Journal publications

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Laird, R. A. (2012) Evolutionary strategy dynamics for tag-based cooperation and defection in the spatial and aspatial Snowdrift game. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. In press.

Laird, R. A. (2011) Green beard effect predicts the evolution of traitorousness in the two-tag Prisoner's Dilemma. Journal of Theoretical Biology 288, 84-91. [pdf]

Sherratt, T. N., Hassall, C., Laird, R. A., Thompson, D. L. and Cordero-Rivera, A. (2011) A comparative analysis of senescence in adult damselflies and dragonflies (Odonata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24, 810-822. [pdf]

Sherratt, T. N., Laird, R. A., Hassall, C., Lowe, C. D., Harvey, I. F., Watts, P. C., Cordero-Rivera, A. and Thompson, D. L. (2010) Empirical evidence of senescence in adult damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera). Journal of Animal Ecology 79, 1034-1044. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. and Sherratt, T. N. (2010) The evolution of senescence in multi-component systems. BioSystems 99, 130-139. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. and Sherratt, T. N. (2010) The economics of evolution: Henry Ford and the Model T. Oikos 119, 3-9. [pdf] [A Faculty of 1000 "Recommended Paper"] [Commentary in The Evolution & Medicine Review]

Laird, R. A. and Sherratt, T. N. (2009) The evolution of senescence through decelerating selection for system reliability. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22, 974-982. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. and Schamp, B. S. (2009) Species coexistence, intransitivity, and topological variation in competitive tournaments. Journal of Theoretical Biology 256, 90-95. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. and Addicott, J. F. (2009) Testing for mycorrhizal fungi-plant-ant indirect effects. Journal of Plant Interactions 4, 7-14. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. and Addicott, J. F. (2008) 'Fungicide application method' and the interpretation of mycorrhizal fungus-insect indirect effects. Acta Oecologica 34, 214-220. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. and Addicott, J. F. (2008) Neutral indirect effects of mycorrhizal fungi on a specialist insect herbivore. Environmental Entomology 37, 1017-1024. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. and Schamp, B. S. (2008) Does local competition increase the coexistence of species in intransitive networks? Ecology 89, 237-247. [pdf]

Bailey, S. F., Hargreaves, A. L., Hechtenthal, S. D., Laird, R. A., Latty, T. M., Reid, T. G., Teucher, A. C. and Tindall, J. R. (2007) Empty flowers as a pollination-enhancement strategy. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9, 1245-1262. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. and Addicott, J. F. (2007) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reduce the construction of extra-floral nectaries in Vicia faba. Oecologia 152, 541–551. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. and Schamp, B. S. (2006) Competitive intransitivity promotes species coexistence. American Naturalist 168, 182-193. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. and Aarssen, L. W. (2005) Size inequality and the tragedy of the commons phenomenon in plant competition. Plant Ecology 179, 127-131. [pdf]

Laird, R. A., Pither, J. and Aarssen, L. W. (2003) Species evenness, not richness, has consistent relationship with productivity in old-field vegetation. Community Ecology 4, 21-28. [pdf]

Aarssen, L. W., Laird, R. A. and Pither, J. (2003) Is the productivity of plots within natural vegetation higher or lower when there are more species?  Variable predictions derived from interaction of the ‘sampling effect’ and ‘competitive dominance effect’ on the habitat templet. Oikos 102, 427-432. [pdf]

Laird, R. A. (2002) The use of relative abundance patterns to discriminate among niche apportionment processes. Community Ecology 3, 31-38. [pdf]

Schamp, B. S., Laird, R. A. and Aarssen, L. W. (2002) Fewer species because of uncommon habitat? Testing the species pool hypothesis for low plant species richness in highly productive habitats. Oikos 97, 145-151. [pdf]