Diane Debinski
Diane M. Debinski, Ph.D.
Professor
Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Office: 515.294.2460
Email: debinski@iastate.edu
Homepage: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~debinski/
Education
Ph.D., Conservation Biology, Montana State University
M.A., Natural Resources Economics and Management, University of Michigan
B.A., Biology, University of Maryland
Research Interests
- Conservation biology, Landscape Ecology, and Restoration Ecology
- Habitat fragmentation and prairie restoration
- Global climate change effects on ecological communities
- Recruitment and retention of women and minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
Selected Publications
- Debinski, D.M., R.E. VanNimwegen and M.E. Jakubauskas. 2006. Quantifying relationships between bird and butterfly community shifts and environmental change. Ecological Applications 16(1):380-393.
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- Debinski, D.M. 2006. Forest fragmentation and matrix effects: The matrix does matter. Journal of Biogeography 33:1791-1792.
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- Reeder, K.F., D.M. Debinski and B.J. Danielson. 2005. Factors affecting butterfly use of filter strips in Midwestern USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 109(1-2):40-47.
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- Shepherd, S. and D.M. Debinski. 2005. Evaluation of isolated and integrated prairie reconstructions as habitat for prairie butterflies. Biological Conservation 126:51-61.
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- Su, J.C., D.M. Debinski, M.E. Jakubauskas and K. Kindscher. 2004. Beyond species richness: Community similarity as a measure of cross-taxon congruence for coarse-filter conservation. Conservation Biology 18(1):167-173.
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- Debinski, D.M., C. Ray and E.H. Saveraid. 2001. Species diversity and the scale of the landscape mosaic: Explaining scale-dependent patterns in montane butterflies. Biological Conservation 98(2):179-190.
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- Debinski, D.M. and R.D. Holt.2000. A survey and overview of habitat fragmentation experiments. Conservation Biology 14:342-355.
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