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Daniel Wenny
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Phone: Email: dwenny@inhs.illinois.edu Title: Grassland Avian Ecologist Office Location: Savanna | ||
| Activities | Avian Ecologist |
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| Research |
Ecology and conservation of terrestrial birds Seed dispersal and seed predation woody plant invasion of grasslands tropical ecology |
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| Professional affiliations |
American Ornithologists' Union; Association of Field Ornithologists; Cooper Ornithological Society; Ecological Society of America; Wilson Ornithological Society; Raptor Research Foundation | ||
| Selected publications |
Whelan, C.J., D.G. Wenny, and R.J. Marquis. 2008. Ecosystem services provided by birds. in R.S. Ostfeld and W.H. Schlesinger, editors, The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2008, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1134:25-60. Wenny, D.G. and R. N˙boer. 2008. Viability of warm-season grass seed from grazed and ungrazed prairies. Ecological Restoration 26(1):5-7. Wenny, D, L. Anderson, D. Kirk, J. Bergstrom, D. Enstrom, and K. Paige. 2006. Ecology and genetics of an isolated population of Swainson’s hawk in Illinois. Journal of Raptor Research 40:270-276. Wenny, D. 2005. Post-dispersal seed fate of some cloud forest tree species in Costa Rica. Pp 351-362 In Seed fate: predation, dispersal and seedling establishment. Forget, P.-M., J. Lambert, P. Hulme, and S. VanderWall (eds.). CABI International, Wallingford, UK. Wenny, D.G. 2003. Short-term fruit removal from a Neotropical shrub with experimental bicolor displays. Journal of Tropical Ecology 19:469-472. Wenny, D.G. 2002 Effects of human handling of seeds on seed removal by rodents. American Midland Naturalist 147:404-408. Wenny, D.G. 2001. Advantages of dispersal: a re-evaluation of directed dispersal. Evolutionary Ecology Research 3:51-74 Wenny, D.G. and D.J. Levey. 1998. Directed seed dispersal by bellbirds in a tropical cloud forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95:6204-6207. |
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| Program Affiliates |
NRES - adjunct PEEC |
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| Professional society involvement and activities |
Symposium on Ecosystem Services by Birds at 2010 AOU/COS/CSO conference. | ||
| Education | PhD, Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1998 MS, Biology, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1989 BA, Biology, Earlham College, Richmond IN, 1986 | ||