Erik Jules
General Information
Professor
Ecology
Phone: (707) 826-3346
Office: HS 18-Room 203
Email: esj4@humboldt.edu
Personal Website:http://users.humboldt.edu/ejules/
Academic background
- BA (1989) Ithaca College
- PhD (1997) University of Michigan
Courses
- Population & Community Ecology
- Principles of Ecology
- Plant Ecology
- Environment & Culture: How People Transformed a Continent
Summary of research
My research interests vary widely within the field of ecology. Some of my recent studies concern: tree-climate relationships, landscape-level changes in trophic interactions, spread of non-native pathogens across heterogeneous landscapes, loss of open savannah forest due to encroachment, the effects of habitat fragmentation on plant extinction risk, and the role of plant genetic diversity in governing communities of herbivores and ecosystem processes. I also have a passion for environmental history.
Sample publications
- Jules, E.S., A.M. Ellison, N.J. Gotelli, S. Lillie, G. Meindl, N.J. Sanders, A.N. Young. 2011. The influence of fire on a rare serpentine plant assemblage: a five year study of Darlingtonia fens. American Journal of Botany 98:801-811.
- Kauffman, M. J., J.F. Brodie, E.S. Jules. 2010. Are wolves saving Yellowstone’s aspen? a landscape-level test of a behaviorally mediated trophic cascade. Ecology 91:2740-2753.
- Jules, M.J., J.O. Sawyer and E.S. Jules. 2008. Assessing the relationships between stand development and understory vegetation using a 420-year chronosequence. Forest Ecology and Management 255:2384-2393.
- Kauffman, M.J., and E.S. Jules. 2006. Heterogeneity shapes invasion: host size and environment influence susceptibility to a nonnative pathogen. Ecological Applications 16:166-175.
- Carroll A.L. and E.S. Jules. 2005. Climatic and ecological implications from a 580-year Port Orford cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) chronology in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Madroño 52:114-122.
- Jules, E.S., M.J. Kaufmann, W. Ritts, & A.L. Carroll. 2002. Spread of an invasive pathogen over a variable landscape: a non-native root rot on Port Orford cedar. Ecology 83: 3167-3181.
- Jules, E.S. 1998. Habitat fragmentation and demographic change for a common plant: trillium in old-growth forest. Ecology 79:1645-1656.
Graduate students
Melissa DeSiervo, Jenell Jackson, and Elizabeth Wu