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Johannes Foufopoulos
Associate Professor
On overseas sabbatical during Winter 2025 semester
Ecosystem Science and Management
Conservation + Restoration
Cross-cutting
Office
2064 Dana
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About
Johannes Foufopoulos, PhD, focuses his lab research on fundamental conservation biology questions and on issues related to the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. Major research foci investigate the biology and conservation of island species and examine how habitat fragmentation, invasive organisms and global climate change result in species extinction. Other projects address questions regarding the impact of diseases on wildlife populations and the environmental causes leading to disease emergence.
Publications
- Kossoff* A., Schueller, S., Nossan*, H., Slack*, I., Avramidis, P., and J. Foufopoulos. 2024. Ecological impacts of introduced European Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) on island ecosystems in the Mediterranean. Diversity, 16(4): 244.
- Foufopoulos, J., Roussos, S., Kalogiannis, S., Kalb*, S., Strachinis, I., and K.M. Brock. 2024. The herpetofauna of the Sporades islands (Aegean Sea, Greece): New discoveries and a review of a century of research. Herpetozoa, 37: 231-256.
- McCallum, H., Foufopoulos, J. and Grogan, L.F., 2024. Infectious disease as a driver of declines and extinctions. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 1: 1-24.
- Stadler*, S.R., Brock, K.M., Bednekoff, P.A. and Foufopoulos, J., 2023. More and bigger lizards reside on islands with more resources. Journal of Zoology, 319(3):163-174.
- Lisiecki*, C. and Foufopoulos, J., 2022. Profits vs. preservation: How can shepherds balance the social and ecological costs of livestock grazing on Naxos? World Development Perspectives, p.100430. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2452292922000388
- Carlberg*, R.A., Karris, G., Verma, M. and Foufopoulos, J., 2022. Food versus disturbance: Contradictory effects of human activities on an opportunistic seabird breeding in an oligotrophic marine system. Diversity, 14(6), p.421. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/14/6/421
- Espira*, L.M., Brouwer, A.F., Han, B.A., Foufopoulos, J. and Eisenberg, J.N. 2022. Dilution of epidemic potential of environmentally transmitted infectious diseases for species with partially overlapping habitats. The American Naturalist, 199(2): E43-E56.
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Hammoud, C., Kougioumoutzis, K., Rijsdijk, K.F., Simaiakis, S.M., Norder, S.J., Foufopoulos, J., Georgopoulou, E. and Van Loon, E.E., 2021. Past connections with the mainland structure patterns of insular species richness in a continental‐shelf archipelago (Aegean Sea, Greece). Ecology and Evolution, 11(10): 5441-5458. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7438
*Denotes students in the lab.
Research
- 2024 NSF-IRES: ECOTROP-An international field school in the biodiversity sciences ($449,500)(co-PI w. N. Anthony).
- 2024 Cycladic Preservation Fund: ‘Restoration of endangered island ecosystems through invasive livestock removal.’ (€5,400)
- 2024 Initiative PIM (Petite Isles Mediterraneé): ‘Returning from the brink of extinction: Ecological Restoration of the Islands of the South Aegean Sea (Greece)’ ($9,512)
- 2020 Center for Academic Innovation: ‘Supporting Experiential Field-based Learning in Online and Remote Courses’($9,500)
- 2019 Gilbert Whitaker Fund Award from the Center for Learning and Teaching: ‘Acquisition of wildlife survey equipment’ ($5,000)
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (zoology)
MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison (zoology)
BS, University of Illinois-Urbana (biology)
Affiliations
- Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck Institute for Animal Movement, University of
- Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany (2018-2019)
- Member, Center for Global Health Equity, University of Michigan.
- Faculty Associate, Program in the Environment, University of Michigan
- Affiliated Faculty, Program in Modern Greek, University of Michigan
- Associate Editor, Herpetozoa Journal.
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