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Assistant Professor • Ph.D., University of Florida, 2013
EBIO

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Research Interests

The unifying theme of our lab's research is to understand how human stressors to the environment affect biodiversity and how to mitigate those impacts. These stressors include changes to landscapes, climate change, and species introductions. We often study spatial and temporal dynamics and use field studies at large spatial and long temporal scales to test theory and link ecological pattern with process. Areas of research include landscape connectivity/corridors, habitat fragmentation, plant-pollinator networks, insect community ecology, stable isotope ecology, and conservation biology. We work on a variety of taxa but have a particular fondness for insects. Settings for our field work includeÌýthe longleaf pine ecosystem of the southeastern US and forests and meadows of the Rocky Mountains.
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Selected Publications

  • Resasco J, Chacoff NP, and Vázquez DP (2021)ÌýPlant-pollinator interactions between generalists persist over time and space.ÌýEcology.Ìý102: e03359. DOI:Ìý.

  • Resasco JÌýand Fletcher RJ Jr (2021)ÌýAccounting for connectivity alters the apparent roles of spatial and environmental processes on metacommunity assembly.ÌýLandscape EcologyÌý36: 1089–1099. DOI:Ìý

  • Damschen EI, Brudvig LA, Burt MA, Fletcher RJ Jr., Haddad NM, Levey DJ, Orrock JL,ÌýResasco J, and Tewksbury JJ. (2019) Ongoing accumulation of plant diversity through habitat connectivity in an 18-year experiment.ÌýScienceÌý365(6460):1478-1480. DOI:Ìý.

  • Resasco J,ÌýMeta-analysis on a decade of testing corridor efficacy: what new have we learned? (2019)ÌýCurrent Landscape Ecology Reports​Ìý4(3): 61-69.ÌýDOI:Ìý.

  • Resasco J,ÌýBitters ME, Cunningham SA, Jones HI, McKenzie VJ, and Davies KF.Ìý(2019)ÌýExperimental habitat fragmentation disrupts nematode infections in Australian skinks.ÌýEcologyÌý100(1):Ìýe02547. DOI:Ìý.

  • Resasco J, Tuff KT, Cunningham SA, Melbourne BA, Hicks AL, Newsome SD, and Davies KF.Ìý(2018) Generalist predator’s niche shifts reveal ecosystem changes in an experimentally fragmented landscape.ÌýEcographyÌý41(7):1209-1219.ÌýDOI:Ìý.

  • Chacoff NP,ÌýResasco J,Ìýand Vázquez DP.Ìý(2018) Interaction frequency, network position, and the temporal persistence of interactions in a plant-pollinator network.ÌýEcologyÌý99(1):Ìý21–28. DOI:Ìý.

  • ResascoÌýJ,ÌýBruna EM, Haddad NM, Banks-Leite C, and Margules CR. (2017) The contribution of theory and experiments to conservation in fragmented landscapes.ÌýEcographyÌý40(1): 109-118. DOI:Ìý

  • Brudvig, LA, Leroux SJ, Albert CH, Bruna EM, Davies KF, Ewers RM, Levey DJ, Pardini R, andÌýJ Resasco. (2017) Evaluating conceptual models of landscape change.ÌýEcographyÌý40(1): 74–84.ÌýDOI:Ìý.

  • Haddad NM, Brudvig LA, Damschen, Evans DM, Johnson BL, Levey DJ, Orrock JL,ÌýResasco J, Sullivan LL,ÌýTewksbury JJ, Wagner SA, and AJ Weldon. (2014) AÌýreview of the potential negative ecological effects of landscape corridors.ÌýConservation BiologyÌý28:1178-1187.ÌýDOI:Ìý.

  • Resasco J, Haddad NM, Shoemaker DD, Orrock JL, Brudvig LA, EI Damschen, Tewksbury JJ, and Levey DJ.Ìý(2014)ÌýLandscape corridors can increase invasion by an exotic species and reduce diversity of native species.ÌýEcologyÌý95: 2033–2039.ÌýDOI:Ìý.

  • Resasco J, Pelini SL, Stuble KL, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, Diamond SE, Ellison AM, Gotelli NJ, and Levey DJ.Ìý(2014)ÌýUsing historical and experimental data to reveal warming temperature effects on ant assemblages.ÌýPLoS ONEÌý 9(2):Ìýe88029. DOI:Ìý.

  • Resasco J, Porter SD, Sanders NJ, and DJ Levey.Ìý(2014) Assessing the effects of sodium on fire ant foragingÌýin the field and colony growth in the laboratory.ÌýEcological EntomologyÌý39: 267-271. DOI:Ìý.