Amy Dunham - Rice University, EEB

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Amy E. Dunham

Research Interests :

· Impacts of extinctions and invasions on ecosystem stability and functioning

· Habitat fragmentation effects on multi-trophic species interactions

· Effects of environmental inputs and feedbacks on food-web stability

· Quantitative tools for decision making in conservation, endangered species recovery, and reserve design

· Evolutionary and behavioral ecology of mammals and birds

Education :

Ph.D. Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution (December 2003)

B.A. Connecticut College, Distinction & honors in Zoology (1995)

Positions Held :

2007-Pres. Rice University Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Research Faculty Fellow

2006-2007 Smithsonian Institute, Conservation & Research Center, Monitoring & Assessment of Biodiversity Program, Postdoctoral Fellow

2005-2006 Harvard University, Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology

2004-2005 College of William & Mary, Dept. of Biology, Visiting Assistant Professor

Some Representative Publications :

Published Books

Shultz, S., A. E. Dunham, K. Root, S. Soucy, S. Carroll, & L. Ginzburg. 1999. Conservation Biology with RAMAS Ecolab. Sinaur Associates, Mass. 251pp. (Undergraduate text/lab book teaches students quantitative conservation biology and wildlife management) Second release in 2002 in digital form available from Web of Science. Click here for reviews.

Journal Publications (Undergraduate students underlined)

Dunham, A. E. 2008. Above and below ground impacts of terrestrial mammals and birds in a tropical forest. Oikos. 117 (4), 571-579

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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16534.x

Dunham, A. E., Erhart, E., Overdorff, D. Wright, P. C. 2008. Evaluating effects of habitat loss, hunting, and El Niño on a threatened lemur. Biological Conservation. 141:287-297.

**[PDF]**

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2007.10.006

Bagdassarian, C., Dunham, A., Raucher, D. and Brown, C. 2007. Biodiversity maintenance in food webs with regulatory environmental feedbacks. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 4:705-14 **[PDF]**

Dunham, A. E., & Akçakaya, R. H. 2006. Using scalar models for precautionary assessments of threatened species. Conservation Biology. 20 (5), 1499–1506 **[PDF]**

Veron,^.G., M. Colyn, A. E. Dunham, P. Taylor, P. Gaubert, P. 2004. Molecular phylogeny & the origin of sociality in the mongooses. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution.30:582-598 **[PDF]**

Ferson, S., R. H. Akcakaya, A. Dunham. 1999. Using fuzzy intervals to represent measurement error & scientific uncertainty in endangered species classification. IEEE.Proceedings of NAFIPS. 11 :112-114. **[PDF]**

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Amy Dunham

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Rice University

MS-170, 6100 Main St.

Houston, TX 77005

Contact Information:

Phone: (713) 348-2792

E-mail: aed4(at)rice.edu