Elizabeth Nichols

Liz Nichols

Liz is currently finishing her PhD from Columbia University in New York, where her research has focused on understanding the drivers of community disassembly patterns for Scarabaeine dung beetle assemblages in tropical forests. Along the way she's gained an interest in using ecological network analysis approaches in understanding dung beetles, vertebrates, and vertebrate macroparasite transmission cycles and how global environmental change events may cascade through these ecological networks and influence both the persistence of individual species and parasite transmission processes.

Elizabeth Nichols

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

Columbia University

1200 Amsterdam Avenue

10th floor Schermerhorn Extension

New York, NY 10027

U.S.A.

EMAIL: lizsnichols@gmail.com

PUBLICATIONS

Nichols, E., Gómez A., 2011. Conservation education needs more parasites.Biological Conservation 114: 937–941.

Nichols, E., Gardner, T., Peres, C. A., Spector, S. 2009.Co-declining mammals and dung beetles: an impending ecological cascade. Oikos 118(4): 481-487

Nichols, E., S. Spector, J. Louzada, T. Larsen, S. Amezquita, M. Favila and Scarabnet, 2008. Ecological functions and ecosystem services of Scarabaeine dung beetles: a review. Biological Conservation 141(6): 1461-1474.

Spector, S. and E. Nichols. 2008. "Dirty Work, Done Dirt Cheap." Wings. 31.

Nichols, E., Larsen, T., Spector, S., Escobar, E., Favila, M.E, Davis, A., Vulinec, K. 2007.Dung beetle response to tropical forest modification and fragmentation: a quantitative literature review and meta-analysis. Biological Conservation 137: 1-19.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Gómez, A., Nichols, E., Perkins, S.,Parasites, Conservation Medicine, and Ecosystem Health. In: Aguirre A. and Daszak, P. et al. (eds). 2011.Conservation Medicine, Second Edition.

Nichols, E. and Gardner, T. A. Dung Beetles as a Candidate Study Taxon in Applied Biodiversity Conservation Research. 2011. In: Simmons, L. W. and Ridsdill-Smith, J. (eds.), Dung Beetle Ecology and Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell

Louzada, J.N.C and Nichols, E. Detritivorous Insects. 2011. In: Bioecologia e Nutrição de Insetos: Base Para o Manejo Integrado de Pragas. Embrapa, Brazil.