Jocelyn Behm

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Jocelyn Behm

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Assistant Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOL 2227

Principles of Ecology

Undergraduate

BIOL 4391

Accelerated Research in Biology

Undergraduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Meng, Y., Chen, H., Behm, J., Xia, S., Wang, B., Liu, S., & Yang, X. (2021). Effects of different tea plantation management systems on arthropod assemblages and network structure. Ecosphere, 12(7). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3677.

  • Liu, S., Behm, J., Wan, S., Yan, J., Ye, Q., Zhang, W., Yang, X., & Fu, S. (2021). Effects of canopy nitrogen addition on soil fauna and litter decomposition rate in a temperate forest and a subtropical forest. Geoderma, 382. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114703.

  • Helmus, M. & Behm, J. (2020). Island biogeography revisited. In Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes, 1-5 (pp. 51-56). doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11945-1.

  • Jesse, W., Molleman, J., Franken, O., Lammers, M., Berg, M., Behm, J., Helmus, M., & Ellers, J. (2020). Disentangling the effects of plant species invasion and urban development on arthropod community composition. Global Change Biology, 26(6), 3294-3306. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15091.

  • Behm, J. (2020). Is biodiversity needed for sustainability? A spotlight on urban landscapes. American Journal of Botany, 107(5), 703-706. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1465.

  • Perella, C. & Behm, J. (2020). Understanding the spread and impact of exotic geckos in the greater Caribbean region. Biodiversity and Conservation, 29(4), 1109-1134. doi: 10.1007/s10531-020-01939-1.

  • Tran, T., Helmus, M., & Behm, J. (2020). Green infrastructure space and traits (GIST) model: Integrating green infrastructure spatial placement and plant traits to maximize multifunctionality. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 49. doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126635.

  • Liu, S., Lin, X., Behm, J., Yuan, H., Stiblik, P., Šobotník, J., Gan, J., Xia, S., & Yang, X. (2019). Comparative responses of termite functional and taxonomic diversity to land-use change. Ecological Entomology, 44(6), 762-770. doi: 10.1111/een.12755.

  • Assour, H. & Behm, J. (2019). First Occurrence of Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on the Caribbean Island of Curaçao. Neotropical Entomology, 48(5), 863-865. doi: 10.1007/s13744-019-00699-0.

  • Rapacciuolo, G., Graham, C., Marin, J., Behm, J., Costa, G., Hedges, S., Helmus, M., Radeloff, V., Young, B., & Brooks, T. (2019). Species diversity as a surrogate for conservation of phylogenetic and functional diversity in terrestrial vertebrates across the Americas. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(1), 53-61. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0744-7.

  • Behm, J., Buurt, G.V., DiMarco, B., Ellers, J., Irian, C., Langhans, K., McGrath, K., Tran, T., & Helmus, M. (2019). First records of the mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris Duméril and Bibron, 1836), common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus in Duméril, 1836), and Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko Linnaeus, 1758) on Curaçao, Dutch Antilles, and remarks on their Caribbean distributions. BioInvasions Records, 8(1), 34-44. doi: 10.3391/BIR.2019.8.1.04.

  • Jesse, W., Behm, J., Helmus, M., & Ellers, J. (2018). Human land use promotes the abundance and diversity of exotic species on Caribbean islands. Global Change Biology, 24(10), 4784-4796. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14334.

  • Liu, S., Hu, J., Behm, J., He, X., Gan, J., & Yang, X. (2018). Nitrogen addition changes the trophic cascade effects of spiders on a detrital food web. Ecosphere, 9(10). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2466.

  • Behm, J., Waite, B., Hsieh, S., & Helmus, M. (2018). Benefits and limitations of three-dimensional printing technology for ecological research. BMC Ecology, 18(1), 32. doi: 10.1186/s12898-018-0190-z.

  • Marin, J., Rapacciuolo, G., Costa, G., Graham, C., Brooks, T., Young, B., Radeloff, V., Behm, J., Helmus, M., & Hedges, S. (2018). Evolutionary time drives global tetrapod diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1872). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2378.

  • Rapacciuolo, G., Marin, J., Costa, G., Helmus, M., Behm, J., Brooks, T., Hedges, S., Radeloff, V., Young, B., & Graham, C. (2017). The signature of human pressure history on the biogeography of body mass in tetrapods. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26(9), 1022-1034. doi: 10.1111/geb.12612.

  • Helmus, M. & Behm, J. (2017). Anthropocene: Island biogeography. In Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, 1-5 (pp. 37-43). doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.09856-6.