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Westby, K.M., L. Tayon, B. Orlinick, A. Smith, and K. Medley. 2026. Interpopulation variation in egg mortality in response to hot and dry conditions in North American populations of the invasive tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Ecology and Evolution preprint

Dobbs, K.G., T. Radomski, K.A. Medley, and K.M. Westby. 2025. The effect of stage-specific heatwaves on Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) survival and development. Journal of Medical Entomology https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaf194

Johnson, L. E., L.L. Tayon, E.R. Uder, K.G. Dobbs, T. Radomski, K.A. Medley, and K.M. Westby. 2025. Hot days and light-polluted nights increase nightime activity of the diurnal tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). BMC Environmental Biology https://doi.org/10.1186/s44329-025-00029-3

Moore, M.P., N. Leith, K. Fowler-Finn, and K.A. Medley. 2024. Human-modified habitats imperil ornamented dragonflies less than their non-ornamented counterparts at local, regional, and continental scales. Ecology Lettershttps://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14455

Cosme. L.V., et al. 2024. A genotypic array for the globally invasive vector mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Parasites & Vectorshttps://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-024-06158-z

Orlinick, B.*, A. Smith, K.A. Medley, and K.W. Westby. Genetically based variation in heat tolerance covaries with climate in a globally important disease vector. 2024. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolutionhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1248673

Beckermann, A.J.*, K.A. Medley, S.A. Adalsteinsson, and K.M. Westby. 2023. The final countdown: presence of an invasive mosquito extends time to predation for a native mosquiot. Biological Invasionshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03051-1

Gloria-Soria, A., T. Shragai, A.T. Ciota, T.B. Duvall, B.W. Alto, A.J. Martins, K.M. Westby, K.A. Medley, I. Unlu, S.R. Campbell, M. Kawalkowski, Y. Tsuda, Y. Higa, N. Indelicato, P.T. Leisnham, A. Caccone, P.M. Armstrong. 2022. Population genetics of an invasive mosquito vector, Aedes albopictus in the Northeastern USA. NeoBiotahttps://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.78.84986

Westby, K.M., K.A. Medley, A.J. Beckermann, A.C. White*, and K.S. Costanzo. 2022. The role of priority effects in limiting the success of the invasive tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Biological Invasions https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02826-2

Westby, K.M., S.A. Adalsteinsson, E.G. Biro, A.J. Beckermann, and K.A. Medley. 2021. Aedes albopictus populations and larval habitat characteristics across the landscape: significant differences exist between urban and rural land use types. Insectshttps://doi.org/10.3390/insects12030196

Moore, M.P., K. Hersch, C. Sricharoen, S. Lee, C. Reice, P. Rice, S. Kronick, K. A. Medley, and K. D. Fowler-Finn. 2021. Sex-specific ornament evolution is a consistent feature of climatic adaptation across space and time in dragonflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienceshttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101458118

Westby, K.M., S.A. Juliano, and K.A. Medley. 2021. Aedes albopictus has not become the dominantspecies in artificial container habitats in a temperate forest more than a decade after establishment. Journal of Medical Entomology 58:950-955. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa215

Westby, K.M. and K.A. Medley. 2020. Cold nights, city lights: artificial light at night reduces photoperiodically induced diapause in urban and rural populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomologyhttps://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa139

Medley, K.A., K.M. Westby, and D.G. Jenkins. 2019. Rapid local adaptation to northern winters in the invasive Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus: a moving target. Journal of Applied Ecologyhttps://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13480

Westby, K.M., B. M. Sweetman*, S. A. Adalsteinsson, E. G. Biro, & K.A. Medley. 2019. Host food quality and quantity deferentially affect Ascogregarina barretti parasite burden, development, and within-host competition in the mosquito Aedes triseriatus. Parasitology 146:1665-1672 doi:10.1017/S0031182019000994

Westby, K.M. and K.A. Medley. 2019. Invasive species reduces parasite prevalence and ameliorates negative environmental effects on parasitism in a native mosquito. Journal of Animal Ecology 88:1215-1225 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13004

Costanzo, K., K.M. Westby, and K.A. Medley. 2018. Genetic and environmental influences on the size-fecundity relationship in Aedes albopictus: Impacts on population growth estimates? PLOS One https:/doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201465.

VanHorn, T.*, S.A. Adalsteinsson, K. Westby, E. Biro, J. Myers, M. Spasojevic, M. Walton, and K.A. Medley. 2018. Landscape physiognomy predicts abundance of the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum Linneaus, in Ozark Forests. Journal of Medical Entomology 55:982-988 https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjy038

Medley, K.A., E.H. Boughton, D.G. Jenkins, J.E. Fauth, P.J. Bohlen, and P.F. Quintana-Ascencio. 2015. Intense ranchland management tips the balance of regional and local factors affecting wetland community structure. Agriculture, Ecosystems, & the Environment 212:204-244 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.06.024

Medley, K.A., Jenkins, D.G. and E.A. Hoffman, E.A. 2014. Human-aided and natural dispersal drive gene flow across the range of an invasive mosquito. Molecular Ecology 24:284-295 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12925

Reeves, M., Medley, K.A., Pinkney, F., Holyoak, M., Johnson, P.T.J., and M. Lannoo. 2013. Local hotspots drive continental geography of amphibian abnormalities. PLOS One 8:e77467 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077467

Nuñez, M.A., and K.A. Medley. 2011. Pine invasion: climate predicts its success, something else predicts its failure. Diversity and Distributionshttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00772.x

May, S.E., Medley, K.A., Johnson, S.A., and E.A. Hoffman. 2011. Combining genetic structure and ecological niche modeling to establish units of conservation: A case study of an imperiled salamander. Biological Conservationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2011.01.013

Chick, J.H., Levchuk, A.P., Medley, K.A., and J.E. Havel. 2010. Underestimation of rotifer abundance a much greater problem than previously appreciated. Limnology and Oceanography: Methodshttps://doi.org/10.4319/lom.2010.8.0079

Medley, K. A. 2010. Niche shifts during the global invasion of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse), revealed by reciprocal distribution models. Global Ecology and Biogeographyhttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00497.x

Havel, J.E., Medley, K.A., Dickerson, K.R., Angradi, T.R., Bolgrien, D.W., Bukaveckas, P.A., and T.M. Jicha. 2009. Effect of main-stem dams on zooplankton communities in the Missouri River (USA). Hydrobiologia https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-009-9750-8

Dickerson, K.D., Medley, K.A., and J.E. Havel. 2009. Spatial variation in zooplankton community structure is related to hydrologic flow units in the Missouri River, USA. River Research and Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1002/rra.1268

Medley, K.A. and J.E. Havel. 2007. Hydrology and local environmental factors influencing zooplankton communities in floodplain ponds. Wetlands 27:864-872 https://doi.org/10.1672/0277-5212(2007)27[864:HALEFI]2.0.CO;2

Havel, J.E. and K.A. Medley. 2006. Biological invasions across spatial scales: local, regional, and intercontinental dispersal by the exotic cladoceran, Daphnia lumholtzi Sars. Biological Invasionshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-005-6410-4

Mathis, A., Schmidt, D.W., and K.A. Medley. 2000. The influence of residency status on agonistic behavior of male and female Ozark zigzag salamander Plethodon angusticlavius. American Midland Naturalisthttps://doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031(2000)143[0245:TIORSO]2.0.CO;2

Book content:

Medley, K.A. 2012. An Introduction to Multivariate Analysis, in Havel, J.E. and R.E. Hampton, Introductory Biological Statistics, 3rd ed., Waveland Press, Illinois, USA.

Jenkins, D.G., K.A. Medley, and R.B. Franklin. 2011. Microcrobes as a test of biogeographic principles. Pages 309-323 in D. Fontaneto, ed. Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms: Is Everything Small Everywhere? Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

*Tyson undergraduate fellow