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Michael D. Collins
Assistant Professor of Biology

Email: mcollins (AT) hsc (DOT) edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Tennessee
M.S., Florida State University
B.S., University of Arizona

Teaching Interests

Ecology
Vertebrate Biology
Conservation Biology
Principles of Biology
Invasive Species
Ornithology
Herpetology
Statistics

Most Recent Publications

Collins, M.D., and Simberloff, D.S. In press. Rarefaction and nonrandom spatial dispersion patterns. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 00:000–000.

Crutsinger, G.M., Collins, M.D., Fordyce, J.A., and Sanders, N.J. 2008. Temporal dynamics in non-additive responses of arthropods to host-plant genotypic diversity. Oikos 117:255-264.

Cadotte, M.W., Mai, D.V., Jantz, S., Collins, M.D., Keele, M., and Drake, J.A. 2006. On testing the competition–colonization trade-off in a multispecies assemblage. American Naturalist 168:704–709.

Crutsinger, G.M., Collins, M.D., Fordyce, J.A., Gompert, Z, Nice, C.C., and Sanders, N.J. 2006. Plant genotypic diversity predicts community structure and governs an ecosystem process. Science 313:966–968.

Collins, M.D., Vázquez, D.P., and Sanders, N.J. 2002. Species–area curves, homogenization and the loss of global diversity. Evolutionary Ecology Research 4:457–464.

Vázquez, D., y Collins, M. 1999. Modelos en ecología: Entrevista con Daniel Simberloff. Boletín de la Asociación Argentina de Ecología 8:34–38.

Simberloff, D., and Collins, M.D. Submitted. Birds of the Solomon Islands: The domain of the dynamic equilibrium theory and assembly rules.

Schook, D.M., Collins, M.D., Jensen, W.E., Williams, P.J., Bader, N.E., and Parker, T.H. Submitted. Geographic patterns of song similarity in the dickcissel, Spiza americana. The Auk.

Other Interests

birding
sports
hiking
kayaking



Family

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