Publications and preprints

Peer-reviewed Publications

For a more updated list see my Google Scholar page.

27. A Swain, A J Kaufman, M Kalinowski#, S A Yaarwood, and W F Fagan, “Were Neoarchean atmospheric methane hazes and early Paleoproterozoic glaciations driven by the rise of oxygen in surface environments?” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 643:118900 (2024) (#Undergraduate mentee)

26. A Swain*, L E Azevedo-Schmidt*, S A Maccraken, E D Currano, E K Meineke, N E Pierce, W F Fagan, and C C Labandeira, “Temperature and insect herbivory: Integrating insights from paleo- and modern ecology”, The American Naturalist (2024) (*equal contributions)

25. K Savi, B Pandey, A Swain, J Lim, D Callo-Concha, G R Azondekon, M Wahjib, and C Borgemeister, “Urbanization and malaria have a contextual relationship in endemic areas: a temporal and spatial study”, PLoS Global Public Health 4(5): e0002871 (2024)

24. S K Mohapatra, A Swain, S Roy, B Tripathy, A Mohapatra, and J K Seth, “Low diversity, high dominance, and high host prevalence of parasitic isopods of the family Cymothoidae in Chilika lagoon, India: a comparative study between a semi-enclosed ecosystem and its adjoining open region”, Parasitology Research 123(4), 1-6 (2024)

23. A Swain*, A Woodhouse*, W F Fagan, A J Fraass, and C M Lowery, “Biogeographic response of marine plankton to Cenozoic environmental changes”, Nature (2024) (*equal contributions) 

22. R J Knecht, A Swain, J S Benner, S L Emma, N E Pierce, and C C Labandeira, “Endophytic ancestors of modern leaf miners may have evolved in the Late Carboniferous”, New Phytologist (2023)

21. A Swain, “Drivers of herbivore diversity decoupled by leveraging the fossil record”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 120 (34) e2311010120 (2023)

20. L E Azevedo-Schmidt, A Swain, L Shoemaker, and E D Currano, “Landscape-level variability and insect herbivore outbreak captured within modern forests provides a framework for interpreting the fossil record”, Scientific Reports 13, 9701 (2023)

19. A Woodhouse*, A Swain*, W F Fagan, A J Fraass, and C M Lowery, “Late Cenozoic climate cooling restructured global marine microplankton ecological communities”, Nature (2023) (*equal contributions)

18. A Swain, L E Azevedo-Schmidt, S A Maccraken, E D Currano, J Dunne, C C Labandeira and W F Fagan, “Effects of sampling bias on robustness of ecological metrics of plant-damage type association networks”, Ecology e3922 (2022). 

17. A Swain, M Shofner, W F Fagan and G Marbach-Ad, “Exploring the impact of peer-to-peer interactions on learning and course performance in an online environment”, Journal of Science Education and Technology (2022)

16. W F Fagan, A Swain, A Banerjee, H Ranade, P Thompson, P Staniczenko, B Flynn, J Hungerford, and S Hurwitz, “Quantifying Interdependencies in Geyser Eruptions at the Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023749 (2022).

15. D Rappaport, A Swain, W F Fagan, R Dubayah and D C Morton, “Animal soundscapes reveal key markers of Amazon Forest degradation from fire and logging”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2022). 

14. A Swain*, S Williams*, L J Di Felice* and E A Hobson “Interactions, information and emergence: Exploring task allocation in ant colonies using network analysis”, Animal Behavior (2022) (*equal contributions)

13. B J Klein*, A Swain*, T Byrum#, S V Scarpino and W F Fagan, “Exploring noise, degeneracy and determinism in biological networks with the einet package”, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2022) (*equal contributions, #Undergraduate mentee). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13805

12. A Swain*, L Fussell* and W F Fagan, “Higher-order effects, continuous species interactions, and trait evolution shape microbial spatial dynamics”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 119(1) (2022). (*equal contributions) 

11. B Klein, E Hoel, A Swain, R Grebenow and M Levin, “Evolution and emergence: higher order information structure in protein interactomes across the tree of life”. Integrative Biology, 13(12), pp.283-294 (2021). 

10. B J Klein, L Holmer, K M Smith, M M Johnson, A Swain, L Stolp, A I Teufel and A S Kleppe, “A computational exploration of resilience and evolvability of protein–protein interaction networks”. Communications Biology 4(1), 1352 (2021)

9. E D Currano, L E Azevedo-Schmidt*, S A Maccracken* and A Swain*, “Scars on fossil leaves: An exploration of ecological patterns in plant–insect herbivore associations during the Age of Angiosperms”. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 110636 (2021) (*equal contributions)

8. A Swain*, T Hoffman*#, K Leyba and W F Fagan, “Exploring the evolution of perception: An agent-based approach” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2021) (*equal contributions, #Undergraduate mentee)

7. A Swain, S A Maccraken, W F Fagan and C C Labandeira, “Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks”. Paleobiology (2021). doi.org/10.1017/pab.2021.20 

6. A Swain, M G Devereux and W F Fagan, “Deciphering trophic interactions in a mid-Cambrian assemblage”. iScience (2021). doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102271

5. J Shaw, K Wootton, E Coco, D Daems, A Gillreath-Brown, A Swain and J Dunne, “Disentangling ecological and taphonomic signals in ancient food webs”, Paleobiology (2021). doi.org/10.1017/pab.2020.59 

4. Z Ren*, N Martyniuk*, I A Olesky*, A Swain* and S Hotaling, “Ecological stoichiometry of the mountain cryosphere”, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 7:360 (2019). doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00360

*contributed equally

3. A Swain and W F Fagan, “Group size and decision-making: Experimental evidence for Minority Games in fish behavior”, Animal Behaviour, Volume 155, pp. 9-19 (2019). doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.05.017

2. A Swain and W F Fagan, “A mathematical model of the Warburg Effect: Effects of cell size, shape and substrate availability on growth and metabolism in bacteria”, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Volume 16 (1), pp. 168-186 (2019). doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2019009

1. A Swain and S Chatterjee. “A new formulation for determination of the Competition Coefficient in multispecies interaction for Lotka-Volterra type competition models”, Current Science, Volume 112 (9), pp. 1920-1926 (2017)

Packages/Softwares

1. T Byrum, A Swain, B J Klein and W F Fagan, (2020). “einet: Effective Information and Causal Emergence”. R package version 0.1.0. CRAN link 

2. J Demers, A Swain, T Byrum, S Bewick and W F Fagan (2020). "mosqcontrol: Mosquito Control Resource Optimization". R Package version 0.1.0. CRAN link

3. C Schwantes, J Demers, S Bewick, A Swain, and W F Fagan (2019). “Mosquito Control Aid web app”. https://collin-schwantes.shinyapps.io/MosquitoApp/