Jennifer M. Fraterrigo

After July 2008, I will be an assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Education
• Ph.D., Zoology, 2005, University of Wisconsin
• M.S., Ecology, 2000, Colorado State University
• B.S., Zoology, 1997, University of Wisconsin, with distinction


Research


I use principles from ecosystem and landscape ecology to understand the consequences of anthropogenic change (e.g., land use, climate) for terrestrial and aquatic systems. Specific interests include historic land use and its effects on the distribution of soil nutrients and plants, the influence of spatial and temporal variability on plant populations, and the response of freshwater phytoplankton communities to weather and landscape configuration.




Publications

• Fraterrigo, J.M., J.A. Rusak. Disturbance-driven changes in the variability of ecological patterns and processes. Ecology Letters, in press.
  
• Fraterrigo, J.M., M.G. Turner, and S.M. Pearson. 2006. Interactions between past land use, life-history traits and understory spatial heterogeneity. Landscape Ecology 21: 777-790. PDF
  
• Fraterrigo, J.M., M.G. Turner, and S.M. Pearson. 2006. Past land use alters plant allocation and growth in the herb layer. Journal of Ecology 94: 548-557. PDF*
  
• Fraterrigo, J.M., T.C. Balser, and M.G. Turner. 2006. Microbial community variation and its relationship with nitrogen mineralization in historically altered forests. Ecology 87: 570-579. PDF
  
• Fraterrigo, J.M., M.G. Turner, S.M. Pearson and P. Dixon. 2005. Effects of past land use on spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients in southern Appalachian forests. Ecological Monographs 75: 215-230. PDF
  
• Fraterrigo, J.M. and J.A. Wiens. 2005. Bird communities of the Colorado Rocky Mountains along a gradient of low-density residential development. Landscape and Urban Planning 71: 263-275. PDF
  
• Miller, J.R., J.M. Fraterrigo, N.T. Hobbs, D.M. Theobald, and J.A. Wiens. 2001. Urbanization, avian communities, and landscape ecology. Pages 117-137 in J.M. Marzluff, R. Bowman, and R. Donnelly, editors. Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World. Kluwer, New York. PDF
  
• Westneat, D.F., L.A. McGraw, J.M. Fraterrigo, T.R. Birkhead and F. Fletcher. 1998. Patterns of courtship behavior and ejaculate characteristics in male red-winged blackbirds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 43: 161-171.

Submitted

• Fraterrigo, J.M., J.A. Downing. The influence of land use on lake trophic status varies with watershed-scale nurtient transport capacity.
• Fraterrigo, J.M., S.M. Pearson, and M.G. Turner. Joint effects of habitat configuration and temporal stochasticity on population dynamics.
• Mabry, C., J.M. Fraterrigo, and F. Gephardt. Comparison of emergent and functional response groups from three North American flora.

*This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Ecology: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Journal of Ecology, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at www.blackwellpublishing.com or www.blackwell-synergy.com.


Links


• Curriculum Vitae
  
• ISU Limnology Laboratory
• Iowa Lakes Survey