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Morgan Ernest |
Officially, I am an empirical community ecologist and macroecologist by training, and I am interested in the intersection of theoretical and empirical ecology. While I believe in using the ecosystem, taxonomic group, or dataset best suited for addressing the question at hand, my favorite model system for testing ideas is my field site: the Portal Project, a long-term research site initiated by James H. Brown and associates in 1977. Unofficially, I am broadly curious and go where my curiosity takes me. |
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Ethan White |
My research focuses on quantitative macroecology, using large ecological databases, advanced statistical methods, and theoretical modeling to understand broad scale ecological patterns. I am also interested in the temporal dynamics of biological systems and the use of sensor networks for collecting ecological and environmental data. |
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Dan McGlinn | My research draws from landscape ecology, statistical modeling, and biogeography to understand the determinates of species abundance and diversity through space and time. I use a combined approach of field studies, ecoinformatics, and analytical models to tease apart the influence of different driving processes on single and multi-species patterns in plants and birds. |
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Ken Locey |
Ken joined the lab in Fall 2008. He has an extensive background in field biology having studied dispersal ecology in Mediterranean Geckos, avian community ecology and Spiny-tailed Iguanas in Brownsville Texas, Sonoran Mud Turtle populations in New Mexico, and Barn Owl prey diversity across Oklahoma. His current research interests include the application of ecological neutral theory to microbial biogeography, the synthesis of the storage hypothesis and ecological neutral theory, the dynamics of activation energy in metabolic theory, and a multi-scale examination of phylogeographic circuit theory.
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Glenda Yenni |
Glenda works at the Portal Project and so far she is interested in how coexistence among species is affected by invasion, extinction, and climate change. She is also currently working on a M.S. in Statistics working with Mevin Hooten. |
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Elita Baldridge |
Elita joined the lab in Fall 2010. She has a masters degree in Biology from Fort Hays State University, where she explored the causes of the nested subset pattern. She is currently interested in the commonness and rarity of species, and how that relates to common macroecological patterns. |
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Zack Brym |
Joining Weecology from the University of Michigan, my research focused on quantifying differences between an invasive shrub and the native understory woody plant community of Michigan. With an understanding of plant coexistence mechanisms we may then suggest the impacts the invasion will have on the community and inform management decisions of the invasive shrub. Continually seeking diverse natural experiments to test ecological theory, throughout my Ph.D. I intent to incorporate human dimensions and agricultural systems with empiricial modeling techniques. |
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Xiao Xiao |
Xiao joined the lab in Fall 2008. She has a background in theoretical and microcosm ecology having done theoretical work on the coexistence of species on a single resource under predator-prey oscillations and experimental research on the influence of competition on zooplankton dispersal. She is currently interested in ecological theories that are general enough to be applied to large spatial scales. |
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Sarah Supp |
Sarah started Fall 2007 and comes to us from Valparaiso University. Sarah is interested in exploring metacommunity dynamics and macroecological patterns and has also discovered that rodents really aren't that bad. |
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Ben Morris |
Ben is interested in macroecology, climate change, disease ecology, and ecoinformatics. He is currently working on the EcoData Retriever project to make ecological data more accessible. |