Michael
W. McCoy
Ph. D.
Boston
Univeristy
Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute
Research
Interests
Quantitative, Population, and Community Ecology
My primary
research program addresses questions in population and communtiy
ecology, but I am broadly interested in biology and also work on
questions in behavior, evolution, physiology and
ecotoxicology. My approach,
in general, is to use observational,
experimental, and mathematical tools to address
questions that advance knowledge of basic ecological
processes. Understanding
the basic processes that shape ecological communities is important for
understanding and mitigating the impacts of pressing environmental
issues (e.g.
climate change, habitat modification, emerging infectious diseases, and
species invasions).
Projects
Complex
life histories and trophic
interactions across ecosystem boundaries
Quantifying shape in studies of phenotypic plasticity
Quantifying shape in studies of phenotypic plasticity
Intra-cohort
variation
Evolution of Genome
Archetecture
McCoy,
M.W.
M. Barfield, and R.D. Holt. (In Press).
Predator
shadows: Complex life histories as generators of spatially patterned
indirect
interactions across ecosystems - Oikos (Link)
McCoy, M.W., and J.F. Gillooly. (2008) Predicting
natural mortality rates in plants and animals. Ecology
Letters 11:
710-716