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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 Letters https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14455

Cosme. L.V., et al. 2024. A genotypic array for the globally invasive vector mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Parasites & Vectors https://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 Evolution https://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 Invasions https://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. NeoBiota https://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. Insects https://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 Sciences https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101458118

Westby, K.M., S.A. Juliano, and K.A. Medley. 2021. Aedes albopictus has not become the dominant species 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 Entomology https://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 Ecology https://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 Distributions https://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 Conservation https://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: Methods https://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 Biogeography https://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 Applications https://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 Invasions https://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 Naturalist https://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