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Selected Publications

Note: not all my publcations are listed here.

Houle, J.E., Farnsworth, K.D., Rossberg, A.G., Reid, D.G.  (2012) Assessing the sensitivity and specificity of fish community indicators to management action. Can. J. Fish and Aquat. Sci. 69(6): 1065-1079. doi:10.1139/f2012-04 .

Farnsworth, K.D., Lyashevska, O., Fung, T. (2012). Functional Complexity: The source of value in biodiversity.  Ecological Complexity. 11: 46–52. Published online as doi :10.1016/j.ecocom.2012.02.001.

Lyashevska, O., Farnsworth, K.D. (2012) How many dimensions of biodiversity do we need?  Ecological Indicators, 18: 485-492.   Published online as doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.12.016.

Shephard, S., Fung, T., Houle, J.E. Farnsworth, K.D., Reid, D.G., Rossberg, A.G. (2012). Size-selective fishing drives species composition in the Celtic Sea.  ICES J. Mar. Sci. 69: 223–234  doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsr200.

Fung, T.C. Farnsworth, K.D., Reid, D.G. and Rossberg, A.G. (2012). Recent data suggest no further recovery in North Sea Large Fish Indicator.  ICES J. Mar. Sci., 9(2): 235-239. First published online January 12, 2012 (doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr206).

Rossberg, A.G., Farnsworth, K.D., Satoh, K. and Pinnegar, J.K. (2010). Universal power-law diet partitioning by marine fish and squid with surprising stability-diversity implications.  Proc. R. Soc. B., 278(1712): 1617-25.  (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1483)

Rossberg, A.G. and Farnsworth K.D. (2010). Simplification of structured population dynamics in complex ecological communities.  Theoretical Ecology, doi:10.1007/s12080-010-0088-7.

Andersen, K.H., Farnsworth, K.D., Pedersen, M., Gislason, H., Beyer, J.E. (2009). How community ecology links natural mortality, growth, and production of fish populations.  ICES Journal Of Marine Science, 66: 1978-1984.

Bollache L. Jaimie T.A. Dick J.T.A., Farnsworth K.D., Montgomery W.I. (2007). Functional responses as predictors of invasive species impacts.  Biol. Lett., doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0554.

Farnsworth K.D., Thygesen U.H., Ditlevsen S., King N.J. (2007). How to estimate scavenger fish abundance using baited camera data.  Mar Ecol. Prog. Ser., 350: 223-234.

Andersen, K.H., Farnsworth, K.D., Thygesen, U.H., Beyer, J.A. (2007). The evolutionary destination of maturation-size in exploited cod.  Ecological Modelling, 204: 246-252.

Thygesen, U.H., Farnsworth, K.D., Andersen, K.H., Beyer, J.A. (2005). How optimal life history changes with the community size-spectrum.  Proc. Royal Society (B), 272: 1323-1331.

Bearhop, S., Fiedler, W., Furness, R.W., Votier, S.C., Waldron, S., Newton, J., Bowen, G.J., Berthold, P., Farnsworth, K.D. (2005). Assortative mating as a mechanism for rapid evolution of a migratory divide.  Science, 310: 502-504.

Focardi, S., Farnsworth, K.D., Poli, B.M., Ponzetta, M.P., Tinelli, A. (2003). Sexual segregation in ungulates: individual behaviour and the missing link.  Population Ecology, 45: 83-95.

Farnsworth, K.D., Focardi, S., Beecham, J. (2002). Coexistence and facilitation of animals from grassland-herbivore interactions.  The American Naturalist, 159: 24-39.

Farnsworth, K.D., Anderson, A.R.A. (2001). How simple grazing rules lead to reaction diffusion systems and their consequence for vegetation community dynamics. Oikos, 95:15-24.

Ruxton, G.D., Humphries, S., Farnsworth, K.D. (2001). Non-competitive phenotypic differences can have a strong effect on ideal free distributions.  Journal Of Animal Ecology, 70: 25-32.

Beecham, J.A., Farnsworth, K.D. (1999). Animal group forces resulting from predator avoidance and competition minimisation.  Journal of Theoretical Biology, 198: 533-548.

Farnsworth, K.D., Beecham, J.A. (1999). How do grazers achieve their distribution?  A continuum of models from random diffusion to the ideal free distribution using biased random walks.  American Naturalist, 153: 509-526.

Farnsworth, K.D., Illius, A.W. (1998). Optimal diet choice for large herbivores: an extended contingency model.  Functional Ecology Vol. 12. pp74-81.

Farnsworth. K.D., Beecham, J.A. (1997). Beyond the ideal free distribution: a more general model of predator distribution.  Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 187. pp 389-396.

Farnsworth, K.D., Niklas, K.J. (1995). Theories of optimisation form and function in branching architecture in plants.  Functional Ecology, Vol. 9. pp 355-363.