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Lucero, Jacob

Jacob Lucero

Assistant Professor
Office:  
HFSB 318
Email:  
Phone:  
(979) 314-8471
Resume/CV
Jacob Lucero's Website

Education

Undergraduate Education
B.S. Landscape Management, Brigham Young University
Graduate Education
M.S. Wildlife & Wildlands Conservation, Brigham Young University
Ph.D. Organismal Biology and Ecology, University of Montana

Areas of Expertise

  • Plant Ecology
  • Biotic Interactions
  • Global Change Biology
  • Invasive Species Ecology and Management

Professional Summary

Jacob E. Lucero, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Texas A&M University Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management. His academic interests lie at the intersection of community, population and restoration ecology; global change biology; and natural resource management. His research aims to connect ecological patterns to their underlying processes in order to explain, predict and manage biodiversity and ecosystem functioning for a sustainable future. He is especially fond of wrangling invasive plant species and restoring native plant communities in changing ecosystems.

Selected Publications

Lucero JE, Callaway RM, Faist AM, Lortie CJ. (2021). An unfortunate alliance: native shrubs increase the abundance, performance, and apparent impacts of Bromus tectorum across a regional aridity gradient. Basic and Applied Ecology 57: 41-53. doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.09.001
Lortie CJ, Filazzola A, Brown C, Lucero JE, Zuliani M, Ghazian N, Haas S, Owen M, Butterfield HS, Nix E, Westphal M. (2021). Facilitation enables plant invasions and indirect negative interactions. Oikos 130: 1056-1061. doi.org/10.1111/oik.08443
Lucero JE, Seifan M, Callaway RM, Lortie CJ. (2020). Positive associations with native shrubs are intense and important for an exotic invader but not the native annual community across an aridity gradient. Diversity and Distributions 26: 1177-1197. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13111
Lucero JE, Noble T, Haas S, Westphal M, Butterfield S, Lortie CJ. (2019). The dark side of facilitation: native shrubs facilitate exotic annuals more strongly than native annuals. NeoBiota 44: 75-93. doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.44.33771
Lucero JE, Callaway RM. (2018). Native granivores reduce the establishment of native grasses but not invasive Bromus tectorum. Biological Invasions 20: 3491–3497. doi.org/10.1007/s10530-018-1789-x

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