Jessica Gurevitch

Jessica Gurevitch
Alma materUniversity of Arizona
Scientific career
InstitutionsStony Brook
ThesisC3 and C4 photosynthesis, competition, and the limits to grass species distributions in an Arizona grassland (1982)

Jessica Gurevitch is a plant ecologist known for meta-analysis in the fields of ecology and evolution.

Education and career

Gurevitch has a B.S. from Cornell University (1973) and earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona in 1982.[1] She was a postdoctoral fellow for two years at the University of Chicago before moving to the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1985. For two years starting in 1992, Guervitch worked at the National Science Foundation before returning to Stony Brook where she was promoted to professor in 2000.[1]

From 2015 to 2016, Gurevitch was president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology.[2][3]

Research

Gurevitch's research interests are centered on biological invasions and meta-analysis in ecology. Her research on grasses[4][5] perennial plants,[6] and trees[7][8] relied on a combination of experimental manipulations and observation data. Her interest in biological invasions includes investigations into the invasive flowering plant Centaurea stoebe which is expanding its geographic range in the eastern United States.[9] Gurevitch's research on the recovery of pine barrens after a large 1995 fire in Long Island[10][11][12] led to a discussion on the conditions needed to optimize controlled burns to improve the recovery of plants after a fire.[13][14] In the field of geoengineering, Gurevitch considers the ecological consequences of rapid geoengineering projects as a threat to biodiversity.[15] Gurevitch also considered how habitats in marine and terrestrial biomes could be altered by Stratospheric aerosol injection[16] which was covered by the popular press when the paper was published in 2021.[17][18]

Gurevitch first became interested in meta-analysis, the combination of data from multiple studies, while reading a 1989 story in the Boston Globe that described a project that gathered multiple studies to reveal that boys and girls were equally good in math.[19] She was the first to apply meta-analysis to ecological data in her 1992 paper that used meta-analysis to study competition in field experiments.[20][19] Gurevitch has subsequently applied meta-analysis to a range of topics including soil ecosystems and their response to warming,[21] interactions between competition and predation,[22] and biological invasions.[23] In a 2018 paper, she reviewed advances made in the field since it first became relevant to medical and social science research in the 1970s.[24][19] Beyond conducting meta-analysis projects, Gurevitch develops statistical tools[25] and software[26][27] needed to conduct meta-analysis projects on ecological data, and co-edited a handbook for ecologists and evolutionary biologists using meta-analysis in their research.[28]

Selected publications

  • Gurevitch, Jessica; Morrow, Laura L.; Wallace, Alison; Walsh, Joseph S. (1992). "A Meta-Analysis of Competition in Field Experiments". The American Naturalist. 140 (4): 539–572. doi:10.1086/285428. ISSN 0003-0147. JSTOR 2462913. S2CID 205982939.
  • Gurevitch, Jessica; Hedges, Larry V. (1999). "Statistical Issues in Ecological Meta-Analyses". Ecology. 80 (4): 1142–1149. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1142:SIIEMA]2.0.CO;2.
  • Samuel M. Scheiner; Jessica Gurevitch, eds. (2001). Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198030225.
  • Gurevitch, J; Padilla, D (September 2004). "Are invasive species a major cause of extinctions?". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 19 (9): 470–474. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2004.07.005. PMID 16701309.
  • Gurevitch, Jessica; Scheiner, Samuel M.; Fox, Gordon A. (2006). The Ecology of Plants (2nd ed.). Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates. ISBN 978-0878932948. Gurevitch, Jessica; Scheiner, Samuel M.; Fox, Gordon A. (2002). 1st edition. Oxford University Press, Incorporated. ISBN 0-87893-291-7.[29]
  • Julia Koricheva; Jessica Gurevitch; Kerrie Mengersen, eds. (2013). Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691137285.

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ a b "Gurevitch CV" (PDF). Retrieved July 15, 2021.
  2. ^ "The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology presents awards to Cochrane contributors". www.cochrane.org. July 27, 2016. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  3. ^ "Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology is an international, interdisciplinary learned society dedicated to p". ww.en.freejournal.org. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  4. ^ Gurevitch, Jessica (1986). "Competition and the Local Distribution of the Grass Stipa Neomexicana". Ecology. 67 (1): 46–57. doi:10.2307/1938502. ISSN 1939-9170. JSTOR 1938502.
  5. ^ Gurevitch, Jessica; Teeri, James A.; Wood, A. Michelle (1986-09-01). "Differentiation among populations of Sedum wrightii (Crassulaceae) in response to limited water availability: water relations, CO2 assimilation, growth and survivorship". Oecologia. 70 (2): 198–204. Bibcode:1986Oecol..70..198G. doi:10.1007/BF00379240. ISSN 1432-1939. PMID 28311658. S2CID 20708147.
  6. ^ Gurevitch, Jessica; Wilson, Paul; Stone, Judy L.; Teese, Paul; Stoutenburgh, Robert J. (1990). "Competition Among Old-Field Perennials at Different Levels of Soil Fertility and Available Space". Journal of Ecology. 78 (3): 727–744. doi:10.2307/2260895. ISSN 0022-0477. JSTOR 2260895.
  7. ^ Brown, Kerry A.; Gurevitch, Jessica (2004-04-20). "Long-term impacts of logging on forest diversity in Madagascar". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (16): 6045–6049. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.6045B. doi:10.1073/pnas.0401456101. PMC 395920. PMID 15067121.
  8. ^ Gurevitch, Jessica; Howard, Timothy G.; Ashton, Isabel W.; Leger, Elizabeth A.; Howe, Katherine M.; Woo, Eliza; Lerdau, Manuel (2008-08-01). "Effects of experimental manipulation of light and nutrients on establishment of seedlings of native and invasive woody species in Long Island, NY forests". Biological Invasions. 10 (6): 821–831. doi:10.1007/s10530-008-9241-2. ISSN 1573-1464. S2CID 23677250.
  9. ^ Akin-Fajiye, Morodoluwa; Gurevitch, Jessica (2018-10-01). "The influence of environmental factors on the distribution and density of invasive Centaurea stoebe across Northeastern USA". Biological Invasions. 20 (10): 3009–3023. doi:10.1007/s10530-018-1755-7. ISSN 1573-1464. S2CID 13676830.
  10. ^ Landis, R. Matthew; Gurevitch, Jessica; Fox, Gordon A.; Fang, Wei; Taub, Daniel R. (2005). "Variation in recruitment and early demography in Pinus rigida following crown fire in the pine barrens of Long Island, New York". Journal of Ecology. 93 (3): 607–617. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.00996.x. ISSN 1365-2745. S2CID 85748554.
  11. ^ Marcazzo, Regina (1995-11-26). "Charred Pine Barrens Are Laboratory at Doorstep". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  12. ^ Marcazzo, Regina (2000-08-20). "From Pines' Ashes, a Different Landscape". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  13. ^ Rather, John (1996-08-25). "Plans Are Debated For Pine Forest Fires". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  14. ^ Rather, John (1997-04-13). "Test of Limited Burn Set for Pine Barrens". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  15. ^ Trisos, Christopher H.; Amatulli, Giuseppe; Gurevitch, Jessica; Robock, Alan; Xia, Lili; Zambri, Brian (2018). "Potentially dangerous consequences for biodiversity of solar geoengineering implementation and termination". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2 (3): 475–482. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0431-0. ISSN 2397-334X. PMID 29358608. S2CID 3379331.
  16. ^ Zarnetske, Phoebe L.; Gurevitch, Jessica; Franklin, Janet; Groffman, Peter M.; Harrison, Cheryl S.; Hellmann, Jessica J.; Hoffman, Forrest M.; Kothari, Shan; Robock, Alan; Tilmes, Simone; Visioni, Daniele (2021-04-13). "Potential ecological impacts of climate intervention by reflecting sunlight to cool Earth". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (15). Bibcode:2021PNAS..11821854Z. doi:10.1073/pnas.1921854118. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 8053992. PMID 33876741.
  17. ^ Wood, Charlie (2021-04-12). "'Dimming' the sun poses too many unknowns for Earth". Popular Science. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  18. ^ Howell, Elizabeth (April 19, 2021). "Can we reflect sunlight to fight climate change? Scientists eye aerosol shield for Earth". Space.com. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  19. ^ a b c Nature, Research Data at Springer (2018-03-07). "Forty years of meta-analysis: We need evidence-based answers more than ever". Research Data at Springer Nature. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  20. ^ Gurevitch, Jessica; Morrow, Laura L.; Wallace, Alison; Walsh, Joseph S. (1992). "A Meta-Analysis of Competition in Field Experiments". The American Naturalist. 140 (4): 539–572. doi:10.1086/285428. ISSN 0003-0147. JSTOR 2462913. S2CID 205982939.
  21. ^ Rustad, L.; Campbell, J.; Marion, G.; Norby, R.; Mitchell, M.; Hartley, A.; Cornelissen, J.; Gurevitch, J.; GCTE-NEWS (2001-02-01). "A meta-analysis of the response of soil respiration, net nitrogen mineralization, and aboveground plant growth to experimental ecosystem warming". Oecologia. 126 (4): 543–562. Bibcode:2001Oecol.126..543R. doi:10.1007/s004420000544. ISSN 1432-1939. PMID 28547240. S2CID 25794021.
  22. ^ Gurevitch, Jessica; Morrison, Janet A.; Hedges, Larry V. (2000-04-01). "The Interaction between Competition and Predation: A Meta-analysis of Field Experiments". The American Naturalist. 155 (4): 435–453. doi:10.1086/303337. ISSN 0003-0147. PMID 10753073. S2CID 4437236.
  23. ^ Gurevitch, J.; Fox, G. A.; Wardle, G. M.; Inderjit; Taub, D. (2011). "Emergent insights from the synthesis of conceptual frameworks for biological invasions". Ecology Letters. 14 (4): 407–418. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01594.x. ISSN 1461-0248. PMID 21513009.
  24. ^ Gurevitch, Jessica; Koricheva, Julia; Nakagawa, Shinichi; Stewart, Gavin (2018). "Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis". Nature. 555 (7695): 175–182. Bibcode:2018Natur.555..175G. doi:10.1038/nature25753. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 29517004. S2CID 3761687.
  25. ^ Gurevitch, Jessica; Hedges, Larry V. (1999). "Statistical Issues in Ecological Meta-Analyses". Ecology. 80 (4): 1142–1149. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1142:SIIEMA]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1939-9170.
  26. ^ Rosenburg, Michael S.; Adams, Dean C.; Gurevitch, Jessica (1997). "Metawin: Statistical software for meta-analysis with resampling tests". psycnet.apa.org. Sinauer Associates. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  27. ^ Wallace, Byron C.; Lajeunesse, Marc J.; Dietz, George; Dahabreh, Issa J.; Trikalinos, Thomas A.; Schmid, Christopher H.; Gurevitch, Jessica (2017). "OpenMEE: Intuitive, open-source software for meta-analysis in ecology and evolutionary biology". Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 8 (8): 941–947. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12708. ISSN 2041-210X. S2CID 51686365.
  28. ^ Julia Koricheva; Jessica Gurevitch; Kerrie Mengersen, eds. (2013). Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691137285.
  29. ^ Keddy, Paul A (2004). "A review of The Ecology of Plants by Jessica Gurevitch, Samuel M Scheiner, and Gordon A Fox". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 79 (1). University of Chicago Press: 55–59. doi:10.1086/381509. ISSN 0033-5770. S2CID 88822810.
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