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We study the dynamics of food webs and ecosystems.

Through analysis of interactions among predators, herbivores, plants and decomposers, we resolve the functional role of species within aboveground and belowground food webs and how those roles determine attendant ecosystem functioning. We combine empirical research with mathematical modeling and deal with a variety of ecosystems and study species, ranging from lions in Kenyan savannas, caribou in Newfoundland boreal forests, to insects and their spider predators in New England grasslands.

Lab News

  • We have new lab members! Matteo Rizzuto returns to the lab as a postdoctoral associate, and we welcome incoming MESc students Mizzy Almaazmi, Amanda Wik, and Gino Rivera Bulnes
  • Postdoc Matteo Rizzuto won the Hanski Prize for his doctoral research on ecological stoichiometry and landscape ecology, published in Oecologia.
  • PhD candidate Kristy Ferraro and lab-affiliate Diego Ellis Soto won the Sidnie Manton Award for their paper published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
  • Os was co-awarded an NSF DEB grant on "Adaptation and resiliency of food web structure and functioning to environmental change".

Recent Publications

Zamuda, K. M., Duguid M.C., and O.J. Schmitz. 2022. Human land‐use effects on mammalian mesopredator occupancy of a northeastern Connecticut landscape. Ecology and Evolution. 

Monk, J.,  J.A. Smith, E. Donadío, P.L. Perrig, R.D. Crego, M. Fileni, O. Bidder, S.A. Lambertucci, J.N. Pauli, O.J. Schmitz, and A.D. Middleton. 2022. Cascading effects of a disease outbreak in a remote protected area. Ecology Letters.

Buchkowski R.W. and O.J Schmitz. 2022. Weak interactions between strong interactors in an old-field ecosystem: Control of nitrogen cycling by coupled herbivores and detritivores. Functional Ecology. 

Moore, A.C. and. O.J. Schmitz. 2022. Do predators have a role to play in wetland ecosystem functioning? An experimental study in New England salt marshes. Ecology and Evolution. 
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Sommer, N.R. and K.M. Ferraro. 2022. An ethical framework for behavioural training in wildlife management. Conservation Science and Practice.  

Ferraro, K.M., O.J. Schmitz, and M.A. McCary. 2022. Effects of ungulate density and sociality on landscape heterogeneity: a mechanistic modeling approach. Ecography. 

Monk, Julia D.  and O.J. Schmitz. 2022. Landscapes shaped from the top down: predicting cascading predator effects on spatial biogeochemistry. Oikos.  

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Contact Us

Schmitz Lab
Yale School of the Environment
370 Prospect Street
Greeley Laboratory, Room 119
New Haven, CT 06511 USA
Phone: (203) 436-5276
oswald.schmitz [at] yale.edu

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  • Home
  • People
    • Os Schmitz
    • Annise Dobson
    • Elizabeth Forbes
    • Matteo Rizzuto
    • Mary Burak
    • Kristy Ferraro
    • Kaggie Orrick
    • Nathalie Sommer
    • Dylan Feldmeier
    • Vivian Hawkinson
    • Janey Lienau
    • Urmila Mallick
    • Mizna Almaazmi
    • Gino Rivera Bulnes
    • Amanda Wik
    • Daviana Berkowitz-Skla
    • Lab Alumni
  • Research
    • Animals in Carbon and Nutrient Cycling
    • Human-Wildlife Interactions
    • Landscape Spatial Dynamics
    • Species Interactions in Food Webs
    • Invasive Species
  • Blog
  • Pubs
  • Media
  • Join