Julian Resasco
- Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., University of Florida, 2013
- EBIO
Research Interests
The unifying theme of our lab's research is to understand how human stressors to the environment affect biodiversity and how to mitigate those impacts. These stressors include changes to landscapes, climate change, and species introductions. We often study spatial and temporal dynamics and use field studies at large spatial and long temporal scales to test theory and link ecological patterns with processes. Areas of research include landscape connectivity/corridors, habitat fragmentation, plant-pollinator networks, insect community ecology, stable isotope ecology, and conservation biology. We work on a variety of taxa but have a particular fondness for insects. Settings for our fieldwork include the longleaf pine ecosystem of the southeastern US and forests and meadows of the Rocky Mountains.
Selected Publications
- Winfrey CC, Resasco J, and Fierer N (2025) Habitat specialization and edge effects of soil microbial communities in a fragmented landscape. Ecology. 106(4): e70072.
- Barthell K and Resasco J (2025) Bumble bee niche overlap along an elevation gradient: how traits can inform novel competitive pressures under climate change. Oikos 2025: e10650.
- Resasco J, Vázquez DP, McCain CM, and Olson SD (2024) Revisiting Clements and Gleason: Insights from plant distributions on Pikes Peak, Clements’s life-long study site. The American Naturalist. 204: 533-545.
- Kaiser A and Resasco J (2024) The impact of impervious surface and neighborhood wealth on arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens. Urban Ecosystems27: 1863–1875.
- Paraskevopoulos AW, Sanders NJ, and Resasco J (2024) Temperature-driven homogenization of an ant community over 60 years in a montane ecosystem. Ecology 105: e4302.
- Peralta G, CaraDonna PJ, Rakosy D, Fründ J, Pascual Tudanca MP, Dormann CF, Burkle LA, Kaiser-Bunbury NC, Knight TM, Resasco J, Winfree R, Blüthgen N, Castillo WJ, and Vázquez DP (2024) Predicting plant-pollinator interactions: concepts, methods, and challenges. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 39(5): 494–505.
- Gaier AG and Resasco J (2023). Does adding community-science observations to museum records improve distribution modeling of a rare endemic plant? Ecosphere 14(3): e4419.
- Resasco J, Burt MA, Orrock JL, Haddad NM, Shoemaker D, and Levey DJ (2023). Transient effects of corridors on polygyne fire ants over a decade. Ecological Entomology 48(2): 263– 268.
- Resasco J, Chacoff NP, and Vázquez DP (2021) Plant-pollinator interactions between generalists persist over time and space. Ecology 102: e03359.
- Roeder KA, Penuela Useche V, Levey DJ, and Resasco J (2021) Testing effects of invasive fire ants and disturbance on ant communities of the longleaf pine ecosystem. Ecological Entomology 46: 964–972
- Resasco J and Fletcher RJ Jr (2021) Accounting for connectivity alters the apparent roles of spatial and environmental processes on metacommunity assembly. Landscape Ecology 36: 1089–1099.
- CaraDonna PJ, Burkle LA, Schwarz B, Resasco J, Knight T, Benadi G, Blüthgen N, Dormann CF, Fang Q, Fründ J, Gauzens B, Kaiser-Bunbury C, Winfree R, and Vázquez DP (2021) Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant–animal mutualistic interactions. Ecology Letters 24: 149-161.
- Prinster AJ, Resasco J, and Nufio CR (2020) Weather variation affects the dispersal of grasshoppers beyond their elevational ranges. Ecology and Evolution 10: 14411–14422.
- Schwarz B, Vázquez DP, CaraDonna PJ, Knight TM, Benadi G, Dormann CF, Gauzens B, Motivans E, Resasco J, Blüthgen N, Burkle LA, Fang Q, Kaiser-Bunbury CN, Alarcón R, Bain JA, Chacoff NP, Huang S-Q, LeBuhn G, MacLeod M, Petanidou T, Rasmussen C, Simanonok MP, Thompson AH, and Fründ J (2020) Temporal scale-dependence of plant-pollinator networks. Oikos 129: 1271–1439.
- Damschen EI, Brudvig LA, Burt MA, Fletcher RJ Jr., Haddad NM, Levey DJ, Orrock JL, Resasco J, and Tewksbury JJ (2019) Ongoing accumulation of plant diversity through habitat connectivity in an 18-year experiment. Science 365: 1478–1480.
- Resasco J (2019) Meta-analysis on a decade of testing corridor efficacy: what new have we learned? Current Landscape Ecology Reports 4(3): 61–69.
- Resasco J, Bitters ME, Cunningham SA, Jones HI, McKenzie VJ, and Davies KF (2019) Experimental habitat fragmentation disrupts nematode infections in Australian skinks. Ecology 100(1): e02547.
- Resasco J, Tuff KT, Cunningham SA, Melbourne BA, Hicks AL, Newsome SD, and Davies KF (2018) Generalist predator’s niche shifts reveal ecosystem changes in an experimentally fragmented landscape. Ecography 41(7): 1209–1219.
- Chacoff NP, Resasco J, and Vázquez DP (2018) Interaction frequency, network position, and the temporal persistence of interactions in a plant-pollinator network. Ecology 99(1): 21–28.
- Resasco J, Bruna EM, Haddad NM, Banks-Leite C, and Margules CR (2017) The contribution of theory and experiments to conservation in fragmented landscapes. Ecography 40(1): 109–118.
- Brudvig, LA, Leroux SJ, Albert CH, Bruna EM, Davies KF, Ewers RM, Levey DJ, Pardini R, and Resasco J (2017) Evaluating conceptual models of landscape change. Ecography 40(1): 74–84.