Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Earth & Marine Sciences A308
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DANIEL F. DOAK Associate Professor of EEBiology B.A., Swarthmore College Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle DOAK LAB

Earth & Marine Sciences A308 University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 phone 831.459.4374 fax 831.459.5353 doak@biology.ucsc.edu office hours

My interests are centered in population ecology, including both field research and mathematical modeling. I conduct field work on plant-herbivore interactions and on interference and co-existence among clonal plants. My interests in population modeling center on the effects of stochastic demography and spatial structure on population growth and persistence. Members of my lab conduct work on a variety of systems and questions, including insect community structure, conservation biology, and plant population biology.

Selected Publications

Morris, W.F., and Doak, D.F. 2002. Quantitative Conservation Biology: the Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis. 480 pp. Sinauer Associates. Sunderland, MA.

Doak, D.F., Thomson, D.M. and Jules, E.S. 2002. PVA for plants: Understanding the demographic consequences of seed banks for population health. Pages 312-337 in S.R. Beissinger and D.R. McCullough (eds.), Population Viability Analysis. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA.

Crone, E.E., Doak, D.F. and Pokki, J. 2001. Ecological influences on the dynamics of a field vole metapopulation. Ecology 82:831-843.

Mills, L.S., Doak, D.F. and Wisdom, M. 1999. The reliability of conservation actions based upon elasticities of matrix models. Conservation Biology. 13:815-829.

Doak, D.F. and W.F. Morris. 1998. Detecting population-level consequences of ongoing environmental change without long-term monitoring. Ecology 80: 1537-1551.

Morris, W.F., and D.F. Doak. 1998. Life history of a long-lived gynodioecious plant, Silene acaulis (Caryophyllaceae), inferred from size-based population projection matrices. American Journal of Botany 85: 784-793.

Doak, D.F., Bigger, D., Harding-Smith E., Marvier M.A., O'Malley, R. and Thomson, D. 1998. The statistical inevitability of stability-diversity relationships in community ecology. American Naturalist 151: 264-276.

Doak, D.F. 1995. Source-sink models and the problem of habitat degradation: general models and applications to the Yellowstone grizzly bear. Conservation Biology 9: 1370-1379.

Doak, D.F., Kareiva, P. and Klepetka, B. 1994. Modeling population viability for the desert tortoise in the Mojave Desert. Ecological Applications 4: 446-460.

Doak, D.F. 1992. Lifetime impacts of herbivory for a perennial plant. Ecology 73: 2086-2099.