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Publications: Please e-mail me if you would like a pdf of any papers (full list below).
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Mayhew PJ, Jenkins GB & Benton TG (2008) A long-term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination and extinction in the fossil record. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 47-53. Link to journal website

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Books:

Mayhew PJ. 2006. Discovering evolutionary ecology: Bringing together ecology and evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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Reviews:
"The title and small size of this book suggest that it is an introduction but it is much more than that.......since the rise of evolutionary ecology in the last few decades this may be the first book to so clearly integrate this important amount of knowledge". Yves Desdevises, Vie et Milieu.

"Mayhew tries, and wholly succeeds in taking us on a journey from genes and chromosomes through inheritance and selection to population dynamics and adaptations, ending up with the birth and death of species......the touch is light and friendly, in many ways following the tradition of all good books on natural history......undergraduates will love it." Keith Day and Brian Rushton, The Times Higher Education Supplement.

"This is a super textbook which had me gripped from the opening sentences of the Preface". Des Thompson, Bulletin of the British Ecological Society.

"It is very rare to find an author who can convey the excitement of ecological research in a textbook, but Peter Mayhew succeeds". Peter Moore, Bulletin of the British Ecological Society.

"broad coverage, nice integration among the topics, and numerous examples. I enjoyed the stories and perspectives". E. Raymond Heithaus, Ecology.

Book chapters:

Mayhew PJ (2008) How do new species form? Chapter 28, pp. 123-126 in Benton MJ (ed.) the Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World. Thames & Hudson.

Mayhew PJ (2008) Why are islands special? Chapter 36, pp. 154-157 in Benton MJ (ed.) the Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World. Thames & Hudson.

Mayhew PJ (2008). Why are insects so diverse? Chapter 42, pp. 181-183 in Benton MJ (ed.) the Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World. Thames & Hudson.

Mayhew PJ & Pen I. 2002. Comparative analysis of sex ratios. Chapter 6 (pp. 132-156) in I.C.W. Hardy (ed.) Sex ratios: concepts and research methods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Papers:

Smart, CB & Mayhew PJ (in press) A comparative study of sex ratio and clutch size in gregarious ichneumonoid wasps. Journal of Insect Behavior

Mayhew PJ, Dytham C, Shaw MR & Fraser SEM (in press). Collections of ichnuemonid wasps (subfamilies Diacritinae, Diplazontinae, Pimplinae and Poemeniinae) from woodlands near York and their implications for conservation planning. Naturalist

Fraser SEM, Beresford AE, Peters J, Redhead JW, Welch AJ, Mayhew PJ & Dytham C (in press) Effectiveness of vegetation surrogates for parasitoid wasps in reserve selection. Conservation Biology

Fraser SEM, Dytham C, Mayhew PJ, Mouillot D & Anderson BJ (2008) Community structure in ichneumonid parasitoids at different spatial scales. Oecologia 157: 521-530.

Fraser SEM, Dytham C & Mayhew PJ (2008) Patterns in the abundance and distribution of ichneumonid parasitoids within and across habitat patches. Ecological Entomology 33: 473-483.

Fraser SEM, Dytham C & Mayhew PJ (2008) The effectiveness and optimal use of Malaise traps for monitoring parasitoid wasps. Insect Conservation and Diversity 1: 22-31.

Mayhew PJ, Jenkins GB & Benton TG (2008) A long-term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination and extinction in the fossil record. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 47-53.

Fraser SEM, Dytham C & Mayhew PJ (2007) Determinants of parasitoid abundance and diversity in woodland habitats. Journal of Applied Ecology 44: 352-361.

Gray MA, Baldauf SL, Mayhew PJ & Hill JK (2007) The response of avian feeding guilds to tropical forest disturbance. Conservation Biology 21: 133-141.

Mayhew PJ (2007) Why are there so many insect species? Perspectives from fossils and phylogenies. Biological Reviews 82: 425-454.

Thorne AD, Pexton JJ, Dytham C & Mayhew PJ (2006) Small body size in an insect shifts development, prior to adult eclosion, towards early reproduction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 272: 1099-1103.

Traynor RE & Mayhew PJ. (2005) Host range in solitary versus gregarious parasitoids: a laboratory experiment. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 117: 41-49.

Böhm M & Mayhew PJ. (2005) Historical biogeography and the evolution of the latittudinal gradient in species richness in the Papionini (Primata: Cercopithecidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 85: 235-246.

Guinnee MA, Bernal JS, Bezemer TM, Fidgen JG, Hardy ICW, Mayhew PJ, Mills NJ & West SA. (2005) Testing predictions of small brood models using parasitoid wasps. Evolutionary Ecology Research 7: 779-794.

Pexton JJ & Mayhew PJ. (2005) Clutch size adjustment, information use and the evolution of gregarious development in parasitoid wasps. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology58: 99-110.

Traynor RE & Mayhew PJ. (2005) A comparative study of body size and clutch size across the parasitoid Hymenoptera. Oikos 109: 305-316.

Pexton JJ & Mayhew PJ. (2004) Competitive interactions between parasitoid larvae and the evolution of gregarious development. Oecologia141: 179-190.

Mayhew PJ. (2003) A tale of two analyses: estimating the consequences of shifts in hexapod diversification.Biological Journal of the Linnean Society80: 23-36.

Pexton JJ, Rankin DJ, Dytham C & Mayhew PJ (2003) Asymmetric larval mobility and the evolutionary transition from siblicide to nonsiblicidal behaviour in parasitoid wasps.Behavioral Ecology14: 182-193.

Schmitz S, Schankin CJ, Prinz H, Curwen RS, Ashton PD, Caves LSD, Fink RHA, Sparrow JC, Mayhew PJ, Veigel C (2003) Molecular evolutionary convergence of the flight muscle protein arthrin in diptera and hemiptera. Molecular Biology and Evolution20: 2019-2033.

Johnson SN, Mayhew PJ, Douglas AE & Hartley SE. (2002) Insects as leaf engineers: can leaf-miners alter leaf structure for birch aphids? Functional Ecology16: 575-584.

Mayhew PJ. (2002) Shifts in hexapod diversification and what Haldane could have said.Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B269: 969-974.

Pexton JJ & Mayhew PJ. (2002) Siblicide and life history evolution in parasitoids. Behavioral Ecology13: 690-695.

Mayhew PJ. (2001) Herbivore host choice and optimal bad motherhood. Trends in Ecology and Evolution16: 165-167.

Mayhew PJ & Glaizot O. (2001) Integrating theory of clutch size and body size evolution for parasitoids.Oikos92: 372-376.

Pexton JJ & Mayhew PJ. (2001) Immobility: the key to family harmony? Trends in Ecology and Evolution16: 7-9

Mayhew PJ, Heitmans WRB. (2000) Life history correlates and reproductive biology of Laelius pedatus (Hymenoptera : Bethylidae) in The Netherlands. European Journal of Entomology97: 313-322.

Hardy ICW and Mayhew PJ. (1999) Reply from I.C.W. Hardy and P.J. Mayhew. Trends in Ecology and Evolution14: 235.

Mayhew PJ & van Alphen JJM. (1999) Gregarious development in alysiine parasitoids evolved through a reduction in larval aggression. Animal Behaviour58: 131-141.

Mayhew PJ & Blackburn TM. (1999) Does development mode organize life history evolution in the parasitoid Hymenoptera? Journal of Animal Ecology68: 906-916.

Seehausen O, Mayhew PJ, Van Alphen JJM. (1999) Evolution of colour patterns in East African cichlid fish. Journal of Evolutionary Biology12: 514-534.

Hardy ICW & Mayhew PJ. (1998) Sex ratio, sexual dimorphism and mating structure in bethylid wasps.Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology42: 383-395.

Hardy ICW & Mayhew PJ. (1998) Partial local mating and the sex ratio: indirect comparative evidence.Trends in Ecology and Evolution13: 431-432.

Mayhew PJ. (1998) The evolution of gregariousness in parasitoid wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B265: 383-389.

Mayhew PJ. (1998) Offspring size-number strategy in the bethylid parasitoid Laelius pedatus.Behavioral Ecology9: 54-59.

Mayhew PJ. (1998) The life-histories of parasitoid wasps developing in small gregarious broods. Netherlands Journal of Zoology 48: 225-240.

Mayhew PJ. (1998) Daily activity rhythms in adult odonata examined with a dynamic programming model.Netherlands Journal of Zoology48: 101-119.

Mayhew PJ. (1998) Testing the preference-performance hypothesis in phytophagous insects: Lessons from chrysanthemum leafminer (Diptera : Agromyzidae) Environmental Entomology27: 45-52.

Mayhew PJ & Hardy ICW. (1998) Nonsiblicidal behavior and the evolution of clutch size in bethylid wasps. American Naturalist 151:409-424.

Mayhew PJ, Ode PJ, Hardy ICW & Rosenheim JA. (1998) Parasitoid clutch size and irreversible evolution.Ecology Letters1: 139-141.

Mayhew PJ & Godfray HCJ. (1997) Mixed sex allocation strategies in a parasitoid wasp.Oecologia 110: 218-221.

Mayhew PJ. (1997) Adaptive patterns of host-plant selection by phytophagous insects. Oikos79: 417-428.

Mayhew PJ. (1997) Fitness consequences of ovicide in a parasitoid wasp. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata84: 115-126.

Mayhew PJ. (1994) Food intake and adult feeding behaviour in Calopteryx splendens (Harris) andErythromma najas (Hansemann) (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae, Coenagrionidae).Odonatologica 23: 115-124.