Jessica Gurevitch Explained

Jessica Gurevitch
Workplaces:Stony Brook
Alma Mater:University of Arizona
Thesis Title:C3 and C4 photosynthesis, competition, and the limits to grass species distributions in an Arizona grassland
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
Thesis Year:1982
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Jessica Gurevitch is a plant ecologist known for meta-analysis in the fields of ecology and evolution.

Education and career

Gurevitch has a B.S. from Cornell University (1973) and earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona in 1982.[1] She was a postdoctoral fellow for two years at the University of Chicago before moving to the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1985. For two years starting in 1992, Guervitch worked at the National Science Foundation before returning to Stony Brook where she was promoted to professor in 2000.

From 2015 to 2016, Gurevitch was president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology.[2] [3]

Research

Gurevitch's research interests are centered on biological invasions and meta-analysis in ecology. Her research on grasses[4] [5] perennial plants,[6] and trees[7] [8] relied on a combination of experimental manipulations and observation data. Her interest in biological invasions includes investigations into the invasive flowering plant Centaurea stoebe which is expanding its geographic range in the eastern United States.[9] Gurevitch's research on the recovery of pine barrens after a large 1995 fire in Long Island[10] [11] [12] led to a discussion on the conditions needed to optimize controlled burns to improve the recovery of plants after a fire.[13] [14] In the field of geoengineering, Gurevitch considers the ecological consequences of rapid geoengineering projects as a threat to biodiversity.[15] Gurevitch also considered how habitats in marine and terrestrial biomes could be altered by Stratospheric aerosol injection[16] which was covered by the popular press when the paper was published in 2021.[17] [18]

Gurevitch first became interested in meta-analysis, the combination of data from multiple studies, while reading a 1989 story in the Boston Globe that described a project that gathered multiple studies to reveal that boys and girls were equally good in math.[19] She was the first to apply meta-analysis to ecological data in her 1992 paper that used meta-analysis to study competition in field experiments.[20] Gurevitch has subsequently applied meta-analysis to a range of topics including soil ecosystems and their response to warming,[21] interactions between competition and predation,[22] and biological invasions.[23] In a 2018 paper, she reviewed advances made in the field since it first became relevant to medical and social science research in the 1970s.[24] Beyond conducting meta-analysis projects, Gurevitch develops statistical tools[25] and software[26] [27] needed to conduct meta-analysis projects on ecological data, and co-edited a handbook for ecologists and evolutionary biologists using meta-analysis in their research.[28]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gurevitch CV. July 15, 2021.
  2. Web site: July 27, 2016. The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology presents awards to Cochrane contributors. 2021-07-24. www.cochrane.org. en.
  3. Web site: Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology is an international, interdisciplinary learned society dedicated to p. 2021-07-24. ww.en.freejournal.org. en.
  4. Gurevitch. Jessica. 1986. Competition and the Local Distribution of the Grass Stipa Neomexicana. Ecology. en. 67. 1. 46–57. 10.2307/1938502. 1938502. 1939-9170.
  5. Gurevitch. Jessica. Teeri. James A.. Wood. A. Michelle. 1986-09-01. Differentiation among populations of Sedum wrightii (Crassulaceae) in response to limited water availability: water relations, CO2 assimilation, growth and survivorship. Oecologia. en. 70. 2. 198–204. 10.1007/BF00379240. 28311658. 1986Oecol..70..198G. 20708147. 1432-1939.
  6. Gurevitch. Jessica. Wilson. Paul. Stone. Judy L.. Teese. Paul. Stoutenburgh. Robert J.. 1990. Competition Among Old-Field Perennials at Different Levels of Soil Fertility and Available Space. Journal of Ecology. 78. 3. 727–744. 10.2307/2260895. 2260895. 0022-0477.
  7. Brown. Kerry A.. Gurevitch. Jessica. 2004-04-20. Long-term impacts of logging on forest diversity in Madagascar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101. 16. 6045–6049. 10.1073/pnas.0401456101. 395920. 15067121. 2004PNAS..101.6045B. free.
  8. Gurevitch. Jessica. Howard. Timothy G.. Ashton. Isabel W.. Leger. Elizabeth A.. Howe. Katherine M.. Woo. Eliza. Lerdau. Manuel. 2008-08-01. Effects of experimental manipulation of light and nutrients on establishment of seedlings of native and invasive woody species in Long Island, NY forests. Biological Invasions. en. 10. 6. 821–831. 10.1007/s10530-008-9241-2. 23677250. 1573-1464.
  9. Akin-Fajiye. Morodoluwa. Gurevitch. Jessica. 2018-10-01. The influence of environmental factors on the distribution and density of invasive Centaurea stoebe across Northeastern USA. Biological Invasions. en. 20. 10. 3009–3023. 10.1007/s10530-018-1755-7. 13676830. 1573-1464.
  10. Landis. R. Matthew. Gurevitch. Jessica. Fox. Gordon A.. Fang. Wei. Taub. Daniel R.. 2005. Variation in recruitment and early demography in Pinus rigida following crown fire in the pine barrens of Long Island, New York. Journal of Ecology. en. 93. 3. 607–617. 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.00996.x. 85748554. 1365-2745. free.
  11. News: Marcazzo. Regina. 1995-11-26. Charred Pine Barrens Are Laboratory at Doorstep. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-07-24. 0362-4331.
  12. News: Marcazzo. Regina. 2000-08-20. From Pines' Ashes, a Different Landscape. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-07-24. 0362-4331.
  13. News: Rather. John. 1996-08-25. Plans Are Debated For Pine Forest Fires. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-07-24. 0362-4331.
  14. News: Rather. John. 1997-04-13. Test of Limited Burn Set for Pine Barrens. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-07-24. 0362-4331.
  15. Trisos. Christopher H.. Amatulli. Giuseppe. Gurevitch. Jessica. Robock. Alan. Xia. Lili. Zambri. Brian. 2018. Potentially dangerous consequences for biodiversity of solar geoengineering implementation and termination. Nature Ecology & Evolution. en. 2. 3. 475–482. 10.1038/s41559-017-0431-0. 29358608. 3379331. 2397-334X.
  16. Zarnetske. Phoebe L.. Gurevitch. Jessica. Franklin. Janet. Groffman. Peter M.. Harrison. Cheryl S.. Hellmann. Jessica J.. Hoffman. Forrest M.. Kothari. Shan. Robock. Alan. Tilmes. Simone. Visioni. Daniele. 2021-04-13. Potential ecological impacts of climate intervention by reflecting sunlight to cool Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. en. 118. 15. 10.1073/pnas.1921854118. 0027-8424. 8053992. 33876741. 2021PNAS..11821854Z. free .
  17. Web site: Wood. Charlie. 2021-04-12. 'Dimming' the sun poses too many unknowns for Earth. 2021-07-24. Popular Science. en-US.
  18. Web site: Howell. Elizabeth. April 19, 2021. Can we reflect sunlight to fight climate change? Scientists eye aerosol shield for Earth.. 2021-07-24. Space.com. en.
  19. Web site: Nature. Research Data at Springer. 2018-03-07. Forty years of meta-analysis: We need evidence-based answers more than ever. 2021-07-24. Research Data at Springer Nature. en.
  20. Gurevitch. Jessica. Morrow. Laura L.. Wallace. Alison. Walsh. Joseph S.. 1992. A Meta-Analysis of Competition in Field Experiments. The American Naturalist. 140. 4. 539–572. 10.1086/285428. 2462913. 205982939. 0003-0147.
  21. Rustad. L.. Campbell. J.. Marion. G.. Norby. R.. Mitchell. M.. Hartley. A.. Cornelissen. J.. Gurevitch. J.. GCTE-NEWS. 2001-02-01. A meta-analysis of the response of soil respiration, net nitrogen mineralization, and aboveground plant growth to experimental ecosystem warming. Oecologia. en. 126. 4. 543–562. 10.1007/s004420000544. 28547240. 2001Oecol.126..543R. 25794021. 1432-1939.
  22. Gurevitch. Jessica. Morrison. Janet A.. Hedges. Larry V.. 2000-04-01. The Interaction between Competition and Predation: A Meta-analysis of Field Experiments. The American Naturalist. 155. 4. 435–453. 10.1086/303337. 10753073. 4437236. 0003-0147.
  23. Emergent insights from the synthesis of conceptual frameworks for biological invasions. 2011. 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01594.x. 1461-0248. free. Gurevitch. J.. Fox. G. A.. Wardle. G. M.. Inderjit. Taub. D.. Ecology Letters. 14. 4. 407–418. 21513009.
  24. Gurevitch. Jessica. Koricheva. Julia. Nakagawa. Shinichi. Stewart. Gavin. 2018. Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis. Nature. en. 555. 7695. 175–182. 10.1038/nature25753. 29517004. 2018Natur.555..175G. 3761687. 1476-4687.
  25. Gurevitch. Jessica. Hedges. Larry V.. 1999. Statistical Issues in Ecological Meta-Analyses. Ecology. en. 80. 4. 1142–1149. 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1142:SIIEMA]2.0.CO;2. 1939-9170.
  26. Web site: Rosenburg. Michael S.. Adams. Dean C.. Gurevitch. Jessica. 1997. Metawin: Statistical software for meta-analysis with resampling tests. Sinauer Associates. 2021-07-24. psycnet.apa.org. en.
  27. Wallace. Byron C.. Lajeunesse. Marc J.. Dietz. George. Dahabreh. Issa J.. Trikalinos. Thomas A.. Schmid. Christopher H.. Gurevitch. Jessica. 2017. OpenMEE: Intuitive, open-source software for meta-analysis in ecology and evolutionary biology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. en. 8. 8. 941–947. 10.1111/2041-210X.12708. 51686365. 2041-210X. free.
  28. Book: Julia Koricheva. Jessica Gurevitch. Kerrie Mengersen. Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution . 2013 . Princeton University Press . Princeton . 9780691137285.
  29. Keddy . Paul A . Paul Keddy. A review of The Ecology of Plants by Jessica Gurevitch, Samuel M Scheiner, and Gordon A Fox. The Quarterly Review of Biology . University of Chicago Press . 79 . 1 . 2004 . 0033-5770 . 10.1086/381509 . 55–59. 88822810 .
  30. Web site: Historic Fellows American Association for the Advancement of Science. July 15, 2021. www.aaas.org. en.
  31. Web site: 18 January 2011. Stony Brook Professor Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . July 15, 2021. SBU News.
  32. Web site: ESA Fellows – The Ecological Society of America. July 15, 2021.
  33. Web site: Jessica Gurevitch. 2021-07-15. Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. en-US.
  34. Web site: Officers. 2021-07-15. Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. en.

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