Michael R. Willig

Positions:
Director, Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Personal WWW Site:  http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/willig/

Education:
B.S. (1970) University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. (1982) University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests: 
Community Ecology, Disturbance Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Macroecology, Quantitative Biology, Tropical Biology

Recent Publications:

• Gannon, M.R., M.R. Duran, A. Kurta, and M.R. Willig.  2005.  Bats of Puerto Rico: An Island Focus and Caribbean Perspective.  Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas. 
• Cramer, M.J., and M.R. Willig.  2005.  Habitat heterogeneity, species richness, and null models. Oikos 108:209-218.
• Wunderle, J.M., Jr., M.R. Willig, and L.M. Henriques.  2005.  Avian distribution in treefall gaps and understory of terra firme forest in the lowland Amazon.  Ibis 147:109-129.
• Harrell Yee, S., M.R. Willig, and D. L. Moorhead.  2005.  Tadpole shrimp structure macroinvertebrate communities in playa lake microcosms.  Hydrobiologia 541:139-148.
• Diaz, M.M. and M.R. Willig.  2005.  Nuevos registros de Glironia venusta y Didelphis albiventris (Didelphimorphia) para Peru.  Mastozoologia Neotropical 11:185-192.
• Wilsey, B.J., D.R. Chalcraft, C.M. Bowles, and M.R. Willig.  2005.  Multidimensional nature of species diversity in grassland communities.  Ecology 86:1178-84.
• Scheiner, S.M., and M.R. Willig.  2005.  Developing unified theories in ecology as exemplified with diversity gradients.  American Naturalist 116:458-69.
• Matthias, M.A., M.M. Diaz, K.J. Campos, M. Calderon, M.R. Willig, V. Pacheco, E. Gotuzzo, R.H. Gilman, and J.M. Vinetz.  2005.  Diversity of bat-associated Leptospira in the Peruvian Amazon inferred by Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of 16s Ribosomal DNA sequences.  J. Tropical Med. And Hygiene 73: 964-974.
• Gorresen, P.M., M.R. Willig, and R.E. Strauss.  2005.  Population and community- level responses of phyllostomid bats to landscape structure:  the importance of scale.  Ecological Applications 15:2126-2136.
• Willig, M.R., and C.P. Bloch.  2006.  Latitudinal gradients of species richness:  a test of the geographic area hypothesis.  Oikos 112:163-173.
• Stevens, R.D., M.R. Willig, and R.E. Strauss.  2006.  Latitudinal gradients in the phenetic diversity of New World bat communities.  Oikos 112:41-50.
• Bloch, C.P., and M.R. Willig.  2006.  Context-dependence of long-term responses of terrestrial gastropod populations to large-scale disturbance.  J. Tropical Ecology 22:111-122.
• Wunderle, Jr., J.M., L. M. Henriques, and M.R. Willig.  2006.  Short-term responses of birds to forest gaps and understory:  An assessment of low impact selective logging in a lowland Amazon forest.  Biotropica 38:235-255.
• Higgins, C.L., M.R. Willig, and R.E. Strauss.  2006.  The role of stochastic processes in producing nested patterns of species distribution.  Oikos 114:159-167.