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Jeremy W. Fox – Curriculum vitae
Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Canada
phone: +1 (403) 220-5275
fax: +1 (403) 289-9311
e-mail: [email protected]
PERSONAL
Born Oct. 3, 1972, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Dual citizen of US and Canada
EMPLOYMENT
2008- Associate Professor
2014 Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of Calgary, Canada (ongoing)
Tenured since August 2009
2004- Assistant Professor
2008 Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of Calgary, Canada
2000- Postdoctoral Research Associate
2004 NERC Centre for Population Biology (CPB)
Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, UK
EDUCATION
2000 Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Advisor: Peter J. Morin
1995
B.A. with Honors in Biology, Magna cum laude
Williams College
Williamstown, MA, USA
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
41.
Fox, J. W., and L. Harder. In press. Using a 'time machine' to test for local adaptation of
aquatic microbes to temporal as well as spatial environmental variation. Evolution.
40.
Olito, C. and J. W. Fox. In press. Species traits and relative abundances predict metrics
of plant-pollinator network structure, but not pairwise interactions. Oikos. doi:
10.1111/oik.01439
39.
Vasseur, D. A., J. W. Fox et al. 2014. Synchronous dynamics of zooplankton competitors
prevail in temperate lake ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281,
20140633.
38.
Petchey, O. L., J. W. Fox, and L. Haddon. 2014. Imbalance in individual researcher's
peer review activities quantified for four British Ecological Society Journals, 20032010. PLoS ONE 9:e92896. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092896
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37.
Gross, K., B. J. Cardinale, J. W. Fox, et al. 2014. Species richness and the temporal stability
of biomass production: a new analysis of recent biodiversity experiments. American
Naturalist 183:1-12. (Authorship alphabetical after first author)
36.
Livingston, G., Y. Jiang, J. W. Fox, and M. A. Leibold. 2013. The dynamics of
community assembly under sudden mixing in experimental microcosms. Ecology 94:28982906.
35.
Fox, J. W., G. Legault, D. A. Vasseur, and J. A. Einarson. 2013. Nonlinear effects of
dispersal rate on spatial synchrony of predator-prey cycles. PLoS ONE 8:e79527.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079527
34.
Cardinale, B. J., K. Gross, K. Fritschie, P. Flombaum, J. W. Fox, et al. 2013. Biodiversity
simultaneously enhances the production and stability of community biomass in experimental
systems of primary producers, but the effects are independent. Ecology 94:1697-1707.
(Authorship alphabetical after first author)
33.
Fox, J. W. 2013. The intermediate disturbance hypothesis should be abandoned. Trends in
Ecology and Evolution 28:86-92.
Most downloaded paper published by Trends in Ecology and Evolution in 2013
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32.
Fox, J. W. 2012. Can blogging change how ecologists share ideas? In economics, it
already has. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 5:74-77. (invited contribution to special issue)
31.
Fox, J. W. 2012. When should we expect microbial phenotypic traits to predict microbial
abundances? Frontiers in Microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00268 (invited
contribution to special issue)
30.
Fox, J. W., and B. Kerr. 2012. Analyzing the effects of species gain and loss on ecosystem
function: an extended Price Equation partition. Oikos 121:290-298.
29.
Vasseur, D. A., and J. W. Fox. 2011. Adaptive dynamics of competition for nutritionally
complementary resources: character displacement, convergence, and parallelism. American
Naturalist 178:501-514.
28.
Fox, J. W., D. A. Vasseur, S. Hausch, and J. Roberts. 2011. Phase locking, the Moran effect,
and distance decay of synchrony: experimental tests in a model system. Ecology Letters
14:163-168.
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Fox, J. W., W. A. Nelson, and E. McCauley. 2010. Coexistence mechanisms and the paradox
of the plankton: quantifying selection from noisy data. Ecology 91:1774-1786.
“Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/4267956)
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Fox, J. W. 2010. Partitioning the effects of species loss on community variability using
multi-level selection theory. Oikos 119:1823-1833.
25.
Vasseur, D. A., and J. W. Fox. 2009. Phase locking and environmental fluctuations generate
synchrony in a predator-prey community. Nature 209:1007-1010.
Selected as a “Must Read” paper by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1326014)
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Fox, J. W., and G. Rauch. 2009. Partitioning the mechanisms by which genetic diversity of
parasite infections affects total parasite load. Oikos 118:1507-1514.
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Hector, A., T. Bell, J. Connolly, J. Finn, J. W. Fox, et al. 2009. The analysis of biodiversity
experiments: from pattern to mechanism. In: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and
Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective, Oxford University Press.
(Authorship alphabetical after first author)
22.
Fox, J. W., and D. Vasseur. 2008. Character convergence under competition for nutritionallyessential resources. American Naturalist 172:667-680.
21.
Fox, J. W. 2008. Testing whether productivity mediates the occurrence of alternate stable
states and assembly cycles in a model microcosm system. Oikos 117:1153-1164.
20.
Fox, J. W., and W. S. Harpole. 2008. Revealing how species loss affects ecosystem function:
the trait-based Price Equation partition. Ecology 89:269-279.
Vasseur, D., and J. W. Fox. 2007. Environmental fluctuations can stabilize food web
dynamics by increasing synchrony. Ecology Letters 10:1066-1074.
“Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1091139)
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Fox, J. W. 2007. Testing the mechanisms by which source-sink dynamics alter competitive
outcomes in a model system. American Naturalist 170:396-408.
17.
Fox, J. W. 2007. Within-trophic level diversity, density compensation, and the dynamics of
trophic cascades. Oikos 116:189-200.
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Fox, J. W. 2006. Using the Price Equation to partition the effects of biodiversity loss on
ecosystem function. Ecology 87:2687-2696
Lead article, highlighted on journal cover
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Fox, J. W., and C. Barreto. 2007. Suprising competitive coexistence in a classic model
system. Community Ecology 7:143-154.
“Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1071000)
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Fox, J. W. 2006. Current food web models cannot explain the overall topological structure of
observed food webs. Oikos 115:97-109.
13.
Fox, J. W., and D. S. Srivastava. 2006. Predicting local-regional richness relationships using
island biogeography models. Oikos 113:376-382.
12.
Fox, J. W. 2005. Biodiversity, food web structure, and the partitioning of biomass within and
among trophic levels. In: Dynamic Food Webs, Academic Press.
11.
Fox, J. W. 2005. Interpreting the “selection effect” of biodiversity on ecosystem function.
Ecology Letters 8:846-856.
Selected as a “Must Read” paper by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1027710)
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10.
Fox, J. W. 2004. Effects of algal and herbivore diversity on the partitioning of biomass
within and among trophic levels. Ecology 85:549-559.
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Berlow, E., A.-M. Neutel, J. Cohen, P. de Ruiter, B. Ebenman, J. W. Fox, et al. 2004.
Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities. Journal of Animal Ecology
73:585-598.
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Fox, J. W. 2004. Modelling the joint effects of predator and prey diversity on total prey
biomass. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:88-96.
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Fox, J. W. 2003. The long-term relationship between plant diversity and total plant biomass
depends on the mechanism maintaining diversity. Oikos 102:630-640.
6.
Fox, J. W. 2002. Testing a simple rule for dominance in resource competition. American
Naturalist 159:305-319.
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Fox, J. W., and J. McGrady-Steed. 2002. Stability and complexity in microcosm
communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 71:749-756.
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Fox, J. W., and P. J. Morin. 2001. Effects of intra- and interspecific interactions on species
responses to environmental change. Journal of Animal Ecology 70:80-90.
3.
Fox, J. W., and E. Olsen. 2000. Food web structure and the strength of transient indirect
effects. Oikos 90:219-226.
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Fox, J. W., O. L. Petchey, and J. McGrady-Steed. 2000. Testing for local species saturation
with nonindependent regional species pools. Ecology Letters 3:198-206.
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Fox, J. W., and D. C. Smith. 1997. Variable outcomes of protist-rotifer competition in
laboratory microcosms. Oikos 79:489-495.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2010 Fox, J. W., and O. L. Petchey. PubCreds: Fixing the peer review process by ‘privatising’ the
reviewer commons. Ecological Society of America Bulletin 91:325-333.
2004
Morin, P. J., and J. W. Fox. Diversity in the deep blue sea. Nature 429:813-814 (News &
Views article).
GRANTS
2010 “Ecological and evolutionary dynamics”
NSERC Discovery Grant, $145,000 (5 year award)
2007
“Evolution of competing species: divergence or convergence in resource use?”
British Ecological Society Early Career Project Grant, £23,900 (1 year award, =$48,435)
2005
“Effects of dispersal and non-equilibrium population dynamics on community structure:
mechanistic experiments in model systems”
NSERC Discovery Grant, $132,500 (5 year award).
2005
“Stability and diversity in ecological systems: combining mathematical models and
experiments”
Alberta Ingenuity Fund New Faculty Award, $110,000 (2 year award)
2005
“Fluctuating selection and algal diversity”
University of Calgary Research Starter Grant, $9665 (1 year award)
2005
University of Calgary Travel Grant, $1500 (1 year award)
TEACHING
Undergraduate courses
Ecology of Populations – University of Calgary
Aquatic Ecology – University of Calgary
Quantitative Biology I – University of Calgary
Quantitative Biology II – University of Calgary
Ecological and Evolutionary Applications – University of Calgary
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Population & Community Ecology – Imperial College London (guest lecturer)
Graduate courses
Advanced Population Ecology – University of Calgary
Darwin’s Origin of Species – University of Calgary
Biodiversity I – Imperial College London (guest lecturer)
Advances in Ecology – Imperial College London (guest lecturer)
MENTORING
Graduate students
2011-13: Geoff Legault, Ph.D. student
 Transferred to University of Colorado to complete Ph.D.
2009-13: Colin Olito, M.Sc. student
 Now Ph.D. student at James Cook University
2009-14: Stephen Hausch, Ph.D. student
 Ongoing
2007: Jose Larrosa, M.Sc. exchange student
 Returned to Spain to complete degree
2006-14: Brian Kopach, Ph.D. student
 Now an environmental consultant
2006-7: Ananthi Anadanadesan, M.Sc. student
 Transferred to M.Res. at Univ. of York (UK)
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Current or past committee member for 5 M.Sc. students
Current or past committee member for 2 Ph.D. students
External committee member for 2 Ph.D. students
External examiner for 2 Ph.D. students
Postdoc
2006-8: David Vasseur, postdoctoral researcher
 Now Associate Professor, Yale University
Technicians
2008-9: Tara Janes, technician and lab manager
 Now a Ph.D. student, University of Calgary Medical School
2007-8: Jessica Scharein, technician and lab manager
 Now an ultrasound technician
2006-7: Louise Hahn, lab manager and technician
 Now Ecology Technician, University of Calgary
Undergraduate students
2013-14: Geoff Osgood, honors student
 Went on to M.Sc., University of Victoria
2010-11: Julie Thomas, honors student
 Plans to attend graduate school
2010-11: Stephanie Thibodeau, independent study student
 Went on to environmental consulting
2009-10: Ania Karzyñska, independent study student
 Went on to technician position, University of Calgary
2008: Juliette Chamagne, independent study student
 Went on to Ph.D., University of Zürich
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Current or past supervisor for 24 undergraduate summer research assistants
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INVITED SEMINARS
2014 University of Chicago, USA
Virginia Tech University, USA (2 seminars; student-elected speaker)
Utah State University, USA (2 seminars; student-elected speaker)
2013
Beijing Normal University, China (2 seminars)
Imperial College London, UK
2012
Case Western Reserve University, USA (2 seminars)
2011
University of Alberta, Canada
2010
Yale University, USA
University of Texas – Austin, USA
University of Texas – San Antonio, USA
McGill University, Canada
University of Ottawa, Canada
2009
Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
2007
Complexity Science Group, University of Calgary
2006
Sigma Xi, University of Calgary
Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Canada
2005
University of Alberta, Canada
2004
Syracuse University, USA
University of Calgary
Royal Holloway, UK
2003
Indiana University, USA
McGill University, Canada
University of York, UK
Imperial College London, UK
Sheffield University, UK
2002
University of Minnesota, USA
Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
2001
Sheffield University, UK
Yale University, USA
2000
Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
Imperial College London, UK
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Talks
1997-8, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
2000-6,
2008-14
2012
Evolution 2012 Annual Meeting
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2011
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Annual Meeting
2000, British Ecological Society Annual Meeting
2002-3
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Co-author of 10 talks by students, post-docs, and collaborators
Posters
2007 Peter Yodzis Colloquium in Fundamental Ecology, University of Guelph, Canada
1996
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Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
Co-author of 2 posters by students
SYMPOSIA AND WORKING GROUPS
2013 Invited speaker, "Current challenges for modelling cyclic populations", a workshop at Banff
International Research Station
2011
Organizer, Plankton Dynamics Working Group, Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution
2011
Invited speaker, Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Conference,
Washington, DC, USA
2009
Organizer, “The interplay of ecology and evolution at micro and macro scales,” a symposium
at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
2009
Invited speaker, “Workshop on statistical methods for dynamic system models,” an
international workshop following the Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting,
Vancouver, Canada (declined)
2009
Invited speaker, “Interrelationships between phenotypic diversity of communities and
ecosystem function,” an international symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological
Society of Japan, Morioka, Japan
2009
Co-author of invited seminar by Brian Kopach (graduate student) at the British Ecological
Society Annual Symposium, Aberdeen, UK
2009
Invited speaker, “Predator-prey interactions: linking mechanism to community dynamics,” a
special session at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Aquatic
Sciences Meeting, Nice, France (declined)
2008
Invited speaker, Second Graduate Research Summit of the International Graduate Training
Centre in Mathematical Biology, Banff International Research Station, Canada
2007
Invited speaker, Modeling in Biology Day, University of Calgary
2007
Invited speaker, “Protists are the perfect models to understand population dynamics,” a
special session at the International Society of Protozoologists meeting, Rhode Island, USA
(declined)
2007
Invited participant, “Species interactions in a changing world,” an international workshop
funded by the Nordic Centre of Excellence – EcoClim, Copenhagen, Denmark (declined)
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2006
Invited speaker, “Ecology and Genetics of Clonal Organisms,” a special session at the 30th
Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, Montreal,
Canada (declined)
2006
Invited speaker, opening ceremony of the Centre for Mathematics in the Life Sciences,
University of Calgary
2005
Invited speaker, “The consequences of biodiversity in aquatic habitats,” a special session at
the ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2005
Invited speaker, “Advances at the Interface of Theoretical and Empirical Plankton Ecology,”
a special session at the Summer Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and
Oceanography, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (declined)
2005
Invited speaker, “Protists and climate change,” an invited oral session at the Annual Meeting
of the Ecological Society of America (declined)
2003
Invited speaker, “Food Webs 2003,” a decadal international symposium funded by the
European Science Foundation (ESF), Giessen, Germany
2002
Invited participant, “Trophic Interactions in a Changing World,” an ESF-funded conference,
Texel, Netherlands
2001-4 Invited member of InterACT, an ESF-funded international working group on theoretical
community ecology
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2013 Joined Axios Review, an independent editorial board in ecology and evolution
(axiosreview.org)
2012
Invited to join editorial board of Ecology and Evolution (declined)
2012
Invited to join editorial board of PLoS ONE (declined)
2008
Invited to join editorial board of PLoS ONE (declined)
2007-12 Editorial board member, Oikos
2000-6 Volunteer judge, Ecological Society of America (ESA) Buell and Braun Awards and Lotka2008-14 Volterra Awards
Referee for Nature, Science, Ecology, Ecology Letters, American Naturalist, Evolution, Journal of
Animal Ecology, Oikos, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Molecular Ecology,
Evolutionary Applications, Global Change Biology, Nature Communications, Journal of Theoretical
Biology, Advances in Ecological Research, Functional Ecology, Theoretical Population Biology,
Theoretical Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology, Oecologia, Ecological Modelling, Biology Letters,
Journal of Plant Ecology, Ecological Entomology, and PLoS ONE
Grant application referee for the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA; the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada; the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI),
Canada; the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK; and the Alberta Conservation
Association (ACA), Canada.
Book chapter referee for Oxford University Press
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Book series referee for The British Ecological Society
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2012 Member, University of Calgary "Eyes High" postdoctoral scholar competition committee
2011- Chair, Ecology Undergraduate Program Committee
2014
2010
Co-chair, Quantitative Biology & Ecology Instructor Search & Selection Committee
2010
Member, University PURE Award Evaluation Committee
2010
Member, Faculty of Science Research Ethics Committee
2010
Member, Dept. of Biological Sciences Infrastructure, Facilities, & Collections Committee
2008- Member, Dept. of Biological Sciences Undergraduate, Graduate & Postdoctoral Awards
2009 Committee
2008- Initiator and coordinator of “Darwin Lecture Series” and other events celebrating Charles
2009 Darwin’s 200th birthday, University of Calgary. See
http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~jefox/Darwin.htm and
http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/utoday/feb3-09/darwin
2006- Member, Ecology Undergraduate Program Committee (ongoing)
2014
2005- Coordinator, Dept. of Biological Sciences Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series
2009
2006-8, Coordinator, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Graduate Seminar Series
2009-10,
2012-13
2005, Organizer, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Annual Retreat
2007-8
2006- Member, Environmental Microbiology Search & Selection Committee
2007
OUTREACH
2010 “Darwin’s Origin of Species: a guided tour,” invited lecture, McConnell Club, Geological
Survey of Canada – Calgary
2010
“Darwin’s Origin of Species: a guided tour,” invited lecture, Alberta Paleontological Society
2009
“Darwin’s Origin of Species,” invited lecture, Medical Genetics residents, Foothills Hospital,
Calgary.
2009
“The ups and downs of predators and prey,” a lab demonstration for 7th graders,
Calgary Science School
2009
“Darwin’s Origin of Species: a guided tour,” invited lecture, Calgary Field Naturalists
Society
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2009
Organizer, “Introducing Charles Darwin,” a public lecture series at the Calgary World of
Science. See http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~jefox/publiclectures.htm
2005-8, Volunteer judge, Calgary Youth Science Fair
2010
2000- Volunteer leader, CPB Science Week activities for sixth form (17 year old) students
2004
BLOG
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Ecological Society of America
American Society of Naturalists
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
REFERENCES
Peter J. Morin
Professor II, Rutgers University
Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources
14 College Farm Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
phone: 848-932-3214
fax: 848-932-8746
e-mail: [email protected]
Robert D. Holt
Eminent Scholar, University of Florida
Department of Biology
111 Bartram
P.O. Box 118525
Gainesville, FL 32611-8525 USA
phone: 352-392-6917
fax: 352-392-3704
email: [email protected]
Mathew Leibold
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Section of Integrative Biology
1 University Station #C0930
Austin, TX 78712 USA
phone: 512-475-8669
fax: 512-471-3878
email: [email protected]