Kerry A. Brown

Partial CV

EDUCATION

Ph. D., Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, August 2004.

Dissertation: Linking population and ecosystem ecology through biological invasions: the invasion of Syzygium jambos in Puerto Rico

Dissertation advisor: Dr. Jessica Gurevitch

Master of Applied Ecology, Stony Brook University. December 1998.

Thesis: Long-term impacts of logging on forest diversity in Madagascar

Advisors: Dr. Lev Ginzburg and Dr. Jessica Gurevitch Bachelor of Science

Howard University. May 1995. Bachelor of Science

PUBLICATIONS

Brown, K.A., S. Spector, and W. Wu. Multiscale analysis of species introductions: implications for improving management decisions. Submitted: Journal of Applied Ecology.

Brown, K.A., Ingram, J.C., D. Flynn, Razafindrazaka, R. J. and Jeannoda, V.H. The effect of utilitarian and non-utilitarian plant use on biodiversity in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Submitted: Biological Conservation.

Brown, K.A. and J. Gurevitch. 2004. Long-term impacts of logging on forest diversity in Madagascar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) 101 (16): 6045-6049.

Brown, K.A., F.N. Scatena, and J. Gurevitch. 2006. Effects of an invasive tree on community structure and diversity in a tropical forest in Puerto Rico. Forest Ecology and Management 226: 145-152.

Hyatt, L.A., M.S. Rosenberg, T.G. Howard, G. Bole, W. Fang, J. Anastasia, K. A. Brown, R. Grella, K. Hinman, J.P. Kurdziel, and J. Gurevitch. 2003. The distance dependence prediction of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis. Oikos 103: 590-602.

SELECTED CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

Ingram, J.C. and K.A. Brown. 2007. Restoration for promoting social-ecological resilience. Ecological Society of America(ESA), San Jose, CA.

Brown, K.A. and J.C. Ingram. 2007. Assessing the effectiveness of national parks in promoting biodiversity conservation and regulating invasive plant spread: a case study at Ranomafana National Park Madagascar Symposium, University East Anglica.

Brown, K.A. 2006. Ranomafana National Park (RNP) Symposium. Plant invasions in RNP. ValBio Madagascar.

Brown, K.A., F. N. Scatena, and J. Gurevitch. 2003. Tropical forest recovery: establishment of an invasive tree in Puerto Rico. Ecological Society of America, Savannah, GA.

Brown, K. A. 2000. Impact of nonnative plants on native tree diversity and composition in Madagascar. Presented at Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, UT.

T. Howard, J. Gurevitch, R. Misra, W. Fang, K. A. Brown. 2000. The differential influence of site and soil characteristics on invasibility of forest communities. Presented at Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, UT 2000.

Brown, K.A. 1999. Impact of nonnative plants on native tree diversity and composition in Madagascar. Stony Brook University.

Gurevitch, J.K., L Hyatt, T. Howard, W. Fang, K. A. Brown, J. Kaplan. 1999. Patterns of plant invasion in multiple environments. Ecological Society of America, Spokane WA.

SELECTED COLLOQUIA, SYMPOSIA, AND INVITED SEMINARS

K.A. Brown. 2007. Multi-scale analysis of species introductions. Imperial College, UK, Center for Population Biology (CPB).

K.A. Brown. 2007. Importance of multi-scalar analyses for species introductions. Microsoft Research Labs, Cambridge, UK.

K.A. Brown. 2007. Multi-scale analysis of species introductions: Conservation implications in the tropics. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster, UK.

K.A. Brown. 2007. Multi-scale analysis of species introductions: Conservation implications in the tropics. School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, UK.

K.A. Brown. 2007. Socio-economic and ecological factors influencing land use change in Madagascar. University of East Anglia, UK, Madagascar Symposium.

K.A. Brown. 2005. Predicting spatial distribution of invasive plants in Puerto Rico: the case of Syzygiuim jambos. University of Illinois at Chicago, Biological Sciences, Ecology and Evolution.

K.A. Brown. 2005. Using habitat suitability models to prioritize conservation hotspots. Conservation International. Washington, D.C.

K.A. Brown. 2005. Biological invasions in a tropical context: lessons from Madagascar and Puerto Rico. Howard University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

K.A. Brown. 2004. Linking population and landscape ecology through biological invasions: Syzygium jambos in Puerto Rico. Columbia University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology.