Area of research
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics · Insect Science
Research interest
Research interests include Plant and animal studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Plant Parasitism and Resistance.
Precipitation Drives the Abundance and Distribution of <i>Arctia virginalis</i>: A 40-Year Study.
The impact of serpentine soils on plant traits and plant-herbivore interactions.
Serpentine Soils Shape Plant Traits and Herbivory
Submergent vegetation in rice fields facilitates mosquitofish but fails to reduce mosquito populations
Alarm calls of sagebrush converge when herbivory is high.
Petal-shading in Romneya coulteri affects seed set and interactions with floral visitors
Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory
Flowers that self-shade reduce heat stress and pollen limitation.
Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences host-pathogen dynamics in a patchy population of Ranchman's tiger moth.
Vehicle pollution is associated with elevated insect damage to street trees
Influence of delayed density and ultraviolet radiation on caterpillar baculovirus infection and mortality.
Hilltopping influences spatial dynamics in a patchy population of tiger moths.
Consistent individual variation in plant communication: do plants have personalities?
Unidirectional trichomes in rice and prickles in <i>Andropogon virginicus</i> protect meristems from herbivory
Vehicle pollution is associated with elevated insect damage to street trees
Mucilage binding to ground protects seeds of many plants from harvester ants: A functional investigation
Why cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) develop so slowly
Effects of experimental watering but not warming on herbivory vary across a gradient of precipitation.
Loss of branches due to winter storms could favor deciduousness in oaks.
Feeding and damage-induced volatile cues make beetles disperse and produce a more even distribution of damage for sagebrush.
The ecology and evolution of induced responses to herbivory and how plants perceive risk
Unidirectional grass hairs usher insects away from meristems.
Variability in plant nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance
Predicting novel herbivore–plant interactions
Interplant volatile signaling in willows: revisiting the original talking trees
LTREB Renewal: Climatic drivers of temporal and spatial dynamics of a focal herbivore
LTREB - Understanding Food Web Complexity by Linking Long Term Data, Multiple Causes and a Spatial Approach
SGER: Eavesdropping Between Plants
Dissertation Research: The Benefits of Induced Plant Responses to Herbivory
Thrips and Erigeron glaucus: Local Adaptation to IndividualPlant Clones and the Role of Sexuality
Organization of the Plant-Feeding Fauna on Erigeron glauces:Experimental Manipulations of a Simple Community