EDUCATION
1982 BA
Biology, McPherson College, McPherson, KS.
1984 MFS Forest Ecology, Yale University, New
Haven, CT. Advisor: TG Siccama
1990 PhD
Biology–Ecology, Utah State University, Logan, UT. Advisor: JA MacMahon
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
2009– Faculty
Affiliate, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2005– Professor, Department of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
2000–05 Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
1994–00 Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
1990–94 Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biology,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
1985–89 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT.
1984–85 Research Technician, Forestry & Environmental
Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1983–84 Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Yale
University, New Haven, CT.
1983 Research Technician, Connecticut Agricultural
Experiment Station, New Haven, CT.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Ecological
Society of America
International Association for Landscape
Ecology
Entomological Society of America
Sigma Xi
HONORS AND AWARDS
2002 Fellow
of the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Miami University
1999 Academic
Excellence in Teaching, Alpha Delta Pi & Alpha Xi Delta, Miami University
1995 Best
Publication in Landscape Ecology, International Association for Landscape
Ecology, KA With and TO Crist. 1995. Ecology 76: 2446-2459. (Cited >300
times)
1982-84 Academic
Scholarship, Yale University
1982 Graduated magna cum laude, McPherson College
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed
Journal Articles
Haynes KJ
and TO Crist. In press. Insect herbivory in an experimental
agroecosystem: the roles of habitat area, fragmentation, and the matrix. Oikos.
Veech JA
and TO Crist. In press. Statistical dependence in additive and
multiplicative partitions of alpha and beta diversity. Ecology (A Forum Paper).
Veech JA
and TO Crist. In press. Towards a unified view of diversity partitioning:
a rejoinder. Ecology. (A Forum Paper).
Crowl TA,
TO Crist, RR Parmenter, GE Belovsky and AE Lugo. 2008. The spread of invasive
species and infectious disease as drivers of ecosystem change in an
increasingly connected world. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:
238-246.
Diekötter
T, R Billeter and TO Crist. 2008. Effects of landscape connectivity on the
spatial distribution of insect diversity in agricultural mosaic landscapes.
Basic and Appied Ecology 9: 298-307.
Solomon
NG and TO Crist. 2008. Estimates of reproductive success for group
living prairie voles, Microtus orchrogaster, in high density
populations. Animal Behaviour 76: 881-892.
Crist, TO.
2008. Biodiversity, species interactions, and functional roles of ants
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in fragmented landscapes: a review. Myrmecological
News 12: 3-13.
Summerville KS and TO Crist. 2008. Structure and conservation of lepidopteran
communities in managed forests of eastern North America: a review. Canadian Entomologist 140: 475-494.
Stasek
DJ, CE Bean and TO Crist. 2008. Butterfly abundance and movements among prairie
patches: the roles of habitat quality, edge, and forest-matrix permeability.
Environmental Entomology 37: 897-906.
Diekötter
T, KJ Haynes, D Mazeffa and TO Crist. 2007. Direct and indirect effects of
habitat structure and matrix composition on species interactions among
flower-visiting insects. Oikos 116: 1588-1598.
Tscharntke
T, R Bommarco, Y Clough, TO Crist, D Kleijn, T Rand, J Tylianakis and S Vidal.
2007. Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale.
Biological Control 43: 294-309.
Veech JA
and TO Crist. 2007. Habitat and climate heterogeneity maintain beta-diversity
of birds among landscapes within ecoregions. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16:
650-656.
Haynes
KJ, T Diekötter and TO Crist. 2007. Resource complementation and the response
of an insect herbivore to habitat area and fragmentation. Oecologia 153:
511-520.
Hambäck
PA, KS Summerville, I Steffan-Dewenter, J Krauss, G Englund and TO Crist. 2007.
Habitat specialization, body size, and family identity explain density-area
relationships in Lepidoptera in a cross-continental comparison. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences 104: 8368-8373.
Diekötter
T, M Speelmans, F Dusoulier, WKRE van Wingerden, J-P Malfait, TO Crist, PJ
Edwards and H Dietz. 2007. Effects of landscape structure on movement patterns
of the flightless bush cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera. Environmental
Entomology 36: 90-98.
Crist TO
and JA Veech. 2006. Additive partitioning of rarefaction curves and
species-area relationships: unifying alpha, beta, and gamma diversity
with sample size and habitat area. Ecology Letters 9: 923-932.
Crist TO, SV
Pradhan-Devare and KS Summerville. 2006. Spatial variation in insect community
and species responses to habitat loss and plant community composition.
Oecologia 147: 510-521.
Summerville KS, TD Wilson, JA Veech and TO Crist.
2006. Do body size and diet breadth affect partitioning of species diversity? A
test with forest Lepidoptera. Diversity and Distributions 12: 91-99.
De Los Santos A, F Ferrer,
JP Nicholás and TO Crist. 2006. Thermal habitat and life history of two congeneric species of
darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) on Tenerife (Canary
Islands). Journal of
Arid Environments 65: 363-383.
Summerville KS and TO Crist.
2005. Temporal scaling of species accumulation in forest Lepidoptera. Biodiversity
and Conservation 14: 3393-3406.
Summerville KS, LM Ritter and
TO Crist. 2004. Moth taxa as indicators of lepidopteran biodiversity and
habitat disturbance in eastern deciduous forests. Biological Conservation 116: 9-18.
Summerville KS and TO Crist.
2004. Contrasting effects of habitat quantity and quality on moth communities
in fragmented landscapes. Ecography 27: 3-12.
Veech, JA, TO
Crist, and KS Summerville. 2003. Intraspecific aggregation decreases local species
diversity of arthropods. Ecology 84: 3376-3383.
Crist TO, JA Veech, KS Summerville and
JC Gering. 2003. Partitioning species diversity across landscapes and regions:
a hierarchical analysis of alpha, beta, and gamma diversity. American
Naturalist 162: 734-743.
Summerville KS, TO Crist, JK
Kahn and JC Gering. 2003. The community structure of arboreal caterpillars
(Lepidoptera) within and among four tree species of the eastern deciduous
forest. Ecological Entomology 28: 747-757.
Summerville KS and TO Crist. 2003. Determinants of lepidopteran community composition
and species diversity and community composition in eastern deciduous forests:
roles of season, ecoregion, and patch size. Oikos 100: 134-148.
Gering JC, TO
Crist and JA Veech. 2003. Additive partitioning of species diversity across
multiple spatial scales: implications for regional conservation of biodiversity.
Conservation Biology 17: 488-499.
Summerville KS, MJ Boulware, JA
Veech and TO Crist. 2003. Spatial variation in species diversity and
composition of forest Lepidoptera: patterns and implications for conservation.
Conservation Biology 17: 1045-1057.
Veech JA, KS
Summerville, TO Crist and JC Gering. 2002. The additive partitioning of
diversity: recent revival on an old idea. Oikos 99: 3-9.
Summerville KS and TO Crist.
2002. Effects of timber harvest practices on forest moths (Lepidoptera):
community, guild, and species responses. Ecological Applications 12: 820-835.
Gering JC and TO
Crist. 2002. The alpha-beta-regional relationship: providing new insights into
local-regional patterns of species richness and scale dependence of diversity
components. Ecology Letters 5: 433-444.
Summerville KS, JA Veech and TO
Crist. 2002. Does variation in patch use among butterfly species contribute to
nestedness at fine spatial scales? Oikos 97: 195-204.
Summerville KS and TO Crist. 2002. Guild designations and tests of the effects of the
gypsy moth on native moth communities: a comment on Work and McCullough (2000).
Environmental Entomology 34: 581-584.
Snyder SR, TO
Crist and CF Friese. 2002. Variability in soil chemistry and arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungi in ant-nest disturbances: the influence of topography,
grazing, and region. Biology and Fertility of Soils 35: 406-413.
Summerville KS and TO Crist.
2001. Effects of experimental habitat fragmentation on patch use by butterflies
and skippers (Lepidoptera). Ecology 82: 1360-1370.
Wiens JA, TO
Crist, RH Day, SM Murphy and GS Hayward. 2001. A canonical correspondence analysis
of the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on marine bird communities.
Ecological Applications 11: 828-839.
Summerville KS, EH Metzler and
TO Crist. 2001. The diversity of Lepidoptera in Ohio forests at local
and regional scales: how heterogeneous is the fauna? Annals of the
Entomological Society of America 94: 583-591.
Summerville KS and TO Crist. 2001. The species richness of forest Lepidoptera in a
fragmented landscape: a supplement to the checklist of moths of Butler County, Ohio. Great
Lakes Entomologist 34:
1-18.
Golden DM and TO
Crist. 2000. Experimental effects of habitat fragmentation on ants and rove
beetles: patch area or edge? Oikos 90: 525-538.
MacMahon JA, JF
Mull and TO Crist. 2000. Harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex spp.): their
community and ecosystem influences. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
31: 265-91.
Gering JC and TO
Crist. 2000. Patterns of beetle (Coleoptera) diversity in crowns of
representative tree species in an old-growth temperature deciduous forest. Selbyana
21: 38-47.
Crist TO and JA
Williams. 1999. Simulation of topographic and daily variation in colony
activity of Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) using a
soil temperature model. Environmental Entomology 28: 659-668.
Carlson JM and TO
Crist. 1999. Plant responses to pocket-gopher disturbances across pastures and
topography. Journal of Range Management 52: 37-645.
Golden DM and TO
Crist. 1999. Experimental effects of habitat fragmentation on old-field canopy
insects: species, guild, and community responses. Oecologia 118: 371-380.
Crist TO and RG
Ahern. 1999. Effects of habitat patch size on the old-field distribution and
abundance of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Environmental Entomology
28: 681-689.
Tracy KN, DM Golden
and TO Crist. 1998. The spatial distribution of termite activity in grazed and
ungrazed Chihuahuan desert grassland. Journal of Arid Environments 40: 77-90.
Crist TO. 1998.
The spatial distribution of termites in shortgrass steppe: a geostatistical
approach. Oecologia 114: 410-416.
Crist TO and JA
Wiens. 1996. The distribution of ant colonies in a semiarid landscape:
implications for community and ecosystem processes. Oikos 76: 301-311.
With KA and TO
Crist. 1996. Translating across scales: simulating species distributions as the
aggregate responses of individuals to heterogeneity. Ecological Modelling 93:
125-137.
Wiens JA, TO
Crist, RH Day, SM Murphy and GS Hayward. 1996. Effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on marine bird communities in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Ecological
Applications 6: 828-841.
Wiens JA, TO
Crist, KA With and BT Milne. 1995. Fractal patterns of insect movement in
microlandscape mosaics. Ecology 76: 663-666.
Crist TO and JA
Wiens. 1995. Individual movements and estimation of population size in darkling
beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Animal Ecology 64: 733-746.
With KA and TO
Crist. 1995. Critical thresholds in species’ responses to landscape structure.
Ecology 76: 2446-2459.
Crist TO and JA
Wiens. 1994. Scale effects of vegetation on forager movement and seed
harvesting by ants. Oikos 69: 37-46.
Haefner JW and TO
Crist. 1994. Spatial foraging models of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex).
I. The roles of memory and communication. Journal of Theoretical Biology 166:
299-313.
Crist TO and JW
Haefner. 1994. Spatial foraging models of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex).
II. The roles of environment and seed dispersion. Journal of Theoretical
Biology 166: 315-323.
Crist TO and CF
Friese. 1994. The use of ant nests by subterranean termites in two semiarid
ecosystems. American Midland Naturalist 131: 370-373.
Wiens JA, TO
Crist and BT Milne. 1993. On quantifying insect movements. Environmental
Entomology 22: 709-715.
Crist TO and CF
Friese. 1993. The impact of fungi on soil seeds: implications for plants and
granivores in a semiarid shrub-steppe. Ecology 74: 2231-2239.
Mull JF and TO
Crist. 1993. Timing of mating flights in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex
occidentalis Cresson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological
Society 66: 372-374.
Johnson AR, BT Milne, JA
Wiens and TO Crist. 1992. Animal movements and population dynamics in
heterogeneous environments. Landscape Ecology 7: 63-75.
Crist TO, DS
Guertin, JA Wiens and BT Milne. 1992. Animal movements in heterogeneous landscapes:
an experiment with Eleodes beetles in shortgrass prairie. Functional
Ecology 6: 536-544.
Crist TO and JA
MacMahon. 1992. Harvester ant foraging and shrub-steppe seeds: interactions of
seed resources and seed use. Ecology 73: 1768-1779.
Crist TO and JA
MacMahon. 1991. Foraging patterns of Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae) in a shrub-steppe ecosystem: the roles of temperature, trunk
trails, and seed resources. Environmental Entomology 20: 265-275.
Crist TO and JA
MacMahon. 1991. Individual foraging components of harvester ants: movement
patterns and seed patch fidelity. Insectes Sociaux 38: 379-396.
Book
Chapters, Symposia, and Encyclopedia Entries
Crist TO.
2008. Insect populations, community interactions, and ecosystem processes in shortgrass
steppe. Pages 215-247
in IC Burke and WK
Lauenroth, editors. Ecology of the shortgrass steppe: perspectives from
long-term research. Oxford University Press.
Crist TO.
2008. From habitat fragmentation to spatial heterogeneity: new approaches to understanding
biodiversity change in human altered landscapes. Pages 13-21 in BB Rothermel, AN Barrass, LD Estes and S.W. Hamilton,
editors. Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on the Natural History
of Lower Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys. The Center of Excellence for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN.
Crist TO 2004.
Harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pages 1046-1048 in Encyclopedia of
Entomology, vol. 2, JL Capinera, editor. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Crist TO 2004.
The western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Cresson)
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pages 2523-2525 in Encyclopedia of
Entomology, vol. 3, JL Capinera, editor. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
RESEARCH GRANTS
External Grants Funded
National Science
Foundation, Ecology Program. 2003-05. Theory, statistics, and software for the
additive partitioning of species diversity across multiple scales
(DEB-0235369). (PI–TO Crist, CoPI–JA Veech). $104,978.
National
Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration. 2003-04. Forest
insect diversity: the roles of ecoregion, habitat area, and species diversity.
(PI–TO Crist). $18,280.
The Nature
Conservancy, National Ecosystem Research Program. 2000-02. Biodiversity and
functional roles of forest Coleoptera and Lepidoptera in continuous and
fragmented forests across three ecoregions. (PI–TO Crist). $51,864.
National
Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration. 1999. Effects of
forest fragmentation and biogeographic region on insect biodiversity. (PI–TO
Crist) $13,830.
The Nature
Conservancy, Ohio Chapter. 1997. Patterns and scale of unionid bivalve
(Unionacea) distribution in Big and Little Darby Creeks. (PI–AD Christian, CoPIs–DJ
Berg, TO Crist). $2,965.
USDA National
Research Initiative, Competitive Grants Program (Ecosystems Program). 1995-96.
Animal disturbances in rangeland ecosystems: soil processes and plant community
dynamics (95031420). $100,000 (PI–CF Friese, CoPI–TO Crist).
National Science
Foundation, International Program. 1994-95. Integrating mathematical and
simulation models of populations and landscape mosaics (INT-9400073). $18,921
(PI–JA Wiens, CoPIs–B Van Horne, TO Crist).
National Science
Foundation, Ecosystems Program. 1987-88. Granivory in a shrub-steppe
ecosystem: the interactions of harvester ant foraging and native seed patches
(BSR-8715176). $6,000 (Dissertation improvement grant, Advisor–JA MacMahon).
Internal
Grants Funded
Technology Fee
Competitive Award, Miami University. 2009. Interactive computer modeling for
students in environmental biology. (PI-TO Crist, and 11 faculty participants).
$38,412.
President’s
Academic Enrichment Award, Miami University. 2006. The
ecology of human-dominated ecosystems: integrating Miami University into a national
network for research and education. $209,499. (Lead PI–TO Crist with a total of
37 faculty participants).
Committee on
Faculty Research, Miami University, 2002. Theoretical and field studies to
link the effects of species loss and replacement in fragmented landscapes. $20,209
(including a 1-yr RA). (PI–TO Crist).
Learning
Technologies Strategic Improvement Project. 2002. Enhancement of ecology
education: incorporation of models and the modeling process in the undergraduate
and graduate curriculum. (PI–JT Oris, CoPIs–MJ Gonzalez, MJ Vanni,
TO Crist). $34,950.
Ohio Board of
Regents, Research Challenge Program. 2000. The effects of forest management
practices on the biodiversity of forest Lepidoptera. $7,628. (PI–TO Crist)
Committee on
Faculty Research, Miami University. 1998. Local and regional biodiversity
of forest canopy insects in the eastern deciduous forest. $14,257 (including a
1-yr RA). (PI–TO Crist)
Ohio Board of
Regents, Research Challenge Program. 1998. The biodiversity of forest canopy
insects in fragmented forest habitats of southwestern Ohio. $9,880. (PI–TO
Crist)
Committee on
Faculty Research, Miami University. 1994. An experimental evaluation of the
effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. $17,610 (including a 1-yr
R.A.). (PI–TO Crist)
INVITED SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, AND SYMPOSIA
Habitat
fragmentation, habitat heterogeneity, and plant-insect interactions in
farmland. Speaker and workshop participant, Landscape Heterogeneity and
Biodiversity in Farmland, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Montpellier, France, March 2009.
Beyond area and
isolation: how habitat boundaries, habitat heterogeneity, and scale affect
insect diversity in habitat fragments. Texas State University, San Marcos. March 2009.
Habitat
heterogeneity, boundary dynamics, and multi-scale patterns of insect
biodiversity. Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park. April 2008.
Beta diversity as
unifying framework for landscape and metacommunity ecology. Department of
Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, February 2008.
Hierarchical
perspectives on biodiversity in fragmented habitats: do we see the forest or
the trees? Department of Biology, Murray State University, Murray KY. November 2007.
Why multi-scale
patterns of biodiversity matter for ecology and conservation: insights from insects
in fragmented habitats. Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University. October 2007.
A new role for
beta diversity in our understanding of biodiversity in human-altered
landscapes. Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2007.
Additive
partitioning of diversity in fragmented habitats. Speaker and workshop
participant, Using Species Traits to Predict Biodiversity Loss in Fragmented Habitats,
funded by the European Union, project COCONUT. Rila Mountains, Bulgaria, September 2007.
The role of
habitat connectivity in the movements and distributions of organisms. Symposium
on the Role of Science in Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plans, sponsored by
the Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside. Palm Springs, CA, May 2007.
From habitat
fragmentation to spatial heterogeneity: new approaches to understanding biodiversity
change in human-altered landscapes. Symposium on Habitat Fragmentation:
Ecological Implications for Management. Austin Peay State University, Center for
Field Biology, Clarksville TN. March 2007.
Towards a new
understanding of patterns of species diversity across multiple scales: insights
from metacommunity theory and diversity partitioning. Colloquium in the Life
Sciences, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO,
February 2006.
Scale dependence
in beta diversity among open communities: insights from additive diversity
partitions. Organized Oral Session, Ecological Society of America, Montreal, Quebec, August 2005.
Patterns
of alpha and beta diversity within regions: measurements and tests across space
and time. Keynote contribution to an electronic conference on landscape-scale
biodiversity and the problem of scaling, European Platform for Biodiversity
Research Strategy, Budapest, Hungary, April 2005.
Revisiting the
species-area relationship: does habitat area explain species diversity?
Department of Biological Sciences, Indiana State University, November 2004.
Reinventing the
species-area relationship: partitioning the effects of habitat size and
landscape heterogeneity on biodiversity. University of Akron, April 2004.
Does species loss
or replacement determine patterns of insect biodiversity in fragmented
landscapes? Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, March 2003.
The spatial
structure of biodiversity across landscapes and regions. Plenary lecture,
Biolog-Europe Conference, “Biodiversity in Cultural Landscapes,” Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, December 2002.
Local and
regional biodiversity of insects in fragmented forests. Department of
Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, November 2002.
Do we see the
forest for the trees? Local and regional determinants of insect biodiversity in
eastern deciduous forests. Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, October 2002.
Spatial
non-interactive approaches to scaling: dynamics in place. Symposium presentation
at the meetings of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, AR, August 2002.
Spatial analysis
and simulation approaches to scaling ecological patterns and processes. Symposium
presentation at the US-International Association for Landscape Ecology, Lincoln, NE, April 2002.
Partitioning
species diversity across scales: insights into local and regional patterns of
forest insect biodiversity. Symposium presentation at the Entomological Society
of America, Michigan State University, March 2002.
Landscape
variation in the distribution and abundance of ground-dwelling insects. Workshop
presentation at the Long-Term Ecological Research All Scientists Meeting,
Snowbird, UT August, 2000.
Variability in
the effects of animal disturbances in grassland soils: the roles of topography,
grazing, and region. Workshop presentation at the Long-Term Ecological
Research All Scientists Meeting, Snowbird, UT, August, 2000.
Landscape
ecology, insect movements, and population distribution. Conference on Quantitative
Insect Ecology, Entomological Society of America, National Meeting, Nashville, TN, December 1997.
Insect movements,
population distributions, and community diversity in natural and experimental
landscapes and The roles of insects in rangeland ecosystems: a landscape
perspective. Department of Bioagricultural Sciences & Pest Management, Colorado State University, October 1997.
Insect responses
to landscape structure: implications for population, community and ecosystem
processes. Department of Biology, University of Toledo, January 1997.
Animal responses
to landscape structure: implications for community and ecosystem processes.
Department of Biology, Vanderbilt University, November 1996.
Individual,
population, and community responses of insects to landscape structure.
Department of Biology, Bowling Green State University, April 1996.
Relationships of
movement, population distributions, and community interactions in
ground-dwelling insects. Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, November 1994.
A hierarchical
analysis of movements, population distributions and community interactions of
ground-dwelling insects. Department of Biology, University of Dayton, November 1994.
Hierarchy and
scale in semi-arid ecosystems: animal movements, population distributions, and
community interactions. Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, March 1994.
Population and
community interactions of ground-dwelling insects in semiarid ecosystems.
Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, February 1994.
Interactions of
harvester ants and seeds in semiarid environments. Department of Zoology, Louisiana State University, November 1991.
A hierarchical
analysis of ant and beetle movements in shortgrass steppe. Long-Term Ecological
Research Seminar Series, Colorado State University, October 1991.
From individuals
to communities: harvester ant interactions in semiarid environments. Department
of Biology, Colorado State University, October 1990.
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS
Stasek DJ, JN
Radl and TO Crist. 2009. The effects of dispersal and predator density on prey
survival time in an insect-red clover metacommunity. Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.
Maingi JK, WN
Tardy, TO Crist and AA Wick. 2008. Predicting forest stand attributes using
multispectral and hyperspectral satellite data in southwestern Ohio. Ecological
Society of America, Milwaukee, WI.
Stasek DJ, SH
Nguyen and TO Crist. 2008. The effect of landscape structure on predation rate
and prey preference in a generalist insect predator. Ecological Society of America, Milwaukee, WI.
Schmidt JM, KJ
Haynes, TO Crist, and AL Rypstra. 2007. Interactive effects of landscape
structure and prey on densities of spider guilds. Ecological Society of America, San Jose, CA.
Tardy WN, AA
Wick, JK Maingi and TO Crist. 2007. Relationships between forest stand
attributes and Landsat TM data in southwestern Ohio. Ecological
Society of America, San Jose, CA.
Diekötter
T, KJ Haynes, D Mazeffa, and TO Crist. Direct and indirect effects of habitat
area and matrix composition on species interactions among flower-visiting
insects. August 2007. Ecological Society of America, San Jose, California.
Diekötter T, KJ Haynes,
D Mazeffa and TO Crist. 2006. Direct and indirect effects of landscape
structure on pollinators and herbivores. Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Bremen, Germany.
Diekötter T, R
Billeter and TO Crist. 2005. Habitat-specific contributions to insect diversity
in agricultural landscape mosaics. Ecological Society of America, Montreal, Quebec.
Stasek DJ and TO
Crist. 2005. Butterfly movements among isolated prairie patches: habitat-edge
and forest-matrix effects. Ecological Society of America, Montreal, Quebec.
Crist TO and JA
Veech. 2004. Diversity partitioning of the species-area relationship: the
relative effects of habitat area and species replacement. Ecological Society
of America, Portland, OR.
Veech JA and TO
Crist. 2004. Diversity partitioning: a new method for analyzing species
diversity. Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR.
Dudziak SK and TO
Crist. 2004. Abundance and movements of beetles across forest-agricultural
boundaries. Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference, University of Notre
Dame, South Bend, IN.
Summerville KS,
MJ Boulware, JA Veech and TO Crist. 2002. Spatial variation in species
diversity and composition of forest Lepidoptera: Patterns and implications for
conservation. Entomological Society of America, Michigan State University, East
Lansing, MI.
Kahn JK, KS
Summerville, TO Crist and JC Gering. 2002. Comparison of community structure of
arboreal caterpillars (Lepidoptera) in four tree species of the eastern
deciduous forest. Entomological Society of America, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI.
Crist TO, JA
Veech, KS Summerville and JC Gering. 2001. Partitioning species diversity
across scales: statistical tests on components of insect diversity in deciduous
forests. Ecological Society of America, Madison, WI.
Summerville KS
and TO Crist. 2001. Effects of logging on forest Lepidoptera: community, guild,
and species responses. Ecological Society of America, Madison, WI.
Pradhan S. TO
Crist and KS Summerville. 2001. Responses of insects to fragmentation and plant
community composition in an old field. Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference,
Miami University, Oxford, OH.
Gering, JC and TO
Crist. 2000. Spatial dependence of arboreal beetles in beech-maple and
mixed-mesophytic forest associations of Ohio. Ecological Society of America,
Snowbird, UT.
Summerville KS
and TO Crist. 2000. Effects of experimental habitat fragmentation on habitat use
by butterflies and skippers. Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, UT.
Crist TO 1999.
Landscape dynamics of ant-colony distribution and disturbance in a semiarid
grassland. Ecological Society of America, Spokane, WA.
Gering JC and TO
Crist. 1999. Patterns of beetle (Coleoptera) diversity among crowns of
representative tree species in an old-growth temperate deciduous forest.
Ecological Society of America, Spokane, WA.
Golden DM and TO
Crist. 1999. The relationship between tree diversity and canopy beetle
diversity in a temperate deciduous forest in southwestern Ohio. Ecological
Society of America, Spokane, WA.
Summerville KS
and TO Crist. 1999. Effects of habitat edge on the diversity of forest Lepidoptera
and Coleoptera. Ecological Society of America, Spokane, WA.
Christian AD, TO
Crist and DJ Berg. 1999. Temporal and spatial patterns of unionid bivalves
(Unionidae) in headwater streams. Ecological Society of America, Spokane, WA.
Golden DM and TO
Crist. 1998. The effects of habitat fragmentation on ant diversity in old field
habitats. Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD.
Gering JC and TO
Crist. 1998. Patterns of beetle (Coleoptera) diversity among canopies of
representative tree species in an old-growth eastern (USA) deciduous forest.
International Forest Canopy Conference, Sarasota, FL.
Crist TO, CF
Friese and M Walton. 1997. Landscape variation in the effects of animal
disturbances on rangeland plant communities across topography, grazing, and
region. Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.
Golden DM and TO
Crist. 1997. The effects of habitat fragmentation on insect diversity in a
goldenrod field. Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.
Golden DM and TO
Crist. 1997. The effects of habitat fragmentation on ants in a goldenrod and a
grass field. Entomological Society of America, Nashville, TN.
Snyder S, CF
Friese and TO Crist. 1997. Comparative soil and microbial dynamics associated
with harvester ant disturbances on rangeland ecosystems in Colorado and New
Mexico. Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.
Crist TO and DM
Golden. 1996. Habitat fragmentation and goldenrod insects: distribution,
abundance, and rarity. Entomological Society of America, Louisville, KY.
Crist TO and JA
Wiens. 1995. Spatial scale and the dispersion of ant colonies: a
landscape-level analysis. Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, UT.
Golden DM and TO
Crist. 1996. Habitat fragmentation and goldenrod insects: individual, guild,
and community responses. Entomological Society of America, Louisville, KY.
With KA and TO
Crist. 1994. Threshold patterns in species responses to landscape structure.
International Association of Landscape Ecology, Tucson, AZ.
Crist TO and JA
Wiens. 1993. Relationships of individual movement and population size in
darkling beetles. Ecological Society of America, Madison, WI.
With KA and TO
Crist. 1993. Development of spatially explicit models of population dynamics:
the translation of individual movement patterns to broader scales. Ecological
Society of America, Madison, WI.
Friese CF, SS
Dhillion, TO Crist, JF Mull and JC Zak. 1992. Microbial nest enrichment within
the mounds of the western harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex occidentalis):
comparative patch dynamics between two semiarid sites in Colorado and Wyoming.
Ecological Society of America, Honolulu, HI.
Crist TO, DS
Guertin and JA Wiens. 1991. Animal movement in heterogeneous landscapes:
experiments with Eleodes beetles in a shortgrass prairie ecosystem.
Ecological Society of America, San Antonio, TX.
Parmenter RR, SL
Durham, TO Crist and JA MacMahon. 1990. Ant-plant interactions: effects of
harvester ant colonies on spatial patterns of vegetation. Ecological Society of
America, Snowbird, UT.
Crist TO and JA
MacMahon. 1989. The effects of harvester ants on a shrub-steppe seed pool:
relationships of seed resources to seed use. Ecological Society of America,
Toronto, ON.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Miami University
Courses
Fundamentals of
Ecology (Zoo 204, 3 credits, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, twice in 2004)
Invertebrate Zoology (Zoo 312, 4 credits w/lab, 1995, 1996,
1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009)
Population Ecology (Zoo 662, 4 credits
w/lab, 1994, 1996, 1998)
Population and Community Ecology (BMZ 671, 4 credits,
team-taught with Dave Gorchov and Henry Stevens, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2007)
Field Methods in Population Ecology (Bot/Zoo 437/537, 1
credit, team-taught with Dave Gorchov, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007)
Contemporary Issues in Biodiversity (Zoo 400, 3 credits,
team-taught with Tom Wissing, 1997)
Seminars
Zoology Seminar in Macroecology (Zoo 491, 1 credit, 1996)
Zoology Seminar in Ecological Modeling (Zoo 491, 1 credit,
team-taught with Jim Oris, 2003)
Zoology Seminar in Biodiversity (Zoo 491, 1 credit, 2006)
Landscape Ecology and Habitat
Fragmentation (Zoo 710.A, 1 credit, 1995)
Biodiversity in Managed Landscapes (Zoo
710.A, 1 credit, 1999)
The Movements of Organisms in Human-Altered Landscapes (Zoo
710.A., 1 credit, team-taught with Nancy Solomon and Rob Blair, 2001)
Metacommunity Ecology (Zoo 710.A, 1 credit, 2006)
Colorado
State University
Animal Biology – Vertebrates (Z214, 4 credits w/lab, 1992)
Synecology (EY501, 4 credits, team-taught
with Dan Binkley, 1994)
GRADUATE STUDENTS and
POSTDOCS – Advisor
Department of Zoology, Miami University
David M. Golden,
MS (1995)
Jonathan C. Gering, PhD (2001)
Keith S. Summerville, PhD (2002)
Sarah L. Dudziak MS (2007)
David J. Stasek, MS (2006), PhD (in
progress)
Bradley J. Schroeder, MS (2007)
Jason M. Nelson, MS (in progress)
Alyssa Whu, MS (in progress)
Joseph A. Veech, Postdoctoral Research Scholar (2001-02)
Kyle J. Haynes, Postdoctoral Research Scholar (2004-2006)
Tim Diekötter, Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar, Germany
(2004-2005)
Institute
of Environmental Sciences, Miami University
Sharmila
Pradhan, MEn (2002) thesis advisor
Lisa M. Ritter, MEn (2002) thesis advisor
Kathryn R. Groome, MEn (2003) internship
advisor
Caleb Slemmons, MEn (2005) internship
advisor
Jonathan Sorg, MEn (2005) internship
advisor
Jeremy Kite, MEn (in progress) thesis
advisor
Megan Ogle, MEn (in progress) thesis
advisor
GRADUATE STUDENTS –
Committee Member
Department of
Zoology, Miami University
MS – Valerie
Bennett, Jennifer Evarts, Jeff Auch, Jonathan Gering, Ryan Stander, Valerie
Tierce, James Hood, Julie Whipkey, Joe Reali, Shasta Back, Colleen Winstead,
Sean Higgins, Karen Sigler, Chris Betrus, Shawn Wilder, Chip Glaholt, Lesley
Penfield, Lindsey Rowland, Samanthia Noble, Molly Mehling, Kathryn Williams,
Mike Elnitsky, Greg Marcello, Leah Laurich, Lisette Torres, Jennifer Riem,
Jason Schmidt, James Kirshberger, Tim Bankroff, Kevan Minick, Allie Babler,
Nicole Hayes
PhD – Joe
Jacquot, Kata Gurski, Alan Christian, David Mbora, Mark Spritzer, Marty Horgan,
Christine Anderson, Alberto Pilati, Emy Monroe, Jennifer Purrenhage, Kerri
Wrinn, Gregg Marcello, Jason Schmidt, Andrew Tucker, Tammy McPeek
Department of Botany, Miami University
MS – Melanie
Link-Perez, Jeremy Ash, Lindsey Hech, Claire Larkin
PhD – Evan
Notman, Stacy Edmonds Wheeler, Bryan Endress, Anne Bartuszevige, Deanna Christensen,
Eric Berry, Xanic Randon, Wei Lei, Jenise Bauman, Steven Castellano
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Miami University
MEn internship
committees: Michael Aplin, Renee Maxfield, Lisa Zinn, Annette Souder, Daryl
Obenour, Jacob Massoud, Suzanne Beyeler
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Mentor
for Undergraduate Research
Students
receiving credit for senior research capstones in Zoology (Funding sources are
USS=Miami Undergraduate Summer Scholar, CAS=College of Arts and Science Dean’s
Scholar, NSF-REU=Participant in National Science Foundation REU Ecology
Program):
Robert Ahern (USS
1996), Jennifer Williams (USS 1997), Joanne Carlson (USS 1998), Keena Tracy
(USS 1998), Christopher Merrell (USS 1999), Jennifer Jung (1999), Christopher
Yeager (USS 2000), Jennifer Erbes (2001), Emily Hickey (2001), Jonathan Kahn
(CAS 2001), David Holt (2001), Randi Chambers (2002 NSF-REU), Daniel
Wannemacher (2004 NSF-REU), Ashley Wick (2006 NSF-REU), Matthew Bramble (2008
NSF-REU), Emaly Leak (2009 NSF-REU).
Research Advisor
to Jennifer Germano, winner of the 2002-03 Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial
Prize, Miami University ($26,300), “Herpetological conservation in New Zealand:
an ecological study of the Grand and Otago Skinks.” A one-year postgraduate
award given to an outstanding Miami senior.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Peer Review
Journal Articles
– over 300 manuscripts for the following journals: American Naturalist, Ecology,
Ecological Applications, Ecology Letters, Conservation Biology, Proceedings of
the Royal Society of London, Biology Letters, Journal of Animal Ecology,
Journal of Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Functional
Ecology, Oecologia, Oikos, Ecography, Ecosystems, Ecoscience, Evolution, Animal
Behaviour, Molecular Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Restoration Ecology,
Biodiversity and Conservation, Biological Conservation, Diversity and
Distributions, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Biogeography,
Journal of Vegetation Science, Basic and Applied Biology, Landscape and Urban
Planning, Ecological Indicators, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry,
Mathematical Biosciences, Journal of Insect Conservation and Diversity, Environmental
Entomology, Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Insectes Sociaux, Journal of
Arachnology, The Auk, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Journal of
Range Management, Forest Science, Journal of Arid Environments, Journal of
Tropical Ecology, American Midland Naturalist.
Grant Proposals –
over 80 proposals to the National Science Foundation (Programs: Ecosystems,
Ecology, Population and Evolutionary Processes,, Long-Term Research in
Environmental Biology, Physiology and Behavior, Biotic Surveys and Inventories,
International Programs), the US Department of Agriculture (Program: Managed
Ecosystems), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada),
the Natural Environment Research Council (United Kingdom), and the National
Research Foundation (South Africa).
Edited Books – 8
book chapters
Book Reviews – 2 book
reviews
Service
on Editorial Boards
Subject Editor
for Ecology Letters, 2006-present
Subject Editor
for Landscape Ecology, 2005-2009
Other
Professional Activities
Panel Member,
National Science Foundation, Evolutionary and Population Ecology, a joint panel
of the Population and Evolutionary Processes Program and the Ecology Program,
April 2007
Lead
Author on Request for Information to the National Ecological Observatory
Network (NEON), The Spread of Invasive Species and Infectious Disease as
Drivers of Ecosystem Change Across Regional and Continental Gradients of
Climate and Land Use (Coauthors were Robert Parmenter and Todd Crowl, and 12
other contributing scientists). Submitted as part of the Consortium for
Connectivity at Continental Scales, led by Debra Peters and comprised of over
50 scientists. January 2007.
Presider, Oral
Session on Landscape Ecology, Ecological Society of America, August 2002
Panel Member,
USDA National Research Initiative, Ecosystem Science Program, April 2000
Member,
Nominations Committee, Ecological Society of America, April 1999
SERVICE TO MIAMI UNIVERSITY
Department of Zoology
Chair, Search
Committee for Faculty Position in Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology, 2006-2007
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee (Promotion
and Tenure), 2006-present
Member, Undergraduate Research Committee,
2005-2006
Member, Curriculum Committee, 2004-2005
Chair, Search Committee for the Ohio Eminent Scholar
in Ecology, 2003-2004
Chair, Graduate Advisory Committee (Director of Graduate
Studies), 2000-2003
Member, Graduate Advisory Committee, 1994-2000
Hefner Museum Committee, 2000
Hefner Lecture Committee, Department of Zoology, 1998-99
Maintained Zoology Computer Facilities (e-mail, web &
file server, computer room), 1997-2000
College of Arts and Science
Chair,
Environmental Council, 2007-present
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee,
Department of Geology, 2007-2008
Member, Search Committee for Faculty
Position in Geobiology, Department of Geology, 2007-2008
Interim Director, Ecology Research Center, 2003-2004
Member, Environmental Science Co-Major Committee, 2003-2004
Member, Executive Committee, Institute of Environmental
Sciences, 1997-1999, 2006-present
Member, Arts and Science Governance Committee, 2003-2004
Member, Ecology Research Center Policy Committee,
1997-2000, 2003-present
Member, Arts and Science Small Grants Committee, 1996-98
Institutional Representative to the Ohio Biological
Survey, 1997-2001
University
Committees
Member, Academic
Program Review Committee 2005-2007
Member, Future Directions in Ecology and Environmental
Science at Miami University, 2003-2004
Member, Search Committee for the Director of the Institute
of Environmental Science, 2003-2004
Member, Natural Areas Committee, 1995-present
Interim Chair, Natural Areas Committee, Fall 1998
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Biodiversity Assessments
for Three Valley Conservation
Trust, May 2007, September 2008
Miami/Talawanda Science Week, Led four classes grades 3 and
4, May 2007 and May 2009
Career Day, Kramer Elementary School, 2001, 2003,
2005, 2006
Guest Teacher, 4th grade class, Kramer Elementary
School, “What are Ecosystems?” October 2003
Judge for Science Olympiad, Kramer Elementary
School, April 2005