Ecological Statistics
Contemporary theory and application
Edited by Gordon A. Fox, Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich, and Vinicio J. Sosa
Author Information
Gordon Fox received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University California, Davis. He is currently Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida. His research involves theoretical issues in ecology and population biology, and empirical studies of plant populations. He teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and supervises M.S. and Ph.D. students. He is co-author (with J. Gurevitch and S. M. Scheiner) of the textbook The Ecology of Plants, and co-editor (with C. K. Kelly and M. G. Bowler) of Temporal Niche Dynamics and Ecological Process. Fox is an associate editor of Ecology, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich received her doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, and was a postdoctoral fellow within the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Belowground Biodiversity project (GEF-UNEP-TSBF). She is currently a researcher in the Functional Ecology Network of the Instituto de Ecologia A.C. in Mexico and a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers. She works on issues related to the temporal and spatial dimensions of disturbance in tropical agroecosystems. She coordinates and participates in research projects related to the long term effects of human disturbance on soil biota, fertility and functioning in the tropics. She teaches statistics courses for graduate students on linear models, spatial statistics, and multivariate statistics, and supervises M.S. and Ph.D. theses related to spatial issues in soil ecology.
Vinicio J. Sosa received his Ph.D. from the University of Miami, and has an Applied Statistics Specialization from the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matematicas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS) at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). He is a researcher in the Instituto de Ecologia A.C. in Mexico and a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI II). Sosa has extensive experience in applied ecological problems, especially on environmental impacts of infrastructure development. His current research focuses on the effect of landscape fragmentation on flying vertebrate communities, and on mutualistic relationships between columnar cacti and bats. He teaches graduate-level statistics courses for the Instituto de Ecologia, A. C., and acts as consulting statistician within the Instituto. He is associate editor of Acta Zoologica Mexicana.
Contributors:
Benjamin M. Bolker
Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Biology
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1
Canada
Yvonne Buckley
School of Natural Sciences
Trinity College , University of Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
Gordon A. Fox
Department of Integrative Biology (SCA 110)
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620
USA
James Grace
US Geological Survey
700 Cajundome Blvd.
Lafayette, LA 70506
USA
Jessica Gurevitch
Department of Ecology and Evolution
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245
USA
Bruce E. Kendall
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
University of California
Santa Barbara CA 93106-5131
USA
Marc Lajeunesse
Department of Integrative Biology (SCA 110)
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620
USA
Michael A. McCarthy
School of Botany
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Australia
Earl McCoy
Department of Integrative Biology (SCA 110)
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620
USA
Shinichi Nakagawa
Department of Zoology
University of Otago
340 Great King Street
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand
Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich
Instituto de Ecología (INECOL), A.C.
Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351
El Haya Xalapa 91070
Veracruz
México
Jonathan Rhodes
University of Queensland
School of Geography, Planning, and Environmental Management and ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions
Brisbane
Queensland 4072
Australia
Shane Richards
School of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Durham University
South Road
Durham, DH1 3LE
UK
Samuel M. Scheiner
Division of Environmental Biology
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA 22230
USA
Donald R. Schoolmaster Jr.
National Wetlands Research Center
U. S. Geological Survey
700 Cajundome Blvd.
Lafayette, LA 70506
USA
Vinicio J. Sosa
Instituto de Ecología (INECOL), A.C.
Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351
El Haya Xalapa 91070
Veracruz
México