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Department Chair
DeWitt Wallace Professor of
Biology
Olin-Rice 219
(651) 696-6102 office
davis@macalester.edu
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Professor Davis is an internationally recognized ecologist. He
has received more than $800,000 in research funding from the National
Science Foundation, which has supported the summer research of more
than fifty Macalester students. During the past ten years, he has
focused his research and writing on invasive species. His book on
this topic, Invasion Biology, will be/was published by Oxford
University Press in January 2009. Davis teaches Ecology, one of
the courses in the department’s core sequence, as well as courses in
animal behavior and ecology, plant systematic and ecology, and
conservation biology. He received the College Science Teacher of
the Year award from the Minnesota Academy of Science in 1995 and the
Thomas Jefferson Award from Macalester in 2004. When not teaching
or in the field, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing a
bit of golf.
Current Courses:
BIOL115 Global Diversity and
the Biology of Conservation
BIOL342 Animal Behavior and Ecology
BIOL345 Field Botany
Education:
AB Harvard University, 1972
EdM Harvard University, 1974
PhD Dartmouth College, 1981
Research Interests:
Invasion ecology, Fire and landscape change, Competition between
grasses and oak seedlings, Fire and birds
Selected
Publications:
(* indicates undergraduate coauthor)
Davis MA (2006) Invasion biology 1958-2005: the pursuit of science and
conservation in Conceptual
ecology and invasions biology: recipricol approaches to nature. Edited by Cadotte MW, McMahon SM,
Fukami T. Kluwer, London.
Davis MA, Thompson K, Grime JP (2005) Invasibility: the local mechanism
driving community assembly and species diversity. Ecography 28: 696-704.
Davis MA, Curran C*, Tietmeyer A*, Miller A* (2005) Dynamic tree
aggregation patterns in a species-poor temperate woodland disturbed by
fire. Journal of Vegetation Science 16: 167-174.
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