My interests involve testing hypotheses related to introduction success and on differences among communities in vulnerability to invasions.
My colleagues and I are currently working on introduced galliformes, columbifromes, and passeriformes. For the most part we have looked at introductions on islands such as Bermuda, Tahiti, Oahu, Kauai, Hawaii, Saint Helena, New Zealand the Mascarenes.
Born: Denver, Colorado
Current Address: Dept. of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
University of Florida
P.O. Box 110430
Gainesville, FL 32611-0430
Telephone: 352-846-0571
Fax: 352-392-6984
E-Mail mpm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Institution - Degree - Date Received
University of Colorado B.A. Biology August 1972
Fort Hays State University M.S. Biology August 1980
Texas Tech University (Transferred with advisor)
The University of Tennessee Ph.D. Zoology August 1984
Dissertation Title: Interspecific competition and the structure of the introduced Hawaiian avifauna. Major Advisor, Stuart L. Pimm.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Position and courses taught):
1993 -present. University of Florida, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (Assistant Professor: Undergraduate Programs Coordinator).
1987-1993. Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology (Associate
Professor).
Biol. 599/799 (Conservation Biology of Birds), Biol. 466/666 (Mammalogy),
Biol 474/674 (Population Biology), Biol. 473/673 (Principles of Ecology),
Biol. 472/672 (Genetics), Biol. 464/664 (Herpetology), Biol. 382 (Vertebrate
Zoology), Biol. 353 (Ornithology), Biol. 281 (General Zoology), Biol. 152
(Introductory Biology II), Biol. 151 (Introductory Biology I).
1984 - 1987. Texas Tech University, Department of Biological Sciences (Visiting Assistant Professor).
The Wildlife Society
Ecological Society of America
Society for Conservation Biology
Species introductions to Hawaii. 1984. Presented at the Scientific Committee on Problems in the Environment (SCOPE) conference on Ecology of Biological Invasions in North America and Hawaii. Asilomar, California. October 11-13.
Competition and community structure in the introduced Hawaiian avifauna. 1986. Presented at Memphis State University. Memphis, Tennessee. April 9.
The role of competition in shaping an introduced avifauna. 1986. Presented at Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University. Hickory Corners, Michigan. June 25-27.
Morphological analyses of community structure: pitfalls and prospects. 1986. Presented at the International Ecological Society (INTECOL) symposium on community structure. Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York. August 11-14.
Regression analysis in QSAR: potential pitfalls in modeling polar narcotic phenols. 1988. Presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSAR) in Environmental Toxicology. Knoxville, Tennessee. May 22-26.
Density-dependent habitat selection in introduced Hawaiian finches. 1990. Presented at Florida International University. Miami, Florida. February 20-21.
Competition and the structure of introduced Hawaiian finch communities.. 1990. Presented to the Department of Wildlife, Humboldt State University. Arcata, California.
Book Chapters:
1. Michael P. Moulton. 1978. Small mammal associations in grazed versus ungrazed cottonwood riparian woodland in eastern Colorado. p. 133-140, In: Lowland river and stream habitat in Colorado: a 1. symposium (Greeley, Colorado, October 4-5) Graul, W.D. and S.J. Bissell, Technical Coordinators. Colorado Chapter Wildlife Society and Colorado Audubon Council. 195 p.
2. Michael P. Moulton and Stuart L. Pimm. 1986. The extent of competition in shaping an introduced avifauna. In: Community Ecology. J. Diamond and T.J. Case, eds. Harper and Row, New York.
3. Michael P. Moulton and Stuart L. Pimm. 1986. Species introductions to Hawaii. In: Ecology of Biological Invasions of North America and Hawaii. H.A. Mooney and James Drake, eds. Ecological Studies 58. Springer-Verlag, New York.
4. Michael P. Moulton. 1988. Regression analysis in QSAR: potential pitfalls in modeling polar narcotic phenols. In QSAR 88; Proc. Third International Workshop on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships in Environmental Toxicology. J.E. Turner, M. W. England, T.W. Schultz, N.J. Kwaak, eds. CONF-880520 (National Technical Information Service, U.S. Dept. of Commerce).
5. Stuart L. Pimm, Michael P. Moulton, and Lenora J. Justice.
1995. Bird extinctions in the central Pacific. In, Extinction Rates. John
H. Lawton and Robert M. May, eds. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Refereed Journal Articles
1. Michael P. Moulton, Jerry R. Choate and Steven J. Bissell. 1979. Sympatry of pocket gophers on Mesa de Maya, Colorado. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 82: 194-195.
2. Michael P. Moulton, Jerry R. Choate, Steven J. Bissell, and Robert A. Nicholson. 1981. Small mammal associations on the central High Plains of eastern Colorado. Southwestern Naturalist 26: 53-57.
3. Rodney L. Honeycutt, Michael P. Moulton, Jerry R. Roppe, and Lynn Fifield. 1981. The influence of topography and vegetation on the distribution of small mammals in southwestern Utah. Southwestern Naturalist 26: 295-300.
4. Michael P. Moulton, Jerry R. Choate and Steven J. Bissell. 1981. Small mammals on revegetated agricultural land in eastern Colorado. Prairie Naturalist 13: 99-104.
5. Michael P. Moulton, Jerry R. Choate and Steven J. Bissell. 1983. Biogeographic relationships of pocket gophers in southeastern Colorado. Southwestern Naturalist: 28: 53-60.
6. Lynn W. Robbins, Michael P. Moulton, and Robert J. Baker. 1983. Extent of geographic range and magnitude of chromosomal evolution. J. of Biogeography 10:533-541.
7. Michael P. Moulton and Stuart L. Pimm. 1983. The introduced Hawaiian avifauna: biogeographic evidence for competition. The American Naturalist 121: 669-690.
8. Michael P. Moulton. 1985. Morphological similarity and the coexistence of congeners: an experimental test using introduced Hawaiian birds. Oikos 44: 301-305.
9. T. Wayne Schultz and Michael P. Moulton. 1985. Structure-toxicity relationships of selected naphthalene derivatives II. Principal components analysis. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 34: 1-9.
10. Michael P. Moulton and M.E.T. Scioli. 1986. Range sizes and abundances of passerines introduced to Oahu, Hawaii. J. Biogeography 13: 339-344.
11. Michael P. Moulton and T. Wayne Schultz. 1986. Structure-activity relationships of selected pyridines II. Principal components analysis. Chemosphere 15: 59-67.
12. Michael P. Moulton and T. Wayne Schultz. 1986. Comparisons of several structure-activity relationships for chlorophenols. Aquat. Toxicol. 8: 121-128.
13. Michael P. Moulton and Stuart L. Pimm. 1987. Morphological assortment in introduced Hawaiian passerines. Evolutionary Ecology 1: 113-124.
14. Francis L. Rose, M.E.T. Scioli, and Michael P. Moulton. 1988. Thermal preferentia of Gopherus berlandieri and Terrapene ornata. Southwestern Naturalist 33: 357-361.
15. Michael R. Willig and Michael P. Moulton. 1989. Neotropical bat community structure: an evaluation of stochastic and deterministic processes. J. of Mammalogy 70: 323-329.
16. Linda J.S. Allen, Michael P. Moulton, and Francis L. Rose. 1990. Persistence in an age-structured population for a patch-type environment. Natural Resource Modeling 4: 197-214.
17. Michael R. Gannon, Michael R. Willig, Kevin B. Willis and Michael P. Moulton. 1990. Intraspecific comparisons of diet of Cnemidophorous gularis (Sauria: Teiidae) in central Texas. Texas Journal of Science 42: 263-272.
18. T. Wayne Schultz, L. Michelle Arnold, Teresa S. Wilke, and Michael P. Moulton. 1990. Relationships of quantitative structure-activity for normal aliphatic alcohols. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 19: 243-253.
19. Michael P. Moulton, Stuart L. Pimm, and Mark W. Krissinger. 1990. Nutmeg Mannikin (Lonchura punctulata): a comparison of abundances in Oahu vs. Maui sugarcane: evidence for competitive exclusion? Elepaio 50: 83-85.
20. Michael P. Moulton and David K. Ferris. 1991. Summer diets of some introduced Hawaiian finches. Wilson Bulletin 103: 286-292.
21. Michael P. Moulton and Julie L. Lockwood. 1992. Morphological dispersion of introduced Hawaiian finches: evidence for competition and a Narcissus effect. Evolutionary Ecology 6: 45-55.
22. Michael P. Moulton, Linda J.S. Allen, and David K. Ferris. 1992. Competition, resource use and habitat selection in two introduced Hawaiian mannikins. Biotropica 24: 77-85.
23. Michael P. Moulton. 1993. The all-or-none pattern in introduced Hawaiian passeriforms: the role of competition sustained. The American Naturalist 140: 105-119.
24. Julie L. Lockwood, Michael P. Moulton and Scott K. Anderson. 1993. Morphological assortment and the assembly of communities of introduced passerines on oceanic islands: Tahiti vs. Oahu. The American Naturalist 141:398-408.
25. Melissa A. Scott, Julie L. Lockwood, and Michael P. Moulton. 1993. Effects of microhabitat on nest box selection and annual productivity of Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) in south Georgia. Texas Journal of Science 45: 77-85.
26. Julie L. Lockwood and Michael P. Moulton. 1994. Ecomorphological pattern in Bermuda birds: the influence of competition and implications for nature preserves. Evolutionary Ecology 8: 53-60.
27. Stuart L. Pimm, Michael P. Moulton and Lenora J. Justice. 1994. Bird extinctions in the central Pacific. Phil. Trans. of the Royal Soc. London 344 (1307): 27-33.
28. Denson K. McLain, Michael P. Moulton, and Todd P. Redfearn. 1995. Sexual selection and the risk of extinction: an analysis with introduced birds. Oikos 74: 27-34.
29. Richard Brooke, Michael P. Moulton, and Julie L. Lockwood. 1995. Patterns of success in passeriform introductions on Saint Helena. Oecologia 103: 337-342.
30. Michael P. Moulton, James G. Sanderson, and Dan Simberloff. 1996. Passeriform introductions to the Mascarene Islands: An assessment of the role of competition. Submitted to Ecologie.
31. Julie L. Lockwood, Michael P. Moulton, Karla L. Balent. 1996. Introduced avifaunas as natural experiments in community assembly. Submitted to special publication of invited papers on Assembly Rules, sponsored by the Ecological Society of America; Cambridge Unviersity Press.
32. Michael P. Moulton and James G. Sanderson. 1996. Predicting the fates of passeriform introductions on oceanic islands: the generality of the all-or-none pattern. Submitted to Conservation Biology.