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Research Interests Dr. Von Holle is interested in the landscape patterns and community mechanisms that influence the addition of species into ecosystems. Her research interests span four related themes: 1) the investigation of ecosystem and anthropogenic factors that influence invasion by nonnative species, 2) understanding changes in ecosystem function as a result of ecological restoration, 3) the characterization of the impact and type of species to invade natural areas, and 4) economic impacts and policy implications of nonnative species invasions. Her research approaches have included landscape-scale quantification of environmental and land-use history parameters paired with experimental manipulations of natural communities, restoration experiments, greenhouse experiments, meta-analyses of global patterns of invasion, literature reviews, and spatial and null models. She employs multi-scale techniques, where she determines landscape-level influences on nonnative species demography and further investigates these influential factors with patch-scale community manipulations and analyses. Her interest in landscape preservation is served by utilizing a variety of methods to answer pressing questions relating to the addition and loss of species in ecosystems.
Awards and Grants
2008- Research Grant, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
2008- Research Grant, National Park Service, Cape Cod National Seashore
2008-Summer Research Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratories
2008-Research Grant, University of Central Florida, College of Science)
2007-Research Grant, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
2005-AAAS Science and Technology Fellowship, Environmental Fellow
2005- REU site grant: Harvard Forest REU Program in Forest Ecology, National Science Foundation, A.M.Ellison and K. Donohue, PIs, (I am one of 10 supporting PIs)
2005- Research Grant, National Park Service
2004- Research Grant (co-PI with David R. Foster), Highstead Arboretum
2002- National Park Ecological Research Fellowship, National Park Ecological Research Foundation
2002- Postdoctoral Training Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Selected Publications
Holmes, T.P., J.E Aukema, B. Von Holle, A. Liebhold, E. Sills. In press, 2009. Economic Impacts of Invasive Species in Forests: Past, Present, and Future. Invited Chapter:The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology, Edited by R.S. Ostfield and W.H. Schlesinger.
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(1): 3-17.
Neill, C.M., B. Von Holle, K. Kleese, *K. D. Ivy, *A. R. Collins, and C. Treat.2007.Effects of land-use history on soil quality and vegetation:Implications for sandplain grassland restoration. Biological Conservation 136:17-32.
Von Holle, B. and G. Motzkin. 2007. Historical land use and environmental determinants of nonnative plant distribution in coastal northeastern United States. Biological Conservation 136: 33-43.
Von Holle, B., *K.A Joseph, *E.F. Largay, and *R.G. Lohnes. 2006. Facilitations between the introduced nitrogen-fixing tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, and nonnative plant species in the glacial outwash upland ecosystem of Cape Cod, MA. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:2197–2215
Von Holle, B. 2005. Biotic resistance to invader establishment of a southern Appalachian plant community is determined by environmental conditions. Journal of Ecology 93:16-26
Von Holle, B. and D. Simberloff.2005.Ecological resistance to biological invasion overwhelmed by propagule pressure.Ecology 86(12):3213-3218.
Von Holle, B. and D. Simberloff.2004.Testing Fox’s assembly rule: Does plant invasion depend upon recipient community structure?Oikos 105:551-563
Von Holle, B., H. Delcourt, and D. Simberloff. 2003. Biological inertia and its application in studies of ecological resistance to invasion. Journal of Vegetation Science 14: 425-432
Simberloff, D. and B. Von Holle. 1999. Positive interactions of nonindigenous species: Invasional meltdown? Biological Invasions 1(1): 21-32.
Highlights March 2008:
Research Grant, University of Central Florida, College of Science; Summer Research Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratories; Research Grant, National Park Service, Cape Cod National Seashore; Research Grant, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
October 2007: Betsy Von Holle has been noted for her paper on "Ecological resistance to biological invasion overwhelmed by propagule pressure". This paper has been identified by Essential Science Indicators as a Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Environment/Ecology, which means it is one of the most-cited papers in this field published in the past two years.
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Memberships - American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Ecological Society of America
- Society for Conservation Biology
Education - Ph.D. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2002 - University of Tennessee, at Knoxville
- B.S. Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, 1994 - University of California, at San Diego
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