David S. Mason
What I do
I also collect more seeds than a grain silo
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My research in the media
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RT @DrDisturbance: Awesome study by former graduate student Moriah Boggess and current student @EcoGraffito. Check out the video on de… https://t.co/GYQNVKiqEn
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RT @miguelacevedopr: We are recruiting a PhD student interested in modeling (occupancy etc ) how mammal communities in indigenous commun… https://t.co/HV4lkv3w0C
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RT @SEFireScience: 🔥 New SFE Fire Science Success Story on the endangered Florida bonneted bat: https://t.co/ZPrl0wKSlB 🦇… https://t.co/LKrdJYkMSZ
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Selected publications
Holdgrafer, J. P., Mason, D. S., Coleman, T. S., & Lashley, M. A. 2024. Food resource richness increases seed disperser visitations and seed rain richness. Ecology and Evolution 14(3): e11093.
Mason, D. S., Jones, A. K., Barton, B. T., Proctor, M., Webb, S.L., & Lashley, M. A. 2023. Coyotes eat flies at carrion. Food Webs: e00309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2023.e00309
Kays, R. et al. (92nd of 152 authors listed in alphabetical order by institution). 2022. SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ecology 103(10): e3775. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3775
Mason, D. S., Baruzzi, C., & Lashley, M. A. 2022. Passive directed dispersal of plants by animals. Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12875
Mason, D. S. 2022. Heterocarpochory: hitching a ride on fruit. Ecology, e3628. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3628
Boggess, C. M., Mason, D. S., Alexander, H. D., Strickland, B. K., & Lashley, M. A. 2021. Facultative seed predators drive community-level indirect effects of mast seeding. Forest Ecology and Management 502: 119713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119713
Lázaro-Lobo, A. et al. (19th of 20 authors). 2021. Phenotypic differentiation among native, expansive and introduced populations influences invasion success. Journal of Biogeography 48(11): 2907-2918. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14252
Cove, M. V. et al. (95th of 154 authors listed in alphabetical order by institution). 2021. SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology 102(6): e03353. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3353
Mason, D.S. & M.A. Lashley. 2021. Spatial scale in prescribed fire regimes: an understudied aspect in conservation with examples from the southeastern United States. Fire Ecology 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-020-00087-9
Westlake, S.M., D. Mason, A. Lazaro Lobo, P. Burr, J.R. McCollum, D. Chance, & MA. Lashley. 2019. The magnet effect of fire on herbivores affects plant community structure in a forested system. Forest Ecology and Management 458(15): 117794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117794
Mason, D & C. Baruzzi. 2019. Love in Strange Places. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17(3): 184. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2027
Baruzzi, C., D. Mason, B. Barton, & M. Lashley. 2018. Effects of increasing carrion biomass on food webs. Food Webs 17: e00096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2018.e00096
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