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Julia Monk

Ph.D. Candidate
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
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Pronouns: she/her/hers

Education

M.Phil., 2018, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
B.A., 2013, Columbia University, Environmental Biology

Curriculum Vitae

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Research

Broadly speaking, I am interested in trophic interactions and how predator-prey relationships influence ecosystem function.  I am also interested in teasing out issues of scale in wildlife research, specifically how trophic relationships can scale up to have emergent effects on landscapes.  Understanding how predator-prey-habitat interactions at local levels relate to ecosystem- and distribution-wide patterns particularly interests me in the context of wide-ranging species such as mammalian predators, whose large individual home ranges in addition to overall species ranges encompass a diversity of communities and landscapes.  In my dissertation research, I am studying the effects of puma-vicuña interactions on nutrient cycling in the high desert of the Argentine Andes.

Previous Research

Virginia Tech Shorebird Program - From 2014-2016, I worked on the Virginia Tech Shorebird Program's Fire Island project, studying the effects of Hurricane Sandy and subsequent beach stabilization projects on piping plover demography and habitat use.  I was particularly involved in researching habitat use and community structure of migratory shorebirds, as well as the effects of human activity on piping plover chick survival.

The Nature Conservancy/Columbia University - From 2010-2013, I worked as a biological assistant for The Nature Conservancy in the Centennial Valley in southwest Montana.  I returned to the Centennial Valley to conduct my senior thesis research on the effects of fire on greater sage-grouse brood-rearing habitat and food resources.  I found that in the presence of three-tip sagebrush (Artemisia tripartita), which re-sprouts after burning, small fires do not reduce sage-grouse occupancy and may increase invertebrate prey availability.

University of Montana/SUNY Stony Brook - From 2006-2008, I worked as a research assistant for Dr. Charles Janson's brown capuchin monkey behavioral study.  We implemented banana feeding platform experiments to understand foraging decision-making in capuchin monkey groups.  We also deployed predator model and audio recording experiments to understand methods of capuchin monkey predator detection.​

Publications

Monk, J.D., E. Giglio, A. Kamath, M.R. Lambert and C.E. McDonough. 2019. An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior in animals. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1019-7

Burak, M.K., J.D. Monk and O.J. Schmitz. 2018. Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: The predator-prey adaptive play and the ecological theater. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 91:481-489. 

DeRose Wilson, A., K.L. Hunt, J.D. Monk, J.D. Fraser, D.H. Catlin, and S.M. Karpanty. 2018. Piping plover chick survival negatively correlated with beach recreation. Journal of Wildlife Management 82:1608-1616. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21552
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Monk, J.D., A. DeRose-Wilson, J.D. Fraser, D.H. Catlin and S.M. Karpanty. 2016. Observations of Fish Consumption by Piping Plovers. Northeastern Naturalist 23: N22-N25.
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Contact

Email: julia.monk [at] yale.edu
Office: Greeley Laboratory, Rm 119

Mailing Address:
Yale University
School of Forestry & Enviro Studies
370 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511 USA

julia-monk.com

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Banding and measuring a male piping plover
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Newly hatched piping plover chicks
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Study site in Centennial Valley, MT
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​Juvenile brown capuchin monkey in Iguazu National Park, Argentina
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