Principal Investigator, Senior Scientist
Research Labs
Phone
443-482-2221
Staff Profile
Biography
My research focuses on three main topics: (1) the role of biodiversity in ecological and evolutionary processes, (2) mechanisms and consequences of biological invasions, and (3) consequences of climate change for species' ranges and biotic interactions. I use a diversity of approaches, including field observation and experimentation, laboratory assays, phylogenetics, and synthetic statistics.
Publications
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(2018). Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments . Environmental and experimental botany, 152 , 68-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.12.015
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(2017). Recent advances in plant-herbivore interactions. F1000Research, 6 , 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10313.1
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(2017). Insect herbivores increase mortality and reduce tree seedling growth of some species in temperate forest canopy gaps. PeerJ, 5 , e3102. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3102
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(2017). Responses of plant phenology, growth, defense, and reproduction to interactive effects of warming and insect herbivory. Ecology, 98 (7) , 1817-1828. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1855
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(2016). Quantifying Differences Between Native and Introduced Species. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31 (5) , 372-381. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.008
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(2015). Effects of in situ climate warming on monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) development. PeerJ, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1240v1
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(2014). Quantifying the invasiveness of species. Neobiota, 21 , 7-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.21.5310
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(2014). Variable effects of temperature on insect herbivory. PeerJ, 2 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.376
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(2014). Record Northernmost Endemic Mangroves on the United States Atlantic Coast with a Note on Latitudinal Migration . Southeastern Naturalist, 13 (1) , 56-63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1656/058.013.0104
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(2012). Phylogenetic isolation increases plant success despite increasing susceptibility to generalist herbivores . Diversity & Distributions, 18 (1) , 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00806.x
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(2012). Evolutionary Potential of Root Chemical Defense: Genetic Correlations with Shoot Chemistry and Plant Growth. Journal of chemical ecology, 38 (8) , 992-995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10886-012-0163-1
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(2010). First evidence of hexameric and heptameric ellagitannins in plants detected by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry . Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24 (21) , 3151-3156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcm.4756
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(2010). Novel Weapons Testing: Are Invasive Plants More Chemically Defended than Native Plants? . PLoS ONE, 5 (5) , e10429-e10429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010429
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(2010). Land use history alters the relationship between native and exotic plants: the rich don't always get richer . Biological Invasions, 12 (6) , 1557-1571. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-009-9568-3
