Joe Elkinton is a professor of entomology in the Dept. of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His laboratory conducts research on population dynamics and biological control of invasive forest insects. His early work focused on gypsy moth and the impact of small mammal predators and viral and fungal pathogens on that system. More recent projects focus on the population dynamics of browntail moth, hemlock woolly adelgid, and winter moth. He is currently involved with efforts to introduce predatory beetles to control hemlock woolly adelgid and a tachinid parasitoid to control winter moth.
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Ecological boundary detection using Bayesian areal wombling (with M. C. Fitzpatrick, E. L. Preisser, A. H. Porter, L. A. Wallwe, B. P. Carlin, and A. M. Ellison), Ecology (2010)
The study of ecological boundaries and their dynamics is of fundamental importance to much of...
Exploitative Competition Between Invasive Herbivores Benefits a Native Host Plant (with E. L. Preisser), Ecology (2008)
Although biological invasions are of considerable concern to ecologists, relatively little attention has been paid...
Implicating an introduced generalist parasitoid in the invasive Browntail Moth's Enigmatic Demise (with D. Parry and G. Boettner), Ecology (2006)
Recent attention has focused on the harmful effects of introduced biological control agents on nontarget...
Measuring and testing for spacial synchrony (with W. A. Ruscoe, D. Choquenot, and R. B. Allen), Ecology (2005)
Spatial synchrony in abundance among populations at different locations has been studied for many species....
Effects of Synchrony with host plant on population of a spring-feeding Lepidopteran (with A. F. Hunter), Ecology (2000)
Comparisons of traits of outbreaking and nonoutbreaking leaf-eating Lepidoptera and Symphyta have shown that spring-feeding...