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
Elevated Atmospheric CO2: A Nurse Plant Substitute for Oak Seedlings Establishing in Old Fields (with PB Reich; J Knoll; and L Dooley,et al.), Global Change Biology (2007)
Dynamic tree aggregation patterns in a species-poor temperate woodland disturbed by fire (with C Curran, A Tietmeyer, and A Miller), Journal of Vegetation Science (2005)
Invasibility: the Local mechanism driving community assembly and species diversity (with K Thompson and JP Grime), Ecography (2005)
Non-indigenous Grasses Impede Woody Succession (with L Bier; E Bushelle; and C Diegel, et al.), Plant Ecology (2005)
Vegetation Change: a reunifying concept in plant ecology. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, (with J Pergl; A Truscott; and J Kollmann, et al.), Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (2005)
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