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William Wilson, Associate Professor of Biology

William Wilson
Contact Info:
Office Location:  033 Bio Sci Bldg
Office Phone:  +1 919 660 7346
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  Will's Homepage">Will's Homepage

Teaching (Fall 2008):

  • BIOLOGY 41.01, CITIES AND TREES
    Bio Sci 130, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
Education:

PhD Physics University of Hawaii 1988
BS Physics/Math St. Cloud State University 1981
Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1988
Specialties:

Ecology and Population Biology
Organismal Biology and Behavior
Evolution
Research Interests: Theoretical ecology and evolution

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Aaron Ashih  
  • Curtis Smith  
  • Jenn Nelson  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Shane Richards (December 26, 1998 - 2000)  
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Wilson, W.G & P. Lundberg, Non-neutral Community Dynamics: Empirical Predictions from Linearized Consumer--Resource Interactions, Oikos (Submitted, 2005)
  2. S. Lion, M. van Baalen & W.G. Wilson, Host manipulation and parasite-induced dispersal, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. (Submitted, 2005)
  3. Morris, W.F., W.G. Wilson, J.L. Bronstein & J. Ness, Environmental forcing and the temporal dynamics of a competitive guild of cactus-tending ants, Ecology (Accepted, 2005) (in press.)
  4. C.A. Smith & W. Wilson, Evolutionarily stable dispersal distances with emergent pattern-formation and metapopulation dynamics, Oikos (Submitted, 2005)
  5. Nelson, J.A. & W.G. Wilson, Effect of Predator Behavior on Spatial Scales and Stability, Theoretical Population Biology (Submitted, 2005)
Recent Grant Support

  • Nelson DIG, 2004/07-2006/07.      
  • mcdonnell preproposal, mcdonnell foundation, 2003/07.