Education

2000 M.S., Zoology (Statistics minor), North Carolina State University; advisor: Ted Simons

1995 B.A., Liberal Arts Honors Program, University of Texas at Austin

Major awards

Centennial Fellowship in Sciences and Engineering, Princeton University, 2002-

Fulbright Scholarship, Argentina, 2000-2001

National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 1998-2000, 2002-03

Other honors and awards

Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Award, American Ornithologists’ Union, 2000

Andrews Graduate Fellowship, North Carolina State University, 1997-1999

Phi Beta Kappa, 1994-

Howard Hughes Fellowship, Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 1994

Plan II Honors Program, University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts, 1992-1995

Dean’s Scholars Program, University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences, 1991-1995

Dedman Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 1991-1995

National Merit Scholar, 1991

Publications

Lichstein, J. W., T. R. Simons, S. A. Shriner, and K. E. Franzreb. 2002. Spatial autocorrelation and autoregressive models in ecology. Ecological Monographs 72:445-463.

Lichstein, J. W., T. R. Simons, and K. E. Franzreb. 2002. Landscape effects on breeding songbird abundance in managed forests. Ecological Applications 12:836-857.

Lichstein, J. W., M. L. Ballinger, A. R. Blanchette, H. M. Fishman, and G. D. Bittner. 2000. Structural changes at cut ends of earthworm giant axons in the interval between dye barrier formation and neuritic outgrowth. Journal of Comparative Neurology 416:143-157.

Manuscripts in review

Lichstein, J. W., T. R. Simons, D. A. Dickey, and K. E. Franzreb. Count data regression models for bird-habitat analysis. Auk.

Manuscripts in preparation

Lichstein, J. W. Multiple regression with distance matrices: a flexible approach to multivariate spatial analysis. For Ecology

Lichstein, J. W. Statistical models of invasive species distributions: the problem of spatial autocorrelation. For Ecological Applications

Lichstein, J. W, H. R. Grau, and R. Aragon. Effects of an invasive tree on native plant recruitment in a subtropical landscape. For Ecological Applications

Shriner, S. A., T. R. Simons, and J. W. Lichstein. Predictive models of breeding bird distribution using GIS. For Ecological Applications

Simons, T. R., J. W. Lichstein, and S. A. Shriner. Forest bird communities on managed and unmanaged landscapes in the southern Appalachians. For Auk

Reviewer for:

Ecological Applications

Experience

Organization for Tropical Studies

Tropical Biology course, Costa Rica, January-March 2000

Field Crew Leader

North Carolina State University, Department of Zoology

May-July 1998, May-August 1999

Breeding bird research project, Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests

Teaching Assistant

North Carolina State University, Department of Zoology

ZO 150, Animal Diversity, Dr. Harold Heatwole, spring 1998

ZO 350, Cell and Animal Physiology Lab, Dr. Robert Grossfeld, fall 1997

Laboratory Research Technician

University of Texas at Austin, Department of Zoology, Dr. George Bittner

January 1993 to April 1997

transmission electron microscopy, light microscopy, electrophysiology, darkroom

Presentations at national conferences

Simons, T. R., J. W. Lichstein, and S. A. Shriner. 2002. Forest bird communities on managed and unmanaged landscapes in the southern Appalachians. North American Ornithological Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lichstein, J. W. 2000. Autoregressive models of songbird habitat use in managed southern Appalachian forests: landscape effects and spatial autocorrelation. American and British Ornithologists’ Unions, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Lichstein, J. W., T. R. Simons, and K. E. Franzreb. 2000. Comparison of normal, Poisson, and negative binomial regression models for analyzing count data: an example with southern Appalachian songbirds. American and British Ornithologists’ Unions, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Lichstein, J. W., T. R. Simons, and K. E. Franzreb. 1999. A multi-scale assessment of the effects of landscape composition on breeding birds in southern Appalachian forests. Predicting species occurrences: issues of scale and accuracy. Snowbird, Utah.

Lichstein, J. W., T. R. Simons, and K. E. Franzreb. 1998. Patterns of breeding bird diversity and abundance across land use gradients in the southern Appalachians. North American Ornithological Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.