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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 puma and vicuña in Argentinian grasslands, lions in Tanzanian savanna, to insects and their spider predators in aboveground and belowground food webs in Connecticut grasslands.
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Schmitz Lab
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies 370 Prospect Street Greeley Laboratory, Room 119 New Haven, CT 06511 USA Phone: (203) 436-5276 oswald.schmitz [at] yale.edu |
Recent Publications
Hammerschlag, N., O.J. Schmitz, A.S. Flecker, K.D. Lafferty, A. Sih, T.B. Atwood, A.J. Gallagher, D.J. Irschick9., R. Skubel and S.J. Cooke. 2019. Ecosystem function and services of aquatic predators in the Anthropocene. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34:369-383.
Buchkowski, R.W., O.J. Schmitz and M.A. Bradford. 2019. Nitrogen recycling in coupled green and brown food webs: weak effects of herbivory and detritivory when nitrogen passes through soil. Journal of Ecology 107:963-976.
Kofler, N., J.P. Collins, J. Kuzma, E. Marris, K. Esvelt,.M.P. Nelson, A. Newhouse, L.J. Rothschild, V.S. Vigliotti,.M. Semenov, R. Jacobsen, J. E. Dahlman, S. Prince, A. Caccone, T. Brown and O.J. Schmitz. 2018. Editing nature: local roots of global governance. Science 362: 527-529.
Schmitz, O.J., C.C. Wilmers, S.J. Leroux, C.E. Doughty, T.B. Atwood, M. Galetti, A.B. Davies, S. J. Goetz. 2018. Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle. Science 362: eaar3213.
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Buchkowski, R.W., O.J. Schmitz and M.A. Bradford. 2019. Nitrogen recycling in coupled green and brown food webs: weak effects of herbivory and detritivory when nitrogen passes through soil. Journal of Ecology 107:963-976.
Kofler, N., J.P. Collins, J. Kuzma, E. Marris, K. Esvelt,.M.P. Nelson, A. Newhouse, L.J. Rothschild, V.S. Vigliotti,.M. Semenov, R. Jacobsen, J. E. Dahlman, S. Prince, A. Caccone, T. Brown and O.J. Schmitz. 2018. Editing nature: local roots of global governance. Science 362: 527-529.
Schmitz, O.J., C.C. Wilmers, S.J. Leroux, C.E. Doughty, T.B. Atwood, M. Galetti, A.B. Davies, S. J. Goetz. 2018. Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle. Science 362: eaar3213.
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2016-2017 Schmitz Lab Members (from left to right): Os, Julia M, Rob B, Mary B, Alex M, Adam E, Sam M, and Kat W.
