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3372 SPIETH HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Rotenberry, John

Chair/Professor of Biology; Director, Natural Reserve System

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Biology


Biography

 

Former Institution

Bowling Green State University
University of New Mexico

Degrees

PhD Ecology 1978

Oregon State University

Awards

Elected a Fellow of the AAAS, 2001
Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union


Research Area

My laboratory studies community ecology and conservation biology, particularly how environmental factors interact to determine species diversity and community composition, and how the relative importance of those factors varies. My research has focused on communities in semi-arid shrubsteppe habitat, with emphasis on birds, shrubs, and arthropods; annual plants and their pollinators in old-field ecosystems; and conservation biology of vertebrates from a landscape ecological perspective.

Other research interests include general issues in avian ecology, particularly behavioral aspects such as habitat and diet selection, reproductive biology, and community ecology. We are especially interested in modelling habitat associations of passerine birds and documenting changes in these associations through time and space.

Publications

Chase, M.K., W.B.  Kristan, III, A.J.  Lynam, M.V.  Price, and J.T.  Rotenberry.  2000.  Single species as indicators of species richness and composition in California coastal sage scrub bird and small mammal
communities.  Conservation Biology 14:474-487. 

Rotenberry, J.T., and J.A.  Wiens.  In press.  Foraging patch selection by shrubsteppe sparrows.  Ecology. 

Rotenberry, J.T.  In press.  Avian conservation research needs in western shrublands: exotic invaders and the alteration of ecosystem processes.  In J.  Marzluff and R.  Sallabanks (editors).  Avian conservation: research needs and effective implementation.  Island Press. 

Rotenberry, J.T., and S.T.  Knick.  In press.  From the individual to the landscape: multiscale habitat associations of a shrubsteppe passerine and its implications for conservation biology.  In P.  Vickery and J.  Herkert (editors).  Ecology and conservation of grassland and shrubland birds. Studies in Avian Biology.

Knick, S.T., and J.T.  Rotenberry.  In press.  Landscape characteristics of disturbed shrubsteppe habitats in southwestern Idaho.  Landscape Ecology.

Bolger, D.T., T.A.  Scott, and J.T.  Rotenberry.  1997.  Breeding bird abundance in an urbanizing landscape.  Conservation Biology 11:406-421. 

Rotenberry, J.T., M.  Zuk, L.  Simmons, and C.  Hayes.  1996.  Phonotactic parasitoids and cricket song structure: an evaluation of alternative hypotheses.  Evolutionary Ecology 10:233-243. 

Knick, S.T., and J.T.  Rotenberry.  1995.  Landscape characteristics of shrubsteppe habitats and breeding passerine birds.  Conservation Biology 9:1059-1071. 

Rotenberry, J.T., R.J.  Cooper, J.M.  Wunderle, and K.S.  Smith.  1995.  When and how are populations limited: the roles of insect outbreaks, fires, and other natural disturbances.  Pages 55-84 in T.E.  Martin and D.M.  Finch (eds.) Ecology and management of neotropical migratory birds: a synthesis and review of critical issues.  Oxford Univ.  Press.