Welcome

Welcome to the Russell Lab site. Follow the links above to find out about what we do and who is doing it! Below are a few highlights.

Lab news…

• August: Gareth taught at an Advanced Study Institute in South Africa on the topic of Mathematical Conservation Biology.
• August: Jessica, Sarah and Tanya presented at ESA in Pittsburgh.
• June: Congratulations to Tanya on passing her qualifying exam!
• Sarah has now discovered two new-to-the-US bee genera at Liberty State Park and the NJ Meadlowlands. She was featured in an article in the Bergen County Examiner.

Research grants, etc.

• New research grant award to GJR: Understanding the Dynamic Connections Among Stewardship, Land Cover, and Ecosystem Services in New York City's Urban Forest. From NSF.
• New research grant award to GJR: Climate change and Species Ranges — Southwest USA. This award will fund Jessica for the 2009–2010 academic year.
• New research grant award to GJR: Group Undergraduate Biology and Mathematics Training Program at NJIT. This is an extension of the award which has brought some talented undergraduates into the lab (such as Abraham Rosales — see "Recently published" below).

Recently published…

• PIMM, S. L., C. N. JENKINS, L. N. JOPPA, D. L. ROBERTS & G. J. RUSSELL (2010) How many endangered species remain to be discovered in Brazil? Natureza & Conservação 8: 71–77.
• RUSSELL, G. J. & A. ROSALES (2010) Sociability leads to instability: site-switching cascades in a colonial species. Theoretical Ecology 3: 3–12.

Recently presented…

• Russell, G. J., J. I. Watling, T. Santos, J. L. Tellería, Karina Aliaga and Temipote Brotherson (2009) Well-connected but empty on the inside: Active dispersal can reduce the species richness of accessible habitat patches. 2009 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.
• Schnell, J. K., G. J. Russell, G. M. Harris and S. L. Pimm (2009) Relaxation rate: A consistent metric for linking habitat fragmentation to extinction threat. 2009 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.

To check out…

Please visit our other web site, www.eco-tools.net. It allows you to upload data and perform various ecological/conservation data analyses, such as Life History Analysis, Population Viability Analysis, Ordination of various kinds, with fully annotated output.