Lev R. Ginzburg
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Influential Papers
This is a recent rating of all Ecology papers since Darwin. One of the papers below (Ginzburg & Jensen, 2004) made it into the list of 100 best.
Courchamp, F., and Bradshaw, J. A. C. (2018) 100 articles every ecologist should read. Nature: ecology and evolution. PDF
Risk Analysis
Ferson, S. and Ginzburg, L. R. 1996. Different methods are needed to propagate ignorance and variability. Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety 54:133-144. PDF
Ginzburg, L. R., Ferson, S. and Akçakaya, H. R. 1990. Reconstructability of density dependence and the conservative assessment of extinction risk. Conservation Biology 4:63-70. PDF
Ginzburg, L. R., Slobodkin, L. B., Johnson, K. and Bindman, A. G. 1982. Quasiextinction probabilities as a measure of impact on population growth. Risk Analysis 2: 171-181 PDF
Mathematical Ecology
Ginzburg, L. R. and Jensen, C. X. J. 2004. Rules of thumb for judging ecological theories. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 121-126. PDF
Abrams, P. A. and Ginzburg, L. R. 2000. The nature of predation: prey-dependent, ratio-dependent, or neither? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 337-341. PDF
Ginzburg, L. R. and Taneyhill, D. E. 1994. Population cycles of forest Lepidoptera: a maternal effect hypothesis. Journal of Animal Ecology 63: 79-92. PDF
Ginzburg, L. R. and Akçakaya, H. R. 1992. Consequences of ratio-dependent predation for steady state properties of ecosystems. Ecology 73(5):1536-1543. PDF
Arditi, R. and Ginzburg, L. R. 1989. Coupling in predatory-prey dynamics: ratio-dependence .Journal of Theoretical Biology 139:311-326. PDF
Recent Papers
Colyvan, M., J. Damuth, and L.R Ginzburg. 2019. The Dawn of Universal Ecology. The Scientist Magazine® 33(11): 20-21. PDF
Spagnolo, F., P. Cristofari, N. P. Tatonetti, L.R. Ginzburg, and D.E. Dykhuizen. 2018, Pathogen Population Structure Can Explain Hospital Outbreaks. The ISME Journal 12(12): 2835-2843. PDF
Borrelli, J., Allesina, S., Arditi, R., Chase, I., Damuth, J., Holt, R., Logofet, D., Rohr, R., Rossberg, A., Spencer, M., Tran, K., and Ginzburg, L.R., 2015, Selection on stability across ecological scales. Trends in Ecology and Evolution , 30(7), 417-425. PDF
Ginzburg L, Krebs C. 2015 Mammalian cycles: internally defined periods and interaction-driven amplitudes. PeerJ 3:e1180 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1180 PDF
Borrelli J.J., and L.R. Ginzburg. 2014. Why there are so few trophic levels: selection against instability explains the pattern. Food Webs. 1:10-14. PDF
Arditi, R. Ginzburg, L.R. 2014, Improving communications between theoretical ecologists, mathematical ecologists, and ecological modelers. Theoretical Ecology 7:21-22. PDF
Colyvan, M. and Ginzburg, L.R. 2012, Ecological laws. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology. Ed. David Gibson: Oxford University Press, New York. PDF
Ginzburg, L.R. 2011, Recollections of unforgettable encounters with Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov. In “A. Lyapunov: 100 year anniversary of birth”, edited by Lyapunova, N.A., GEO, Novosibirsk, Russia, p. 322-323 (in Russian). PDF
Colyvan, M. and Ginzburg, L.R. 2010. Analogical thinking in ecology: looking beyond disciplinary boundaries. Quarterly Review of Biology 2:171-182. PDF
Ginzburg, L.R., Burger, O., and Damuth, J. 2010. The May threshold and life history allometry. Biology Letters 6:850-853. PDF
Ginzburg, L.R. and Ferson, S. 2009. Citations, anonymous ideas, and ecological engineering. Evolutionary Ecology Research-Special Issue honoring Larry Slobodkin, 11(3). Link
Inchausti, P. and Ginzburg, L.R. 2009. Maternal effects mechanism of population cycling: a formidable competitor to the traditional predator-prey view. Phil.Tran. R. Soc. B. 364:1117-1124. PDF
Burger, O. and Ginzburg, L. 2009. On size and extinction: a random walk model predicts the body size of lowest risk for mammals. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 11(7), 1017-1029. PDF
Ginzburg, L.R and Damuth, J. 2008. The space-lifetime hypothesis: viewing organisms in four dimension, literally. American Naturalist 171:125-131. PDF
Ginzburg, L.R., and Jensen, C.XJ. 2008. From controversy to consensus: the indirect interference functional response. SIL Biology 30/2, April 2008. PDF