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Stochastic biodemography

How/why are vital rates drawn from probability distributions in nature ?

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Sixth Evolutionary Demography Society Annual Meeting
* January 10-12, 2019 *
​University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

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EVO-DEMO-SOC MEETING LINK
New Species
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Cephaloleia horvitzae Staines               
Staines, C.L. and García–Robledo (Accepted 2013) Monograph - The genus Cephaloleia. Zookeys._: ____ - ____. Named for Carol C. Horvitz in recognition of her many contributions to the understanding of the ecology of Zingiberales and their insect herbivores and her collegiality over the years.

IN THE COMMUNITY                                                     
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March for Science, Miami 2017
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"Community Day" 2017 at usda subtropical horticultural research station, chapman field, with Steve Pearson, Director of the Gifford Arboretum
RESEARCH 
 recent publications


Gaoue, Orou., Carol Horvitz, Ulrich Steiner, Shripad Tuljapurkar. 2019. Climate, rather than harvest, is the main driver of age-specific mortality trajectories in a tropical tree.  Ecological Modelling 400:34-40. (accepted 3/17/19) . <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.03.007>
 
Rypkema, Diana C., Carol C. Horvitz, Shripad Tuljapurkar. 2019. How climate affects extreme events and hence ecological population models"  Ecology.(accepted 2/4/2019; 08 March 2019 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2684; Ecology 100: e02684)

 
Horvitz, Carol C., Julie S. Denslow, Tracy Johnson, Orou Gaoue and Amanda Uowolo. 2018. Unexplained variability among spatial replicates in transient elasticity: implications for evolutionary ecology and management of invasive species. Population Ecology 60: 61-75.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s1014

Bernstein Shayna Fae, Rehkopf D, Tuljapurkar S, and Horvitz CC. 2018. Poverty dynamics, poverty thresholds and mortality: An age-stage Markovian model. PLOS ONE 13(5): e0195734. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195734 

Erickson, Kelley D., Pratt, Paul D., Rayamajhi, Min B. and Carol C. Horvitz. In Press. (May 2017). Introduction history influences aboveground biomass allocation in Brazilian Peppertree (Schinus terebinthifolius)  Invasive Plant Science and Management.
 
Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, Carol C. Horvitz,W. John Kress, A. Nalleli Carvajal-Acosta, Terry L. Erwin, and Charles L. Staines. 2017. Experimental assemblage of novel plant-herbivore interactions: ecological host shifts after 40 million years of isolation. Biotropica 49: 803-810.
 
Matlaga, David P; Snyder, Rachel K; Horvitz, Carol C. 2017. Dispersal of Goeppertia marantifolia clonal offspring increases with greater canopy openness and larger plant size. Journal of Tropical Ecology 33: 107-113.
 
Westerband, Andrea C. and Horvitz, C.C. 2017. Early life conditions and precipitation influence the performance of widespread understorey herbs in variable light environments. Journal of Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12757
 
Westerband, A. C. and Horvitz, C. C. 2017. Photosynthetic rates influence the population dynamics of understory herbs in stochastic light environments. Ecology, 98(2): 370–381.

Horvitz, C.C. (2016) Life History Theory: Basics. Connecting Population Projection Matrices, Life Histories, Life Tables, and Markov Chains for Structured Populations. In: Kliman, R.M. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. vol. 2, pp. 384–389. Oxford: Academic Press. Elsevier Inc.

 awards
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Carlos Garcia-Robledo and co-authors was awarded the 2018 Denslow Prize for the paper "Experimental assemblage of novel plant–herbivore interactions: ecological host shifts after 40 million years of isolation”  published in Biotropica,  for its clarity of presentation, strong basis in natural history, well-planned design, and novel insights gained into critical processes that influence the structure and functioning of tropical biological systems.  

Carol Horvitz was awarded the Society of Women Geographers Outstanding Achievement Award at the SWG Triennial in Asilomar, CA in May 2017.  This award is bestowed on a member of the Society in recognition of an
outstanding contribution or service of lasting benefit to Science, the Arts, or Humanity.


​ meetings

Horvitz lab at the University of Miami will host the 6th Annual Meeting of the Evolutionary Demography Society in January, 2019.

​Carol Horvitz presented a talk at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Evolutionary Demography Society in Charlottesville, VA, fall 2016
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Carol Horvitz presented an invited talk and Kelley Erickson presented a poster at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, August 2016.
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