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Fricke, Evan
Faculty Fellow, Department of BioSiences, Rice University
Evan is an ecologist studying how anthropogenically altered species interaction networks impact terrestrial ecosystems, with goals of predicting biodiversity responses to global change and advancing basic theory on species coexistence. At SESYNC, he focused on the seed dispersal mutualism at the global scale to assess how changing plant-frugivore networks will impact plant range shifts under global change and natural forest restoration. His work in the Mariana Islands used a case of ecosystem-wide seed disperser loss to understand how vertebrate mutualists maintain forest biodiversity.
Cohort: 2018
Associated Projects:
| Resources | |
|---|---|
| Accelerating homogenization of the global plant–frugivore meta-network |
Sep 02, 2020 Article published in Nature. |
| Intrinsic and Extrinsic Drivers of Intraspecific Variation in Seed Dispersal Are Diverse and Pervasive |
Oct 14, 2019 |
| Advancing an interdisciplinary framework to study seed dispersal ecology |
Aug 17, 2019 Article published in AoB Plants |
| Linking intra‐specific trait variation and plant function: seed size mediates performance tradeoffs within species |
Jul 06, 2019 Article published in Oikos |
| Consequences of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal for plant demography, communities, evolution and global change |
Mar 21, 2019 Article published in AoB Plants |
Research Interest:
community ecology, biodiversity conservation, macroecology, ecological networks