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Charlotte  Lee
Ph.D. Ecology, UC Davis, 2002
 
Department of Biological Science
Florida State University
Tallahassee FL 32306-4295

ctlee at bio dot fsu dot edu
eight five zero – six four five – eight six nine two

 

research

I'm using mathematical and computer modeling to study two interesting questions involving nonlinear dynamics in structured populations. Most biological populations exhibit age, stage, size, or other structure, and most species interactions (such as resource consumption) ultimately involve nonlinearity.  So it's not hard to run into both in the process of thinking about interesting ecological problems, which in my case include coupled human and natural systems and competition for mutualistic partners.

 

I use dynamic models to quantify the links between preindustrial human societies and the ecosystems in which they are embedded.  The goal is to inform our understanding of the fates of human populations using approaches and insights from quantitative population dynamics. So far, the work has involved ecosystem dynamics, nonlinear human demography, and social dynamics.  Read more here.

 

                                     

►Interplay between mutualism and competition

 

I’m really excited about recent work on competitive coexistence in guilds of mutualists (for example, different plant-protecting ant species that compete for nesting space within ant-adapted plants).    Read more here.

  
publications

Lee, CT, and BD Inouye. Mutualism between consumers and their shared resource can promote competitive coexistence.  In press at The American Naturalist.  – abstract  

Lee, CT, and S Tuljapurkar. Quantitative, dynamic models to integrate environment, population, and society. In Kirch, PV, ed. Soils, Dryland Agriculture, and Social Complexity in Ancient Hawai’i:  A Model System for Human Ecodynamics. Forthcoming from SAR Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. – first paragraph 

Lee, CT, CO Puleston, and S Tuljapurkar. 2009.  Population and prehistory III: Food-dependent demography in variable environments. Theoretical Population Biology 76: 179-188. – abstract  – Link to article at TPB 

Lee, CT, and S Tuljapurkar.  2008.  Population and prehistory I: Food-dependent population growth in constant environments.  Theoretical Population Biology 73: 473- 482. – abstract  – Link to article at TPB 

Donahue, MJ, and CT Lee. 2008. Colonization.  pp. 672-278 in SE Jorgensen and BD Fath (Editor-in-Chief), General Ecology. Vol. 1 of Encyclopedia of Ecology, 5 vols. Oxford: Elsevier. – abstract   – Link to article at ScienceDirect 

Ladefoged, TN, CT Lee, and MW Graves. 2008.  Modeling life expectancy and surplus production of dynamic pre-contact territories in leeward Kohala, Hawai'i. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27(1): 93-110.  – abstract  –  Link to article at JAA

Morris, WF, CA Pfister, S Tuljapurkar, CV Haridas, CL Boggs, MS Boyce, EM Bruna, DR Church, T Coulson, DF Doak, S Forsyth, J-M Gaillard, CC Horvitz, S Kalisz, BE Kendall, TM Knight, CT Lee, and ES Menges. 2008. Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability. Ecology 89 (1): 19-25. – abstract  –  Link to article at Ecology

Tuljapurkar, S, CT Lee, and M Figgs. 2007. Demography and food in early Polynesia. Pages 35-51 in Kirch, PV, and J.-L. Rallu, eds. The Growth and Collapse of Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives from the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. – first paragraph 

Lee, CT, S Tuljapurkar, and P Vitousek. 2006. Risky business: spatial and temporal variation in preindustrial dryland agriculture.  Human Ecology 34 (6): 739-763. – abstract – Link to article at Human Ecology

Boyce, MS, CV Haridas, CT Lee, and the NCEAS Stochastic Demography Working Group. 2006. Demography in an increasingly variable world. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 141-148. – abstract –   Link to article at TREE

Lee, CT, and A Hastings.  2006.  Non-equilibrium genetic structure is robust to the shape of the dispersal distribution.  Evolutionary Ecology Research 8: 279-293. – abstract –   Link to article at EER

Chesson, P, and CT Lee.  2005.  Families of discrete kernels for modeling dispersal. Theoretical Population Biology 67 (4): 241-256.  – abstract – Link to article at TPB

Lee, CT, MF Hoopes, J Diehl, W Gilliland, G Huxel, EV Leaver, K McCann, J Umbanhowar, and A Mogilner.  2001.  Non-local concepts and models in biology.  Journal of Theoretical Biology 210: 201-219. – abstract –   Link to article at JTB

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