William Wilson, Associate Professor of Biology

Office Location:	033 Bio Sci Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-7346
Email Address:
Web Page:	Will's Homepage">Will's Homepage

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• BIOLOGY 262.01, PEOPLE, PLANTS, AND POLLUTION Synopsis

  Bio Sci 113, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as ENVIRON 274.01)

Education:

Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1988

Specialties:

Ecology and Population Biology
.............(faculty research areas)

Research Interests: Theoretical ecology and evolution

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Aaron Ashih  
• Curtis Smith  
• Jenn Nelson  

Postdocs Mentored

• Shane Richards (December 26, 1998 - 2000)  

Recent Publications

1. W. Wilson, Cuddington, K., W.G. Wilson, and A.M. Hastings. 2009. Ecosystem engineers: Feedback and population dynamics. The American Naturalist 173: 488-498. (2009)
2. Wilson, W.G & P. Lundberg, Non-neutral Community Dynamics: Empirical Predictions from Linearized Consumer--Resource Interactions, Oikos (Submitted, 2005)
3. S. Lion, M. van Baalen & W.G. Wilson, Host manipulation and parasite-induced dispersal, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. (Submitted, 2005)
4. 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.)
5. C.A. Smith & W. Wilson, Evolutionarily stable dispersal distances with emergent pattern-formation and metapopulation dynamics, Oikos (Submitted, 2005)