William F Morris, Professor
Curriculum Vitae (Abridged)
- Contacts
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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
- W.F. Morris and D.F. Doak, Quantitative Conservation Biology: Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis (2002), Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
- 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
- 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]
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dwyer, G., and W.F. Morris, Resource-dependent movement and the speed of biological invasions., American Naturalist, vol. 167 (2006), pp. 165-176
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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).
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- J.L. Bronstein, W.G. Wilson, and W.F. Morris, Ecological dynamics of mutualist/antagonist communities., American Naturalist, vol. 162 (2003), pp. S24-S39
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- 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]
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- W.F. Morris, Life History, in S.A. Levin, Ed., Guide to Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton (2009)
Other
- 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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