Michael Stastny Ph.D. candidate Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
 
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Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Corson Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, 14853-2701, USA
Phone: 607-254-4280
Fax: 607-254-8088
last updated: May 2007
Welcome to my webpage! I am a graduate student in Anurag Agrawal’s lab in E&EB at Cornell. I am interested in how the structure of plant communities, and specifically local coexistence of closely related plant species, may be mediated by ecological interactions, such as competition and herbivory. In my thesis research, I let natural patterns in old-field communities guide my experiments with plant mesocosms and insect and vertebrate herbivores. More generally, my work has revolved around various aspects of ecology and evolutionary ecology of plant-insect interactions.http://www.herbivory.comshapeimage_5_link_0