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M. Henry H. Stevens

Biographical Information

Our lab studies population and community dynamics, including those in human-dominated landscapes. Our current research investigates determinants of forest dynamics.

Education

• Ph.D., Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (1999)

Selected Publications

• Blumenthal, N.M., M.H.H. Stevens, S. Goswami, R.D. Yanai, T.J. Fahey, M.C. Fisk. 2025. Nitrogen and phosphorus co-limitation of tree growth in northern hardwood forests. Ecology. In press.
  
• Stevens, M.H., N.M. Blumenthal, and M.C. Fisk. 2025. Data and Code in support of Nitrogen and phosphorus co-limitation of forest growth in northern hardwood forests; Blumenthal et al. 2025 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative.  (Accessed 2025-08-08).
  
• Ascanio, A., J.T. Bracken, M.H.H. Stevens, and T. Jezkova. 2024. New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation. Ecological Monographs, 94(3). DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1622.
  
• Collins, R., M.H.H. Stevens, S. Truslow, R. Klopf, R.H. Huish. 2024. Plant size and cost of flowering interact to govern population growth rate in a rare endemic plant species, smooth coneflower (Echinacea laevigata (C.L. Boynt. & Beadle) S.F. Blake). Natural Areas Journal, 44:128-140.
  
• Russell, V. L., M. H. H. Stevens, A. L. Zeisler, and T. Jezkova. 2022. Identifying Environmental Facwtors Driving Differences in Climatic Niche Overlap in Peromyscus Mice. Journal of Mammalogy, 103(1), 45-56.
  
• Bowen, A.K.M. and M.H. Stevens. 2020. Temperature, topography, soil characteristics, and NDVI drive habitat preferences of a shade-tolerant invasive grass. Ecology and Evolution, 10:10785-10797.
  
• Ross, N.J. and M.H.H. Stevens. 2019. Placing human landscape legacies in a dynamic systems framework. American Journal of Botany, 106:517-519.
  
• Li, W. and M.H.H. Stevens. 2017. Community temporal variability increases with fluctuating resource availability. Scientific Reports, 7:45280. PDF
• Ross, N. J., Stevens, M. H. H., Rupiper, A. W., Harkreader, I., & Leben, L. A. 2014. The ecological side of an ethnobotanical coin: Legacies in historically managed trees. American Journal of Botany, 101:1618–1630.
  
• Berry, E., Gorchov, D. L., Endress, B., & Stevens, M. H. H. 2008. Source-sink dynamics within a plant population: the impact of substrate and herbivory on palm demography. Population Ecology, 50, 63–77.
  
• Stevens, M. H. H. 2006. Placing local plant species richness in the context of environmental drivers of metacommunity richness. Journal of Ecology, 94, 58–65.

Courses Taught

• BIO 209W: Fundamentals of Ecology (Writing Intensive)
• BIO 671: Population and Community Ecology
• BIO 672: Ecosystem and Global Ecology
• BIO 710: Graduate seminars on various topics
• BIO 750: Applied Introductory Bayesian Modeling for the Natural and Social Sciences

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• Department of Biology
• Miami Ecological Big Data Initiative