Selected Publications

1974

“Dispersion and Population Interactions”. 1974. The Americaln Naturalist 108 (960). Referenced from doi.org.

1976

Levin, Simon A. 1976. “Population Dynamic Models in Heterogeneous Environments”. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 7: 24. Referenced from www.jstor.org.

1980

Orzack, Steven, Joel Sohn, Klaus Kallman, Simon Levin, and Ross Johnston. (1980) 1980. “MAINTENANCE OF THE THREE SEX CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM IN THE PLATYFISH, XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS.”. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 34 (4): 663-72. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1980.tb04005.x.

1988

Castillo-Chavez, Carlos, Simon Levin, and Fred Gould. (1988) 1988. “PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION TO VARYING ENVIRONMENTS: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL.”. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 42 (5): 986-94. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1988.tb02517.x.

1992

Levin, Simon A. (1992) 1992. “The Problem of Pattern and Scale in Ecology: The Robert H. MacArthur Award Lecture”. Ecology 73 (6): 24. Referenced from esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com.

1995

Arrow, K, B Bolin, R Costanza, P Dasgupta, C Folke, C Holling, B Jansson, et al. (1995) 1995. “Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment.”. Science (New York, N.Y.) 268 (5210): 520-1.

1996

Levin, Simon A. 1996. Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons. Perseus Books.

1997

Levin, Simon A., Bryan Grenfell, Alan Hastings, and Alan S. Perelson. (1997) 1997. “Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Population Biology and Ecosystems Science”. Science 275 (5298). doi:10.1126/science.275.5298.334.

2000

Dwyer, Greg, Jonathan Dushoff, Joseph Elkinton, and Simon Levin. (2000) 2000. “Pathogen-Driven Outbreaks in Forest Defoliators Revisited: Building Models from Experimental Data.”. The American Naturalist 156 (2): 105-20. doi:10.1086/303379.

Keymer, Juan, Pablo Marquet, Jorge Velasco-Hernández, and Simon Levin. (2000) 2000. “Extinction Thresholds and Metapopulation Persistence in Dynamic Landscapes.”. The American Naturalist 156 (5): 478-94. doi:10.1086/303407.

2001

Levin, Simon A. (1998) 2001. “Ecosystems and the Biosphere As Complex Adaptive Systems”. Ecosystems 1: 5. Referenced from link.springer.com.

2002

Buttel, Linda, Richard Durrett, and Simon Levin. (2002) 2002. “Competition and Species Packing in Patchy Environments.”. Theoretical Population Biology 61 (3): 265-76.

Chave, Jérôme, Helene Muller-Landau, and Simon Levin. (2002) 2002. “Comparing Classical Community Models: Theoretical Consequences for Patterns of Diversity.”. The American Naturalist 159 (1): 1-23. doi:10.1086/324112.

Dushoff, Jonathan, Lee Worden, Juan Keymer, and Simon Levin. (2002) 2002. “Metapopulations, Community Assembly, and Scale Invariance in Aspect Space.”. Theoretical Population Biology 62 (4): 329-38.

Nathan, Ran, Gabriel Katul, Henry Horn, Suvi Thomas, Ram Oren, Roni Avissar, Stephen Pacala, and Simon Levin. (2002) 2002. “Mechanisms of Long-Distance Dispersal of Seeds by Wind.”. Nature 418 (6896): 409-13.

Plotkin, Joshua, Jonathan Dushoff, and Simon Levin. (2002) 2002. “Hemagglutinin Sequence Clusters and the Antigenic Evolution of Influenza A Virus.”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99 (9): 6263-8.

2003

Kinzig, Ann, David Starrett, Kenneth Arrow, Sara Aniyar, Bert Bolin, Partha Dasgupta, Paul Ehrlich, et al. (2003) 2003. “Coping With Uncertainty: A Call for a New Science-Policy Forum.”. Ambio 32 (5): 330-5.

Lin, Juan, Viggo Andreasen, Renato Casagrandi, and Simon Levin. (2003) 2003. “Traveling Waves in a Model of Influenza A Drift.”. Journal of Theoretical Biology 222 (4): 437-45.

Ryan, Bridget, Kathy Speechley, Simon Levin, and Moira Stewart. (2003) 2003. “Parents’ and physicians’ Perceptions of Childhood Epilepsy.”. Seizure 12 (6): 359-68.

2004

Dushoff, Jonathan, Joshua Plotkin, Simon Levin, and David Earn. (2004) 2004. “Dynamical Resonance Can Account for Seasonality of Influenza Epidemics.”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101 (48): 16915-6.

Feng, Zhilan, David Smith, Ellis McKenzie, and Simon Levin. (2004) 2004. “Coupling Ecology and Evolution: Malaria and the S-Gene across Time Scales.”. Mathematical Biosciences 189 (1): 1-19.

Klausmeier, Christopher, Elena Litchman, Tanguy Daufresne, and Simon Levin. (2004) 2004. “Optimal Nitrogen-to-Phosphorus Stoichiometry of Phytoplankton.”. Nature 429 (6988): 171-4.

Levin, Simon, Jonathan Dushoff, and Joshua Plotkin. (2004) 2004. “Evolution and Persistence of Influenza A and Other Diseases.”. Mathematical Biosciences 188: 17-28.

Myers, Ransom, Simon Levin, Russell Lande, Frances James, William Murdoch, and Robert Paine. (2004) 2004. “Ecology. Hatcheries and Endangered Salmon.”. Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5666): 1980.

Nakamaru, Mayuko, and Simon Levin. (2004) 2004. “Spread of Two Linked Social Norms on Complex Interaction Networks.”. Journal of Theoretical Biology 230 (1): 57-64.

Roy, Manojit, Mercedes Pascual, and Simon Levin. (2004) 2004. “Competitive Coexistence in a Dynamic Landscape.”. Theoretical Population Biology 66 (4): 341-53.

Smith, David, Jonathan Dushoff, Eli Perencevich, Anthony Harris, and Simon Levin. (2004) 2004. “Persistent Colonization and the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance in Nosocomial Pathogens: Resistance Is a Regional Problem.”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101 (10): 3709-14.

2005

Campbell, Craig, Simon Levin, Peter Humphreys, Wikke Walop, and Renee Brannan. (2005) 2005. “Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: Results of the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program and Review of the Literature.”. BMC Pediatrics 5: 47.

Chan, Kai, and Simon Levin. (2005) 2005. “Leaky Prezygotic Isolation and Porous Genomes: Rapid Introgression of Maternally Inherited DNA.”. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 59 (4): 720-9.

Couzin, Iain, Jens Krause, Nigel Franks, and Simon A Levin. (2005) 2005. “Effective Leadership and Decision-Making in Animal Groups on the Move.”. Nature 433 (7025): 513-6.

Ehrlich, Paul, and Simon Levin. (2005) 2005. “The Evolution of Norms.”. PLoS Biology 3 (6): e194.

Laxminarayan, Ramanan, David Smith, Leslie Real, and Simon Levin. (2005) 2005. “On the Importance of Incentives in Hospital Infection Control Spending.”. Discovery Medicine 5 (27): 303-8.

Livnat, Adi, Stephen Pacala, and Simon Levin. (2005) 2005. “The Evolution of Intergenerational Discounting in Offspring Quality.”. The American Naturalist 165 (3): 311-21.

Smith, David, Simon Levin, and Ramanan Laxminarayan. (2005) 2005. “Strategic Interactions in Multi-Institutional Epidemics of Antibiotic Resistance.”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102 (8): 3153-8.

van der Meulen, Albert, Pablo Peláez-Campomanes, and Simon Levin. (2005) 2005. “Age Structure, Residents, and Transients of Miocene Rodent Communities.”. The American Naturalist 165 (4).

2006

Bazykin, Georgii, Jonathan Dushoff, Simon Levin, and Alexey Kondrashov. (2006) 2006. “Bursts of Nonsynonymous Substitutions in HIV-1 Evolution Reveal Instances of Positive Selection at Conservative Protein Sites.”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103 (51): 19396-401.

Casagrandi, Renato, Luca Bolzoni, Simon Levin, and Viggo Andreasen. (2006) 2006. “The SIRC Model and Influenza A.”. Mathematical Biosciences 200 (2): 152-69.

Chapin, Stuart, Michael Hoel, Steven Carpenter, Jane Lubchenco, Brian Walker, Terry Callaghan V, Carl Folke, et al. (2006) 2006. “Building Resilience and Adaptation to Manage Arctic Change.”. Ambio 35 (4): 198-202.

De Leenheer, Patrick, Simon Levin, Eduardo Sontag, and Christopher Klausmeier. (2006) 2006. “Global Stability in a Chemostat With Multiple Nutrients.”. Journal of Mathematical Biology 52 (4): 419-38.

Earn, David, and Simon Levin. (2006) 2006. “Global Asymptotic Coherence in Discrete Dynamical Systems.”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103 (11): 3968-71.

Levin, Simon. (2006) 2006. “Fundamental Questions in Biology.”. PLoS Biology 4 (9): e300.

Levin, Simon. (2006) 2006. “On Karl Hadeler Becoming 70.”. Journal of Mathematical Biology 53 (4): 496-8.

Ma, Junling, and Simon Levin. (2006) 2006. “The Evolution of Resource Adaptation: How Generalist and Specialist Consumers Evolve.”. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 68 (5): 1111-23.

Ruan, Shigui, Wendi Wang, and Simon Levin. (2006) 2006. “The Effect of Global Travel on the Spread of Sars.”. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering : MBE 3 (1): 205-18.

Weitz, Joshua, and Simon Levin. (2006) 2006. “Size and Scaling of Predator-Prey Dynamics.”. Ecology Letters 9 (5): 548-57.

Wingreen, Ned, and Simon Levin. (2006) 2006. “Cooperation Among Microorganisms.”. PLoS Biology 4 (9): e299.

2007

Baskett, Marissa, Joshua Weitz, and Simon Levin. (2007) 2007. “The Evolution of Dispersal in Reserve Networks.”. The American Naturalist 170 (1): 59-78.

Kryazhimskiy, Sergey, Ulf Dieckmann, Simon Levin, and Jonathan Dushoff. (2007) 2007. “On State-Space Reduction in Multi-Strain Pathogen Models, With an Application to Antigenic Drift in Influenza A.”. PLoS Computational Biology 3 (8): e159.

Lichstein, Jeremy, Jonathan Dushoff, Simon Levin, and Stephen Pacala. (2007) 2007. “Intraspecific Variation and Species Coexistence.”. The American Naturalist 170 (6): 807-18. doi:10.1086/522937.

Mahmud, Farid, David Ramsay, Simon Levin, Ram Singh, Trevor Kotylak, and Douglas Fraser. (2007) 2007. “Coma With Diffuse White Matter Hemorrhages in Juvenile Diabetic Ketoacidosis.”. Pediatrics 120 (6).