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William F Morris

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Education:
PhD 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.

Professional Service

Major Advisor
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
Dept Officer
Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate Program, Zoology and Biology Depts., Duke University, 2000-02
Dept Committee
Member, Biology Department Steering Committee, September 01, 2005 - present
Graduate Affairs Committee, September 1, 2004 - present
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
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 01, 2005 - present
Panel Member, NSF Evolutionary and Population Ecology (EPE) Panel, September 1, 2005
Univ Services
Faculty Representative, Organization for Tropical Studies, 1 September 2000
Editorial Boards
Associate Editor, American Naturalist, December 15, 2004 - present
Service to the Community
Reviewer of Endangered Species Recovery Plans, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Branch, September 1, 2005 - present
Selected Recent Invited Talks

Population responses to increasing climatic variability, University of North Carolina, Dept. of Biology, March 30, 2006
Life history adaptations of a long-lived alpine plant in a stochastic environment, Evolutionary Demography Conference, Charlottesville, VA, October 28, 2005
Impact of increasing environmental variability on plant and animal populations, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, September 08, 2005
Demography in an increasingly variable world, Biology Dept., Univ. of Montana, March 11, 2005
Doctoral Theses Directed

Tracy Feldman, “Can Pollination Facilitation Mitigate the Allee Effect?”, (2005)
Brian Hudgens, When does migration matter to aphid metapopulations?, (2000)
Christine Damiani, Direct and indirect effects in a hermit crab-hydroid symbiosis, (2000)
Peter Murphy, Uncertain juvenile recruitment and reproductive strategies of the neotropical frog Edalorhina perezi, (1999)
Peter J Murphy, “The Interplay between Uncertain Juvenile Recruitment and Reproductive Strategy in the Neotropical Frog, Edalorhina perezi”, (September 01, 1993 - May 01, 1999)
Publications (listed separately)

Last modified: 2007/11/02