Matthew R Helmus
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Temple University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Helmus received his PhD in Zoology at University of Wisconsin Madison and moved to the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), China as a postdoctoral fellow, for the duration of 2009-2010. From 2010-2011 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago. After that he moved to Amsterdam Global Change Institute, Vrije Universiteity as a Postdoctoral Fellow. After he joined Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphiais as Assistant Professor. His professional life has centered in to integrate biodiversity science with human ecology to understand contemporary patterns of biodiversity and its functioning within ecosystems.
Research Interest
His research interests include the interface study of evolution, ecology, conservation and global change science.His research addresses how evolutionary and ecological processes interact naturally to generate biodiversity, and how humans disrupt those processes. He developed quantitative methods that merge statistical approaches from various fields to produce theoretically-based predictions of changes in biodiversity.
Publications
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Yguel B, Jactel H, Pearse IS, Moen D, Winter M, et al. (2016) The evolutionary legacy of diversification predicts ecosystem function. The American Naturalist 188:398-410.
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Helmus MR, Behm JE, Jesse WA, Kolbe JJ, Ellers J, Losos JB (2016) EXOTICS EXHIBIT MORE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY THAN NATIVES. Invasion Genetics: The Baker and Stebbins Legacy 122-138.
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Nelson EJ, Helmus MR, Cavender-Bares J, Polasky S, Lasky JR, et al. (2016) Commercial plant production and consumption still follow the latitudinal gradient in species diversity despite economic globalization. PloS one 11:e0163002.
