Davis is an ecologist who has received national grants, including several from the
National Science Foundation to study the effects of fire and climate change on prairies
and oak savannas. 

Davis is interested in both regional and global ecological issues. 

He was named the 1995 Minnesota College Science Teacher of the Year by the Minnesota
Academy of Science and Minnesota Association of Science Teachers. 

EDUCATION: A.B., Ed.M., Harvard University Ph.D., Dartmouth College 

Davis has been teaching at Macalester since 1981.

Articles

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Harm is in the eye of the beholder, Earth Island Journal (2012)
 

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Do native birds care whether their berries are native or exotic? No, Bioscience (2011)
 

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Don’t judge species on their origins (with et.al.), Nature (2011)
 

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Why research on traits of invasive plants tells us very little (with K. Thompson), Trends in Ecology and Evolution (2011)
 

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Biological invasions and society’s response (review of 'Bioinvasions and Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management, and Policy,' Charles Perrings, Harold Mooney, and Mark Williamson, eds.), BioScience (2010)
 

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Books

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Invasion Biology (2009)
 

Contributions to Books

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Invasion Biology, Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions (2011)
 

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Researching invasive species 50 years after Elton: A cautionary tale, Fifty years of invasion ecology. The legacy of Charles Elton. (2011)
 

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Invasion Biology 1958-2005: The Pursuit of Science and Conservation, Conceptual Ecology and Invasions Biology: reciprocal approaches to nature (2006)