Welcome to the Wise Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Our research interests are diverse and continually evolving. The threads that weave them together are tangled together in the intersection between community ecology, food-web structure and dynamics, ecosystem processes, and land-management policy. Our investigations are conducted in terrestrial landscapes of the Chicago Wilderness.
Currently we are pursuing the following interrelated projects:
Weekly Meeting of the Wise Lab
Fall 2011Basil Iannone, Robin Mores, Lauren Umek (Northwestern U.)
Amélie Davis, Matt McCary, Brook Herman, Dan Maritz
(Urban Planning and Policy, UIC), Cristian Martínez, Susan Kirt,
Monica Farfan, David Wise. Missing: Kristen Ross,
Liam Heneghan (DePaul Univ.)
- Biodiversity outcomes of different models of woodland restoration and management as part of an interdisciplinary research project with other ecologists, conservation biologists, research social scientists and urban planners of the Chicago Wilderness Science Team
- Causes and belowground consequences of invasion of Chicago-area woodlands by an exotic shrub, European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
- Arthropod abundance and diversity in woodland leaf litter across a range of sites that differ in management history
- Untangling the structure of spider-dominated food webs utilizing PCR in order to reveal patterns of predator-prey interactions and test food-web theory
- Investigating the effectiveness of different techniques of invasive-species removal and control using diverse research approaches, from field experiments to agent-based modeling
- Use of stable isotopes to infer trophic structure and energy pathways in the detritus-based food web of the forest floor
- Examination of different permutation-based multivariate techniques to analyze the results of long-term manipulative field experiments with complex food webs
- Developing models to aid in selecting restoration options across metropolitan landscapes
Please explore our web page to learn more about us.
For additional information, contact Prof. David Wise at dhwise@uic.edu or any of our group.
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