Don DeAngelis

Research Professor

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Education and Professional Experience

• 1966, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, Massachusetts (Physics)
• 1972, Ph.D., Yale University,Engineering and Applied Science, New Haven, Connecticut (Plasma Physics)
• 1994-present, Ecologist, U. S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Florida Caribbean Science Center, Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124
• Research Faculty Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Miami
• Editor, The American Naturalist, 2004 -present, Editorial boards: currently Ecological Complexity, Previously, Ecosystems, Mathematical Bioseicnes, Ecology, Ecological Monographs, Nonlier World, Journal of Aquatic Stress and Recovery

Awards

• Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1983
• Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. Technical Publications Award, 1986
• Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. Technical Publications Award, 1987
• First Place, 1990 International Technical Publication Competition, sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication
• Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Technical Publications Award, 1991

Grants

• "Spatial Gradients in Nutrient Recycling and Their Effect on Stream Ecosystem Stability". National Science Foundation, April 1, 1991 - March 31, 1994, $1,419,019. Co-Principal Investigators, D. L. DeAngelis and P. J. Mulholland
• "Compensatory Mechanisms in Fish Populations", Electric Power Research Institute. 1988 - 1996. Approximately $1 million per year. Principal Investigator, W. Van Winkle. D. L. DeAngelis developed the approach used and wrote the initial funded proposal
• "Synthesis of Species-Population Dynamics and Ecosystem Processes: Theoretical Study of the Stability and Development of Food Web Structure". National Science Foundation, United States - Japan Cooperative Science Program. January 1, 1991 - December 31, 1992.Co-Principal Investigators, E. Teramoto and D. L. DeAngelis.Environmental Sciences Division Scientific Achievement Award for 1982

Areas of Focus

Research Interests

Teaching Interests

Publications Since 2000

• Schmolke, A., P. Thorbek, D. L. DeAngelis, and V. Grimm. 2010. Ecological models supporting environmental decision making: a strategy for the future. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:479-486.
• Reuter, H., F. Jopp, J. M. Blanco-Moreno, C. Damgaard, Y. Matsinos, and D. L. DeAngelis. Ecological hierarchies and self-organization - pattern analysis, modeling and process integration across scales. (In press, Basic and Applied Ecology.)
• DeAngelis, D. L. 2010. Foreward to the Siberian lakes special issue. Aquatic Ecology 44:479.
• Mooij, W. M., D. Trolle, E. Jeppesen, G. Arhonditsis, P. V. Belolipetsky, D. B. R. Chitamwebwa, A. G. Degermendzhy, D. L. DeAngelis, L. N. De Senerpont Domis, A. S. Downing, J. A. Elliott, C. R. Fragoso, Jr., Ursula Gaedke, S. N. Genova, R. D. Gulati, L. Hakonson, D. P. Hamilton, M. R. Hipsey, J. ‘t Hoen, S. Hulsmann, F. J. Los, V. Makler-Pick, T. Petzoldt, I. G. Prokopkin, K. Rinke, S. A. Schep, K. Tominaga, A. A. Van Dam, E. Van Nes, S. A. Wells, and J. H. Janse. 2010. Challenges and opportunities for integrating lake ecosystem modeling approaches. Aquatic Ecology 44:633-667.
• Borcherding, J. , P. Beeck,, D. L. DeAngelis, and W. R. Scharf. 2010. Match or mismatch: the influence of phenology on size-dependent life history and divergence in population structure. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:1101-1112.
• Jopp, F., D. L. DeAngelis, and J. C. Trexler. 2010. Modeling seasonal dynamics of the small fish functional group in fluctuating freshwater marshlands. Landscape Ecology 25:1041-1054.
• Holland, J.N. and D.L. DeAngelis. 2010. A consumer-resource approach to the density-dependent population dynamics of mutualism. Ecology 91:1286-1295.
• Ju, Shu, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2010. Nutrient fluxes at the landscape level and the R* rule. Ecological Modelling 221:141-146.
• Holland, J.N. and D.L. DeAngelis. 2009. Consumer-resource theory predicts dynamic transitions between outcomes of interspecific interactions. Ecology Letters 12:1357-1366.
• McPeek, M. A., D. L. DeAngelis, R. G. Shaw. et al. 2009. The golden rule of reviewing. The American Naturalist 173:E155-E158.
• DeAngelis, D. L., J. C. Trexler, and D. D. Donalson. 2009. Competition dynamics in a seasonally varying wetland, Chapter 1. In Spatial Ecology (S. Cantrell, C. Cosner and S. Ruan, eds.). CRC Press/Chapman and Hall (Taylor & Mathis).
• Feng, Z., R. Liu, D. L. DeAngelis, J. P. Bryant, K. Kielland, F. S. Chapin, III, and R. K. Swihart. 2009. Plant toxicity, adaptive herbivory, and plant community dynamics. Ecosystems 12:534-547.
• Zhang, J., J. Jiang, D. Liu, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2009. Vegetation coverage influence on rainfall-runoff relation based on wavelet analysis. Journal of American Science 5:97-104.
• Swihart, R. K., D. L. DeAngelis, Z. Feng, and J. P. Bryant. 2009. Troublesome toxins: Time to re-think plant-herbivore interactions in vertebrate ecology. BMC Commentary 9:5.
• Ju, Shu, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2009. The R* rule and energy flux in a plant-nutrient ecosystem. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 256: 326-332.
• Schmolke, A., P. Thorbek, D. L. DeAngelis, and V. Grimm. 2010. Ecological models supporting environmental decision making: a strategy for the future. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:479-486.
• DeAngelis, D. L., J. C. Trexler, and D. D. Donalson. 2008. Food web dynamics in a seasonally varying wetland. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 5:877-887.
• DeAngelis, D. L.. J. M. Koslow, S. Ruan, and J. Jiang. 2008. Host mating and the spread of a disease-resistant allele in a population. Theoretical Population Biology 74:191-198.
• DeAngelis, D. L., Shu Ju, and J. Nathaniel Holland. 2008. Emergence of functional responses from interactions of individuals. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limno. 30(2):272-274.
• DeAngelis, D. L. 2008. Ecosystems: The Boreal Forest Ecosystem. Page 493-495. Encyclopedia of Ecology, Elsevier Press.
Schmolke, A., P. Thorbek, D. L. DeAngelis, and V. Grimm. 2010. Ecological models supporting environmental decision making: a strategy for the future. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:479-486.
• Yniguez, A., D. L. DeAngelis, and J. McManus. 2008. Allowing macroalgae growth forms to emerge: use of an agent-based model to understand the growth and spread of macroalgae in Florida coral reefs, with emphasis on Halimeda tuna. Ecological Modelling 216:60-74.
• Feng, Z., R. Liu, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2008. Plant-herbivore interactions mediated by plant toxicity. Theoretical Population Biology 73:244-253
• Liu, R., Z. Feng, H..Zhu, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2008. Bifurcation analysis of a plant herbivore model with toxin-determined functional response. Journal of Differential Equations 245:442-467
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• Teh, S. Y., D. L. DeAngelis, L. S. L. Sternberg, F. R. Miralles-Wilhelm, T. J. Smith, and H.-L. Koh. 2008. A simulation model for projecting changes in salinity concentrations and species dominance in the coastal margin habitats of the Everglades. Ecological Modelling 213:245-256.
• Petersen, J. H., D. L. DeAngelis, and C. P. Paukert. 2008. Developing bioenergetics and life history models for rare and endangered species. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 137:244-253.
• Cantrell, R. S., C. Cosner, D. L. DeAngelis, and V. Padron. 2007. The ideal free distribution as an evolutionarily stable strategy. Journal of Biological Dynamics1:249-271.
• Saito, L., H. M. Segale, D. L. DeAngelis, and S. H. Jenkins. 2007. Developing and interdisciplinary curriculum framework for aquatic-ecosystem modeling. Journal of College Science Teaching 37:46-52.
• Sternberg, L. da S. L, S.-Y. Teh, S. Ewe, F. Miralles-Wilhelm, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2007. Competition of hardwood hammock and mangrove vegetation. Ecosystems 10:648-660.
• Basset, A., and D. L. DeAngelis. 2007. Body size mediated coexistence of consumers competing for resources in space. Oikos 116:1363-1377.
• Mooij, W. M., J. Martin, W. M. Kitchens, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2007. Exploring the temporal effects of seasonal water availability on the snail kite of Florida. Pages 155-173, in Pulsed Resources and Wildlife Population Response: The Importance of Time. Editors: John Bissonette and Ilse Storch. Springer-Verlag Publisher.
• DeAngelis, D. L, M. Vos, W. M. Mooij, and P. A. Abrams. 2007. Feedback effects between the food chain and induced defense strategies. Pages 213-236. In: From Energetics to Ecosystems: The Dynamics and Structure of Ecological Systems N. Rooney, K. McCann and D. Noakes (eds). Springer-Verlag
• DeAngelis, D. L, M. Vos, W. M. Mooij, and P. A. Abrams. 2007. Feedback effects between the food chain and induced defense strategies. Pages 213-236. In: From Energetics to Ecosystems: The Dynamics and Structure of Ecological Systems N. Rooney, K. McCann and D. Noakes (eds). Springer-Verlag
• Call, E. M., L. A. Brandt, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2007. Old World climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum) spore germination in natural substrates. Florida Scientist 70:55-61.
• Volker Grimm, Uta Berger, Finn Bastiansen, Sigrunn Eliassen, Vincent Ginot, Jarl Giske, John Goss-Custard, Tamara Grand, Simone Heinz, Geir Huse, Andreas Huth, Jane U. Jepsen, Christian Jørgensen, Wolf M. Mooij, Birgit Müller, Guy Pe’er, Cyril Piou, Steven F. Railsback, Andrew M. Robbins, Martha M. Robbins, Eva Rossmanith, Nadja Rüger, Espen Strand, Sami Souissi, Richard Stillmann, Rune Vabø, Ute Visser, Donald L. DeAngelis. 2006. A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models. Ecological Modelling 198:115-126.
• Holland, J. N., T. Okuyama, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2006. Comment on "Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance". Science 313:1887b.
• Koslow, J., and D. L. DeAngelis. 2006. Host mating system and the prevalence of a disease in a plant population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 273: 1825-1831.
• Holland, J. N., and D. L. DeAngelis. 2006. Interspecific population regulation and the stability of mutualism: fruit abortion and density-dependent mortality of pollinating seed-eating moths. Oikos 113:563-571
• DeAngelis, D. L., and J. N. Holland. 2006 Emergence of ratio-dependent and predator-dependent functional responses for pollination mutualism and seed parasitism. Ecological Modelling 191:551-556.
• Grimm, V, E.. Revilla, U. Berger, F. Jeltsch, W. M. Mooij, S. F. Railsback, H.-H. Thulke, J. Weiner, T. Wiegand, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2005. Pattern-oriented modeling of agent-based complex systems: Lessons from ecology. Science 310:987-991.
• DeAngelis, D. L., and W. M. Mooij. 2005. Individual-based modeling of ecological and evolutionary processes. Annual Reviews of Ecology and Evolutionary Systematics 36:147-168.
• DeAngelis, D. L., J. C. Trexler, and W. F. Loftus. 2005. Life history trade-offs and community dynamics of small fishes in a seasonally pulsed wetland. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:781-790.
• Vos, M., B. W. Kooi, D. L. DeAngelis and W. M. Mooij. 2005 . Inducible defenses in food webs. Pages 114-127, in "Dynamic Food Webs". P. de Ruiter, V. Wolters and J. Moore (eds.)
• Vos, M., A. M. Verschoor, B. W. Kooi, F. L. Wackers, D. L. DeAngelis, and W. M. Mooij. 2004. Inducible defences and trophic structure. Ecology 85:2783-2794.
• Richards, P. M., W. M. Mooij, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2004. Evaluating the effect of salinity on a simulated American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) population with applications to conservation and Everglades restoration. Ecological Modelling 180:371-394.
• Holland, J. N. , D. L. DeAngelis, and S. Schultz. 2004. Evolutionary stability of mutualism: interspecific population regulation as an evolutionarily stable strategy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271:1807-1814.
• Gaff, H., J. Chick, J. Trexler, D. DeAngelis, L. Gross, and R. Salinas. 2004. Evaluation of and insights from ALFISH: a spatially explicit landscape-level simulation of fish populations in the Everglades. Hydrobiologia 520:73-87.
• Jost, C., C. Rhodes, F. Campolongo, W. van de Bund, S. Hill, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2004. The effects of mixotrophy on the stability and dynamics of a simple planktonic food web. Theoretical Population Biology 66(1):37-51.
• Dreitz, V. J., W. M. Kitchens, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2004. The effects of natal departure and water level on survival of juvenile snail kites in Florida. The Auk 121:894-903.
• Vos, Matthijs, B. W. Kooi, D. L. DeAngelis, and W. M. Mooij. 2004. Inducible defences and the paradox of enrichment. Oikos 105:471-480.
• Holland, J. N., J. L. Bronstein, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2004. Testing hypotheses for excess flower production and low fruit-to-flower ratios in a pollinating seed-consuming mutualism. Oikos 105:633-640.
• DeAngelis, D. L., and P. J. Mulholland. 2004. Dynamic consequences of allochthonous nutrient input into freshwater systems. Pages 12-24, In: G. A. Polis, M. E. Power, and G. R. Huxel (eds.), Food Webs at the Landscape Level. University of Chicago Press.
• Vanni, M. J., D. L. DeAngelis, D. E. Schindler, and G. R. Huxel. 2004. Introduction: Cross-habitat flux of nutrients and detritus. Page 3-11, In: G. A. Polis, M. E. Power, and G. R. Huxel. (eds.) Food Webs at the Landscape Level.
• DeAngelis, D. L. and W.M. Mooij. 2003. In praise of mechanistically-rich models. Pp. 63-82, in C. D. Canham, J. J. Cole, and W. K. Lauenroth (eds.) Models in Ecosystem Science. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
• Duarte, C. M., J. Amthor, D. DeAngelis, L. A. Joyce, R. Maranger, M. L. Pace, J. Pastor, and S. Running. 2003. Pp. 437-451, in C. D. Canham, J. J. Cole, and W. K. Lauenroth (eds.) Models in Ecosystem Science. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
• Trexler, J. C., and D. L. DeAngelis. 2003. Resource allocation in offspring provisioning: An evaluation of the conditions favoring the evolution of matrotrophy. The American Naturalist 162:574-585.
• DeAngelis, D. L. 2003. Mathematical modeling relevant to closed artificial ecosystems. Advances in Space Research 31(7):1657-1665.
• DeAngelis, D. L., W. M. Mooij, and A. Basset. 2003. The importance of spatial scale in the modeling of aquatic ecosystems. Chapter 24. In: L. Seuront and P. G. Strutton (eds.), Handbook of Scaling Methods in Aquatic Ecology: Measurement, Analyses, Simulation. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
• Mooij, W. M., and D. L. DeAngelis. 2003. Uncertainty in spatially explicit animal dispersal models. Ecological Applications 13:794-805.
• D. L. DeAngelis, L. J. Gross, E. J. Comiskey, W. M. Mooij, and M. P. Nott. 2003. The Use of Models for a Multi-Scaled Ecological Monitoring System. In: David E. Busch and Joel C. Trexler (eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ecological Monitoring of Ecosystem Initiatives. Island Press.
• Al-Rabai'ah, H. A.-K., H.-L. Koh, D. L. DeAngelis, and H.-L. Lee. 2002. Modeling fish community dynamics in Florida Everglades: Role of temperature variation. Water Science and Technology 46(9).
• DeAngelis, D. L., and J. L. Curnutt. 2002. Integration of population, community, and landscape indicators for assessing effects of stressors. Page 509-532. In: (S. Marshall Adams, editor), Biological Indicators of Stress in Fish (2nd edition). American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
• Sternberg, L., and D. L. DeAngelis. 2002. Carbon isotope composition of ambient CO2 and recycling: a matrix simulation model. Ecological Modelling 154:179-192.
• Holland, J. N., and D. L. DeAngelis. 2002. Ecological conditions for fruit abortion to regulate pollinator/seed-predators and increase plant reproduction. Theoretical Population Biology 61(3): 251-263.
• Basset, A., M. Fedele, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2002. Optimal exploitation of spatially distributed trophic resources and population stability. Ecological Modelling 151:245-260.
• Mooij, W. M., R. E. Bennetts, W. M. Kitchens, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2002. Exploring the effect of drought extent and interval on the Florida snail kite: Interplay between spatial and temporal scales. Ecological Modelling 149 (1-2):25-39.
• Dong, Q., P. V. McCormick, F. H. Sklar, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2002. Structural instability, multiple stable states, and hysteresis in periphyton driven by phosphorus enrichment in the Everglades. Theoretical Population Biology 61:1-13.
• Holland, J. N., D. L. DeAngelis, and J. L. Bronstein. 2002. Population dynamics and mutualism: Functional responses of benefits and costs. The American Naturalist 159:231-244.
• Dreitz, V. J., J. D. Nichols, J. E. Hines, R. E. Bennetts, W.M. Kitchens, and Donald L. DeAngelis. 2002. The use of resighting data to estimate the rate of population growth of the snail kite in Florida. Journal of Applied Statistics 29: 609-623
• DeAngelis, D. L. 2002. Community Food Webs. Pages 368-371. In: A. H. El-Shaarawi- and W. W. Piegorsch (eds.), Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, Vol. 1. John Wiley & Sons. Ltd., Chichester, UK.
• DeAngelis, D. L., Bellmund, S., Mooij, W. M., Nott, M. P., Comiskey, E. J., Gross, L. J., Wolff, W. M. 2002. Modeling ecosystem and population dynamics on the South Florida hydroscape. In: Porter, J. W., and Porter, K. G., (Eds.), The Everglades, Florida Bay and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys: An Ecosystem Sourcebook, CRC Press, Delray Beach, FL, pp. 239-258.
• Kitchens, W. M., Bennetts, R. E., DeAngelis, D. L. 2002. Linkages between the snail kite population and wetland dynamics in a highly fragmented South Florida landscape. Pages 183-204. In: Porter, J. W., and Porter, K. G., (Eds.), The Everglades, Florida Bay and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys: An Ecosystem Sourcebook, CRC Press, Delray Beach, FL, pp. 183-204.
• Gross, L. J. and D. L. DeAngelis. 2002. Multimodeling: new approaches for linking ecological models. Chapter 40, pp. 467-474, in Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy, (Scott, J. M., P. J. Heglund, M. Morrison, M. Raphael, J. Haufler, B. Wall, editors). Island Press, Covello, CA.
• Fa, J. E., C. M. Sharples, D. J. Bell, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2001. An individual-based model of rabbit viral haemorrhagic disease on European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) populations. Ecological Modelling 144:121-138
• Diffendorfer, J. E., P. S. Richards, G. H. Dalrymple, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2001. Applying linear programming to estimate fluxes in ecosystems or food webs: An example from the herpetological assemblage of the freshwater Everglades. Ecological Modelling 144 (2-3):99-120.
• DeAngelis, D. L., and J. H. Petersen. 2001. Importance of the predator’s ecological neighborhood in modeling predation on migrating prey. Oikos 94:315-325.
• DeAngelis, D. L., W. M. Mooij, M. P. Nott, and R. E. Bennetts. 2001. Individual-based models: The importance of variability among individuals. Pages 171-195. In: A. Franklin and T. Schenk (editors), Modeling in Natural Resource Management: Development, Interpretation, and Application. Island Press, Covello, California.
• Holland, J. N., and D. L. DeAngelis. 2001. Population dynamics and the ecological stability of obligate pollination mutualisms. Oecologia 126:575-586 .
• Gentile, J. H., M. A. Harwell, W. Cropper, Jr., C. C. Harwell, D. DeAngelis, S. Davis, J. C. Ogden, and D. Lirman. 2001. Ecological conceptual models: a framework and case study on ecosystem management for South Florida sustainability. The Science of the Total Environment 274:231-253.
• Mulholland, P. J., and D. L. DeAngelis. 2000. Effect of surface/subsurface exchange on nutrient spiralling in streams. Chapter 12. In: J. B. Jones, Jr., and P. J. Mulholland (eds.), Streams and Groundwaters. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
• Petersen, J. H., and D. L. DeAngelis. 2000. Dynamics of prey moving through a predator field: A model of migrating juvenile salmon. Mathematical Biosciences 165:97-114.
• Gaff, H., D. L. DeAngelis, L. J. Gross, R. Salinas, and M. Shorrosh. 2000. A dynamics landscape model for fish in the Everglades and its application to restoration. Ecological Modelling 127:33-52.
• Matsinos, Y. G., W. F. Wolff, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2000. Can individual-based models yield a better assessment of population viability? Pages 188-198. In: S. Ferson and M. Burgman (eds.), Quantitative Methods in Conservation Biology. Springer-Verlag, New York.