NSF Biographical Sketch - Fraterrigo, Jennifer M.
 

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Name:  Fraterrigo, Jennifer M.
Telephone: 515.294.9908; Fax: 217.244.3219
Email: jmf@illinois.edu
Internet: http://landscape.nres.uiuc.edu
Organization:
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Illinois 61801

www.public.iastate.edu/~jmfrater/

Position at Coweeta LTER: Principal Investigator
Specialty: Landscape Ecology
Habitat: Terestrial Forest
Organism: Plants
Core Area(s):  Disturbance Patterns

Education:
B.S. Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1997
M.S. Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2000
Ph.D. Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 2005

Appointments:
Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, August 2008-Present
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University, 2005 - 2008

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Fraterrigo, J. M., T. C. Balser, and M. G. Turner. 2006. Microbial community variation and its relationship with nitrogen mineralization in historically altered forests. Ecology 87:570-579.

Fraterrigo, J. M., M. G. Turner, and S. M. Pearson. 2006. Interactions between past land use, life-history traits and understory spatial heterogeneity. Landscape Ecology 21:777-790.

Fraterrigo, J. M., M. G. Turner, and S. M. Pearson. 2006. Previous land use alters plant allocation and growth in forest herbs. Journal of Ecology 94:548-557.

Fraterrigo, J. M., M. G. Turner, and S. M. Pearson. Submitted. Interactions between habitat configuration and temporal stochasticity in the environment affect population dynamics.

Fraterrigo, J. M., M. G. Turner, S. M. Pearson, and P. Dixon. 2005. Effects of past land use on spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients in southern Appalachian forests. Ecological Monographs 75: 215-230.

Synergistic Activities:
1. Co-organizer LTER Network Synthesis Initiative: Disturbance and variance: detecting change in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

2. Graduate Student Representative, International Association for Landscape Ecology, U.S. Chapter (US-IALE), 2000-2002

3. Strategic Planning Committee, US-IALE, 2001 - present

4. Ad hoc journal reviewer for Biogeochemistry, BioScience, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Landscape Ecology, and Plant and Soil