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Home | Curriculum Vitae (pdf) | Research and Publications | Ecology Links | Natural History Photos | Natural History Photos I Kenneth James Feeley
Postdoctoral Fellow RESEARCH and TEACHING INTERESTS Community
Ecology, Tropical Ecology, Conservation Biology, Forest Dynamics,
LANGUAGES Native Fluency in English, Fluent in Spanish, Basic Quechua (Cusco Dialect),
Fluent in R
EDUCATION 2005 Ph.D. Biology, Duke University, Certificate in Ecology.
Committee:
John
Terborgh (Chair),
Jim Clark,
Bill Morris,
Stuart Pimm,
Miles Silman Dissertation: The effects of habitat fragmentation on tropical floral and faunal communities as mediated through trophic interactions Coursework: Biogeochemistry, Biostatistics, Ecological Theory and Data
Analysis, Evolutionary Trends, 1998 B.S.
Biology,
APPOINTMENTS and
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2005 Postdoctoral
Fellow,
Harvard University Arnold Arboretum,
Center for Tropical Forest Science,
Asia Program
Project: Pantropical changes in forest structure and dynamics
2004
Research
Associate, Andean
Biodiversity Consortium,
2000-2004 Principal
Investigator, Lago Guri Venezuela
2001-2003 Field Station
Manager, Lago Guri Venezuela
2001-2003 Principal Investigator, Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu Project:
The effects of treefall gap size and
orientation on pioneer plant communities 1998-1999 Research Assistant, Wake Forest University , Galapagos Ecuador
Project: Reproductive behavior
and breeding ecology of the
Sula dactylatra
1998 Research Technician, University
of Georgia Marine Institute, Georgia Project:
Influence
of drainage complexity on intertidal salt marsh nekton communities
1996 Research Assistant, Great
Smokey Mountains National Park,
Project: Long
term vegetation dynamics of old growth forests
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2000, 2004 Mentor for Undergraduate theses: Diana Escalasans, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela Mireya Natividad Raurau Quisiyupanqui, Universidad National San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru
2000-2003 Teaching Assistant,
2000-2003 Guest Lecturer,
1997-1998 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant,
PUBLICATIONS Feeley, K.J., S.J. Wright, S. Davies, M.N.S. Noor, and A.R. Kassim. 2007 Decelerating growth in tropical forest trees. Ecology Letters 10: 461-469. [pdf] * featured as Editor's Choice in Science magazine [pdf] * featured in Conservation Magazine's Journal Watch * featured in the Harvard Gazette [pdf] * rated as a "Must Read" by the Faculty of 1000 Feeley, K.J., S. Davies, M.N.S. Noor, A.R. Kassim, and S. Tan. 2007. Do current stem size distributions predict future population changes? An empirical test of intraspecific patterns in tropical trees across two spatial scales. Journal of Tropical Ecology 23: 191-198. [ pdf] Feeley, K.J. and J.W. Terborgh. 2006.Habitat fragmentation and the indirect effects of altered herbivore abundances on bird diversity. Ecology 87: 144-150. [pdf] Ibanez, I., J. Clark, M.C. Dietze, K.J. Feeley, M. Hersh, S. LaDeau, A. McBride, N.E. Welch, and M.S. Wolosin. 2006 Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve. Ecology (invited) 87: 1896-1906. [pdf] Terborgh, J.W, K.J. Feeley, P. Nunez V., B. Balukjian, and M.R. Silman. 2006. Vegetation dynamics of predator-free land-bridge islands. Journal of Ecology 94: 253-263.[pdf] * Highlighted in Nature News and Views [pdf] * Highlighted in Science Magazine’s ScienceNow [pdf] * Rated as Exceptional (highest possible rating) by Faculty of 1000. Tied for 3rd highest rating of all time within "Community Ecology and Biodiversity" Feeley, K.J. and J.W. Terborgh. 2005. The effects of herbivore density on soil nutrients and tree growth in tropical forest fragments. Ecology 86: 116-124. [pdf] Feeley, K.J. 2005. The role of clumped defecation in the spatial distribution of nutrients and the availability of nutrients for plant uptake. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21: 99-102. [pdf] Feeley, K.J. 2004. The effects of forest fragmentation and increased edge exposure on leaf litter accumulation. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20: 709-714. [pdf] Feeley, K.J. 2003. Analysis of the avian communities of Lake Guri, Venezuela, using multiple assembly rule models. Oecologia 137: 104-113. [pdf]
Book Chapters Feeley, K.J. in press. Relaxation in Encyclopedia of Islands (R. Gillespie and D. Clague, eds.). University of California Press. Feeley, K.J. in press. The effects of global change on tropical forests in Encyclopedia of Life Science by K.E. Cullen. Facts on File Press. Terborgh, J.W, K.J. Feeley. in press. Ecosystem decay in closed forest fragments in Tropical Forest Community Ecology (W.P. Carson and S.A. Schnitzer, eds.). Blackwell Publishing.
Manuscripts In Review Feeley, K.J., S. Davies, P. Ashton, et al. Succession and biomass dynamics of old-growth tropical forests. In review. Chave, J., R. Condit…K.J. Feeley, et al. Changes in tropical forest biomass dominance across species and functional group. In review. Feeley, K.J. and J.W. Terborgh. Ecological Imbalances determine rates of avian species loss from landbridge islands. In review. Feeley, K.J., T.G. Gillespie, D.J. Lebbin, and H. Hart. Species characteristics associated with extinction vulnerability and nestedness ranking among birds on islands in Lago Guri, Venezuela. In review.
INVITED SEMINARS 2007 Harvard University, Harvard Herbarium 2006 SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 2006 University of California LA, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 2006 University of Rhode Island, Department of Biological Sciences
2005 Duke University, Department of Biology, Program in Ecology
2004 Harvard University, Arnold Arboretum
Feeley, K.J.,
S. Davies, P. Ashton, et al.
2006
Succession and biomass dynamics of old-growth tropical forests.
89th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America .
Feeley, K.J. and J.W. Terborgh. 2005. Ecological imbalances drive species loss from islands in Lago Guri, Venezeula (invited talk). Annual Meeting of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation. Feeley, K.J. 2005. Top-down and bottom-up drivers of avian extinctions from tropical forest fragments. Student Conference on Conservation Science.
Feeley, K.J. and J.W. Terborgh. 2004. The effects of tropical
dry-forest fragmentation and edge exposure on tree and sapling demography. Annual Meeting of the Association of
Tropical Biology and Conservation.
Feeley, K.J. 2004. Habitat fragmentation and the relaxation of
avian communities. Wake Forest University Ecology Discussion Group.
Feeley, K.J. 2004. Herbivores accelerate nutrient cycling on
recently isolated islands in
Feeley, K.J. 2002.
Factors influencing the density of birds on
small tropical land-bridge islands. 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America .
Feeley, K.J. 2002. Importance of direct and indirect relationships
in shaping community structure (invited talk). Annual Meeting of the Association of Tropical Biologists.
Feeley, K.J. 2001.
Faunal relaxation on recently formed tropical
land-bridge islands (Poster). 86th Annual Meeting of the
Ecological Society of America .
GRANTS and AWARDS
2005 Conference Travel Award
2004 Conference Travel Award
2004
Foreign Language
and Area Studies (FLAS) Award
2003 Conference Travel Award
2003
Duke University
International Travel Grant
2002 Conference Travel Award
2002 Duke Ecology Keever Award
2001
Sally Hughes
Schrader Travel Grant
2001 Conference Travel Award
2001
Cooper Ornithological
Society Student Research Grant
2001
David L. Boren Graduate
Fellowship
2001
Frank M. Chapman
Memorial Fund Research Grant
2001
Latin American
Studies Grant
2000
Frank M. Chapman
Memorial Fund Research Grant
2000
H. Branch Howe, Jr.
Research Grant
2000
NSF International Travel
Grant
1999
National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellowship WORKSHOPS and ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Teaching 2006 Workshop on Innovative Teaching and Active Learning in the Biological Sciences
Statistics 2006 Workshop on Modeling Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrences
2006 Summer Institute on Uncertainty and Variability in Ecological Inference, Forecasting and Decision Making
2005 Workshop on Advanced Analytical Techniques in R (Statistics)
2006 SEEK Early Career Faculty and PostDoctoral Workshop on Ecoinformatics
GIS and Remote Sensing 2007 Harvard University Semester course on Introduction to GIS
2007 Harvard University Workshop on Remote Sensing Technology and Applications
2006 Harvard University Workshop on Introduction to GIS
Other 2006 Harvard University semester course on Environmental Management
2006 Harvard University Workshop on Tropical Plant Identification
2000 Advanced Wilderness First Aid Training
1994
Honors Field
Geology Program, University of Georgia
1997
Tropical Ecology and Conservation Biology, CIEE,
1993 Rescue Scuba Diver Certification, PADI
Languages
2003 Advanced Spanish, Academia Latinoamerica de
Español, Cusco Peru
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Founder and organizer of Harvard Ecology and Environmental Discussion Group (2006/07)
Mentor for SEEDS Undergraduate Ecology Program (2006)
Judge for Murray F. Buell Student Award (2006)
Member of the Ecological Society of America, the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation, and the Audubon Society
Member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Adhoc reviewer for Conservation Biology, Ecological Monographs, Hydrological Processes, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Tropical
Ecology, Ecography, Oikios, Biotropica, Austral Ecology, Acta Oecologia, and Tropical Forest Community Ecology (book chapter).
Duke University Biology Graduate Program Steering Committee (2002).
IN
the PRESS News & Views article in Nature about research at Guri National Geographic documentary about research at Guri Magazine article about research at Guri
Press release
about research at Guri Press release about my research in Guri
Photograph published
in Science Magazine
All of the photographs on this website were taken
by the author during various research expeditions to Home | Curriculum Vitae (pdf) | Research and Publications | Ecology Links | Natural History Photos | Natural History Photos II |
