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I'm an associate professor in
theoretical ecology, in the
Zoology Department
at the University of Florida.
My interests range widely in
spatial, theoretical, mathematical, computational and statistical ecology;
plant community, ecosystem, and epidemic dynamics; and whatever
else takes my fancy.
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Contact information:
620B Bartram Hall tel: (352) 392-5697
Zoology Department fax: (352) 392-3704
University of Florida e-mail: bolker@zoology.ufl.edu
Box 118525 www: http://www.zoology.ufl.edu/bolker
Gainesville, FL 32611-8525
GPG public key
(fingerprint: D755 8690 2804 4799 9B24 7E94 7395 291A 3C33 7A73
phone to confirm)
Forthcoming book
I'm working on a book (called something like Ecological
models and data in R), based on a course that I used
to teach with Hilborn and Mangel's Ecological Detective
(which is a great book but doesn't have as much of the
nitty-gritty technical detail as I think readers need if
they're actually going to apply the ideas).
Check it out.
Feedback is warmly welcome!!
Research and ideas
Some of the projects I'm working on right now
(links to more detailed descriptions to follow eventually):
- theoretical studies on spatial dynamics of plant communities
and epidemics (sometimes combined); competition-colonization
tradeoffs, successional niches, dispersal, epidemics in homogeneous
and heterogeneous landscapes;
- marine reef fish population dynamics
[with Craig Osenberg and Colette St. Mary];
- stock analysis of seas turtle populations, combining
genetic data with ecological covariates
[with Karen Bjorndal and Alan Bolten];
- statistical methods
for unravelling spatial dynamics (see
details)
[with Ottar Bjørnstad (Penn State University)
and Eric Seabloom (Oregon State University)];
- host-pathogen dynamics in declining
amphibian populations;
- here's a list of less-baked ideas ...
See my schedule for this semester.
Teaching
I have taught courses in Ecology and Evolution of Disease (u/g);
Ecological Models and Data (grad); Integrative Principles
(grad); and Integrative Principles of Biology II (u/g; ecology/evolution/genetics).
This semester I'm teaching
IP.
Professional
- My CV: (PDF)
- My publications:
to get access to PDFs, please e-mail me for a password
Software and data sets