JOHN LOUIS SABO
Faculty of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Science
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Tel (480.965.5904) Fax (480.965.0098)
John.L.Sabo@asu.edu
Research Interests
Stream and riparian ecology, food web ecology, predator-prey theory, ecological risk assessment and statistical issues in ecology
Education
Ph.D. 2000. University of California, Berkeley, Ecology
M.S. 1995. University of Washington, Fisheries
B.S. 1992. University of Notre Dame, with Honors
Research Experience
2003- Assistant Professor. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ.
2002-2003 Assistant Professor. Department of Biology, Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ.
2001-2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow. National Research Council and Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service.
2000-2001 Postdoctoral Research Fellow. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1995- 1999 Graduate Research Assistant. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
1995-1999 Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
1993-1995Graduate Research Assistant. Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, School of Fisheries, University of Washington. Seattle, WA.
1992-1993 Egtvedt Graduate Fellow. Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, School of Fisheries, University of Washington. Seattle, WA.
1990-1992 Undergraduate Research Assistant. University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, Land of Lakes, WI.
Peer Reviewed Research Articles
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1. Sabo, J . L. In revision. Stochasticity, predator-prey dynamics and the management of native species threatened by non-native predators. Ecology.
2. Leah R. Gerber, Hamish McCallum, Kevin D. Lafferty John L. Sabo, and Andy Dobson. In revision. Exposing extinction risk analysis to pathogens: Is disease just another form of density dependence? Ecological Applications.
3. Sabo, J.L., R. Sponseller, M. Dixon, K. Gade, T. Harms, J. Hefernan, A. Jani, G. Katz, C. Soykan, J. Watts, J. Welter. In press. Riparian zones increase regional richness by harboring different, not more species. Ecology.
4. Sabo, J. L., E. E. Holmes and P. Kareiva. 2004. Efficacy of simple viability models in ecological risk assessment: Does density dependence matter? Ecology 85(2) 328-341.
5. Moore, J.C., D. Callaway, D.C. Coleman, P. de Ruiter, Q. Dong, R. Diaz, A. Hastings, H. W. Hunt, N. Johnson, K. McCann, K. Melville, P. Morin, K. Nadelhoffer, A. Rosemond, D. Post, J. L. Sabo, K. Scow, D. Strong, M. Vanni, and D. Wall. 2004. Detritus, food web dynamics and biodiversity. Ecology Letters 7(7): 584-600.
6. Sabo, J. L. 2003. Hot rocks or no hot rocks: Overnight retreat availability and selection by a diurnal lizard. Oecologia 136:329-335.
7. Sabo, J. L. and M. E. Power. 2002b. Numerical response of lizards to aquatic insects and short-term consequences for terrestrial prey. Ecology 83(11): 3023-3036.
8. Sabo, J. L. and M. E. Power. 2002a. River-watershed exchange: Effects of riverine subsidies on riparian lizards and their terrestrial prey. Ecology 83 (7): 1860-1869.
9. Bastow, J., J. L. Sabo, J.C. Finlay and M. E. Power. 2002. The effects of river derived algal and water resources on the spatial distribution of riparian pygmy grasshoppers. Oecologia 131(2): 261-268.
10. Sabo, J. L. , J. Bastow and M. E. Power. 2002. Length-weight relationships for adult aquatic insects from a northern California stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 21 (2): 336-343.
11. Porter, W. P., J. L. Sabo, C. R. Tracy, O. J. Reichman and N. Ramankutty. 2002. Physiology on a landscape scale: Plant-animal interactions. Integrative and Comparative Biology 42(3):431-453.
12. Sabo, J. L. and G. B. Pauley. 1997. Competition between stream-dwelling cutthroat trout and coho salmon: the evolution of competitive ability. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54: 2609 - 2617.
Peer reviewed Book Chapters and book reviews
13. Sabo, J. L. , C. U. Soykan, and A. Keller. In press. Functional roles of leaf litter detritus in terrestrial food webs. In: P. C. deRuiter, J. C. Moore, and V. Wolters, Eds. Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
14. Sabo, J. L., B. Beisner, E. Berlow, K. Cuddington, A. Hastings, G. Kokkoris, M. Koen-Alonso, K. McCann, C. Melian, J. Moore. In press. Population dynamics and food web structure—the dual role of reductionism and holism in advancing food web science. In: P. C. deRuiter, J. C. Moore, and V. Wolters, Eds. Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
15. Power, M. E., M. S. Parker, W. E. Rainey, J. L. Sabo, A. Smyth, C. McNeely, J. C. Finlay, G.
Cabana, E. D. Pierson, W. E. Dietrich, S. Khandwala and K. Marsee. 2004. Consequences of trophic exchange from a river to its watershed. In: Polis, G. A., M. E. Power, and G. R. Huxel, Eds. Food webs at the landscape level. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
16. Sabo, J. L. 2003. Book Review: Morris, W. F., and D. F. Doak. 2003. Quantitative Conservation Biology: Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA. Conservation Ecology 7(2): 2. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss2/art2.
17. Sabo, J. L. 2002. Food web dynamics. In:McGraw-Hill 2002 Yearbook of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York.
18. Sabo, J.L. and L. R. Gerber. 2002. Trophic dynamics. In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9th Edition. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York.
Manuscripts in Review
19. Sabo, J.L. and L.R. Gerber. In review. Population viability and species interactions: Life outside the single-species vacuum. Biological Conservation.
20. K. Buneau, J.L. Sabo and L.R. Gerber. In review. Population Viability in Changing Environments: Using the diffusion approximation model under periodic conditions. Ecological Applications.
Manuscripts in Preparation (only papers with significant writing progress included)
21. Sabo, J.L. and D.M. Post. In prep. Diagnosing flow related stress and disturbance in stream ecosystems. To be submitted to Ecological Monographs.
22. Sabo, J.L., C.U. Soykan, T.K. Harms, J. Roemer and A. Keller. In prep. Thermal, structural and trophic roles of litter in a desert riparian forest food web. To be submitted to Ecological Monographs.
23. Sabo, J.L., W.P. Porter and O.J. Reichman. In prep. Body size, bionergetics and thermal context dependency in trophic dynamics across terrestrial landscapes. To be submitted to Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
24. Sabo, J . L.. In prep. Graphical models of donor control: Resource inputs to downstream consumer systems. 38 pp., 10 Figs., 2 Tables. To be submitted to Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.
25. Simmons, D.S., C.U. Soykan and J.L. Sabo. In prep. Turnover in granivore species pools in a desert riparian corridor: Do rivers promote the coexistence of desert specialists and more cosmopolitan species? To be submitted to the Journal of Mammalogy.
26. Keller, A., G. Holloway, W. Patterson, D. Wedge, E. Ridder, and J.L. Sabo. In prep. Variation in home range size and location between night and day in male and female Eastern fence lizards. To be submitted to the Journal of Herpetology.
Funded Grants
2004 Principle Investigator: National Science Foundation.Division of Environmental Biology. Ecology Panel—Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER): “Tracing surface and sub-surface sources of water through terrestrial food webs using stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen”. (27K).
2003 Principle Investigator: National Science Foundation. Division of Environmental Biology. Ecology Panel. “Collaborative Research: Food chain length in streams—Testing the role of ecosystem size, resource availability and disturbance”. Co-PI’s: D. M. Post, Yale University and J.C. Finlay, University of Minnesota. (465K).
Proposals Being Reviewed
2004 Co-PI: National Science Foundation. Division of Environmental Biology. Ecology Studies Panel. “Trophic Dynamics in Human-dominated Environments.” PI: Stan Faeth, SoLS (681.5 K).
Presentations at Conferences (Since employment at ASU)
J.L. Sabo and L.R. Gerber. 2004. Trigger harvest of non-native predators enhances native prey viability. Ecological Society of America in Portland,OR.
C.U. Soykan and J.L. Sabo. 2004. Diet and spatial distribution of riparian omnivores: Implications for spillover predation. Ecological Society of America in Portland, OR.
J.L. Sabo and L.R. Gerber. 2003. Reducing predator variability enhances prey viability. Society for Conservation Biology in Duluth, MN.
J.L. Sabo, W.P. Porter and O.J. Reichman. 2003. Thermal context dependency in trophic dynamics. Ecological Society of America in Savannah, GA
J.L. Sabo and L.R. Gerber. 2002. Species interactions and population viability analysis. Society for Conservation Biology in Canterbury UK.
J.L. Sabo and L.R. Gerber. 2002. Species interactions and population viability analysis. Ecological Society of America in Tucson, AZ.
Presentations at Conferences (Prior to employment at ASU)
2001 Society for Conservation Biology in Hilo, HI
2000 Ecological Society of America in Snowbird, UT.
1999 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in La Paz, Mexico.
1999 Ecological Society of America in Spokane, WA.
1997 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Seattle, WA.
1996 Ecological Society of America in Providence, RI.
1995 Ecological Society of America in Snowbird, UT.
Invited Seminars
2003 Symposium on “Extending river food webs to terrestrial ecosystems” organized by J. Steinmetz. North American Benthological Society, Athens, GA.
2002 Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service. Seattle, WA.
2002 University of Arizona. Hexapodium 2002: Symposium on insect science. Tucson, AZ.
2001 Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
2001 Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2001 School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
2000 Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz, CA
2000 Symposium on aquatic-terrestrial subsidies organized by G. Polis and D. Sanzone. Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, UT
1999 Department of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis
Reviewer for:
Conservation Biology, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ecological Applications, Freshwater Biology, Landscape Ecology, North American Benthological Society, Oecologia, National Science Foundation
Synergistic Activities
2004 Invited Symposium Participant: Monitoring in conservation science, Brisbane, Australia. Organized by Dr. Hugh Possingham, The Ecology Centre. Department of Biology, University of Queensland, Australia.
2003 Invited Symposium Participant: International symposium on food web ecology sponsored by EU. Schloß Rauischolzhausen. Justus Liebig University. Gießen , Germany.
2003 Symposium Organizer: “Body Size, Biophysics and Biological Stoichiometry” Co-Organizer: B. Enquist. Ecological Society of America. Savannah, GA.
2002-current Invited Working Group Participant: Detrital Dynamics. Organized by John Moore and Quan Dong. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
Membership
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Ecological Society of America, North American Benthological Society, Society of American Naturalists, Society for Conservation Biology
Advisors
M.S.: Gilbert Pauley
Ph.D.: Mary E. Power
Postdoc: Peter Kareiva, Jim Reichman, Warren Porter
Advisees (my students)
Candan Soykan, Ph.D., ASU, began Fall 2000
Kevin McCluney, Ph.D., ASU, began Fall 2003
Beth Hagen, Ph. D., ASU, began Fall 2004
Andy Keller, M.S., ASU, began Fall 2004
David Simmons, BREU student, finished Spring 2003
Paul Midura, UMEB student began Fall 2002
Jerome Clark, UMEB student began Fall 2003
Will Patterson, SOLUR student in Barrett Honors College, Began Fall 2003
Teaching Experience (all at ASU)
BIO345 Organic Evolution (3 credits, Fall 2002, Spring 2003)
BIO415 Biometry (4 credits with lab, Fall 2003, 2004)
BIO591 Riparian Ecology (2 credits, Fall 2002)
BIO591 Practical Applications of Statistics in Ecology: Meta-analysis (2 credits, Spring 2003)
BIO591 Practical Applications of Statistics in Ecology: Time Series Analysis (4 credits, Fall 2004, Spring 2005)