Daniel Gruner

Portrait of Daniel Gruner

Daniel Gruner

Professor & Director of Graduate Studies

Teaching

BSCI361: Principles of Ecology
ENTM612: Insect Ecology
ENTM788C: Colloquium
ENTM798V: Introduction To R

Graduate Program Affiliations

Biological Sciences (BISI): Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES)
Entomology

Research

The Gruner Lab investigates species interactions in food webs, the maintenance of biodiversity in ecological communities, community feedbacks with ecosystem function, and the impacts of global change. The group investigates arthropod and plant community dynamics in a range of systems using field and lab studies, diverse integrative tools, and quantitative statistical modeling.

Education

Ph.D., University of Hawai'i, 2004
A.B., Hamilton College, 1993

Latest Papers

Forb diversity globally is harmed by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory

| Communications Biology
Author(s): Rebecca A. Nelson, Lauren L. Sullivan, Erika I. Hersch-Green, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Pedro M. Tognetti, Peter B. Adler, Lori Biederman, Miguel N. Bugalho, Maria C. Caldeira, et. al


Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

| Nature Ecology & Evolution
Author(s): Macdougall, Andrew S., Esch, Ellen, Chen, Qingqing, Carroll, Oliver, Bonner, Colin, Ohlert, Timothy, Siewert, Matthias, Sulik, John, Schweiger, Anna, Borer, Elizabeth T., et. al


Sustained mangrove reproduction despite major turnover in pollinator community composition at expanding range edge

| Annals of Botany
Author(s): Mayda Nathan, Daniel S Gruner


Periodical cicadas disrupt trophic dynamics through community-level shifts in avian foraging

| Science
Author(s): Getman-Pickering, Zoe L., Soltis, Grace J., Shamash, Sarah, Gruner, Daniel S., Weiss, Martha R., Lill, John T.


Compositional variation in grassland plant communities

| Ecosphere
Author(s): Bakker, Jonathan D. D., Price, Jodi N. N., Henning, Jeremiah A. A., Batzer, Evan E. E., Ohlert, Timothy J. J., Wainwright, Claire E. E., Adler, Peter B. B., Alberti, Juan, Arnillas, Carlos Alberto, Biederman, Lori A. A., et. al


Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass

| Nature Communications
Author(s): Daleo, Pedro, Alberti, Juan, Chaneton, Enrique J., Iribarne, Oscar, Tognetti, Pedro M., Bakker, Jonathan D., Borer, Elizabeth T., Bruschetti, Martin, MacDougall, Andrew S., Pascual, Jesus, et. al


Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance

| Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Author(s): Mitchell, J. Christina, Kashian, Daniel M., Chen, Xiongwen, Cousins, Stella, Flaspohler, David, Gruner, Daniel S., Johnson, Jeremy S., Surasinghe, Thilina D., Zambrano, Jenny, Buma, Brian


Ecological network structure in response to community assembly processes over evolutionary time

| Molecular Ecology
Author(s): Graham, Natalie R., Krehenwinkel, Henrik, Lim, Jun Ying, Staniczenko, Phillip, Callaghan, Jackson, Andersen, Jeremy C., Gruner, Daniel S., Gillespie, Rosemary G.


Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication

| Nature Communications
Author(s): Chen, Qingqing, Wang, Shaopeng, Borer, Elizabeth T., Bakker, Jonathan D., Seabloom, Eric W., Harpole, W. Stanley, Eisenhauer, Nico, Lekberg, Ylva, Buckley, Yvonne M., Catford, Jane A., et. al


Harnessing island–ocean connections to maximize marine benefits of island conservation

| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Author(s): Stuart A. Sandin, Penny A. Becker, Ceiba Becker, Kate Brown, Natalia G. Erazo, Cielo Figuerola, Robert N. Fisher, Alan M. Friedlander, Tadashi Fukami, Nicholas A. J. Graham, et. al