ANDREW J. TYRE, Assistant Professor, 40% Teaching, 60% Research HOME

Areas of Interest: Statistical Ecology, Simulation Modeling, Population Ecology

EDUCATION

B.S. Zoology, University of Alberta (1991)

M.S. Behavioural Ecology, Simon Fraser University (1994)

Ph.D. Agriculture and Natural Resource Science, University of Adelaide (1999)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003-present Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resource Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

2002-2003 Research Scientist, CSIRO Marine Research, Cleveland

1999 - 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Queensland

TEACHING

Courses Taught (Fall, Spring, Summer)

ZOOL 4007 University of Queensland, Quantitative Ecology (F 01)

MATH 4800 University of Queensland, Mathematical Biology (F 01)

SELECTED GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

Predicting metapopulation dynamics with multiple patch states, Australian Research Council Linkage Grant and Western Mining Corporation Pty Ltd., A$235,000. June 2002 - Dec 2004

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (10 best from last five years)

Tyre, A.J., C.M. Bull, B. Tenhumberg and N. Chilton. in press. Indirect evidence of density dependent population regulation in Aponomma hydrosauri (Acari: Ixodidae), an ectoparasite of reptiles. Austral Ecology.

Tyre, A.J., B. Tenhumberg, S.A. Field, D. Niejalke, K. Parris and H.P. Possingham. in press. Improving precision and reducing bias in biological surveys by estimating false negative error rates in presence-absence data. Ecological Applications.

Field, S.A., A.J. Tyre, M. Possingham and H.P. Possingham. 2002. Estimating bird species richness: how should repeat surveys be organized in time? Austral Ecology, 27, 624-629.

Tenhumberg, B., H.P. Possingham and A.J. Tyre. 2001. The effect of resource aggregation on different scales: optimal foraging behaviour of Cotesia rubecula. The American Naturalist, 158, 505-518.

Tenhumberg, B., M. Keller, H.P. Possingham and A.J. Tyre. 2001. Optimal patch leaving behaviour: a case study using the parasitoid Cotesia rubecula. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70, 683-691.

Tyre, A.J., H.P. Possingham and D.B. Lindenmayer. 2001. Matching observed pattern with model process: can territory occupancy provide information about life history parameters. Ecological Applications, 11, 1722-1737.

Tyre, A.J., H.P. Possingham and D.P. Niejalke. 2001. Detecting environmental impacts on metapopulations of mound spring invertebrates - Assessing an incidence function model. Environment International, 27, 225-229.

McCarthy, M.A., H.P. Possingham, J. Day and A.J. Tyre. 2001. Testing the accuracy of population viability analysis. Conservation Biology, 15, 1030-1038.

Tyre, A.J., B. Tenhumberg, M.A. McCarthy and H.P. Possingham. 2000. Swapping space for time and unfair tests of ecological models. Australian Journal of Ecology, 25, 327-331.

Tyre, A.J., B. Tenhumberg. 2000. Hidden mechanisms generate negative feedbacks in a stochastic model. Australian Journal of Ecology, 25, 305-307.

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