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.

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Publications

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) http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plx047
Sedio, Brian E., Parker, John D., McMahon, Sean M. and Wright, S. J. (2018). Comparative foliar metabolomics of a tropical and a temperate forest community . Ecology, 99 (12) , 2647-2653. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2533
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1855
Burkepile, Deron E. and Parker, John D. (2017). Recent advances in plant-herbivore interactions. F1000Research, 6 , 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10313.1
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 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3102
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1979
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-015-0685-1
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.008
Lemoine, Nathan P., Capdevielle, Jillian N. and Parker, John D. (2015). Effects of in situ climate warming on monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) development. PeerJ, http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1240v1
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12443
Pei, Nancai, Erickson, David L., Chen, Bufeng, Ge, Xuejun, Mi, Xiangcheng, Swenson, Nathan G., Zhang, Jin-Long, Jones, Frank A., Huang, Chun-Lin, Ye, Wanhui, Hao, Zhanqing, Hsieh, Chang-Fu, Lum, Shawn, Bourg, Norman A., Parker, John D., Zimmerman, Jess K., McShea, William J., Lopez, Ida C., Sun, I. F., Davies, Stuart J., Ma, Keping and Kress, W. John. (2015). Closely-related taxa influence woody species discrimination via DNA barcoding: evidence from global forest dynamics plots . Scientific Reports, 5 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep15127
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-1883.1
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12843
Williams, Asher A., Eastman, Scott F., Eash-Loucks, Wendy, Kimball, Matthew E., Lehmann, Michael L. and Parker, John D. (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
DiTommaso, Antonio, Morris, Scott H., Parker, John D., Cone, Caitlin L. and Agrawal, Anurag A. (2014). Deer Browsing Delays Succession by Altering Aboveground Vegetation and Belowground Seed Banks . PLoS ONE, 9 (3) , 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091155

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Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

John Parker

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