Evan Weiher

Education

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

Courses

• Biol 330 Population and Community Ecology
• Biol 332 Field Botany
• Biol 338 Vegetation Ecology
• Biol 375 Limnology
• Biol 383 Statistical Analysis of Biological Data
• 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:
  
  
  Weiher, E.,  D. Freund, T. Bunton, A. Stefanski, T. Lee, and S. Bentivenga. 2011. Advances, challenges, and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 2403-2413.
  
  Kattge, J., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I. C., Leadley, P., Bönisch, G., Garnier, E., Westoby, M., Reich, P. B., Wright, I. J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Violle, C., Harrison, S. P., van Bodegom, P. M., Reichstein, M., Enquist, B. J., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Ackerly, D. D., Anand, M., Atkin, O., Bahn, M., Baker, T. R., Baldocchi, D., Bekker, R., Blanco, C. C., Blonder, B., Bond, W. J., Bradstock, R., Bunker, D. E., Casanoves, F., Cavender-Bares, J., Chambers, J. Q., Chapin III, F. S., Chave, J., Coomes, D., Cornwell, W. K., Craine, J. M., Dobrin, B. H., Duarte, L., Durka, W., Elser, J., Esser, G., Estiarte, M., Fagan, W. F., Fang, J., Fernández-Méndez, F., Fidelis, A., Finegan, B., Flores, O., Ford, H., Frank, D., Freschet, G. T., Fyllas, N. M., Gallagher, R. V., Green, W. A., Gutierrez, A. G., Hickler, T., Higgins, S. I., Hodgson, J. G., Jalili, A., Jansen, S., Joly, C. A., Kerkhoff, A. J., Kirkup, D., Kitajima, K., Kleyer, M., Klotz, S., Knops, J. M. H., Kramer, K., Kühn, I., Kurokawa, H., Laughlin, D., Lee, T. D., Leishman, M., Lens, F., Lenz, T., Lewis, S. L., Lloyd, J., Llusià, J., Louault, F., Ma, S., Mahecha, M. D., Manning, P., Massad, T., Medlyn, B. E., Messier, J., Moles, A. T., Müller, S. C., Nadrowski, K., Naeem, S., Niinemets, Ü., Nöllert, S., Nüske, A., Ogaya, R., Oleksyn, J., Onipchenko, V. G., Onoda, Y., Ordoñez, J., Overbeck, G., Ozinga, W. A., Patiño, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G., Peñuelas, J., Phillips, O. L., Pillar, V., Poorter, H., Poorter, L., Poschlod, P., Prinzing, A., Proulx, R., Rammig, A., Reinsch, S., Reu, B., Sack, L., Salgado-Negret, B., Sardans, J., Shiodera, S., Shipley, B., Siefert, A., Sosinski, E., Soussana, J.-F., Swaine, E., Swenson, N., Thompson, K., Thornton, P., Waldram, M., Weiher, E., White, M., White, S., Wright, S. J., Yguel, B., Zaehle, S., Zanne, A. E. and Wirth, C. 2011.  TRY – a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology 17: 2905–2935. 
  
  Weiher, E.  2010. A primer of trait and functional diversity.  In: A. E. Magurran and B. J. McGill, editors. Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment.  Oxford University Press, pp. 175-193.
  
  Chalcraft, D., S.B. Cox, C. Clark, E.E. Cleland, K.N. Suding, E. Weiher and D. Pennington.  2008. Scale-dependent responses of plant biodiversity to nitrogen enrichment.  Ecology 89: 2165–2171.