Deborah K. Letourneau - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States 
Area:
Ecology Biology, General, Agricultural Engineering

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2019 Dainese M, Martin EA, Aizen MA, Albrecht M, Bartomeus I, Bommarco R, Carvalheiro LG, Chaplin-Kramer R, Gagic V, Garibaldi LA, Ghazoul J, Grab H, Jonsson M, Karp DS, Kennedy CM, ... ... Letourneau DK, et al. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production. Science Advances. 5: eaax0121. PMID 31663019 DOI: 10.1126/Sciadv.Aax0121  0.509
2019 Nieto DJ, Letourneau DK, Toyama L, Bryer JA, Slay C, Muramoto J, Shennan C. Assessing Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation as a Control Tactic for Delia radicum (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) in California Brussels Sprouts. Environmental Entomology. PMID 30927746 DOI: 10.1093/Ee/Nvz030  0.355
2019 Jimenez-Soto E, Morris JR, Letourneau DK, Philpott SM. Vegetation connectivity increases ant activity and potential for ant-provided biocontrol services in a tropical agroforest Biotropica. 51: 50-61. DOI: 10.1111/Btp.12616  0.308
2018 Karp DS, Chaplin-Kramer R, Meehan TD, Martin EA, DeClerck F, Grab H, Gratton C, Hunt L, Larsen AE, Martínez-Salinas A, O'Rourke ME, Rusch A, Poveda K, Jonsson M, Rosenheim JA, ... ... Letourneau DK, et al. Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 30072434 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1800042115  0.55
2017 Lichtenberg EM, Kennedy CM, Kremen C, Batáry P, Berendse F, Bommarco R, Bosque-Pérez NA, Carvalheiro LG, Snyder WE, Williams NM, Winfree R, Klatt BK, Åström S, Benjamin F, Brittain C, ... ... Letourneau DK, et al. A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes. Global Change Biology. PMID 28488295 DOI: 10.1111/Gcb.13714  0.556
2017 Isbell F, Adler PR, Eisenhauer N, Fornara D, Kimmel K, Kremen C, Letourneau DK, Liebman M, Polley HW, Quijas S, Scherer-Lorenzen M. Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems Journal of Ecology. 105: 871-879. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12789  0.535
2015 Letourneau DK, Bothwell Allen SG, Kula RR, Sharkey MJ, Stireman III JO. Habitat eradication and cropland intensification may reduce parasitoid diversity and natural pest control services in annual crop fields Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 3: 000069. DOI: 10.12952/JOURNAL.ELEMENTA.000069  0.379
2015 Letourneau DK, Ando AW, Jedlicka JA, Narwani A, Barbier E. Simple-but-sound methods for estimating the value of changes in biodiversity for biological pest control in agriculture Ecological Economics. 120: 215-225. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecolecon.2015.10.015  0.793
2013 Cornelisse TM, Bennett MK, Letourneau DK. The implications of habitat management on the population viability of the endangered Ohlone tiger beetle (Cicindela ohlone) metapopulation. Plos One. 8: e71005. PMID 23951067 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0071005  0.787
2013 Gareau TL, Letourneau DK, Shennan C. Relative densities of natural enemy and pest insects within California hedgerows. Environmental Entomology. 42: 688-702. PMID 23905731 DOI: 10.1603/En12317  0.538
2013 Dyer LA, Letourneau DK. Can climate change trigger massive diversity cascades in terrestrial ecosystems? Diversity. 5: 479-504. DOI: 10.3390/D5030479  0.433
2013 Cornelisse TM, Vasey MC, Holl KD, Letourneau DK. Artificial bare patches increase habitat for the endangered Ohlone tiger beetle (Cicindela ohlone) Journal of Insect Conservation. 17: 17-22. DOI: 10.1007/S10841-012-9482-3  0.764
2012 Letourneau DK, Hagen JA. Plant Fitness Assessment for Wild Relatives of Insect Resistant Bt-Crops Journal of Botany. 2012: 1-12. DOI: 10.1155/2012/389247  0.687
2012 Letourneau DK, Bothwell Allen SG, Stireman JO. Perennial habitat fragments, parasitoid diversity and parasitism in ephemeral crops Journal of Applied Ecology. 49: 1405-1416. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12001  0.591
2011 Jedlicka JA, Greenberg R, Letourneau DK. Avian conservation practices strengthen ecosystem services in California vineyards. Plos One. 6: e27347. PMID 22096555 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0027347  0.8
2011 Letourneau DK, Armbrecht I, Rivera BS, Lerma JM, Carmona EJ, Daza MC, Escobar S, Galindo V, Gutiérrez C, López SD, Mejía JL, Rangel AM, Rangel JH, Rivera L, Saavedra CA, et al. Does plant diversity benefit agroecosystems? A synthetic review. Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America. 21: 9-21. PMID 21516884 DOI: 10.1890/09-2026.1  0.477
2010 Dyer LA, Letourneau DK, Chavarria GV, Amoretti DS. Herbivores on a dominant understory shrub increase local plant diversity in rain forest communities. Ecology. 91: 3707-18. PMID 21302841 DOI: 10.1890/08-1634.1  0.566
2010 Blair BC, Letourneau DK, Bothwell SG, Hayes GF. Disturbance, Resources, and Exotic Plant Invasion: Gap Size Effects in a Redwood Forest MadroñO. 57: 11-19. DOI: 10.3120/0024-9637-57.1.11  0.785
2009 Letourneau DK, Hagen JA. Plant fitness assessment for wild relatives of insect resistant crops. Environmental Biosafety Research. 8: 45-55. PMID 19419653 DOI: 10.1051/Ebr/2008024  0.704
2009 Letourneau DK, Jedlicka JA, Bothwell SG, Moreno CR. Effects of natural enemy biodiversity on the suppression of arthropod herbivores in terrestrial ecosystems Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 40: 573-592. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Ecolsys.110308.120320  0.744
2008 Letourneau DK, Bothwell SG. Comparison of organic and conventional farms: Challenging ecologists to make biodiversity functional Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 6: 430-438. DOI: 10.1890/070081  0.783
2008 Sirrine J, Letourneau DK, Shennan C, Sirrine D, Fouch R, Jackson L, Mages A. Impacts of groundcover management systems on yield, leaf nutrients, weeds, and arthropods of tart cherry in Michigan, USA Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 125: 239-245. DOI: 10.1016/J.Agee.2008.01.005  0.698
2007 Dyer LA, Letourneau DK. Determinants of lichen diversity in a rain forest understory Biotropica. 39: 525-529. DOI: 10.1111/J.1744-7429.2007.00300.X  0.562
2004 Letourneau DK, Dyer LA, Vega C G. INDIRECT EFFECTS OF A TOP PREDATOR ON A RAIN FOREST UNDERSTORY PLANT COMMUNITY Ecology. 85: 2144-2152. DOI: 10.1890/03-0525  0.576
2004 Dyer LA, Letourneau DK, Dodson CD, Tobler MA, Stireman JO, Hsu A. ECOLOGICAL CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF VARIATION IN DEFENSIVE CHEMISTRY OF A NEOTROPICAL SHRUB Ecology. 85: 2795-2803. DOI: 10.1890/03-0233  0.485
2003 Letourneau DK, Robinson GS, Hagen JA. Bt crops: predicting effects of escaped transgenes on the fitness of wild plants and their herbivores. Environmental Biosafety Research. 2: 219-46. PMID 15612280 DOI: 10.1051/Ebr:2003014  0.732
2003 Dyer LA, Dodson CD, Stireman JO, Tobler MA, Smilanich AM, Fincher RM, Letourneau DK. Synergistic effects of three Piper amides on generalist and specialist herbivores. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 29: 2499-514. PMID 14682530 DOI: 10.1023/A:1026310001958  0.426
2003 Dyer LA, Letourneau D. Top-down and bottom-up diversity cascades in detrital vs. living food webs Ecology Letters. 6: 60-68. DOI: 10.1046/J.1461-0248.2003.00398.X  0.468
2001 Dyer LA, Dodson CD, Beihoffer J, Letourneau DK. Trade-offs in antiherbivore defenses in Piper cenocladum: ant mutualists versus plant secondary metabolites. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 27: 581-92. PMID 11441447 DOI: 10.1023/A:1010345123670  0.433
2001 Letourneau DK, Goldstein B. Pest damage and arthropod community structure in organic vs. conventional tomato production in California Journal of Applied Ecology. 38: 557-570. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-2664.2001.00611.X  0.5
2000 Dodson CD, Dyer LA, Searcy J, Wrigh Z, Letourneau DK. Cenocladamide, a dihydropyridone alkaloid from Piper cenocladum. Phytochemistry. 53: 51-4. PMID 10656407 DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9422(99)00446-X  0.306
2000 Alabouvette CL, Chet I, Katan J, Hammock BD, Kamita G, Inceoglu B, Huang Q, Townson J, Evans D, Rubin B, Letourneau DK, Coll M. Abstracts of lectures presented at symposium on plant protection and the environment: Pesticides and their alternatives Phytoparasitica. 28: 189-194. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02981747  0.396
1999 Dyer LA, Letourneau DK. Relative strengths of top-down and bottom-up forces in a tropical forest community. Oecologia. 119: 265-274. PMID 28307977 DOI: 10.1007/S004420050785  0.491
1999 Dyer LA, Letourneau DK. Trophic cascades in a complex terrestrial community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 96: 5072-6. PMID 10220420 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.96.9.5072  0.553
1999 Letourneau DK, Barbosa P. Ants, Stem Borers, and Pubescence in Endospermum in Papua New Guinea1 Biotropica. 31: 295-302. DOI: 10.1111/J.1744-7429.1999.Tb00141.X  0.365
1999 Dyer LA, Letourneau DK. Trophic cascades in a complex terrestrial community Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 96: 5072-5076. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.9.5072  0.469
1999 Dyer LA, Letourneau DK, Williams W, Dodson C. A commensalism between Piper marginatum Jacq. (Piperaceae) and a coccinellid beetle at Barro Colorado Island, Panama Journal of Tropical Ecology. 15: 841-846. DOI: 10.1017/S0266467499001212  0.472
1999 Dyer LA, Letourneau DK. Relative strengths of top-down and bottom-up forces in a tropical forest community Oecologia. 119: 265-274. DOI: 10.1007/s004420050785  0.394
1998 Letourneau DK, Dyer LA. EXPERIMENTAL TEST IN LOWLAND TROPICAL FOREST SHOWS TOP-DOWN EFFECTS THROUGH FOUR TROPHIC LEVELS Ecology. 79: 1678-1687. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[1678:Etiltf]2.0.Co;2  0.53
1998 Letourneau DK. ANTS, STEM-BORERS, AND FUNGAL PATHOGENS: EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF A FITNESS ADVANTAGE INPIPERANT-PLANTS Ecology. 79: 593-603. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0593:Asbafp]2.0.Co;2  0.485
1998 Letourneau DK, Dyer LA. Density Patterns of Piper Ant-Plants and Associated Arthropods: Top-Predator Trophic Cascades in a Terrestrial System?1 Biotropica. 30: 162-169. DOI: 10.1111/J.1744-7429.1998.Tb00051.X  0.495
1996 Letourneau DK, Drinkwater LE, Shennan C. Effects of soil management on crop nitrogen and insect damage in organic vs. conventional tomato fields Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 57: 179-187. DOI: 10.1016/0167-8809(96)01027-4  0.419
1995 Drinkwater LE, Letourneau DK, Workneh F, Van Bruggen AH, Shennan C. Fundamental differences between conventional and organic tomato agroecosystems in California Ecological Applications. 5: 1098-1112. DOI: 10.2307/2269357  0.436
1995 Letourneau DK. Associational Susceptibility: Effects of Cropping Pattern and Fertilizer on Malawian Bean Fly Levels Ecological Applications. 5: 823-829. DOI: 10.2307/1941990  0.499
1994 Letourneau DK. Bean fly, management practices, and biological control in Malawian subsistence agriculture Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 50: 103-111. DOI: 10.1016/0167-8809(94)90129-5  0.503
1993 Letourneau DK, G. FA, Jebb M. Coping with Enemy-Filled Space: Herbivores on Endospermum in Papua New Guinea Biotropica. 25: 95. DOI: 10.2307/2388982  0.481
1992 Drinkwater LE, Letourneau DK, Workneh F, Cantwell M, van Bruggen AH, Shennan C. ON - FARM COMPARISON OF CONVENTIONAL AND ORGANIC FRESH - MARKET TOMATO PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN CALIFORNIA. Hortscience. 27: 621f-621. DOI: 10.21273/Hortsci.27.6.621F  0.417
1990 Fox LR, Letourneau DK, Eisenbach J, Van Nouhuys S. Parasitism rates and sex ratios of a parasitoid wasp: effects of herbivore and plant quality. Oecologia. 83: 414-419. PMID 28313016 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00317569  0.426
1990 Letourneau DK. Code of ant-plant mutualism broken by parasite. Science (New York, N.Y.). 248: 215-7. PMID 17740138 DOI: 10.1126/Science.248.4952.215  0.444
1990 LETOURNEAU DK. Mechanisms of predator accumulation in a mixed crop system Ecological Entomology. 15: 63-69. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2311.1990.Tb00784.X  0.491
1990 Letourneau DK. Abundance Patterns of Leafhopper Enemies in Pure and Mixed Stands Environmental Entomology. 19: 505-509. DOI: 10.1093/Ee/19.3.505  0.459
1990 Fox LR, Letourneau DK, Eisenbach J, Van Nouhuys S. Parasitism rates and sex ratios of a parasitoid wasp: effects of herbivore and plant quality Oecologia. 83: 414-419. DOI: 10.1007/BF00317569  0.312
1989 Janzen DH, Barbosa P, Letourneau DK. Novel Aspects of Insect-Plant Interactions. The Journal of Ecology. 77: 1188. DOI: 10.2307/2260846  0.372
1989 Letourneau DK, Fox LR. Effects of experimental design and nitrogen on cabbage butterfly oviposition Oecologia. 80: 211-214. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00380153  0.382
1988 Letourneau DK. Predatorial Pest Control Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America. 34: 100-101. DOI: 10.1093/Besa/34.2.100A  0.328
1987 Letourneau DK. The Enemies Hypothesis: Tritrophic Interactions and Vegetational Diversity in Tropical Agroecosystems. Ecology. 68: 1616-1622. PMID 29357148 DOI: 10.2307/1939853  0.554
1987 Letourneau DK, Choe JC. Homopteran Attendance by Wasps and Ants: The Stochastic Nature of Interactions Psyche (New York). 94: 81-91. DOI: 10.1155/1987/12726  0.365
1986 Letourneau DK. Associational Resistance in Squash Monocultures and Polycultures in Tropical Mexico Environmental Entomology. 15: 285-292. DOI: 10.1093/Ee/15.2.285  0.427
1984 Altieri MA, Letourneau DK, Risch SJ. Vegetation diversity and insect pest outbreaks Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences. 2: 131-169. DOI: 10.1080/07352688409382193  0.551
1983 Altieri MA, Letourneau DK, Davis JR. Developing Sustainable Agroecosystems Bioscience. 33: 45-49. DOI: 10.2307/1309244  0.379
1983 Letourneau DK, Altieri MA. Abundance Patterns of a Predator, Orius tristicolor (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae), and Its Prey, Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae): Habitat Attraction in Polycultures versus Monocultures Environmental Entomology. 12: 1464-1469. DOI: 10.1093/Ee/12.5.1464  0.461
1983 Letourneau DK. Passive aggression: An alternative hypothesis for the Piper-Pheidole association Oecologia. 60: 122-126. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00379331  0.413
1982 Altieri MA, Letourneau DK. Vegetation management and biological control in agroecosystems Crop Protection. 1: 405-430. DOI: 10.1016/0261-2194(82)90023-0  0.584
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