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Justin Prouty Wright

Professor of Biology
Biology
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338
258 Biological Sciences, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning · December 10, 2013 Lecture UC Santa Barbara
Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning · December 10, 2013 Lecture NC State University
Linking beaver populations to landscape diversity: richness scenarios resulting from changes in the dynamics of beaver · December 10, 2013 Lecture Belfast, UK
Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning · November 27, 2012 Lecture Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning · February 20, 2012 Lecture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning · February 20, 2012 Lecture Wake Forest University
Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning · December 6, 2010 Lecture Eastern Carolina University
Understanding the ecosystem level effects of Microstegium: Better living through chemistry? · December 6, 2010 Lecture Southern Illinois University
Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning · November 24, 2009 Lecture University of Oklahoma
Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning · November 24, 2009 Lecture University of Chicago
Building a mechanistic understanding of the role of biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning · July 1, 2009 Lecture University of Wyoming

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Team Leader - Understanding Monkey Movement Using Conservation Technology · 2021 - 2022 Projects & Field Work flag Panama Energy & Environment located in Panama
Data+ Project Leader - Data+ · 2019 Projects & Field Work Information, Society & Culture
Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader - Mega-gardeners of Tropical Forests: Modeling Seed Dispersal by Forest Elephants · 2018 - 2019 Projects & Field Work flag Gabon

Primary Theme: Energy & Environment

Poaching is rapidly wiping out African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) from most of their historical range, leaving vast areas of elephant-free tropical forest. Elephants are ecological engineers that create and maintain forest habitat; the reduction of elephant populations will result in dramatic ecological changes in central African forests, including altered species composition, increased stem densities of small trees and lower abundance of large trees. This unintended experiment may help resolve whether differences between central African and neotropical forests are due to the destruction of megafauna in the neotropics thousands of years ago. 

Academic Editor - Editorial Board for PLoS ONE · December 31, 2009 Other Service to the Community

Service to the Profession


NSF grant review panel member · October 2013 Committee Service
Ad Hoc Reviewer for professional journals and grant panels · 2013 Editorial Activities
Panel Member for PCE cluster : National Science Foundation · 2011 Committee Service
Panel Member for Office Polar Programs Postdoc Panel : National Science Foundation · 2011 Committee Service
Reviewer for multiple journals · 2011 Editorial Activities
NSF proposal reviewer · 2011 Committee Service
Reviewer for multiple journals · 2010 Editorial Activities
NSF proposal reviewer · 2009 Committee Service
Reviewer for multiple journals · 2009 Editorial Activities
Academic Editor for PLoS One · 2009 Editorial Activities
Reviewer for multiple journals · December 4, 2008 Editorial Activities