Craig W. Osenberg


Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Graduate Coordinator

Professional Website

Education

PhD, Michigan State University (Kellogg Biological Station), 1988

BA, University of California Santa Barbara, 1980

 

 

Honors, Awards, and Achievements

ESA Fellow, 2015-life

Honorary Research Associate, Victoria University Wellington, 2007-2009

Invited Professor, Universite de Perpignan, 2007

University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, 2002-2005

WT Edmondson Lecturer, Univ. of Washington, 2001

Faculty Opponent, University Omea, 2000

Research Interests

Research Interests

Size- and stage-structured dynamics and species interactions; meta-analysis; environmental impacts assessment (BACIPS designs); competition; predator-prey interactions

  • Aquatic Ecology (marine and freshwater)
  • Population Ecology
  • Community Ecology
  • Organismal Ecology
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Theoretical ecology
  • Conservation Ecology
  • Mathematical Ecology
  • Terrestrial Ecology

Research Projects

  • Coral reefs dynamics, including vermetid-coral interactions, habitat quality and configuration and fish dynamics
  • Meta-analysis
  • The design of marine protected areas (and analysis of large-scale perturbations)
  • Size-structured interactions, density-dependence, and population dynamics
  • Soil carbon dynamics
Selected Publications

Hamman, EA, SA McKinley, AC Stier, CW Osenberg. 2018. Landscape configuration drives persistent spatial patterns of occupant distributions. Theoretical Ecology 11:111-127. doi:10.1007/s12080-017-0352-1

Thiault, L, L Kernaleguen, CW Osenberg, J Claudet. 2017. Progressive-change BACIPS: a flexible approach for environmental impact assessment. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. (in press). DOI 10.1111/2041-210X.12655

Brown, A, TK Frazer, JS Shima, CW Osenberg. 2016. Mass mortality of the vermetid gastropod, Ceraesignum maximum. Coral Reefs 35:1027-1032. DOI 10.1007/s00338-016-1438-8

Jiao, J, SS Pilyguin, CW Osenberg. 2016. Random movement of predators can eliminate the strength of trophic cascades in marine protected areas. Ecosphere 7(8):e01421. DOI 10.1002/ecs2.1421

Van Groenigen, KJ, X Qi, CW Osenberg, Y Luo, BA Hungate. 2014. Faster decomposition under increased atmospheric CO2 limits soil carbon storage. Science 344: 508-509.Doi: 10.1126/science.1249534

Langebrake J, L Riotte-Lambert, CW Osenberg, P De Leenheer. 2012. A differential movement model for marine protected areas. Journal of Mathematical Biology 64:667-696.

McCoy MW, AC Stier, CW Osenberg.2012. Emergent effects of multiple predators on prey survival: the importance of depletion and the functional response. Ecology Letters 15: 1449–1456. doi: 10.1111/ele.12005.

Stier, AC and CW Osenberg. 2010. Propagule redirection: habitat availability reduces colonization and increases recruitment in reef fishes.Ecology 91:2826-2832.

Claudet, J, CW Osenberg and 19 others. 2010. Marine reserves: fish life history and ecological traits matter. Ecological Applications 20:830-839.

Shima, J and C.W. Osenberg. 2003. Cryptic density dependence: effects of spatio-temporal variation among reef fish populations. Ecology 84:46-52.

Osenberg, C.W., O. Sarnelle, S.D. Cooper, and R.D. Holt. 1999. Resolving ecological questions through meta-analysis: goals, metrics and models. Ecology 80:1105-1117.