Gordon Fox
Gordon Fox
Associate Professor
Contact
Office: SCA 330
Phone: 813/974-7352
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Education
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1989
Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Davis, 1989-93 (NSF fellow, 1991-3)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of the South, 1993-4
Research Assistant Professor, San Diego State University, 1994-9
Research
Conservation biology
Plant ecology and evolution, conservation biology, population biology, fire ecology
I do research in conservation, ecology, and evolution, especially of plants. I focus on two related areas: 1) population dynamics - especially on how populations respond to environmental variability and disturbance; and 2) the ecology, evolution, and genetics of plant life histories. My research has both field-based and theoretical components; one of my priorities is the development of practical quantitative tools for population biology. Many of my studies have direct conservation applications.
Current and planned research in my lab includes studies of 1) how fire frequency and seed dispersal affect regrowth of pine populations; 2) methods for predicting the regrowth of populations after disturbance, and application to fire-prone pines; 3) conservation and evolutionary consequences of among-individual variation in demographic properties. I work with my students to find suitable research projects,which need not be subsets of my own projects, and can be any mix of empirical and theoretical research.
Current Courses
Recent Publications
Fang, W., D. L. Taub, G. A. Fox, R. M. Landis, and and J. Gurevitch. 2006. Sources of variation in growth, form, and survival in dwarf and normal-stature pitch pines, Pinus rigida (Pinaceae) in long-term transplant experiments. American Journal of Botany 93: 1125-1133.
Fox, G. A., B. E. Kendall, J. Fitzpatrick, and G. Woolfenden. 2006. Consequences of heterogeneity in survival in a population of Florida scrub-jays. Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 921-927.
Gurevitch, J., S. M. Scheiner, and G. A. Fox. 2006. The ecology of plants. 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
Landis, R. M., J. Gurevitch, F. Wei, D. Taub, and G. A. Fox. 2005. Variation in recruitment and early demography in Pinus rigida following crown fire in the pine barrens of Long Island, NY. Journal of Ecology 93
Kendall, B. E., and G. A. Fox. 2003. Unstructured individual variation and demographic stochasticity. Conservation Biology 17: 1170-1172.
Fox, G. A. 2003. Assortative mating and plant phenology: evolutionary and practical consequences. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5: 1-18.
Kendall, B., and G. A. Fox. 2002. Individual variability reduces demographic stochasticity. Conservation Biology 16: 109-116.
Fox, G. A., and B. E. Kendall. 2002. Demographic stochasticity and the variance reduction effect. Ecology 83: 1928-1934.
Fox, G. A. 2001. Failure time analysis: studying times-to-events and rates at which events occur.
Pages 253-289 in S. M. Scheiner and J. Gurevitch, eds.: Design and analysis of ecological
experiments, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Fox, G. A., and J. Gurevitch. 2000. Population numbers count! Tools for near-term demographic analysis. American Naturalist 156: 242-25