Lab Focus
My research involves meshing field research with theoretical models to address critical questions in ecology and conservation biology. I believe that ecological theory will be strengthened if it is forced to help solve real-world problems, and that conservation biology involves difficult choices that demand quantitative approaches.
Research Areas
Recent Publications *
- Mueller,, T., R. O'Hara, R. Urbanek, S. Converse, and W. F. Fagan. 2013. Social learning and migratory performance. Science. doi/10.1126/science.1237139. (Cover Article)
- Fagan, W.F., M. A. Lewis, M. Auger-Méthé, T. Avgar, S. Benhamou, G. Breed, L. LaDage, U. Schlägel, W. Tang, Y. Papastamatiou, J. Forester, and T. Mueller. 2013. Spatial memory and animal movement. Ecology Letters. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12165
- Lynch, H.J., M. Rhainds, J. M. Calabrese, S. Cantrell, C. Cosner, and W.F. Fagan. 2013. How climate extremes-not means-define a species' geographic range boundary via a demographic tipping point. Ecological Monographs. In press.
- Fagan, W.F., Y. Pearson, E. Larsen, J.B. Turner, H.J. Lynch, H.Staver, J. Turner, A. E. Noble, S. Bewick, and E. Goldberg. 2013. Phylogenetic prediction of the maximum per capita rate of population growth. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. 280: 20130523
- Kavathekar, D., T. Mueller, and W. F. Fagan. 2013. Introducing AMV (Animal Movement Visualizer), A visualization tool for animal movement data from satellite collars and radiotelemetry. Ecological Informatics. 15: 91-95.
- Berbert, J.M., and W.F. Fagan. 2012. How the interplay between individual spatial memory and landscape persistence can generate population distribution patterns. Ecological Complexity. 12: 1-12.
- Martinson, H.M., W.F. Fagan, and R.F. Denno. 2012. Food web structure depends on patch size in an arthropod food web. Ecology. 93: 1779-1786.
- Zipkin, E., E.H.C. Grant, and W.F. Fagan. 2012. Developing and testing a community modeling approach for predicting species occurrences given uncertainty. Ecological Applications. 22: 1962-1972.
- Larsen, EA, JM Calabrese, M Rhainds, WF Fagan. 2013. How protandry and protogyny affect female mating failure: a spatial population model. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 146: 130-140.
- Casanovas, P, HJ Lynch, WF Fagan. 2012. Multi-scale patterns of moss and lichen richness on the Antarctic Peninsula. Ecography 35: 209-219.
- Grant, EHC, HJ Lynch, R Muneepeerakul, M Arunachalam, I Rodrýguez-Iturbe, WF Fagan. 2012. Interbasin Water Transfer, Riverine Connectivity, and Spatial Controls on Fish Biodiversity. PLoS ONE 7(3): e34170. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034170
- Lynch, HJ, R Naveen, PN Trathan, WF Fagan. 2012. Spatially integrated assessment reveals widespread changes in penguin populations on the Antarctic Peninsula. Ecology 93:1367-1377.
- Kennedy, C, EHC Grant, MC Neel, WF Fagan, and P Marra. 2011. Landscape matrix mediates occupancy dynamics of Neotropical avian insectivores. Ecological Applications 21(5): 1837-1850.
- Zeigler, SL, MC Neel, L Oliviera, BE Raboy, WF Fagan. 2011. Conspecific and heterospecific attraction in assessments of functional connectivity. Biodiversity and Conservation DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0107-z.
- Mueller T, WF Fagan, and V Grimm. 2011. Integrating individual search and navigation behaviors in mechanistic movement models. Theoretical Ecology 4: 341-355.
