Biological Science Faculty Member
Dr. Daniel Okamoto
- Office: 4061 King Life Sciences
- Office: (850) 645-9532
- Area: Ecology & Evolution
- Lab: King Life Sciences
- E-mail: dokamoto@bio.fsu.edu
Research and Professional Interests:
We study population dynamics, with a focus on how environmental variability, trophic interactions, and management affect population viability and productivity in space and time. We partner with coastal and Indigenous communities, with the goal of using research to make fisheries and conservation more equitable, ecologically sound, and just. Research in the lab integrates field & laboratory experiments, field surveys, statistical analysis, quantitative theory, and simulation modeling.
Selected Publications:
Dee, LE, Okamoto, DK, Gårdmark, A. Montoya, J, Miller SJ. Temperature variability alters stability and collapse of interacting species populations. In Press. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Zampieri, N, Pau, S, Okamoto, DK. 2020. The impact of Hurricane Michael on longleaf pine habitats in Florida. Scientific Reports.
DK Okamoto, SC Schroeter, DC Reed. 2020. Effects of Ocean Climate on Spatiotemporal Variation in Sea Urchin Settlement and Recruitment. Limnology and Oceanography.
Okamoto, DK, M Hessing-Lewis, JF Samhouri, AO Shelton, A Stier, PS Levin, AK Salomon. Accepted. 2020. Spatial variability within exploited metapopulations obscures risk of collapse. Ecological Applications.
Okamoto, DK, M Poe, T Francis, AE Punt, PS Levin, AO Shelton, D Armitage, JS Cleary, S Dressel, R Jones, H Kitka, LC Lee, AD MacCall, JA McIsaac, S Reifenstuhl, JJ Silver, JO Schmidt, TF Thornton, R Voss, J Woodruff. 2020. Attending to spatial social-ecological sensitivities to improve trade-off analysis in natural resource management. Fish and Fisheries. PDF
Kline, DI, L Teneva, DK Okamoto, K Schneider, K Caldeira, T Miard, A Chai, M Marker, RB Dunbar, BG Mitchell, S Dove, O Hoegh-Guldberg. 2019. In Situ Study Shows Living Coral Provides Resilience to Ocean Acidification. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PDF
Armitage, DR, DK Okamoto, JJ Silver, TB Francis, PS Levin, AE Punt, IP Davies, JS Cleary, SC Dressel, RR Jones, H Kitka, LC Lee, AD MacCall, JA McIsaac, MR Poe, S Reifenstuhl, AO Shelton, JO Schmidt, TF Thornton, R Voss, J Woodruff. 2019. Integrating governance and quantitative evaluation of resource management strategies to improve social and ecological outcomes. Bioscience. PDF
Burt, JM, TB Tinker, DK Okamoto, KW Demes, K Holmes AK Salomon. 2018. A mesopredator alters the resilience of alternative states through complementarity with a keystone predator. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285(1883). PDF
Pau, S, DK Okamoto, O Calderón, SJ Wright. 2018. Long-term increases in tropical flowering activity across growth forms in response to rising CO2 and climate change. Global Change Biology. PDF
Kapsenberg, LK*, DK Okamoto*, JM Dutton & GE Hoffman. 2017. Sensitivity of sea urchin fertilization to pH varies across a natural pH mosaic. Ecology & Evolution. 7:6, 1737–1750. PDF
Krumhansl, K, DK Okamoto et al. 2016. Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. PDF
Okamoto, DK. 2016. Competition among eggs shifts to cooperation along a sperm supply gradient in an external fertilizer. The American Naturalist. 187:5, E129-E142. PDF
Okamoto, DK, RJ Schmitt, & SJ Holbrook. 2016. Stochastic density effects on adult fish survival and implications for population fluctuations. Ecology Letters. 9:153 -162. PDF
Okamoto, DK, MS Stekoll, & GL Eckert. 2013. Coexistence despite recruitment inhibition of kelps by subtidal algal crusts. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 493:103-112. PDF
Okamoto, DK, RJ Schmitt, SJ Holbrook, & DC Reed. 2012. Fluctuations in food supply drive recruitment variation in a marine fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 279(1747):4542-4550. PDF
Britton-Simmons, KH, G Foley, & DK Okamoto. 2009. Spatial subsidy in the subtidal zone: utilization of drift algae by a deep subtidal sea urchin. Aquatic Biology. 5(3):233-243. PDF
Graduate Students:
Baughman, DonavanMunstermann, Maya
Schumm, Matthew
Spindel, Nathan
Westphal, Grace
Young, Alaina