Igor Ristovski, M. Sc. 2008/09.
Cornelis Drost, Ph. D. 2009/2011.
Employment and Awards
2010. Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. UK.
2010-2013. Advanced Research Fellow in Hydrobiological Modelling. IGES/IBERS, Aberystwyth University. Aberystwyth, UK.
2006-2010. Research Lecturer in Environmental Systems. CIRRE-Aberystwyth University. Aberystwyth, UK.
2005-2006. PostDoctoral Associate. Biodiversity and Landscape Modeling Group. Dept. of Renewable Resources. University of Alberta. Edmonton, AB. Canada. Large-scale modelling of mountain pine beetle infestations.
2003-2005.
PostDoctoral Associate. Dept. of Natural Resources. Cornell
University. Ithaca, NY. USA. Developing food web models and models
with multiple attractors in agroecosystems.
2002.
Spatial Ecology Visitor. Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
University of Helsinki. Helsinki. Finland. Developed analytical tools
for quantifying dispersal thresholds in landscapes.
2001.
Research Assistant. Dept. of Experimental Sciences and Health.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona. Spain. Developed spatiotemporal
statistical and mathematical analyses of rainforest canopy plots to
look for light regimes.
2001.
Research Assistant. Dept. of Physics and Nuclear Engineering.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona. Spain.
Developed algorithms to apply prescribed burning in tallgrass
prairies.
2000. Research
Scholar. Santa Fe Institute. Santa Fe. New Mexico. Developed null
competition models and data analysis on birds introduced in Hawaii.
2000. Ofimatics Teacher. Barcelona.
Spain. Introduction to Windows and Microsofot programs.
1997-1998. Research Assistant.
Forest Technology Center of Catalonia. Solsona (Lleida). Spain.
Teaching in Geobotany, Botany and Grassland Management. Statistics
assistant in several projects involving subalpine grasslands and
montane mediterranean forests research.
1990-1991.
Research Assistantship Collaboration Award. Spain's Ministry of Education. Botany Unit. University of Valladolid. Palencia.
Spain. Teaching on Botany and Herbarium Assistant.
1990.
Forest worker. INEM-IBERFOR. Applying selection thinning methods in
mixed pine plantations. Northern Palencia. Spain.
Professional Affiliations
British Ecological Society
International Association for Ecology (INTECOL).
Mountain Forum
Publications
in refereed journals
Fazey, I.; J. G. P. Gamarra; J. Fischer; M. S. Reed; L. C. Stringer
and M. Christie. 2009. Adaptation strategies to reduce vulnerability to future environmental change.
Front. Ecol. Environ. doi:10.1890/08215.
Gamarra,
J. G. P. and F. He. 2008. Spatial scaling in mountain pine beetle infestations. J. Anim. Ecol.
77 (4): 796-801 .
Gamarra,
J. G. P. 2005. Metapopulations in multifractal landscapes: on the
role of spatial aggregation. Proc. R. Soc. B 272: 1815-1822.
Solé, R. V., F. Bartumeus and J. G. P.
Gamarra. 2005. Gap percolation in rainforests.
Oikos 110(1): 177-185.
Gamarra,
J. G. P.; J. M. Montoya; D. Alonso and R. V. Solé. 2005.
Competition and Introduction Regime Shape Exotic Bird Communities in
Hawaii. Biol. Invasions. 7: 297-307.
Gamarra,
J. G. P. and R. V. Solé. 2002. Biomass-diversity responses and
spatial dependencies in disturbed tallgrass prairies. J. Theor.
Biol. 215: 469-480.
Gamarra,
J. G. P. and R. V. Solé. 2002. Complex discrete dynamics from
simple continuous population models. Bull. Math. Biol. 64:
611-620.
Gamarra, J. G. P.;
R. V. Solé. and D. Alonso. 2001. Control, synchrony, and the
persistence of chaotic populations. Chaos Sol. Fract. 12(2):
235-249.
Gamarra, J. G. P.
and R. V. Solé. 2000. Bifurcations and chaos in ecology: Lynx
returns revisited. Ecol. Lett. 3: 122-130.
Solé, R. V.; J. G. P.
Gamarra; M. Ginovart and D. López. 1999. Controlling chaos in
ecology: from deterministic to individual-based models. Bull.
Math. Biol. 61: 1187-1207.
Solé,
R. V. and J. G. P. Gamarra. 1998. Chaos, dispersal and extinction in
coupled ecosystems. J. Theor. Biol. 193: 539-541.
Sebastià,
M. T.; R. M. Canals and J. G. P. Gamarra. 1998. After sigmatism: what
we learned about spatiotemporal changes in grassland communities
after 10 years. Acta Botanica Barcinonensis (Homage to Oriol de
Bolòs).45: 587-602.
Sebastià, M. T., J.
García-Pérez and A. M. Pelacho. 1994. Respuesta
germinativa a la temperatura y al ácido giberélico en
especies pascícolas pirenaicas. Pastos XXIV(2):
167-176.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Drake,
J. A., M. M. Fuller, C. Zimmermann and J. G. P. Gamarra. 2007. Emergence in Ecological Systems. In: Rooney, N., K. S. McCann, and D. L. G. Noakes (eds.), From Energetics to Ecosystems: The Dynamics and Structure of Ecological Systems pp. 157-183. Springer. The Netherlands.
Book Reviews
Gamarra, J. G. P. 2010. Quantitative Ecology. 2nd edn. Ann. Bot. 105 (3):viii.
Gamarra, J. G. P. 2009. An introduction to mathematical models in ecology and evolution: time and space. 2nd edn. Ann. Bot. 104 (4):x-xi.
Solé,
R. V. and J. G. P. Gamarra. 2002. Metapopulation
Ecology. Bull. Math. Biol. 64: 209-212.
Other
Publications
Pell, A. N., D. M. Mbugua, L. V. Verchot, C. B. Barrett, L. E. Blume, J. G. P. Gamarra, J. M. Kinyangi, C. J. Lehmann, A. Odenyo, S. O. Ngoze, B. N. Okumu, M. J. Pfeffer, P. P. Marenya, S. J. Riha and J. Wangila. 2005. The Interplay Between Smallholder Farmers and Fragile Tropical Agroecosystems in the Kenyan Highlands. Kenya BASIS Policy Research Brief Number 3, January O.
Sebastià,
M. T. and J. G. P. Gamarra. 1997. Cambio global y dinámica
forestal en zonas templadas. Riegos y Drenajes XXI. 96:
16-17.
Referee
Activities
Reviewer
for Acta Biotheoretica, American Naturalist, Applied Vegetation Science, Biology Letters, Bird Conservation International, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Forest Systems, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Investigaciones Agrarias: Sistemas y Recursos Forestales, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of
Wildlife Management, Mathematical Biosciences, Oikos, Parasitology International, Physics Letters A,Theoretical Ecology, Theoretical Population Biology, and Wetlands.
Reviewer in Grant Proposal for BARD (US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund), NOAA
Coastal Ocean Program (CHRP) and The Theresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research Program (Cornell University).
Appointed Expert Referee: Cordis-FP6 European Commission NEST-Path Projects.
Esteem indicators
2009-2010. Coordinator Ecology and Evolution Lunch Seminar Series. IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
Scientific
Talks and Conferences
2010. The need for scaling in Ecology and Evolution. Univ. of Hull (Scarborough, UK).
2009. Astrobiology: is there anyone out there? Science Cafe. Aberystwyth Univ. (Aberystwyth, UK).
2009. Scaling and emergent patterns in Ecology: recipes for survival in ecological disciplines. MACSI seminars. Univ. of Limerick (Limerick, IE).
2009. Mathematical Biology beyond the cell: linking scales in Ecology and Evolution. IMAPS seminars. Aberystwyth Univ. (Aberystwyth, UK).
2008. Ecological complexity: modelling ecosystems across scales. School of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Univ. College Dublin. (Dublin, IE).
2008. Transgenic correlated landscapes: how insects modify geneflow. BioSafenet Workshop on GMO's. ICGEB Ca'Tron Biosafenet Outstation. (Ca'Tron di Roncade, IT).
2007. Random balls and Earth's diversity, now and later. IBS Seminars. Aberystwyth Univ. (Aberystwyth, UK).
2007. From genes to landscapes: giving cohesiveness to CIRRE. CIRRE 1st meeting (Plas Tan Y Bwlch, Wales, UK).
2006. Ecological complexity: is multidisciplinarity nothing but fiction?. School of the Environment and Natural Resources. Bangor Univ. (Bangor, UK).
2006. But, cows are not round! The uses of mathematical biology. IBS Seminars. Aberystwyth Univ. (Aberystwyth, UK).
2006. Biocomplexity: challenges in ecology. SENSe. Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science. Univ. of Southampton (Southampton, UK).
2006. Biocomplexity: Addressing human and climate influences across scales. Inst. of Biological Sciences. Aberystwyth Univ. (Aberystwyth, UK).
2006. Spatial scaling in metapopulations. Faculty of Biological Sciences. Univ. of Leeds (Leeds, UK).
2006. Biocomplexity: an ecologist's perspective. Dept. of Biology. Natl. Univ. of Ireland (Maynooth, IE).
2005. Space as a resource: Parameterizing functional responses in ecology. Renewable Resources Seminars. Dept. of Renewable Resources. Univ. of Alberta (Edmonton, AB).
2005. Critical foraging in fragmented fractal landscapes. PIMS-MITACS Mathematical Biology Seminar Series. Dept. of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences. Univ. of Alberta (Edmonton, AB)
2005. Invited attendee. Gap percolation and foraging dispersal strategies in rainforest canopies. "First Young Researchers Workshop in Mathematical Biology". Mathematical BioSciences Institute. Ohio State Univ. (Columbus, OH).
2004. Information transfer and alternative states in social networks. CDSnet Seminars. Cornell Univ. (Ithaca, NY).
2004. Biocomplexity: Abstracting reality and back again. BBI Scholars Meeting. Cornell Univ. (Ithaca, NY).
2003.
Metapopulations in multifractal landscapes. In ``Ecolunch Bunch
Seminars'' at Steve Ellner's lab. Cornell Univ. (Ithaca, NY).
2002. Can structure reveal function in forest canopies?.
Univ. of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland).
2000.
The emergence of bird communities through assembly and competition:
Hitchcock revisited. In ``Ecological Complexity Seminar''. Univ.
of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM).
1999.
Time series analysis. In ``Workshop on Synthesis and Theory in
Ecology and Evolution''. Univ. of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain).
1998. New perspectives in Ecology:
¿a contest between theory and experimentation?. Centre
Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (Solsona, Lleida).
1997. Environmental disturbances
and their effect on vegetation. In ``Jornades sobre el Medi Natural
del Solsonès i la Regió Central de Catalunya''. Centre
Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (Solsona, Lleida, Spain).
Presented
Papers
Variano, E. V., and J. G. P. Gamarra. 2010. Scaling plankton persistence in complex flow networks. 14th International Workshop on Physical Processes in Natural Waters Univ. of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
De Vere, N., D. Satterthwaite, S. Ronca, C. S. Ford, J. Allainguillaume, T. C. G. Rich, J. Ironside, J. G. P. Gamarra, C. J. Thomas, C. Ashamn), G. Bowen, A. Chapman, M. Clerc, J. L. Douglas, R. Forrest, A. Freeston, K. N. Harvey, A.N. Simpson, N. Stone, S. V. Tvedt, O. R. Williams and M. J. Wilkinson. 2009. Compiling and exploiting a national barcode for Wales. III International Barcode of Life Conference. Mexico City, Mexico.
Gamarra, J. G. P., and J. M. Gibbons. 2008. Scaling Earth's diversity: climate change and speciation. BES Annual Meeting 2008. Imperial College, London, UK.
Gamarra, J. G. P., and J. M. Gibbons. 2008. Scaling Earth's diversity: climate change and speciation. BES Annual Meeting 2008. Imperial College, London, UK.
Fazey, I., M. Christie, J. G. P. Gamarra, J.-E. Hagasua, I. Latham and D. Wagtora. 2008. A three-tiered approach to research in the Solomon Islands. Resilience 2008. Stockholm Univ. Stockholm, SE.
Gamarra, J. G. P., I. Fazey, M. Christie and C. J. Thomas. 2008. Scaling resilience in estuaries. Resilience 2008. Stockholm Univ. Stockholm, SE.
Gamarra, J. G. P. 2007. Water eddies and phytoplankton persistence: a chemostat's perspective. Mathematical Models in Evolution and Ecology 2007. Univ. of Sussex. Lewes, UK.
Pell, A. N., J. M. Kinyangi, S. O. Ngoze, D. R. Brown, D. M. Mbugua, C. B. Barrett, L. E. Blume, J. G. P. Gamarra, C. J. Lehmann, P. P. Marenya, H. A. Markewich, A. O. Odenyo, S. J. Riha, L. V. Verchot and J. Wangila. 2005. Dynamics of poverty and soil degradation on smallholder farms in central and western Kenya.Workshop for Enhancing Collaborative Research on the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa, National Science Foundation on Sub-Saharan Africa, Arlington, VA.
Variano, E., and J. G. P. Gamarra. 2004.
Stability constraints in watershed-based spatial networks. Oral
presentation. International Association of Great Lakes Research
Conference (Waterloo, OT).
Pell, A. N., D. M. Mbugua, L. V. Verchot, C. B. Barrett, L. E. Blume, J. G. P. Gamarra, J. M. Kinyangi, C. J. Lehmann, A. O. Odenyo, S. O. Ngoze, B. N. Okumu, M. J. Pfeffer, P. P. Marenya, S. J. Riha and J. Wangila. 2004. The
Interplay Between Smallholder Farmers and Fragile Tropical
Agroecosystems in the Kenyan Highlands.Symposium on Frontiers in Biocomplexity: Reciprocal Interactions between Human and Natural Systems. AAAS Annual Meeting, February 14, 2004, Seattle, WA.
Armengol, M. A., J. M. González and J. G. P. Gamarra.
2001. Efectos de la gestión en el crecimiento radial del abeto
(Abies alba, Mill). Oral presentation. III Spanish Forest Congress
(Granada, Spain). Actas del III Congreso Forestal Español
III. 471-477.
Gamarra, J. G. P., M. T. Sebastià and
F. A. Bazzaz. 1998. Developmental constraints in shoot branching
architecture: a fractal approach in the detection of trade-offs under
a fertilized scenario. Poster. The Earth's Changing Land GCTE-LUCC
Open Science Conference on Global Change (Barcelona, Spain).
Almenar, D., J. G. P. Gamarra and M. T. Sebastià. 1998.
Spatial patterning of three deciduous broad-leaved woody species in
managed Scotch pine forests.. Poster. The Earth's Changing Land
GCTE-LUCC Open Science Conference on Global Change (Barcelona,
Spain).
García-Pérez, J., R. M. Canals and M. T.
Sebastià. 1997. Comparison of montane grassland structure by
means of the Zipf-Pareto-Mandelbrot rank-abundance model. Poster.
XXXVII Reunión Científica de la S. E. E. P. (Sevilla,
Spain). Actas de la XXXVII Reunión Científica de la
S. E. E. P. 73-79.
García-Pérez, J. and M. T.
Sebastià. 1996. Seasonal component of plant diversity along a
toposequence in Pyrenean grasslands. Poster. XXXVI Reunión
Científica de la S. E. E. P (Logroño, Spain). Actas
de la XXXVI Reunión Científica de la S. E. E. P.
125-128.
Garcia-Perez, J. and M. T. Sebastia. 1996. Spatial
variation of plant diversity along the vegetative season in subalpine
grasslands. Poster. ESA Meeting (Providence, RI).
García-Pérez,
J. and O. Schwendtner. 1995. Xeric and regeneration conditions in
Supramediterranean beech forests in the Ebro canyons. Poster. IV
Seminario Internacional de Botánica Pirenaico-Cantábrica
(Oviedo, Spain).
García-Pérez, J. and M. T.
Sebastià. 1995. Seasonal evolution of phenology in
above-treeline grasslands and the influence of climatic factors. IV
Seminario Internacional de Botánica Pirenaico-Cantábrica
(Oviedo, Spain).
Garcia-Perez, J. and M. T. Sebastia. 1994.
Phenological changes in topographically contrasted subalpine
grasslands. Poster. VI International Congress of Ecology (Manchester,
UK).
Sebastia, M. T., L. Puig and J. Garcia-Perez. 1994. Seed
ecology and plant diversity in subalpine Pyrenean grasslands.
Oral presentation. ESA Meeting (Knoxville, TN).
García-Pérez,
J., M. T. Sebastià and A. M. Pelacho. 1994. Thermic Modulation
of germination in species from Pyrenean subalpine grasslands of
distinct ecologies. Poster. XXXIV Reunión Científica de
la S. E. E. P (Santander, Spain). Actas de la XXXIV Reunión
Científica de la S. E. E. P. 111-117.
Sebastià,
M. T., R. M. Canals and J. García-Pérez. 1993.
Extensive cooperative management in Pla de Rus (Eastern Pyrenees).
Poster. III Seminario sobre Nutrición de Rumiantes en Régimen
Extensivo (Jaca, Spain).
