William F. Morris, Professor
Bill Morris studies the population ecology of plants and insects (both herbivores and pollinators). Current projects include: the population dynamic consequences of constitutive and inducible resistance in plants, the maintenance of mutualistic interactions between flowering plants and nectar-robbing pollinators, the use of population-level attributes to detect biotic responses to ongoing environmental changes, and the use of mathematical models to assess viability of threatened and endangered populations. The common thread uniting these projects is that they combine field experiments and mathematical models to study population dynamics in natural and managed systems.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1990
B.S., Cornell University, 1983
Office Location: 104 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 525 4585
Email Address: wfmorris@duke.edu
Specialties:
Ecology and Population Biology
Research Categories: Population ecology, mutualism, plant-insect interations, life-history adaptations to stochastic environments, theoretical ecology, conservation ecology
Research Description: Bill Morris studies the population ecology of plants and insects (both herbivores and pollinators). Current projects include: the population dynamic consequences of constitutive and inducible resistance in plants, the maintenance of mutualistic interactions between flowering plants and nectar-robbing pollinators, the use of population-level attributes to detect biotic responses to ongoing environmental changes, and the use of mathematical models to assess viability of threatened and endangered populations. The common thread uniting these projects is that they combine field experiments and mathematical models to study population dynamics in natural and managed systems.
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- O'Connell, RD; Doak, DF; Horvitz, CC; Pascarella, JB; Morris, WF, Nonlinear life table response experiment analysis: Decomposing nonlinear and nonadditive population growth responses to changes in environmental drivers., Ecology letters, vol. 27 no. 3 (March, 2024), pp. e14417 [doi] [abs].
- Kerr, NZ; Morris, WF; Walters, JR, Inclusive Fitness May Explain Some but Not All Benefits Derived from Helping Behavior in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird., The American naturalist, vol. 203 no. 3 (March, 2024), pp. 393-410 [doi] [abs].
- Cayton, HL; Haddad, NM; Henry, EH; Himes Boor, GK; Kiekebusch, EM; Morris, WF; Aschehoug, ET, Restoration success varies based on time since restoration in a disturbance-dependent ephemeral wetland ecosystem, Restoration Ecology, vol. 31 no. 5 (July, 2023) [doi] [abs].
- Heiling, JM; Irwin, RE; Morris, WF, Conflicting constraints on male mating success shape reward size in pollen-rewarding plants., American journal of botany, vol. 110 no. 6 (June, 2023), pp. e16158 [doi] [abs].
- Jones, SH; Reed, PB; Roy, BA; Morris, WF; DeMarche, ML, Seed type and origin-dependent seedling emergence patterns in Danthonia californica, a species commonly used in grassland restoration., Plant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.), vol. 4 no. 2 (April, 2023), pp. 97-113 [doi] [abs].