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Machac, Antonin, Milan Janda, Robert R. Dunn, and Nathan J. Sanders. "Elevational Gradients in Phylogenetic Structure of Ant Communities Reveal the Interplay of Biotic and Abiotic Constraints on Diversity." Ecography 34, no. 3 (2011): 364-371.

Sanders, Nathan J., Robert R. Dunn, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Christopher E. Carlton, Michael R. Pogue, Charles R. Parker, and Theodore R. Simons. "Diverse Elevational Diversity Gradients in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A." In Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity, edited by Eva A. Spehn and Christian Korner, 75-87. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2010.

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Lessard, Jean-Philippe, Robert R. Dunn, Charles R. Parker, and Nathan J. Sanders. "Rarity and Diversity in Forest Ant Assemblages of Great Smoky Mountains National Park." Southeastern Naturalist 6, no. sp2 (2007): 215-228.

Sanders, Nathan J., Jean-Philippe Lessard, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, and Robert R. Dunn. "Temperature, but Not Productivity or Geometry, Predicts Elevational Diversity Gradients in Ants across Spatial Grains." Global Ecology and Biogeography 16, no. 5 (2007): 640-649.

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