Publications

Kartzinel Lab postdocs‡, grad students†; *indicates joint first authorship

2021

• Wang KJ, Huang Y, Majaneva M, Belt ST, Liao S, Novak J, Kartzinel TR, Herbert TD, Richter N, Cabedo-Sanz P. 2021. Group 2i Isochrysidales produce characteristic alkenones reflecting sea ice distribution. Nature Communications 12: 15. [Link]​

2020

• Kartzinel TR and Pringle RM. 2020. Multiple dimensions of dietary diversity in large mammalian herbivores. Journal of Animal Ecology ​89: 1482-1496. [Link to publisher]
  • Cover article.
• Guyton JA, Pansu J, Hutchinson MC, Kartzinel TR, Potter AB, Coverdale TC, Daskin JH, Gledis da Conceição A, Peel MJS, Stalmans ME, Pringle RM. 2020. Trophic rewilding revives biotic resistance to shrub invasion. Nature Ecology and Evolution: 4: 712-724. [Link to publisher]​
  • Cover article.

2019

• ​Kartzinel TR, Hsing J, Musili PM, Brown BRP†, Pringle RM. 2019. Covariation of diet and gut microbiome in African megafauna. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 116: 23588-23593.​ [PDF] [Open Access]
  • Cover article.

• ​​Reese AT*, Kartzinel TR*, Petrone BL, Turnbaugh PJ, Pringle RM, David LA. 2019. Using DNA metabarcoding to evaluate the plant component of human diets: a proof of concept. mSystems 4: e00458-19. [Link to publisher]
  • Editor's Pick: Research Article | Clinical Science and Epidemiology.
  • mSystems commentary by Frank Maixner: "Molecular reconstruction of the diet in human stool samples."
• Pringle RM*, Kartzinel TR*, Palmer TM, Thurman TJ, Fox-Dobbs K, Xu CC, Hutchinson MC, Coverdale TC, Daskin JH, Evangelista D, Gotanda K, Man in ‘t Veld N, Wegener H, Kolbe JJ, Schoener TW, Spiller DA, Losos JB, Barrett RDH. 2019. Predator-induced collapse of niche structure and coexistence on islands. Nature 570: 58-64. [PDF] [Link to Publisher]​
  • Cover article.
  • Nature News & Views Commentary by Oswald Schmitz "Predators affect competitors’ coexistence through fear effects."
  • Nature Nature Video (3 min).
  • Recommended on Faculty of 1000.

• ​Trapnell DW, Hamrick JL, Smallwood PA, Kartzinel TR, Ishibashi CD, Quigley CTC. 2019. Phylogeography of the Neotropical epiphytic orchid, Brassavola nodosa: evidence for a secondary contact zone in northwestern Costa Rica. Heredity 123: 662-674.
• Shefferson RP, Bunch W, Cowden CC, Lee Y-I, Kartzinel TR, Yukawa T, Downing J, Jiang H. 2019. Does evolutionary history determine specificity in broad ecological interactions? Journal of Ecology 107: 1582-1593. [PDF of online-early version]
  • Invited contribution to the special feature: Macroevolution of biotic interactions in plants.
• Gill BA‡, Musili PM, Kurukura S, Hassan AA, Goheen JR, Kress WJ, Kuzmina M, Pringle RM, Kartzinel TR. 2019. Plant DNA barcode library and community phylogeny for a semi-arid savanna in Kenya. Molecular Ecology Resources 19: 838-846. ​[PDF of online-early version]
  • Featured as a recent, noteworthy paper on the Molecular Ecology Blog.
• Pansu J, Guyton JA, Potter A, Atkins J, Daskin J, Wursten B, Kartzinel TR, Pringle RM. 2019. Trophic ecology of large herbivores in a reassembling African ecosystem. Journal of Ecology 107: 1355-1376.​ [PDF of online-early version]
• Deagle BE, Thomas AC, McInnes JC, Clarke LJ, Vesterinen EJ, Clare EL, Kartzinel TR, Eveson JP. 2019. Counting with DNA in metabarcoding studies: how should we convert sequence reads to dietary data? Molecular Ecology 28: 391-406. [PDF]
  • Invited contribution to the special feature: Species interactions, ecological networks and community dynamics.

2018

• ​Reese AT, Pereira FC, Schintlmeister A, Berry D, Wagner M, Hale LP, Wu A, Jiang S, Durand HK, Zhou X, Premont R, Mae Diehl A, O’Connell TM, Alberts SC, Kartzinel TR, Pringle RM, Dunn RR, Wright JP, David LA. 2018. Microbial nitrogen limitation in the mammalian large intestine. Nature Microbiology 3: 1441-1450. [Free access; Link to publisher for institutional access]
• Goheen JR, Augustine DJ, Veblen KE, Kimuyu DM, Palmer TM, Porensky LM, Pringle RM, Ratnam J, Riginos C, Sankaran M, Ford AT, Hassan AA, Jakopak R, Kartzinel TR, Kurukura S, Louthan AM, Odadi WO, Otieno TO, Wambua AM, Young HS, Young TP. 2018. Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East African savannas: the KLEE, UHURU, and GLADE experiments. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1429: 31-49. [Free Text From Publisher]
  • Invited contribution to the special volume: The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology.
• Budischak SA, Hansen CB, Caudron Q, Garnier R, Kartzinel TR, Pelcer I, Cressler C, van Leeuwen A, Graham A. 2018. Feeding immunity: physiological and behavioral responses to infection and resource limitation. Frontiers in Immunology 8: 1914. [Free Text From Publisher]
  • Invited contribution to the special feature: "Wild Immunology – The answers are out there." [PDF of Editorial]

2017

• Pellegrini AFA, Anderegg WRL, Paine CET, Hoffmann WA, Kartzinel T, Rabin SS, Sheil D, Franco AC, Pacala SW. 2017. Convergence of bark investment according to fire and climate structures ecosystem vulnerability to future change. Ecology Letters 20: 307-316. [PDF]

2016

• Coverdale TC, Kartzinel TR, Grabowski K, Shriver R, Hassan A, Goheen JR, Palmer TM, Pringle RM. 2016. Elephants in the understory: opposing direct and indirect effects of consumption and ecosystem engineering. Ecology 97: 3219-3230. [PDF]
  • Feature article in Ecology. 
• Kartzinel TR, Campbell DA, Trapnell DW. 2016. Spatial patterns of haplotype variation in the epiphytic bromeliad Catopsis nutans. Biotropica 48: 206-217. [PDF]

2015

• Kartzinel TR, Hamrick JL, Wang C, Bowsher AW, Quigley BGP. 2015. Heterogeneity of clonal patterns among patches of kudzu, Pueraria montana var. lobata, an invasive plant. Annals of Botany 116: 739-750. [PDF]

• ​Kartzinel TR, Chen PA, Coverdale TC, Erickson DL, Kress WJ, Kuzmina ML, Rubenstein DI, Wang W, Pringle RM. 2015. DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 112: 8019-8024. [PDF with cover & commentary] [Open Access]
  • Cover article.
  • PNAS Commentary by David Tilman & Elizabeth Borer: "African mammals, foodwebs, and coexistence."
  • HHMI BioInteractive Lab for teaching biology: "Niche partitioning and DNA metabarcoding." 
  • Recommended on Faculty of 1000.

• ​​Kartzinel TR and Pringle RM. 2015. Molecular detection of invertebrate prey in vertebrate diets: Trophic ecology of Caribbean island lizards. Molecular Ecology Resources 15: 903-914. [PDF]

2014

• Kartzinel TR, Goheen JR, Charles GK, DeFranco E, Maclean JE, Otieno T, Palmer TM, Pringle RM. 2014. Plant and small-mammal responses to large-herbivore exclusion in an African savanna: five years of the UHURU experiment. Ecology 95: 787. [Open Access]

2013

• Kartzinel TR, Shefferson RP, Trapnell DW. 2013. Relative importance of pollen and seed dispersal across a Neotropical mountain landscape for an epiphtytic orchid. Molecular Ecology 22: 6048-6059. [PDF]
• Kartzinel TR, Trapnell DW, Shefferson RP. 2013. Highly diverse and spatially heterogeneous mycorrhizal symbiosis in a rare epiphyte is unrelated to broad biogeographic or environmental features. Molecular Ecology 22: 5949-5961. [PDF]
• Kartzinel TR, Trapnell DW, Shefferson RP. 2013. Critical importance of large native trees for conservation of a rare Neotropical epiphyte. Journal of Ecology 101: 1429-1438. [PDF]
• Trapnell DW, Hamrick JL, Ishibashi CD, Kartzinel TR. 2013. Genetic inference of epiphytic orchid colonization; it may only take one. Molecular Ecology 22: 3680-3692. [PDF]

2012

• Kartzinel TR, Trapnell DW, Glenn TC. 2012. Microsatellite primers for the Neotropical epiphyte Epidendrum firmum (Orchidaceae). American Journal of Botany 99: e450-452. [Open Access]​