Research in the Forde lab addresses one of the central aims in ecology and evolution: understanding the species interactions that underlie the diversity and structure of natural communities. We use mathematical models combined with laboratory experiments with microbes and field experiments in the rocky intertidal to understand the ecological and evolutionary interactions that drive population and community dynamics. We are particularly interested in how the interplay between the movement of organisms across space and ecological and evolutionary interactions among organisms structures communities. 

Samantha’s C.V.      WEBS: Women Evolving Biological Sciences           

 

 

Selected Publications:     

S.E. Forde^*, I. Gudelj^*, R.E. Beardmore^*, S. S. Arkin, J. N. Thompson, and L. D. Hurst. Sensitivity to genetical assumptions and the limits to generalisability of experimental evolutionary models. In press. Nature. (*indicates co-first authors)

 

S.E. Forde, J.N. Thompson, B.M.J. Bohannan, and R.D. Holt. 2008. Coevolution drives temporal changes in fitness and diversity across environments in a bacteria-bacteriophage interaction. Evolution. PDF

 

S.E. Forde and C.M. Jessup. Understanding evolution through the phages. In Experimental Evolution, T. Garland and M. Rose, eds. University of California Press. In review.

 

J.D. Hoeksema and S.E. Forde. 2008. A meta-analysis of factors affecting local adaptation between interacting species. American Naturalist.  171: 275-290. PDF

 

S.E. Forde, J. N. Thompson, and B.J.M. Bohannan. 2007. Gene flow reverses an adaptive cline in a coevolving host-parasitoid interaction. The American Naturalist.169: 794-801. PDF

 

D. Garant, S.E. Forde, and A. P. Hendry. 2006. The multifarious effects of dispersal and gene flow. Functional Ecology, 21: 434-443. PDF

                               

C.M. Jessup, S.E. Forde, B.J.M. Bohannan. 2005. Microbial experimental systems in ecology. Advances in Ecological Research, 37: 273-307. PDF

 

S.E. Forde, J. N. Thompson, B.J.M. Bohannan. 2004. Adaptation varies through space and time in a coevolving host-parasitoid interaction. Nature, 431: 841-844.PDF

 

C. M. Jessup, R. Kassen, S.E. Forde, B. Kerr, A. Buckling, P.B. Rainey and B.J.M. Bohannan. 2004. Big questions, small worlds: microbial model systems in ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19(4) 189-197. PDF

 

S.E. Forde and P.T. Raimondi.  2004.  An experimental test of the effects of recruitment intensity on intertidal community composition. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 301(1) 1-14. PDF

 

S.E. Forde and D.F. Doak. 2004. Multitrophic interactions mediate recruitment variability in a rocky intertidal community. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 275: 33-45.PDF

 

P.T. Raimondi, S.E. Forde, C.M. Lively and L. Delph. 2000. Processes structuring communities: evidence for trait-mediated indirect effects through an induced polymorphism. Oikos, 91(2) 353-361. PDF

 

Students:

Keaton Stagaman and Ian McFadden, undergraduates. Keaton and Ian are undergraduate laboratory assistants, sponsored by the National Science Foundations Research Experience for Undergraduates program. They are assisting in the experiments on coevolution of E. coli and its phage T7.

 

 

 

 

 

The Forde Lab

EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Samantha E. Forde - P.I.

Research Biologist

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department

University of California Santa Cruz

forde@biology.ucsc.edu

 

NESCent working group: Mathematical models, microbes and evolutionary diversification