John Parker

Staff Profile

Principal Investigator, Senior Scientist

Research Labs

Terrestrial Ecology

parkerj@si.edu

Phone

443-482-2221

Curriculum Vitae

Expert Areas

ForestGEO

animal plant interactions

biodiversity

botany

climate change

deer

ecology

ecosystem function

forests

global change

herbivores

insects

invasive plant species

invasive species

invertebrates

landscape ecology

mangroves

marsh communities

plant ecology

plant identification

terrestrial ecology

wetland ecology

Biography
Publications

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.

Google Scholar Profile

Publications

Cavanaugh, Kyle C., Dangremond, Emily M., Doughty, Cheryl L., Williams, A. Park, Parker, John D., Hayes, Matthew A., Rodriguez, Wilfrid and Feller, Ilka C. (2019). Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove-salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (43) , 21602-21608. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902181116
Griffin, Eric A., Harrison, Joshua G., McCormick, Melissa K., Burghardt, Karin T. and Parker, John D. (2019). Tree Diversity Reduces Fungal Endophyte Richness and Diversity in a Large-Scale Temperate Forest Experiment . Diversity, 11 (12) , 234. https://doi.org/10.3390/d11120234
Averill, Kristine M., Mortensen, David A., Smithwick, Erica A. H., Kalisz, Susan, McShea, William J., Bourg, Norman A., Parker, John D., Royo, Alejandro A., Abrams, Marc D., Apsley, David K., Blossey, Bernd, Boucher, Douglas H., Caraher, Kai L., DiTommaso, Antonio, Johnson, Sarah E., Masson, Robert and Nuzzo, Victoria A. (2018). A regional assessment of white-tailed deer effects on plant invasion. AoB PLANTS, 10 (1) https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plx047
Grossman, Jake J., Vanhellemont, Margot, Barsoum, Nadia, Bauhus, Jürgen, Bruelheide, Helge, Castagneyrol, Bastien, Cavender-Bares, Jeannine, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ferlian, Olga, Gravel, Dominique, Hector, Andy, Jactel, Hervé, Kreft, Holger, Mereu, Simone, Messier, Christian, Muys, Bart, Nock, Charles, Paquette, Alain, Parker, John D., Perring, Michael P., Ponette, Quentin, Reich, Peter B., Schuldt, Andreas, Staab, Michael, Weih, Martin, et al. (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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.12.015
Sedio, Brian E., Parker, John D., McMahon, Sean M. and Wright, S. Joseph. (2018). Comparative foliar metabolomics of a tropical and a temperate forest community . Ecology, 99 (12) , 2647-2653. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2533
Burkepile, Deron E. and Parker, John D. (2017). Recent advances in plant-herbivore interactions. F1000Research, 6 , 119. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10313.1
Devaney, John L., Lehmann, Michael, Feller, Ilka C. and Parker, John D. (2017). Mangrove microclimates alter seedling dynamics at the range edge. Ecology, 98 (10) , 2513-2520. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1979
Lemoine, Nathan P., Burkepile, Deron E. and Parker, John D. (2017). Insect herbivores increase mortality and reduce tree seedling growth of some species in temperate forest canopy gaps. PeerJ, 5 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3102
Lemoine, Nathan P., Doublet, Dejeanne, Salminen, Juha-Pekka, Burkepile, Deron E. and Parker, John D. (2017). Responses of plant phenology, growth, defense, and reproduction to interactive effects of warming and insect herbivory. Ecology, 98 (7) , 1817-1828. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1855
Lemoine, Nathan P., Burkepile, Deron E. and Parker, John D. (2016). Quantifying Differences Between Native and Introduced Species. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31 (5) , 372-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.008
Verheyen, Kris, Vanhellemont, Margot, Auge, Harald, Baeten, Lander, Baraloto, Christopher, Barsoum, Nadia, Bilodeau-Gauthier, Simon, Bruelheide, Helge, Castagneyrol, Bastien, Godbold, Douglas, Hasse, Josephine, Hector, Andy, Jactel, Herve, Koricheva, Julia, Loreau, Michel, Mereu, Simone, Messier, Christian, Muys, Bart, Nolet, Philippe, Paquette, Alain, Parker, John D., Perring, Mike, Ponette, Quentin, Potvin, Catherine Jeanne, Reich, Peter, et al. (2016). Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations . Ambio, 45 (1) , 29-41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-015-0685-1
Cavanaugh, Kyle C., Parker, John D., Cook-Patton, Susan, Feller, Ilka C., Park Williams, A. and Kellner, James R. (2015). Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species’ range expansion. Global Change Biology, 21 (5) , 1928-1938. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12843
Cook-Patton, Susan, Lehmann, Michael and Parker, John D. (2015). Convergence of three mangrove species towards freeze-tolerant phenotypes at an expanding range edge. Functional Ecology, 29 (10) , 1332-1340. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12443
Lemoine, Nathan P., Capdevielle, Jillian N. and Parker, John D. (2015). Effects of in situ climate warming on monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) development. PeerJ, https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1240v1
Lemoine, Nathan P., Shue, Jessica, Verrico, Brittany, Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John and Parker, John D. (2015). Phylogenetic relatedness and leaf functional traits, not introduced status, influence community assembly. Ecology, 96 (10) , 2605-2612. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1883.1

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Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

John Parker

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