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Community Ecology, Invasion Biology, Social Insects, Conservation Science
\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

We study natural history, community assembly, ecosystem service provisioning, and species invasions at multiple scales in natural and human-altered landscapes.\u00a0 The overarching themes of the research program are to understand how insects impact ecosystem functions, how insects affect the delivery of ecosystem services, and what the ecological mechanisms are that drive species invasions associated with land-use changes. To accomplish this, we use experiments and comparative approaches to better understand the ecology of insects and the other organisms they interact with.\u00a0 We tend to focus on social insects because: (1) they are among the most abundant and diverse families of animals, and therefore very important ecologically, (2) they are tractable study subjects at almost any latitude, (3) numerous species are important terrestrial invaders, and (4) a range of levels of social organization and life history strategies can be found within social insects.<\/p>\n

Contact Information<\/strong>
\nDr. Joshua King
\nBiology Department<\/a>
\nUniversity of Central Florida<\/a><\/p>\n

email: Joshua.King@ucf.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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