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1 Jeremy W. Fox – Curriculum vitae Dept. of Biological Sciences phone: +1 (403) 220-5275 University of Calgary fax: +1 (403) 289-9311 2500 University Dr. NW e-mail: [email protected] Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada PERSONAL Born Oct. 3, 1972, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA Dual citizen of USA and Canada EMPLOYMENT 2015- Professor 2016 Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Calgary, Canada (ongoing) 2008- Associate Professor 2015 Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Calgary 2004- Assistant Professor 2008 Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Calgary 2000- Postdoctoral Research Associate 2004 NERC Centre for Population Biology (CPB) Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, UK EDUCATION 2000 Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, USA Advisor: Peter J. Morin 1995 B.A. with Honors in Biology, magna cum laude Williams College Williamstown, MA, USA PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 43. Rankin, B., J. W. Fox et al. 2015. The extended Price equation quantifies species selection on mammalian body size across the Palaeocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 282:20151097. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1097 42. Winfree, R., J. W. Fox et al. 2015. Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service. Ecology Letters 18:626-635. Featured in Nature’s “Research Highlights” section 41. Fox, J. W., and L. Harder. 2015. Using a 'time machine' to test for local adaptation of aquatic microbes to temporal as well as spatial environmental variation. Evolution 69:136- 145. 40. Olito, C. and J. W. Fox. 2015. Species traits and relative abundances predict metrics of plant-pollinator network structure, but not pairwise interactions. Oikos 124:428- 2 436. 39. Vasseur, D. A., J. W. Fox et al. 2014. Synchronous dynamics of zooplankton competitors prevail in temperate lake ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281, 20140633. “Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (http://f1000.com/prime/718469909#eval793501905) 38. Petchey, O. L., J. W. Fox, and L. Haddon. 2014. Imbalance in individual researcher's peer review activities quantified for four British Ecological Society Journals, 2003- 2010. PLoS ONE 9:e92896. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092896 37. Gross, K., B. J. Cardinale, J. W. Fox, et al. 2014. Species richness and the temporal stability of biomass production: a new analysis of recent biodiversity experiments. American Naturalist 183:1-12. (Authorship alphabetical after first author) 36. Livingston, G., Y. Jiang, J. W. Fox, and M. A. Leibold. 2013. The dynamics of community assembly under sudden mixing in experimental microcosms. Ecology 94:2898- 2906. 35. Fox, J. W., G. Legault, D. A. Vasseur, and J. A. Einarson. 2013. Nonlinear effects of dispersal rate on spatial synchrony of predator-prey cycles. PLoS ONE 8:e79527. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079527 34. Cardinale, B. J., K. Gross, K. Fritschie, P. Flombaum, J. W. Fox, et al. 2013. Biodiversity simultaneously enhances the production and stability of community biomass in experimental systems of primary producers, but the effects are independent. Ecology 94:1697-1707. (Authorship alphabetical after first author) 33. Fox, J. W. 2013. The intermediate disturbance hypothesis should be abandoned. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:86-92. Most downloaded paper published by Trends in Ecology and Evolution in 2013 32. Fox, J. W. 2012. Can blogging change how ecologists share ideas? In economics, it already has. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 5:74-77. (invited contribution to special issue) 31. Fox, J. W. 2012. When should we expect microbial phenotypic traits to predict microbial abundances? Frontiers in Microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00268 (invited contribution) 30. Fox, J. W., and B. Kerr. 2012. Analyzing the effects of species gain and loss on ecosystem function: an extended Price Equation partition. Oikos 121:290-298. 29. Vasseur, D. A., and J. W. Fox. 2011. Adaptive dynamics of competition for nutritionally complementary resources: character displacement, convergence, and parallelism. American Naturalist 178:501-514. 28. Fox, J. W., D. A. Vasseur, S. Hausch, and J. Roberts. 2011. Phase locking, the Moran effect, and distance decay of synchrony: experimental tests in a model system. Ecology Letters 14:163-168. 27. Fox, J. W., W. A. Nelson, and E. McCauley. 2010. Coexistence mechanisms and the paradox of the plankton: quantifying selection from noisy data. Ecology 91:1774-1786. “Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/4267956) 3 26. Fox, J. W. 2010. Partitioning the effects of species loss on community variability using multi-level selection theory. Oikos 119:1823-1833. 25. Vasseur, D. A., and J. W. Fox. 2009. Phase locking and environmental fluctuations generate synchrony in a predator-prey community. Nature 209:1007-1010. Selected as a “Must Read” paper by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1326014) 24. Fox, J. W., and G. Rauch. 2009. Partitioning the mechanisms by which genetic diversity of parasite infections affects total parasite load. Oikos 118:1507-1514. 23. Hector, A., T. Bell, J. Connolly, J. Finn, J. W. Fox, et al. 2009. The analysis of biodiversity experiments: from pattern to mechanism. In: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective, Oxford University Press. (Authorship alphabetical after first author) 22. Fox, J. W., and D. Vasseur. 2008. Character convergence under competition for nutritionally- essential resources. American Naturalist 172:667-680. 21. Fox, J. W. 2008. Testing whether productivity mediates the occurrence of alternate stable states and assembly cycles in a model microcosm system. Oikos 117:1153-1164. 20. Fox, J. W., and W. S. Harpole. 2008. Revealing how species loss affects ecosystem function: the trait-based Price Equation partition. Ecology 89:269-279. 19. Vasseur, D., and J. W. Fox. 2007. Environmental fluctuations can stabilize food web dynamics by increasing synchrony. Ecology Letters 10:1066-1074. “Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1091139) 18. Fox, J. W. 2007a. Testing the mechanisms by which source-sink dynamics alter competitive outcomes in a model system. American Naturalist 170:396-408. 17. Fox, J. W. 2007b. Within-trophic level diversity, density compensation, and the dynamics of trophic cascades. Oikos 116:189-200. 16. Fox, J. W. 2006. Using the Price Equation to partition the effects of biodiversity loss on ecosystem function. Ecology 87:2687-2696 Lead article, highlighted on journal cover 15. Fox, J. W., and C. Barreto. 2007. Suprising competitive coexistence in a classic model system. Community Ecology 7:143-154. “Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1071000) 14. Fox, J. W. 2006. Current food web models cannot explain the overall topological structure of observed food webs. Oikos 115:97-109. 13. Fox, J. W., and D. S. Srivastava. 2006. Predicting local-regional richness relationships using island biogeography models. Oikos 113:376-382. 12. Fox, J. W. 2005. Biodiversity, food web structure, and the partitioning of biomass within and among trophic levels. In: Dynamic Food Webs, Academic Press. 11. Fox, J. W. 2005. Interpreting the “selection effect” of biodiversity on ecosystem function. Ecology Letters 8:846-856. Selected as a “Must Read” paper by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1027710) 4 10. Fox, J. W. 2004. Effects of algal and herbivore diversity on the partitioning of biomass within and among trophic levels. Ecology 85:549-559. 9. Berlow, E., A.-M. Neutel, J. Cohen, P. de Ruiter, B. Ebenman, J. W. Fox, et al. 2004. Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:585-598. 8. Fox, J. W. 2004. Modelling the joint effects of predator and prey diversity on total prey biomass. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:88-96. 7. Fox, J. W. 2003. The long-term relationship between plant diversity and total plant biomass depends on the mechanism maintaining diversity. Oikos 102:630-640. 6. Fox, J. W. 2002. Testing a simple rule for dominance in resource competition. American Naturalist 159:305-319. 5. Fox, J. W., and J. McGrady-Steed. 2002. Stability and complexity in microcosm communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 71:749-756. 4. Fox, J. W., and P. J. Morin. 2001. Effects of intra- and interspecific interactions on species responses to environmental change. Journal of Animal Ecology 70:80-90. 3. Fox, J. W., and E. Olsen. 2000. Food web structure and the strength of transient indirect effects. Oikos 90:219-226. 2. Fox, J. W., O. L. Petchey, and J. McGrady-Steed. 2000. Testing for local species saturation with nonindependent regional species pools. Ecology Letters 3:198-206. 1. Fox, J. W., and D. C. Smith. 1997. Variable outcomes of protist-rotifer competition in laboratory microcosms. Oikos 79:489-495. OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2015 Fox, J. W., and R. E. Lenski. From here to eternity: the theory and practice of a really long experiment. PLoS Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002185 (invited interview with Richard Lenski). 2015 Narwani, A., B. Matthews, J. W. Fox, and P. Venail. 2015. Using phylogenetics in community assembly and ecosystem functioning research. Functional Ecology 29:589-591. (introduction to special feature I guest-edited) 2010 Fox, J. W., and O. L. Petchey. PubCreds: Fixing the peer review process by ‘privatising’ the reviewer commons. Ecological Society of America Bulletin 91:325-333. 2004 Morin, P. J., and J. W. Fox. Diversity in the deep blue sea. Nature 429:813-814 (News & Views article). BOOK I am contracted with University of Chicago Press to write How Ecology Is Done (and How To Do It Better) (working title). Completion date is Dec. 1, 2017. GRANTS 2015 “Ecological and evolutionary dynamics” NSERC Discovery Grant, $130,000 (5 year award) 2010 “Ecological and evolutionary dynamics” NSERC Discovery Grant, $145,000 (5 year award) 5 2007 “Evolution of competing species: divergence or convergence in resource use?” British Ecological Society Early Career Project Grant, £23,900 (1 year award, =$48,435) 2005 “Effects of dispersal and non-equilibrium population dynamics on community structure: mechanistic experiments in model systems” NSERC Discovery Grant, $132,500 (5 year award).