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

• Changing pollination rates affect plant life history strategies , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)
• Demographic trade-offs decouple pollination services from plant population growth , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)
• Plant Species Influence on Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation: X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Mineral Formation and Composition , (2026)
• Quality Assurance framework for the design, collection and curation of Standard Data Products from a distributed ecology network , (2026)
• Spring ephemeral Erythronium umbilicatum may not be vulnerable to phenological mismatch with overstory trees , American Journal of Botany (2026)
• Data from: Spring ephemeral Erythronium umbilicatum may not be vulnerable to phenological mismatch with overstory trees , Open MIND (2025)
• Linking Climate and Demography to Predict Population Dynamics and Persistence Under Global Change , Ecology Letters (2025)
• Linking climate and demography to predict population dynamics and persistence under global change , (2025)
• Several candidate size metrics explain vital rates across multiple populations throughout a widespread species' range , Journal of Ecology (2025)
• Spring ephemeral Erythronium umbilicatum may not be vulnerable to phenological mismatch with overstory trees , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)