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Winsor Lowe

Associate Professor

Website: http://dbs.umt.edu/research_labs/lowelab/
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Education

Postdoctoral Associate, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, February 2003 - April 2005.<br />Ph.D., Dartmouth College, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, December 2002.<br />M.S., University of Montana, Organismal Biology and Ecology, 1997.<br />B.A., Middlebury College, Biology and Environmental Studies, cum laude, 1994.<br />

Courses Taught

Freshwater Ecology (Biol 366)

Community Ecology (Biol 513)

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Research Interests

I'm interested in how processes acting at large spatial scales influence evolution, population biology, and community ecology. I am especially excited about using direct data on animal movement to explore the causes and consequences of dispersal. I hope this work will expand basic understanding of the ecological and evolutionary drivers of dispersal, and improve landscape-scale management and conservation efforts.

Field of Study

Ecology and Population Biology

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Selected Publications

Lowe, W.H., M.A. McPeek, G.E. Likens, and B.J. Cosentino. 2008. Linking movement behavior to dispersal and divergence in plethodontid salamanders. Molecular Ecology 17: 4459-4469.
Greene, B.T., W.H. Lowe, and G. E. Likens. 2008. Forest succession and prey availability influence the strength and scale of terrestrial-aquatic linkages in a headwater salamander system. Freshwater Biology 53: 2234-2243.
Grant, E.H.C., W.H. Lowe, and W.F. Fagan. 2007. Living in the branches: population dynamics and ecological processes in dendritic networks. Ecology Letters 10:165-175.
Lowe, W.H., G.E. Likens, and B.J. Cosentino. 2006. Self-organization in streams: the relationship between movement behaviour and body condition in a headwater salamander. Freshwater Biology 51(11):2052-2062.
Lowe, W.H., G.E. Likens, and M.E. Power. 2006. Linking scales in stream ecology. BioScience 56(7):591-597.
Lowe, W.H., G.E. Likens, M.A. McPeek, and D.C. Buso. 2006. Linking direct and indirect data on dispersal: isolation by slope in a headwater stream salamander. Ecology 87(2):334-339.