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Frauendorf, T. C., Reside, A., Dutton, C. L., Njoroge, L., Njagi, E., Rosi, E. J., Post, D. M., & Subalusky, A. L. (2026). A Gradient of Wildlife Subsidies Alters Riverine Food Web Structure. Freshwater Biology, 71(4), e70208. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70208. (pdf)

Dutton, C. L., Goeckner, A., Goldwire, T., Grupstra, C. G. B., Houghtaling, D., Nonnamaker, L., & Subalusky, A. (2026). Bioreactors on the Move: How Animals Contribute to Microbial Community Coalescence and Shape Ecosystem Function. Environmental Microbiology, 28(4), e70291. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70291.

Alves L, Padilha J, Haubrock P, Subalusky A, Sousa R (2026) Resource subsidies mediated by non-native species: a review. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e193229. (pdf)

Twala, B. B., Ngcobo, S. P., McCleery, R. A., Dalu, T., Dutton, C., Ferreira, S. M., Munyai, L., Subalusky, A., Voysey, M. D., Coetsee, C., Wigley, B., & Parker, D. M. (2026). Effects of Water Impoundments on the Distribution and Activity of Elephants in the Southern Kruger National Park. African Journal of Ecology, 64(2), e70154. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.70154. (pdf)

McCleery, R. A., Ferreria, S. M., Mhlava, P., Mathebula, O., Tanneback, T., Coetsee, C., Dalu, T., Dutton, C., Khosa, D., Munyai, L. F., Parker, D. M., Subalusky, A. L., Twala, B., Voysey, M. D., & Wigley, B. J. (2026). Artificial surface water broadens the spatiotemporal footprint of herbivores and alters species responses. Ecological Applications, 36(1), e70185. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70185.

Ogutu, J. O., Stabach, J. A., Hopcraft, J. G. C., Boone, R. B., Dublin, H. T., Dutton, C. L., Gichira, A., Guthmann, A., Herrik, A. L., Holekamp, K. E., Karimi, R. R., Kifugo, S. C., Leimgruber, P., Mogensen, N., Moiko, S. S., Mukeka, J. M., Nabaala, H., Ndambuki, S., Njino, L. M.,…Buitenwerf, R. (2025). Short-term study fails to capture negative impacts of livestock intensification on wildlife. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(23), e2502418122. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2502418122. (pdf)

Subalusky, A. L., & Dutton, C. L. (2025). Role of Aquatic and Terrestrial Carcasses in Freshwater Ecosystems. In Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and Their Applications (pp. 424-436). CRC Press.
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*Benjamin, J., Subalusky, A., & Graf, W. (2025). Aquatic hitchhikers: examining the phoretic associations between blackfly (Diptera: Simuliidae) and mayfly (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae, Tricorythidae) larvae in Kenyan river ecosystems. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 50(2), 144–153. doi: 10.2989/16085914.2025.2526359.

Twining, C. W., Blanco, A., Dutton, C., Kainz, M. J., Harvey, E., Kowarik, C., Kraus, J. M., Martin-Creuzburg, D., Parmar, T. P., Razavi, N. R., Richoux, N., Saboret, G., Sarran, C., Schmidt, T. S., Shipley, J. R., & Subalusky, A. L. (2025). Integrating the Bright and Dark Sides of Aquatic Resource Subsidies—A Synthesis. Ecology Letters, 28(4), e70109. doi: 10.1111/ele.70109. (pdf)

*Benjamin, J., Ayesiga, P., Gomes, M., Dutton, C., Schoelynck, J., & Subalusky, A. (2025). Chapter 14 - Land–water connections from river source to mouth. In T. Dalu & F. O. Masese (Eds.), Afrotropical Streams and Rivers (pp. 349-374). Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-443-23898-7.00014-2.

​Subalusky, A. L., & Twining, C. (2024). Salmon’s moveable feast of nutrients with a side order of contaminants. Nature, 634(8035), 783-784. doi: 10.1038/d41586-024-02808-5.

Jiménez, G., Santamaría-Castiblanco, D., Subalusky, A., & Anderson, E. (2024). Breve recuento histórico y una reflexión sobre los hipopótamos del Magdalena Medio colombiano. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 48(187), 397-400. doi: 0.18257/raccefyn.2663. (pdf)

Pringle, R. M., Abraham, J. O., Anderson, T. M., Coverdale, T. C., Davies, A. B., Dutton, C. L., Gaylard, A., Goheen, J. R., Holdo, R. M., Hutchinson, M. C., Kimuyu, D. M., Long, R. A., Subalusky, A. L., & Veldhuis, M. P. (2023). Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems. Current Biology, 33(11), R584-R610. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.024. (pdf)

Subalusky, A.L., Sethi, S.A., Anderson, E.P.,  G. Jiménez, D. Echeverri-Lopez, S. García-Restrepo, L. J. Nova-León, J. F. Reátiga-Parrish, D. M. Post & A. Rojas. 2023. Rapid population growth and high management costs have created a narrow window for control of introduced hippos in Colombia. Scientific Reports 13:6193. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33028-y. (pdf)

Kemp, A. C., C. H. Vane, A. W. Kim, C. L. Dutton, A. L. Subalusky, S. K. Kemp, and A. C. Parnell. D. 2022. Fecal sterols as a potential tool for conservation paleobiology in East Africa. Biodiversity and Conservation 31(1). doi: 0.1007/s10531-021-02328-y. (pdf)

Dutton, C. L., A. L. Subalusky, A. Sanchez, S. Estrela, N. Lu, S. K. Hamilton, L. Njoroge, E. J. Rosi, and D. M. Post. 2021. The meta-gut: community coalescence of animal gut and environmental microbiomes. Scientific Reports 11:23117. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-02349-1. (pdf)
  • The open access data and R code for our paper can be found under doi: 10.17632/hrhy2fb7zn.1
  • Covered by Science Magazine

*Frauendorf, T. C., A. L. Subalusky, C. L. Dutton, S. Hamilton, F. Masese, D. M. Post, E. J. Rosi, G. Singer. 2021. Animal legacies lost and found in freshwater ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters 16:115011. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac2cb0. (pdf)

*Handler, K. S., A. L. Subalusky, C. J. Kendall, C. L. Dutton, E. J. Rosi, and D. M. Post. 2021. Temporal resource partitioning of wildebeest carcasses by scavengers after riverine mass mortality events. Ecosphere 12(1):e03326. 10.1002/ ecs2.3326. (pdf)

Dutton, C.L.,  A.L. Subalusky, S.K. Hamilton, *E.C. Bayer, L. Njoroge, E.J. Rosi, and D.M. Post. 2020. Alternative biogeochemical states of river pools mediated by hippo use and flow variability. Ecosystems 24: 284-300. doi 10.1007/s10021-020-00518-3. (pdf)
  • The open access data and R code for our paper can be found under doi: 10.17632/spzzdjskrh.2

Masese, F. O., M. J. Kiplagat, C. Romero, A. L. Subalusky, C. L. Dutton, D. M. Post, and G. A. Singer. 2020. Wild mammalian herbivores are distinct from domestic livestock in their resource subsidies and ecosystem effects. Proceedings of the Royal Society-B, 287: 20193000. (​pdf)

Subalusky A.L., C.L. Dutton, E.J. Rosi, L.M. Puth, and D.M. Post. 2020. A river of bones: wildebeest skeletons leave a legacy of mass mortality in the Mara River, Kenya. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8:31. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00031. (pdf)
  • Supplementary materials for this paper, including our data and R code, can be found here.
  • Covered by Nature

Subalusky, A. L., E. Anderson, G. Jiménez, D. M. Post, D. Echeverri Lopez, *S. Garcia, *L. F. Nova León, *J. Reátiga Parrish, *A. Rojas, S. Solari, L. F. Jiménez Segura. 2019. Potential ecological and socio-economic effects of a novel megaherbivore introduction: The hippopotamus in Colombia. Oryx, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S0030605318001588. (pdf)
  • Covered by Atlas Obscura, Phys.org, and others.

Schoelynck, J., A. L. Subalusky, E. Struyf, C. L. Dutton, P. Frings, D. Unzué-Belmonte, B. Van de Vijver, D. M. Post, D. Conley, E J. Rosi, P. Meire. 2019. Hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius): the animal silica pump. Science Advances 5: eaav0395. (pdf)
  • Covered by Science News, Phys.org, Science Daily, and others.

Dutton, C. L., A. L. Subalusky, T. D. Hill, J. C. Aleman, E. J. Rosi, K. B. Onyango, K. Kanuni, J. A. Cousins, A. C. Staver, D. M. Post. 2019. A 2000-year old sediment record reveals rapidly changing sedimentation and land use since the 1960s in the Upper Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem. Science of the Total Environment 664: 148-160. (pdf)​
  • The open access data and R code for our paper can be found under doi: 10.17632/vfd5vzm6rm.1

Wenger, S., A. L. Subalusky, M. Freeman. 2019. The role of the missing dead in North American rivers. Food Webs 18: e00106. (pdf)

Subalusky, A. L., and D. M. Post. 2019. Context dependency of animal resource subsidies. Biological Reviews 94: 517-538. (pdf)

Smith, L. L., A. L. Subalusky, C. L. Atkinson, J, E, Earl, D. M. Mushet, D. E. Scott, S. L. Lance, and S. A. Johnson. 2019. Biological connectivity of seasonally ponded wetlands across spatial and temporal scales. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 1-20. doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12682. (pdf)

Subalusky, A. L., C. L. Dutton, L. Njoroge, E. J. Rosi, and D. M. Post. 2018. Organic matter and nutrient inputs from large wildlife influence ecosystem function in the Mara River, Africa. Ecology 99: 2558-2574. (pdf)
  • The open access data and R code for our paper can be found under doi: 10.5061/dryad.g886d9

Dutton, C. L., A. L. Subalusky, E. J. Rosi, and D. M. Post. 2018. Organic matter loading by hippopotami causes subsidy overload resulting in downstream hypoxia and fish kills. Nature Communications 9: 1951. (pdf)
  • The open access data and R code for our paper can be found under doi: 10.5061/dryad.nh6hn0
  • Covered by The Atlantic, Science Magazine, Science Daily, Mongabay, and others.

Dutton, C. L., A. L. Subalusky, S. C. Anisfeld, L. Njoroge, E. J.  Rosi, and D. M. Post. 2018. The influence of a semi-arid sub-catchment on suspended sediments in the Mara River, Kenya. PLOS One 13:e0192828. (pdf)
  • The open access data and R code for our paper can be found under DOI: 10.5061/dryad.d039

Subalusky, A. L., C. L. Dutton, E. J. Rosi, and D. M. Post. 2017. Annual mass drownings of the Serengeti wildebeest migration influence nutrient cycling and storage in the Mara River. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114: 7647-7652. (pdf)
  • Covered by Science Magazine, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, The Atlantic and others.

Dudley, J. P., B. M. Hang’ombe, F. Leendertz, L. Dorward, J. de Castro, A. L. Subalusky, M. Clauss. 2015. Carnivory in Hippopotamus amphibius: implications for the ecology and epidemiology of anthrax in African landscapes. Mammal Review 46:191-203. (pdf)

Fitzgerald, L. A., M. L. Treglia, N. Angeli, T. J. Hibbitts, D. J. Leavitt, A. L. Subalusky, I. Lundgren, and Z. Hillis-Starr. 2015. Determinants of successful establishment and post-translocation dispersal of a new population of the critically endangered St. Croix ground lizard (Ameiva polops). Restoration Ecology 23:776-786. (pdf)

Subalusky, A. L., C. L. Dutton, E. J. Rosi-Marshall, D. M. Post. 2015. The hippopotamus conveyor belt: vectors of carbon and nutrients from terrestrial grasslands to aquatic systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Freshwater Biology 60:512-525. (pdf)
  • Covered by Science Magazine (Pennisi, E. 2014. 346:802-805).

McClain, M. E., A. L. Subalusky, E. P. Anderson, S. B. Dessu, A. M. Melesse, P. M. Ndomba, J. O. D. Mtamba, R. A. Tamatamah, and C. Mligo. 2014. Comparing flow regime, channel hydraulics and biological communities to infer flow-ecology relationships in the Mara River of Kenya and Tanzania. Hydrological Sciences Journal 59:801-819. (pdf)

Subalusky, A. L., R. C. Garrick, N. A. Schable, J. Osborne, and T. C. Glenn. 2012. Development and characterization of tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Conservation Genetics Resources 4:567-570. (pdf)

Subalusky, A. L., L. A. Fitzgerald, and L. L. Smith. 2009b. Ontogenetic niche shifts in American Alligators establish functional connectivity between aquatic systems. Biological Conservation 142:1507-1514. (pdf)

Subalusky, A. L., L. L. Smith, and L. A. Fitzgerald. 2009a. Detection of American Alligators in isolated, seasonal wetlands. Applied Herpetology 6:199-210. (pdf)


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