. BioScience 61:19-26. (Supplementary Online Material).
Rated "Exceptional" and "Must Read" by Faculty of 1000 members
2010
Smith, F.A., A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, T. Dayan, S.K.M. Ernest, A.R. Evans, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, Christy McCain, J.G. Okie, J.J. Saarinen, R. Sibly, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, and M.D. Uhen. 2010. The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals. Science 330:1216-1219. (Supporting Information).
DeLong, J.P., J.G. Okie, M.E. Moses, R.M. Sibly, and J.H. Brown. 2010. Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:12941-12945.
Sandel, B., L.J. Goldstein, N.J.B. Kraft, J.G. Okie, M.I. Shuldman, D.D. Ackerly, E.E. Cleland and K.N. Suding. 2010. Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation. New Phytologist 188:565-575.
2009
Okie, J.G., and J.H. Brown. 2009. Niches, body sizes, and the disassembly of mammal communities on the Sunda Shelf islands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106:19679-19684. (Supporting Information).
