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CURRICULUM VITAE
WILLIAM J. BOECKLEN

1. PERSONAL DATA
Date of Birth November 8, 1957
Place of Birth Philadelphia, PA
University Address :
Department of Biology
Box 30001/MSC 3AF
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Phone: (505) 646 2501
wboeckle@nmsu.edu

2. EDUCATION AND DEGREES

           B.S. Biology, Florida State University, 1980
           B.S. Statistics, Florida State University, 1980
           M.S. Florida State University, 1982
              Adviser: Daniel Simberloff
              Thesis Title: Experimental investigation of ant-plant mutualisms in Hibiscus
              aculeatus and Cassia fasiculata.
           Ph.D. Zoology, Northern Arizona University, 1987
              Adviser: Peter W. Price
              Dissertation Title: Variance components of sawfly distribution and abundance
              on arroyo willow (Salix lasiolepis).

3. ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1983-1987   Instructor, Department of Mathematics
                     Northern Arizona University
1987-1993   Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
New Mexico State University

4. CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
New Mexico State University

5. TEACHING ACTIVITIES

COURSES TAUGHT AT NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY

    MAT 105     Fundamentals of Arithmetic
    MAT 107     Introductory Algebra
    MAT 109     Intermediate Algebra
    MAT 110     College Algebra
    MAT 111     Trigonometry
    MAT 112     College Algebra and Trigonometry
    MAT 130     Mathematics for Management Science
    MAT 135     Precalculus Mathematics
    MAT 270     Applied Statistics
    MAT 690     Statistical Ecology

COURSES TAUGHT AT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY

    BIOL 110     Contemporary Problems in Biology
    BIOL 111     Natural History of Life
    BIOL 301     Principles of Ecology
    BIOL 301L   Ecology Lab
    BIOL 402     Ecology Seminar
    BIOL 408     Ecology of Plants
    BIOL 450     Southwestern Field Biology
    BIOL 462     Field Ecology
    BIOL 508     Plant Ecology
    BIOL 510     Analytical Community Ecology
    BIOL 511     Ecological Biogeography
    BIOL 516     Seminar in Ecology
    BIOL 621     Advanced Studies in Plant Ecology
    BIOL 641     Advanced Studies in Animal Ecology
    HONS 205   Honors Biology

6. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Journal Activities

Associate Editor - Ecology & Ecological Monographs (1996-1999)

Reviewer for:

American Journal of Botany
American Midland Naturalist
American Naturalist
Biotropica
Conservation Biology
Ecology
Ecological Applications
Environmental Management
Journal of Biogeography
Oecologia
Oikos
Southwestern Naturalist
Tropical Zoology

Agency Activities

Panel member - Department of Energy Theoretical Ecology Program (1989).
Consultant - Department of Energy Theoretical Ecology Program (1991).
Panel member - National Science Foundation Ecology Program (1991-1995).

Reviewer for:

Department of Energy- Theoretical Ecology
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
National Science Foundation

7. RESEARCH SUPPORT

    1984 Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research- $300
                "Variance components of herbivore distribution and abundance
                on Salix lasiolepis."
    1985 Northern Arizona University Organized Research Grant - $6000
                "Optimal design of nature reserves: consequences of faunal collapse
                and genetic drift."
    1988 New Mexico State University Minigrant - $900
                "Structure and dynamics of herbivore communities in oak
                hybrid zones."
    1990-1993 National Science Foundation- $180,000
                "Structure and dynamics of herbivore communities in oak
                hybrid zones."
    1992-1996 National Science Foundation- $350,000
                "Herbivory in oak hybrid zones: general patterns, genetic
                relationships, and mechanisms."
   1993-1994 National Science Foundation- $150,949
                "Consolidation of the laboratory of ecological and evolutionary
                genetics." (D. Howard, L. Huenneke, W. Boecklen, M. Cain,
                R. Spellenberg, P.I.'s).
    1997-2001 National Science Foundation - $300,00
                "Biogeographic, molecular genetic, and field-experimental analyses
                of plant-herbivore interactions in oak hybrid zones."

8. INVITED PRESENTATIONS

                        1985 CSIRO Conference: Nature conservation: the role of remnants of native
                                    vegetation, Busselton, Western Australia.
                                    "Consequences of faunal collapse and genetic drift for the optimal design
                                    of nature reserves."
                        1985 Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
                                    “Consequences of faunal collapse and genetic drift for the optimal design
                                    of nature reserves."
                        1986 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
                                    "The size and shape of ecological communities with special reference to
                                    sawfly assemblages on arroyo willow."
                                    "Optimal design of nature reserves: consequences of faunal collapse and
                                    genetic drift."
                        1989 ISEM Symposium: Computational ecology, Toronto, Canada.
                                    "Computational approaches to hypothesis testing and data analysis in
                                    ecological biogeography and community ecology."
                        1989 Centennial Symposium, Entomological Society of America, San Antonio, Texas.
                                    “Predicting extinctions in ecological time."
                        1991 University of Colorado, Boulder.
                                    “Structure and dynamics of herbivore communities in oak hybrid zones."
                        1991 University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
                                    "Structure of herbivore communities in oak hybrid zones."
                        1991 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
                                    "Structure of herbivore communities in oak hybrid zones."
                        1991 Department of Energy, Theoretical Ecology Program Review, Gaithersberg,
                                     Maryland.
                                    "Size and shape analysis and the structure of ecological communities."
                        1991 Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland.
                                    "Are species trajectories bounded or not?"
                        1992 Fifth International Workshop on QSAR in Environmental Toxicology
                                     Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota, Duluth.
                                    "New multivariate statistical applications to predictions of acute toxicity
                                    in fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas."
                        1993 IUFRO Symposium, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
                                    "Gall-forming wasps in an oak hybrid zone: testing hypotheses about hybrid
                                    susceptibility to herbivores."
                        1994 Arizona State University
                                    "Nestedness,biogeographic theory, and the design of nature reserves"
                        1994 Arizona State University - Hansen Ecology Seminar
                                    "Structure and dynamics of herbivore communities in host hybrid zones."
                        1997 Florida State University
                                    “The death ‘nole for the dynamic equilibrium model.”
                        1997 IUFRO Symposium, Matrafured, Hungary
                                    “Tests of hypotheses regarding hybrid resistance in the Quercus coccolifolia
                                    x Q. viminea species complex.”
                        1998 NSF-CNRS Workshop on local adaptation and spatial heterogeneity in host parasite
                                 interactions, Paris, France
                                    “Theoretical and empirical studies of fungal-insect-plant interactions.”
                        1999 James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
                                    “Interactions between plants, herbivores, natural enemies, endophytic fungi,
                                    and environmental gradients in an oak hybrid zone.”
                                    “A requiem for the dynamic equilibrium theory of island biogeograhy.”

9. PUBLICATIONS

Simberloff, D. and W. Boecklen. 1981. Santa Rosilia reconsidered: size ratios and competition. Evolution 35: 1206-1228.
Boecklen, W.J. 1984. The role of extrafloral nectaries in the herbivore defense of Cassia fasiculata. Ecological Entomology 9: 243-249.
Boecklen, W.J. and N.J. Gotelli. 1984. Island biogeographic theory and conservation practice: species-area or specious-area relationships? Biological Conservation 29: 63-80.
James, F.C. and W.J. Boecklen. 1984. Interspecific morphological relationships and the densities of birds. Pages 458-477, in, D. Strong, L. Abele, D. Simberloff, and A.B. Thistle, editors. Ecological communities: conceptual issues and the evidence. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
James, F.C., R.F. Johnson, N.O. Wamer, J. Niemi, and W.J. Boecklen. 1984. Grinnellian niche of the Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina). American Naturalist 124: 17-47.
Mopper, S., S.H. Faeth, W.J. Boecklen, and D.S. Simberloff. 1984. Host-specific variation in leaf-miner population dynamics: effects on density, natural enemies, and behavior of Stilbosis quadricustatella (Cham.) (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae). Ecological Entomology 9: 169-177.
Boecklen, W.J. and C. NeSmith. 1985. Hutchinsonian ratios and log-normal distributions. Evolution 39: 695-698.
Boecklen, W.J. 1986. Effects of habitat heterogeneity on the species-area relationships of forest birds. Journal of Biogeography 13: 59-68.
Boecklen, W.J. 1986. Optimal design of nature reserves: consequences of genetic drift. Biological Conservation 38: 323-338.
Boecklen, W.J. and D. Simberloff. 1986. Area-based extinction models in conservation. Pages 247-276, in, D.K. Elliott, editor. Dynamics of extinction. Wiley, New York.
Boecklen, W.J. and G.W. Bell. 1987. Consequences of faunal collapse and genetic drift for the design of nature reserves. Pages 141-149, in, D.A. Saunders, G.W. Arnold, A.A. Burbidge, and A.J.M. Hopkins, editors. Nature conservation: the role of remnants of native vegetation. Surrey Beatty and Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW.
Brawn, J.D., W.J. Boecklen, and R.P. Balda. 1987. Investigations of density interactions among breeding birds in ponderosa pine forests: correlative and experimental evidence. Oecologia 72: 348-357.
Boecklen, W.J. and P.W. Price. 1989. Size and shape of sawfly assemblages on arroyo willow. Ecology 70: 1463-1471.
Fernandes, G.W., W.J. Boecklen, R.P. Martins, and A.G. Castro. 1989. Ants associated with a coleopterous leaf-shoot gall on Xylopia aromatica (Annonaceae). Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington 91: 81-87.
Boecklen, W.J. and R. Spellenberg. 1990. Structure of herbivore communities in two oak (Quercus spp.) hybrid zones. Oecologia 85: 92-100.
Boecklen, W.J., P.W. Price, and S. Mopper. 1990. Sex and drugs and herbivores: sex-biased herbivory in arroyo willow (Salix lasiolepis). Ecology 71: 581-588.
Bell, W.G. and W.J. Boecklen. 1990. On island biogeography theory and nature reserve design. Journal of Biogeography 17: 97-101.
Simberloff, D. and W. Boecklen. 1990. Why some birds introduced to the Hawaiian Islands fail to colonize. Pages 69-72, in, R. van den Elzen, K.L. Schuchmann, and K. Schmidt-Koenig, editors. Current topics in avian biology. Proceedings of the International Centennial Meeting of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft. Bonn.
Zucker, N. and W. Boecklen. 1990. Variation in female throat coloration in the tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus): relation to reproductive cycle and fecundity. Herpetologica 46: 387-394.
Boecklen, W.J. 1991. Theoretical and empirical biogeographic models in conservation. Pages 150-166, in, M.A. Mares and D. Schmidly, editors. Latin American mammalogy: history, biodiversity, and conservation. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma.
Boecklen, W.J. 1991. Conservation status of insects: mass extinction, scientific interest, and statutory protection. Pages 40-57, in, S.B. Vinson and R.L. Metcalf, editors. Entomology serving society: emerging technologies and challenges. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland.
Boecklen, W.J. and J. Nocedal. 1991. Are species trajectories bounded or not? Journal of Biogeography 18: 647-652.
Boecklen, W.J. and P.W. Price. 1991. Nonequilibrium community organization of sawflies on arroyo willow. Oecologia 85: 483-491.
Boecklen, W.J., S. Mopper, and P.W. Price. 1991. Size and shape analysis of mineral resources in arroyo willow and their relation to sawfly densities. Ecological Research 6: 317-331.
Simberloff, D. and W. Boecklen. 1991. Patterns of extinction in the introduced Hawaiian avifauna: a re-examination of the role of competition. American Naturalist 138: 300-327.
Aguilar, J.M. and W.J. Boecklen. 1992. Patterns of herbivory in the Quercus grisea x Quercus gambelii species complex. Oikos 64: 498-504.
McClellan, Y. and W.J. Boecklen. 1993. Plant mediation of ant-herbivore associations: the role of sticky rings formed by Boerhavia spicata. Coenoses 8: 15-20.
Boecklen, W.J. and M.T. Hoffman. 1993. Sex-biased herbivory in Ephedra trifurca: the importance of sex-by-environment interactions. Oecologia 96: 49-55.
Boecklen, W.J. and G.J. Niemi. 1994. Multivariate association of graph-theoretic variables and physicochemical properties. SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research 2: 79-87.
Boecklen, W.J. and K.C. Larson. 1994. Gall-forming wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in an oak hybrid zone: testing hypotheses about hybrid susceptibility to herbivores. Pages 110-120, in, P.W. Price, W.D. Mattson, and Y.N. Baranchikov, editors. The ecology and evolution of gall-forming insects. General Technical Report NC-174, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station.
Boecklen, W.J., S. Mopper, and P.W. Price. 1994. Sex-biased herbivory in arroyo willow: are there general patterns among herbivores? Oikos 71: 267-272.
Preszler, R.W. and W.J. Boecklen. 1994. A three-trophic-level analysis of the effects of plant hybridization on a leaf-mining moth. Oecologia 100: 66-73.
Preszler, R.W. and W.J. Boecklen. 1996. The influence of elevation on tri-trophic interactions: opposing gradients of top-down and bottom-up effects on a leaf-mining moth. Ecoscience 3: 75-80.
Skaggs, R. and W.J. Boecklen. 1996. Extinctions of montane mammals reconsidered: putting a global-warming scenario on ice. Biodiversity and Conservation 5: 759-778.
Gaylord, E.S., R.W. Preszler, and W.J. Boecklen. 1996. Interactions between host plants, endophytic fungi, and a phytophagous insect in an oak (Quercus grisea x Quercus gambelii) hybrid zone. Oecologia 105: 336-342.
Preszler, R.W., E.S. Gaylord, and W.J. Boecklen. 1996. Reduced parasitism of a leaf-mining moth on trees with high infection frequencies of an endophytic fungus. Oecologia 108: 159-166.
Boecklen, W.J. 1997. Nestedness, biogeographic theory, and the design of nature reserves. Oecologia 112: 123-142.
Howard, D.J., R.W. Preszler, J. Williams, S. Fenchel, and W.J. Boecklen. 1997. How discrete are oak species? Insights from a hybrid zone between Quercus grisea and Q. gambelii. Evolution 51: 747-755.
Boecklen, W.J. and D.J. Howard. 1997. Genetic analysis of hybrid zones: numbers of markers and power of resolution. Ecology 78: 2611-2616.
Boecklen, W.J. and R. Spellenberg. 1998. Tests of hypotheses regarding hybrid resistance in the Quercus coccolifolia x Q. viminea species complex. Pages 295-303, in, G. Csoka, W.J. Mattson, G. N. Stone, and P.W. Price editors. The biology of gall-inducing arthropods. General Technical Report NC-19, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station.
Boecklen, W.J. and S. Mopper. 1998. Local adaptation in specialist herbivores: theory and evidence. Pages 64-88, in, S. Mopper and S. Strauss, editors. Genetic structure and local adaptation in natural insect populations: effects of ecology, life history, and behavior. Chapman & Hall, New York.
Bird, B.M. and W.J. Boecklen. 1998. Nestedness and migratory status of avian assemblages in North America and Europe. Biodiversity and Conservation 7: 1325-1331.

Submitted:

Campbell, S.P. and W.J. Boecklen. Plant hybrid zones as centers of biodiversity: a
test in the Quercus grisea x Q. gambelii species complex. (submitted to Oecologia).

Suzuki, M. and W.J. Boecklen. Foraging ecology of Barn Owls (Tyto alba) in
southern New Mexico. (Southwestern Naturalist, in revision).
Williams, J.H., D.J. Howard, and W.J. Boecklen. Reproductive processes in two
oak (Quercus) contact zones with different levels of hybridization. (in revision, to be
submitted to Oecologia).