Gareth Russell

Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
My core interest is in how organisms persist (or go extinct) on complex, real-world landscapes, especially those that are highly fragmented due to human activities.
Ph.D.; University of Tennessee; Zoology; 1996
B.A.; Oxford University; Zoology; 1992
BIOL 668 - EVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE
BIOL 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
BIOL 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
BIOL 468 - DISEASE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION - HONORS
BIOL 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
BIOL 492 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY
BIOL 491 - SENIOR PROJECT
BIOL 790B - DOCT DISSERTATION & RESRCH
BIOL 790D - DOCT DISSERTATION & RESRCH
BIOL 792C - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
BIOL 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
BIOL 790C - DOCTORAL DISSERTN & RESRCH
BIOL 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RESRCH
BIOL 790E - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Mathematical Ecology, Conservation Biology, Ecology and Evolution of Disease
BIOL 150: LIVING IN A VARIABLE UNIVERSE
BIOL 368: ECOLOGY & EVOL OF DISEASE-HON
BIOL 368: ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION OF DISEASE
BIOL 368: THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF DISEASE
BIOL 375: CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
BIOL 382: ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
BIOL 468: DISEASE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
BIOL 468: DISEASE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION - HONORS
BIOL 621: ECOLOGY
BIOL 630: CRITICAL THINKING FOR LIFE SCI
Applied Spatio-Temporal Population Dynamics — Movement Ecology — Statistical Methods for Conservation — Community Dynamics Incorporating Evolution — Automated Monitoring — The Ecology and Management of Non-Natural Ecosystems
Active dispersal of organisms in patches
Modelling active dispersal of organisms between habitat patches.
Augmented reality for ecological data and processes
I am exploring the use of augmented reality as an interface to ecological data and a platform for teaching.
Wi\'sniewska, Maggie, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, Phyllis Lee, Cynthia Moss, Gareth J. Russell, Simon J. Garnier, Sueur, C\'edric. 2022. "Simulated poaching affects global connectivity and efficiency in social networks of African savanna elephants-An exemplar of how human disturbance impacts group-living species." PLoS computational biology, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. e1009792.
S Liu, Frank Y. Shih, Gareth J. Russell, Hai Nhat Phan. 2020. "Classification of ecological data by deep learning." Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 13, pp. 2052010 .
Kimberly M. Russell, Gareth J. Russell, KL Kaplan, S Mian, S Kornbluth. 2018. "Increasing the conservation value of powerline corridors for wild bees through vegetation management: an experimental approach." Biodiversity and conservation, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 2541--2565.
Dominic A Evangelista, Gareth J. Russell, Kimberly M. Russell, Godfrey Bourne, Jessica L Ware. 2017. "Evidence that dispersal barriers influence blaberoid cockroach assemblages in a neotropical savanna--forest matrix." Insect Conservation and Diversity, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 425--438.
Xingfeng Si, Stuart L Pimm, Gareth J. Russell, Ping Ding. 2014. "Turnover of breeding bird communities on islands of an inundated lake." Journal of Biogeography, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 2283-2292.
Andrew Mashintonio, Stuart L Pimm, Grant Harris, Rudi Van Aarde, Gareth J. Russell. 2014. "Data-driven discovery of the spatial scales of habitat choice by elephants.." PeerJ.
"Classification of ecological data using deep learning methods"
Global Conference on Biomedical Engineering, November, 2018.