2008
Cohen A.A., K.J. Mcgraw, P. Wiersma, J.B. Williams, W.D. Robinson, T.R. Robinson, J.D. Brown, and R.E. Ricklefs. 2008. Interspecific association between circulating antioxidant levels and life-history variation in birds. The American Naturalist. 172: 178-193
Tieleman, B.I., T. H. Dijkstra, K.C. Klasing, G.H. Visser, J.B.
Williams. 2008. Effects of experimentally increased costs of activity during reproduction on parental investment and self-maintenance in tropical house wrens. Behavioral Ecology.
Gu, Yu, A. Muñoz-Garcia, J.C. Brown, J. Ro, J.B. Williams. 2008. Cutaneous water loss and sphingolipids covalently bound to corneocytes in the stratum corneum of house sparrows Passer domesticus. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 1690-1695
Tieleman, B.I., H.J. van Noordwijk, J.B.
Williams. 2008. Nest site selection in a hot desert: trade-off between
microclimate and predation risk? Condor 110(1):116-124.
Muñoz-Garcia, A.
J.Ro, J. C. Brown, J.B.Williams. 2008. Cutaneous water loss and sphingolipids in
the stratum corneum of house sparrows, Passer domesticus L., from desert
and mesic environments as determined by reverse phase high-performance liquid
chromatography coupled with atmospheric pressure photospray ionization mass
spectrometry. Journal of Experimental Biology 211:447-458.
Muñoz-Garcia, A.
R.M. Cox, J.B. Williams. 2008. Phenotypic flexibility in
cutaneous water loss and lipids of the stratum corneum in House sparrow (Passer
domesticus) following acclimation to high and low humidity. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
81(1):87-96. 
Cox, R.M., A. Muñoz-Garcia, M.S.Jurkozitz, J.B. Williams. 2008. ß-Glucocerebrosidase
activity in the stratum corneum of House sparrow following acclimation to high
and low humidity.
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 81(1):97-105. 
2007
Wiersma, P., M.A. Chappell, J.B. Williams 2007. Cold- and exercise-induced peak
metabolic rates in tropical birds. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences
104: 20866-20871.
Listed in Outside JEB
Williams, J.B., B.I. Tieleman, G.H. Visser, R.E. Ricklefs. 2007. Does growth
rate determine the rate of metabolism in shorebird chicks living in the Arctic?
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 80(5):500-513.
Wiersma, P. A., Muñoz-Garcia, A. Walker, J.B. Williams. 2007. Tropical birds
have slow pace of life. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences 104:
9340-9345.
Groff, B. A., Muñoz-Garcia, M. Yamaguchi, J.B. Williams. 2007. Development of
skin structure and cutaneous water loss in nestling desert House sparrows from
Saudi Arabia. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 147(2):493-501. 
Muñoz-Garcia,
A., J. B.Williams. 2007. Cutaneous water loss and lipids of the stratum corneum
in Dusky antbirds, a lowland tropical bird. The Condor 109: 59-66. 
2006
Muñoz-Garcia, A., J. Ro, J.C. Brown, J.B.Williams. 2006. Identification of
complex mixture of sphingolipids in the statum corneum by reversed-phase
high-performance liquid chromatography and atmospheric pressure photospray
ionization mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A 1133: 58-68. 
Ostrowski, S., T. Mésochina, J.B. Williams. 2006. Physiological
adjustments of Sand Gazelles (Gazella subgurrurosa) to a boom-or-bust economy:
Standard fasting metabolic rate, Total evaporative water loss, and changes in
sizes of organs during food and water restriction. Physiological and Biochemical
Zoology 79(4): 810-819. 
Ostrowski,
S., and J. B. Williams. 2006.Heterothermy of free-living Arabian sand gazelles (Gazella
subgutturosa marica) in a desert environment. Journal of Experimental
Biology 209: 1421-1429. 
Tieleman, B.I., T. H.
Dijkstra, J. R. Lasky, R. A. Mauck, G. H. Visser, J. B.
Williams. 2006. Physiological and behavioral correlates of life-history
variation: a comparison between tropical and temperate zone house wrens.
Functional Ecology 20: 491-499.
Ostrowski,
S., and J. B. Williams. 2006. Physiological acclimation of a desert antelope,
Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx), to long-term food and water restriction.
Journal of Comparative Physiology B 176:191-201. 
2005
Muñoz-Garcia, A., and J. B. Williams. 2005. Basal
metabolic rate in carnivores is associated with diet after controlling for
phylogeny. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 78: 1039–1056.
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Dearborn,
D. C., A. D. Anders, and J. B. Williams. 2005. Courtship display by great
frigate birds, Fregata minor: an energetically costly handicap signal?
Behavioral
Ecology
and Sociobiology 58: 397-406. 
Blackmer,
A. L., R. A. Mauck, J. T. Ackerman, C. E. Huntington, G. A. Nevitt, and J. B.
Williams. 2005. Exploring individual quality: basal metabolic rate and
reproductive
performance
in Leach’s storm-petrels. Behavioral Ecology. 16:906-913. 
Tieleman,
B. I., J. B. Williams, K. Klasing, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2005. Constituitive
innate immunity is a component of the pace of life syndrome in tropical birds. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London 272:1715-1720. 
Muñoz-Garcia
and J. B. Williams. 2005. Cutaneous water loss and lipids of the stratum corneum
in House sparrows, Passer domesticus, from arid and mesic environments. Journal of
Experimental Biology 208:3689-3700.
Williams,
J. B., and B. I. Tieleman. 2005. Physiological adaptation in desert birds.
Bioscience.
55: 416-425. 
Anderson,
N., T. E. Hetherington, B. Coupe, G. Perry, and J. B. Williams. 2005.
Thermoregulation
in a nocturnal, tropical, arboreal snake. Journal of Herpetology 39: 82-90. 
Dean,
W.R., & Williams, J.B. 2005. Adaptations of birds for life in deserts with
particular reference to Larks (Alaudidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of
South Africa
59:79-51.
Tieleman,
B.I. and J.B. Williams. 2005. To Breed or not to Breed: that is the quedecisions of Hoopoe larks in the Arabian Desert. In: Drent, R. (ed.)
Nature at its limits, KNNV Publishers, Utrecht.

2004
Tieleman, B.I., J.B. Williams, and R.E. Ricklefs. 2004. Nest attentiveness and egg temperature do not explain the variation in incubation periods in tropical birds. Functional Ecology 18:571-577.
Tieleman,
B. I., J. B. Williams, and G. H. Visser. 2004. Energy and water budgets of
lark in a life- history perspective: parental effort varies with aridity.
Ecology 85:
1399-1410. 
Williams,
J. B., A. Muñoz-Garcia, S. Ostrowski, and B. I. Tieleman. 2004. A phylogenetic
analysis of basal metabolism, total evaporative water loss, and life-
history among foxes from desert and mesic regions. Journal of Comparative
Physiology B 174:29-39.
2003
Tieleman,
B. I., J. B. Williams, and H. Visser. 2003. Variation in allocation of time,
water and energy in Hoopoe Larks from the
Arabian Desert
. Functional Ecology 17: 869-876.
Haugen,
M. J., J. B. Williams, P. Wertz, and B. I. Tieleman. 2003. Lipids of the
stratum corneum vary with cutaneous water loss among larks along a
temperature-moisture gradient. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76d:
907-917.
Haugen,
M. J., B. I. Tieleman, and J. B. Williams. 2003. Phenotypic flexibility in
cutaneous water loss and lipids of the strateum corneum. Journal of Experimental
Biology 206:
3581-3588.
Ricklefs,
R. E. and J. B. Williams. 2003. Metabolic responses of shorebird chicks to cold
stress: hysteresis of cooling and warming phases. Journal of Experimental Biology
206:
2883-2893.
Anderson,
N., T. Hetherington, and J. B. Williams. 2003. Validation of the of the doubly
labeled water method under low and high humidity to estimate metabolic rate and
water flux in a tropical snake (Boiga irregularis). Journal of Applied
Physiology 95: 184-191. 
Ostrowski,
S., J. Williams, and K. Ismail. 2003. Heterothermia and the water economy of
free-living Arabian Oryx. Journal of Experimental Biology 206:
1471-1478.
Tieleman,
B. I., J. B. Williams, and P. Bloomer. 2003. Adaptation of metabolic rate and
total evaporative water loss along an environmental gradient. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London 270: 207-214.
Tieleman, B. I., J. B. Williams, M.E. Buschur and C.R. Brown. 2003.
Phenotypic plasticity of larks along an aridity gradient: Are desert birds more
flexible? Ecology
84:
800-1815.
2002
Bakken, G. S., J. B. Williams, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2002. The allometry of
metabolic response to air temperature and wind in shorebird chicks. Journal of
Experimental Biology 205: 3435-3443.
Williams, J. B., D. Lenain, S. Ostrowski, B. I. Tieleman, and P. Seddon. Energy
expenditure and water flux of Rueppel’s foxes in Saudi Arabia.
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 75: 479-488.
Tieleman, B. I., and J. B. Williams. 2002. Physiological adjustments to arid
and mesic environments in larks (Alaudidae). Physiological and Biochemical
Zoology 75: 305-313. 
Tieleman, B. I., J. B. Williams, F. Lacroix, and P. Paillat. 2002.
Physiological responses of Houbara bustards to high ambient temperature. Journal
of Experimental Biology 205: 503-511.
Ostrowski, S., J. B. Williams, E. Bedin, and K. Ismail. 2002. Water flux and
food consumption of Arabian Oryx during summer. Journal of Mammalogy 83:
665-673. 
Williams, J. B., and B. I. Tieleman. 2002. Ecological and evolutionary
physiology of desert birds: A progress report. Integrative and Comparative
Biology 42: 68-75. 
Tieleman, B. I., and J. B. Williams. 2002. Effects of food supplementation on
behavioral decisions of Hoopoe Larks in the Arabian desert. Animal Behaviour 63:
519-529.
Tieleman,
B. I., and J. B. Williams. 2002. Cutaneous and respiratory water loss in larks
from arid and mesic environments.
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 75:
67-75.
Penick, D. N., J. Congdon, J. R. Spotila, and J. B. Williams. 2002.
Microclimates and energetics of free-living box turtles, Terrapene carolina
in South Carolina. Physiological
and Biochemical Zoology 75: 57-65.
Tinbergen, J. M., and J. B. Williams. 2002. Energetics of Incubation. In: C.
Deeming (ed). Avian Incubation. Oxford University Press.
2001
Williams, J. B., S. Ostrowski, E. Bedin, K. Ismail. 2001. Seasonal variation
in energy expenditure, water flux, and food consumption of Arabian oryx. Journal
of Experimental Biology 204: 2301-2311. 
Treydte, A., J. B. Williams, E. Bedin, S. Ostrowski, P. Seddon, and K. Ismail.
2001. In search of the optimal management strategy for Arabian Oryx in Mahazat
as-Sayd, Saudi Arabia. Animal Conservation 4: 239-249. 
Doherty, P. F., Jr., J. B. Williams, and T. C. Grubb, Jr. 2001. Field
metabolism and water flux of Carolina Chickadees during the breeding and
non-breeding season: A test of the "peak-demand" and
"reallocation" hypothesis. The Condor 103: 370-375. 
Williams, J. B. 2001. Energy expenditure and water flux of free-living Dune
Larks in the Namib Desert: A test of the re-allocation hypothesis. Functional
Ecology 15: 175-185. 
Williams, J. B., and B. I. Tieleman. 2001. Physiological Ecology and Behavior
of Desert Birds. In: V. Nolan and C.J. Thompson (eds). Current Ornithology
16:299-353. New York, Plenum Press.
2000
Anderson, N. L., B. Coupe, G. Perry, T. E. Hetherington, and J. B. Williams.
2000. Field use of propofol: a rapid recovery anesthetic with data from brown
treesnakes (Boiga irregularis). Herpetology Review 31: 161-163.
Williams, J. B., and B. I. Tieleman. 2000. Flexibility of basal metabolism and
evaporative water loss of Hoopoe larks from the Arabian desert. Journal of
Experimental Biology 203: 153-159. 
Tieleman, B.I., and J. B. Williams. 2000. The adjustment of avian metabolic
rates and water flux to desert environments. Physiological and Biochemical
Zoology 73:461-479. 
1990's
Tieleman, B. I., and J. B. Williams. 1999. The evolution of rates of
metabolism and water flux in desert birds. Acta Ornithologica 34: 173-174.
Dean, W.R.J., and J.B. Williams. 1999. Sunning behavior and its possible influence on
digestion in the Whitebacked Mousebird Colius colius. Ostrich 70:
239-241.
Anderson, N., R. Wack, L. Calloway, T. Hetherington, and J. B. Williams. 1999.
Cardiopulmonary effects and efficacy of Propofol as an anesthetic agent in Brown
Tree Snakes, Bioga irregularis. Bull. Assoc. Reptile and Amphibian Veterinarians
9: 9-15.
Williams, J. B., B. I. Tieleman, and M. Shobrak. 1999. Lizard burrows provide
thermal refugia for larks in the Arabian desert. The Condor 101: 714-717.

Williams, J. B. 1999. Heat production and evaporative water loss of Dune
Larks from the Namib Desert. The Condor 101: 432-438. 
Tieleman, B.I., Williams, J.B., Michaeli, G. and B. Pinshow. 1999. The role
of nasal passages in the water economy of Crested Larks and Desert Larks.
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 72: 219-226. 
Tieleman, B.I., and J.B. Williams. 1999. A review of the role of hyperthermia
in the water economy of birds. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 72(1):
87-100. 
Willliams, J.B., M. Anderson, and P. Richardson. 1997. Field metabolism,
water requirements, and foraging behavior of free-living aardwolves. Ecology
78(8): 2588-2602. 
Williams, J.B . 1997. Ecophysiology of Desert Birds. (A Review). Ostrich
1997:60
Williams, J.B. 1997. Ecophysiology of Desert Birds. (A Review). Quarterly
Review of Biology 72:86.
Anderson, M.A., J. B. Williams, and P.R. Richardson. 1997. Laboratory
metabolism of the Aardwolf. Physiological Zoology 70: 464-469.
Anderson, N.L.,
J. B. Williams, J. Sagartz, and R. Barnewell. Ovarian teratoma in Iguana
iguana. J. Zoo Wildl. Medicine 27: 90-95.
Williams, J.B. 1996. A phylogenetic perspective of evaporative water loss in
birds. Auk 113: 457-472. 
Williams, J. B. 1996. Renal compensation for cecal loss in Gambel's Quail (Callipepla
gambelii). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 113: 333-341.
Williams, J.B. and M. DuPlessis. 1996. Field metabolism of Sociable Weavers
in southern Africa. Ibis 138: 168-171.
Williams, J.B. 1996. The energetics of avian incubation. In Avian
Energetics and Nutritional Ecology, ed. C. Carey. Chapman Hall.