Publications
Publications by members of the Insect Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (1975 - )
In press
Fayle T.M., Edwards D.P., Turner, E.C., Dumbrell A.J., Eggleton P. & Foster W.A. (In press). Public goods, public services, and by-product mutualism in an ant-fern symbiosis. Oikos
Brussaard L., Aanen D.K., Briones M., Decaëns T, De Deyn G.B., Fayle T.M. & James S.W. (In press) Biogeography and phylogenetic community structure of soil invertebrate ecosystem engineers: global to local patterns and implications for ecosystem functioning and global environmental change impacts. In Wall D.H. et al. (Eds.) Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services. Oxford University Press, UK.
Yusah K.M., Fayle T.M., Harris G. & Foster W.A. (In press). Optimising diversity assessment protocols for high canopy ants in tropical rain forest. Biotropica.
Robert M. Ewers, Raphael K. Didham, Lenore Fahrig, Gonçalo Ferraz, Andy Hector, Robert D. Holt, Valerie Kapos, Glen Reynolds, Waidi Sinun, Jake L. Snaddon, and Edgar C. Turner (2011) A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B November 27, 2011 366:3292-3302; doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0049
William A. Foster, Jake L. Snaddon, Edgar C. Turner, Tom M. Fayle, Timothy D. Cockerill, M. D. Farnon Ellwood, Gavin R. Broad, Arthur Y. C. Chung, Paul Eggleton, Chey Vun Khen and Kalsum M. Yusah (2011)
Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of South East Asia. Phil.Trans.R.Soc.Lond.B. 366: 3277 - 3291 PDF
M. D. F. Ellwood, Roger G. W. Northfield, Monica Mejia-Chang and Howard Griffiths (2011) On the vapour trail of an atmospheric imprint in insects. Biology Letters, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1171
Fayle T.M. & Manica A. (2011). Bias in null model analyses of species co-occurrence: a response to Gotelli and Ulrich (2010). Ecological Modelling 222: 1340-1341.
Fayle T.M., Dumbrell A.J., Turner E.C & Foster W.A. (2011). Distributional patterns of epiphytic ferns are explained by the presence of cryptic species. Biotropica 43: 6-7.
Woodcock P., Edwards D.P., Fayle T.M., Newton R.J., Chey V.K.. Bottrell S.H. & Hamer K.C. (2011) The conservation value of Southeast Asia’s highly degraded forests: evidence from leaf-litter ants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 3256-3264.
Turner E.C., Snaddon J.L., Ewers R.M., Fayle T.M. and Foster W.A. (2011). The Impact of Oil Palm Expansion on Environmental Change: Putting Conservation Research in Context. In Bernardes M.A.S. (Ed.) Environmental Impact of Biofuels. InTech Press.
Fayle T.M., Bakker L., Cheah C., Ching T.M., Davey A., Dem F., Earl A., Huaimei Y., Hyland S., Johansson B., Ligtermoet E., Lim R., Lin L.K., Luangyotha P., Herlander Martins B., Palmeirim A.F., Paninhuan S., Kepfer Rojas S., Sam L., Sam P.T.T., Susanto D., Wahyudi A., Walsh J., Weigl S., Craze P.G., Jehle R., Metcalfe D. & Trevelyan T. (2011). A positive relationship between ant biodiversity (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and rate of scavenger-mediated nutrient redistribution along a disturbance gradient in a south-east Asian rain forest. Myrmecological News 14: 5-12. PDF
Edwards, D.P., Ansell, F.A., Woodcock, P, Fayle, T.M., Hamer, K.C. Can the failure to punish promote cheating in mutualism? Oikos. 119: 45 - 52. PDF
Fayle T.M., Turner E.C., Snaddon J.L., Chey V.K., Chung A.Y., Eggleton P.E. & Foster W.A. (2010). Oil palm expansion into rain forest greatly reduces ant biodiversity in canopy, epiphytes and leaf litter. Basic and Applied Ecology. 11: 337-345. PDF
Foster W.A. (2010) The Menopausal Aphid Glue-Bomb. Current Biology 20(13): 559-560
Jackson, L., van Noordwijk, M., Bengtsson, J., Foster, W.A., Lipper, L., Said, M., Snaddon, J.L. & Vodouhe, R. (2010). Biodiversity and agricultural sustainagility: from assessment to adaptive management. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 2: 80 - 87. PDF
Fayle T.M. & Manica A. (2010). Reducing over-reporting of deterministic co-occurrence patterns in biotic communities. Ecological Modelling 221: 2237-2242.
Fayle T.M. (2010) Go to the ant thou sluggard... Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 431-432.
Andersen, S.B., Gerritsma, S., Yusah, Kalsum M., Mayntz, D., Hywel-Jones, N.L., Billen. J., Boomsma, J.J., & Hughes, D.P. (2009). The life of a dead ant: the expression of an adaptive extended phenotype. American Naturalist 174: 424-433. PDF
Fayle, T.M ., Chung, A.Y.C., Dumbrell, A.J., Eggleton, P & Foster, W.A. (2009). The effect of rain forest canopy architecture on the distribution of epiphytic ferns (Asplenium spp.) in Sabah, Malaysia. Biotropica. 41: 676-681 PDF Suppl
Ellwood, M.D.F. , Manica, A., & Foster, W.A. (2009). Stochastic and deterministic processes jointly structure tropical arthropod communities. Ecology Letters 12: 277-284. PDF
Turner, E.C. & Foster, W.A. (2009). The impact of forest conversion to oil palm on arthropod abundance and biomass in Sabah, Malaysia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25: 23 -30. PDF
Snaddon, J.L., Turner, E.C . & Foster, W.A. (2008). Children’s perceptions of rainforest biodiversity: which animals have the lion’s share of environmental awareness. PLoS ONE 3(2) e2579. PDF
Turner, E.C., Snaddon, J.L., Fayle, T.M . & Foster, W.A. (2008). Oil palm research in context: identifying the need for biodiversity assessment. PloS ONE 3(2) e1572. PDF
Pike, N . & Foster, W.A. (2008). The ecology of altruism in a clonal insect. In: Ecology of Social Evolution (eds. J. Korb & J.Heinze). Chapter 2 pp 37-56 Springer: Berlin. PDF
Morris, G.M & Foster, W.A. (2008). Duelling aphids: electrical penetration graphs reveal the value of fighting for a feeding site. Journal of Experimental Biology.211: 1490-1494. PDF
Disney R.H.L. & Fayle T.M. (2008). A New Species of Scuttle Fly (Diptera: Phoridae) Parasitizing an Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Borneo. Sociobiology, 51, 327-332.
Fayle, T.M., Ellwood, M.D.F., Turner, E.C., Snaddon, J.K., Yusah, K.M. & Foster, W.A. (2008).Bird’s nest ferns: islands of biodiversity in the forest canopy. Antenna 32: 34 – 37.
Fayle T.M. (2008). Book Review of Ants of North America: A Guide to the Genera by Brian Fisher & Stefan Cover. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 152, 847.
Turner EC, Granroth H, Johnson HR, Lucas C, Thompson AM, Froy H, German RN & Holdgate R (2008). Habitat preference and dispersal of the Duke of Burgundy butterfly (Hamearis lucina) on an abandoned chalk quarry in Bedfordshire, UK. Journal of Insect Conservation. online DOI 10.1007/s10841-008-9194-x. PDF
Field, J., Turner, E., Fayle, T. & Foster, W.A. (2007). Costs of egg production and offspring provisioning: multifaceted parental investment in a digger wasp. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 274: 445 – 451. PDF
Pike, N., Whitfield, J.A . & Foster, W.A. (2007). Ecological correlates of sociality in Pemphigus aphids, with a partial phylogeny of the genus. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:185 - 197. PDF
Turner. E.C., Snaddon, J.L., Johnson, H.R. & Foster, W.A. (2007). The impact of bird’s nest ferns on stemflow nutrient concentration in a primary rain forest, Sabah, Malaysia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 23: 1 - 4. PDF
Snaddon, J.L . & Turner, E.C. (2007). A child’s eye view of the insect world: modern culture versus nature on perceptions of insect diversity. Environmental Conservation 34: 33 - 35. PDF
Foster, W.A. (2007). Social butterflies. The Other Insect Societies by James T.Costa. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 289-290. PDF
Fayle T.M., Sharp R.E. & Majerus M.E.N. (2007). The effect of moth trap type on size and composition in British Lepidoptera. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History, 20, 221-232.
Aldridge D.C., Fayle T.M. & Jackson N. (2007). Freshwater mussel abundance predicts biodiversity in UK lowland rivers. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 17, 554-564.
Dial. R,, Ellwood M.D.F., Turner, E.C. & Foster, W.A. (2006). Arthropod Abundance, Canopy Structure, and Microclimate in a Bornean Lowland Tropical Rain Forest. Biotropica 38, pp 643-652. PDF
Turner, E.C. & Foster, W.A. (2006). Assessing the influence of Bird’s Nest Ferns (Asplenium nidus spp.) on the local microclimate across a range of habitat disturbances in Sabah, Malaysia. Selbyana 27: 195 – 200.
Foster, W.A. (2006). Sour Grapes. The Botanist and the Vintner: how wine was saved for the world. by Christy Campbell. PloS Biology 4:e102-3. PDF
Shingleton, A.W. , Stern, D.L. & Foster, W.A. (2005). The origin of a mutualism: a morphological trait promoting the evolution of ant-aphid mutualisms. Evolution 59: 921-926. PDF
Foster W.A . (2005). A rabbit with two million tails. Insect Herbivore-Host Dynamics: Tree-dwelling aphids. By Tony Dixon. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 654-655. PDF
Compton, S.G., Ellwood, M.D.F., Low, R. & Watson, J. (2005) Dispersal of fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) across primary and logged rainforest in Sabah (Malaysia). Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 69:37-48.
Ellwood, M.D.F. & Foster, W.A. (2004). Doubling the estimate of invertebrate biomass in a rainforest canopy. Nature 429: 549 – 551. PDF
Pike, N. & Foster, W.A. (2004). Fortress repair in the social aphid species Pemphigus spyrothecae. Animal Behaviour 67: 909 – 914. PDF
Braendle, C. & Foster, W.A. (2004). Defensive behaviour in primary- and secondary-host generations of the soldier-producing aphid, Pemphigus bursarius (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Journal of Insect Behavior 17: 663 – 672. PDF
Pike, N., Braendle, C . & Foster, W.A. (2004). Seasonal extension of the soldier instar as a route to increased defence investment in the social aphid Pemphigus spyrothecae. Ecological Entomology 29: 89-95. PDF
Sumner, S., Casiraghi, M., Foster W. & Field, J. (2002). High reproductive skew in tropical hover wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B. 269: 179-186. PDF
Ellwood, M . & Foster, W.A. (2002). Techniques for inserting and positioning lines in forest canopies. In: The Global Canopy Handbook (eds Mitchell, A., Secoy, K. & Jackson, T), pp 24 – 28. GCP.
Ellwood, M. & Foster, W.A. (2002). Techniques for the study and removal of canopy epiphytes. In: The Global Canopy Handbook (eds Mitchell, A., Secoy, K. & Jackson, T), pp 115-119. GCP
Foster, W.A. (2002). Aphid sex ratios. In: Sex Ratios: Concepts and Research Methods (ed Hardy, I.C.W.) pp 254-265.
Foster, W.A. (2002). Soldier aphids go cuckoo. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17, 199-200. PDF
Pike, N ., Richard, D., Foster, W. & Mahadevan, L. (2002). How aphids lose their marbles. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B269: 1211-1215. PDF
Johnson, P.C.D. , Whitfield, J.A., Foster, W.A. & Amos, W. (2002). Clonal mixing in the soldier-producing aphid Pemphigus spyrothecae (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Molecular Ecology 11: 1525-1532. PDF
Rhoden, P.K. & Foster, W.A. (2002). Soldier behaviour and division of labour in the aphid genus Pemphigus Hemiptera, Aphididae). Insectes Sociaux 49: 257-263. PDF
Ellwood, M ., Jones, D. & Foster W.A. (2002). Canopy ferns in lowland dipterocarp forest support a prolific abundance of ants termites and other invertebrates. Biotropica 34: 575-583. PDF
Shingleton, A.W. & Foster, W.A. (2001). Behaviour, morphology and the division of labour in two soldier-producing aphids. Animal Behaviour 62: 671-679. PDF
Manica, A., McMeechan, F.K. & Foster, W.A. (2001). An aggregation pheromone in the intertidal collembolan Anurida maritime. Entomologia experimentalis et applicata. 99: 393-395. PDF
Ellwood, M. & Foster, W.A. (2001). Line-insertion techniques for the study of high forest canopies. Selbyana, 22: 97-102.
Foster, W.A . (2001). Raw Darwin. Charles Darwin’s Zoology Notes and Specimen lists from HMS Beagle. Trends in Ecology and Evolution16: 211. PDF
Disney, R.H.L. & Ellwood, M.D.F. (2001) An intriguing new genus of scuttle fly (Diptera: Phoridae) from Borneo. Fragmenta Faunistica 44: 319-328.
Foster, W.A . (2000). Coping with the tides: adaptations of insects and arachnids from British saltmarshes. In British Saltmarshes (ed Sherwood, B), pp 203 – 221. Linnean Society/Forrest Text.
McMeechan, F.K., Manica, A. & Foster, W.A. (2000). Rhythms of activity and foraging in the intertidal insect Anurida maritima : coping with the tide. Journal of the marine biological Association UK. 80: 189-190. PDF
Manica, A., McMeechan, F.K. & Foster, W.A. (2000). Orientation in the intertidal saltmash collembolan Anurida maritima. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 47: 371-375. PDF
Johnson, P.C.D., Llewellyn, K.S. & Amos, W. (2000). Microsatellite loci for studying clonal mixing, population structure and inbreeding in a social aphid, Pemphigus spyrothecae (Hemiptera: Pemphigidae). Molecular Ecology 9: 1445-1446. PDF
Compton, S.G., Ellwood, M.D.F., Davis, A.J. & Welch, K. (2000) The flight heights of chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) in a lowland Bornean rain forest: fig wasps are the high fliers. Biotropica 32: 515-522.
Shingleton, A.W. & Foster W.A. (2000). Ant tending influences soldier production in a social aphid. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267: 1863 - 1865
Field, J & Foster, W. (1999). Helping behaviour in facultatively eusocial hover wasps: an test of the subfertility hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 57: 633-636. PDF
Stapley, L. (1999). Physical worker castes in colonies of an acacia-ant (Crematogaster nigriceps) correlated with an intra-colonial division of defensive behaviour. Insectes Sociaux. 46: 146-149. PDF
Foster, W.A . & Rhoden, P.K. (1998). Soldiers effectively defend aphid colonies against predators in the field. Animal Behaviour 55: 761-765. PDF
Field, J., Foster, W., Shreeves, G. & Sumner, S. (1998). Ecological constraints on independent nesting in facultatively eusocial hover wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 265: 973-977. PDF
Stapley, L. (1998). The interaction of thorns and symbiotic ants as an effective defence mechanism of swollen-thorn acacias. Oecologia 115: 401 – 405. PDF
Stern, D.L. & Foster, W.A. (1997). The evolution of sociality in aphids: a clone's eye view. In Social Competition and Cooperation in Insects and Arachnids. The Evolution of Sociality. (ed. Choe, J.C. & Crespi, B.J.) pp 150-165. Cambridge University Press.
Stern, D.L., Whitfield, J.A. & Foster, W.A. (1997). Behavior and morphology of monomorphic from the aphid genus Pseudoregma (Cerataphidini): implications for the evolution of morphological castes in social aphids. Insectes Sociaux 44: 379-392. PDF
Stern, D.L. & Foster, W.A. (1996). The evolution of soldiers in aphids. Biological Reviews 71: 27-79.
Foster, W.A . (1996). Duelling in aphids: intraspecific fighting in Astegopteryx minuta (Homoptera: Hormaphididae). Animal Behaviour 51: 645-655. PDF
Field, J.P. & Foster, W.A. (1995).Nest co-occupation in the digger wasp Cerceris arenaria : cooperation or usurpation? Animal Behaviour 50: 99-112. PDF
Foster, W.A . & Northcott, P.A. (1994). Galls and the evolution of social behaviour in aphids. In Plant Galls: (Ed. M.A.J.Williams). Systematics Association Special Volume No.49, pp 161-82.Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Field, J. (1994). Selection of host nests by intraspecific nest-parasitic digger wasps. Animal Behaviour 48: 113- 118. PDF
Bourke, A.F.G. (1993). Lack of experimental evidence for pheromonal inhibition of reproduction among queens in the ant Leptothorax acervorum. Animal Behaviour45: 501-509.
Foster, W.A . & Benton, T.G. (1992). Sex ratio, local mate competition, and mating behaviour in the aphid Pemphigus spyrothecae. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 30: 297-307. PDF
Benton, T.G. & Foster, W.A. (1992). Altruistic housekeeping in a social aphid. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 247: 199-202. PDF
Andersen, N.M. & Foster, W.A. (1992). Sea skaters of India, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, with a new species and a revised key to the Indian Ocean species of Halobates and A sclepios (Hemiptera, Gerridae). Journal of Natural History 26: 533-553.
Field, J. (1992). Intraspecific parasitism and nest defense in the solitary pompilid wasp Anoplius viaticus (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae). Journal of Zoology 228: 341 – 350.
Field, J. (1992). Guild structure in solitary spider-hunting wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) compared with null model predictions. Ecological Entomology 17: 198-208.
Field, J. (1992). Intraspecific parasitism as an alternative reproductive tactic in nest-building wasps and bees. Biological Reviews 67: 79-126.
Field, J. (1992). Patterns of nest provisioning and parental investment in the solitary digger wasp Ammophila sabulosa. Ecological Entomology 17: 43 – 51.
Benton , T.G. (1992). The ecology of the scorpion Euscorpius flavicaudis in England. Journal of Zoology 226: 351-368.
Benton , T.G. (1992). Determinants of male mating success in a scorpion. Animal Behaviour 43: 125-135. PDF
Wyatt, T.D. & Foster, W.A. (1991). Intertidal invaders: burrow design in marine beetles. In The Environmental Impact of Burrowing Animals and Animal Burrows. (ed. Meadows, P.S. & Meadows, A.). Symposium of the Zoological Society of London63: 281-296
Woakes, A.J. & Foster, W.A. (eds.). (1991). The Comparative Physiology of Exercise. Journal of Experimental Biology 160.
Benton , T.G. (1991). The life-history of Euscorpius flavicaudis (Scorpiones, Chactidae). Journal of Arachnology 19: 105-110. PDF
Benton , T.G. (1991). Reproduction and parental care in the scorpion, Euscorpius flavicaudis. Behaviour 117: 20-28. PDF
Bourke, A.F.G. (1991). Queen behaviour, reproduction and egg cannabilism in multiple-queen colonies of the ant Leptothorax acervorum. Animal Behaviour 42: 295 – 310.
Bourke, A.F.G. & Franks, N.R. (1991). Alternative adaptations, sympatric speciation and the evolution of parasitic, inquiline ants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 43: 157-158.
Foster, W.A . (1990), Colony defence in Pemphigus spyrothecae. In Social Insects and the Environment (ed. Veeresh, G.K., Mallik, B. & Viraktamath, C.A.). Proceedings of the 11th International Congress IUSSI. pp 301-302.
Foster, W.A. (1990). Experimental evidence for effective and altruistic colony defence against natural predators by soldiers of the gall-forming aphid Pemphigus spyrothecae (Hemiptera: Pemphigidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 27, 421-430. PDF
Wyatt, T.D. & Foster, W.A. (1989). Leaving home: predation and the dispersal of larvae from the maternal burrow of Bledius spectabilis , a subsocial intertidal beetle. Animal Behaviour 38, 778-785. PDF
Foster, W.A. (1989). Zonation, behaviour and morphology of the intertidal coral-treader Hermatobates (Hemiptera: Hermatobatidae) in the south-west Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96, 87-105.
Foster, W.A . (1989). Terrestrial Animals of Blakeney Point and Scolt Head Island. In Blakeney Point and Scolt Head Island . (eds. Allison, H. & Morley, J.), pp 76-86.
Wyatt, T.D. & Foster, W.A. (1989). Parental care in the subsocial intertidal beetle, Bledius spectabilis, in relation to parasitism by the icheneumonid wasp, Barycnemis blediator. Behaviour 110, 76-92. PDF
Field, J. (1989). Intraspecific parasitism and nesting success in the solitary wasp Ammophila sabulosa. Behaviour 110: 23 – 46. PDF
Field, J. (1989). Alternative nesting tactics in a solitary wasp. Behaviour 110: 219 – 243. PDF
Davies, N.B., Bourke, A.F.G. & Brooke, M.D. (1989). Cuckoos and parasitic ants – interspecific brood parasitism as an evolutionary arms-race. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 4: 274-278.
Bourke, A.F.G. (1989). Comparative analysis of sex-investment ratios in slave-making ants. Evolution 43: 913-918.
Field, J.P. & Foster, W.A. (1988). The bees and wasps of Scolt Head Island National Nature Reserve, Norfolk. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 1, 79-83.
Wyatt, T.D. & Foster, W.A. (1988). Distribution and abundance of the intertidal saltmarsh beetle, Bledius spectabilis (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Ecological Entomology. 13, 453-464.
Foster, W.A . & Treherne,J.E. (1986). The ecology and behaviour of a marine insect, Halobates fijiensis (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 86, 391-412.
Foster, W.A. (1986). Ecological consequences of adaptations to the marine environment in insects. Proceedings of the 3rd European Congress of Entomology 2, 209-216.
Wyatt, T.D. (1986). How a subsocial intertidal beetle, Bledius spectabilis, prevents flooding and anoxia in its burrow. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 19; 323-331. PDF
Foster, W.A. ( with others).(1985). A classification of living organisms. In Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Life Sciences. ed. A.E.Friday & D.Ingram. CUP.
Foster, W.A . & Wyatt,T.D. (1985). Recent research on the ecology of saltmarsh insects in the U.K.Verhandlungen Gesellschaft für Ökologie XIII ( Bremen 1983). 81-84.
Foster, W.A . (1984). The distribution of the sea-lavender aphid Staticobium staticis on a marine saltmarsh and its effect on host plant fitness. Oikos 42, 97-104. PDF
Foster, W.A . (1983). Activity rhythms and the tide in a saltmarsh beetle Dicheirotrichus gustavi. Oecologia 60, 111-113. PDF
Treherne, J.E. & Foster, W.A. (1982). Group size and anti-predator strategies in a marine insect. Animal Behaviour 30, 536-542. PDF
Foster, W.A. & Treherne, J.E. (1982). Reproductive behaviour of the ocean skater Halobates robustus (Hemiptera: Gerridae) in the Galapagos Islands. Oecologia 55, 202-207. PDF
Treherne, J.E. & Foster, W.A. (1981). Group transmission of predator avoidance behaviour in a marine insect: the Trafalgar Effect. Animal Behaviour 29, 911-917. PDF
Foster, W.A. & Moreton, R.B. (1981). Synchronization of activity rhythms with the tide in a saltmarsh collembolan Anurida maritima. Oecologia 50, 265-270. PDF
Foster, W.A. & Treherne, J.E. (1981). Evidence of the dilution effect in the selfish herd from fish predation on a marine insect. Nature, Lond. 293, 466-467. PDF
Treherne, J.E. & Foster, W.A. (1980).The effects of group size on predator avoidance in a marine insect. Animal Behaviour 28, 1119-1122. PDF
Foster, W.A . & Treherne,J.E. (1980). Feeding, predation and aggregation behaviour in a marine insect, Halobates robustus Barber (Hemiptera: Gerridae) in the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 209, 539-553. PDF
Treherne, J.E. & Foster, W.A. (1979). Adaptive strategies of air-breathing arthropods from marine saltmarshes. In: R.L.Jefferies, A.J.Davy eds. 1st European Ecol. Symp. pp 165-175. Blackwells.
Foster, W.A ., Treherne, J.E., Evans, P.D. & Ruscoe, C.N.E. (1979). Circatidal and free-running activity rhythms in an intertidal acarine (Bdella interrupta Evans). Oecologia 38, 291-301. PDF
Foster, W.A . & Treherne, J.E. (1978). Dispersal mechanisms in an intertidal aphid. Journal of Animal Ecology 47, 205-217. PDF
Foster, W.A . (1978). Dispersal behaviour of an intertidal aphid. Journal of Animal Ecology 47, 653-659. PDF
Treherne, J.E. & Foster, W.A. (1977). Diel activity of an intertidal beetle, Dicheirotrichus gustavi Crotch. Journal of Animal Ecology 46, 127-138. PDF
Treherne, J.E., Foster, W.A., Evans, P.D.E. & Ruscoe, C.N.E. (1977). A free-running activity rhythm in the natural environment. Nature, Lond. 269, 796-797. PDF
Lettau, J., Foster, W.A., Harker, J.E. & Treherne, J.E. (1977). Diel changes in potassium activity in the haemolymph of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae. Journal of Experimental Biology 71, 171-186. PDF
Foster, W.A. & Treherne, J.E. (1976). The effects of tidal submergence on an intertidal aphid, Pemphigus trehernei Foster. Journal of Animal Ecology 45, 291-301. PDF
Foster, W.A . & Treherne, J.E. (1976). Insects of marine saltmarshes: problems and adaptations. Chapter 2 in Marine Insects, ed. L.Cheng. North Holland: Amsterdam. pp 5-42.
Foster, W.A . (1975). A new species of Pemphigus Hartig (Homoptera: Aphidoidea) from Western Europe. Journal of Entomology (B) 44, 255-263.
Foster, W.A . (1975). The life-history and population biology of an intertidal aphid Pemphigus trehernei Foster. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 127, 193-297.
Foster, W.A. & Treherne, J.E. (1975). The distribution of an intertidal aphid Pemphigus trehernei Foster, on marine saltmarshes. Oecologia 21, 141-155. PDF