Kevin Smith

Chair & Herman Brown Professor of Biology

Davidson College

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Biology

Davidson College

Environmental Studies

Kevin Smith is currently serving as a Biology Chair & Herman Brown Professor of Biology at Davidson College.

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Kevin Smith

Davidson College

Chair & Herman Brown Professor of Biology

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ecology environmental science climate change biodiversity conservation biology applied ecology biodiversity loss habitat loss education public health learning sciences global change biology ecosystems entomology fire ecology higher education biological conservation medical entomology ecological process ecological modelling science education faculty professional development biodiversity conservation tick-borne diseases research advances fundamental ecological process stochastic extinctions selective extinctions regional biodiversity loss manipulative field experiment tick species human impacts on the environment geography ecological applications community (ecology) biogeography conservation science biology urban ecology ecological monograph natural resource management conservation letter animal conservation ecosystem services evolutionary biology

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

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Role of Trachemys Scripta Elegans in Polystome (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Polystomatidae) Spillover and Spillback Following the Trade of Freshwater Turtles in Southern Europe and North America. Parasite (2025)

Habitat Loss and Simplification Lower Arthropod Richness but Not Diversity. Ecosphere (2024)

applied ecologyhabitat lossbiodiversity lossbiological conservationconservation biologyenvironmental scienceecologyecosystemsbiodiversity

Teaching the Process of Science With Primary Literature: Using the Create Pedagogy in Ecological Courses. Ecology and Evolution (2022)

Fire as a Fundamental Ecological Process: Research Advances and Frontiers. Journal of Ecology (2020)

Kendra K. McLauchlanPhilip E. HigueraJessica MieselBrendan M. RogersJennifer SchweitzerJacquelyn K. ShumanAlan J. TepleyJ. Morgan VarnerThomas T. VeblenSolny A. AdalsteinssonJennifer K. BalchPatrick BakerEnric BatlloriErica BigioPaulo BrandoMegan CattauMelissa L. ChipmanJanice CoenRaelene CrandallLori DanielsNeal EnrightWendy S. GrossBrian J. HarveyJeff A. HattenSharon HermannRebecca E. HewittLeda N. KobziarJennifer B. LandesmannMichael M. LorantyS. Yoshi MaezumiLinda MearnsMax MoritzJonathan A. MyersJuli G. PausasAdam F. A. PellegriniWilliam J. PlattJennifer RoozeboomHugh SaffordFernanda SantosRobert M. SchellerRosemary L. SherriffKevin G. SmithMelinda D. SmithAdam C. Watts

fundamental ecological processfire ecologyecological processecologyclimate changeresearch advances

Low Abundance of Three Tick Species in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Journal of Medical Entomology (2020)

Madeline P SeagleMaximilian R VierlingRyan J AlmeidaD Jacob ClaryWill HidellErin V ScottCarlos VargasKevin G Smith

tick speciestick-borne diseasespublic healthmedical entomologyentomologyepidemiology

Selective Extinctions Resulting From Random Habitat Destruction Lead to Under‐Estimates of Local and Regional Biodiversity Loss in a Manipulative Field Experiment. Global Change Biology (2020)

Ryan J. AlmeidaAlexander A. G. BerroAlston LippertJake ClarySam McKlinErin V. ScottKevin G. Smith

regional biodiversity lossmanipulative field experimenthabitat lossbiodiversity lossbiodiversity conservationglobal change biologyselective extinctionsconservation biologyenvironmental scienceecologybiodiversity

When Are Extinctions Simply Bad Luck? Rarefaction as a Framework for Disentangling Selective and Stochastic Extinctions. Journal of Applied Ecology (2019)

Kevin G. SmithRyan J. Almeida

applied ecologyecological modellingstochastic extinctionsecologyclimate change

Demonstrating the Value and Importance of Combining Dna Barcodes and Discriminant Morphological Characters for Polystome Taxonomy (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea). Parasitology International (2017)

Species Abundance Plays a Dominant Role in Local and Regional Extinctions in Freshwater Communities and Allows the Identification of Selective Extinctions. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2017)

Does Regional Diversity Recover After Disturbance? a Field Experiment in Constructed Ponds. PeerJ (2016)