Evan Weiher

Education

• Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• M.S. University of Washington
• A.B. University of Chicago

Courses

• Biol 110 Ecology & Evolution
• Biol 332 Field Botany
• Biol 338 Plant Ecology
• Biol 383 Statistical Analysis of Biological Data
• Biol 491 Community Ecology
• Biol 491 Wetlands

Research - Plant & Community Ecology

• Multivariate controls on community assembly, biodiversity, and ecosystem processes
• Functional trait-based approaches to community ecology
• Interactions among plants, microbes, and animals
• Restoration Ecology and Habitat Management
• Selected Publications:
  

  Grace, J.B., T.M. Anderson, M.D. Smith, E. Seabloom, S.J. Andelman, G. Meche, E. Weiher, L.K. Allain, H. Julita, M. Sankaran, J. Knops, M. Ritchie, and M.R. Willig. 2007. Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities? Ecology Letters 10: 680-689.

  McGill, B., B.J. Enquist, M. Westoby, and E. Weiher. (2006). Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 178-184.

  Weiher, E. and P. Keddy (editors). (1999). Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, Advances, Retreats. Cambridge University Press