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Peter A. Abrams 1
Publications of Peter A. Abrams
April 2012

I. Major publications

Abrams, P. A. 1975. Theoretical studies of the limiting similarity of competitors. Ph.D. Thesis,
Zoology, University of British Columbia.

Abrams, P. A. 1975. Limiting similarity and the form of the competition coefficient. Theoretical
Population Biology 8:356-375.

Abrams, P. A. 1976. Niche overlap and environmental variability. Mathematical Biosciences
28:357-375.

Abrams, P. A. 1977. Density independent mortality and interspecific competition: a test of
Pianka's niche overlap hypothesis. American Naturalist 111:539-552.

Abrams, P. A. 1978. Shell selection and utilization in a terrestrial hermit crab, Coenobita
compressus. Oecologia 34:239-253.

Abrams, P. A. 1980. Resource partitioning and interspecific competition in a tropical hermit crab
community. Oecologia 46:365-379.

Abrams, P. A. 1980. Consumer functional response and competition in consumer-resource
systems. Theoretical Population Biology 17:80-102.

Abrams, P. A. 1980. Some comments on measuring niche overlap. Ecology 61:44-49.

Abrams, P. A. 1980. Are competition coefficients constant? Inductive vs. deductive approaches.
American Naturalist 116:730-735.

Abrams, P. A. 1981. Comparing randomly structured and real communities: a comment.
American Naturalist 118:776-782.

Abrams, P. A. 1981. Shell fighting and competition between two hermit crab species in Panama.
Oecologia 51:84-90.

Abrams, P. A. 1981. Alternative methods of measuring competition applied to two Australian
hermit crabs. Oecologia 51:233-240.

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Abrams, P. A. 1981. Competition in an Indo-Pacific hermit crab community. Oecologia
51:241-249.

Abrams, P. A. 1982. Intraspecific shell fighting in the hermit crab Clibanarius virescens. J.
experimental marine Biology & Ecology 59:89-101.

Abrams, P. A. 1982. Frequencies of interspecific shell exchange between hermit crabs. J.
experimental marine Biology & Ecology 61:99-109.

Abrams, P. A. and T. D. Allison. 1982. Stability, complexity, and functional response. American
Naturalist 119:240-249.

Abrams, P. A. 1982. Functional responses of optimal foragers. American Naturalist
120:382-390.

Abrams, P. A. 1983. The theory of limiting similarity. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics
14:359-376.

Abrams, P. A. 1983. Arguments in favor of higher order interactions. American Naturalist
121:887-891.

Abrams, P. A. 1983. Life history strategies of optimal foragers. Theoretical Population Biology
24:22-38.

Abrams, P. A. 1983. Alternative forms for links in trophic webs. pp. 91-94 in D. L. DeAngelis,
W. M. Post, and G. Sugihara eds. Current trends in food web theory. Oak Ridge National
Laboratory Technical Report 5983.

Abrams, P. A. 1984. Recruitment, lotteries, and coexistence in coral reef fish. American
Naturalist 123:44-55.

Abrams, P. A. 1984. Variability in resource consumption rates and the coexistence of competing
species. Theoretical Population Biology 25:106-124.

Abrams, P. A. 1984. Foraging time optimization and interactions in food webs. American
Naturalist 124:80-96.

Abrams, P. A. 1986. Character displacement and niche shift analyzed using consumer-resource
models of competition. Theoretical Population Biology 29:107-160.

Abrams, P. A., C. Nyblade, and S. Sheldon. 1986. Resource partitioning and competition for
shells in a subtidal hermit crab species assemblage. Oecologia 69:429-445.

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Abrams, P. A. 1986. Adaptive responses of predators to prey and prey to predators: the failure of
the arms race analogy. Evolution 40:1229-1247.

Abrams, P. A. 1986. Is predator-prey coevolution an arms race? Trends in Ecology and
Evolution 1:108-110.

Abrams, P. A. 1987. Indirect interactions between species that share a predator: varieties of
indirect effects. pp. 38-54 in "Predation: direct and indirect impacts on aquatic
communities" W. C. Kerfoot and A. Sih eds. University Press of New England.
Dartmouth, N. H.

Abrams, P. A. 1987. Alternative models of character displacement: I. Displacement when there
is competition for nutritionally essential resources. Evolution 41:651-661.

Abrams, P. A. 1987. An analysis of competitive interactions between three hermit crab species.
Oecologia 72:233-247.

Abrams, P. A. 1987. Resource partitioning and competition for shells between intertidal hermit
crabs on the outer coast of Washington State. Oecologia 72:248-258.

Abrams, P. A. 1987. The nonlinearity of competitive effects in models of competition for
essential resources. Theoretical Population Biology 32:50-65.

Abrams, P. A. 1987. On classifying interactions between populations. Oecologia 73:272-281.

Abrams, P. A. 1987. Alternative models of character displacement: II. Displacement when there
is competition for a single resource. American Naturalist 130:271-282.

Abrams, P. A. 1987. The functional responses of adaptive consumers of two resources.
Theoretical Population Biology 32:262-288.

Abrams, P. A. 1988. How should resources be counted? Theoretical Population Biology
33:226-242.

Abrams, P. A. 1988. Resource productivity - consumer species diversity: Simple models of
competition in spatially heterogeneous environments. Ecology 69:1418-1433.

Abrams, P. A. 1988. Sexual differences in resource use in hermit crabs; causes and
consequences. in Chelazzi, G. and Vannini, M. eds. Behavioral Adaptation to Intertidal
Life. pp. 283-296. Plenum Press.

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Abrams, P. A. and L. Shen. 1989. Population dynamics of systems with consumers that maintain
a constant ratio of intake rates of two resources. Theoretical Population Biology
35:51-89.

Abrams, P. A. 1989. Decreasing functional responses as a result of adaptive consumer behavior.
Evolutionary Ecology. 3:95-114.

Abrams, P. A. 1989. The evolution of rates of successful and unsuccessful predation.
Evolutionary Ecology. 3:157-171.

Abrams, P. A. 1989. The importance of intraspecific frequency dependent selection in modeling
competitive coevolution. Evolutionary Ecology. 3:215-220.

Abrams, P. A. 1990. Ecological vs evolutionary responses to competition. Oikos. 57:147-151.

Packer, C. and Abrams, P. A. 1990. Are cooperative groups more vigilant than selfish groups?
Journal of theoretical Biology. 142:341-357.

Abrams, P. A. 1990. Mixed responses to resource densities and their implications for character
displacement. Evolutionary Ecology. 4:93-102.

Abrams, P. A. 1990. Adaptive responses of generalist herbivores to competition; convergence or
divergence. Evolutionary Ecology. 4:103-114.

Abrams, P. A. 1990. The effects of adaptive behavior on the type - 2 functional response.
Ecology. 71:877-885.

Hill, C., Elmgren, R., and Abrams, P. 1990. Predation by the polychaete Harmothoe sarsi on
different size classes of the amphipod Pontoporeia affinis. in Barnes, M. and Gibson, R.
N. Trophic Relationships in the Marine Environment. Aberdeen Univ. Press. p.468-477.

Abrams, P. A., Hill, C., and Elmgren, R. 1990. The functional response of the predatory
polychaete, Harmothoe sarsi to the amphipod, Pontoporeia affinis. Oikos 59:261-269

Abrams, P. A. 1990. The evolution of antipredator traits in prey in response to evolutionary
change in predators. Oikos 59:147-156.

Abrams, P. A. 1991. The quality and predictive ability of federal grant review: the case of
ecology and the National Science Foundation. Social Studies of Science. 21:111-132.

Abrams, P. A. 1991. The effects of interacting species on predator-prey coevolution. Theoretical
Population Biology 39:241-262.

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Abrams, P. A. 1991. Life history and the relationship between food availability and foraging
effort. Ecology 72:1242-1252.

Abrams, P. A. 1991. The fitness costs of aging; the importance of events in early adult life.
Evolutionary Ecology 5:343-360.

Abrams, P. A. 1991. Strengths of indirect effects generated by optimal foraging. Oikos 62: 167-
176.

Baird, R. W., Abrams, P. A., and Dill, L. 1992. Possible indirect interactions between transient
and resident Killer Whales (Orcinus orca). Oecologia 89:125-132.

Abrams, P. A. 1992. Adaptive foraging by predators as a cause of predator-prey cycles.
Evolutionary Ecology 6:56-72.

Abrams, P. A. 1992. Predators that benefit prey and prey that harm predators: Unusual effects of
interacting foraging adaptations. American Naturalist 140:573-600.

Abrams, P. A. 1992. Why don't predators have positive effects on prey populations?
Evolutionary Ecology 6:449-457.

Abrams, P. A. 1992. Resource. in Keywords in Evolutionary Biology. E. F. Keller and E. A.
Lloyd eds. Harvard University Press. p. 282-285.

Abrams, P. A. 1993. Effect of increased productivity on the abundance of trophic levels.
American Naturalist 141:351-371.

Abrams, P. A. 1993. Why predation rates should not be proportional to predator density.
Ecology 74:726-733.

Abrams, P. A. 1993. The interaction of mortality and energy costs in determining foraging
behavior. Behavioral Ecology 4:246-253.

Abrams, P. A. and Matsuda, H. 1993. Effects of adaptive predatory and anti-predator behavior in
a two prey - one predator system. Evolutionary Ecology 7:312-326.

Abrams, P. A., Matsuda, H., and Harada, Y. 1993. Evolutionarily unstable fitness maxima and
stable fitness minima in the evolution of continuous traits. Evolutionary Ecology
7:465-487.

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Abrams, P. A. 1993. Does increased mortality favor the evolution of more rapid senescence?
Evolution 47:877-887.

Abrams, P. A., Harada, Y., and Matsuda, H. 1993. On the relationship between quantitative
genetic and ESS models. Evolution 47:982-985.

Abrams, P. A. 1993. Indirect effects arising from optimal foraging. in Kawanabe, H., Cohen,
J. and Iwasaki, K. eds., Mutualism and Community Organization:Behavioral,
Theoretical and Food Web Approaches. Oxford Univ. Press. pp. 255-279.

Matsuda, H., Abrams, P. A., and Hori, M. 1993. The effect of adaptive anti-predator behavior
on exploitative competition and mutualism between predators. Oikos 68:549-559.

Abrams, P. A. 1993. Representing biological communities containing optimally foraging
herbivores: Implications of adaptive behavior for community structure. Oak Ridge
National Laboratory Technical Report 12392, Proceedings of a Joint U. S.-Japan
Seminar in the Environmental Sciences. D. L. DeAngelis and E. Teramoto, eds. pp. 9-
26.

Abrams, P. A., and Roth, J. 1994. The responses of unstable food chains to enrichment.
Evolutionary Ecology 8:150-171.

Matsuda, H. and Abrams, P. A. 1994. Timid consumers: Self-extinction due to adaptive change
in foraging and anti-predator effort. Theoretical Population Biology 45:76-91.

Abrams, P. A. 1994. Evolutionarily stable growth rates in size-structured populations
under size-specific competition. Theoretical Population Biology 46:78-94.

Abrams, P. A. 1994. Should prey overestimate the risk of predation? American Naturalist
144:317-328.

Abrams, P. A., and Roth, J. 1994. The effects of enrichment on three-species food chains with
nonlinear functional responses. Ecology 75:1118-1130.

Abrams, P. A. 1994. The fallacies of 'ratio-dependent' predation. Ecology 75:1842-1850.

Matsuda, H., Hori, M. and Abrams, P. A. 1994. Effects of predator-specific defense on
community complexity. Evolutionary Ecology 8:628-638.

Abrams, P. A. and Matsuda, H. 1994. The evolution of traits that determine ability in
competitive contests. Evolutionary Ecology 8:667-686.

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Matsuda, H., Namba, T., Hori, M., and Abrams, P. A. 1994. Effects of expolitative mutualism on
community complexity. pp. 247-260, in M. Yasuna and M. Watanabe, Biodiversity: Its
Complexity and Role. Global Environmental Forum, Tokyo.

Matsuda, H. and P. A. Abrams. 1994. Plant-herbivore interactions and theory of coevolution.
Plant Species Biology 9:155-161.

Matsuda, H. and Abrams, P. A. 1994. Runaway evolution to self-extinction under asymmetrical
competition. Evolution 48:1764-1772.

Abrams, P. A. 1995. Overestimation vs. underestimation of predation risk: A reply to
Bouskila et al. American Naturalist 145:1020-1024.

Abrams, P. A. 1995. Implications of dynamically variable traits for identifying, classifying, and
measuring direct and indirect effects in ecological communities. American Naturalist,
146:112-134.

Abrams, P. A. 1995. Monotonic vs. unimodal diversity vs. productivity gradients; What is
predicted by competition theory? Ecology, 76:2019-2027.

Abrams, P. A. and Ludwig, D. 1995. Optimality theory, Gompertz' Law, and the
disposable-soma theory of senescence. Evolution, 49:1055-1066.

Abrams, P. A. 1996. Dynamics and interactions in food webs with adaptive foragers. pp 113-
121 in G. Polis and K. Winemiller, eds. Food Webs: Integration of patterns and
dynamics. Chapman and Hall.

Abrams, P. A., Menge, B. A., Mittelbach, G. G., Spiller, D., and Yodzis, P. 1996. The role of
indirect effects in food webs. pp.371-395 in G. Polis and K. O. Winemiller eds. Food
Webs: Integration of patterns and dynamics. Chapman and Hall.

Matsuda, H., M. Hori, and P. Abrams. 1996. Effects of predator-specific defense on biodiversity
and community complexity in two-trophic-level communities. Evolutionary
Ecology, 10:13-28.

Abrams, P. A., Leimar, O., Nylin, S., and Wiklund, C. 1996. The effect of flexible growth rates
on optimal sizes and development times. American Naturalist 147:381-395.

Abrams, P. A. and H. Matsuda. 1996. Fitness minimization and dynamic instability as a
consequence of predator-prey coevolution. Evolutionary Ecology 10:167-186.
(reprinted with corrections, 1997, Evolutionary Ecology 11:1-20.)

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Abrams, P. A. and Matsuda, H. 1996. Positive indirect effects between prey species that share
predators. Ecology 77:610-616.

Abrams, P. A. and Rowe, L. 1996. The effects of predation on the age and size of maturity of
prey. Evolution, 50:1052-1061.

Abrams, P. A. 1996. Limits to the similarity of competitors under hierarchical lottery
competition. American Naturalist, 148:211-219.

Abrams, P. A. and C. J. Walters. 1996. Invulnerable prey and the statics and dynamics of
predator-prey interactions. Ecology 77:1125-1133.

Abrams, P. A. 1996. Evolution and the consequences of species introductions and deletions.
Ecology, 77:1321-1328.

Abrams, P. A. 1997. Variability and adaptive behavior; Implications for interactions between
stream organisms. Journal of the North American Bethological Society 16:358-374.

Abrams, P. A. 1997. Anomalous predictions of ratio-dependent models of predation. Oikos.
80:163-171.

Abrams, P. A. 1997. Evolutionary responses of foraging-related traits in unstable predator-prey
systems. Evolutionary Ecology 11:673-686.

Abrams, P. A. and H. Matsuda. 1997. Prey evolution as a cause of predator-prey cycles.
Evolution 51:1740-1748.

Abrams, P. A., Holt R. D., and J. D. Roth. 1998. Shared predation when populations cycle.
Ecology 79:201-212.

Abrams, P. A. 1998. High competition with low similarity and low competition with high
similarity: The interaction of exploitative and apparent competition in consumer-resource
systems. American Naturalist. 152:114-128.

Kawecki, T. J. and Abrams, P. A. 1999. Character displacement mediated by the accumulation of
mutations affecting resource consumption abilities, Evolutionary Ecology Research.
1:173-188.

Abrams, P. A. 1999. The adaptive dynamics of consumer choice. American Naturalist 153:83-
97.

Abrams, P. A. and O. J. Schmitz. 1999. The effect of risk of mortality on the foraging behavior

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of animals faced with time- and digestive-capacity constraints. Evolutionary Ecology
Research 1:285-301.

Abrams, P. A. 1999. Is predator mediated coexistence possible in unstable systems? Ecology,
80:608-621.

Matsuda, H. and Abrams, P. A. 1999. Why is isogamy rare? The instability of isogamy and the
cost of anisogamy. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 1:769-784.

Abrams, P. A. and T. J. Kawecki. 1999. Adaptive host preference and the dynamics of host-
parasitoid interactions. Theoretical Population Biology, 56:307-324.

Abrams, P. A. and L. R. Ginzburg. 2000. Models of predation: Prey dependent, ratio dependent
or neither? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:337-341.

Abrams, P. A. 2000. Character shifts of species that share predators. American Naturalist.
156:S45-S61.

Abrams, P. A. 2000. The evolution of predator-prey systems: theory and evidence. Annual
Review of Ecology and Systematics 31:79-105.

Abrams, P. A. 2000. The impact of habitat selection on the heterogeneity of resources in varying
environments. Ecology. 81:2902-2913.

Abrams, P. A. 2001. Adaptive dynamics; neither F nor G. Evolutionary Ecology Research.
3:369-373.

Abrams, P. A. 2001. Modeling the adaptive dynamics of traits involved in inter- and intra-
specific competition: An assessment of three methods. Ecology Letters. 4:166-175.

Abrams, P. A. 2001. Describing and quantifying interspecific interactions; A commentary on
recent approaches. Oikos 94:209-218.

Abrams, P. A. 2001. The effect of density independent mortality on the coexistence of
exploitative competitors for renewing resources. American Naturalist. 158:459-470.

Abrams, P. A. 2001. Adaptationism, optimality models, and tests of adaptive scenarios. pp. 273-
302 in S. H. Orzack and E. Sober (eds.) Adaptationism and Optimality
Cambridge University Press.

Abrams, P. A. 2001. Predator-prey evolution and coevolution. In Perspectives in
Evolutionary Ecology, C. W. Fox, D. A. Roff, and D. J. Fairbairn (eds.) pp. 277-289.

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Chase, J., Abrams, P., Grover, J., Diehl, S., Chesson, P., Holt, R., Richards, S., Nisbet, R., Case,
T. J. 2002. The effects of predators on competition between their prey. Ecology Letters.
5:302-313.

Day, T., P. A. Abrams, and J. Chase. 2002. The role of size-specific predation in the evolution
and diversification of prey life histories. Evolution. 56:877-887.

Abrams, P. A. and X. Chen. 2002 The effect of competition between prey species on the
evolution of their vulnerabilities to a shared predator. Evolutionary Ecology Research.
4:897-909.

Abrams, P. A. 2002. Will declining population sizes warn us of impending extinctions?
American Naturalist. 160:293-305.

Abrams, P. A. and X. Chen. 2002. The evolution of traits affecting resource acquisition and
predator vulnerability; character displacement under real and apparent competition.
American Naturalist.160:692-704.

Abrams, P. A. and R. D. Holt. 2002. The impact of consumer-resource cycles on the coexistence
of competing consumers. Theoretical Population Biology. 62:281-295.

Abrams, P. A. 2002. Adaptation and species interactions in simple food webs: The case of
predator switching. in “Ensayos de Biolgia Poblacional en honor a Jesus Alberto Leon”
Acta Biologica Venezuelica. 22:71-84.

Abrams, P. A. 2003. Effects of altered resource consumption rates by one consumer species on a
competitor. Ecology Letters. 6:550-555.

Abrams, P. A. 2003. Can adaptive evolution or behaviour lead to diversification of traits
determining a trade-off between foraging gain and predation risk? Evolutionary Ecology
Research. 5:653-670.

Abrams, P. A., C. E. Brassil, and R. D. Holt. 2003. Dynamics and responses to mortality rates of
competing predators undergoing predator-prey cycles. Theoretical Population Biology.
64:163-176.

Ma, B. O., Abrams, P. A., and C. E. Brassil. 2003. Dynamic vs. instantaneous models of diet
choice. American Naturalist. 162:668-684.

Abrams, P. A. and M. Vos. 2003 Adaptation, density dependence, and the abundances of trophic
levels. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 5:1113-1132.

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