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Craig Allen

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Craig Allen

Hi, my name is Craig Allen, and I am the leader of the newly established Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.

Prior to coming to UNL in July 2004, I was leader (2002 - 2004) and Assistant Leader (1998-2001) of the South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Clemson University. I held a non-tenure track faculty position in the Zoology Department at the University of Florida before that.

I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, but was born in Berkeley, California, and spent three years in Southhampton and Oxford in England; and Katwijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. For a period in Wisconsin, I ran a chimney sweeping company with two partners, but I try to keep away from roofs today.

Professionally, I am most interested in understanding the links between landuse or landcover change, biological invasions and extinctions. I conduct both applied and theoretical research on the impacts and predictions of invasions, and hope to continue a focus on invasive species in Nebraska, using empirical, experimental and spatial tools. I am also interested in how invasions can affect the resilience of ecosystems and other complex systems. I also sit on the Board of Directors for the Resilience Alliance.

Craig Allen

On a personal note, I am married to my wife Patty who I met during biology class in Green Bay and we now have a 10-year-old son. After 14 years in the South, Patty and I are not so eager to shovel snow, but we are happy to be back in the Midwest. We enjoy travel and the outdoors.

 

 

 

 

 

Key Research Publications

  • Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling. 2009. Foundations of Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. ~311pp.
  • Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling, Editors. 2008. Discontinuities in Ecosystems and other Complex Systems. University of Columbia Press, New York, NY. 272 pp.
  • Allen, C. R., A. Garmestani, T. Havlicek, P. Marquet, G. D. Peterson, C. Restrepo, C. Stow, and B. Weeks. 2006. Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative competing hypotheses. Ecology Letters 9: 630-643.
  • Allen, C. R. Predictors of introduction success in the South Florida avifauna. 2006. Biological Invasions 8: 491-500.
  • Holling, C. S., and C. R. Allen. 2002. Adaptive inference for distinguishing credible from incredible patterns in nature. Ecosystems 5:319-328.
  • Zettler, J. A., T. P. Spira, and C. R. Allen. 2001. Ant-seed mutualisms: can fire ants sour the relationship? Biological Conservation 101:249-253.
  • Allen, C. R., L. G. Pearlstine, and W. M. Kitchens. 2001. Modeling viable mammal populations in gap analyses. Biological Conservation 99:135-144.
  • Allen, C. R., E. A. Forys, and C. S. Holling. 1999. Body mass patterns predict invasions and extinctions in transforming landscapes. Ecosystems 2:114-121.
  • Peterson, G., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling. 1998. Ecological resilience, biodiversity and scale. Ecosystems 1:6-18.
  • Allen, C. R., R. Scott Lutz, and Stephen Demarais. 1995. Red imported fire ant impacts on northern bobwhite populations. Ecological Applications 5:632-638.

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Contact Information
Title Leader of the Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Professor (Full)
 
Affiliation (index) NCFWRU 
Address 423 Hardin Hall
3310 Holdrege Street
Lincoln NE
68583-0984 
Phone 402-472-0229 
Fax 402-472-2946 
Email callen3@unl.edu  
 
Educational Background
BS
 University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, 1989 - Biology
MS
 Texas Tech University, 1993 - Wildlife Science
PhD
 University of Florida, 1997 - Wildlife Ecology
 
Academic Information
Potential Advising for Graduate Program Master of Science with a Specialization in
  • Wildlife Ecology
Doctor of Philosophy with a Specialization in
  • Applied Ecology
Courses Taught in the Current Semester
Course Number Course Title Day Time Cross Listings
NRES 492  Study Tour in Natural Resources - Resilience Australia  ARR  ARR  NRES 892 
NRES 892  Study Tour in Natural Resources - Resilience Australia  ARR  ARR  NRES 492 
NRES 899  Masters Thesis  ARR  ARR  None 
NRES 899  Masters Thesis  ARR  ARR  None 
NRES 999  Doctoral Dissertation  ARR  ARR  None 
NRES 999  Doctoral Dissertation  ARR  ARR  None 
NRES 999  Doctoral Dissertation  ARR  ARR  None 
Additional Information
SNR Faculties Applied Ecology, Water  
Areas of Interest Cooperative research unit, fish and wildlife; Biological invasions; Spatial ecology; Resilience of the ecosystem; Fish and Wildlife research unit/graduate education; Ecology; Ecosystems ecology/resilience; Invasive species/invasion ecology 
Notable Website http://snr.unl.edu/necoopunit 

 

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