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Alison Brody

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Alison Brody
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEcologist, academic
Alma materUniversity of Kansas; University of California, Davis; Stanford University

Alison Brody is an ecologist and professor of biology at the University of Vermont, where she has been on the faculty of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station since 1995.[1] Her research addresses plant-pollinator interactions, plant-herbivore interactions, and the transmission of viruses and pathogens between managed honey bees and wild bumblebees.[2]

Education

Brody earned a master's degree in systematics and ecology at the University of Kansas between 1981 and 1984.[3] She received a PhD in entomology from the University of California, Davis, completed between 1986 and 1991.[4] She subsequently completed a postdoctoral appointment in biology at Stanford University from 1993 to 1995.[5]

Career

Brody joined the University of Vermont in 1995 as a professor in the Department of Biology, affiliated with the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station.[6]

Research

Brody's published work, indexed by Semantic Scholar, comprises 59 papers with a combined total of 3,505 citations and an h-index of 31.[7] Her studies have examined the transmission of deformed wing virus and other RNA viruses between honey bees (Apis mellifera) and wild bumblebees (Bombus spp.) through shared flowers, the effects of ericoid and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant reproduction, and interactions between herbivores, pollinators, and plants in systems ranging from East African savannas to montane wildflower communities.[8]

Brody has received five awards from the National Science Foundation totaling $1,118,418.[9] These include a 2018 award for research linking above- and belowground interactions in highbush blueberry ($199,528), a 2005 collaborative award examining the effects of termites and ungulates on biodiversity in East African savannas ($505,000), a 1998 award studying nectar robbers, pollinators, and plants ($150,390), and two earlier awards, received while at the University of Vermont in 1995 and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1994, examining the reciprocal effects of pre-dispersal seed predation and pollination in co-occurring plant species ($103,500 and $160,000, respectively).[10]

Selected publications

  • "Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups" (2023), Proceedings of the Royal Society B[11]
  • "Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics" (2022), Journal of Ecology[12]
  • "Flowers as dirty doorknobs: Deformed wing virus transmitted between Apis mellifera and Bombus impatiens through shared flowers" (2021), Journal of Applied Ecology[13]
  • "Feeding friend and foe: ample pollen mitigates the effects of pollen theft for a gynodioecious plant, Polemonium foliosissimum (Polemoniaceae)" (2021), Annals of Botany[14]
  • "RNA virus spillover from managed honeybees (Apis mellifera) to wild bumblebees (Bombus spp.)" (2019), PLoS ONE[15]
  • "Flowers as viral hot spots: Honey bees (Apis mellifera) unevenly deposit viruses across plant species" (2019), PLoS ONE[16]
  • "Genotype-specific effects of ericoid mycorrhizae on floral traits and reproduction in Vaccinium corymbosum" (2019), American-Eurasian Journal of Botany[17]
  • "Home sick: impacts of migratory beekeeping on honey bee (Apis mellifera) pests, pathogens, and colony size" (2018), PeerJ[18]
  • "Herbivore removal reduces influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant growth and tolerance in an East African savanna" (2018), Oecologia[19]
  • "Inoculum source dependent effects of ericoid, mycorrhizal fungi on flowering and reproductive success in highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)" (2023), PLoS ONE[20]
  1. ↑ ORCID record 0000-0001-5759-2762
  2. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  3. ↑ ORCID record 0000-0001-5759-2762
  4. ↑ ORCID record 0000-0001-5759-2762
  5. ↑ ORCID record 0000-0001-5759-2762
  6. ↑ ORCID record 0000-0001-5759-2762
  7. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  8. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  9. ↑ National Science Foundation award records
  10. ↑ National Science Foundation award records
  11. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  12. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  13. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  14. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  15. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  16. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  17. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  18. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  19. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
  20. ↑ Semantic Scholar author profile, Alison Brody
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