Jim Church

I am a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Adams lab. I am interested in community ecology, and how evolutionary processes may influence the regulation of community organization. I am particularly interested in determining patterns of species richness, adaptations to competition between closely related species, and ascertaining how biotic and abiotic factors regulate an organism's niche.

 

 

 

Publications:

1. Adams, D.C., and J.O. Church. 2008. Amphibians do not follow Bergmann's rule. Evolution. 62:413-420.

2. Miller, A.T., M.A., Hanson, J.O. Church, B. Palik, S.E. Bowe, and M.G. Butler. 2008. Invertebrate community variation in seasonal forest wetlands: implications for sampling and analyses. Wetlands. 28:874-881.

3. Deitloff, J., J.O. Church, D.C. Adams, and R.G. Jaeger. 2009. Interspecific agonistic behaviors in a salamander community: implications for alpha-selection. Herpetologica. 65:174-182.

4. Hanson, M.A., B.J. Palik, J.O. Church, and A.T. Miller. 2010. Influences of upland timber harvest on aquatic invertebrate communities in seasonal ponds: efficacy of forested buffers. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 18:255-267.

5. Church, J.O., and D.C. Adams. Using ecological niche modeling to generate and examine spatial hypotheses of competition: an example in Plethodon salamanders. Ecography. (Submitted)

6. Adams, D.C., and J.O. Church. The evolution of large-scale body size clines in Plethodon: evidence of heat-balance of species-specific artifact? Ecography. (Submitted).