Betsy Von Holle

Harvard Forest
Harvard University

Petersham, Massachusetts
978.724.3302 (voice)
978.724.3595 (Fax)
vonholle@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests

Ecological resistance to invasion, impact of land-use history on nonnative species, community structure, disturbance ecology, restoration ecology, facilitations between nonnative species, landscape ecology

Education

2002 -- Ph.D., (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), University of Tennessee, at Knoxville
1994 -- B.S., (Ecology, Behavior and Evolution ), University of California, at San Diego

Positions Held

2002 - Present. Harvard Forest, Harvard University; National Park Ecological Research Fellow.
1997 - 2002. University of Tennessee, at Knoxville; Teaching Assistant.
1996 - 1997. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Biological Technician.
1995 - 1996. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Research Intern.

Active Research Awards

Research Grant (co-PI with David R. Foster), Highstead Arboretum, 2004 ($11,200)
National Park Ecological Research Fellowship, National Park Ecological Research Foundation, 2002 - 05 ($150,000)
Postdoctoral Training Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2002 - 2005 ($21,000)

Professional Service

Reviewer for the journals American Journal of Botany, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biological Invasions, Conservation Biology, Diversity and Distributions, Ecology Letters, Ecosystems, Ecology and Society, Functional Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Natural Areas Journal, Oikos, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and the granting agency USDA NRICGP, Biology of Weedy and Invasive Plants

NSF/Andrew W. Mellon REU Mentor - Harvard University, Harvard Forest; 2003, 2004. NSF REU Mentor - University of Virginia, Mountain Lake Biological Station; 2000, 2001.

Publications

Von Holle, B., K.A Joseph, E.F. Largay R.G. Lohnes. 2005. in press. Facilitations between the introduced nitrogen-fixing tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, and nonnative plant species in the glacial outwash upland ecosystem of Cape Cod, MA. Biodiversity and Conservation

Von Holle, B. 2005. Biotic resistance to invader establishment of a southern Appalachian plant community is determined by environmental conditions. Journal of Ecology 93: 16-26

Von Holle, B. and D. Simberloff. 2004. Testing Fox's assembly rule: Does plant invasion depend upon recipient community structure? Oikos 105: 551-563

Von Holle, B., H. Delcourt, and D. Simberloff. 2003. Biological inertia and its application in studies of ecological resistance to invasion. Journal of Vegetation Science 14: 425-432

Weltzin, J.F., N. Muth, B. Von Holle, and P. Cole. 2003. Overcoming methodological constraints on experimental investigations of diversity-invasibility relationships - a test using genetic diversity in a model system. Oikos 103: 505-518

Lockwood, J., D. Simberloff, M. McKinney, and B. Von Holle. 2001. How many, and which, plants will invade natural areas? Biological Invasions 3 (1): 1-8.

Wasson, K., B. Von Holle, J. Toft and G. Ruiz. 2000. Detecting invasions of marine organsims: Kamptozoan case histories. Biological Invasions 2(1): 59-74

Parker, I.M. , D. Simberloff, W.M. Lonsdale, K. Goodell, M. Wonham, P.M. Kareiva, M.H. Williamson, B. Von Holle, P.B. Moyle, J.E. Byers, L. Goldwasser. 1999. Impact: Toward a framework for understanding the ecological effects of invaders, Biological Invasions 1(1): 3-19.

Simberloff, D. and B. Von Holle. 1999. Positive interactions of nonindigenous species: Invasional meltdown? Biological Invasions 1(1): 21-32.

Manuscripts in Review

Von Holle, B. and D. Simberloff. 2005. Ecological resistance to biological invasion overwhelmed by invasion pressure.

Von Holle, B., D.R. Foster, and G. Motzkin. 2005. Disturbance histories as a predictor of habitat invasibility in the mosaic landscape of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Von Holle, B. 2005. Differential effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on habitat invasibility.