Books

• Disease Ecology: Community Structure and Pathogen Dynamics. 2006. Edited by Sharon K. Collinge and Chris Ray. [link]

Book chapters

• Ray, C. and S.K. Collinge.  2006. Potential effects of a keystone species on the dynamics of sylvatic plague.  pp. 204-218 in S.K. Collinge and C. Ray (editors), Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
• Collinge, S.K., C. Ray, and J.F. Cully, Jr. In press. Effects of disease on keystone species, dominant species, and their communities. In R.S. Ostfeld, V. Eviner, and F. Keesing (editors), Effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Peer-reviewed research publications

• Ramp, Jennifer M., Tom A. Ranker, and Sharon K. Collinge. In press. Restoration genetics of the vernal pool endemic Lasthenia conjugens (Asteraceae). Conservation Genetics.
• Oliver, J. C., K. L. Prudic, and S. K. Collinge. 2006. Boulder County Open Space butterfly diversity and abundance. Ecology 87:1066. Ecological Archives E087-61.
• Jones, Ryan T., Andrew P. Martin, Adam J. Mitchell, Sharon K. Collinge, and Chris Ray. 2005. Characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus). Molecular Ecology Notes 5:71-73.
• Collinge, S.K., W.C. Johnson, C. Ray, R. Matchett, J. Grensten, J.F. Cully, Jr., K.L. Gage, M.Y. Kosoy, J.E. Loye, and A.P. Martin. 2005a. Testing the generality of a trophic-cascade model for plague. EcoHealth 2:102-112.
• Collinge, S.K., W.C. Johnson, C. Ray, R. Matchett, J. Grensten, J.F. Cully, Jr., K.L. Gage, M.Y. Kosoy, J.E. Loye, and A.P. Martin. 2005b. Landscape structure and plague occurrence in black-tailed prairie dogs on grasslands of the western USA. Landscape Ecology 20:941-955.
• Marty, J.T., S.K. Collinge, and K.J. Rice. 2005. Responses of a remnant California native bunchgrass population to grazing, burning, and climatic variation. Plant Ecology 181:101-112.
• Dickens, S.J., F. Gerhardt and S.K. Collinge.  2005. Recreational portage trails as corridors facilitating non-native plant invasions of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (USA). Conservation Biology 19:1653-1657.
• Johnson, W.C. and S.K. Collinge.  2004.  Landscape effects on black-tailed prairie dog colonies. Biological Conservation 115:487-497.
• Huxel, G.R., M. Holyoak, T.S. Talley, and S.K. Collinge.  2003.  Perspectives on the recovery of the threatened valley elderberry longhorn beetle.  Pp. 457-462 in:  P.M. Faber (ed.), California Riparian Systems: Processes and floodplains management, ecology, and restoration. 2001 Riparian habitat and floodplains conference proceedings, Riparian Habitat Joint Venture, Sacramento, CA.
• Collinge, S.K.  2003. Constructed vernal pool seeding experiment aids in recovery of Contra Costa goldfields (California). Ecological Restoration 21:316-317.
• Collinge, S.K., CA. Wise, and B. Weaver. 2003. Germination, early growth, and flowering of a vernal pool annual in response to soil moisture and salinity. Madroño 50(2):83-93.
• Marty, J.T., K.J. Rice, and S.K. Collinge. 2003. The effects of burning, grazing and herbicide treatments on restored and remnant populations of Nassella pulchra at Beale Air Force Base, California. Grasslands 13(2):1-9.
• Gerhardt, F. and S.K. Collinge. 2003. Exotic plant invasions of vernal pools in the Central Valley of California, USA.  Journal of Biogeography 30:1043-1052.
• Townsend, A.R., R.W. Howarth, F.A. Bazzaz, M.S. Booth, C.C. Cleveland, S.K. Collinge, A.P. Dobson, P.R. Epstein, E.A. Holland, D.R. Keeny, M.A. Mallin, P. Wayne and A. Wolfe.  2003.  Human health effects of a changing global nitrogen cycle. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(5):240-246.
• Collinge, S.K., K. Prudic, and J. Oliver. 2003. Effects of local habitat characteristics and landscape context on grassland butterfly diversity.  Conservation Biology 17:178-187.
• Collinge, S.K. and T.M. Palmer. 2002. The influences of patch shape and boundary contrast on insect response to fragmentation in California grasslands. Landscape Ecology 17 (7): 647-656.
• Collinge, S.K., M. Holyoak, J.T. Marty, and C. Barr.  2001.  Riparian habitat fragmentation and population persistence of the Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in northern California. Biological Conservation 100(1):103-113.
• Collinge, S.K. 2001.  Introduction: spatial ecology and biological conservation. Biological Conservation 100(1):1-2. [Led the list of the top 25 most downloaded articles for the journal, January-December 2001; see http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/00063207].
• Collinge, S.K.  2000.  Effects of grassland fragmentation on insect species loss, recolonization, and movement patterns. Ecology 81(8):2211-2226.
• Collinge, S.K. 1998. Spatial arrangement of patches and corridors: clues from ecological field experiments. Landscape and Urban Planning 42:157-168.
• Collinge, S.K. and R.T.T. Forman. 1998. A conceptual model of land conversion processes: predictions and evidence from a field experiment with grassland insects. Oikos 82:66-84.
• Forman, R.T.T. and S.K. Collinge. 1997. Nature conserved in changing landscapes with and without spatial planning.  Landscape and Urban Planning 37:129-135. Forman, R.T.T. and S.K. Collinge. 1996. The “spatial solution” to conserving biodiversity in landscapes and regions. In R.M. DeGraaf and R.I. Miller (eds.), Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes, pp. 537-568. Chapman and Hall, London.
• Collinge, S.K. 1996. Ecological consequences of habitat fragmentation: implications for landscape architecture and planning.  Landscape and Urban Planning 36:59-77.
• Bowers, M.D., K. Boockvar and S.K. Collinge. 1993. Iridoid glycosides of Chelone glabra (Scrophulariaceae) and their sequestration by larvae of a sawfly, Tenthredo grandis (Tenthredinidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 19:815-823.
• Bowers, M.D., S.K. Collinge, S.E. Gamble and J. Schmitt. 1992. Effects of genotype, habitat, and seasonal variation on iridoid glycoside content of Plantago lanceolata (Plantaginaceae) and the implications for insect herbivores. Oecologia 91:201-207.
• Bowers, M.D., N.E. Stamp and S.K. Collinge. 1992. Early stage of a host range expansion by a specialist herbivore, Euphydryas phaeton (Nymphalidae). Ecology 73:526-536.
• Bowers, M.D. and S.K. Collinge. 1992. Fate of iridoid glycosides in different life stages of the buckeye, Junonia coenia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 18:817-831.
• Louda, S.M., M.A. Potvin and S.K. Collinge. 1992. Predispersal seed predation in the limitation of native thistle. pp. 30-32 in S.B.J. Menken, J.H. Visser and P. Harrewijn (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
• Louda, S.M. and S.K. Collinge. 1992. Plant resistance to insect herbivores: A field test of the environmental stress hypothesis. Ecology 73:153-169.
• Louda, S.M., M.A. Potvin and S.K. Collinge. 1990. Predispersal seed predation, postdispersal seed predation and competition in the recruitment of seedlings by a native prairie thistle. American Midland Naturalist 124:105-113.
• Collinge, S.K. and S.M. Louda. 1989b. Scaptomyza nigrita Wheeler (Diptera: Drosophilidae), a leaf miner of the native crucifer, Cardamine cordifolia A. Gray (Bittercress). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 62:1-10.
• Collinge, S.K. and S.M. Louda. 1989a. Influence of plant phenology on the insect herbivore/bittercress interaction. Oecologia 79:111-116.
• Collinge, S.K. and S.M. Louda. 1988b. Patterns of resource use by a drosophilid (Diptera) leaf miner on a native crucifer. Annals of the Entomological Society of America     81:733-741.
• Collinge, S.K. and S.M. Louda. 1988a. Herbivory by leaf miners in response to experimental shading of a native crucifer. Oecologia 75:559-566.