Erik Jules
General Information
Associate Professor
Plant Population & Community Ecology
Phone: (707) 826-3346
Office: Science D 169
Email: esj4@humboldt.edu
Personal Website: http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/%7Eesj4/
Academic background
- BA (1989) Ithaca College
- PhD (1997) University of Michigan
Courses
- Population & Community Ecology
- Plant Ecology
- Environment & Culture: How People Transformed a Continent
Summary of research
My research focuses on several areas within the field of ecology, most especially plant demography and invasion ecology. Some of my recent studies concern the spread of a non-native pathogen on a cedar endemic to nw California and sw Oregon, the effects of logging practices on plant population extinction risk, and the evolution of tolerance to serpentine habitats in non-native plants. I also have a passion for environmental history. Most of my work is conducted in the Klamath Region of California and Oregon.
Sample publications
- 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.
- Loya, D.T., and E.S. Jules. 2008. Use of richness estimators improves evaluation of understory plant response to logging: a study of redwood forests. Plant Ecology 194:179-194.
- 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
David Franklin, Marcus Jones, Sheilah Lillie and Elizabeth Wu