Elizabeth T. BorerAssistant Professor |
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PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
B.A. - Oberlin College in Biology, 1991
M.A. - UC Santa Barbara in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, 2000
Ph.D. - UC Santa Barbara in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology,2002
APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Zoology Department, Oregon State University, Corvallis. (2004-current)
Academic Visitor, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College, England. (2004-current)
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. 2003-2004
Visiting Research Fellow, Dep't of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley. (2002-2003)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Dep't of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, UCSB. (2002-2003)
Graduate Fellow, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, UCSB. (1997-2002)
Research Assistant, Department of Forestry, Iowa State University. (1996-1997)
Bioassessment Grant Biologist, Environmental and Conservation Services Department, City of Austin, TX. (1994-1996)
Research Intern, Committee for the National Institutes for the Environment (CNIE). (1992-1993)
Minnesota Clean Rivers Project Assistant, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. (1992-1992).
PUBLICATIONS (5 most relevant)
Borer, E. T., E. W. Seabloom, J. B. Shurin, K. E. Anderson, C. A. Blanchette, B. Broitman, S. D. Cooper, B. S. Halpern. 2005. What determines the strength of a trophic cascade? Ecology 86(2):528-537.
Malmström, C. M., A. J. McCullough, H. A. Johnson, E. T. Borer. 2005. Invasive annual grasses indirectly increase virus incidence in California native perennial bunchgrasses. Oecologia 145(1):153-164.
Snyder, R. E., E. T. Borer, P. Chesson. 2005. Examining the relative importance of spatial and non-spatial coexistence mechanisms. The American Naturalist 166(4):E75-E94.
Borer, E. T., W.W. Murdoch, and S.L. Swarbrick. 2004. Parasitoid coexistence: Linking spatial field patterns with mechanism. Ecology 85(3):667-678.
Borer, E. T., C. J. Briggs, W.W. Murdoch, and S.L. Swarbrick. 2003. Testing intraguild predation theory in a field system: Does numerical dominance shift along a gradient of productivity? Ecology Letters 6: 929-935.
PUBLICATIONS (5 additional)
Briggs, C.J. and E. T. Borer. 2005. Why short-term experiments may not allow long-term predictions about intraguild predation. Ecological Applications 15(4):1111-1117.
Halpern, B. S., E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, J. B. Shurin. 2005. Predator effects on herbivore and plant stability. Ecology Letters 8:189-194.
Seabloom, E. W., E. T. Borer, V. Boucher, K. L. Cottingham, W. K. Gram, B. E. Kendall, L. Goldwasser, F. Micheli, and R. S. Burton. 2003. Competition, seed limitation, disturbance, and reestablishment of California native annual forbs. Ecological Applications 13: 575-592.
Borer, E. T. 2002. Larval competition of guild members: implications for coexistence via intraguild predation. Journal of Animal Ecology 71: 957-965.
Borer, E. T., K. Anderson, C. A. Blanchette, B. Broitman, S. D. Cooper, B. Halpern, E. W. Seabloom, J. B. Shurin. 2002. Topological approaches to food web analyses: a few modifications may improve our insights. Oikos 99: 398-403.
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
2005- Faculty participant (PhD mentor, lecturer), OSU Ecosystem IGERT program.
2005- Pre-vet advisor for OSU undergraduates.
1997-1999 Classroom Scientist, Los Marineros/Kids do Ecology (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis).
1995-1996 Mentor, Experiential Internships (2 undergrads) (St. Edward's Univ., Austin, TX).
- Ad hoc reviewer for the National Science Foundation, United States Department of Agriculture, American Naturalist, Biological Control, Ecological Entomology, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Journal of Animal Ecology, Theoretical Population Biology, Science, and Nature
- 15 invited seminars since 2002, including Sweden, England, Australia, and New Zealand.