Irby J Lovette

Fuller Professor of Ornithology; Senior Director for Academic Affairs and Director of the Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology; Director, Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates

Publications

  • Aguillon, S. M., L. Campagna, R. G. Harrison, and I. J. Lovette (2018). A flicker of hope: Genomic data distinguish Northern Flicker taxa despite low levels of divergence. The Auk 135:748–766. doi: 10.1642/AUK-18-7.1
  • Berv, J. S., and D. J. Field (2018). Genomic Signature of an Avian Lilliput Effect across the K-Pg Extinction. Systematic Biology 67:1–13. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syx064
  • Campagna, L., M. Repenning, L. F. Silveira, C. S. Fontana, P. L. Tubaro, and I. J. Lovette (2017). Repeated divergent selection on pigmentation genes in a rapid finch radiation. Science Advances 3:e1602404. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602404
  • Toews, D. P. L., N. R. Hofmeister, and S. A. Taylor (2017). The Evolution and Genetics of Carotenoid Processing in Animals. Trends in Genetics 33:171–182. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2017.01.002
  • Van Doren, B. M., L. Campagna, B. Helm, J. C. Illera, I. J. Lovette, and M. Liedvogel (2017). Correlated patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation across an avian family. Molecular Ecology 26:3982–3997. doi: 10.1111/mec.14083
  • Walsh, J., I. J. Lovette, V. Winder, C. S. Elphick, B. J. Olsen, G. Shriver, and A. I. Kovach (2017). Subspecies delineation amid phenotypic, geographic and genetic discordance in a songbird. Molecular Ecology 26:1242–1255. doi: 10.1111/mec.14010
  • Campagna, L. (2016). Supergenes: The Genomic Architecture of a Bird with Four Sexes. Current Biology 26:R105–R107. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.005
  • Taylor, S., and L. Campagna (2016). Avian supergenes. Science 351:446–447. doi: 10.1126/science.aae0389
  • Toews, D. P. L., L. Campagna, S. A. Taylor, C. N. Balakrishnan, D. T. Baldassarre, P. E. Deane-Coe, M. G. Harvey, D. M. Hooper, D. E. Irwin, C. D. Judy, N. A. Mason, et al. (2016). Genomic approaches to understanding population divergence and speciation in birds. The Auk 133:13–30. doi: 10.1642/AUK-15-51.1
  • Toews, D. P. L., S. A. Taylor, R. Vallender, A. Brelsford, B. G. Butcher, P. W. Messer, and I. J. Lovette (2016). Plumage Genes and Little Else Distinguish the Genomes of Hybridizing Warblers. Current Biology 26:2313–2318. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.034
Klarman Hall
159 Sapsucker Woods
ijl2@cornell.edu
607/254-2140

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1999)

B.A., Dartmouth College (1992)

 

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Keywords

Behavioral ecology, evolution, genomics, ornithology, conservation

 

David M. Lodge

Professor; Francis J. DiSalvo Director; Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

Publications

  • Xu CCY, Yen IJ, Bowman D, Turner CR. 2015. Spider web DNA: A new spin on noninvasive genetics of predator and prey. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0142503. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142503.
  • Howeth JG, Gantz CA, Angermeier PL, Frimpong EA, Hoff MH, Keller RP, Mandrak NE, Marchetti MP, Olden JD, Romagosa CM, Lodge DM. 2015. Predicting invasiveness of species in trade: climate match, trophic guild and fecundity influence establishment and impact of non-native freshwater fishes. Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12391.
  • Lodge DM. 2015. Faith and science can find common ground. Nature 523, 503 (30 July 2015). doi:10.1038/523503a.
  • Evans NT, Olds BP, Renshaw MR, Turner CR, Li Y, Jerde CL, Mahon AR, Pfrender ME, Lamberti GA, Lodge DM. 2015. Quantification of mesocosm fish and amphibian species diversity via eDNA metabarcoding. Molecular Ecology Resources doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12433.
  • Reisinger LS, Petersen I, Hing JS, Davila RL, Lodge, DM. 2015. Infection with a trematode parasite differentially alters competitive interactions and antipredator behaviour in native and invasive crayfish. Freshwater Biology doi: 10.1111/fwb.12590.
  • Egan SP, Grey E, Olds B, Feder J, Ruggiero S, Tanner CE, Lodge DM. 2015. Rapid molecular detection of invasive species in ballast and harbor water by integrating environmental DNA and Light Transmission Spectroscopy. Environmental Science and Technology doi: 10.1021/es5058659.
  • Turner CR, Uy KL, Everhart RC. 2015. Fish environmental DNA is more concentrated in aquatic sediments than surface water. Biological Conservation 183: 93-102.
  • Gantz CA, Gordon DR, Jerde CL, Keller RP, Chadderton WL, Champion PD, Lodge DM. 2015. Managing the introduction and spread of non-native aquatic plants in the Laurentian Great Lakes: a regional risk assessment approach. Management of Biological Invasions 6(1): 45-55.
  • Sargent LW, Lodge DM. 2014. Evolution of invasive traits in nonindigenous species: increased survival and faster growth in invasive populations of rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus). Evolutionary Applications 7(8): 949-961.
  • Turner CR, Miller DJ, Coyne KJ, Corush J. 2014. Improved methods for capture, extraction, and quantitative assay of environmental DNA from Asian Bigheaded Carp (Hypophthalmichthys spp.). PLoS One doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114329.
  • Wittmann ME, Cooke RM, Rothlisberger JD, Rutherford ES, Zhang H, Mason DM, Lodge DM. 2014. Use of structured expert judgment to forecast invasions by Bighead and Silver Carp in Lake Erie. Conservation Biology doi: 10.1111/cobi12369.
  • Renshaw MA, Olds BP, Jerde CL, McVeigh MM, Lodge DM. 2014. The room temperature preservation of filtered environmental DNA samples and assimilation into a phenol-chloroform-isoamyl alcohol DNA extraction. Molecular Ecology Resources doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12281.
  • Turner CR, Barnes MA, Xu CCY, Jones SE, Jerde CL, Lodge DM. 2014. Particle size distribution and optimal capture of aqueous macrobial eDNA. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5(7): 676-684. Barnes MA, Jerde CL, Wittmann ME, Chadderton WL, Ding J, Zhang J, Purcell M, Budhathoki M, Lodge DM. 2014. Geographic selection bias of occurrence data influences transferability of invasive Hydrilla verticillata distribution models. Ecology and Evolution 4: 2584-2593.
  • Peters JA, Cooper MJ, Creque SM, Kornis MS, Maxted JT, Perry WL, Schueler FW, Simon TP, Taylor CA, Thoma RF, Uzarski DG, Lodge DM. 2014. Historical changes and current status of crayfish diversity and distribution in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 40: 35-46
  • Wittmann ME, Cooke RM, Rothlisberger JD, Lodge DM. 2014. Using structured expert judgment to assess invasive species prevention: Asian carp and the Mississippi-Great Lakes hydrologic connection. Environmental Science & Technology 48: 2150-2156.
  • Barnes MA, Turner CR, Jerde CL, Renshaw MA, Chadderton WL, Lodge DM. 2014. Environmental conditions influence eDNA persistence in aquatic systems. Environmental Science & Technology 48: 1819-1827.
  • Wittmann ME, Jerde CL, Howeth JG, Maher SP, Deines AM, Jenkins JA, Whitledge GW, Burbank SR, Chadderton WL, Mahon AR, Tyson JT, Gantz CA, Keller RP, Drake JM, Lodge DM. 2014. Grass carp in the Great Lakes region: establishment potential, expert perceptions, and re-evaluation of experimental evidence of ecological impact. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 71(7): 992-999
  • Peters JA, Lodge DM. 2013. Habitat, predation, and coexistence between invasive and native crayfishes: prioritizing lakes for invasion prevention. Biological Invasions 15: 2489-2502
  • Egan SP, Barnes MA, Hwang C, Mahon AR, Feder JL, Ruggiero ST, Tanner CE, Lodge DM. 2013. Rapid invasive species detection by combining environmental DNA with light transmission spectroscopy.Conservation Letters 6: 402-409.
  • Polando R, Dixit UG, Carter CR, Jones B, Whitcomb JP, Wibke Ballhorn W, Harintho M, Jerde CL, Wilson ME, McDowell MA. 2013. The roles of complement receptor 3 and FcΥ_ receptors during Leishmania phagosome maturation. Journal of Leukocyte Biology 93: 921-932.
  • Jerde CL, Chadderton WL, Mahon AR, Renshaw MR, Corush J, Budny ML, Mysorekar S, Lodge DM. 2013. Detection of Asian carp DNA as part of a Great Lakes basin-wide surveillance program. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 70: 522-526.
  • Morse JW, Baldridge AK, Sargent LW. 2013. Invasive crayfish Orconectes rusticus (Decapoda, Cambaridae) is a more effective predator of substrate nesting fish eggs than native crayfish (O. virilis). Crustaceana 86: 387-402.
  • Barnes MA, Jerde CL, Keller D, Chadderton WL, Howeth JG, Lodge DM. 2013. Viability of aquatic plant fragments following desiccativasive Plant Science and Management 6: 320-325.
  • Mahon AR, Jerde CL, Galaska M, Bergner JL, Chadderton WL, Lodge DM, Hunter ME, Nico LG. 2013. Validation of eDNA surveillance sensitivity for detection of Asian carps in controlled and field experiments. PLoS ONE 8: e58316.
  • Deines AM, Bee CA, Jensen R, Lodge DM. 2013. The potential tradeoff between artisanal fisheries and hydroelectricity generation on the Kafue River, Zambia. Freshwater Biology 58: 640-654.
Klarman Hall
200 Rice Hall
dml356@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Oxford (1982)
B.S., The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee (1982)

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Keywords

 

 

Conservation Biology, freshwater ecology, invasive species, risk analysis, environmental policy

 

 

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

Robert Warren Howarth

David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology

Publications

For a current publications list, visit our lab website.

 

Klarman Hall
E311 Corson Hall
howarth@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1979)

B.A., Amherst College (1974)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Marcellus shale, ecosystem science, biogeochemistry, aquatic ecology, oceanography, earth systems science

 

Christine L Goodale

Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Environmental Science

Publications

  • Lovett, GM, CL Goodale, SV Ollinger, CB Fuss, AP Ouimette, and GE Likens. 2018. Nutrient retention during ecosystem succession:  a revised conceptual model. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
  • Goodale, CL. 2017. Multi-year fate of a 15N tracer in a mixed deciduous forest: retention, redistribution, and differences by mycorrhizal association. Global Change Biology 23(2):867-880.
  • Greaver TL, CM Clark, JE Compton, D Vallano, AF Talhelm, CP Weaver, LE Band, JS Baron, EA Davidson, CL Tague, E Felker-Quinn, JA Lynch, JD Herrick, L Liu, CL Goodale, KJ Novak, and RA Haeuber. 2016. Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change. Nature Climate Change 6: 836–843.
  • Goodale, CL, G Fredriksen, *MS Weiss, CE McCalley, JP Sparks, and SA Thomas. 2015. Soil processes drive seasonal variation in retention of 15N tracers in a deciduous forest catchment. Ecology 96(10):2653-2668.
  • ᶲWexler, S, CL Goodale, K McGuire, SW Bailey, and PM Groffman. 2014. Isotopic signals of summer denitrification in a northern hardwood forested catchment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - USA 411(46):16413-16418.
  • *Thomas, RQ, S Zaehle, P Templer, and CL Goodale. 2013. Global patterns of nitrogen limitation: confronting two global biogeochemical models with observations. Global Change Biology 19(10):2986-2998.
  • *Melvin, AM, JW Lichstein, and CL Goodale. 2013. Forest liming increases forest floor carbon and nitrogen stocks in a mixed hardwood forest.  Ecological Applications 23(8):1962-1975.
  • Pinder, RW, EA Davidson, CL Goodale, TL Greaver, JD Herrick, and L Liu. 2012. Climate change impacts of US reactive nitrogen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109(20):7671-7675.
  • Templer, PH, RW Pinder, and CL Goodale. 2012. Impacts of nitrogen deposition on greenhouse gas fluxes for terrestrial ecosystems of North America.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10(10):547-553.
  • Lovett, GM, and CL Goodale. 2011. A new conceptual model of nitrogen saturation based on experimental nitrogen addition to an oak forest. Ecosystems 14:615-631.
  • *Thomas, RQ, CD Canham, KC Weathers, and CL Goodale. 2010. Increased tree carbon storage in response to nitrogen deposition in the US.  Nature Geoscience 3:13-17.

(* = graduate student, ᶲ = postdoctoral associate in research group)

Klarman Hall
E215 Corson Hall
clg33@cornell.edu
607/254-4211

Education

Postdoctoral Scientist, The Woods Hole Research Center (2001-2003)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford (1999-2001)

Ph.D., University of New Hampshire (1999)

M.S., University of New Hampshire (1995)

B.A., Dartmouth College (1992)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Acid deposition, biogeochemistry, carbon cycle, climate change, ecosystem ecology, forest ecosystems, land-use change, nitrogen retention, watersheds

Alexander S Flecker

Professor

Publications

  • Hammerschlag, N., O.J. Schmitz, A.S. Flecker, K. Lafferty, A. Sih, T.B. Atwood, A.J. Gallagher, D.J. Irschick, R. Skubel, and S.J. Cooke. 2019. Ecosystem function and services of aquatic predators in the Anthropocene. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34(4):369-383
  • Simon, T., A. Binderup, A. Flecker, J. Gilliam, M. Marshall, S. Thomas, J. Travis, D. Reznick, and C. Pringle. 2019. Landscape patterns in top-down control of decomposition: omnivorous fish decouples a detrital-based trophic cascade. Ecology
  • Carvalho, D.R., A.S. Flecker, C.B.M. Alves, J.P. SParks, and P.S. Pompeu. 2019. Trophic responses to aquatic pollution of native and exotic livebearers fishes. Science of the Total Environment 681:503-515
  • Rosero-López, D., M.T. Walter, A.S. Flecker, P. Llorte, B. De Biévre, D.P. González-Zeas, R. Calvez, and O. Dangles. 2019. Streamlined eco-engineering approach helps define environmental flows for tropical Andean headwaters. Freshwater Biology 64:1315-1325
  • Polato, N.R., B.A. Gill, A.A. Shah, M.M. Gray, K.L. Casner, A Barthelet, P.W. Messer, M. Simmons, J.M. Guayasamin, A.C. Encalada, B.C. Kondratieff, A.S. Flecker, A.A. Thomas, C.K Ghalambor, N.L. Poff, W.C. Funk, and K.R. Zamudio. 2018. Narrow thermal tolerance and low dispersal drive higher speciation in tropical mountains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115: 12471-12476
  • Wu, X., J. Gomes-Selman, Q. Shi, Y. Xue, R. García-Villacorta, E. Anderson, S. Sethi, S. Steinschneider, A. Flecker, and C.P. Gomes.   2018.  Efficiently approximating the Pareto Frontier: hydropower dam placement in the Amazon Basin.  Proc. 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  • Shi, Q., J.M. Gomes-Selman, R. García-Villacorta, S. Sethi, A.S. Flecker, and C.P. Gomes. 2018. Efficiently optimizing for dendritic connectivity on tree-structured networks in a multi-objective framework. Submitted to: Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. COMPASS 2018: 26:1-26:8; https://doi.org/10.1145/3209811.3209878. 
  • Larson, E.I., N.L. Poff, C.L. Atkinson, and A.S. Flecker.  2018.  Extreme flooding decreases stream consumer autochthony by increasing detrital resource availability.  Freshwater Biology.  https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13177. 
  • Dalton, C.M., K.E. Tracy, N.G. Hairston, Jr., and A.S. Flecker.  2018.  Disentangling the roles of predation risk and food deprivation in the nitrogen metabolism of consumers.  Ecology 99: 681–689; doi: 10.1002/ecy.2132.
  • Poff, N.L., E. Larson, P. Salerno, S. Morton, B. Kondratieff, A. Flecker, K. Zamudio, W.C. Funk.   2018.  Extreme streams: Species persistence mechanisms and evolutionary change in montane stream insect populations across a flood disturbance gradient.  Ecology Letters doi:10.1111/ele.12918.
  • Atkinson, C.L., A. Encalada, A. Rugenski, S. Thomas, A. Landeira-Dabarca, L. Poff, and A. Flecker.  2018.  Determinants of food resource assimilation by stream insects along a tropical elevation gradient.  Oecologia. 187:731-744. doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4142-2. 
  • Vanni, M., et al.  2017.  A global database of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion rates of aquatic animals. Ecology DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1792.
  • Alexiades, A.V., A.S. Flecker, and C.E. Kraft.   2017.  Nonnative fish stocking alters stream ecosystem nutrient dynamics.   Ecological Applications 27:956-965. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1498.
  • Rubio-Gracia, F., et al.  2017. Combined effects of hydrologic alteration and cyprinid fish in mediating biogeochemical processes in a Mediterranean stream.  Science of the Total Environment 601–602 (2017) 1217–1225.  DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.287.
  • Zandonà, E., C. Dalton, R. El-Sabaawi, J. Howard, M. Marshall, S. Kilham, D. Reznick, J. Travis, T.  Kohler, A. Flecker, S. Thomas, and C. Pringle.  2017.  Population variation in the trophic niche of the Trinidadian guppy from different predation regimes.  Scientific Reports 7: 5770; DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-06163-6
  • Boyero, L., et al.  2017.  Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude.  Scientific Reports 7: 10562; DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-10640-3.  
  • Norman, B., et al.  2017.  Drivers of nitrogen transfer efficiencies in stream food webs across continents. Ecology 98: 3044–3055; DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2009.
  • Twining, C.W., D.C. Josephson, C.E. Kraft, J.T. Brenna, P. Lawrence, and A.S. Flecker.  2017.  Limited seasonal variation in food quality and foodweb structure in an Adirondack stream: insights from fatty acids. Freshwater Science 36:877-892. 
  • Shah, A., B. Gill, A. Encalada, A. Flecker, C. Funk, J. Guayasamin, B. Kondratieff, N.L. Poff, S. Thomas, K. Zamudio, and C. Ghalambor.  2017. Climate variability predicts thermal limits of aquatic insects across elevation and latitude.   Functional Ecology 31:2118-2127; doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12906. 
  • Boyero, L., et al. 2016.  Biotic and abiotic variables influencing plant litter breakdown in streams: a global-scale study. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283:20152664; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2664.
  • Gill, B., B. Kondratieff, K. Casner, A.Encalada, A. Flecker, D. Gannon, C. Ghalambor, J. Guayasamin, L. Poff, M. Simmons, S. Thomas, K. Zamudio, and W.K. Funk.  2016.  Cryptic species diversity reveals biogeographic support for the ‘Mountain passes are higher in the tropics Hypothesis’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20160552; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0553.   
  • Buchanan, B.P., D.A. Auerbach, R.A. McManamay, A.S. Flecker, J. Taylor, J A. Archibald, D.G. Fuka, and M.T. Walter.   2016.   Environmental flows in the context of unconventional natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale.  Ecological Applications 27: 37-55. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1425
  • Collins, S.M., S.A. Thomas, T. Heatherly II, K.L. MacNeill, A. Leduc, A. López-Sepulcre, B. Lamphere, R.W. El-Sabaawi, D.N. Reznick, C.M. Pringle, and A.S. Flecker.  2016. Fish introductions and light modulate food web fluxes in tropical streams: a whole-ecosystem experimental approach. Ecology 97: 3154–3166; DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1530.
  • Lessmann, J., et al.  2016.   Freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate diversity patterns in an Andean-Amazon basin: implications for conservation efforts. Neotropical Biodiversity 2: 99-114, DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2016.1222189
  • Auerbach, D. A., B.P. Buchanan, A.V. Alexiades, E.P. Anderson, A.C. Encalada, E.I. Larson, R.A. McManamay, G.L. Poe, M.T. Walter, and A.S. Flecker.  2016. Towards catchment classification in data-scarce regions.  Ecohydrology 9: 1235-1247. doi: 10.1002/eco.1721. 
  • Bassar, R.D., T. Heatherly II, M.C. Marshall, S.A. Thomas, A.S. Flecker, and D.N. Reznick.  2015. Population size structure dependent fitness and ecosystem consequences in Trinidadian guppies.   Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 955–968.  doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12353.
  • Collins, S.M., T.J. Koher, S.A. Thomas, W.W. Fetzer and A.S. Flecker.  2015.  The importance of terrestrial subsidies in stream food webs varies along a stream size gradient. Oikos doi:10.1111/ oik.07213.
  • Twining, C.W., J.T. Brenna, N.G. Hairston Jr., and A.S. Flecker.  2015.  Highly unsaturated fatty acids in nature: what we know and what we need to learn.  Oikos 125: 749-760. doi: 10.1111/oik.02910.
  • Dodds, W. K., et al.  2014.  You are not always what we think you eat: selective assimilation across multiple whole-stream isotopic tracer studies. Ecology 95:2757-2767.
  • Capps, K. A., and A. S. Flecker. 2013. Invasive aquarium fish transform ecosystem nutrient dynamics.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20131520. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1520.
Klarman Hall
E211 Corson Hall
asf3@cornell.edu
607/254-4263

Education

Ph.D., Zoology, University of Maryland (1990)

M.S., Zoology, University of Maryland (1984)

B.S, Zoology, Oregon State University (1980)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

 

 

Food webs, tropical stream ecosystems, ecosystem engineers, ecological stoichiometry, ecosystem subsidies, eco-evolutionary interactions, fishes, biogeochemistry, biodiversity and ecosystem function

 

John Weaver Fitzpatrick

Professor; Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director Emeritus, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Publications

  • Reynolds, M. D. et al. 2017. Dynamic conservation for migratory species. Science Advances 3:e1700707.
  • Aguillon, S. M. et al. 2017. Deconstructing isolation-by-distance: The genomic consequences of limited dispersal. PLOS Genetics 13: e1006911.
  • Chen, N., E.J. Cosgrove, R. Bowman, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and A.G. Clark. 2016. Genomic Consequences of Population Decline in the Endangered Florida Scrub-Jay. Current Biology 26:2974-2979.
  • Mills, J. A. et al. 2015. Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30:581-589.
  • Mumme, R. L., R. Bowman, M.S. Pruett, and J.W. Fitzpatrick. 2015. Natal territory size, group size, and body mass affect lifetime fitness in the cooperatively breeding Florida Scrub-Jay. AUK 132:634-646.
  • Sullivan, B. L. et al. 2014. The eBird enterprise: An integrated approach to development and application of citizen science. Biological Conservation 169:31-40.
  • Coulon, A., J.W. Fitzpatrick, R. Bowman, and I.J. Lovette. 2012. Mind the gap: genetic distance increases with habitat gap size in Florida scrub jays. Biology Letters 8:582-585. 
  • Piorkowski, M. D. et al. 2012. Research priorities for wind energy and migratory wildlife. Journal of Wildlife Management 76:451-456.
Klarman Hall
159 Sapsucker Woods
jwf7@cornell.edu
607/254-2449

Education

Ph.D. in Biology, Princeton University (1978)

M.A. in Biology, Harvard University (1974)

 

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

 

 

Avian ecology, citizen science, conservation biology, conservation genetics, endangered species, ornithology, population biology

 

 

Stephen Paul Ellner

Horace White Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Publications

For a complete list of publications, please see my Google scholar page here.

Klarman Hall
E339A Corson Hall
spe2@cornell.edu
607/254-4221

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute (1984-1985)

Ph.D., Cornell University (1982)

B.A., University of California, Berkeley (1975)

 

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Coexistence, demography, infectious disease, structured populations.

Andre Alfons Dhondt

Professor and Edwin H. Morgens Professor of Ornithology, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Klarman Hall
159 Sapsucker Woods
aad4@cornell.edu
607/254-2445

Education

Ph.D., Biology, Ghent State University, Belgium (1970)

Aggregaat Hoger Secundair Onderwijs, Ghent State University, Belgium (1968) 

Licentiaat Zoology, Ghent State University, Belgium (1966)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Population ecology, behavioral ecology, disease ecology, evolutionary ecology, ornithology

Andrew G. Clark

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics

Publications

  • Connallon, T. M., & Clark, A. (2014). Balancing selection in species with separate sexes: insights from Fisher's geometric model. Genetics. 197:991-1006.
  • Reinhart, M., Carney, T., Clark, A., & Fiumera, A. C. (2014). Characterizing male-female interactions using natural genetic variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Heredity. 106:67-79.
  • Clark, A. (2014). Genetics: The vital Y chromosome. Nature. 508:463-465.
  • Connallon, T., & Clark, A. (2011). Association between Sex-Biased Gene Expression and Mutations with Sex-Specific Phenotypic Consequences in Drosophila. Genome Biology & Evolution. 3:151-155.
  • Gravel, S., Henn, B. M., Gutenkunst, R. N., Indap, A. R., Marth, G. T., Clark, A., Yu, F., Gibbs, R. A., The 1000 Genomes Project,, & Bustamante, C. D. (2011). Demographic history and rare allele sharing among human populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108:11983-11988.
  • Woodard, S. H., Fischman, B. J., Venkat, A., Hudson, M. E., Varala, K., Cameron, S. A., Clark, A., & Robinson, G. E. (2011). Genes involved in convergent evolution of eusociality in bees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108:7472-7477.
  • Greenspan, L., & Clark, A. (2011). Associations between Variation in X Chromosome Male Reproductive Genes and Sperm Competitive Ability in Drosophila melanogaster. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2011:Article 214280 (10 pages).
  • Mills, R. E., Clark, A., & 1000 Genomes Project, (2011). Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing. Nature. 470:59-65.

 

Klarman Hall
107 Biotechnology Building
ac347@cornell.edu
607/255-0527

Education

Ph.D. Stanford University (1980)

B.S. in Biology and Applied Mathematics, Brown University (1976)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

 

 

Population ecology

 

 

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