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Assistant Professor • Ph.D., University of Florida, 2013
EBIO
jresasco@colorado.edu
303-735-5146

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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 include听the 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 V谩zquez DP (2021)听Plant-pollinator interactions between generalists persist over time and space.听Ecology.听102: e03359. DOI:听.

  • Resasco J听and Fletcher RJ Jr (2021)听Accounting for connectivity alters the apparent roles of spatial and environmental processes on metacommunity assembly.听Landscape Ecology听36: 1089鈥�1099. DOI:听

  • Damschen EI, Brudvig LA, Burt MA, Fletcher RJ Jr., Haddad NM, Levey DJ, Orrock JL,听Resasco J, and Tewksbury JJ. (2019) Ongoing accumulation of plant diversity through habitat connectivity in an 18-year experiment.听Science听365(6460):1478-1480. DOI:听.

  • Resasco J,听Meta-analysis on a decade of testing corridor efficacy: what new have we learned? (2019)听Current Landscape Ecology Reports鈥嬏�4(3): 61-69.听DOI:听.

  • Resasco J,听Bitters ME, Cunningham SA, Jones HI, McKenzie VJ, and Davies KF.听(2019)听Experimental habitat fragmentation disrupts nematode infections in Australian skinks.听Ecology听100(1):听e02547. DOI:听.

  • Resasco J, Tuff KT, Cunningham SA, Melbourne BA, Hicks AL, Newsome SD, and Davies KF.听(2018) Generalist predator鈥檚 niche shifts reveal ecosystem changes in an experimentally fragmented landscape.听Ecography听41(7):1209-1219.听DOI:听.

  • Chacoff NP,听Resasco J,听and V谩zquez DP.听(2018) Interaction frequency, network position, and the temporal persistence of interactions in a plant-pollinator network.听Ecology听99(1):听21鈥�28. DOI:听.

  • Resasco听J,听Bruna EM, Haddad NM, Banks-Leite C, and Margules CR. (2017) The contribution of theory and experiments to conservation in fragmented landscapes.听Ecography听40(1): 109-118. DOI:听

  • Brudvig, LA, Leroux SJ, Albert CH, Bruna EM, Davies KF, Ewers RM, Levey DJ, Pardini R, and听J Resasco. (2017) Evaluating conceptual models of landscape change.听Ecography听40(1): 74鈥�84.听DOI:听.

  • Haddad NM, Brudvig LA, Damschen, Evans DM, Johnson BL, Levey DJ, Orrock JL,听Resasco J, Sullivan LL,听Tewksbury JJ, Wagner SA, and AJ Weldon. (2014) A听review of the potential negative ecological effects of landscape corridors.听Conservation Biology听28:1178-1187.听DOI:听.

  • Resasco J, Haddad NM, Shoemaker DD, Orrock JL, Brudvig LA, EI Damschen, Tewksbury JJ, and Levey DJ.听(2014)听Landscape corridors can increase invasion by an exotic species and reduce diversity of native species.听Ecology听95: 2033鈥�2039.听DOI:听.

  • Resasco J, Pelini SL, Stuble KL, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, Diamond SE, Ellison AM, Gotelli NJ, and Levey DJ.听(2014)听Using historical and experimental data to reveal warming temperature effects on ant assemblages.听PLoS ONE听 9(2):听e88029. DOI:听.

  • Resasco J, Porter SD, Sanders NJ, and DJ Levey.听(2014) Assessing the effects of sodium on fire ant foraging听in the field and colony growth in the laboratory.听Ecological Entomology听39: 267-271. DOI:听.