William F. Morris, Professor

Curriculum Vitae (Abridged)

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Contacts
Duke Box 90325, Durham, NC 27708-0325

wfmorris@duke.edu (email)
Education

Ph.D.University of Washington1990
B.S.Cornell University1983
Areas of Research

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

Honors and Awards

Traditional Fulbright Scholarship, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
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

  • Collaborative LTREB Research: How will local adaptation and climatic extremes shape continental-scale changes in distribution and abundance under climate change?, National Science Foundation, DEB-1753980-year 1, 2018/05-2024/04.      
  • Managing metapopulations of threatened species across jurisdictional boundaries: quantifying effects of climate change, environmental synchrony, dispersal, and corridors, Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program, 2018/09-2023/05.      
  • Managing metapopulations of threatened species across jurisdictional boundaries: quantifying effects of climate change, environmental synchrony, dispersal, and corridors, Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program, 2018/09-2022/05.      

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. O'Connell, RD; Doak, DF; Horvitz, CC; Pascarella, JB; Morris, WF, Nonlinear life table response experiment analysis: Decomposing nonlinear and nonadditive population growth responses to changes in environmental drivers., Ecology letters, vol. 27 no. 3 (March, 2024), pp. e14417 [doi] [abs]
  2. Kerr, NZ; Morris, WF; Walters, JR, Inclusive Fitness May Explain Some but Not All Benefits Derived from Helping Behavior in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird., The American naturalist, vol. 203 no. 3 (March, 2024), pp. 393-410 [doi] [abs]
  3. Cayton, HL; Haddad, NM; Henry, EH; Himes Boor, GK; Kiekebusch, EM; Morris, WF; Aschehoug, ET, Restoration success varies based on time since restoration in a disturbance-dependent ephemeral wetland ecosystem, Restoration Ecology, vol. 31 no. 5 (July, 2023) [doi] [abs]
  4. Heiling, JM; Irwin, RE; Morris, WF, Conflicting constraints on male mating success shape reward size in pollen-rewarding plants., American journal of botany, vol. 110 no. 6 (June, 2023), pp. e16158 [doi] [abs]
  5. Jones, SH; Reed, PB; Roy, BA; Morris, WF; DeMarche, ML, Seed type and origin-dependent seedling emergence patterns in Danthonia californica, a species commonly used in grassland restoration., Plant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.), vol. 4 no. 2 (April, 2023), pp. 97-113 [doi] [abs]
  6. Henry, EH; Terando, AJ; Morris, WF; Daniels, JC; Haddad, NM, Shifting precipitation regimes alter the phenology and population dynamics of low latitude ectotherms, Climate Change Ecology, vol. 3 (December, 2022) [doi] [abs]
  7. Louthan, AM; Keighron, M; Kiekebusch, E; Cayton, H; Terando, A; Morris, WF, Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap, Ecological Monographs, vol. 92 no. 4 (November, 2022) [doi] [abs]
  8. Carley, LN; Morris, WF; Walsh, R; Riebe, D; Mitchell-Olds, T, Are genetic variation and demographic performance linked?, Evolutionary applications, vol. 15 no. 11 (November, 2022), pp. 1888-1906 [doi] [abs]
  9. Doak, DF; Waddle, E; Langendorf, RE; Louthan, AM; Chardon, NI; Dibner, R; Shriver, RK; Linares, C; Garcia, MB; Fitzpatrick, SW; Morris, WF; DeMarche, ML, A critical comparison of integral projection and matrix projection models for demographic analysis: Reply., Ecology, vol. 103 no. 10 (October, 2022), pp. e3822 [doi]
  10. Reed, PB; Bridgham, SD; Pfeifer-Meister, LE; DeMarche, ML; Johnson, BR; Roy, BA; Bailes, GT; Nelson, AA; Morris, WF; Doak, DF, Climate warming threatens the persistence of a community of disturbance-adapted native annual plants., Ecology, vol. 102 no. 10 (October, 2021), pp. e03464 [doi] [abs]
  11. Louthan, AM; Walters, JR; Terando, AJ; Garcia, V; Morris, WF, Shifting correlations among multiple aspects of weather complicate predicting future demography of a threatened species, Ecosphere, vol. 12 no. 9 (September, 2021) [doi] [abs]
  12. Doak, DF; Waddle, E; Langendorf, RE; Louthan, AM; Isabelle Chardon, N; Dibner, RR; Keinath, DA; Lombardi, E; Steenbock, C; Shriver, RK; Linares, C; Begoña Garcia, M; Funk, WC; Fitzpatrick, SW; Morris, WF; Peterson, ML, A critical comparison of integral projection and matrix projection models for demographic analysis, Ecological Monographs, vol. 91 no. 2 (May, 2021) [doi] [abs]
  13. DeMarche, ML; Bailes, G; Hendricks, LB; Pfeifer-Meister, L; Reed, PB; Bridgham, SD; Johnson, BR; Shriver, R; Waddle, E; Wroton, H; Doak, DF; Roy, BA; Morris, WF, Latitudinal gradients in population growth do not reflect demographic responses to climate., Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America, vol. 31 no. 2 (March, 2021), pp. e2242 [doi] [abs]
  14. Reed, PB; Peterson, ML; Pfeifer-Meister, LE; Morris, WF; Doak, DF; Roy, BA; Johnson, BR; Bailes, GT; Nelson, AA; Bridgham, SD, Climate manipulations differentially affect plant population dynamics within versus beyond northern range limits, Journal of Ecology, vol. 109 no. 2 (February, 2021), pp. 664-675 [doi] [abs]
  15. Louthan, AM; Morris, W, Climate change impacts on population growth across a species' range differ due to nonlinear responses of populations to climate and variation in rates of climate change., PloS one, vol. 16 no. 3 (January, 2021), pp. e0247290 [doi] [abs]
  16. Correction for Morris et al., Biotic and anthropogenic forces rival climatic/abiotic factors in determining global plant population growth and fitness., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 117 no. 12 (March, 2020), pp. 6953 [doi]
  17. Morris, WF; Ehrlén, J; Dahlgren, JP; Loomis, AK; Louthan, AM, Biotic and anthropogenic forces rival climatic/abiotic factors in determining global plant population growth and fitness., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 117 no. 2 (January, 2020), pp. 1107-1112 [doi] [abs]
  18. Peterson, ML; Morris, W; Linares, C; Doak, D, Improving structured population models with more realistic representations of non-normal growth, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10 no. 9 (September, 2019), pp. 1431-1444 [doi] [abs]
  19. Waddle, E; Piedrahita, LR; Hall, ES; Kendziorski, G; Morris, WF; DeMarche, ML; Doak, DF, Asynchrony in individual and subpopulation fecundity stabilizes reproductive output of an alpine plant population., Ecology, vol. 100 no. 4 (April, 2019), pp. e02639 [doi] [abs]
  20. Peterson, ML; Doak, DF; Morris, WF, Incorporating local adaptation into forecasts of species' distribution and abundance under climate change., Global change biology, vol. 25 no. 3 (March, 2019), pp. 775-793 [doi] [abs]
  21. Villellas, J; García, MB; Morris, WF, Geographic location, local environment, and individual size mediate the effects of climate warming and neighbors on a benefactor plant., Oecologia, vol. 189 no. 1 (January, 2019), pp. 243-253 [doi] [abs]
  22. Peterson, ML; Doak, DF; Morris, WF, Both life-history plasticity and local adaptation will shape range-wide responses to climate warming in the tundra plant Silene acaulis., Global change biology, vol. 24 no. 4 (April, 2018), pp. 1614-1625 [doi] [abs]
  23. Himes Boor, GK; Schultz, CB; Crone, EE; Morris, WF, Mechanism matters: the cause of fluctuations in boom-bust populations governs optimal habitat restoration strategy., Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America, vol. 28 no. 2 (March, 2018), pp. 356-372 [doi] [abs]
  24. Canelles, Q; Saura-Mas, S; Brotons, L; García, MB; Lloret, F; Villellas, J; Morris, WF, Environmental stress effects on reproduction and sexual dimorphism in the gynodioecious species Silene acaulis, Environmental and Experimental Botany, vol. 146 (February, 2018), pp. 27-33, Elsevier BV [doi] [abs]
  25. Louthan, AM; Pringle, RM; Goheen, JR; Palmer, TM; Morris, WF; Doak, DF, Aridity weakens population-level effects of multiple species interactions on Hibiscus meyeri., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 115 no. 3 (January, 2018), pp. 543-548 [doi] [abs]
  26. Campos, FA; Morris, WF; Alberts, SC; Altmann, J; Brockman, DK; Cords, M; Pusey, A; Stoinski, TS; Strier, KB; Fedigan, LM, Does climate variability influence the demography of wild primates? Evidence from long-term life-history data in seven species., Global change biology, vol. 23 no. 11 (November, 2017), pp. 4907-4921 [doi] [abs]
  27. Pietrek, AG; Himes Boor, GK; Morris, WF, How effective are buffer zones in managing invasive beavers in Patagonia? A simulation study, Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 26 no. 11 (October, 2017), pp. 2591-2605, Springer Nature [doi] [abs]
  28. Vázquez, DP; Gianoli, E; Morris, WF; Bozinovic, F, Ecological and evolutionary impacts of changing climatic variability., Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 92 no. 1 (February, 2017), pp. 22-42, ISSN 1464-7931 [doi] [abs]
  29. Sivakoff, FS; Morris, WF; Aschehoug, ET; Hudgens, BR; Haddad, NM, Habitat restoration alters adult butterfly morphology and potential fecundity through effects on host plant quality, Ecosphere, vol. 7 no. 11 (November, 2016), pp. e01522-e01522, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  30. Aschero, V; Morris, WF; Vázquez, DP; Alvarez, JA; Villagra, PE, Demography and population growth rate of the tree Prosopis flexuosa with contrasting grazing regimes in the Central Monte Desert, Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 369 (June, 2016), pp. 184-190, Elsevier BV [doi] [abs]
  31. Ehrlén, J; Morris, WF; von Euler, T; Dahlgren, JP, Advancing environmentally explicit structured population models of plants, edited by Griffith, A, Journal of Ecology, vol. 104 no. 2 (March, 2016), pp. 292-305, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  32. Bronikowski, AM; Cords, M; Alberts, SC; Altmann, J; Brockman, DK; Fedigan, LM; Pusey, A; Stoinski, T; Strier, KB; Morris, WF, Female and male life tables for seven wild primate species., Scientific data, vol. 3 (March, 2016), pp. 160006 [doi] [abs]
  33. Villellas, J; Doak, DF; García, MB; Morris, WF, Demographic compensation among populations: what is it, how does it arise and what are its implications?, Ecology letters, vol. 18 no. 11 (November, 2015), pp. 1139-1152, ISSN 1461-023X [doi] [abs]
  34. Ford, KR; Ness, JH; Bronstein, JL; Morris, WF, The demographic consequences of mutualism: ants increase host-plant fruit production but not population growth., Oecologia, vol. 179 no. 2 (October, 2015), pp. 435-446, ISSN 0029-8549 [doi] [abs]
  35. Aschehoug, ET; Sivakoff, FS; Cayton, HL; Morris, WF; Haddad, NM, Habitat restoration affects immature stages of a wetland butterfly through indirect effects on predation., Ecology, vol. 96 no. 7 (July, 2015), pp. 1761-1767, ISSN 0012-9658 [doi] [abs]
  36. Pironon, S; Villellas, J; Morris, WF; Doak, DF; García, MB, Do geographic, climatic or historical ranges differentiate the performance of central versus peripheral populations?, Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 24 no. 6 (June, 2015), pp. 611-620, WILEY, ISSN 1466-822X [doi] [abs]
  37. Ehrlén, J; Morris, WF, Predicting changes in the distribution and abundance of species under environmental change, Ecology Letters, vol. 18 no. 3 (March, 2015), pp. 303-314, ISSN 1461-023X [doi] [abs]
  38. Doak, DF; Boor, GKH; Bakker, VJ; Morris, WF; Louthan, A; Morrison, SA; Stanley, A; Crowder, LB, Recommendations for improving recovery criteria under the US Endangered Species Act, BioScience, vol. 65 no. 2 (January, 2015), pp. 189-199, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0006-3568 [doi] [abs]
  39. Breckheimer, I; Haddad, NM; Morris, WF; Trainor, AM; Fields, WR; Jobe, RT; Hudgens, BR; Moody, A; Walters, JR, Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity., Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, vol. 28 no. 6 (December, 2014), pp. 1584-1593, ISSN 0888-8892 [doi] [abs]
  40. Crone, EE; Ellis, MM; Morris, WF; Stanley, A; Bell, T; Bierzychudek, P; Ehrlén, J; Kaye, TN; Knight, TM; Lesica, P; Oostermeijer, G; Quintana-Ascencio, PF; Ticktin, T; Valverde, T; Williams, JL; Doak, DF; Ganesan, R; McEachern, K; Thorpe, AS; Menges, ES, Ability of matrix models to explain the past and predict the future of plant populations., Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, vol. 27 no. 5 (October, 2013), pp. 968-978, ISSN 0888-8892 [doi] [abs]
  41. Alberts, SC; Altmann, J; Brockman, DK; Cords, M; Fedigan, LM; Pusey, A; Stoinski, TS; Strier, KB; Morris, WF; Bronikowski, AM, Reproductive aging patterns in primates reveal that humans are distinct., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 110 no. 33 (August, 2013), pp. 13440-13445 [23898189], [doi] [abs]
  42. Villellas, J; Morris, WF; García, MB, Variation in stochastic demography between and within central and peripheral regions in a widespread short-lived herb., Ecology, vol. 94 no. 6 (June, 2013), pp. 1378-1388, ISSN 0012-9658 [doi] [abs]
  43. Trainor, AM; Walters, JR; Morris, WF; Sexton, J; Moody, A, Empirical estimation of dispersal resistance surfaces: A case study with red-cockaded woodpeckers, Landscape Ecology, vol. 28 no. 4 (April, 2013), pp. 755-767, Springer Nature, ISSN 0921-2973 [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
  44. Hudgens, BR; Morris, WF; Haddad, NM; Fields, WR; Wilson, JW; Kuefler, D; Jobe, T, How complex do models need to be to predict dispersal of threatened species through matrix habitats?, Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America, vol. 22 no. 5 (July, 2012), pp. 1701-1710, ISSN 1051-0761 [doi] [abs]
  45. Eckhart, VM; Geber, MA; Morris, WF; Fabio, ES; Tiffin, P; Moeller, DA, The geography of demography: long-term demographic studies and species distribution models reveal a species border limited by adaptation., The American naturalist, vol. 178 Suppl 1 no. SUPPL. 1 (October, 2011), pp. S26-S43, ISSN 0003-0147 [doi] [abs]
  46. Feldman, TS; Morris, WF, Higher survival at low density counteracts lower fecundity to obviate Allee effects in a perennial plant, Journal of Ecology, vol. 99 no. 5 (September, 2011), pp. 1162-1170, WILEY, ISSN 0022-0477 [doi] [abs]
  47. Bronikowski, AM; Altmann, J; Brockman, DK; Cords, M; Fedigan, LM; Pusey, A; Stoinski, T; Morris, WF; Strier, KB; Alberts, SC, Aging in the natural world: comparative data reveal similar mortality patterns across primates., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 331 no. 6022 (March, 2011), pp. 1325-1328, ISSN 0036-8075 [doi] [abs]
  48. Morris, WF; Altmann, J; Brockman, DK; Cords, M; Fedigan, LM; Pusey, AE; Stoinski, TS; Bronikowski, AM; Alberts, SC; Strier, KB, Low demographic variability in wild primate populations: fitness impacts of variation, covariation, and serial correlation in vital rates., The American naturalist, vol. 177 no. 1 (January, 2011), pp. E14-E28 [21117962], [doi] [abs]
  49. Crone, EE; Menges, ES; Ellis, MM; Bell, T; Bierzychudek, P; Ehrlén, J; Kaye, TN; Knight, TM; Lesica, P; Morris, WF; Oostermeijer, G; Quintana-Ascencio, PF; Stanley, A; Ticktin, T; Valverde, T; Williams, JL, How do plant ecologists use matrix population models?, Ecology letters, vol. 14 no. 1 (January, 2011), pp. 1-8, ISSN 1461-023X [doi] [abs]
  50. Doak, DF; Morris, WF, Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts., Nature, vol. 467 no. 7318 (October, 2010), pp. 959-962, ISSN 0028-0836 [doi] [abs]
  51. Strier, KB; Altmann, J; Brockman, DK; Bronikowski, AM; Cords, M; Fedigan, LM; Lapp, H; Liu, X; Morris, WF; Pusey, AE; Stoinski, TS; Alberts, SC, The Primate Life History Database: A unique shared ecological data resource., Methods in ecology and evolution, vol. 1 no. 2 (June, 2010), pp. 199-211, ISSN 2041-210X [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
  52. Morris, WF; Vázquez, DP; Chacoff, NP, Benefit and cost curves for typical pollination mutualisms., Ecology, vol. 91 no. 5 (May, 2010), pp. 1276-1285, ISSN 0012-9658 [20503861], [doi] [abs]
  53. Kuefler, D; Hudgens, B; Haddad, NM; Morris, WF; Thurgate, N, The conflicting role of matrix habitats as conduits and barriers for dispersal., Ecology, vol. 91 no. 4 (April, 2010), pp. 944-950, ISSN 0012-9658 [doi] [abs]
  54. Ness, JH; Morris, WF; Bronstein, JL, For ant-protected plants, the best defense is a hungry offense., Ecology, vol. 90 no. 10 (October, 2009), pp. 2823-2831, ISSN 0012-9658 [doi] [abs]
  55. Morales, MA; Morris, WF; Wilson, WG, Allee dynamics generated by protection mutualisms can drive oscillations in trophic cascades, Theoretical Ecology, vol. 1 no. 2 (June, 2008), pp. 77-88, Springer Nature, ISSN 1874-1738 [doi] [abs]
  56. Abbott, KC; Morris, WF; Gross, K, Simultaneous effects of food limitation and inducible resistance on herbivore population dynamics., Theoretical population biology, vol. 73 no. 1 (February, 2008), pp. 63-78, ISSN 0040-5809 [doi] [abs]
  57. Morris, WF; Pfister, CA; Tuljapurkar, S; Haridas, CV; Boggs, CL; Boyce, MS; Bruna, EM; Church, DR; Coulson, T; Doak, DF; Forsyth, S; Gaillard, J-M; Horvitz, CC; Kalisz, S; Kendall, BE; Knight, TM; Lee, CT; Menges, ES, Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability., Ecology, vol. 89 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 19-25, ISSN 0012-9658 [18376542], [doi] [abs]
  58. Morris, WF; Pfister, CA; Tuljapurkar, S; Haridas, CV; Boggs, C; Boyce, MS; Bruna, EM; Church, DR; Coulson, T; Doak, DF; Forsyth, S; Gaillard, JM; Horvitz, CC; Kalisz, S; Kendall, BE; Knight, TM; Lee, CT; Menges, ES, Longevity determines sensitivity of plant and animal populations to changing climatic variability, Ecology, vol. 89 no. 1 (2008), pp. 19-25, ISSN 0012-9658 [18376542] [abs]
  59. Morris, WF; Hufbauer, RA; Agrawal, AA; Bever, JD; Borowicz, VA; Gilbert, GS; Maron, JL; Mitchell, CE; Parker, IM; Power, AG; Torchin, ME; Vázquez, DP, Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis., Ecology, vol. 88 no. 4 (April, 2007), pp. 1021-1029, ISSN 0012-9658 [17536717], [doi] [abs]
  60. Morris, WF; Tuljapurkar, S; Haridas, CV; Menges, ES; Horvitz, CC; Pfister, CA, Sensitivity of the population growth rate to demographic variability within and between phases of the disturbance cycle., Ecology letters, vol. 9 no. 12 (December, 2006), pp. 1331-1341, ISSN 1461-023X [doi] [abs]
  61. Parrent, JL; Morris, WF; Vilgalys, R, CO2-enrichment and nutrient availability alter ectomycorrhizal fungal communities., Ecology, vol. 87 no. 9 (September, 2006), pp. 2278-2287 [doi] [abs]
  62. Mitchell, CE; Agrawal, AA; Bever, JD; Gilbert, GS; Hufbauer, RA; Klironomos, JN; Maron, JL; Morris, WF; Parker, IM; Power, AG; Seabloom, EW; Torchin, ME; Vázquez, DP, Biotic interactions and plant invasions., Ecology letters, vol. 9 no. 6 (June, 2006), pp. 726-740, ISSN 1461-023X [doi] [abs]
  63. Ness, JH; Morris, WF; Bronstein, JL, Integrating quality and quantity of mutualistic service to contrast ant species protecting Ferocactus wislizeni., Ecology, vol. 87 no. 4 (April, 2006), pp. 912-921, ISSN 0012-9658 [doi] [abs]
  64. Boyce, MS; Haridas, CV; Lee, CT; The Nceas Stochastic Demography Working Group, , Demography in an increasingly variable world., Trends in ecology & evolution, vol. 21 no. 3 (March, 2006), pp. 141-148, ISSN 0169-5347 [doi] [abs]
  65. Morris, WF; Traw, MB; Bergelson, J, On testing for a tradeoff between constitutive and induced resistance, Oikos, vol. 112 no. 1 (January, 2006), pp. 102-110, WILEY, ISSN 0030-1299 [doi] [abs]
  66. Gross, K; Morris, WF; Wolosin, MS; Doak, DF, Modeling vital rates improves estimation of population projection matrices, Population Ecology, vol. 48 no. 1 (January, 2006), pp. 79-89, WILEY, ISSN 1438-3896 [doi] [abs]
  67. Parrent, JL; Morris, WF; Vilgalys, R, Effects of a CO2 – enriched atmosphere on community composition and diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi, Ecology, vol. 87 no. 9 (2006), pp. 2278-2287, ISSN 0012-9658 [doi] [abs]
  68. Mitchell, CE; Agrawal, AA; Bever, JD; Gilbert, GS; Hufbauer, RA; Klironomos, JN; Maron, JL; Morris, WF; Parker, IM; Power, AG; Seabloom, EW; Torchin, ME; Vázquez, DP, Beyond enemy release: biotic interactions and plant invasions, Ecology Letters, vol. 9 no. 6 (2006), pp. 726-740, ISSN 1461-023X [doi] [abs]
  69. Dwyer, G; Morris, WF, Resource-dependent movement and the speed of biological invasions., American Naturalist, vol. 167 no. 2 (2006), pp. 165-176, ISSN 0003-0147 [doi] [abs]
  70. Morris, WF; Wilson, WG; Bronstein, JL; Ness, JH, Environmental forcing and the competitive dynamics of a guild of cactus-tending ant mutualists, Ecology, vol. 86 no. 12 (December, 2005), pp. 3190-3199, WILEY, ISSN 0012-9658 [doi] [abs]
  71. Vázquez, DP; Morris, WF; Jordano, P, Interaction frequency as a surrogate for the total effect of animal mutualists on plants, Ecology Letters, vol. 8 no. 10 (October, 2005), pp. 1088-1094, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  72. Doak, DF; Morris, WF; Pfister, C; Kendall, BE; Bruna, EM, Correctly estimating how environmental stochasticity influences fitness and population growth., The American naturalist, vol. 166 no. 1 (July, 2005), pp. E14-E21, ISSN 1537-5323 [doi] [abs]
  73. Doak, DF; Gross, K; Morris, WF, Understanding and predicting the effects of sparse data on demographic analyses, Ecology, vol. 86 no. 5 (January, 2005), pp. 1154-1163, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  74. Morris, WF; Doak, DF, How general are the determinants of the stochastic population growth rate across nearby sites?, Ecological Monographs, vol. 75 no. 1 (January, 2005), pp. 119-137, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  75. Morris, WF; Doak, DF, Buffering of life histories against environmental stochasticity: accounting for a spurious correlation between the variabilities of vital rates and their contributions to fitness., The American naturalist, vol. 163 no. 4 (April, 2004), pp. 579-590 [15122504], [doi] [abs]
  76. Feldman, TS; Morris, WF; Wilson, WG, When can two plant species facilitate each other's pollination?, Oikos, vol. 105 no. 1 (April, 2004), pp. 197-207, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  77. Bronstein, JL; Wilson, WG; Morris, WF, Ecological dynamics of mutualist/antagonist communities., The American naturalist, vol. 162 no. 4 Suppl (October, 2003), pp. S24-S39 [doi] [abs]
  78. Wilson, WG; Morris, WF; Bronstein, JL, Coexistence of mutualists and exploiters on spatial landscapes, Ecological Monographs, vol. 73 no. 3 (August, 2003), pp. 397-413, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  79. Morris, WF; Bronstein, JL; Wilson, WG, Three-way coexistence in obligate mutualist-exploiter interactions: the potential role of competition., The American naturalist, vol. 161 no. 6 (June, 2003), pp. 860-875, ISSN 0003-0147 [12858272], [doi] [abs]
  80. 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.
  81. Moyle, LC; Stinchcombe, JR; Hudgens, BR; Morris, WF, Conservation genetics in the recovery of endangered animal species: A review of US endangered species recovery plans (1977-1998), Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 26 no. 2 (2003), pp. 85-95 [abs]
  82. Stinchcombe, J; Moyle, LC; Hudgens, BR; Bloch, PL; Chinnadurai, S; Morris, WF, The influence of the academic conservation biology literature on endangered species recovery planning, Conservation Ecology, vol. 6 no. 2 (December, 2002), pp. 15, ISSN 1708-3087 [abs]
  83. Morris, WF; Bloch, PL; Hudgens, BR; Moyle, LC; Stinchcombe, JR, Population viability analysis in endangered species recovery plans: Past use and future improvements, Ecological Applications, vol. 12 no. 3 (January, 2002), pp. 708-712, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  84. Stinchcombe, J; Moyle, LC; Hudgens, BR; Bloch, PL; Chinnadurai, S; Morris, WF, The influence of the academic conservation biology literature on endangered species recovery planning, Ecology and Society, vol. 6 no. 2 (January, 2002) [doi] [abs]
  85. Morris, WF; Bloch, PL; Hudgens, BR; Moyle, LC; Stinchcombe, JR, Population viability analysis in endangered species recovery planning: Past use and recommendations for future improvement, Ecological Applications (2002)
  86. Underwood, N; Morris, W; Gross, K; Lockwood, JR, Induced resistance to Mexican bean beetles in soybean: Variation among genotypes and lack of correlation with constitutive resistance, Oecologia, vol. 122 no. 1 (January, 2000), pp. 83-89, Springer Nature [doi] [abs]
  87. Doak, DF; Morris, W, Detecting population-level consequences of ongoing environmental change without long-term monitoring, Ecology, vol. 80 no. 5 (January, 1999), pp. 1537-1551, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  88. Doak, DF; Morris, WF, . 1999. Detecting population-level consequences of ongoing environmental change without long-term monitoring, Ecology, vol. 80 (1999), pp. 1537-1551
  89. Morris, W; Doak, D, Life history of the long-lived gynodioecious cushion plant Silene acaulis (Caryophyllaceae), inferred from size-based population projection matrices., American journal of botany, vol. 85 no. 6 (June, 1998), pp. 784, ISSN 0002-9122 [doi] [abs]
  90. Gross, K; Lockwood, JR; Frost, CC; Morris, WF, Modeling controlled burning and trampling reduction for conservation of Hudsonia montana, Conservation Biology, vol. 12 no. 6 (January, 1998), pp. 1291-1301, WILEY, ISSN 0888-8892 [doi] [abs]
  91. Morris, WF, Disentangling effects of induced plant defenses and food quantity on herbivores by fitting nonlinear models., The American naturalist, vol. 150 no. 3 (September, 1997), pp. 299-327, ISSN 0003-0147 [18811292], [doi] [abs]
  92. Morris, WF; Dwyer, G, Population consequences of constitutive and inducible plant resistance: herbivore spatial spread., The American naturalist, vol. 149 no. 6 (June, 1997), pp. 1071-1090, ISSN 0003-0147 [18811264], [doi] [abs]
  93. Morris, WF, Mutualism denied? Nectar-robbing bumble bees do not reduce female or male success of bluebells, Ecology, vol. 77 no. 5 (January, 1996), pp. 1451-1462, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  94. Morris, WF; Mangel, M; Adler, FR, Mechanisms of pollen deposition by insect pollinators, Evolutionary Ecology, vol. 9 no. 3 (May, 1995), pp. 304-317, Springer Nature, ISSN 0269-7653 [doi] [abs]
  95. Adler, FR; Morris, WF, A general test for interaction modification, Ecology, vol. 75 no. 6 (January, 1994), pp. 1552-1559, WILEY [doi]
  96. Morris, WF; Price, MV; Waser, NM; Thomson, JD; Thomson, B; Stratton, DA, Systematic increase in pollen carryover and its consequences for geitonogamy in plant populations, Oikos, vol. 71 no. 3 (January, 1994), pp. 431-440, JSTOR [doi]
  97. Morris, WF; Kareiva, PM; Raymer, PL, Do barren zones and pollen traps reduce gene escape from transgenic crops?, Ecological Applications, vol. 4 no. 1 (January, 1994), pp. 157-165, WILEY [doi]
  98. KAREIVA, P; MORRIS, W; JACOBI, CM, Studying and managing the risk of cross‐fertilization between transgenic crops and wild relatives, Molecular Ecology, vol. 3 no. 1 (January, 1994), pp. 15-21, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  99. Morris, WF, Predicting the consequences of plant spacing and biased movement for pollen dispersal by honey bees, Ecology, vol. 74 no. 2 (January, 1993), pp. 493-500, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  100. Morris, WF, The effects of natural enemies, competition, and host plant water availability on an aphid population, Oecologia, vol. 90 no. 3 (June, 1992), pp. 359-365, Springer Nature, ISSN 0029-8549 [doi] [abs]
  101. Morris, WF; Wiser, SD; Klepetka, B, Causes and consequences of spatial aggregation in the phytophagous beetle Altica tombacina, Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 61 no. 1 (January, 1992), pp. 49-58, JSTOR [doi] [abs]
  102. Wood, DM; Morris, WF, Ecological constraints to seedling establishment on the Pumice Plains, Mount St Helens, Washington, American Journal of Botany, vol. 77 no. 11 (January, 1990), pp. 1411-1418, WILEY [doi] [abs]
  103. Morris, WF, Problems in detecting chaotic behavior in natural populations by fitting simple discrete models, Ecology, vol. 71 no. 5 (January, 1990), pp. 1849-1862, WILEY, ISSN 0012-9658 [doi] [abs]
  104. Morris, WF; Wood, DM, The role of lupine in succession on Mount St. Helens: facilitation or inhibition, Ecology, vol. 70 no. 3 (January, 1989), pp. 697-703, WILEY, ISSN 0012-9658 [doi] [abs]
  105. Morris, WF; Marks, PL; Mohler, CL; Rappaport, NR; Wesley, FR; Moran, MA, Seed dispersal and seedling emergence in an old field community in central New York (USA), Oecologia, vol. 70 no. 1 (August, 1986), pp. 92-99, Springer Nature, ISSN 0029-8549 [doi] [abs]

Papers Accepted

  1. 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)

Book Chapters

  1. Morris, WF; Kareiva, PM, How insect herbivores find suitable host plants: The interplay between random and nonrandom movement, in Insect-Plant Interactions, vol. 3 (January, 2017), pp. 175-208, CRC Press, ISBN 9781138505988 [doi]
  2. 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.

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • Biology 668.01, Population ecology Synopsis
    Bio sci 063, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
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, Associate Editor : The American Naturalist. December 01, 2010, December 1, 2010 - present  
Reviewer of grant proposals to the Ecology Panel at the National Science Foundation, Reviewer of grant proposals to the Ecology Panel at the National Science Foundation. September 01, 2010, 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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