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Matthew Gompper
Matthew Gompper
Professor and Department Head
Professor and Department Head
Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003
Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003
phone: (575) 646-2575; email: gompperm@nmsu.edu
phone: (575) 646-2575; email: gompperm@nmsu.edu
I grew up in New York, moved to Virginia for undergraduate work, then went to Tennessee for graduate work, UCLA and Nevada for post-doc work, then back to New York for a time as an Assistant Professor at Columbia University before somehow ultimately ending up at the University of Missouri in late 2001. I hung out there for a while, but in late 2019 it was time for another move, this time to the desert southwest of New Mexico State University. Along the way there have been research stints on Isla Barro Colorado (Panama), in the Adirondacks and Hudson Highlands of New York, on Isla Cozumel (Mexico), in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, the Brazilian Pantanal, the Missouri Ozarks, the Terai of Nepal, the Ouachitas of Arkansas, and the grasslands of Maharashtra, India. All as an excuse to study carnivores, wildlife diseases, and fun ecological issues.
I grew up in New York, moved to Virginia for undergraduate work, then went to Tennessee for graduate work, UCLA and Nevada for post-doc work, then back to New York for a time as an Assistant Professor at Columbia University before somehow ultimately ending up at the University of Missouri in late 2001. I hung out there for a while, but in late 2019 it was time for another move, this time to the desert southwest of New Mexico State University. Along the way there have been research stints on Isla Barro Colorado (Panama), in the Adirondacks and Hudson Highlands of New York, on Isla Cozumel (Mexico), in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, the Brazilian Pantanal, the Missouri Ozarks, the Terai of Nepal, the Ouachitas of Arkansas, and the grasslands of Maharashtra, India. All as an excuse to study carnivores, wildlife diseases, and fun ecological issues.
What am I focused on these days? Of late I have been particularly interested in a trio of issues: 1) how resource subsidies influence predator populations which in turn influence patterns of biodiversity; 2) how micro- and macroparasite populations influence hosts, how they are distributed among hosts, how they move through host populations, and how the population and community structure of these parasites are themselves influenced by the hosts; 3) how resource competition, habitat preferences, pathogen susceptibility, and intraguild predation work individually and collectively to mediate population dynamics and the distribution of species across landscapes. Of course, it is always nice if we can address these fundamental issues while simultaneously working on important applied issues, working in interesting places, and working on fascinating species.
What am I focused on these days? Of late I have been particularly interested in a trio of issues: 1) how resource subsidies influence predator populations which in turn influence patterns of biodiversity; 2) how micro- and macroparasite populations influence hosts, how they are distributed among hosts, how they move through host populations, and how the population and community structure of these parasites are themselves influenced by the hosts; 3) how resource competition, habitat preferences, pathogen susceptibility, and intraguild predation work individually and collectively to mediate population dynamics and the distribution of species across landscapes. Of course, it is always nice if we can address these fundamental issues while simultaneously working on important applied issues, working in interesting places, and working on fascinating species.
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