William F Morris, Professor

Curriculum Vitae (Abridged)

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Contacts
Room 137 Biological Sciences Building
125 Science Drive
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0338
(919) 684-5257 (office)
wfmorris@duke.edu (email)
Education

Ph.D., University of Washington,1990

Areas of Research

Population ecology, mutualism, plant-insect interations, life-history adaptations to stochastic environments, theoretical ecology, conservation ecology

Major Grant Support

Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program (SERDP - Department of Defense), 2006-2011,
Collaborative project with Aaron Moody (PI, UNC-Chapel Hill), Nick Haddad (NC
State University), Jeff Walters (Virginia Tech), Larry Crowder (Duke), and Jeffery
Priddy (Duke): “Mapping Habitat Connectivity For Multiple Rare, Threatened, And
Endangered Species On And Around Military Installations”; total budget:
$1,585,121; Duke budget: $135,683; Funded.

Recent Grant Support

  • Endangered Butterflies as a Model System for Managing Source-Sink Dynamics on Department of Defense Lands, Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program, SI04-014/RC-2119, 2011/03-2016/02.      
  • Collaborative LTREB Research: Population-and Community-Level Mechanisms of Range Limitation in a Variable and Changing Environment, National Science Foundation, DEB-0716433, 2007/09-2011/08.      
  • Mapping Habitat Connectivity For Multiple Rare, Threatened, And Endangered Species On And Around Military Installations, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP - Department of Defense), SI 1471, 2006/04-2010/03.      

Publications   (search)

Books

  1. W.F. Morris and D.F. Doak, Quantitative Conservation Biology: Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis (2002), Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
  2. W.F. Morris, M. Groom, D. Doak, P. Kareiva, J. Fieberg, L. Gerber, P. Murphy, and D. Thomson, A Practical Handbook for Population Viability Analysis (1999), The Nature Conservancy, Washington, DC.

Papers Published

  1. Doak, D.F. and W.F. Morris, Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts, Nature, vol. 467 (2010), pp. 959-962 [doi]
  2. Strier, K.B., Altman, J., D.K. Brockman, A. Bronikowski, M. Cords, L.M. Fedigan, H. Lapp, X. Liu, W.F. Morris, A.E. Pusey, T.S. Stoinski, and S.C. Alberts, The Primate Life History Database: a unique shared ecological data resource, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 1 (2010), pp. 199–211
  3. Morris, W.F., D.P. Vázquez, and N.P. Chacoff, Benefit and cost curves for typical pollination mutualisms, Ecology, vol. 91 (2010), pp. 1276-1285
  4. Kuefler, D., B. Hudgens, N.M. Haddad, W.F. Morris, and N. Thurgate, The conflicting role of matrix habitats as conduits and barriers for dispersal, Ecology, vol. 91 (2010), pp. 944–950
  5. Ness, J., W.F. Morris, and J. Bronstein, For ant-protected plants, the best defense is a hungry offense, Ecology, vol. 90 (2009), pp. 2823-2831
  6. Morris, W.F., C.A. Pfister, S. Tuljapurkar, C.V. Haridas, C. Boggs, M.S. Boyce, E.M. Bruna, D.R. Church, T. Coulson, D.F. Doak, S. Forsyth, J.M. Gaillard, C.C. Horvitz, S. Kalisz, B.E. Kendall, T.M. Knight, C.T. Lee, and E.S. Menges, Longevity determines sensitivity of plant and animal populations to changing climatic variability, Ecology, vol. 89 (2008), pp. 19-25
  7. Morales, M.A., W.F. Morris, and W.G. Wilson, Allee dynamics generated by protection mutualisms can drive oscillations in trophic cascades., Theoretical Ecology (2008), ISSN DOI 10.1007/s12080-007-0006-9
  8. Abbott, K.C., W.F. Morris, and K. Gross, Simultaneous effects of food limitation and inducible resistance on herbivore population dynamics., Theoretical Population Biology, vol. 73 (2008), pp. 63-78
  9. Morris, W.F., R.A. Hufbauer, A.A. Agrawal, J.D. Bever, V.A. Borowicz, G.S. Gilbert, J.L. Maron, C.E. Mitchell, I.M. Parker, A.G. Power, M.E. Torchin, and D.P. Vázquez, Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis, Ecology, vol. 88 (2007), pp. 1021-1029
  10. Mitchell, C.E., A.A. Agrawal, J.D. Bever, G.S. Gilbert, R.A. Hufbauer, J.N. Klironomos, J.L. Maron, W.F. Morris, I.M. Parker, A.G. Power, E.W. Seabloom, M.E. Torchin, and D.P. Vázquez, Beyond enemy release: biotic interactions and plant invasions, Ecology Letters, vol. 9 (2006), pp. 726-740
  11. Parrent, J.L., Morris, W.F., and R. Vilgalys, Effects of a CO2 – enriched atmosphere on community composition and diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi, Ecology, vol. 87 (2006), pp. 2278-2287
  12. Morris, W.F., S. Tuljapurkar, C.V. Haridas, E.S. Menges, C.C. Horvitz, & C.A. Pfister, Sensitivity of the population growth rate to demographic variability within and between phases of the disturbance cycle, Ecology Letters, vol. 9 (2006), pp. 1331-1341
  13. Ness, J.H., W.F. Morris, and J.L. Bronstein, Integrating quality and quantity of mutualistic service to contrast ant species visiting Ferocactus wislizeni, Ecology, vol. 87 (2006), pp. 912-921
  14. Boyce, M.S., C. Haridas, C. Lee, C.L. Boggs, E.M. Bruna, T. Coulson, D. Doak, J.M. Drake, J.-M. Gaillard, C.C. Horvitz, S. Kalisz, B.E. Kendall, T. Knight, E.S. Menges, W.F. Morris, C.A. Pfister, S.D. Tuljapurkar, Demography in an increasingly variable world., Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 21 (2006), pp. 141-148
  15. Gross, K., W.F. Morris, M.S. Wolosin, and D.F. Doak, Modeling vital rates improves estimation of population projection matrices., Population Ecology, vol. 48 (2006), pp. 79-89
  16. Dwyer, G., and W.F. Morris, Resource-dependent movement and the speed of biological invasions., American Naturalist, vol. 167 (2006), pp. 165-176
  17. Morris, W.F., B. Traw, and J. Bergelson, On testing for a trade-off between constitutive and induced resistance., Oikos, vol. 112 (2006), pp. 102-110
  18. Morris, W.F., W.G. Wilson, J.L. Bronstein, and J.H. Ness, Environmental forcing and the competitive dynamics of a guild of cactus-tending ant mutualists., Ecology, vol. 86 (2005), pp. 3190–3199
  19. Vázquez, D.P., W.F. Morris, and P. Jordano, Interaction frequency as a surrogate of population-level effects of animal mutualists on plants, Ecology Letters, vol. 8 (2005), pp. 1088-1094
  20. Doak, D.F., W.F. Morris, C. Pfister, B. Kendall, E. Bruna, and C. Lee, Correctly estimating how environmental stochasticity influences fitness and population growth, American Naturalist, vol. 166 (2005), pp. E14 (electronic version).
  21. W.F. Morris and D.F. Doak, How general are the determinants of the stochastic population growth rate across nearby sites?, Ecological Monographs, vol. 75 (2005), pp. 119-137
  22. Doak, D.F., K. Gross, and W.F. Morris, Understanding and predicting the effects of sparse data on demographic analyses, Ecology, vol. 86 (2005), pp. 1154-1163
  23. T.S. Feldman, W.F. Morris, and W.G. Wilson, When can two plant species facilitate each other’s pollination?, Oikos, vol. 105 (2004), pp. 197-207
  24. W.F. Morris and D.F. Doak, Buffering of life histories against environmental stochasticity: accounting for a spurious correlation between the variabilities of vital rates and their contributions to fitness, American Naturalist, vol. 163 (2004), pp. 579-590
  25. J.L. Bronstein, W.G. Wilson, and W.F. Morris, Ecological dynamics of mutualist/antagonist communities., American Naturalist, vol. 162 (2003), pp. S24-S39
  26. W.F. Morris, J.L. Bronstein, and W.G. Wilson, Three-way coexistence in obligate mutualist-exploiter interactions: the potential role of competition, American Naturalist, vol. 161 (2003), pp. 860-875
  27. W.G. Wilson, W.F. Morris, and J.L. Bronstein, Coexistence of mutualists and exploiters on spatial landscapes, Ecological Monographs, vol. 73 (2003), pp. 397-413
  28. W.F. Morris, Which mutualists are most essential?: buffering of plant reproduction against the extinction of pollinators, in The Importance of Species: Perspectives on Expendability and Triage, Pages 260-280, edited by P. Kareiva and S. Levin (editors) (2003), Princeton University Press, Princeton.
  29. L.C. Moyle, J.R. Stinchcombe, B.R. Hudgens, and W.F. Morris, Conservation genetics in the recovery of endangered animal species: a review of U.S. endangered species recovery plans (1977-1998), Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 26 no. 2 (2003), pp. 85-95
  30. Morris, W.F., P.L. Bloch, B.R. Hudgens, L.C. Moyle, and J.R. Stinchcombe, Population viability analysis in endangered species recovery planning: Past use and recommendations for future improvement, Ecological Applications (2002)
  31. J. Stinchcombe, L. C. Moyle, B. R. Hudgens, P. L. Bloch, S. Chinnadurai, and W.F. Morris, The influence of the academic conservation biology literature on endangered species recovery planning, Conservation Ecology, vol. 6 no. 2 (2002), pp. 15 [abs]
  32. Underwood, NC, WF Morris, KG Gross, and JR Lockwood, Induced resistance to Mexican bean beetles in soybean: variation among genotypes and correlation with constitutive resistance, Oecologia, vol. 122 (2000), pp. 83-89
  33. D.F. Doak and W.F. Morris, . 1999. Detecting population-level consequences of ongoing environmental change without long-term monitoring, Ecology, vol. 80 (1999), pp. 1537-1551
  34. Doak, D.F. and W.F. Morris, Detecting population-level consequences of ongoing environmental change without long-term monitoring, Ecology, vol. 80 (1999), pp. 1537-1551

Papers Accepted

  1. Crone, E., E. Menges, M. Ellis, T. Bell, P. Bierzychudek, J. Ehrlén, T. Kaye, T. Knight, P. Lesica, W.F. Morris, G. Oostermeijer, P. Quintana-Ascencio, A. Stanley, T. Valverde, T. Ticktin, and J. Williams, How do plant ecologists use matrix population models?, Ecology Letters, in press. (2011)
  2. The geography of demography: distribution limits in the annual plant Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana., Eckhart, V.M., M. A. Geber, W. F. Morris, D. A. Moeller, P. Tiffin, E. S. Fabio, American Naturalist, in press (2011)
  3. Morris, W.F., J. Altmann, D.K. Brockman, M. Cords, L.M. Fedigan, A.E. Pusey, T.S. Stoinski, A.M. Bronikowski, S.C. Alberts, and K.B. Strier, Low demographic variability in wild primate populations: fitness impacts of variation, covariation, and serial correlation in vital rates, American Naturalist, in press (2011)
  4. Feldman, T.S., and W.F. Morris, Higher survival at low density counteracts lower fecundity to obviate Allee effects in a perennial plant, Journal of Ecology, accepted pending minor revision. (2011)

Book Chapters

  1. W.F. Morris, Life History, in S.A. Levin, Ed., Guide to Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton (2009)

Other

  1. W.F. Morris, Herbivory, in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Ninth Edition (2000), McGraw-Hill, New York.
Professional Service

Major Advisor
Curriculum Committee, September 01, 2010 - present  
Member, Safety and Sustainability Committee, January 1, 2010 - present  
Committee Chair, Committee for mid-tenure review of Katia Koelle, February 1, 2010 - April 1, 2010  
Committee Member, Committee for mid-tenure review of Justin Wright, February 1, 2010 - April 1, 2010  
Committee Member, Full Professor Promotion Committee for Paul Manos, September 01, 2009 - December 15, 2009  
Committee Member, Reappointment Review Committee for Chantal Reid, Fall 2006  
Chair of Bio116 faculty interest group, January 01, 2006  
PreMajor Advisor
Director, University Program in Ecology (Graduate Program), January 01, 2006 - present  
Committee to review Dean Chameides (NSOE) for reappointment, December 1, 2010 - February 15, 2011  
Dept Officer
Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate Program, 2000-02  
Dept Committee
Member, Biology Department Steering Committee, September 1, 2005 - present  
Graduate Affairs Committee, September 1, 2004 - December 1, 2007  
Committee Chair, Tenure Committee for Kathleen Donohue, April, 2007  
Committee Chair, Tenure Track Appointment Committee for Justin Wright, April, 2007  
Committee Chair, Ecology/Behavior Faculty Search Committee, September 01, 2005 - May 01, 2006  
Member, Biology Teaching Certificate Review Committee, April 1, 2004 - April 30, 2006  
Univ Committee
Committee Member, Sarah P Duke Gardens Director Search Committee Member, March, 2007 - May, 2007  
Papers Refereed
Associate Editor, The American Naturalist, December 1, 2010 - present  
Reviewer of grant proposals to the Ecology Panel at the National Science Foundation, September 1, 2010 - present  
Member of the Editor Nomination Committee for The American Naturalist, September, 2007 - December, 2007  
Panel Member, NSF Ecology Panel, October, 2006 - October, 2007  
NSF Reviews And Panels
Science Advisory Board Member, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), NSF-funded center in Santa Barbara, CA, September 1, 2005 - August 31, 2008  
Panel Member, NSF Evolutionary and Population Ecology (EPE) Panel, September 1, 2005  
Univ Services
Faculty Representative, Organization for Tropical Studies, September 01, 2000 - present  
Dept Services
Biology Dept. Teaching and Service Award, May 11, 2008  
Editorial Boards
Associate Editor, American Naturalist, December 15, 2004 - December 31, 2007  
Service to the Community
Committee Member, Committee to Review Plans for Managment of Cultural and Natural Resources, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, June 1, 2010 - present  
Advisory Board Member, Wrangell Mountains Center (Non-profit educational organization in Alaska), June 1, 2007 - present  
Reviewer of Endangered Species Recovery Plans, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Branch, September 1, 2005 - December 31, 2007  
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