Dr. Shannon L. LaDeau
Ecologist
Ph.D., 2005, Duke University

Dr. Shannon LaDeau received her Ph.D. in ecology at Duke University in 2005, where she investigated forest response to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide using free-air CO₂ enrichment (FACE) plots. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Bioinformatics from the National Science Foundation in 2008, at The Ohio State University Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences and the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. LaDeau's research continues to focus on evaluating how ecological communities respond to global change challenges, including climate, habitat loss, and emergent pathogens. Current projects investigate the spatio-temporal drivers of West Nile amplification in avian hosts and the heterogeneous impacts and demographic consequences of hemlock wooly adelgid in northeastern forests.

Selected Publications

• LaDeau, S.L., P.P. Marra, Kilpatrick, A.M, and C.A. Calder. 2008. West Nile virus revisited: Consequences for North American ecology. BioScience. 58(10): 937-946.
• LaDeau, S.L., Kilpatrick, A.M, and P.P. Marra. 2007. Continental declines in bird populations and the emergence of West Nile virus. Nature. 447(7145): 710-714.
• Kilpatrick, A.M., LaDeau, and P.P. Marra. 2007. West Nile virus in the western hemisphere. Auk. 124 (4): 1121-1136.
• Clark, J.S., Dietze, M., Chakraborty, S., Agarwal, P., Ibáñez, I., LaDeau, S., and M. Wolosin. 2007 Resolving the biodiversity paradox: The dimensionality of coexistence. Ecology Letters. 10 (8): 647-662.
• Ibáñez, I. Clark, J.S., LaDeau, S. and J. HilleRisLambers. 2007. Exploiting temporal variability to understand tree recruitment response to climate change. Ecological Monographs. 77(2): 167-177.
• Ibáñez, I., J. S. Clark, M. C. Dietze, K. Feeley, M. Hersh, S. LaDeau, A. McBride, N. E. Welch, and M.S. Wolosin. 2006. Predicting biodiversity change: Outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve. Ecology. 87 (8): 1896-1906.
• LaDeau, S. L. and J. S. Clark. 2006. Annual pollen production in Pinus taeda grown under elevated CO₂. Functional Ecology. 20 (3): 541-547.
• LaDeau, S. L. and J. S. Clark. 2006. Elevated CO₂ and tree fecundity: the role of tree size, inter-annual variability and population heterogeneity. Global Change Biology. 12: 822-833.
• Williams C.G., LaDeau S.L., Oren R., Katul G.G. 2006. Modeling seed dispersal distances: implications for transgenic Pinus taeda. Ecological Applications. 16 (1): 117-124.
• LaDeau, S. L. and J. S. Clark. 2001. Rising CO₂ levels and the fecundity of forest trees. Science. 292 (5514): 95-98.