John Drake Assistant Professor Odum School of Ecology University of Georgia Ecology Bldg. Athens, GA   30602-2202 Office phone: (706) 583-5539 Lab phone: (706) 583-5538 Fax: (706) 542-3344 email: jdrake@uga.edu Lab Website

Education
Ph.D. - University of Notre Dame

Research Interests
Population dynamics and extinction
Computation and modeling
Applied ecology

Research Projects
Computational identification of ecological niches and geographic range prediction; extinction in experimental zooplankton populations; aquatic species invasions in the Great Lakes

Selected Publications
Drake, J.M. 2006. Extinction times in experimental populations. Ecology. (in press).

Drake, J.M. 2006. Heterosis, the catapult effect, and establishment success of a colonizing bird. Biology Letters 2:304-307.

Drake, J.M. 2006. Limits to forecasting precision for outbreaks of directly transmitted diseases. PLoS Medicine 3:57-62.

Drake, J.M., A. Guisan, & C. Randin. 2006. Modelling ecological niches with support vector machines. Journal of Applied Ecology 43:424-432.

Vellend, M., T.M. Knight, & J.M. Drake. 2006. Antagonistic effects of seed dispersal and herbivory on plant migration. Ecology Letters 9:319-326.

Boyce, M.S., C.V. Haridas, C.T. Lee, C.L. Boggs, E.M. Bruna, T. Coulson, , D. Doak, J.M. Drake, J.-M. Gaillard, C.C. Horvitz, S. Kalisz, B.E. Kendall, T. Knight, M. Mastrandrea, E.S. Menges, W.F. Morris, C.A. Pfister, & S.D. Tuljapurkar. 2006. Demography in an increasingly variable world. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:141-148.

Drake, J.M., P. Baggenstos, & D.M. Lodge. 2005. Propagule pressure and persistence in experimental populations. Biology Letters 1:480-483.

Drake, J.M., & D.M. Lodge. 2006. Forecasting potential distributions of non-indigenous species with a genetic algorithm. Fisheries 31:9-16.

Drake, J.M., K.L.S. Drury, D.M. Lodge, A. Blukacz, N. Yan, & G. Dwyer. 2006. Demographic stochasticity, environmental variability, and windows of invasion risk for Bythotrephes longimanus in North America. Biological Invasions.

Drake, J.M. 2005. Population effects of increased climate variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 272:1823-1827.

Last Updated: January 19, 2007

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