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Peter McEvoyProfessor, Ecology and Biological Control
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Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Insect Interactions, Ecology and Biological Control of Invasive Plant Species, Conservation of Plants and Insects
The research in my laboratory focuses primarily on the ecology of invasive plant species and their biological control using insects and pathogens. With support from NSF, USDA, and other sources, I have pursued a comprehensive program linking field observations, experiments, and mathematical modeling to test assumptions and predictions of ecological theories applied to biological invasions and biological pest control. In addition, I maintain a broad interest in population and community ecology and am involved in studies of plant population dynamics; ecology and evolution of plant life history features (dispersal, dormancy, perenniality, iteroparity); and host-plant selection by insects. I have worked closely with Eric Coombs (Oregon Department of Agriculture) and others to develop and implement biological control programs on state, regional, and national scales. My work extends to public policy issues surrounding invasions and release of new organisms into the environment, as reflected in studies conducted for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), the National Research Council (NRC), and other government and non-government organizations.
Don Campanella (Ph.D. expected 2008)
Evrim Karacetin (PhD expected 2007)
Joe Dauer
Russell Messing (University of Hawaii)
BOT 341 Plant Ecology
ENT 420/520 Insect Ecology
My departmental affiliation is Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and I am also a member of the Graduate Faculty in Environmental Sciences and the Graduate Faculty in Entomology. I accept graduate students through these three programs.
Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology webpage
McEvoy, P. B., and C. S. Cox. 1987. Wind dispersal distances in dimorphic achenes of ragwort, Senecio jacobaea. Ecology 68:2006-2015.
McEvoy, P. B., C. Cox, and E. Coombs. 1991. Successful biological control of ragwort, Senecio jacobaea, by introduced insects in Oregon . Ecological Applications 1:430-442.
McEvoy, P. B., and N. T. Rudd. 1993. Effects of vegetation disturbances on insect biological control of tansy ragwort Senecio jacobaea. Ecological Applications 3:682-698.
McEvoy, P. B., N. T. Rudd, C. S. Cox, and M. Huso. 1993. Disturbance, competition, and herbivory effects on ragwort Senecio jacobaea populations. Ecological Monographs 63:55-75.
Rudd, N. T., and P. B. McEvoy. 1996. Local dispersal by the cinnabar moth Tyria jacobaeae. Ecological Applications 6:285-297
McEvoy, P. B. 1996. Host specificity and biological pest control. BioScience 46:401-405.
McEvoy, P. B., and E. M. Coombs. 1999. Biological control of plant invaders: Regional patterns, field experiments, and structured population models. Ecological Applications 9:387-401.
McEvoy, P. B., and E. M. Coombs. 2000. Why things bite back: unintended consequences of biological weed control. Pages 167-194 in P. A. Follett and J. J. Duan, editors. Nontarget effects of biological control. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston , Massachusetts , USA .
McEvoy, P. B. 2002. Insect-plant interactions on a planet of weeds. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 104:165-179
Schooler, S. S., E. M. Coombs, and P. B. McEvoy. 2003. Nontarget effects on crepe myrtle by Galerucella pusilla and G. calmariensis (Chrysomelidae), used for biological control of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). Weed Science 51:449-455.
Schooler, S. S., and P. B. McEvoy. 2006. Relationship between insect density and plant damage for the golden loosestrife beetle, Galerucella pusilla , on purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria ). Biological Control 36 :100-105.
Schooler, S. S., P. B. McEvoy, and E. M. Coombs. 2006. Negative per capita effects of purple loosestrife and reed canary grass on plant diversity of wetland communities. Diversity and Distributions 12 :351-363.
