Corrie Moreau

Martha N. & John C. Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity; Director & Curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection

Publications

For a complete list see: http://www.moreaulab.entomology.cornell.edu/publications/

 

Klarman Hall

Education

Ph.D., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (2007)

M.Sc., San Francisco State University/California Academy of Sciences, Biology, Ecology, and Systematics (2003)

B.S., San Francisco State University, Biology (2000)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Evolution, entomology, symbiosis, genomics, microbiomes, systematics, phylogenetics, macroevolution, host-microbe interactions, biogeography, biodiversity

Jennifer S. Thaler

Professor

Publications

  • Tigreros, N., A.A. Agrawal & J.S. Thaler (In press): Genetic variation in parental effects contributes to the evolutionary potential of antipredator plasticity. American Naturalist (bioRxiv748251)
  • Aflitto, N., and J.S. Thaler. 2020. Predator Pheromone Elicits a Temporally Dependent Non-Consumptive Effect in Prey. Ecological Entomology, 45: 1190-1199. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12905
  • Wetzel, W.C., N. Aflitto, J.S. Thaler. 2018. Plant genotypic diversity interacts with predation risk to influence an insect herbivore across its ontogeny. Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2472
  • Hermann, S.L. and J.S. Thaler. 2018. The effect of predator presence on the behavioral sequence from host selection to reproduction in an invulnerable stage of insect prey. Oecologia, 10.1007/s00442-018-4202-7.
  • Tigreros, N., E. Wang and J.S. Thaler. 2018. Prey nutritional state drives divergent behavioural and physiological responses to predation risk. Functional Ecology. 10.1111/1365-2435.13046
  • Helmberger, M., J.S. Thaler; E. Shields; K. Wickings. Entomopathogenic nematode performance against Popillia japonica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in school athletic turf: Effects of traffic and soil properties. Biological Control, accepted.
  • Wetzel, W.C. and J.S. Thaler. 2017. Host-choice reduces, but does not eliminate, the negative effects of a multi-species diet for an herbivorous beetle. Oecologia 186:483-493. doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-4034-x.
  • Kersch-Becker, M.F., Kessler, A, and J.S. Thaler. 2017. Plant defenses limit herbivore population growth by changing predator-prey interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20171120. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1120
  • Tigreros, N, R. Norris, E. Wang, J. S. Thaler. 2017. Maternally induced intraclutch cannibalism: an adaptive response to predation risk? Ecology Letters 20: 487-494. 10.1111/ele.12752
  • Garrido, E., Díaz, M.F., Bernal, H., Ñústez, C.E., Thaler, J., Jander, G. and K. Poveda. 2017. Costs and tradeoffs of resistance and tolerance to belowground herbivory in potato. Plos One 12:e0169083. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169083.
  • Claflin, S., A.G. Power, J.S. Thaler. 2017. Aphid density and community composition differentially affect apterous aphid movement and plant virus transmission. Ecological Entomology 42: 245-254. DOI: 10.1111/een.12381
  • Claflin, S, Jones, L, Thaler, J, Power, A. 2016. Crop-dominated landscapes have higher vector-borne plant virus prevalence. Journal of Applied Ecology 54:1190-1198. 10.1111/1365-2664.12831
  • Wetzel, W. C. and J.S. Thaler. 2016. Does plant trait diversity reduce the ability of herbivores to defend against predators? The plant variability-gut acclimation hypothesis. Current Opinion in Insect Science 14:25-31.
  • Orrock, J.L., A. Sih, M.C.O Ferrari, R. Karban, E.L. Preisser, M.J. Sheriff, and J.S. Thaler. 2015. Error management in plant allocation to herbivore defense. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8:441-445. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.005
  • Kersch-Becker, M. and J.S. Thaler. 2015. Plant resistance reduces the strength of consumptive and non-consumptive effects of predators on aphids. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84:1222-1232. 10.1111/1365-2656.12371 **winner of 2nd place Elton Prize (best paper of the year by a young scientist)
  • Claflin, S., J.S. Thaler, A. Power. 2015. Predators, host abundance, and host spatial distribution affect the movement of wingless non-colonizing vector Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) and PVY prevalence in an oat/potato system. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 9:301-309. 10.1007/s11829-015-9370-3
  • Thaler, J.S., E.L. Olsen, I. Kaplan. 2015. Jasmonate-induced plant defenses and prey availability impact the preference and performance of an omnivorous stink bug, Podisus maculiventris. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 9:141-148. DOI: 10.1007/s11829-015-9357-0.
  • Raguso, R.A., Agrawal, A.A., Douglas, A.E., Jander, G., Kessler, A., Poveda, K, and J.S. Thaler. 2015. The raison d'être of chemical ecology. Ecology, 96:617-630. DOI 10.1007/s00442-014-3069-5
Klarman Hall
2124 Comstock Hall
jst37@cornell.edu
607/255-7064

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Davis (1999)

B.A., Wellseley College (1993)

 

Departments and programs

Keywords

Population and community ecology, plant-insect interactions, tri-trophic interactions, chemical ecology, disease

Alison G Power

Professor

Publications

  • Vollmer, D., et al.  2018.  Integrating the social, hydrological and ecological dimensions of freshwater health: the Freshwater Health Index. Science of the Total Environment 627:304–313.
  • Marchetto, K.M., and A.G. Power.  2018.  Context-dependent interactions between pathogens and a mutualist affect pathogen fitness and mutualist benefits to hosts.  Ecology, in press.
  • Claflin, S.B, L. Jones, J. Thaler, and A.G. Power. 2017. Crop-dominated landscapes have higher vector-borne plant virus prevalence. Journal of Applied Ecology 54:1190–1198. DOI:10.1111/1365-2664.12831.
  • Claflin, S.B, J. Thaler, and A.G. Power. 2017. Aphid density and community composition differentially affect apterous aphid movement and plant virus transmission. Ecological Entomology 42:245–254. DOI:10.1111/een.12381.
  • Hilker, F. M., et al. 2017. Modelling virus coinfection to inform management of maize lethal necrosis in Kenya. Phytopathology 107:1095-1108. DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-03-17-0080-FI
  • Kendig, A. E., E. T. Borer, C. E. Mitchell, A. G. Power, and E. W. Seabloom. 2017. Characteristics and drivers of plant virus community spatial patterns in U.S. West Coast grasslands. Oikos 126:1281-1290. DOI: 10.1111/oik.04178.
  • Marchetto, K.M., and A.G. Power. 2017. Coinfection timing drives host population dynamics through changes in virulence. American Naturalist 191:173–183.
  • Shaw, A., A. Peace, A. Power, and N. Bosque-Perez. 2017. Vector population growth and condition-dependent movement drive the spread of plant pathogens.  Ecology 98:2145-2157. DOI:10.1002/ecy.1907
  • Seabloom, E. W., et al. 2015. The community ecology of pathogens: coinfection, coexistence and community composition. Ecology Letters 18:401–415.  DOI: 10.1111/ele.12418
  • ​Lacroix, C., A. Jolles, E. W. Seabloom, A. G. Power, C. E. Mitchell, and E. T. Borer. 2014.  Non-random biodiversity loss underlies predictable increases in viral disease prevalence. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11: 20130947. doi:10.1098/rsif.2013.0947
  • Seabloom, E. W., E. T. Borer, C. Lacroix, C. E. Mitchell, and A. G. Power. 2013. Richness and composition of niche-assembled viral pathogen communities. PLOS One 8: e55675.  DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0055675
  • F. Stuart Chapin, III, et al. 2011. Earth stewardship: science for action to sustain the human-earth system.  Ecosphere 2:89. DOI:10.1890/ES11-00166.1.
  • Rua, M. A, E. C Pollina, A. G. Power and C. E. Mitchell. 2011. The role of viruses in biological invasions: friend or foe? Current Opinion in Virology 1:68–72.
  • Power, A.G. 2011. A multi-scale, landscape approach to predicting insect populations in agro-ecosystems.  Ecological Applications 21:1782-1791.
  • Power, A.G., E.T. Borer, P.R. Hosseini, C. E. Mitchell, and E. W. Seabloom. 2011. The community ecology of barley/cereal yellow dwarf viruses in Western US grasslands.  Virus Research 159:95-100.
  • Borer, E.T., E.W. Seabloom, C.E. Mitchell, and A.G. Power. 2010. Local context drives infection of grasses by vector-borne generalist viruses.  Ecology Letters 13:810-818.
  • Hall, G.S., J.S. Peters, D.P. Little, and A.G. Power. 2010. Plant community diversity influences vector behaviour and barley yellow dwarf virus population structure.  Plant Pathology 59:1152-1158.
  • Power, A.G. 2010. Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365:2959-2971.
  • Seabloom, E.W., C.E. Mitchell, A.G. Power, and E.T. Borer. 2010. Viral diversity and prevalence gradients in North American Pacific coast grasslands. Ecology 91:721-732.
  • Borer, E.T., C.E. Mitchell, A.G. Power, and E.W. Seabloom. 2009. Consumers indirectly increase infection risk in grassland food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106:503-506.
  • Power, A.G. 2008. Community ecology of plant viruses. In: Plant virus evolution (M. Roossinck, ed.). Pp. 15-26. Springer, New York.
  • Power, A.G. and C.E. Mitchell. 2004. Pathogen spillover in disease epidemics. The American Naturalist 164:S79-S89.
  • Mitchell, C. E. and A. G. Power. 2003. Release of invasive plants from fungal and viral pathogens. Nature 421:625-627.
Klarman Hall
E331A Corson Hall
agp4@cornell.edu
607/254-4233

Education

Ph.D., University of Washington (1985)

B.S., University of Alaska (1979)

 

Departments and programs

Keywords

Agroecology, disease ecology, plant-insect interactions, plant viruses, insect vectors, international agriculture, ecosystem services, food security

Andre Kessler

Professor

Publications

Please see a current list of publications here.

Klarman Hall
E445 Corson Hall
ak357@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., Max Plank Institute for Chemical Ecology/University of Jena, Germany (2002)

M.A., University of Wurzburg, Germany (1988)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Chemical ecology, plant-animal interactions, plant resistance, herbivory, plant behavioral ecology, insect herbivory, plant-pollinator interactions, plant secondary metabolism

Monica Ann Geber

Professor Emeritus

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Eisen, K. E., A. C. Wruck, and M. A. Geber. 2020. Floral density and co-occurring congeners alter patterns of selection in annual plant communities. Evolution 74: 1682-1698.
  • James, A. R. M., T. E. Burnette, J. Mack, D. E. James, V. M. Eckhart, and M. A. Geber. 2020. Germination predicts spatial distribution and coexistence more than adult hydrological traits do in four closely related annual flowering plants. Journal of Ecology 108: 2584-2600.
  • Petipas, R. H., A. C. Wruck, and M. A. Geber. 2020. Microbe-mediated local adaptation to limestone barrens in context dependent. Ecology 101:e03092.
  • Eisen, K. E., and M. A. Geber. 2018. Ecological sorting and character displacement contribute to the structure of communities of Clarkia species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31:1440-1458.
  • Benning, J. W., Eckhart, V. M., M. A. Geber, and D. A. Moeller. 2018. Biotic interactions limit the geographic range of an annual plant: herbivory and phenology mediate fitness beyond a range margin. American Naturalist 192:786-797.
  • Moeller, D. A., R. D. Briscoe Runquist, M. A. Geber, C. Goodwillie, A. M. Moe, P-O Cheptou, C. G. Eckert, E. Elle, M. O. Johnston, S. Kalisz, J. K. Kelly, E. Porcher, R. H. Ree, R. D. Sargent, M. Vallejo-Marin, and A. A. Winn. 2017. Global biogeography of mating system variation in seed plants. Ecology Letters 20:375-384.
  • Briscoe Runquist, R. D., M. A. Geber, M. Pickett-Leonard, and D. A. Moeller. 2017. Mating system evolution under strong pollen limitation: evidence of disruptive selection through male and female fitness in Clarkia xantiana. American Naturalist 189:549-563.
  • Anderson, J. A., V. M. Eckhart, and M. A. Geber. 2015. Experimental studies of adaptation in Clarkia xantiana. III. Phenotypic selection across a subspecies border. Evolution 69:2249-2261.
  • Gould, Billie, S. McCouch, and M. A. Geber. 2015. De novo transcriptome assembly and identification of gene candidates for rapid evolution in response to soil aluminum tolerance in Anthoxanthum odoratum at the long-term Park Grass Experiment. PLoS One 10:e0124424; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124424.
  • Moeller, D. A., M. A. Geber, V. M. Eckhart, and P. Tiffin. 2012. Reduced pollinator service and elevated pollen limitation at the geographic range limit of an annual plant. Ecology 93:1036-1048.
  • Geber, M. A. Ecological and evolutionary limits on species geographic ranges. 2011. American Naturalist 178:S1-S5.
  • Eckhart, V. M, Geber, M. A., Morris, W. F., Fabio, E. S., Tiffin, P. L., and D. A. Moeller. 2011. The geography of demography: Long-term demographic studies and species distribution models reveal a species border limited by adaptation. American Naturalist 178:S26-S43.
  • Ellner, S. P., Geber, M. A., and N. G. Hairston Jr. Does rapid evolution matter? Measuring the rate of contemporary evolution and its impacts on ecological dynamics. 2011. Ecology Letters 14:603-614.
  • Moeller, D. A., Geber, M. A., and P. L. Tiffin. 2011. Population genetics and the evolution of geographic range limits in an annual plant. American Naturalist 178:S44-S61.
Klarman Hall
mag9@cornell.edu
607/254-4208

Education

Ph.D., University of Utah (1989)

M.Sc., Oregon State University (1982)

B.A., Reed College (1978)

 

Departments and programs

Keywords

Evolution and ecology of plant populations, limits to adaptation, plant mating systems and reproductive biology

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