John Rotenberry

JOHN ROTENBERRY

Professor of Biology
Campus Director of the Natural Reserve System
Office 3772 Spieth Hall
Phone (951) 827-3953

E-mail: john.rotenberry@ucr.edu

Degree:
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1978

My laboratory studies community ecology and conservation biology, particularly how environmental factors interact to determine species diversity and community composition, and how the relative importance of those factors varies.  My research has focused on communities in semi-arid shrubsteppe habitat, with emphasis on birds, shrubs, and arthropods; annual plants and their pollinators in old-field ecosystems; and conservation biology of vertebrates from a landscape ecological perspective.

Other research interests include general issues in avian ecology, particularly behavioral aspects such as habitat and diet selection, reproductive biology, and community ecology.  We are especially interested in modelling habitat associations of passerine birds and documenting changes in these associations through time and space.  Much of my laboratory's research relies on extensive use of multivariate statistics, and I have a broad interest in application of multivariate analysis to biological problems, and the conceptualization of ecological systems in a multivariate framework.

I participate in the Evolutionary Biology graduate group, and am also the Campus Director for the portion of the UC Natural Reserve System managed by UCR.  Recent and ongoing research includes:

Arthropod-plant associations in coastal sage scrub habitats: implications for the distribution and management of vertebrate insectivores.  PI's R.  Redak, J.  Rotenberry, and T.  Scott.  Highway rights-of-way as wildlife habitat and corridors: a regional and local analysis.  PI's T.  Scott, J.  Rotenberry, and M.  Morrison.  Monitoring neotropical migratory birds in forest habitat and transition zones surrounding montane meadows.  PI's J.  Rotenberry and B.  Carlson.  Impacts of habitat alteration on raptors in the Snake River Birds of Prey Area.  PI John Rotenberry.  Autecological studies of sensitive coastal sage scrub target birds and mammals.  PI's John Rotenberry and Mary Price.  Autecological studies of sensitive coastal sage scrub birds and mammals: regional distributions and local edge effects.  PI's J.  Rotenberry and M.  Price.


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