Joshua J. Tewksbury
tewksjj@u.washington.edu


Education

B.A. Field Biology, Prescott College
Ph.D. University of Montana
Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Florida


Honors

2003 Outstanding Paper Award, IALE
1999 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
1998 UM Pre-doctoral Honors Fellowship


Research

Research in my lab spans a wide variety of topics in ecology and evolutionary biology. Current projects focus on chemical mediation of fruit-frugivore interactions and evolutionary mechanisms of latitudinal gradients in species diversity. We also work on avian life-history, demography, and conservation in fragmented habitats.


Publications

Selection:

Tewksbury JJ, Levey DJ, Haddad NM, et al. 2002. Corridors affect plants, animals, and their interactions in fragmented landscapes. PNAS 99 (20): 12923-12926.

Tewksbury JJ, Nabhan GP. 2001. Seed dispersal – Directed deterrence by capsaicin in chillies. Nature 412 (6845): 403-404

Tewksbury JJ, Hejl SJ, Martin TE. 1998. Breeding productivity does not decline with increasing fragmentation in a western landscape. Ecology 79 (8) 2890-2903

Highlights

- Instructor: Introductory Biology, Conservation Biology, Advanced Ecology, Tropical Ecology

- National and International Mentoring: Currently mentoring multiple undergraduates from Bolivia and the University of Washington. Mentoring graduate students working in Lebanon, Guam, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Canada.

- Conservation Biologist: Research on Connectivity, Fragmentation and Climate Change.

- Outreach: popular media presentations including NPR, Discovery Network, and National Geographic