Nicholas J. Gotelli
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Nicholas J. Gotelli
Department of Biology
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405
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Phone: 802-656-0450
Lab: 802-656-0451
Fax: 802-656-2914
Nicholas.Gotelli@uvm.edu
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My research addresses basic questions about the organization of animal and plant communities. What are the forces that determine the species composition and abundance of natural assemblages? How do competition and predation affect local community structure? What are the biotic and abiotic factors that control population growth and the risk of extinction? Current research projects include enrichment and tipping points in aquatic ecosystems, effects of climate change on ant assemblages of eastern deciduous forests, and null model analyses of community structure and biodiversity.
Research projects of my talented graduate students include transmission of human diseases by ticks (Carlos Amissah), museomics and population genetics of New England amphibians (Gwen Ellis), and the thermal tolerance of parasitoid biocontrol agents of invasive insect pests (George Ni).
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Recent Publications
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- Kling, M.M., C.T. Brittain, G.L. Galford, T.M. Waring, L. Hebert-Dufrense, M.P. Dube, H Sabzian, N.J. Gotelli, B.J. McGill and M.T. Niles. 2024. Innovations through crop switching happen on the diverse margins of US agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA e2402195121.
- Cagle, G.A., A. McGrew, B. Baiser, S. Record, N.J. Gotelli, D. Gravel, L.S. Bittleston, E.B. Young, S.M. Gray, and Z.B. Freedman. 2024. Dispersal limitation governs bacterial community assembly in the Northern Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) at the continental scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography DOI10.1111/geb.13922.
- Strona, G., C.J.A. Bradshaw, P. Cardoso, N.J. Gotelli, F. Guillaume, F. Manca, V. Mustonen, and L. Zaman. 2023. Time-travelling pathogens and their risk to ecological communities. PLOS Computational Biology 19: e1011268.
- Gotelli, N.J., F. Moyes, L.H. Antao, S.A. Blowes, M. Dornelas, B.J. McGill, A. Penny, A.M. Schipper, H. Shimadzu, S.R. Supp, C.A. Waldock, and A.E. Magurran. 2022.Long-term changes in temperate marine fish assemblages are driven by a small subset of species. Global Change Biology 28:46-53.
- Gotelli, N.J., D.B. Booher, M.C. Urban, U.W. Ulrich, A.V. Saurez, D.K. Skelly, D.J. Russell, R.J. Rowe, M. Rothendler, N. Rios, S.M. Rehan, G. Ni, C.S. Moreau, A.E. Magurran, F.A.M. Jones, G.R. Graves, C. Fiera, U. Burkhardt, and R.B. Primack. 2021. Estimating species relative abundances from museum records. Methods in Ecology & Evolution 00:1-13.