POSITIONS HELD
1977-84 Instructor, Departments of Botany and Zoology, U. of Wisconsin--Madison
1985 Faculty-Coordinator: Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica
1984-86 Director, Tropical Rain Forest Film Project, NY Botanical Gardent, Bronx, NY
1986-91 Assistant Professor, Department of EEO Biology, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
1991-94 Associate Professor, Dept. Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
1995- Associate Professor, Dept. Plant Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

RESEARCH & TEACHING
Research Interests: Community and ecosystem ecology of tropical and warm temperate forests; forest disturbance regimes and dynamics

Current Research Program: forest structure and regeneration patterns in tropical secondary forests (Costa Rica, Panama); spatial heterogeneity of ecosystem processes in bottomland hardwood forests (Louisiana)

Teaching Program: Community Ecology, General Biology for Biology Majors, Ecosystems of the Gulf Coast, General Ecology

Number of Graduate Students: 4 Ph.D.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1994-1997 President, Organization for Tropical Studies
1989- Executive Director, Association for Tropical Biology
1994-1997 Editorial Board, Ecological Applications
1989-1994 Editorial Board, Journal of Vegetation Science

PUBLICATIONS RELEVANT TO PROPOSED RESEARCH

• 1991 Denslow, J. S., E. Newell, and A. M. Ellison. The effect of palms on growth and survival of tree seedlings in a rain forest understory. Biotropica 23:225-234.
• 1993 Ellison, A. M., J. S. Denslow, B. A. Loiselle, and D. Brenes P. Seed and seedling ecology of Neotropical Melastomataceae. Ecology 74:1733-1749.
• 1994 Denslow, J. S., and G. S. Hartshorn. Treefall gap environments and forest dynamic procesess. pp. 120-127. In L. A. McDade, K. Bawa, H. Hespenheide, and G. S. Hartshorn (eds.) La Selva: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Rain Forest. U. Chicago Press, Chicago
• 1995 Denslow, J. S. The effects of disturbance on tree diversity in tropical rain forest: The density effect. Ecological Applications 5:962-968.
• 1996 Denslow, J.S. The effects of functional group diversity on disturbance ecology of tropical moist forests. G. Orians, R. Dirzo, H. Cushman (eds.) The effects of biodiversity on ecosystem processes in tropical forests. Springer-Verlag, Berlin

• 1985 Denslow, J. S. Disturbance-mediated coexistence of species. pp. 307-323 In: S.T.A. Pickett and P. S. White (eds.) Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics. Academic Press, Orlando, Florida.
• 1987 Denslow, J. S. Tropical Treefall Gaps and Tree Species Diversity. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 18: 431-451.
• 1990 Denslow, J. S., J. Schultz, P. M. Vitousek, B. Strain. Growth responses of tropical shrubs to treefall gap environments. Ecology 71:165-179.
• 1990 J. S. Denslow and A. E. Gomez D. Seed rain to treefall gaps in a neotropical rain forest. Can. J. Forest Research 20:642-648.
• 1996 Chazdon, R. L., R. K. Colwell, J. S. Denslow, and M. Guariguata. Statistical methods for estimating species richness in primary and secondary rain forests of NE Costa Rica. In: Measuring and Monitoring Forest Biological Diversity: The International Network of Biodiversity Plots, Smithsonian Institution Press, In press.

Ph. D. Advisor: Edward R. Beals

Postdoctoral Advisees: Elizabeth Newell, Aaron M. Ellison, Manuel Guariguata, Miles Silman

Graduate Students: Andre A. J., Tabanez Nina, C. Skinner, Sandra Guzman, Saara DeWalt, Erica Nierth