Jason D. Fridley . Assistant Professor Plant ecology and geography, landscape ecology, invasive species, biodiversity fridley@syr.edu Office: 448 Life Sciences Complex (LSC) Phone: 315-443-3098 / fax: 315-443-2012 Education: • Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002 • Postdoc, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2003-2006 • Postdoc, University of Sheffield, UK 2004 Courses: • Bio 415/615 Conservation Biology • Bio 345 Population Biology

RESEARCH

Fridley Lab at Syracuse University: http://plantecology.syr.edu/fridley

Funding: 2004-2007 NSF International Research Fellowship: Connecting genes to ecosystems: How does genetic diversity maintain species diversity in a species-rich pastureland? (with J.P. Grime, FRS, University of Sheffield, UK)

Research in the Fridley lab concerns the ecology of plant communities — their organization, their distribution with respect to the environment, and their control over ecosystem processes. Current topics of active research include:

* The dynamic geography of plant diversity: scaling diversity in space and time
* Ecosystem consequences of plant diversity: from genes to species
* Plant distributions & the environmental template: which factors and scales?
* Plant invasions: where and why do species invade?

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Fridley, J.D. Of Asian forests and European fields: Eastern U.S. plant invasions in a global floristic context. PLoS ONE, in press.

Manthey, M. and Fridley, J.D. 2009. Beta diversity metrics and the estimation of niche width via species co-occurrence data: reply to Zeleny. Journal of Ecology, in press.

Grime, J.P., Fridley, J.D., Askew, A.P., Thompson, K., Hodgson, J.G., and Bennett, C.R. 2008. Long-term resistance to simulated climate change in an infertile grassland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Early Edition July 7. [PDF]

Palmer, M., McGlinn, D., and Fridley, J.D. 2008. Artifacts and artifictions in biodiversity research. Folia Geobotanica, in press.

Qian, H., Fridley, J.D., and Palmer, M. W. 2007. The latitudinal gradient of species-area relationships of vascular plants of North America. The American Naturalist 170: 690-701. [PDF]

Fridley, J.D., Stachowicz, J.J., Naeem, S., Sax, D.F., Seabloom, E.W., Smith, M.D., Stohlgren, T.J., Tilman, D., and Von Holle, B. 2007. The invasion paradox: reconciling pattern and process in species invasions. Ecology, 88: 3-17.