Landscape Ecology Lab at John Carroll University
Biography
I am the Coburn Professor of Environmental Science at John Carroll University in Cleveland, USA. I am always interested in hearing from undergraduates enrolled at JCU or students interested in coming to JCU for their masters degree. If you are a student who wants to join the lab, please send me an email describing your academic background, work experience, and research interests to jwatling [at] jcu.edu.
In our lab, we use observational, experimental, and geospatial modeling approaches to understand how drivers of global change such as landscape modification and climate change impact species and the landscapes in which they occur. My students and I do fieldwork in the United States and South America, working with a network of graduate students and undergraduate collaborators, technicians, and researchers from the federal government. Click on the links below for more information about current research projects, courses, and more, and check out this video about current work in the lab
Download my CV.
- Landscape Ecology
- Conservation Biology
- Herpetology
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PhD in Biological Sciences, 2005
Florida International University
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MS in Biological Sciences, 2000
Florida International University
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BA in Environmental Science, 1996
Boston University
People in the Lab
Grad Students
Antoinette Esposito
Grad Student
Consuelo de las Nieves Alarcón Rodriguez
Grad Student
Micah Ashford
Grad Student
Noah van Ee
Grad Student
Rachel Snyder
Grad Student
Undergrads
Jake Bellamy
Undergrad
Ray Tobias
Undergrad
Alumni
Andrew Veselka
Grad Student
Andrés Aponte Gutiérrez
Grad Student
Arianna Zrzavy
Undergrad
Blake Dixon
Undergrad
Catalina Valderrama Robles
Undergrad
Drew Benos
Undergrad
Heydee Villanueva Romero
Undergrad
Hope Uwase
Undergrad
Ian Reider
Grad Student
Júlia Laterza Barbosa
Grad Student
Osmary Medina Baez
Grad Student
Sam Skerlec
Undergrad
Zack Lange
Grad Student
Zee Molter
Undergrad
Research
A few recent publications based on my research are highlighted in the next section (Featured Publications), followed by links to all my papers.
Research in the lab generally falls into one of two broad categories:
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Species ecology in thermal landscapes
Research based on field, lab, and modeling work
Testing theory in landscape ecology
Research based on meta-analysis and literature synthesis
Featured Papers
All papers
- 2018 - present
2020 Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Fahrig L, Tabarelli M, Watling JI, Tischendorf L, Benchimol M, Cazetta E, Faria D, Leal I, Melo FPL, Morante-Filho JC, Santos BA, Arasa-Gisbert R, Arce-Peña N, Cervantes-López MJ, Cudney-Valenzuela S, Galán Acedo C, San-José M, Vieira ICG, Ferry Slick JW, Nowakowski AJ & Tscharntke T.
- 2015-2017
2017 Pfeifer M, Lefebvre V, Peres CA, Banks-Leite C, Wearn OR, Marsh CJ, Butchart SHM, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Barlow J, Cerezo A, Cisneros L, D’Cruze N, Faria D, Hadley A, Harris SM, Klingbeil BT, Kormann U, Lens L, Medina-Rangel GF, Morante-Filho JC, Olivier P, Peters SL, Pidgeon A, Ribeiro DB, Scherber C, Schneider-Manoury L, Struebig M, Urbina-Cardona N, Watling JI, Willig MR, Wood ER & Ewers RM.
- 2010-2014
2014 Hudson LN et al. (Watling JI one of 200+ authors). The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts.Ecology and Evolution 24: 4701—4735.
- 2000-2010
2009 Watling JI, Gerow K & Donnelly MA. Isolation and nested species subsets of amphibians and reptiles on Neotropical forest islands. Animal Conservation 12: 467—476. 2008 Watling JI & Donnelly MA.
Courses taught
Conservation Biology
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Environmental Earth Science
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Introduction to GIS
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Principles of Biology III
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