Philip Crowley

Research Interests:
Evolutionary ecology
Mathematical Biology
Game theory
Cooperation and conflict
Education

Ph.D. Michigan State Univ., 1975

Research

My students and I address a broad range of issues in ecology, especially evolutionary ecology, in an effort to understand the structure and dynamics of ecological populations and communities, life histories, and underlying behavioral mechanisms.  The students conduct mainly empirical studies in a diverse array of systems and organisms (see below) and often collaborate with me in developing related models.  Most of my own work is theoretical, with recent focus on game theory, sex ratios, disease models, and metapopulations.  Students interested in gaining experience with a mix of empirical and modeling work are especially encouraged to apply for graduate study.  Highly motivated undergraduate researchers are also welcomed into the lab, often collaborating with one or more of the graduate students.  Though some of us and some of our individual projects may exclusively use theoretical or empirical approaches, a goal of the group is to help tighten connections between theoretical and empirical work in ecology.

Current graduate students and projects (* = jointly advised with another faculty member)

  • Aviv Brokman: Bet hedging theory (PhD)
  • Luc Dunoyer: Ecological engineering, ecology, and regeneration of stream crayfish (PhD)
  • Kaylynne Glover: Human reproductive strategies (PhD)
  • Allyssa Kilanowski: Stream metapopulation dynamics (PhD)
  • Brittany Slabach*: Social structure and dynamics of re-introduced elk (PhD)
  • Stephen Zumdick: Honeybee foraging and pollination of goldenrod (MS)

Recent graduate students and projects (* = jointly advised)

  • Diego Cuadros-Rubio*: HIV prevalence, link to malaria—modeling statistical analysis (PhD 2011)
  • Mary Hart*: Cooperation and conflict in the mating system of a hermaphroditic seabass (PhD 2011)
  • Nathan Klar: Size distributions, spatial structure and social systems of crayfish (MS 2010)
  • Deric Miller*: Tragedy of the commons and plant root growth (MS 2014)
  • Megan Poulette*: Ecosystem dynamics and effects of shrub invaders on savanna trees (PhD 2012)
  • Yoriko Saeki*: The size-number tradeoff in broods of a polyembryonic wasp (PhD 2012)
  • Tim Sesterhenn: The ecological and life-history implications of injury (a damselfly) (PhD 2011)
  • Kausalya Shenoy: Endocrine disruptors, male signaling and mating success (guppies) (PhD 2012)
  • Christopher Stieha*: Metapopulation dynamics and maintenance of sex (a liverwort) (PhD 2012)
  • John Treanor: Brucellosis dynamics and Yellowstone bison (PhD 2012)
PubMed Publications*: 
  • PH Crowley; C Tentelier"Resolving conflict over within-pair mating rate in external fertilizers."Journal of theoretical biology532.(2022):110926.Details. Full text
  • PH Crowley; J Labonne"Theory of environmental sex determination: Trending populations in stressful environments."Evolution; international journal of organic evolution75.4(2021):794-805.Details.
  • PH Crowley"Self-Deception about Fecundity in Women : Modeling the Burley Hypothesis."Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)31.4(2020):421-442.Details. Full text
  • J Moya-Laraño; R Rabaneda-Bueno; E Morrison; PH Crowley"Model and Data Concur and Explain the Coexistence of Two Very Distinct Animal Behavioral Types."Biology9.9(2020):Details. Full text
  • LA Dunoyer; D Coomes; PH Crowley"Nonconsumptive predator effects modify crayfish-induced bioturbation as mediated by limb loss: Field and mesocosm experiments."Ecology and evolution10.6(2020):2739-2748.Details. Full text
  • JJ Treanor; C Geremia; MA Ballou; DH Keisler; PJ White; JJ Cox; PH Crowley"Maintenance of brucellosis in Yellowstone bison: linking seasonal food resources, host-pathogen interaction, and life-history trade-offs."Ecology and evolution5.17(2015):3783-99.Details. Full text
  • PR Crain; PH Crowley; SL Dobson"Wolbachia re-replacement without incompatibility: potential for intended and unintended consequences."Journal of medical entomology50.5(2013):1152-8.Details. Full text
  • PH Crowley; KR Hopper; JJ Krupa"An insect-feeding guild of carnivorous plants and spiders: does optimal foraging lead to competition or facilitation?"The American naturalist182.6(2013):801-19.Details. Full text
  • DF Cuadros; AJ Branscum; PH Crowley"Authors' Response to: HIV-malaria co-infection: effects of malaria on the prevalence of HIV in East sub-Saharan Africa."International journal of epidemiology41.3(2012):891-2.Details. Full text
  • PR Crain; JW Mains; E Suh; Y Huang; PH Crowley; SL Dobson"Wolbachia infections that reduce immature insect survival: predicted impacts on population replacement."BMC evolutionary biology11.(2011):290.Details. Full text
  • PH Crowley; JJ Cox"Intraguild mutualism."Trends in ecology & evolution26.12(2011):627-33.Details. Full text
  • DF Cuadros; AJ Branscum; PH Crowley"HIV-malaria co-infection: effects of malaria on the prevalence of HIV in East sub-Saharan Africa."International journal of epidemiology40.4(2011):931-9.Details. Full text
  • KE Groen; CR Stieha; PH Crowley; DN McLetchie"Sex-specific plant responses to light intensity and canopy openness: implications for spatial segregation of the sexes."Oecologia162.3(2010):561-70.Details. Full text
  • PH Crowley; Hwan Baik"Variable valuations and voluntarism under group selection: An evolutionary public goods game."Journal of theoretical biology265.3(2010):238-44.Details. Full text
  • PH Crowley; MK Hart"Evolutionary stability of egg trading and parceling in simultaneous hermaphrodites: the chalk bass revisited."Journal of theoretical biology246.3(2007):420-9.Details. Full text
  • Rohr JR; AA Elskus; BS Shepherd; PH Crowley; TM McCarthy; JH Niedzwiecki; T Sager; A Sih; BD Palmer"Lethal and sublethal effects of atrazine, carbaryl, endosulfan, and octylphenol on the streamside salamander (Ambystoma barbouri)."Environmental toxicology and chemistry22.10(2003):2385-92.Details. Full text
  • PH Crowley; DN McLetchie"Trade-offs and spatial life-history strategies in classical metapopulations."The American naturalist159.2(2002):190-208.Details. Full text
  • PH Crowley"Hawks, doves, and mixed-symmetry games."Journal of theoretical biology204.4(2000):543-63.Details. Full text
  • PH Crowley; T Cottrell; T Garcia; M Hatch; RC Sargent; BJ Stokes; JM White"Solving the complementarity dilemma: evolving strategies for simultaneous hermaphroditism."Journal of theoretical biology195.1(1998):13-26.Details. Full text
  • M Holyoak; PH Crowley"Avoiding erroneously high levels of detection in combinations of semi-independent tests : An application to testing for density dependence."Oecologia95.1(1993):103-114.Details.
  • PH Crowley"Density dependence, boundedness, and attraction: detecting stability in stochastic systems."Oecologia90.2(1992):246-254.Details.
  • PH Crowley; DM Johnson"Variability and stability of a dragonfly assemblage."Oecologia90.2(1992):260-269.Details.
  • C Blois-Heulin; PH Crowley; M Arrington; DM Johnson"Direct and indirect effects of predators on the dominant invertebrates of two freshwater littoral communities."Oecologia84.3(1990):295-306.Details.
  • PH Crowley; PM Dillon; DM Johnson; CN Watson"Intraspecific interference among larvae in a semivoltine dragonfly population."Oecologia71.3(1987):447-456.Details.
  • PH Crowley"Effective size and the persistence of ecosystems."Oecologia35.2(1978):185-195.Details.
  • PH Crowley; L Provencher; S Sloane; LA Dugatkin; B Spohn; L Rogers; M Alfieri"Evolving cooperation: the role of individual recognition."Bio Systems37.1-2(0):49-66.Details. Full text
  • PH Crowley"Evolving cooperation: strategies as hierarchies of rules."Bio Systems37.1-2(0):67-80.Details. Full text
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