Jennifer Dunne
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Jennifer Dunne is an American ecologist whose research focuses on the network structure of food webs. [1][2]
One of 14 scientists who led critical advances in food web research over the last century, [3] according to the journal Food Webs, Dunne uses ecological network research to compare the varying ways humans interact with other species through space and time, providing a quantitative perspective on sustainability of socio-ecological systems. Her 2016 paper (with co-authors) on "The roles and impacts of human hunter-gatherers in North Pacific marine food webs" presented the first quantitative, highly-detailed network structure of an ecological food web that included humans.[4]
Education
Dunne attended Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. Cum Laude degree in philosophy, and received an M.A. in ecology and systematic biology from San Francisco State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000 and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow in biological informatics.[5]
Research and Career
Dunne is recognized as a leader in ecological network research,[6] having made significant contributions toward understanding the dynamics and function of ecological networks through modeling and analysis [7] which are the complex networks of interactions among species that provide structure to biodiversity.
Dunne is the author of more than 70 scientific publications. In 1998, with co-author Neo Martinez, she published her first work on the roles of time, space, and other scales (eg, species richness) in food web research. [8] In 2002, she published highly cited articles on the network structure of food webs[9] and on the robustness of trophic networks (food webs) in the face of biodiversity loss through extinction.[10] Dunne and her co-authors have also published influential papers on the dynamics of adaptive feeding in ecological networks,[11]
Dunne conducts her research at the Santa Fe Institute, where she is a professor and also serves as Vice President for Science.[12] She was named Fellow of The Ecological Society of America in 2017 for deep and central contributions to the theory of food web analyses, including its extension to paleo food webs,[13] and in 2020, was named Fellow of the Network Science Society (NetSci) for her “pioneering work elucidating the network structure of ecology, particularly food webs, highlighting the interplay of dynamics and structure of networks.”[14]
She has served on the editorial boards of Theory in Biosciences and The SFI Press, and was one of the original senior-level editors at the Journal of Complex Networks, Oxford University Press. Dunne also serves as an External Advisor to the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), on the steering committee for ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, and on the Board of Advisors for the science/culture magazine Nautilus.
In The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It, author Fred Guterl called Dunne, “an expert in the mathematical relationships that describe networks—the same mathematics that underlies social networks such as Facebook and the phone network, but also networks of plants and animals that eat each other.”[15]
References
- ^ Preston, Elizabeth. "She Finds Clues to Future Sustainability in Old Food Webs". Quantamagazine.org. Quanta magazine. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ "Society Fellows". NetSci. Network Science Society. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ Layman, Craig. "A primer on the history of food web ecology: Fundamental contributions of fourteen researchers". sciencedirect.com. Food Webs. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ Dunne, J.; Maschner, H.; Betts, M.; Huntly, N.; Russel, R.; Williams, R.; Wood, S. (17 February 2016). "The roles and impacts of human hunter-gatherers in North Pacific marine food webs". Scientific Reports. doi:10.1038/srep21179. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ "Jennifer Dunne". santafe.edu. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ Baldock, Katherine; Carvalheiro, Luísa G. "Influential Women in Ecological Network Research". methodsblog.com. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ Layman, Craig. "A primer on the history of food web ecology: Fundamental contributions of fourteen researchers". sciencedirect.com. Food Webs. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ Baldock, Katherine; Carvalheiro, Luísa G. "Influential Women in Ecological Network Research". methodsblog.com. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ Dunne, Jennifer A.; Williams, Richard J.; Martinez, Neo D. (16 September 2002). [Food-web structure and network theory: The role of connectance and size "Food-web structure and network theory: The role of connectance and size"]. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.19240769. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
{{cite journal}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Dunne, Jennifer A.; Williams, Richard J.; Martinez, Neo D. (10 July 2002). "Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance". Ecology Letters. doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00354.x. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ Valdovinos, Fernanda S.; Ramos-Jiliberto, Rodrigo; Garay-Narváez, Leslie; Urbani, Pasquinell; Dunne, Jennifer A. (6 October 2010). "Consequences of adaptive behaviour for the structure and dynamics of food webs". doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01535.x. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Jennifer Dunne". santafe.edu. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ Mize, Alison. "Ecological Society of America announces 2017 Fellows". esa.org. Ecological Society. of America. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ "Society Fellows". NetSci. Network Science Society. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ Guterl, Fred (22 May 2012). The Fate of the Species. Bloomsbury USA. p. 224. ISBN 9781608192588. Retrieved 18 May 2022.