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Drake, Joseph, E. M. X. Reed, David Haak, Bryan Brown, Meryl C. Mims, Michael G. Sorice, Haldre Rogers, Scott Salom, Todd Schenk, and Jacob N. Barney. 2026. State Lines and Species Divides: Inconsistencies and Opportunities in Invasive Species Policies across the Eastern United States. Ecological Applications 36(5): e70287. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70287

Banerjee, P., S. Al-Bayer, J. Calaor*, et al. 2026. Comparison of Environmental DNA and Bulk DNA Metabarcoding for Assessing Terrestrial Arthropod Diversity Across Three Habitat Types on Guam. Molecular Ecology Resources 26, no. 5: e70172. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.70172.    

Daibes, L. F., Rogers, H. S., et al. 2026. Landscape features predict broad-scale seed rain patterns across fragments of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Journal of Ecology, 114, e70328. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70328


Ann Marie Gawel, Kaitlin J. Mattos, Catharine A. Adams, Haldre S. Rogers. 2026. When Invasions Collide: Minimal Indirect Effects of Invasive Snakes on Rodent-Mediated Seed Predation. Pacific Science, 79(4), 521-531. https://doi.org/10.2984/79.4.5

Beckman, N. G., E. K. Kuprewicz, B. Borah, J. M. Bullock, A. S. Gallinat, J. P. González-Varo, A. Jain*, et al. 2026. Animal-mediated seed dispersal: A review of study methods. Applications in Plant Sciences 14(1): e70043. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.70043

J.H. Heinen, ...., H.S. Rogers, et al. 2025. Species introductions shift seed dispersal potential more than extinctions across 120 island plant–frugivore communities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (41) e2423438122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423438122

Kartzinel, T.R., Hoff, H.K., Divoll, T.J., Littleford-Colquhoun, B.L., Anderson, H., Burak, M.K., Kuzmina, M.L., Musili, P.M., Rogers, H., Troncoso, A.J. and Kartzinel, R.Y. 2025. Global Availability of Plant DNA Barcodes as Genomic Resources to Support Basic and Policy-Relevant Biodiversity Research. Mol Ecol, 34: e17712. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17712


Elizabeth K. McMurchie, Josephine A. Crock, Devin Molnau, Haldre S. Rogers, Dean C. Adams, Lynn G. Clark. 2025. Foliage leaf and floral bract micromorphology vary by habitat and habit in Guadua (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae). Flora. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2025.152767

Gawel, A. M., Wald, D. M., & Rogers, H. S. 2024. Community perceptions of invasive species and environmental management in a US island territory. Conservation Biology, 38, e14394. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14394

Kastner, M.*, Goetz, S. M., Baker, K. M., Siers, S. R., Paxton, E. H., Nafus, M. G., & Rogers, H. S. 2024. Gape-limited invasive predator frequently kills avian prey that are too large to swallow. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11598. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11598


Nogales, M., ...., Rogers, H. et al. 2024. A Review on the State of the Art in Frugivory and Seed Dispersal on Islands and the Implications of Global Change. Bot. Rev. 90, 160–185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12229-023-09296-8

Jerilyn Jean M. Calaor*, Eric Cook, Jennifer L. McKee, Eliza Hooshiar, Ross Miller, and Haldre S. Rogers. 2024. Context Influences the Role of Birds in Pest Control: The Interactive Effects of Agricultural Crop and Farm. Pacific Science 77(4), 429-440.  https://doi.org/10.2984/77.4.5

Kennedy, S., Calaor, J.*, Zurápiti, Y., Hans, J., Yoshimura, M., Choo, J., Andersen, J. C., Callaghan, J., Roderick, G. K., Krehenwinkel, H., Rogers, H., Gillespie, R. G., & Economo, E. P. 2023. Richness and resilience in the Pacific: DNA metabarcoding enables parallelized evaluation of biogeographic patterns. Molecular Ecology, 32, 6710–6723. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16575

Gawel, A. M., Fricke, E., Colton, A., & Rogers, H. S. 2023. Non-native mammals are weak candidates to substitute ecological function of native avian seed dispersers in an island ecosystem. Biotropica, 55, 1148–1158. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13261

Reed, E., ...., Roger, H., et al. 2023. Holistic valuation of non-native species requires broadening the tent. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.01.004​

Overcast, I., ...,  Rogers, H. … Morlon, H. 2023. Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community-scale data. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 4–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13604


Allbee, Samantha A., Haldre S. Rogers, and Lauren L. Sullivan. 2023. The Effects of Dispersal, Herbivory, and Competition on Plant Community Assembly. Ecology 104(1): e3859. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3859

Suckow, N. M., Pollock, H. S., Hauber, M. E., Kastner, M., Savidge, J. A., Baker, K., & Rogers, H. S. 2022. Nest defense, personality, and fitness of a locally endangered island passerine. Ethology, 128, 499–507. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13284

Aguado, W. D., Rogers, H. S., & Pruetz, J. D. 2022. Chimpanzees as ecosystem service providers: Seed dispersal of an economically important plant resource. Biotropica, 54, 656–669. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13080


Pollock, HS, Kastner, M*, ..., Rogers, HS. 2022. Recent recovery and expansion of Guam’s locally endangered Såli (Micronesian Starling) Aplonis opaca population in the presence of the invasive brown treesnake. Bird Conservation International, 32(1):95-110. doi:10.1017/S0959270920000726

Donoso I, Fricke EC, Hervías-Parejo S, Rogers HS and Traveset A. 2022. Drivers of Ecological and Evolutionary Disruptions in the Seed Dispersal Process: Research Trends and Biases. Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:794481. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.794481

Paxton, K. L., Baker, K. M., Crytser, Z. B., Guinto, R. M. P., Brinck, K. W., Rogers, H. S., & Paxton, E. H. 2022. Optimizing trilateration estimates for tracking fine-scale movement of wildlife using automated radio telemetry networks. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8561. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8561

Thierry, H., Rose, E. and Rogers, H. 2022. Landscape configuration and frugivore identity affect seed rain during restoration. Oikos.  
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08323

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Evan C. Fricke et al. 2022. The effects of defaunation on plants’ capacity to track climate change. Science375,210-214. DOI:10.1126/science.abk3510

Kastner, M., Pollock, H.S., Savidge, J.A., Fricke, E.C. and Rogers, H.S. 2021. Functional robustness of seed dispersal by a remnant frugivore population on a defaunated tropical island. Biotropica, 53: 359-366. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12926

Noelle G Beckman, Clare E Aslan, Haldre S Rogers. 2020. Introduction to the Special Issue: The role of seed dispersal in plant populations: perspectives and advances in a changing world, AoB PLANTS, Volume 12, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaa010

Gallagher, R.V., Falster, D.S.,... Cavazos, B.R.*,...et al. 2020. Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1109-6

Linck, E. B., Fricke, E. C., & Rogers, H. S. 2020. Varied abundance and functional diversity across native forest bird communities in the Mariana Islands. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 132(1), 22–28. https://doi.org/10.1676/1559-4491-132.1.22

Thierry, H. and Rogers, H. 2020. Where to rewild? A conceptual framework to spatially optimize ecological function. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.3017
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Pollock, H.S. et al. 2020. Såli (Micronesian starling - Aplonis opaca) as a key seed dispersal agent across a tropical archipelago. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467419000361

Johnson, JS, RS Cantrel,... HS Rogers,... et al. 2019. Rapid changes in seed dispersal traits may modify plant responses to global change. AoB Plants 11:https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plz020

Beckman NG, Aslan CE, Rogers HS, et al. 2019. Advancing an interdisciplinary framework to study seed dispersal ecology. AoB PLANTS 11: plz048; doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plz048
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Haldre S Rogers, et al. 2019. The total dispersal kernel: a review and future directions, AoB PLANTS, Volume 11, Issue 5, plz042, https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plz042

Snell, RS, NG Beckman, E Fricke,... LL Sullivan, BR Cavazos,... HS Rogers,... et al. 2019. Consequences of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal for plant demography, communities, evolution and global change. AoB Plants 11:https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plz016
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Fricke, EC, JJ Tewksbury, and HS Rogers. 2019. Linking intra-specific trait variation and plant function: seed size mediates performance tradeoffs within species. Oikos:https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.06494 

Rehm, E, E Fricke, J Bender, J Savidge, and HS Rogers. 2018. Animal movement drives variation in seed dispersal distance in a plant-animal network. Royal Society B:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2007
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Dugger, PJ, PG Blendinger,... HS Rogers,... et al. 2018. Seed-dispersal networks are more specialized in the neotropics than in the afrotropics. Global Ecology and Biogeography:doi:10.111/geb.12833
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Freedman, MG, RH Miller, and HS Rogers. 2018. Landscape-level bird loss increases the prevalence of honeydew-producing insects and non-native ants. Oecologia. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4273-5

Gawel, AM*, HS Rogers, RH Miller, and AM Kerr. 2018. Contrasting ecological roles of non-native ungulates in a novel ecosystem. Royal Society Open Science. doi:10.1098/rsos.170151

Wald, DM, KA Nelson, AM Gawel*, and HS Rogers. 2018. The role of trust and credibility in public acceptance of invasive species management on Guam: a case study.  Journal of Environmental Management. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.06.047     


Egerer MH, EC Fricke, and HS Rogers. 2017. Seed dispersal as an ecosystem service: frugivore loss leads to decline of a socially valued plant, Capsicum frutescens. Ecological Applications DOI:10.1002/eap.1667

Rehm EM, J Chojnacki, HS Rogers, and JA Savidge. 2017. Differences among avian frugivores in seed dispersal to degraded habitats. Restoration Ecology DOI:10.1111/rec.12623


Wandrag EM, AE Dunham, RP Duncan, and HS Rogers. 2017. Seed dispersal increases local species richness and reduces spatial turnover of tropical tree seedlings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1709584114

Fricke EC, JJ Tewksbury,  and HS Rogers. 2017. Defaunation leads to interaction deficits, not interaction compensation, in an island seed dispersal network. Global Change Biology. DOI:
 10.1111/gcb.13832

Fricke EC, JJ Tewksbury , EM Wandrag, and HS Rogers. 2017. Mutualistic strategies minimize coextinction in plant-disperser networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284:20162302. 

Rogers HS, ER Buhle, J Hille Ris Lambers, EC Fricke, RH Miller, and JJ Tewksbury. 2017. Effects of an invasive predator cascade to plants via mutualism disruption. Nature Communications. 8:14557. 

​Aslan, CE, JL Bronstein, HS Rogers, KB Gedan, JF Brodie, TM Palmer, and TP Young. 2016. Leveraging nature's backup plans to incorporate interspecific interactions and resilience into restoration. Restoration Ecology. 24(4):434-440.   

Compagnoni, A, AJ Bibian*, BM Ochocki*, HS Rogers, EL Schultz*, ME Sneck*, BD Elderd, AM Iler, DW Inouye, H Jacquemyn, and TEX Miller. 2016. The effect of demographic correlations on the stochastic population dynamics of perennial plants. Ecological Monographs. 10.1002/ecm.1228.
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Wenny, DG, CH Sekercioglu, N Cordeiro, HS Rogers, D Kelly, and CJ Whelan. 2016. “Seed Dispersal by Fruit-eating Birds” in Why Birds Matter: Ecosystem Services Provided by Birds. University of Chicago Press.  
       Reviews of the book:  Heleno, RH. 2017. Birds make the world go round.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution.  32(3):154-155.
                                                        Holden, M. 2017. Why birds matter-Book Review. Biological Conservation. 206(2017):215-216. 
                                                        Lynch, M. 2017. About Books: What's a Wren's Worth? Bird Observer: The Birding Journal for New England.                                                                                                        45(1). 
                                                        Maas, B. 2017. Book Review. Journal of Field Ornithology. 88(3):318-320.

Wandrag EM, RH Miller, AE Dunham, and HS Rogers. 2015.  Vertebrate seed dispersers maintain the composition of tropical forest seedbanks. AoB Plants, 7, plv130.

Tewksbury JJ and HS Rogers. 2014. An animal-rich future. Science. 345:400.

Brodie JF, CE Aslan, HS Rogers, KH Redford, JL Maron, JL Bronstein and CR Groves. Secondary extinctions of biodiversity. 29(12):664–672.

Fricke E*, JJ Tewksbury and HS Rogers. 2014. Multiple natural enemies cause distance-dependent mortality at the seed-to-seedling transition. Ecology Letters. 17(5):593-598

Beckman NG and HS Rogers. 2013. Consequences of Seed Dispersal for Plant Recruitment in Tropical Forests: Interactions within the Seedscape. Biotropica. 45(6):666-681.

Hille Ris Lambers J, AK Ettinger*, KR Ford*, DC Haak*, M Horwith*, BE Miner*, HS Rogers, KS Sheldon*, JJ Tewksbury, SM Waters* and S Yang*. 2013. Accidental Experiments: Ecological and Evolutionary Insights and Opportunities Derived from Global Change. Oikos.
122(12):1649:1661.

Caves E**, S Kemp-Jennings**, J Hille Ris Lambers, JJ Tewksbury and HS Rogers.  The role of birds in forest regeneration: Dispersal of native seeds into secondary forest in the Mariana Islands. PLoS ONE. 
8(5): e65618. 

Rogers HS, J Hille Ris Lambers, R Miller and JJ Tewksbury.  2012. ‘Natural experiment’ demonstrates top-down control of spiders by birds on a landscape-level.  PLoS ONE 7(9): e43446. 5th most viewed paper of 2012, 12th most viewed of all time on PLoS One with >180,000 views. 

Schmidt AH*, AST Robbins*, JK Combs*, A Freeburg*, G Jesperson*, HS Rogers, KS Sheldon*, and E Wheat*. 2012. Interdisciplinary, international, and inter-institutional graduate education: a new model for training future environmental leaders.  Bioscience. 62(3):296-304.

McConkey KR, S Prasad, RT Corlett, A Campos-Arceiz, JF Brodie, H Rogers and L Santamaria. Seed dispersal in changing landscapes.  Biological Conservation. 146(1):1-13.

Hoham RW, JD Berman**, HS Rogers, JH Felio**, JB Ryba** and PR Miller**.  2006. Two new species of green snow algae from Upstate New York, Chloromonas chenangoensis sp. nov. and Chloromonas tughillensis sp. nov. (Volvocales, Chlorophyceae) and the effects of light on their life cycle development.  Phycologia 45(3):319-330. 

Hoham RW, AM Marcarelli**, HS Rogers, MD Ragan**, BM Petre**, MD Ungerer**, JM Barnes** and DO Francis**.  2000.  The importance of light and photoperiod in sexual reproduction and geographical distribution in the green snow alga, Chloromonas sp.-D (Chlorophyceae, Volvocales).  Hydrological Processes 14(18): 3309-3321.


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Dr. Haldre Rogers
Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Virginia Tech

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Blacksburg, VA 24061

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