Robert Colwell

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Professor

Office: TLS 375
Voice: (860) 486-4395
Fax: (860) 486-6364
E-mail: robert.colwell@uconn.edu

Home page:
http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/colwell

Mailing address:
75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043
Storrs, CT 06269-3043, U.S.A.

[edit] Research interests:

Community ecology; species interactions and coevolution, especially among arthropods and plants; species diversity and biogeography; population structure, speciation and evolution.

[edit] Selected publications:

Cardelus, C., Colwell, R.K., and Watkins, Jr., J.E. 2006. Vascular epiphyte distribution patterns: Explaining the mid-elevation richness peak. J. Ecology 94: 144-156.

Watkins, Jr., J.E., Cardelus, C., Moran, R.C., and Colwell, R.K. 2006. Diversity and distribution of ferns along an elevational gradient in Costa Rica. American Journal of Botany 93: 73-83.

Bunker, D.E., DeClerck, F., Bradford, J.C., Colwell, R.K., Perfecto, I., Phillips, O.L., Sankaran, M., and Naeem, S. 2005. Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest. Science (Express Reports) 10.1126/science.1117682: 1-5.

Chao, A., Chazdon, R.L., Colwell, R.K., and Shen, T.-J. 2005. A new statistical approach for assessing compositional similarity based on incidence and abundance data. Ecology Letters 8: 148-159.

Chao, A., Chazdon, R.L., Colwell, R.K., and Shen, T.J. 2005. A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data. Ecology Letters 8: 148-159.

Colwell, R.K. 2005. EstimateS Ver. 7.5: Statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples (Statistical estimation software with 20 p. manual).

Colwell, R.K., Rahbek, C., and Gotelli, N. 2005. The mid-domain effect: there's a baby in the bathwater. American Naturalist 166: E149-E154.

Mao, C.X., and Colwell, R.K. 2005. Estimation of species richness: mixture models, the role of rare species, and inferential challenges. Ecology 86: 1143-1153.

Mao, C.X., Colwell, R.K., and Chang, J. 2005. Estimating species accumulation curves using mixtures. Biometrics 61: 433-441.

Romdal, T., Colwell, R.K., and Rahbek, C. 2005. The influence of band sum area, domain extent and range sizes on the latitudinal mid-domain effect. Ecology 86: 235-244.

Colwell, R.K. 2004. Biota 2: The biodiversity database manager. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland MA. 880 pp Manual pages.

Colwell, R.K., Mao, C.X., and Chang, J. 2004. Interpolating, extrapolating, and comparing incidence-based species accumulation curves. Ecology 85: 2717-2727.

Colwell, R.K., Rahbek, C., Gotelli, N.J. 2004. The mid-domain effect and species richness patterns: What have we learned so far?. American Naturalist 163: E1-E23.

Jetz, W., Rahbek, C., and Colwell, R.K. 2004. The coincidence of rarity and richness and the potential signature of history in centres of endemism. Ecology Letters 7: 1180-1191.

Koh, L.P., Dunn, R.R., Sodhi, N.S., Colwell, R.K., Proctor, H.C., and Smith, V.S. 2004. Species coextinctions and the biodiversity crisis. Science 305: 1632-1634.

Longino, J., Coddington, J. A., and Colwell, R. K. 2002. The ant fauna of a tropical rainforest: estimating species richness three different ways. Ecology 83: 689-702.

Gotelli, N., and Colwell, R. K. 2001. Quantifying biodiversity: Procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecology Letters 4: 379-391.

Coddington, J.A., and Colwell, R.K. 2000. Arachnids. Pages 199-218 in S. Levin Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Academic Press, New York.

Colwell, R. K. 2000. Rensch's Rule crosses the line: Convergent allometry of sexual size dimorphism in hummingbirds and flower mites. American Naturalist 156: 495-510.

Colwell, R. K., and Lees, D. C. 2000. The mid-domain effect: geometric constraints on the geography of species richness. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 70-76.

Colwell, R.K. 2000. A barrier runs through it...or maybe just a river (Commentary). PNAS 97: 13470-13472.

Colwell, R.K. 2000. Hummingbirds and flower mites: Contrasts and conflicts between two nectarivores. Pages 86-99 in M.A.S. Alves, J.M.C. Silva, M. Van Sluys, H.G. Bergallo and C.F.D. Rocha eds. A ornitologia no Brasil: Pesquisa atual, conservacao e perspectivas. Anais do VII Congresso Brasileiro de Ornitologia, Rio de Janeiro.

Oliver, I., Pik, A., Britton, D., Dangerfield, J. M., Colwell, R. K., and Beattie, A. J. 2000. Virtual biodiversity assessment systems: the application of bioinformatics technologies to the accelerated accumulation of biodiversity information. BioScience 50: 441-450.

Colwell, R.K. 1999-2005. RangeModel4: A Monte Carlo simulation tool for assessing geometric constraints on species richness.

Chazdon, R. L., Colwell, R. K., and Denslow, J. S. 1999. Tropical tree richness and resource-based niches. Science 285: 1459a.

Colwell, R. K., and Naeem, S. 1999. Sexual sorting in hummingbird flower mites. Annals of Entomological Society of America 92: 652-659.

Chazdon, R. L., Colwell, R. K., Denslow, J. S., and Guariguata, M. 1998. Parthenon Press, Paris.

Longino, J. T. and Colwell, R. K. 1998. Biodiversity assessment using structured inventory: Capturing the ant fauna of a lowland tropical rainforest. Ecological Applications 7: 1263-1277.

Colwell, R. K. 1996. Effects of nectar consumption by the hummingbird flower mite Proctolaelaps kirmsei on nectar availability in Hamelia patens. Biotropica 27

Colwell, R. K., and Coddington, J. A. 1994. Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series B) 345: 101-118.