Thermal adaptation in endotherms
Campbell, KL, et al. 2010. Substitutions in woolly mammoth hemoglobin confer biochemical properties adaptive for cold tolerance. Nature Genetics 42: 536–540.  Link via Dartmouth network.

T. S. Kemp. 2006. The origin of mammalian endothermy: a paradigm for the evolution of complex biological structure. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147: 473-488.   Link via Dartmouth network.

Cooper, S. J. and J. A. Gessaman. 2004. Thermoregulation and habitat preference in mountain chickadees and juniper titmice. Condor 106: 852-861.   Link via Dartmouth network.

Cooper, S. J. and J. A. Gessaman. 2005. Nocturnal hypothermia in seasonally acclimatized mountain chickadees and juniper titmice. Condor 107: 151-155.  Link via Dartmouth network.   Web site of Sheldon J. Cooper.

Effects of climate change on populations, communities, and ecosystems
Berggren, A., C. Björkman, H. Bylund, and M.P. Ayres.  2009.  The distribution and abundance of animal populations in a climate of uncertainty.  Oikos 118: 1121-1126.  Link.

Post, E., C. Pedersen, C. C. Wilmers, and M. C. Forchhammer. 2008. Warming, plant phenology and the spatial dimension of trophic mismatch for large herbivores. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 275:2005-2013.  Link via Dartmouth network.    Homepage of Eric Post, Penn State University. 

Herbivores and plant diversity
Feng, Z., Liu, R., DeAngelis, D. L., Bryant, J. P., Kielland, K., Chapin, F. S. III, and R.K. Swihart.  2009.  Plant Toxicity, adaptive herbivory, and plant community dynamics.  Ecosystems.  Link via Dartmouth network.

Fine, V.A.P., I. Mesones, and P.D. Coley.  2004.  Herbivores Promote Habitat Specialization by Trees in Amazonian Forests. Science.  305: 663-665.  Link via Dartmouth network.   Commentary in Science by Robert Marquis.    Web site of Phyllis Coley and Tom Kursar

Plant defenses
Kessler, A. and I. T. Baldwin. 2001. Defensive function of herbivore-induced plant volatile emissions in nature. Science 291:2141-2144. Link via Dartmouth network.   Related papers and resources.

Mäntylä, E, T. Klemola, and E. Haukioja (2004) Attraction of willow warblers to sawfly-damaged mountain birches: novel function of inducible plant defences? Ecology Letters 7 (10), 915–918.  Link via Dartmouth network.   Home page of Erkki Haukioja

Stastny, M, U. Schaffner, and E. Elle.  2005.  Do vigour of introduced populations and escape from specialist herbivores contribute to invasiveness?. Journal of Ecology 93: 27–37.  Link via Dartmouth network  
Related "Ideas and Perspectives" article. Simons, AM.  2003.  Invasive aliens and sampling bias.  Ecology Letters 6: 278–280.
Home page of Elizabeth Elle.  Home page of Urs Schaffner.

Zavala, J. A., A. G. Patankar, K. Gase, and I. T. Baldwin. 2004. Constitutive and inducible trypsin proteinase inhibitor production incurs large fitness costs in Nicotiana attenuata. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101:1607-1612.  Link via Dartmouth network.   Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology.

Some background reading for zealots.
Chen, M. S. 2008. Inducible direct plant defense against insect herbivores: a review. Insect Science 15:101-114. 
Howe, G. A. and G. Jander. 2008. Plant immunity to insect herbivores. Annual Review of Plant Biology 59:41-66. 
Pieterse, C. M. J. and M. Dicke. 2007. Plant interactions with microbes and insects: from molecular mechanisms to ecology. Trends in Plant Science 12:564-569.

Global feedbacks between biota and the atmosphere. Clark, D. A., Piper, S. C., Keeling, C. D. and Clark, D. B. 2003. Tropical rain forest tree growth and atmospheric carbon dynamics linked to interannual temperature variation during 1984-2000.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100: 5852-5857. Link via Dartmouth network.  Related papers and resources.

Euskirchen, E.S., A. D. McGuire, F. S. Chapin III, S. Yi, and C. C. Thompson.  2009.  Changes in vegetation in northern Alaska under scenarios of climate change, 2003–2100: implications for climate feedbacks. Ecological Applications 19: 1022-1043.  Link via Dartmouth network.    Homepages of Eugénie S. Euskirchen,  A. David McGuire,  F. Stuart Chapin, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks. 

Ecological Stoichiometry. Schade, J. D., M. Kyle, S. E. Hobbie, W. F. Fagan, and J. J. Elser. 2003. Stoichiometric tracking of soil nutrients by a desert insect herbivore. Ecology Letters 6:96-101. Link via Dartmouth network.  Related papers and resources.