Current Projects and Recent Publications
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Current Projects/Grants
2004-2007: Environmental gradients and variation in the strength of
bird predation on oak herbivores. NSF, Ecology. Co-Pi Robert Cooper.
2003-2007: Causes, consequences, and control of outbreaks of the
hemlock woolly adelgid. US Forest Service Cooperative Research
Grant.
2002-2007: Long-term consequences of biochemical and biogeochemical
changes in the Horseshoe Bend Agroecosystem. NSF LTREB
Competitive Research Grant, Ecosystem Studies. Co-Pi's D.C. Coleman and
P.F. Hendrix.
2001-2004: Changes in leaf chemistry, insect herbivory, leaf
abscission and decomposition between ambient and elevated CO2.
SERC-NIGEC. Co-Pi, P. Stiling.
2000-2004: Canopy herbivory and soil processes in a temperate and
tropical forest: A Supplement. NSF, Ecosystem Ecology. Co-Pi M.D.
Lowman.
1999-2004: Canopy herbivory and soil processes in a temperate and
tropical forest. NSF Competitive Research Grant, Ecosystem Ecology.
Co-Pi's M.D. Lowman and T.D. Schowalter.
2002-2008: Regional scale consequences of global change:
Anticipating the supply of ecosystem services. NSF Long-Term Ecological
Research. With 31 Co-Pi's.
For a more complete description of some of our
current work, check out what the graduate
students are doing:
Sandy
Helms. Influence of plant quality on insect herbivore
population dynamics.
Caralyn
Zehnder. Influence of maternal effects on population dynamics and
interactions between an insect herbivore and its parasitoid.
Carmen
Hall. Plant quality and insect herbivory at increased CO2 levels.
Chris
Frost. Effects of insect herbivory and frass deposition on nitrogen
cycling.
Kyle
Wickings. Effects of insect herbivory and frass deposition on
nitrogen cycling.
Becky
Ball. Influence of litter diversity on ecosystem function.
Jenna
Malloway. Effects of hemlock woolly adelgid on ecosystem structure
and function.
Research Technicians
Star Scott.
Manages the Hunter labs and facilitates the graduate students' research.
Recent Graduates
Mike
Madritch. Effects of genetic biodiversity on ecosystem
function.
Rebecca
Forkner. Top-down and bottom-up regulation of insect herbivore
populations.
Kitti
Reynolds. Canopy herbivory and forest floor interactions.
Rebecca
Klaper. The relative impact of genotype and environment on the
expression of oak phenolics.
Alissa
Salmore. Tradeoffs between defense and reproduction in a perennial
woodland flower.
Katie
Kearns. Toxin induction and interactions among cyanobacteria and
algae.
Publications Associated
With Our Recent Projects
2005
Price, P.W. & M.D. Hunter.
Long-term population dynamics of a sawfly show strong bottom-up
effects.
Journal of Animal Ecology (in press).
2005
Helms, S.E. & M.D. Hunter. Variation in plant quality and the
population
dynamics of herbivores: there is nothing average about aphids.
Oecologia
(in press).
2005
Emmerson, M., M. Bezemer, M.D. Hunter, & T.H. Jones. Global
change alters
the stability of food webs. Global
Change Biology 11: 490-501.
2005
Hall, M.C., P. Stiling, D.C. Moon, B.G. Drake, and M.D. Hunter. Effects
of
elevated CO2 on foliar quality and herbivore damage in a
scrub oak
ecosystem. Journal of Chemical Ecology 31: 267-286.
2005
Madritch, M.D. & M.D. Hunter. Phenotypic
variation in oak litter influences
short- and long-term nutrient cycling through litter chemistry.
Soil Biology and
Biogeochemistry 37: 319-327.
2005
Redfern, M. & M.D. Hunter. Time
tells: long-term patterns in the population dynamics of the yew
gall midge, Taxomyia taxi (Cecidomyiidae) over 35 years.
Ecological Entomology
30: 86-95.
2004 Frost, C.F. & M.D.
Hunter. Insect
canopy herbivory and subsequent frass deposition influence soil
nitrogen and carbon fluxes and nitrogen export in red oak
mini-ecosystems. Ecology
85: 3335-3347.
2004
Price, P.W., W.G. Abrahamson, M.D. Hunter, & G. Melika. Using
gall wasps on
oaks to test broad ecological concepts. Conservation
Biology
18: 1405-1416.
2004
Emmerson, M., T.M. Bezemer, M.D. Hunter, T.H. Jones, G.J. Masters, and
N.M. Van
Dam. How
does global change affect the strength of trophic interactions?
Basic and Applied
Ecology
5: 505-514.
2004 Madritch, M.D. &
M.D. Hunter. Phenotypic
diversity and litter chemistry affect nutrient dynamics
during litter decomposition in a two-species mix. Oikos 105:
125-131.
2004 Helms, S.E., S.J.
Connelly & M.D. Hunter. Effects
of variation among plant species on the
interaction between an herbivore and its parasitoid. Ecological
Entomology
29: 44-51.
2004 Reynolds, B.C.
& M.D. Hunter. Nutrient cycling. Pp387-396 in: Forest Canopies.
Second Edition. (Eds. M.D. Lowman and B.H.
Rinker). Elsevier, MA.
2003 Hunter, M.D. Effects of plant quality on
the population ecology of parasitoids. Agricultural and
Forest Entomology 5: 1-8.
2003 Hunter, M.D., S. Adl, C.M. Pringle, &
D.C. Coleman. Relative effects of macroinvertebrates and
habitat on the chemistry of litter during decomposition.
Pedobiologia 47: 99-114.
2003 Hunter, M.D., C.R. Linnen, & B.C.
Reynolds. Effects of endemic densities of canopy herbivores on nutrient
dynamics along a gradient in elevation in the southern
Appalachians. Pedobiologia 47: 231-244.
2003 Reynolds, B.C., D.A.Crossley, Jr., &
M.D. Hunter. Response of soil invertebrates to forest canopy inputs
along a productivity gradient. Pedobiologia 47: 125-136.
2002 Hunter, M.D. Ecological
causes of pest outbreaks. In: Encyclopedia of Pest
Management (Ed. D. Pimentel). Pp.214-217. Marcel Dekker, Inc. (in
press).
2001 Salmore, A.K. & M.D. Hunter.
Environmental and genotypic influences on alkaloid production in Sanguinaria
canadensis. Journal of Chemical Ecology 27:1729-1747.
2001 Salmore, A.K. & M.D. Hunter.
Elevational trends in alkaloid production in Sanguinaria canadensis.
Journal of Chemical Ecology 27:1713-1728.
2001 Kearns, K.D. & M.D. Hunter.
Toxin-producing Anabaeba flos-aquae induce settling of Chlamydomonas
reinhardtii, a competing motile alga. Microbial Ecology 42:80-86.
2000 Reynolds, B.C., M.D. Hunter, & D.A.
Crossley Jr. Effects of canopy herbivory on nutrient cycling in a
northern hardwood forest in western North Carolina. Selbyana 21:
74-78.
2000 Hunter, M.D., R.E. Forkner, & J.N. McNeil.
Heterogeneity in plant quality and its impact on the population ecology
of insect herbivores. In: The Ecological Consequences of
Environmental Heterogeneity (Eds. M.A. Hutchings, E.A. John, and A.J.A.
Stewart). Pp 155-179. Blackwell Scientific.
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WHAT WE'VE DONE BEFORE, CHECK OUT OUR PAST
RESEARCH.
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