Porter, C.K., K. Cortes, and E.A. Riddell. The effects of humidity on thermoregulatory physiology of a small songbird. In press. Journal of Experimental Biology.
Porter, C.K., F.G. Romero, D.C. Adams, R.C.K. Bowie, and E.A. Riddell. 2023. Adaptive and non-adaptive convergent evolution in feather reflectance of Channel Islands songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290:20231914. PDF
Riddell, E.A., I.J. Burger, T.L. Tyner-Swanson, J. Biggerstaff, M.M. Muñoz, O. Levy, and C.K. Porter. 2023. The empirical basis for parameterizing mechanistic niche models in biophysical ecology. Journal of Experimental Biology. 226:jeb245543. PDF
Porter, C.K., J. Golcher-Benavides, and C.W. Benkman. 2022. Seasonal patterns of dietary partitioning in vertebrates. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.14100. PDF
Benkman, C.W., C.D. Brock, T.L. Parchman, and C.K. Porter. 2022. Reply to Hill and Powers: It is irrelevant that the mode and tempo of Cassia crossbill speciation is not typical for birds. Journal of Avian Biology. doi: 10.1111/jav.02967. PDF
Porter, C.K., and C.W. Benkman. 2022. Performance tradeoffs and resource availability drive variation in reproductive isolation between sympatrically diverging crossbills. The American Naturalist. 199:362-379. PDF
-I wrote a guest post on this paper for the Avian Hybrids blog here.
Porter, C.K., J.L. Confer, K.R. Aldinger, R. A. Canterbury, J.L. Larkin, and D.J. McNeil Jr. 2021. Strong yet incomplete reproductive isolation in Vermivora is not contradicted by other lines of evidence: A reply to Toews et al. Ecology and Evolution. DOI:10.1002/ece3.7763. PDF
-Jente Ottenburghs wrote a nice summary of the back-and-forth surrounding these Vermivora papers on the Avian Hybrids blog here.
Confer, J.L., C.K. Porter, K.R. Aldinger, R.A. Canterbury, J.L. Larkin, and D.J. McNeil Jr. 2020. Implications for evolutionary trends from the pairing frequencies among golden-winged and blue-winged warblers and their hybrids. Ecology and Evolution. DOI:10.1002/ece3.6717. PDF
Porter, C.K., and C.K. Akcali. 2020. Evolutionary implications of habitat choice. In eLS: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Chichester. 1:85-93. PDF
Porter, C.K., and J.W. Smith. 2020. Diversification in trophic morphology and a mating signal are coupled in the early stages of sympatric divergence in crossbills. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 129:74-87. PDF
Porter, C.K., and C.W. Benkman. 2019. Character displacement of a learned behavior and its implications for ecological speciation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 20190761. PDF
-A very nice write up of this paper is on the Avian Hybrids blog here!
Parigi, A., C.K. Porter, M. Cermak, W.R. Pitchers, and I. Dworkin. 2019. The behavioral repertoire of Drosophila melanogaster in the presence of two predator species that differ in hunting mode. PLoS One. e0216860. PDF
Porter, C.K., and C.K. Akcali. 2018. An alternative to adaptation by sexual selection: habitat choice. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 33: 576-581. PDF
Benkman, C.W., and C.K. Porter. 2018. Cassia Crossbill (Loxia sinesciuris), in The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. Link
Chandler, C.H., S. Chari, A. Kowalski, L. Choi, D. Tack, M. DeNieu, W. Pitchers, A. Sonnenschein, L. Marvin, K. Hummel, C. Marier, A. Victory, C.K. Porter, A. Mammel, J. Holms, G. Sivaratnam, and I. Dworkin. 2017. How well do you know your mutation? Complex effects of genetic background on expressivity, complementation, and ordering of allelic effects. PLoS Genetics. e1007075. PDF
Akcali, C.K., and C.K. Porter. 2017. Comment on Van Belleghem et al. 2016: habitat choice mechanisms in speciation and other forms of diversification. Evolution. 71: 2754-2761. PDF
Porter, C.K., and C.W. Benkman. 2017. Assessing the potential contributions of reduced immigrant viability and fecundity to reproductive isolation. The American Naturalist. 189: 580-591. PDF
Porter, C.K., and N.J. Behl. 2016. Predation and scavenging on other birds by Western Meadowlarks (Sturnella neglecta) during a spring snowstorm. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 128: 664-667. PDF
Pfennig, K.S., D.W. Pfennig, C.K. Porter, and R.A. Martin. 2015. Sexual selection's impacts on ecological specialization: an experimental test. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 282: 20150217. PDF
Robertson, B.A., C.K. Porter, D.A. Landis, and D.W. Schemske. 2012. Agroenergy crops influence the diversity, biomass, and guild structure of terrestrial arthropod communities. BioEnergy Research. 5:179-188. PDF
Porter, C.K. 2012. First confirmed nesting of Golden-crowned Kinglet in Jackson County. Michigan Birds and Natural History. 19 (1).
