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Nathan Turnbough

Research Interests

When a species invades a community, it becomes integrated into the community’s food web. One of my major research interests is the potential for such invasions to impact native species by altering food web structure or dynamics. I am particularly interested in cases where invasive species supplant ecologically similar native species because these cases give insight into the relative importance of species identity versus trophic position in determining food web effects.

I am currently investigating the food web effects of brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) in Florida, a project that incorporates both my interest in invasive species and love for herpetology. These small lizards are native to the Caribbean but have been introduced into Florida and several other localities around the world. In Florida they displace a native congener, the green anole, and can attain incredibly high population densities. I use small islands along the Florida coast to investigate the effects of brown anole invasion on other food web components, focusing primarily on arthropod communities.

Education

  • 1999 - B.A., Point Loma Nazarene University
Nathan Turnbough

Contact Information

Nathan Turnbough
Graduate. Student
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
569 Dabney Hall
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-1610

Phone: (865) 974-8782
Fax: (865) 974-3067
Email: nturnbou@utk.edu