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John Vandermeer

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Professor Vandermeer is the Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as well as the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in LSA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He has been involved in research and teaching in food and agriculture related topics for the past 40 years. His research has concentrated on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem in Mexico, elaborating the complex ecological structures involved in complicated dynamics of the pest control system there. He has authored 15 books, mainly concerned with agroecosystems and more than 200 publications in theoretical ecology, tropical ecology and agroecology. He is a founding member of the New World Agriculture and Ecology Group. Currently he teaches an elementary course (Bio/Environ 101 – Food, energy and the environment) and two advanced courses (EEB 477 -- Field Ecology and EEB 498 – Ecology of agroecosystems).

Publications

  • Perfecto, I., and J. Vandermeer. 2014. Coffee Ecology. Earthscan, London (in press).

  • Vandermeer, J. and D. E. Goldberg. 2013. Elementary Population Ecology, 2nd Edition, Princeton University Press.

  • Vandermeer, J., 2010. The ecology of Agroecosystems, Bartlett and Jones, Sudbury, MA.

  • Perfecto, I., J. Vandermeer, and Angus Wright 2009. Nature’s Matrix: Linking Agricuture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty, Earthscan, London.

  • Vandermeer, J., and I. Perfecto. 2005. A breakfast of biodiversity: The true causes of rain forest destruction (second edition). (Vandermeer and Perfecto). Institute for Food and Development Policy.

Research
  • 2010-2012: National Science Foundation (with co PIs J. Kurdziel and C. Badgley) ED-QUEST: Enhancing diversity, quality, and Understanding of the Ecological Sciences for Tomorrow. $226,000.

  • 2004-2009: National Science Foundation (co PI with I. Perfecto, Spatial scaling with an unusual food web structure: The case of Azteca spp. ants in the coffee agroecosystem of southern Mexico), $500, 000.

  • 2002-Present: MacIntyre Stennis grant (co PI with I. Perfecto, Forest succession in oak-dominated Michigan forests) — $10, 000.

  • 2002-2006: National Science Foundation (Continuing studies of hurricane-damaged rain forests in Nicaragua $210, 000.

  • 1999-2002: National Science Foundation (Role of agroecosystems in post agricultural succession). $200,000.

Education

PhD, University of Michigan

In the News
Vandermeer and Perfecto Labs hold annual educational day with local schoolchildren in Mexico
June 24, 2020

Vandermeer and Perfecto Labs hold annual educational day with local schoolchildren in Mexico

EcoDía is an educational outreach event developed each year since 2017 for the primary school students at the Finca Irlanda school (on the coffee farm where the labs of...

October 1, 2019

Unexpected outcomes: Damages to Puerto Rican coffee farms from Hurricane Maria varied widely

ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer have studied Latin American coffee farms for a quarter century, and they tracked the...

In the Media
09/26/2022
John Vandermeer
Amphibian Plague Led to Malaria Surge in Humans (Smithsonian Magazine)
09/20/2022
John Vandermeer
The Fungus That Killed Frogs—and Led to a Surge in Malaria (Wired)
03/01/2020
Ivette Perfecto
John Vandermeer
Could an Invasive Snail Save Your Morning Coffee?
01/01/2020
Ivette Perfecto
John Vandermeer
Puerto Rico earthquake and aftermath: U-M experts can discuss
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