2024

• ​Soares, L.M.V. J.-P. Jenny, O. Desgué-Itier, C. Barouillet, C. Casenuave,I Domaizon, V. Frossard, N.G. Hairston, Jr., A. Lami, B.J.Lemaire, G.-M.Saulnier, F. Soulignac, B. Vinҫon-Leite. Unraveling Lake Geneva’s hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene.         Limnology and Oceanography Letters  8 October 2024 doi: 10.1002/lol2.10435
  
• Hairston, N.G., Jr., J.A. Fox, M. Yamamichi. Dormancy and diapause. In: Scheiner, Samuel M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity   ​3rd edition, vol. 6, pp. 15–20. Oxford: Elsevier. [doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00075-X]

2023

• Yamamichi, M., S.P. Ellner, N.G. Hairston, Jr. Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco-evolutionary dynamics. Ecology Letters 26 (Suppl. 1):S16-S21 [DOI: 10.1111/ele.14197]​ ​

​2022

• Armstrong, A., R. Stedman, S. Sweet, N.G. Hairston, Jr.  What causes harmful algal blooms? A case study of causal attributions and conflict in a lakeshore community. Environmental Management 69:588-599 [doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01581-9]
• Havird, J.C., P.M. Brannock, R.M. Yoshioka, R.C. Vaught, K. Carlson, C. Edwards, A. Tracy, C.W. Twining, Y. Zheng, A.E. Wilson, N.G. Hairston Jr., S.R. Santos. Grazing by an endemic atyid shrimp controls microbial communities in the Hawaiian anchialine ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography 67:2012-2017 [doi: 10.1002/lno.12184]
• Hairston N.G. Jr., J.A. Fox. Egg banks, bet-hedging and resurrection ecology.  In: Mehner, T. and Tockner, K. eds, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters 2nd edition. vol. 1, pp. 317-326. Oxford: Elsevier. [dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819166-8.00002-5]

​2021

• Kazama, T., J. Urabe, K. Tokita, M. Yamamichi, X. Yin, I. Katano, H. Doi, N.G. Hairston Jr.  A unified framework for herbivore-to-producer biomass ratio reveals the relative influence of four ecological factors. Communications Biology  4:49  [DOI.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01587-9] 
• Isanta Navaro, J., N.G. Hairston Jr., J. Beninde, A. Meyer, D. Straile, M. Möst, D. Martin-Creuzburg.  Reversed evolution of grazer resistance to cyanobacteria. Nature Communications 12:1945 [DOI.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22226-9]
• Hairston, N.G., Jr.   Book Review: E.G. Leigh and C. Ziegler: Nature Strange and Beautiful: How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home. Quarterly Review of Biology  96:143-144.
• Govaert, L., L. De Meester, P. Spaak, N.G. Hairston, Jr. Eco-evolutionary dynamics in freshwater systems.  In: Reference Module in the Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier

​2020

• Booth, M.T., N.G. Hairston, Jr., A.S. Flecker.  Consumer movement dynamics as hidden drivers of stream habitat structure: suckers as ecosystem engineers on the night shift. Oikos 129:194-208 [DOI: 10.1111/oik.06396]

2019

• Yamamichi, M., N.G. Hairston, Jr., M. Rees, S.P. Ellner.  Rapid evolution with generation overlap: the double-edged effect of dormancy. Theoretical Ecology  12:179-195 [DOI.org/10.1007/s12080-019-0414-7]
• Twining, C.W, J.T. Brenna, P. Lawrence, D.W. Winkler, A.S. Flecker, N.G. Hairston, Jr.  Aquatic and terrestrial resources are not nutritionally reciprocal for consumers. Functional Ecology  33:2042-2052 [DOI:10.1111/1365-2435.13401]
• Schaffner, L.R., L. Govaert, B.E. Miner, E. Fairchild, P. Spaak, L, De Meester, S.P. Ellner, N.G. Hairston, Jr.  Consumer-resource dynamics is an eco-evolutionary process in a natural plankton community. Nature Ecology & Evolution  3:1351-1358 [DOI.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0960-9] ​

2018 

• Dalton, C.M., K.E. Tracy, N.G. Hairston, Jr., A.S. Flecker.   Fasting or fear: The mechanisms of indirect predator effects on nutrient cycling by intermediate consumers. Ecology 99:681-689 [DOI:10.1002/ecy.2132]
• Yamamichi, M., T. Kazama, K. Tokita, I. Katano, H. Doi, T. Yoshida, N.G. Hairston, Jr., J. Urabe.  A shady phytoplankton paradox: phytoplankton increases under low light. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20181067 [DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1067]

2017   

• Rudman, S.M., M. Barbour, K. Csillery, P. Gienapp, F. Guillaume, N. G. Hairston, Jr., A.P. Hendry, J.R. Lasky, M. Rafajlović, K. Räsänen, P.S. Schmidt, O. Seehausen, N.O. Therkildsen, M.M. Turcotte, J.M. Levine.  What genomic data can reveal about eco-
  evolutionary dynamics. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:9-15 [doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0385-2]
• Hairston N.G. Jr., J.A. Fox.  Dormancy and diapause. In: Reference Module in the Life Sciences, Elsevier, [Encyclopedia of Biodiversity | ScienceDirect].

 2016   

• Cáceres, C.E., N.G. Hairston, Jr., L.G. Rudstam, E.L. Mills, T. O’Keefe, L.A. Davias, C. Hotaling, L.E. Jones. Zooplankton in Oneida Lake: population dynamics, trophic interactions and the dormant egg bank.  Chapter 11, pp 201-226. In Rudstam, L.G., E.L. Mills, J.R. Jackson, D.J. Steward (eds), Oneida Lake: long-term dynamics of a managed ecosystem and its fishery. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD. [Oneida Lake | American Fisheries Society]
• Messer, P.W., S.P. Ellner, N.G. Hairston, Jr. Can population genetics adapt to rapid evolution?  Trends in Genetics 32:408-418 [doi: org/10.1016/j.tig.2016.04.005].          
• Tellenbach, C., N. Tardent, F. Pomati, B. Keller, N. G. Hairston, Jr., J. Wolinska, P. Spaak.  Facilitation of a Daphnia parasite epidemic by dietary cyanobacteria. Ecology 97:3422-3432: [https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1576]. 
• Effler, S.W., A.R. Prestigiacomo, S.M. O’Donnell, David A. Matthews, MG. Perkins, N.G. Hairston, Jr., M.T. Auer, A. Kuczynski, S.C. Chapra. Systematic differences in dissolved phosphorus concentrations measured by two analytical protocols: implications. Lake and Reservoir Management 32:392-401 [https://doi.org/10.1080/10402381.2016.1235064].

 2015    

• Effler, S.W., M.E. Spada, R.K. Gelda, F.Peng, D.A. Matthews, C.M. Kearns, N.G. Hairston, Jr. Daphnia grazing, the clear water phase, and implications of minerogenic particles in Onondaga Lake. Inland Waters 5:317-330. [DOI:10.5268/IW-5.4.765].
• Kinnison, M.T., N.G. Hairston, Jr., A.P. Hendry. Cryptic eco-evolutionary dynamics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1360: 120–25 [DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12974]. 
• Twining, C.W., J.T. Brenna, N.G. Hairston, Jr., A.S. Flecker. The nutritional ecology of highly unsaturated fatty acids in natural ecosystems: what do we know and what do we still need to learn? Oikos [DOI: 10.1111/oik.02910].

 2014   

• Hiltunen, T., N.G. Hairston, Jr., G. Hooker, L.E. Jones, S.P. Ellner. A newly discovered role of evolution in previously published consumer-resource dynamics. Ecology Letters 17:915-923 [DOI: 10.1111/ele.12291].
• Hairston, N.G., Jr., G.F. Fussmann, Lake Ecosystems (up-dated article). In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester http://www.els.net/  [DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003191.pub2].
• Hiltunen, T., S.P. Ellner, G. Hooker, L.E. Jones, N.G. Hairston, Jr. Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a three-species food web with intraguild predation: intriguingly complex. Advances in Ecological Research 50:41-72 [DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801374-8.00002-5].
• Carey, C.C., K.L. Cottingham, N.G. Hairston, Jr., K.C. Weathers. Trophic state mediates the effects of a large colonial cyanobacterium on phytoplankton dynamics. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 184:247-260  [DOI:10.1127/1863-9135/2014/0492].
• Booth, M.T., A.S. Flecker, N.G. Hairston, Jr.  Is mobility a fixed trait? Summer movement patterns of catostomids using PIT telemetry. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 143:1098-1111 [DOI:10.1080/00028487.2014.892534].

2013   

• Hiltunen, T., L.E. Jones, S.P. Ellner, and N.G. Hairston, Jr. Temporal dynamics of a simple community with intraguild predation: an experimental test. Ecology 94:773-779.
•  Dalton, C.M., A. Mokiao-Lee, T.S. Sakihara, M.G. Weber, C.A. Roco, Z.Z. Han, B. Dudley, R.A. MacKenzie, N.G. Hairston Jr.  Density- and trait-mediated top-down effects modify bottom-up control of a high endemic tropical aquatic food web. Oikos 122:790-800. 
• Barreiro Felpeto, A. and N.G. Hairston, Jr. Indirect bottom-up control of consumer-resource dynamics: Resource-driven algal quality alters grazer numerical response. Limnology and Oceanography 58:827-838. 
• Booth, M.T., A.J. Flecker and N.G. Hairston, Jr. How mobile are fish populations? Diel movement, population turnover, and site fidelity in suckers. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 70: 666–677.
• Barreiro, A. and N.G. Hairston, Jr. The influence of resource limitation on the allelopathic effect of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii on other unicellular freshwater planktonic organisms. Journal of Plankton Research 35:1339-1344 [DOI:10.1093/plankt/fbt080]. 
• Hewson, I., G. Ng, WF. Li, B.A. LaBarre, I. Aguirre, J.G. Barbosa M. Breitbart, A. Greco, C.M. Kearns, A. Looi,  L.R. Schaffner, P.D. Thompson, N.G. Hairston, Jr. Metagenomic identification, seasonal dynamics, and potential transmission mechanisms of a Daphnia-associated single-stranded DNA virus in two temperate lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 58:1605–1620. [doi:10.4319/lo.2013.58.5.1605]. 
• Carey, C.C., K.L. Cottingham, K.C. Weathers, J.A. Brentrup, N.M. Ruppertsberger, H.A. Ewing, N.G. Hairston, Jr., Experimental blooms of the cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata increase phytoplankton biomass, richness, and diversity in an oligotrophic lake. Journal of Plankton Research 36: 364-377 [DOI:10.1093/plankt/fbt105]. 
• Hairston N.G. Jr., J.A. Fox. Dormancy and diapause. In: Levin S.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 2nd ed, Vol 2, pp. 665-669. Academic Press, Waltham, MA.

 2012   

• Miner, B.E., L. De Meester, M.E. Pfrender, W. Lampert, N.G. Hairston, Jr. Linking genes to communities and ecosystems: Daphnia as an ecogenomic model. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 1873–1882. 
• Becks, L., S.P. Ellner, L.E. Jones, N.G. Hairston, Jr.  The functional genomics of an eco-evolutionary feedback loop:  linking gene expression, trait evolution, and community dynamics. Ecology Letters 15: 492–501.
• Spaak, P., J.A. Fox, N.G. Hairston Jr.  Modes and mechanisms of a Daphnia invasion. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 2936-2944.
• Hiltunen, T., A. Barreiro, N.G. Hairston, Jr.  Mixotrophy and the toxicity of Ochromonas in a pelagic food web. Freshwater Biology 57:2262-2271.

2011

• Carey, C.C., M.P. Ching, S.M. Collins, A.M. Early, W.W. Fetzer, D. Chai, N.G. Hairston, Jr. Predator-dependent diel migration by Halocaridina rubra shrimp (Malacostraca: Atyidae) in Hawaiian anchialine pools. Aquatic Ecology 45:35-41. 
• Ellner, S.P., M.A. Geber, N.G. Hairston, Jr.  Does rapid evolution matter?  Measuring the rate of contemporary evolution and its impacts on ecological dynamics.  Ecology Letters 14: 603–614.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr. J.A. Fox. Dormancy and diapause. Pp. 79-84 In Levin, S. A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of biodiversity, Vol. 2. 2nd Ed. Academic Press, New York.  [1st Ed 2001].

 2010   

• Becks, L., S.P. Ellner, L.E. Jones, and N.G. Hairston, Jr.  Reduction of adaptive genetic diversity radically alters eco-evolutionary community dynamics. Ecology Letters 13:989-997.

 2009   

• Capps, K .A. C. B. Turner, M. T. Booth, D. L. Lombardozzi, S. H. McArt, D. Chai, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. The behavioral responses of the endemic shrimp Halocardina rubra (Malacostraca:Atyidae) to an introduced fish, Gambusia affinis (Actinopterygii: Poeciliidae) and implications for the trophic structure of Hawaiian anchialine ponds. Pacific Science 63:27-37. 
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and J. A. Fox. Egg banks. Pp. 659-666 In Likens, G. E. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Vol. 3, Elsevier, Oxford, UK.  
• Jones, L. E., L. Becks, S. P. Ellner, N. G. Hairston, Jr., T. Yoshida, and G. F. Fussmann. Rapid evolution and clonal food web dynamics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364:1579-1591.

 2008

• Hairston, N. G., Jr. and L. De Meester. Daphnia paleogenetics and environmental change: deconstructing the evolution of plasticity. International Review of  Hydrobiology 93:578-592.
• Effler, S. W., R. Gelda, M. G. Perkins, F. Peng, N. G. Hairston, Jr., and C. M. Kearns. Patterns and modeling of the long-term optics record of Onondaga Lake, New York. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 172:217-237.

 2007   

• Kinnison, M. T, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. Eco-evolutionary conservation biology: contemporary evolution and the dynamics of persistence. Functional Ecology 21:444-454. 
• Yoshida, T., Ellner, S. P., Jones, L. E., Bohannan, B. J. M., Lenski, R. E., Hairston, N. G., Jr. Cryptic population dynamics: rapid evolution masks trophic interactions. Public Library of Science – Biology 5:1868-1879. [Covered in "Research Highlights" Nature; Synopses, PLoS Biology].
• Hambright, K. D., N. G. Hairston, Jr., W. R. Schaffner, and R. W. Howarth. Grazer control of nitrogen fixation:  synergisms in the feeding ecology of two freshwater crustaceans. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 170:89-101.
• Hambright, K. D., N. G. Hairston, Jr., W. R. Schaffner, and R. W. Howarth. Grazer control of nitrogen fixation:  phytoplankton taxonomic composition and ecosystem functioning. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 170:103-124.

 2006

• Yoshida, T., L. E. Jones, S. P. Ellner, and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Mechanisms for consumer diversity. Nature 439: E1-E2 (electronic publication).  
• Meyer, J. R., S. P. Ellner, N. G., Hairston, Jr., L. E. Jones, T. Yoshida. Evolution on the time scale of predator-prey dynamics revealed by allele-specific quantitative PCR.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103:10690-10695. 
• Bohonak, A. J., M. Holland, M. Zeller, B. Santer, C. M. Kearns, N. G. Hairston, Jr. The population genetic consequences of diapause in Eudiaptomus copepods. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 167:183-202.

 2005

• Hairston, N. G., Jr., C. M. Kearns, L. J. Perry, and S. W. Effler. Species-specific Daphnia phenotypes:  a history of industrial pollution and pelagic ecosystem response.  Ecology 86:1669-1678.
• Fussmann, G. G., S. P. Ellner, N. G. Hairston, Jr., L. E. Jones, K. W. Shertzer, and T.  Yoshida. Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of experimental plankton communities.  Advances in Ecological Research 37:221-243.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., S. P. Ellner, M. A. Geber, T. Yoshida, J. A. Fox. Rapid evolution and the convergence of ecological and evolutionary time.  Ecology Letters 8:1114-1127.

 2004   

• Yoshida, T., N. G. Hairston, Jr., and S. P. Ellner. Evolutionary tradeoff between defense against grazing and competitive ability in a simple unicellular alga, Chlorella vulgaris. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271:1947-1953.
• Kerfoot, W.C., G. G. Mittelbach, N. G. Hairston, Jr., and J. J. Elser. Planktonic biodiversity: scaling up and down.  Limnology and Oceanography 49:1225-1228.

 2003   

• Fussmann, G. F., S. P. Ellner and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Evolution as a critical component of plankton dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270:1015-1022.
• Yoshida, T., L. E. Jones, S. P. Ellner, G. F. Fussmann and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator-prey system.  Nature 424:303-306. [Covered in "New and Views" Nature].

 2002

• Hairston, N. G., Jr. and G. F. Fussmann. Lake ecosystems. In Encyclopedia of life sciences, Macmillian Reference Ltd., London (electronic publication www.els.net). 
• Shertzer, K. W., S. P. Ellner, G. F. Fussmann and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  2002. Predator-prey cycles in a live aquatic microcosm:  testing hypotheses of mechanism. Journal of Animal Ecology 71:802-815. 
• Hairston, N. G., Jr. and C. M. Kearns. Temporal dispersal:  Ecological and evolutionary aspects of zooplankton egg banks and the role of sediment mixing.  Integrative and Comparative Biology  42:481-491.
• Baron, J. S., N. L. Poff, P. L. Angermeier. D. N. Dahm, P. H. Glieck, N. G. Hairston, Jr., R. B. Jackson, C. A. Johnston, B. G. Richter and A. D. Steinman.  Meeting ecological and societal needs for freshwater.  Ecological Applications 12:1247-1260. 

2001   

• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  Dormancy and diapause. Pp. 79-84 In Levin, S. A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of biodiversity, Vol. 2. Academic Press, New York. 2nd Ed 2011.
• Gross, E. M., R. L. Johnson and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Experimental evidence for changes in submersed macrophyte species composition caused by the herbivore Acentria ephemerella (Lepidoptera).  Oecologia 127:105-114.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., C. L. Holtmeier, W. Lampert, L. J. Weider, D. M. Post, J. M. Fischer, C. E. Cáceres, J. A. Fox and U. Gaedke.  Natural selection for grazer resistance to toxic cyanobacteria:  evolution of phenotypic plasticity?  Evolution 55:2203-2214.

 2000

• Post, D. M., M. L. Pace, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. Ecosystem size determines food-chain length in lakes. Nature 405:1047-1049.
• Fussmann, G. F., S. P. Ellner, K. W. Shertzer and N. G. Hairston, Jr. Crossing the Hopf Bifurcation in a live predator-prey system.  Science 290: 1358-1360.
• Duffy, M. A., L. J. Perry, C. M. Kearns, L. J. Weider and N. G. Hairston, Jr. Paleogenetic evidence for a past invasion of Onondaga Lake, New York, by exotic Daphnia curvirostris using mtDNA from dormant eggs. Limnology and Oceanography 45:1409-1414.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., A.-M. Hansen, and W. R. Schaffner.  The effect of diapause emergence on the seasonal dynamics of a zooplankton assemblage. Freshwater Biology  45:133-145.
• Santer, B., E. Blohm-Sievers, C. E. Cáceres and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Life-history variation in the coexisting freshwater copepods Eudiaptomus gracilis and Eudiaptomus graciloides.  Archiv für Hydrobiologie 149:441-458.
• Johnson, R. L., P. J. Van Dusen, J. A. Toner and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Eurasian watermilfoil biomass associated with insect herbivores in New York.  Journal of Aquatic Plant Management 38:82-88.

 1999

• Ellner, S., N. G. Hairston, Jr., C. M. Kearns, and D. Babaï.  The roles of fluctuating selection and long-term diapause in microevolution of diapause timing in a freshwater copepod. Evolution  53:111-122.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., L. J. Perry, A. J. Bohonak, M. Q. Fellows, C. M. Kearns, and D. R. Enstgrom. Population biology of a failed invasion:  Paleolimnology of Daphnia exilis in upstate New York. Limnology and Oceanography  44:477-486.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., W. Lampert, C. E. Cáceres, C. L. Holtmeier, L. J. Weider, U. Gaedke, J. M. Fischer, J. A. Fox, and D. M. Post.  Rapid evolution revealed by dormant eggs.  Nature  401:446.

 1998

• Hansen, A.-M. and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Food limitation in a wild cyclopoid copepod population:  Direct and indirect life history responses.  Oecologia 115:320-330.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and A. J. Bohonak. Copepod reproductive strategies:  Life-history theory and phylogenetic pattern. Journal of Marine Systems 15:23-34.
• Johnson, R. L., E. M. Gross, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. Eurasian watermilfoil decline in Cayuga Lake associated with herbivory by the aquatic moth larva Acentria ephemerella. Aquatic Ecology 31:283-289.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  Time travelers:  What's timely in diapause research. Archiv für Hydrobiologie. Advances in Limnology  52:1-15. 
• Cáceres, C. E. and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Benthic-pelagic coupling in freshwater zooplankton:  The role of the benthos. Archiv für Hydrobiologie. Advances in Limnology  52:163-174. 
• Ellner, S., N. G. Hairston, Jr., and D. Babaï. Long-term diapause and spreading of risk across the life cycle. Archiv für Hydrobiologie.  Advances in Limnology  52:297-312.

 1997

• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and N. G. Hairston, Sr.  Does food web complexity eliminate trophic-level dynamics? American Naturalist 149:1001-1007.
• Walton, W. E., J. A. Emiley, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. Effect of prey size on the estimation of behavioral visual resolution for sunfish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54:2502-2508.

 1996

• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and C. E. Cáceres. Distribution of crustacean diapause:  micro - and macroevolutionary pattern and process.  In Fryer, G. and V. Alekseev (eds). 1st International Symposium on Crustacean Diapause. Hydrobiologia 320:27-44.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., S. Ellner and C. M. Kearns.  Overlapping generations:  the storage effect and the maintenance of biotic diversity.  Pp. 109-145. In Rhodes, O. E. Jr., R. K. Chesser and M. H. Smith (eds). Population dynamics in ecological space and time.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  Zooplankton egg banks as biotic reservoirs in changing environments. Limnology and Oceanography  41:1087-1092.
• Kearns, C. M., N. G. Hairston, Jr. and D. H. Kesler. Particle transport by benthic invertebrates:  its role in egg bank dynamics.  Hydrobiologia 332:63-70.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., C. M. Kearns and S. Ellner. Phenotypic variation in a zooplankton egg bank.  Ecology 77:2382-2392.

 1995   

• Hairston, N. G., Jr., R. A. Van Brunt, C. M. Kearns, and D. R. Engstrom. Age and survivorship of diapausing eggs in a sediment egg bank.  Ecology 76:1706-1711.[Covered in "New and Views" Nature, "Random Samples" Science, and in many popular news outlets].
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and C. M. Kearns. The interaction of photoperiod and temperature in diapause timing:  a copepod example.  Biological Bulletin 189:42-48.

 1994

• Ellner, S. P. and N. G. Hairston, Jr. Role of overlapping generations in maintaining genetic variation in a fluctuating environment.  American Naturalist 143:403-417.
• Schaffner, W. R., N. G. Hairston, Jr., and R. W. Howarth.  Feeding rates and filament clipping by crustacean zooplankton consuming cyanobacteria. Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, Verhandlungen 25:2375-2381.
• Walton, W. E., S. S. Easter, Jr., C. Malinoski, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. Size-related changes in the visual resolution of sunfish.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science  51:2017-2020.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and R. A. Van Brunt. Diapause dynamics of two diaptomid copepod species in a large lake.  Hydrobiologia 292/293:209-218.​

1993

• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and N. G. Hairston, Sr. Cause-effect relationships in energy flow, trophic structure, and interspecific interactions. American Naturalist 142:379-411.

 1992

• De Stasio, B. T., Jr., and N. G. Hairston, Jr. Environmental variability and the persistence of multiple emergence strategies.  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 53:313-334.
• Walton, W. E., N. G. Hairston, Jr., and J. K. Wetterer.  Growth-related constraints on diet selection by sunfish. Ecology 73:429-437.

 1991

• Hambright, K. D., R. W. Drenner, S. R. McComas, and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Gape-limited piscivores, prey size refuges, and the trophic cascade.  Archiv für Hydrobiologie 121:389-404. 
• Morin, A., K. D. Hambright, N. G. Hairston, Jr., D. M. Sherman, and R. W. Howarth. Consumer control of gross primary production in replicate freshwater ponds. Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, Verhandlungen 24:1512-1516.

 1990

• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  Problems with the perception of zooplankton research by colleagues outside aquatic sciences. Limnology and Oceanography 35:1214-1216.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and T. A. Dillon. Fluctuating selection and response in a population of freshwater copepods. Evolution 44:1796-1805. 
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., T. A. Dillon, and B. T. De Stasio, Jr. A field test for the cues of diapause in a freshwater copepod. Ecology 71:2218-2223.
• Lohner, L., N. G. Hairston, Jr., and W. Schaffner. Determination of diapausing eggs of copepods in preserved samples. Limnology and Oceanography 35:763-766.

 1989

• Braner, M. and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  From cohort data to life table parameters via stochastic modeling.  In L. McDonald, B. Manly, J. Lockwood, and J. Logan (editors). Estimation and Analysis of Insect Populations. Lecture Notes in Statistics 55:81-92.  Springer.

 1988

• Black, R. W. and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Predator driven changes in community structure. Oecologia 77:468-479.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr. Interannual variation in seasonal predation:  its origin and ecological importance. Limnology and Oceanography 33:1245-1253.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and B. T. De Stasio, Jr.  Rate of evolution slowed by a dormant propagule pool. Nature 336:239-242.

 1987   

• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  Diapause as a predator avoidance adaptation. Pp. 281-290. In W. C. Kerfoot and A. Sih, editors. Predation:  Direct and Indirect Impacts on Aquatic Communities. University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and E. J. Olds.  Population differences in the timing of diapause:  a test of hypotheses. Oecologia 71:339-344.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., M. Braner, and S. Twombly.  Perspective on prospective methods for obtaining life table data. Limnology and Oceanography 32:517-520.

 1986

• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and W. E. Walton. Rapid evolution of a life-history trait.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 83:4831-4833.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and E. J. Olds. Partial photoperiodic control of diapause in three populations of the freshwater copepod Diaptomus sanguineus. Biological Bulletin 171:135-142.

 1985

• Hairston, N. G., Jr., E. J. Olds, and W. R. Munns, Jr.  Bet-hedging and environmentally cued diapause strategies of diaptomid copepods. Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, Verhandlungen 22:3170-3177.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and S. Twombly. Obtaining life history data from cohort analyses:  a critique of current methods.  Limnology and Oceanography 30:886-893.
• Li, K. T., J. K. Wetterer, and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Fish size, visual resolution, and prey selectivity. Ecology 66:1729-1735.
• Meise, C. J., W. R. Munns, Jr., and N. G. Hairston, Jr. An analysis of the feeding behavior of Daphnia pulex.  Limnology and Oceanography 30:862-870.

 1984

• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and W. R. Munns, Jr.  The timing of copepod diapause as an evolutionarily stable strategy. American Naturalist 123:733-751.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and E. J. Olds. Population differences in diapause timing: adaptation in a spatially heterogeneous environment.  Oecologia 61:42-48.

 1983

• Black, R. W. and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  Cyclomorphosis in Eubosmina longispina in a small North American lake. Hydrobiologia 102:61-67.
• Gentile, J. H., S. M. Gentile, G. Hoffman, J. F. Heltsche, and N. G. Hairston, Jr.  The effects of chronic mercury exposure on survival, reproduction, and population dynamics of Mysidopsis bahia. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2:61-68.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., W. E. Walton, and K. T. Li. The causes and consequences of sex-specific mortality in a freshwater copepod.  Limnology and Oceanography 28:935-947.

 1982

• Gentile, J. H., S. M. Gentile, N. G. Hairston, Jr., and B. K. Sullivan. The use of life-tables for evaluating the chronic toxicity of pollutants to Mysidopsis bahia. Hydrobiologia 93:179-187. [Received an Environmental Protection Agency Scientific and Technological Achievement Award in Ecology.].
• Hairston, N. G., Jr., K. T. Li, and S. S. Easter, Jr.  Fish vision and the detection of planktonic prey. Science 218:1240-1242. [Covered in "New and Views" Nature].

 1981   

• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  The interaction of salinity, predators, light and copepod color. In W. D. Williams, editor. Salt Lakes:  Proceedings of an International Symposium on Athalassic Salt Lakes.  Hydrobiologia 81:151-158.

 1980

• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  On the diel variation of copepod pigmentation.  Limnology and Oceanography 25:742-747. 
• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  The vertical distribution of diaptomid copepods in relation to body pigmentation.  Pp. 98-110. In W. C. Kerfoot, editor.  Evolution and Ecology of Zooplankton Communities. University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire.

1979

• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  The adaptive significance of color polymorphism in two species of Diaptomus (Copepoda). Limnology and Oceanography 24:15-37.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  The relationship between pigmentation and reproduction in two species of Diaptomus (Copepoda). Limnology and Oceanography 24:38-44.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  The effect of temperature on carotenoid photoprotection in the copepod Diaptomus nevadensis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 62A:445-448.
• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  Fitness, survival and reproduction. Systematic Zoology 28:392-395.

 1978

• Hairston, N. G., Jr.  Carotenoid photoprotection in Diaptomus kenai.  Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, Verhandlungen 20:2541-2545.

 1976

• Hairston, N. G., Jr. Photoprotection by carotenoid pigments in the copepod Diaptomus nevadensis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 73:971-974.

 1975

• Hairston, N. G., Jr., and R. A. Pastorok.  Response of Daphnia population size and age structure to predation. Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, Verhandlungen 19:2898-2905.

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