List of Sarracenia purpurea publications written by members of SPIN

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Arellano, A. A., Young, E. B. & Coon, K. L. An inquiline mosquito modulates microbial diversity and function in an aquatic microecosystem. Molecular Ecology 00, e17314, https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17314 (2024). 

Arellano, A. A., & Coon, K. L. Bacterial communities in carnivorous pitcher plants colonize and persist in inquiline mosquitoes.  Animal Microbiome 4, 1-15, doi.org/10.1186/s42523-022-00164-1 (2022). 

Baiser, B., Gotelli, N. J., Buckley, H. L., Miller, T. E. & Ellison, A. M. Geographic variation in network structure of a nearctic aquatic food web. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21, 579-591, doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00705.x (2012).

Bernardin, J. R., Young, E. B., Cagle, G. A., Freedman, Z. B. & Bittleston, L. S. Environmental Stress Shapes Bacterial Community Structure and Function Through Interactive Abiotic Effects. Molecular Ecology, e70102. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70102 (2025).

Bernardin, J. R., Gray, S. M., & Bittleston, L. S. Arthropod prey type drives decomposition rates and microbial community processes. Applied and environmental microbiology, e0039424. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00394-24. (2024).

Bernardin J. R., Young E. B., Gray S. M., Bittleston L. S. Bacterial community function increases leaf growth in a pitcher plant experimental system. mSystems 0:e01298-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01298-24. (2024).

Besson, Mathilde. Laisser sa trace: utiliser les interactions pour comprendre l'evolution. PhD Dissertation. Université de Montréal. doi.org/1866/26847 (2021).

Bittleston, L. S. et al. Convergence between the microcosms of Southeast Asian and North American pitcher plants. eLife 7, e36741, doi:10.7554/eLife.36741 (2018).

Bittleston, L. S., Freedman, Z. B., Bernardin, J. R., Grothjan, J. J., Young, E. B., Record, S., . . . Gray, S. M. Exploring microbiome functional dynamics through space and time with trait-based theory. mSystems, 6, 10.1128/msystems. 00530-00521, https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00530-21 (2021).

Bott, T., Meyer, G. A. & Young, E. B. Nutrient limitation and morphological plasticity of the carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea in contrasting wetland environments. New Phytologist 180, 631-641, doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02575.x (2008).

Boynton, P. J., Peterson, C. N. & Pringle, A. Superior dispersal ability can lead to persistent ecological dominance throughout succession. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 85, e02421-02418, doi:10.1128/aem.02421-18 (2019).

Buckley, H. L., Miller, T. E., Ellison, A. M. & Gotelli, N. J. Reverse latitudinal trends in species richness of pitcher-plant food webs. Ecology Letters 6, 825-829, doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00504.x (2003).

Buckley, H. L. et al. Small-scale patterns in community structure of Sarracenia purpurea inquilines. Community Ecology 5, 181-188, doi:10.1556/ComEc.5.2004.2.6 (2004).

Buckley, H. L., Miller, T. E., Ellison, A. M. & Gotelli, N. J. Local- to continental-scale variation in the richness and composition of an aquatic food web. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19, 711-723, doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00554.x (2010).

Cagle, G.A., McGrew, A., Baiser, B., Record, S., Gotelli, N.J., Gravel, D., Bittleston, L.S., Young, E.B., Gray, S.M. and Freedman, Z.B. Dispersal Limitation Governs Bacterial Community Assembly in the Northern Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) at the Continental Scale. Global Ecol Biogeogr, 33: e13922. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13922. (2024).

Canter, E. J., Cuellar-Gempeler, C., Pastore, A. I., Miller, T. E. & Mason, O. U. Predator identity more than predator richness structures aquatic microbial assemblages in Sarracenia purpurea leaves. Ecology 99, 652-660, doi:10.1002/ecy.2128 (2018).

Cuellar‐Gempeler, C., terHorst, C. P., Mason, O. U., & Miller, T. Predator dispersal influences predator distribution but not prey diversity in pitcher plant microbial metacommunities. Ecology 104, e3912, doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3912 (2023).

D’Andrea, R., Khattar, G., Koffel, T., Frans, V.F., Bittleston, L.S. & Cuellar-Gempeler, C. Reciprocal inhibition and competitive hierarchy cause negative biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships. Ecology Letters, 27, e14356. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14356 (2024).

Ellison, A. M., Gotelli, N. J. Scaling in Ecology with a Model System. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691222783 (2021).

Ellison, A. M., & Gotelli, N. J. Nitrogen availability alters the expression of carnivory in the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99, 4409-4412. (2002). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.022057199. 

Ellison, A. M. et al. The evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants. Advances in Ecological Research 33, 1-74 (2003).

Ellison, A. M., Buckley, H. L., Miller, T. E. & Gotelli, N. J. Morphological variation in Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae): geographic, environmental, and taxonomic correlates. American Journal of Botany 91, 1930-1935, doi:10.3732/ajb.91.11.1930 (2004).

Freedman, Z. B., McGrew, A., Baiser, B., Besson, M., Gravel, D., Poisot, T., . . . Gotelli, N. J. Environment–host–microbial interactions shape the Sarraceniapurpurea microbiome at the continental scale. Ecology(e03308), doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3308  (2021).

Goddard. E. L., Naczi, R., Walker, K., Millett, J., Wood, P. J. First records ofthe pitcher plant mite Sarraceniopus gibsoni (Nesbitt, 1954) (Astigmata: Histiostomatidae) in Europe. BioInvasions Records 11, 62–69, doi.org/10. 3391/bir.2022.11.1.07 (2022).

Gray, S. M., Miller, T. E., Mouquet, N. & Daufresne, T. Nutrient limitation in detritus-based microcosms in Sarracenia purpurea. Hydrobiologia 573, 173-181, doi:10.1007/s10750-006-0265-2 (2006).

Gray, S. M. Succession in the aquatic Sarracenia purpurea community: deterministic or driven by contingency? Aquatic Ecology 46, 487-499, doi:10.1007/s10452-012-9417-9 (2012).

Gray, S. M., Akob, D. M., Green, S. J. & Kostka, J. E. The bacterial composition within the Sarracenia purpurea model system: local scale differences and the relationship with the other members of the food web. PLOS ONE 7, e50969, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050969 (2012).

Gray, S. M., Dykhuizen, D. E. & Padilla, D. K. The effects of species properties and community context on establishment success. Oikos 124, 355-363, doi:10.1111/oik.01550 (2015).

Gray, S. M. et al. Temperature and trophic structure are driving microbial productivity along a biogeographical gradient. Ecography 39, 981-989, doi:10.1111/ecog.01748 (2016).

Grothjan, J. J. & Young, E. B. Diverse microbial communities hosted by the model carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea: analysis of both bacterial and eukaryotic composition across distinct host plant populations. PeerJ 7, e6392 (2019).

Harvey, E. & Miller, T. E. Variance in composition of inquiline communities in leaves of Sarracenia purpurea L. on multiple spatial scales. Oecologia 108, 562-566, doi:10.1007/bf00333734 (1996).

Hatcher, C. R., Ryves, D. B., & Millett, J. The function of secondary metabolites in plant carnivory. Annals of Botany 125, 399-411, doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcz191 (2020).

Hoekman, D. et al. Oviposition decreased in response to enriched water: a field study of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Ecological Entomology 32, 92-96, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.2006.00840.x (2007).

Holdridge, E. M., Cuellar-Gempeler, C. & terHorst, C. P. A shift from exploitation to interference competition with increasing density affects population and community dynamics. Ecology and Evolution 6, 5333-5341, doi:10.1002/ece3.2284 (2016).

Holdridge, E. M., Flores, G. E. & terHorst, C. P. Predator trait evolution alters prey community composition. Ecosphere 8, e01803, doi:10.1002/ecs2.1803 (2017).

Kadowaki, K., Inouye, B. D. & Miller, T. E. Assembly-history dynamics of a pitcher-plant protozoan community in experimental microcosms. PLOS ONE 7, e42651, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042651 (2012).

Khadempour, L., Rivas Quijano, L., & terHorst, C. P. Prey identity affects fitness of a generalist consumer in a brown food web. Ecology and Evolution 12, e9207. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9207 (2022).

Kneitel, J. M. & Miller, T. E. Dispersal rates affect species composition in metacommunities of Sarracenia purpurea inquilines. The American Naturalist 162, 165-171, doi:10.1086/376585 (2003).

Korn, R. Structure and dynamics of communities in natural microcosms under global change. Doctoral Thesis: University of Fribourg. (2021). 

Lau, M. K., Baiser, B., Northrop, A. C., Gotelli, N. J. & Ellison, A. M. Regime shifts and hysteresis in the pitcher-plant microecosystem. Ecological Modelling 382, 1-8, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.04.016 (2018).

McGrew A., Freedman, Z. B. & Baiser, B. Top-down processes drive taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in a model aquatic microbial community. Ecology 106, e70093. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70093 (2025).

Miller, T. E. et al. Intraspecific and interspecific competition of Wyeomyia smithii (Coq.) (Culicidae) in pitcher plant communities. The American Midland Naturalist 131, 136-145, doi:10.2307/2426616 (1994).

Miller, T. E., Horth, L. & Reeves, R. H. Trophic interactions in the phytotelmata communities of the Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Community Ecology 3, 109-116, doi:10.1556/ComEc.3.2002.1.13 (2002).

Miller, T. E., Kneitel, J. M. & Burns, J. H. Effect of community structure on invasion success and rate. Ecology 83, 898-905, doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0898:eocsoi]2.0.co;2 (2002).

Miller, T. E. & terHorst, C. P. Testing successional hypotheses of stability, heterogeneity, and diversity in pitcher-plant inquiline communities. Oecologia 170, 243-251, doi:10.1007/s00442-012-2292-1 (2012).

Miller, T. E., Moran, E. R. & terHorst, C. P. Rethinking niche evolution: experiments with natural communities of protozoa in pitcher plants. The American Naturalist 184, 277-283, doi:10.1086/676943 (2014).

Miller, T. E., Buhler, M. L. & Cuellar-Gempeler, C. Species-specific differences determine responses to a resource pulse and predation. Oecologia 190, 169-178, doi:10.1007/s00442-019-04393-1 (2019).

Miller, T. E., Pastore, A. I., Cuellar-Gempeler, C., Canter, E., & Mason, O. U. Effects of community richness and competitive asymmetry on protozoa evolution in Sarracenia purpurea leaves. The American Naturalist 200, 691-703, doi.org/10.1086/721010 (2022).

Mouquet, N., Miller, T. E. , Daufresne, T. & Kneitel, J. M. Consequences of varying regional heterogeneity in source–sink metacommunities. Oikos 113, 481-488, doi:10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14582.x (2006).

Mouquet, N., Daufresne, T., Gray, S. M. & Miller, T. E. Modelling the relationship between a pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) and its phytotelma community: mutualism or parasitism? Functional Ecology 22, 728-737, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01421.x (2008).

Northrop, A. C., Brooks, R. K., Ellison, A. M., Gotelli, N. J. & Ballif, B. A. Environmental proteomics reveals taxonomic and functional changes in an enriched aquatic ecosystem. Ecosphere 8, e01954, doi:10.1002/ecs2.1954 (2017).

Paisie, T. K., Miller, T. E. & Mason, O. U. Effects of a ciliate protozoa predator on microbial communities in pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) leaves. PLOS ONE 9, e113384, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113384 (2014).

Parain, E. C., Gravel, D., Rohr, R. P., Bersier, L.-F. & Gray, S. M. Mismatch in microbial food webs: predators but not prey perform better in their local biotic and abiotic conditions. Ecology and Evolution 6, 4885-4897, doi:10.1002/ece3.2236 (2016).

Parain, E. C., Rohr, R. P., Gray, S. M. & Bersier, L.-F. Increased temperature disrupts the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship. The American Naturalist 193, 227-239, doi:10.1086/701432 (2019).

Parain, E. C., Gray, S. M. & Bersier, L.-F. The effects of temperature and dispersal on species diversity in natural microbial metacommunities. Scientific Reports 9:18286, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54866-9 (2019).

Sirota, J., Baiser, B., Gotelli, N. J., & Ellison, A. M. Organic-matter loading determines regime shifts and alternative states in an aquatic ecosystem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(19), 7742-7747. doi:10.1073/pnas.1221037110 (2013).

terHorst, Casey P. Evolution in response to direct and indirect ecological effects in pitcher plant inquiline communities. The American Naturalist 176, 675-685, doi:10.1086/657047 (2010).

terHorst, C. P., Miller, T. E. & Levitan, D. R. Evolution of prey in ecological time reduces the effect size of predators in experimental microcosms. Ecology 91, 629-636, doi:10.1890/09-1481.1 (2010).

terHorst, C. P. Experimental evolution of protozoan traits in response to interspecific competition. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24, 36-46, doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02140.x (2011).

terHorst, C. P. et al. Evolution in a community context: trait responses to multiple species interactions. The American Naturalist 191, 368-380, doi:10.1086/695835 (2018).

Whatmore, R., Wood, P. J., Dwyer, C., & Millett, J. Prey capture by the non‐native carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea across sites in Britain and Ireland. Ecology and Evolution 12, e9588, doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9588 (2022).

Young, E. B., Sielicki, J. & Grothjan, J. J. Regulation of hydrolytic enzyme activity in aquatic microbial communities hosted by carnivorous pitcher plants. Microbial Ecology 76, 885-898, doi:10.1007/s00248-018-1187-z (2018).

Zander, A., Gravel, D., Bersier, L.-F. & Gray, S. M. Top predators affect the composition of naive protist communities, but only in their early-successional stage. Oecologia 180, 519-528, doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3476-2 (2016).

Zander, A., Bersier, L.-F. & Gray, S. M. Effects of temperature variability on community structure in a natural microbial food web. Global Change Biology 23, 56-67, doi:10.1111/gcb.13374 (2017).