Papers


Peer-reviewed Publications

Perry, KI, CA Bahlai, TJ Assal, CB Riley, KJ Turo, L Taylor, J Radl, YA Delgado de la flor, FS Sivakoff, and MM Gardiner. In Press. Landscape change and alien invasions drive shifts in native lady beetle communities over a century, Ecological Applications

Delgado de la flor, YA, KI Perry, LM Collis, PL Phelan, and MM Gardiner. 2024. Biotic and abiotic factors drive multi-trophic interactions among spiders at different spatial scales in urban greenspaces, Journal of Urban Ecology, 10(1), juae008. https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juae008

McNamara Manning, K, KI Perry, and CA Bahlai. 2023. Characterizing insect communities within thin-soil environments, The Great Lakes Entomologist, 56, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.22543/0090-0222.2431

Arnold, MB, M Back, MD Crowell, N Farooq, P Ghimire, OA Obarein, KE Smart, T Taucher, E VanderJeugdt, KI Perry, DA Landis, and CA Bahlai. 2023. Coexistence between similar invaders: The case of two cosmopolitan exotic species, Ecology, 104(4): e3979. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3979

Perry, KI, CB Riley, F Fan, J Radl, DA Herms, and MM Gardiner. 2022. The value of hybrid and nonnative ash for the conservation of ash specialists is limited following late stages of emerald ash borer invasion, Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 24: 355-370. https://doi.org/10.1111/afe.12499

Perry, KI, FS Sivakoff, KF Wallin, JW Wenzel, and DA Herms. 2021. Forest disturbance and arthropods: Small-scale canopy and understory disturbances alter movement of mobile arthropods, Ecosphere, 12(11):e03771. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3771

Gardiner, MM, KI Perry, CB Riley, KJ Turo, YA Delgado de la flor, and FS Sivakoff. 2021. Community science data suggests that urbanization and forest habitat loss threaten aphidophagous native lady beetles, Ecology and Evolution, 11: 2761-2774. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7229

Perry, KI, NC Hoekstra, SW Culman, MM Gardiner. 2021. Vacant lot soil degradation and mowing frequency shape communities of belowground invertebrates and urban spontaneous vegetation, Urban Ecosystems, 24(4):737-752. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-020-01069-0

Perry, KI, NC Hoekstra, YA Delgado de la Flor, and MM Gardiner. 2020. Disentangling landscape and local drivers of ground-dwelling beetle community assembly in an urban ecosystem, Ecological Applications 30(8):e02191. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2191

Delgado de la Flor, YA, KI Perry, KJ Turo, DM Parker, JL Thompson, and MM Gardiner. 2020. Local and landscape-scale environmental filters drive the functional diversity and taxonomic composition of spiders across urban greenspaces, Journal of Applied Ecology 57: 1570-1580. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13636

Perry, KI and DA Herms. 2019. Dynamic responses of ground-dwelling invertebrate communities to disturbance in forest ecosystems, Insects, 10, 61. doi:10.3390/insects10030061

Perry, KI, KF Wallin, JW Wenzel, and DA Herms. 2018. Forest disturbance and arthropods: Small-scale canopy gaps drive invertebrate community structure and composition, Ecosphere, 9(10):e02463. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2463

Riley, CB, KI Perry, KJ Ard, and MM Gardiner. 2018. Asset or liability? Ecological and sociological tradeoffs of urban spontaneous vegetation on vacant land in shrinking cities, Sustainability, 10, 2139. doi:10.3390/su10072139

Klooster, WS, KJK Gandhi, L Long, KI Perry, K Rice, DA Herms.  2018. Ecological impacts of emerald ash borer in forests at the epicenter of the invasion in North America, Forests, 9, 250: 1-14. doi:10.3390/f9050250

Perry, KI, DA Herms, WS Klooster, A Smith, DM Hartzler, DR Coyle, and KJK Gandhi.  2018. Downed coarse woody debris dynamics in ash (Fraxinus spp.) stands invaded by emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire), Forests, 9, 191: 1-14. doi:10.3390/f9040191

Perry, KI and DA Herms.  2017. Effects of late stages of emerald ash borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)-induced ash mortality on forest floor invertebrate communities, Journal of Insect Science, 17(6): 119, 1-10. doi: 10.1093/jisesa/iex093

Perry, KI and DA Herms.  2017. Responses of ground-dwelling invertebrates to gap formation and accumulation of woody debris from invasive species, wind, and salvage logging, Forests, 8, 174: 1-13. doi: 10.3390/f8050174

Perry, KI, KF Wallin, JW Wenzel, and DA Herms. 2017. Characterizing movement of ground-dwelling forest arthropods with a novel mark-capture method using fluorescent powder, Journal of Insect Behavior, 30(1): 32-47. doi: 10.1007/s10905-017-9598-0

Perry, KI and DA Herms.  2016. Response of the forest floor invertebrate community to canopy gap formation caused by early stages of emerald ash borer-induced ash mortality, Forest Ecology and Management, 375: 259-267. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.05.034

Perry, KI and DA Herms.  2016. Short-term responses of ground beetles to forest changes caused by early stages of emerald ash borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)-induced ash mortality.  Environmental Entomology, 45(3): 616-626. doi: 10.1093/ee/nvw038

Petry, WK, KI Perry, A Fremgen, S Rudeen, M Lopez, J Dryburgh, and KA Mooney.  2013. Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities.  Ecology 94(9): 2055-2065.

Petry, WK, KI Perry, and KA Mooney. 2012. Influence of macronutrient imbalance on native ant interactions with aphids, aphid enemies, and host plant flowers in the field, Ecological Entomology 37(3): 175-183.


Books

Klimaszewski, J, ER Hoekeke, B Godin, A Davies, KI Perry, C Bourdon, and N Winchester. 2020. Aleocharinae Rove Beetles of British Columbia, A Hotspot of Canadian Biodiversity (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36174-7