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Robert
Matlock
Assistant Professor
Biology
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Robert Matlock
Assistant Professor
Office
: Building 6S
Room 140
Phone
: 718.982.3869
Fax
: 718.982.3852
matlock@mail.csi.cuny.edu
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Degrees :
BS, Zoology, University of Texas, Austin Texas
Ph.D, Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle Washington
Biography / Academic Interests
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Robert Matlock joined the faculty of the College of Staten Island in September 2006. His research interests fall into three broad categories: theoretical ecology, conservation biology and agroecology, which frequently overlap. Professor Matlock lived and worked in Central America for many years and his research is conducted primarily in tropical forest ecosystems. His current work focuses on developing and testing spatially-explicit reaction-diffusion models of population growth and dispersal and on modeling trophic cascades. At present, he is investigating the sterile-insect-release method, an insect control strategy in which sterilized pest insects are liberated into the environment, limiting the reproduction of the wild pest population and effecting its control. Using reaction-diffusion models, he is investigating how barriers of sterile-insect release can stall waves of spread of invasive insect-pest species. In a second project conducted in collaboration with Lee Dyer, Tulane University, Professor Matlock is modeling trophic cascades in the tropical, understory, ant plant, Piper cenocladum with ordinary differential equations. Professor Matlock’s teaching interests include mathematical biology (his favorite), statistics, conservation biology and tropical biology.
Scholarships / Publications
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Matlock, R. B., Jr. and P. J. Edwards. 2006. The influence of habitat variables on bird communities in forest remnants in Costa Rica. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:2987-3016.
Matlock, R. B., Jr. 2005. The impact of prey size on prey capture success, development rate and survivorship in Perillus bioculatus (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), a predator of the Colorado potato beetle. Environmental Entomology. 34: 1048-1056.
Dyer, L. A., Matlock, R. B., Chehrezad, D. and R. O’Malley. 2005. Predicting caterpillar parasitism in banana plantations. Environmental Entomology 34:403-409.
Stireman, J.O. III, Dyer, L.A., and R. B. Matlock. 2005. Top-down forces in managed versus unmanaged habitats. In: Barbosa, P. and I. Castellanos (eds.). Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions. Oxford University Press.
Matlock, R. B., Jr. and R. de la Cruz. 2003. Ants as indicators of pesticide impacts in banana. Environmental Entomology 32:816–829.
Matlock, R. B., Jr. and R. de la Cruz. 2002. An inventory of parasitic Hymenoptera in banana plantations under two pesticide regimes. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 93:147–164.
Matlock, R. B., Jr., D. Rogers, P. J. Edwards, and S. G. Martin. 2002. Avian communities in forest fragments and reforestation areas associated with banana plantations in Costa Rica. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 91:199–215.
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