James A Drake
For other persons named Jim Drake, see Jim Drake (disambiguation)
| James A Drake | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) Wisconsin |
| 💼 Occupation | Community Ecologist |
| Known for | Community Ecology Assembly Models |
| Notable work | Biological Invasions |
Biography
James A. Drake was born on August 20th, 1954. He went to Waunawat West High School and then to the University of Wisconsin in Madison and graduated with a degree in Science Education. He later graduated from Purdue in 1985 and became an Andrew Mellon Fellow at Stanford working on Biological Invasions with Harold Mooney. In 1986, he began teaching at The University of Tennessee as an Assistant Professor in Zoology and the Ecology graduate program. He was a founding member of their Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Drake focused on community assembly models and the structure of ecological communities. He helped organize The International Program of the Scientific Committee on Problems with the Environment. This work led to the formation of the scientific study of invasion biology. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Biological Invasions from 2003 to 2008 and edited two major texts from some of the earliest works regarding community ecology at the time Ecology of Biological Invasions of Hawaii and North America (1986) and Biological Invasions: A Global Perspective (1989).[1] His work is considered influential work regarding Community Ecology[2]. Some of his students later determined the simultaneous convergence and divergence at different levels of community assembly.[3] Some of his work included sequential and spatial constraints to illustrate the principles of population ecology. His theoretical constructs were later used to describe microbial ecological communities. His most influential work involves emerging complex systems, food webs, and biological invasions.
Works
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Among his works are:
- Emergence in Ecological Systems. (2006) From Energetics to Ecosystems: The Dynamics and Structure of Ecological Systems.
- On Testing the Competition-Colonization Trade-Off in a Multispecies Assemblage. (2006) The American Naturalist.
- Constructing Nature: Laboratory Models as Necessary Tools for Investigating Complex Ecological Communities. (2005) Advances in Ecological Research.
- Introduction to Biological Invasions (2005) Biological Invasions
- An Experimentally-Derived Map of Community Assembly Space (2002)
- Self-organized criticality in ecology and evolution (1999) Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Rapoport's rule: An explanation or a byproduct of the latitudinal gradient in species richness? (1998) Biodiversity and Conservation. 7(11)1447-1455
- E. Book review. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. (1998)
- Abundance and range relationship in a fragmented landscape: Connections and contrasts between competing models. (1997)
- Hierarchy underlies patterns of variability in species inhabiting natural microcosms. Oikos. (1996) 77(2)
- Microcosms as Models for Generating and Testing Community Theory. Ecology. (1996) 77(3):670-677
- On Models for Assembling Ecological Communities. Oikos (1996) 75(3):493-499
- The Patterned Peatlands of Minnesota. H.E. Wright, Jr. Barbara A Coffin Norman E. Aaseng. (1994). The Quarterly Review of Biology 69(2)
- On Defining Assembly Space: A Reply to Grover and Lawton (1994). Journal of Animal Ecology. 63(2)
- A closed artificial stream for conducting experiments requiring a controlled species pool (1993). Hydrobiologia 271(2):75-85
- The Construction and Assembly of an Ecological Landscape (1992). Journal of Animal Ecology 62(1):117
- Environmental Biotechnology (1988). BioScience 38(6):420-422.
References
- ↑ "Founding EEB Department Member Jim Drake Retires".
- ↑ Drake, James A (1991). "Community-assembly mechanics and the structure of an experimental species ensemble". American Naturalist. 137 (1): 1–26. doi:10.1086/285143. ISSN 0003-0147. JSTOR 2462154.
- ↑ Fukami, Tadashi; Martijn Bezemer, T.; Mortimer, Simon R.; van der Putten, Wim H. (2005-12-01). "Species divergence and trait convergence in experimental plant community assembly" (PDF). Ecology Letters. 8 (12): 1283–1290. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00829.x. ISSN 1461-0248. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
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