Nemergut DR, Schmidt SK, Fukami T, O'Neill SP, Legg TM, Knelman J, Darcy JL, Lynch R, Wickey P, and Ferrenberg S (in press) Microbial community assembly: patterns and processes. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
Fukami T (2013) Integrating inquiry-based teaching with faculty research. Science 339: 1536-1537. PDF
Commentary
AAAS (2013) Science prize goes to undergrad course that incorporates faculty research. Link
Fukami T and Nakajima M (2013) Complex plant-soil interactions enhance plant species diversity by delaying community convergence. Journal of Ecology 101: 316-324. PDF
Kloser MJ, Brownell SE, Shavelson RJ, and Fukami T (2013) Effects of a research-based ecology lab course: a study of non-volunteer achievement, self-confidence and perception of lab course purpose. Journal of College Science Teaching 42: 90-99. PDF
McFall-Ngai M, Hadfield M, Bosch T, Carey H, Domazet-Loso T, Douglas A, Dubilier N, Eberl G, Fukami T, Gilbert S, Hentschel T, King N, Kjelleberg S, Knoll AH, Kremer N, Mazmanian S, Metcalf J, Nealson K, Pierce N, Rawls J, Reid A, Ruby E, Rumpho M, Sanders J, Tautz D, and Wernegreen J (2013) Animals in a bacterial world, an imperative for the life sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110: 3229-3236. PDF
Peay KG, Dickie IA, Wardle DA, Bellingham PJ, and Fukami T (2013) Rat invasion of islands alters fungal community structure, but not wood decomposition rates. Oikos 122: 258-264. PDF
Suding KN, Harpole WS, Fukami T, Kulmatiski A, MacDougall AS, Stein C, and Van der Putten WH (2013) Consequences of plant-soil feedbacks in invasion. Journal of Ecology 101: 298-308. PDF
Van der Putten WH, Bardgett RD, Bever JD, Bezemer TM, Casper BB, Fukami T, Kardol P, Klironomos JN, Kulmatiski A, Schweitzer JA, Suding KN, Van der Voorde TFJ, and Wardle DA (2013) Plant-soil feedback: the past, the present and future challenges. Journal of Ecology 101: 265-276. PDF
Vannette RL, Gauthier M-PL, and Fukami T (2013) Nectar bacteria, but not yeast, weaken a plant-pollinator mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280: 20122601. PDF
Commentary
Tucker C (2013) The birds and the bees and the microbes. Blog
Belisle M, Peay KG, and Fukami T (2012) Flowers as islands: spatial distribution of nectar-inhabiting microfungi among plants of Mimulus aurantiacus, a hummingbird-pollinated shrub. Microbial Ecology 63: 711-718. PDF
Brownell SE, Kloser MJ, Fukami T, and Shavelson RJ (2012) Undergraduate biology lab courses: comparing the impact of traditionally-based "cookbook" and authentic research-based courses on student lab experiences. Journal of College Science Teaching 41: 36-45. PDF
Commentary
McClure M (2011) Ditch the cookbook: Stanford's biology pilot project shows benefits from nontraditional lab class. Stanford Report Link
Dickie IA, Fukami T, Wilkie JP, Allen RB, and Buchanan PK (2012) Do assembly history effects attenuate from species to ecosystem properties? A field test with wood-inhabiting fungi. Ecology Letters 15: 133-141. PDF
Knope ML, Forde SE, and Fukami T (2012) Evolutionary history, immigration history, and the extent of diversification in community assembly. Frontiers in Microbiology 2: 273. Link
Knope ML, Morden CW, Funk VA, and Fukami T (2012) Area and the rapid radiation of Hawaiian Bidens (Asteraceae). Journal of Biogeography 39: 1206-1216. PDF
Lynch HB, Epps KY, Fukami T, and Vitousek PM (2012) Introduced canopy tree species effect on the soil microbial community in a montane tropical forest. Pacific Science 66: 141-150. PDF
Peay KG, Belisle M, and Fukami T (2012) Phylogenetic relatedness predicts priority effects in nectar yeast communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 749-758. PDF
Commentary
Stachowicz JJ (2012) Comments in Faculty of 1000 Biology PDF
Wardle DA, Bellingham PJ, Fukami T, and Bonner KI (2012) Soil-mediated indirect impacts of an invasive predator on plant growth. Biology Letters 8: 574-577. PDF
Kloser MJ, Brownell SE, Chiariello NR, and Fukami T (2011) Integrating teaching and research in undergraduate biology laboratory education. PLoS Biology 9: e1001174. Link
Fukami T and Nakajima M (2011) Community assembly: alternative stable states or alternative transient states? Ecology Letters 14: 973-984. PDF
Massol F, Gravel D, Mouquet N, Cadotte MW, Fukami T, and Leibold MA (2011) Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through spatial ecology. Ecology Letters 14: 313-323. PDF
Fukami T, Dickie IA, Wilkie JP, Paulus BC, Park D, Roberts A, Buchanan PK, and Allen RB (2010) Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities. Ecology Letters 13: 675-684. PDF
Commentary
McCormack L and Smithwick E (2011) Comments in Faculty of 1000 Biology PDF, Link
Marsden Fund Update, March 2008 issue PDF (see p. 9-10)
Fukami T (2010) Community assembly dynamics in space. Pages 45-54 in: Verhoef HA and Morin PJ (editors) Community Ecology: Processes, Models, and Applications. Oxford University Press. PDF
Commentary
Melian CJ (2010) Community ecology: stasis, evolution or revolution?
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 684-685. PDF
Olito C and Fukami T (2009) Long-term effects of predator arrival timing on prey community succession. American Naturalist 173: 354-362. PDF
Mulder CPH, Grant-Hoffman MN, Towns DR, Bellingham PJ, Wardle DA, Durrett MS, Fukami T, and Bonner KI (2009) Direct and indirect effects of rats: does rat eradication restore ecosystem functioning of New Zealand seabird islands? Biological Invasions 11: 1671-1688. PDF
Fukami T, Beaumont HJE, Zhang X-X, and Rainey PB (2007) Immigration history controls diversification in experimental adaptive radiation. Nature 446: 436-439. PDF
Commentary
Gillespie RG and Emerson BC (2007) Adaptation under a microscope.
Nature 446: 386-387. PDF
Seehausen O (2007) Chance, historical contingency and ecological determinism jointly determine the rate of adaptive radiation. Heredity 99: 361-363. PDF
Nature Podcast interview MP3 (starts at 22:48)
Wardle DA, Bellingham PJ, Fukami T, and Mulder CPH (2007) Promotion of ecosystem carbon sequestration by invasive predators. Biology Letters 3: 479-482. PDF
Fukami T, Wardle DA, Bellingham PJ, Mulder CPH, Towns DR, Yeates GW, Bonner KI, Durrett MS, Grant-Hoffman MN, and Williamson WM (2006) Above- and below-ground impacts of introduced predators in seabird-dominated island ecosystems. Ecology Letters 9: 1299-1307. PDF
Commentary
Schmitz OJ (2007) Comments in Faculty of 1000 Biology PDF
Powell H (2007) Rats vs. rotifers in New Zealand islands. Blog
Fukami T and Lee WG (2006) Alternative stable states, trait dispersion, and ecological restoration. Oikos 113: 353-356. PDF
Cadotte MW, McMahon SM, and Fukami T (editors) (2006) Conceptual ecology and invasion biology: reciprocal approaches to nature. Springer. Link
Commentary
Ehrenfeld JG (2007) The marriage of invasion ecology and ecological theory. Ecology 88: 1067-1068. PDF
Fukami T, Bezemer TM, Mortimer SR, and Van der Putten WH (2005) Species divergence and trait convergence in experimental plant community assembly. Ecology Letters 8: 1283-1290. PDF
Commentary
Stokstad E (2009) On the origin of ecological structure. Science 326: 33-35. PDF (see p. 35)
Leibold MA (2007) Comments in Faculty of 1000 Biology PDF
Fukami T and Wardle DA (2005) Long-term ecological dynamics: reciprocal insights from natural and anthropogenic gradients. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272: 2105-2115. PDF
Cadotte MW and Fukami T (2005) Dispersal, spatial scale, and species diversity in a hierarchically structured experimental landscape. Ecology Letters 8: 548-557. PDF
Fukami T (2005) Integrating internal and external dispersal in metacommunity assembly: preliminary theoretical analyses. Ecological Research 20: 623-631. PDF
Fukami T (2004) Assembly history interacts with ecosystem size to influence species diversity. Ecology 85: 3234-3242. PDF
Fukami T (2004) Community assembly along a species pool gradient: implications for multiple-scale patterns of species diversity. Population Ecology 46: 137-147. PDF
Fukami T and Morin PJ (2003) Productivity-biodiversity relationships depend on the history of community assembly. Nature 424: 423-426. PDF
Commentary
Ward N (2003) Comments in Faculty of 1000 Biology PDF
NSF News Link
Fukami T, Naeem S, and Wardle DA (2001) On similarity among local communities in biodiversity experiments. Oikos 95: 340-348. PDF
Fukami T (2001) Sequence effects of disturbance on community structure. Oikos 92: 215-224. PDF
Commentary
Boero F and Parravicini V (2012) Comments in Faculty of 1000 Biology PDF
Begon M, Townsend CL, and Harper JL (2006) Ecology, 4th edition, Blackwell. PDF (see p. 497)
Book reviews
Fukami T (2010) Why a grand unified theory is neither feasible nor desirable. Science 330: 1049-1050. [Review of Loreau M (2010) From populations to ecosystems: theoretical foundations for a new ecological synthesis. Princeton University Press.] PDF
Fukami T (2010) Correcting Darwin's other mistake. Evolution 64: 3336-3338. [Review of Garland T Jr and Rose MR (editors) (2009) Experimental evolution: concepts, methods, and applications of selection experiments. University of California Press.] PDF