William F. Morris
Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., University of Washington 1990
B.S., Cornell University 1983
Morris, W. F., and P. M. Kareiva. “How insect herbivores find suitable host plants: The interplay between random and nonrandom movement.” In Insect-Plant Interactions, 3:175–208, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203711699. Full Text
Peterson, Megan L., Graham Bailes, Lauren B. Hendricks, Laurel Pfeifer-Meister, Paul B. Reed, Scott D. Bridgham, Bart R. Johnson, et al. “Latitudinal gradients in population growth do not reflect demographic responses to climate.” Ecological Applications : A Publication of the Ecological Society of America, October 24, 2020, e2242. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2242. Full Text
“Correction for Morris et al., Biotic and anthropogenic forces rival climatic/abiotic factors in determining global plant population growth and fitness.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117, no. 12 (March 16, 2020): 6953. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003371117. Full Text
Reed, P. B., M. L. Peterson, L. E. Pfeifer-Meister, W. F. Morris, D. F. Doak, B. A. Roy, B. R. Johnson, G. T. Bailes, A. A. Nelson, and S. D. Bridgham. “Climate manipulations differentially affect plant population dynamics within versus beyond northern range limits.” Journal of Ecology, January 1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13494. Full Text
Morris, William F., Johan Ehrlén, Johan P. Dahlgren, Alexander K. Loomis, and Allison M. Louthan. “Biotic and anthropogenic forces rival climatic/abiotic factors in determining global plant population growth and fitness.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117, no. 2 (January 2020): 1107–12. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918363117. Full Text
Peterson, M. L., W. Morris, C. Linares, and D. Doak. “Improving structured population models with more realistic representations of non-normal growth.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10, no. 9 (September 1, 2019): 1431–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13240. Full Text
Waddle, Ellen, Lucas R. Piedrahita, Elijah S. Hall, Grace Kendziorski, William F. Morris, Megan L. Peterson, and Daniel F. Doak. “Asynchrony in individual and subpopulation fecundity stabilizes reproductive output of an alpine plant population.” Ecology 100, no. 4 (April 2019): e02639. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2639. Full Text
Peterson, Megan L., Daniel F. Doak, and William F. Morris. “Incorporating local adaptation into forecasts of species' distribution and abundance under climate change.” Global Change Biology 25, no. 3 (March 2019): 775–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14562. Full Text
Villellas, Jesús, María B. García, and William F. Morris. “Geographic location, local environment, and individual size mediate the effects of climate warming and neighbors on a benefactor plant.” Oecologia 189, no. 1 (January 2019): 243–53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4304-2. Full Text
Peterson, Megan L., Daniel F. Doak, and William F. Morris. “Both life-history plasticity and local adaptation will shape range-wide responses to climate warming in the tundra plant Silene acaulis.” Global Change Biology 24, no. 4 (April 2018): 1614–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13990. Full Text
Himes Boor, Gina K., Cheryl B. Schultz, Elizabeth E. Crone, and William F. Morris. “Mechanism matters: the cause of fluctuations in boom-bust populations governs optimal habitat restoration strategy.” Ecological Applications : A Publication of the Ecological Society of America 28, no. 2 (March 2018): 356–72. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1652. Full Text
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Selected Grants
Collaborative LTREB Research: How will local adaptation and climatic extremes shape continental-scale changes in distribution and abundance under climate change? awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2023
Managing metapopulations of threatened species across jurisdictional boundaries: quantifying effects of climate change, environmental synchrony, dispersal, and corridors awarded by Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2022
Collaborative Research: Scaling to Regional Controls Over Prairie Plant Range Distributions under Future Climate Change awarded by University of Colorado - Boulder (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2020
Evaluating the Use of Spatially Explicit Population Models to Predict Conservation Reliant Species in Nonanalogue Future Environments on DoD Lands awarded by Institute for Wildlife Studies (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2020
LTREB RENEWAL: Collaborative LTREB Research: Population and community-level mechanisms of range limitation in variable and changing environment awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2007 to 2019
Endangered Butterflies as A Model System for Detecting and Managing Source-Link Dynamics In Remnant And Restored Habitat On Department of Defense Lands awarded by Tufts University (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2018
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Can indirect interations arise from sharing mutualists? Detecting competition or facilitation awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2007 to 2010
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Predicting the combined effects of plant resistance and natural enemies on plant fitness awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2004 to 2007
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Changes in Ecomycorrhizal Fungal Communities Along a Nitrogen Deposition Gradient and Their Consequences for Host Tree Performance awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2004 to 2006
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Does the presence and spatial arrangement of co-flowering species affect threshold critical population densities in plants? awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2002 to 2006