Will Petry

Bio

I am a quantitative field ecologist exploring the dynamics of populations and communities through the lenses of species interactions and intraspecific variation. I develop mathematical models and collect field data to test theoretical predictions of how individual-level traits and interactions scale to generate the structure, function, and diversity we see in natural populations and communities.

Publications

• Demographic but not competitive time lags can transiently amplify climate-induced changes in vegetation carbon storage , GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2024)
• Predicting and controlling ecological communities via trait and environment mediated parameterizations of dynamical models , OIKOS (2023)
• PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY MASKS RANGE-WIDE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION FOR VEGETATIVE BUT NOT REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN A SHORT-LIVED PLANT , ECOLOGY LETTERS (2021)
• Rcompadre and Rage - two R packages to facilitate the use of the COMPADRE and COMADRE databases and calculation of life history traits from matrix population models , (2021)
• Rcompadre and Rage-Two R packages to facilitate the use of the COMPADRE and COMADRE databases and calculation of life-history traits from matrix population models , METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2021)
• Snow melt timing acts independently and in conjunction with temperature accumulation to drive subalpine plant phenology , GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2021)
• Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
• A competition–defence trade‐off both promotes and weakens coexistence in an annual plant community , Journal of Ecology (2018)
• Global predation pressure redistribution under future climate change , Nature Climate Change (2018)
• Inducibility of chemical defences in young oak trees is stronger in species with high elevational ranges , Tree Physiology (2018)