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Christopher W. Dick
2011 Kraus Building, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734-764-9408 (voice) 734-763-0544 (fax) cwdick@umich.edu
Education
1999 Ph.D. Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
1990 B.A. Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Appointments
2006 - present Research Associate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2005 - present Assistant professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan;
2005 - present Assistant curator, University of Michigan Herbarium
2002-05 Tupper Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2001-2002 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
1999-2001 Molecular Evolution Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Research interests
Tropical biology, forest history, population genetics, phylogeny and evolution tropical forest trees
Current Funding
NSF award DEB 0640379: “Comparative phylogeography of 12 widespread tropical rainforest tree species"
Ph.D. Thesis
Dick, C. W. 1999. Effect of Habitat Fragmentation on the Breeding Structure of Amazonian Rain Forest Trees. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (Advised by Peter Ashton, Richard Lewontin and Steve Palumbi)
Peer-Review Publications
Dick, C. W. and M. Heuertz. 2008. The complex biogeographic history of a widespread tropical tree species. Evolution 62:2760-2774.
Jha, S., C. W. Dick. (in press) Isolation and characterization of nine microsatellite loci for the tropical understory tree Miconia affinis Wurdack (Melastomataceae). Molecular Ecology Resources
Pennington, R. T., C. W. Dick (in press) Diversification of the Amazonian flora and its relation to key geological and environmental events: a molecular perspective. In C. Hoorn, H. Vonhof and F, Wesselingh (eds) Neogene history of Western Amazonia and its significance for modern biodiversity. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.
Petit, R. J., F. S. Hu, C. W. Dick (2008) Forests of the past: a window to future changes. Science 320: 1450-1452.
Dick, C. W. (2008) New interpretations of fine scale spatial genetic structure Molecular Ecology 17: 1873-1874.
Dick, C. W., F. A. Jones, O. J. Hardy, R. Petit (2008) Spatial scales of seed and pollen-mediated gene flow in tropical forest trees. Tropical Plant Biology 1: 20-33.
Dick, C. W., E. Bermingham, M. Lemes, and R. Gribel (2007) Extreme long distance dispersal of the lowland rainforest tree Ceiba pentandra L. (Malvaceae) in Africa and the Neotropics. Molecular Ecology 16: 3039-3049.
Ward, M., C. W. Dick, R. Gribel, A. J. Lowe (2005) To self or not to self… A review of outcrossing and pollen mediated gene flow in neotropical trees Heredity 95: 246-254.
Hardesty, B. D., C. W. Dick, A. Kremer, S. P. Hubbell, and E. Bermingham (2005) Fine scale spatial genetic structure of Simarouba amara Aubl. (Simaroubaceae), a dioecious, animal-dispersed Neotropical tree, on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Heredity95: 290-297.
Dick, C. W. and S. J. Wright (2005) Tropical mountain cradles of dry forest diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102 (31): 10757-10758.
Laurance, W. F., A. A. Oliveira, S. G. Laurance, R. Condit, H. E. M. Nascimento, C. W Dick, A. C. Sanchez-Thorin, T. E. Lovejoy, and J. E. L. S. Ribeiro (2005). Late twentieth-century trends in tree-community composition in an Amazonian forest. Chapter 9 in Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change (Y. Mahli and O. Phillips, eds.), pp 97-106.
Laurance, W. F., A. A. Oliveira, S. G. Laurance, R. Condit, C. W Dick, A. Andrade, H. E. M. Nascimento, T. E. Lovejoy, and J. E. Ribeiro (2005). Altered tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests: A consequence of global change? Biotropica 37 (2): 160-162.
Dick, C. W., R. Condit and E. Bermingham (2005) Biogeographic history and the high b-diversity of rainforest trees in Panamá. Chapter 6 in Rio Chagres: A multi-disciplinary profile of a tropical watershed (R. Harmon, ed), pp. 259-268. New York, Springer Publishing Company.
Moritz, C., C. W. Dick, and E. Bermingham (2005) From the past to the future: evolution, ecology and conservation of tropical rainforests. Chapter 1 in Tropical Rain Forests: Past, Present and Future (E. Bermingham, C. W. Dick and C. Moritz, eds.), pp. 1-6. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Bermingham, E. and C. W. Dick (2005) The history and ecology of tropical rainforest communities. Chapter 2 in Tropical Rain Forests: Past, Present and Future (E. Bermingham, C. W. Dick and C. Moritz, eds.), pp. 7-15. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Moritz, C., C. W. Dick, and E. Bermingham (2005) Processes, people and the prospects for tropical rainforests. Chapter 25 in Tropical Rain Forests: Past, Present and Future (E. Bermingham, C. W. Dick and C. Moritz, eds.), pp. 529-531. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Pennington, R. T., C. W. Dick (2004) The role of immigrants in the assembly of the South American rainforest tree flora. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 359: 1611-1622.
Leigh, E.G., P. Davidar, C. Dick, J. P. Puyravaud, J. Terborgh, H. T. Steege. S. J. Wright (2004) Why do some tropical forests have so many kinds of trees? Biotropica 36 (4): 447-473.
Dick, C. W., D. W. Roubik, K. Gruber and E. Bermingham (2004) Long distance gene flow and cross-Andean dispersal of lowland rainforest bees (Apidae: Euglossini) revealed by comparative mtDNA phylogeography. Molecular Ecology 13: 3775-3785.
Laurance, W. F., A. A. Oliveira, S. G. Laurance, R. Condit, H. E. M. Nascimento, A.C. Sanchez-Thorin, T. E. Lovejoy, A. Andrade, S. D’Angelo, J. E. Ribeiro and C. W. Dick (2004) Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests. Nature 428: 171-175.
Austerlitz, F., C. W. Dick, C. Dutech, E. Klein, S. Oddou-Muratoria, P. E. Smouse, V. L. Sork (2004) Using genetic markers to estimate the pollen dispersal curve. Molecular Ecology 13: 937-954.
Dick, C.W., K. Abdul-Salim and E. Bermingham (2003) Molecular systematics reveals cryptic Tertiary diversification of a widespread tropical rainforest tree. American Naturalist 160 (12): 691-703.
Novick, R. S., C. W. Dick, M. Lemes, C. Navarro, A. Caccone and E. Bermingham (2003) Genetic structure of Mesoamerican populations of big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) inferred by microsatellite analysis. Molecular Ecology 12: 2885-2893.
Dick, C. W., G. Etchelecu and F. Austerlitz (2003) Pollen dispersal of tropical trees (Dinizia excelsa: Fabaceae) by native insects and African honeybees in pristine and fragmented Amazonian rainforest. Molecular Ecology 12: 753-764.
Morley, R. J. and C. W. Dick (2003) Missing fossils, molecular clocks and the origin of the Melastomataceae. American Journal of Botany 90: 1638-1645.
Dick, C. W. (2002) Effect of pollinator composition on the breeding structure of tropical timber trees. Pp. 140-152 in B. Degen, M. Loveless and A. Kremer (eds) Modeling and experimental research on genetic processes in tropical and temperate forests, EMBRAPA, Belém.
Dick, C. W. (2001) Genetic rescue of remnant tropical trees by an alien pollinator. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 268: 2391-2397.
Bermingham, E. and Dick, C. W. (2001) The Inga: Newcomer or museum antiquity? Science 293: 2214-2216.
Dick, C. W. and M. Hamilton (1999) Microsatellites from the Amazonian tree Dinizia excelsa (Fabaceae). Molecular Ecology 8: 1765-66.
Dick, C. W. (2001) Habitat change, African honeybees and fecundity in the Amazonian tree Dinizia excelsa (Fabaceae). In Lessons from Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Tropical Forest (eds. R. O. Bierregaard, C. Gascon, T. E. Lovejoy and R. Mesquita), pp. 146-157. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Mindell, D., Dick, C. W. and R. Baker (1991) Phylogenetic relationships among microbats, megabats and primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 88: 10322-10326.
Edited volume
Bermingham, E., C. W. Dick, and C. Moritz, editors (2005) Tropical Rain Forests: Past, Present and Future, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Teaching
I teach two classes at the University of Michigan: (1) Molecular Ecology (EEB 412) and (2) Woody Plants (cross-listed EEB 337; NRE 437; http://sitemaker.umich.edu/woodyplants/home). I was a graduate teaching fellow at Harvard for Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (1992) and Botany (1993), Evolution (1998), and Tropical Ecology (including the field course to Venezuela; 1992 and 1994). I led nine expeditions along the Amazon River and Rio Negro as a biological guide from 1994-1998. At the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute I taught a workshop in molecular marker development for graduate students.
Peer Review Activities
American Journal of Botany, American Naturalist, Annals of Botany, Biological Conservation, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Biotropica, Canadian Journal of Botany, Candollea, Conservation Genetics, Current Biology, Evolution, Forest Ecology and Management, Heredity, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Heredity, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, PloS ONE, Silvae Genetica, Symbiosis, Tree Genetics and Genomes, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation (2007 Panel), Netherlands Science Foundation
Associate Editor – Tropical Plant Biology (Springer)
University of Michigan Service:
EEB Department Seminar committee (2007-2008)
Graduate affairs committee (fall 2005)
Diversity committee (fall 2006)
Young Scientist Symposium committee (2006-2007)
Faculty search committee, School of Natural Resources and Environment (2006-2007)
Faculty search commette, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2007-2008)
Invited Lectures
2007 Keynote speaker, 9th International Pollination Symposium, Ames, Iowa.
2007 Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Morelias, Mexico.
2007 Tupper Seminar, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
2006 Michigan State University, Kellogg Biological Station, Lansing, MI.
2006 Bennett lecture series, UM Biological Station, Pelham, MI.
2005 Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Uberlandia, Brazil.
2005 Center for Tropical Forest Sciences, 25th year symposium. Panama City, Panama.
2005 Reunión del Red de Herbarios de Mesoamerica y el Caribe. Panama City.
2004 Colombian National Botanical Congress, Popayán, Colombia.
2003 Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Aberdeen, Scotland.
2002 Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Panama City, Panama.
2001 Congreso Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Panama City, Panama.
1999 International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri.
1999 Seminario da Amazônia, INPA campus, Manaus, Brazil.
1998 Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland. Symposium organizer.
Symposium organizer/chair
2004 “Plant phylogeny and the origin of major biomes”, Royal Society of London
2003 Association for Tropical Biology, Aberdeen Scotland, “Why are there so many kinds of tropical trees? A historical perspective”, with Elizabeth Stacy
1998 Ecological Society of America, Ba ltimore, “Population genetics of tropical trees”, with M. Hamilton.
Languages
Portuguese, Spanish and basic French
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