research overview
- I conduct research in the area of soil insect ecology and turfgrass entomology, with an emphasis on the association between phytophagous insects and perennial grass-based agroecosystems. In addressing the ecology and management of soil-dwelling, turf-infesting and grass-feeding insect pests, my current lines of inquiry are on the structure and function of soil arthropod communities, the behavior of root-feeding scarab larvae, the landscape ecology of annual bluegrass weevils and the invasion biology of European crane flies.