has course role BOT7979 Advanced Research BSC2011 Integra Princ Biol 2 ENY7980 Doctoral Research PCB6049 Seminar In Ecology SWS7979 Advanced Research WIS7979 Advanced Research WIS7980 Doctoral Research ZOO4905 Indiv Studies Zoology ZOO4926 Special Topics ZOO6927 Special Topics ZOO7979 Advanced Research ZOO7980 Doctoral Research
selected publications academic article Low Functional Redundancy Among Mammalian Browsers in Regulating An Encroaching Shrub (Solanum Campylacanthum) in African Savannah. Proceedings. Biological sciences. 281. 2014-06-01 Mechanisms of Plant-Plant Interactions: Concealment From Herbivores Is More Important Than Abiotic-Stress Mediation in An African Savannah. Proceedings. Biological sciences. 281. 2014-04-01 Carbohydrate as Fuel for Foraging, Resource Defense and Colony Growth - a Long-Term Experiment With the Plant-Ant Crematogaster Nigriceps 2013-09-01 A Role for Indirect Facilitation in Maintaining Diversity in a Guild of African Acacia Ants 2013-07-01 Climatic Stress Mediates the Impacts of Herbivory On Plant Population Structure and Components of Individual Fitness. Journal of Ecology. 101:1074-1083. 2013-07-01 Ecological Erosion of An Afrotropical Forest and Potential Consequences for Tree Recruitment and Forest Biomass 2013-07-01 Effects of Mammalian Herbivore Declines On Plant Communities: Observations and Experiments in An African Savanna. Journal of Ecology. 101:1030-1041. 2013-07-01 Polygyny in the Nest-Site Limited Acacia-Ant Crematogaster Mimosae. Insectes Sociaux. 60:231-241. 2013-05-01 Enough Is Enough: the Effects of Symbiotic Ant Abundance On Herbivory, Growth, and Reproduction in An African Acacia 2013-03-01 Piecewise Disassembly of a Large-Herbivore Community Across a Rainfall Gradient: the Uhuru Experiment. PLoS One. 8. 2013-02-01 Skin Shedding and Tissue Regeneration in African Spiny Mice (Acomys). Nature. 489:561+. 2012-09-01 Cryptic Herbivores Mediate the Strength and Form of Ungulate Impacts On a Long-Lived Savanna Tree 2011-08-01 Reciprocal Rewards Stabilize Cooperation in the Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. Science. 333:880-882. 2011-08-01 The High Cost of Mutualism: Effects of Four Species of East African Ant Symbionts On Their Myrmecophyte Host Tree 2011-05-01 Mutualisms in a Changing World: An Evolutionary Perspective. Ecology Letters. 13:1459-1474. 2010-12-01 Defensive Plant-Ants Stabilize Megaherbivore-Driven Landscape Change in An African Savanna 2010-10-01 Synergy of Multiple Partners, Including Freeloaders, Increases Host Fitness in a Multispecies Mutualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107:17234-17239. 2010-10-01 Synergy of Multiple Partners, Including Freeloaders, Increases Host Fitness in a Multispecies Mutualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107:17234-17239. 2010-10-01 Spatial Pattern Enhances Ecosystem Functioning in An African Savanna. PLoS Biology. 8. 2010-05-01 Termites Create Spatial Structure and Govern Ecosystem Function By Affecting N(2) Fixation in An East African Savanna 2010-05-01 A Comparison of Two Sampling Methods for Surveying Mammalian Herbivore Impacts On Beetle Communities in the Canopy of Acacia Drepanolobium in Kenya. African Entomology. 18:87-98. 2010-03-01 Large Herbivores Facilitate Savanna Tree Establishment Via Diverse and Indirect Pathways. Journal of Animal Ecology. 79:372-382. 2010-03-01 Termites, Vertebrate Herbivores, and the Fruiting Success of Acacia Drepanolobium 2010-02-01 Putting Ant-Acacia Mutualisms To the Fire - Response. Science. 319:1760-1761. 2008-03-01 Breakdown of An Ant-Plant Mutualism Follows the Loss of Large Herbivores From An African Savanna. Science. 319:192-195. 2008 Breakdown of An Ant-Plant Mutualism Follows the Loss of Large Herbivores From An African Savanna. Science. 319:192-195. 2008 Mutualism as reciprocal exploitation: African plant-ants defend foliar but not reproductive structures. 2007
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principal investigator on Career: the Ontogeny of Mutualism: Exploring Variation in Coss and Benefits Within An Ant-Plant Symbiosis awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2017 A Mutualism in Context: Costs, Benefits and Conditionality in a Multi-Species Ant-Plant Symbiosis awarded by National Science Foundation 2007 - 2011 A Mutualism Context- Costs, Benefits and conditionality in a multi-species ant plant symbiosis awarded by National Science Foundation 2007 - 2011 Interactions among keystone species: effects of termites and ungulates, National Science Foundation 2007 - 2010 Interactions Among Keystone Species: Effects of Termites Andungulates on Biodiversity in East African Savannas awarded by National Science Foundation
keywords Ecology, evolution of mutualism, species coexistence, plant-herbivore interactions, effects of mammalian extinction on rangelands
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professional service activities 17th Midwest Conference on Population Biology Organizer Aldo Leopold Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology Co-Founder BBC Films Scientific Advisor National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Invited Member National Forest Service Committee Member National Science Foundation Panelist National Science Foundation Ad-Hoc Reviewer World Book Encyclopedia Scientific Advisor
outreach and community service activities Loaves and Fishes Shelter Volunteer Matangini Secondary School Predator Control Initiatives for Masai Pastoralists Predator Control Initiatives for Masai Pastoralists St. Maurice-Mwira Secondary School UF Kenya Wildlife Ecology course UF Kenya Wildlife Ecology course
education and training Ph.D. in Ecology, University of California Davis 2001 M.S. in Zoology, University of Wisconsin 1994 B.A. in Biology, Oberlin College 1989
awards and honors Jefferson-Davis Research Award Excellence in Postdoctoral Research Award, UC Davis, 2006 Sigma Xi Scientific Honorary Society, International Educator of the Year Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UF 2008, 2009 Outstanding Teacher, Anderson Scholars Merton-Love Award Associate Faculty Member (invited