Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

Although his primary research focus involves medically important container mosquitoes, he is broadly a community ecologist who has a strong, broad background in invertebrates and aquatic habitats. He has focused most of his research efforts on mosquitoes, in part because this group provides an excellent model system to explore topics across many levels of ecological organization, from individuals, to population, to communities. His specific interests lie in examining how individual species traits, such as feeding behavior, habitat selection, dispersal and oviposition decisions affect species interactions and in linking how the outcomes of these interactions affect patterns of species diversity and invasion success. This work has important implications for public health, as findings of his work can offer insights into the factors that control the distributions of medically important mosquitoes.

Introduction.- Systematics of adult dytiscids.- Systematics of larval dytiscids.- Reproduction and sexual conflict.- Anatomy and Physiology.- Chemical ecology.- Communities.- Predation: effects on prey.- Predation: effects on dytiscids including intraguild predation.- Habitats.- Dispersal.- Conservation.