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Louis J. Gross

Selected Publications

Individual-based ecological models: Spatial models for undergraduate investigation. Handout for Mathematics for Life Sciences Students Conference, Iowa State University, May 17-18, 1996 Text file
Published WWW version here

Approaches to Large-scale Ecosystem Modeling Across Multiple Trophic Levels: Some Early Lessons from the South Florida ATLSS Experience From: J. B. Waide and L. M. Gandy (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Aquatic Ecosystem Modeling and Assessment Techniques for Application within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. pp. 71-76, April 1998. Waterways Experiment Station Miscellaneous Paper EL-98-1. Postscript file (40K)
Computational Ecology: Environmental Problem Solving for the New Millennium Postscript file (124K)
Mentoring in a Distributed World. D-Lib Magazine September 1998 Link to On-Line Editorial
USE OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND MODELS - Draft of article for Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Postscript file Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3
Multimodeling: New approaches for linking ecological models - Draft of article for 1999 Symposium on Predicting Plant and Animal Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy Postscript file Figure 1
Comiskey, E. J., O. L. Bass, Jr., L. J. Gross, R. T. McBride, and R. Salinas. 2002. Panthers and forests in South Florida: an ecological perspective. Conservation Ecology 6(1): 18.
Brewer, C. A. and L. J. Gross. 2003. Training ecologists to think with uncertainty in mind. Ecology 84:1412-1414.
Whither Mathematical Biology? Some Remarks upon becoming President of the Society for Mathematical Biology - August 2003 (Web version of article for Fall 2003 SMB Newsletter)
Some comments on education from the SMB President (Web version of article for January 2004 SMB Newsletter)
Janet H. Rock, Brian Beckage and Louis J. Gross. 2004. Population recovery following differential harvesting of Allium triococcum Ait. in the southern Appalachians. Biological Conservation 116: 227-234. and comments on the impacts of this work in changing harvesting regulations is in this issue of "A Walk in the Woods" from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
"Some lessons from fifteen years of educational initiatives at the interface between mathematics and biology: the entry-level course" for MAA Notes volume on Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences (pdf document)
"Fuller, M.M., L.J. Gross, S.M. Duke-Sylvester and M. Palmer. 2008. Testing the robustness of management decisions to uncertainty: Everglades restoration scenarios. Ecological Applications 18(3):711-723" (pdf document)
Appendix A: Management Background and description of model parameters (pdf document)
"Travis, C. B., L. J. Gross, B. A. Johnson. 2009. Tracking the Gender Gap: A case study. Psychology of Women Quarterly 33:410-418" (pdf document)
Report on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based on Gender - April 28, 2007 (pdf document)
Addendum to Report on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based on Gender - June 28, 2007 (Word document)
Report to the UTK Faculty Senate Budget and Planning Committee on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based upon Gender using Data from Fall 2007 - April 7, 2008 (pdf document)
"Biodiversity, Mathematics and Sustainability: Maintaining the Planet’s Biotic Resources" MAA Mathematics Awareness Month Essay for April 2013 (pdf document)
"Dead from the Scaffolds" my essay remembrance of 1977 Grateful Dead Barton Hall concert at Cornell University, written April 2016 (pdf document) which was excepted in the book Cornell '77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead by Peter Conners (Published by Cornell University Press) see also Cornell Alumni Magazine March/April 2017 article about the book and concert