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0010A CHAPMAN HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Daugherty, Matt

Assistant Extension Specialist

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Entomology


Biography

My research focuses on population and community ecology, particularly as they relate to the management of non-native arthropod pests and pathogens. This work employs field and laboratory experiments complemented by population dynamics and statistical modeling to provide an integrative understanding of population and disease dynamics. Current and recent research topics include: the role of climate in plant disease severity, how vector behavior mediates disease spread, effects of resource productivity on pest population dynamics, and the significance of food web complexity for pest management.

Degrees

BA Biological Sciences 1995

UC Davis

MS Biological Sciences 2000

Illinois State University

PhD Integrative Biology 2006

UC Berkeley

Research Area

Species interactions, disease ecology, quantitative ecology

Publications

Daugherty, M.P., and R.P.P. Almeida. 2009. Quantifying the transmission process of a plant pathogen and its vectors: Xylella fastidiosa and sharpshooters in grapevines. Accepted, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.

Lopes, J.R.S., Daugherty, M.P., and R.P.P. Almeida. 2009. Context-dependent transmission of a generalist plant pathogen: host species and pathogen strain mediate insect vector competence. Accepted, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.

Daugherty, M.P. 2009. Different herbivore feeding modes promote coexistence: insights from a metabolic pool model. In press, Environmental Entomology.

Prado, S.S., Golden, M., Follett, P.A., Daugherty, M.P. and R.P.P. Almeida. 2009. Demography of gut symbiotic and aposymbiotic Nezara viridula (L.) (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae). In press, Environmental Entomology.

Daugherty, M.P, Welter, S. C., and C. J. Briggs 2007. Top-down and bottom-up control of pear psylla (Cacopsylla pyricola): Plant quality and the efficacy of the predator Anthocoris nemoralis. Biological Control 43:257-264.

Daugherty, M.P, and C.J. Briggs 2007. Multiple sources of isotopic variation in a terrestrial arthropod community: challenges for disentangling food webs. Environmental Entomology 36:776-791.

Daugherty, M.P., Harmon, J.P., and C.J. Briggs 2007. Trophic supplements to intraguild predation. Oikos 116:662-677.

Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Cross, P.C., Briggs, C.J., Daugherty, M.P., Getz, W.M., Latto, J., Sanchez, M.S., Smith, A.B., and A. Swei 2005. Should we expect population thresholds for wildlife disease? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 20:511-519.

Daugherty, M.P., and S.A. Juliano 2003. Leaf-scraping beetle feces are a food resource for Ochlerotatus triseriatus. American Midland Naturalist 150:181-184.

Daugherty, M.P., and S.A. Juliano 2002. Testing for context-dependence in a processing chain interaction among detritus-feeding aquatic insects. Ecological Entomology 27:541-553.

Daugherty, M.P., Alto, B.A., and S.A. Juliano 2000. Invertebrate carcasses as a resource for competing Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 37:364-372.

Daugherty, M.P., and S.A. Juliano 2000. Factors affecting the abundance of scirtid beetles in container habitats. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 20:109-117.


Hire Date

02/01/2009