Joshua P. Scholl

Education

• Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2020

Research Interests

• Plant ecology
• Conservation biology
• Population ecology
• Life history evolution

Research Description

I’m a plant population ecologist and conservation biologist. My lab group addresses fundamental questions about how environmental variability and change shapes life history strategies and the consequences of those strategies for population and community dynamics. We employ a mix of long-term field observations, experiments conducted in natural and controlled settings, and modeling approaches. We usually use plants as study organisms because they are easy to catch, but we also love and employ reptiles.

Recent Publications

Recent (or favorite) Publications:

• Scholl, J.P., Urbina-Casanova, R., Iler, A. 2022. The importance of negative density dependence for rare species persistence. Biological Conservation. 274: 109729. DOI: 1016/j.biocon.2022.109729

 

• Scholl, J.P., Calle, L., Miller, N.*, Venable, D.L. 2020. Offspring polymorphism and bet hedging: a large-scale, phylogenetic analysis. Ecology Letters. 23.8: 1223-1231. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13522

 

• Ge, X., Scholl, J. P., Basinger-Walholm, U., Venable, D. L. 2019. Functional trait trade‐off and species abundance: insights from a multi‐decadal study. Ecology Letters. doi:10.1111/ele.13217

 

• Román-Palacios, C., Scholl, J. P. and Wiens, J. J. 2019. Evolution of diet across the animal tree of life. Evolution Letters. 3: 339-347. doi:10.1002/evl3.127

 

• Scholl, J. P., Wiens, J. J. 2016. Diversification rates and species richness across the Tree of Life. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 283: 20161335.

Scholarly Acitivites

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