Joseph Phillips, PhD
Assistant Professor
Contact
College of Arts and Sciences
Biology
Joseph Phillips, PhD
Assistant Professor
Teaching Interests
- Aquatic Ecology
Research Focus
I am interested in population and community ecology, with a focus on aquatic and riparian ecosystems. I study how different species coexist and interact together in ecosystems, and how their abundances change through time and space in response their environments. My work focuses on ponds, lakes, and streams, and adjacent terrestrial habitats, and includes organisms ranging from algae to trees (with a special fondness for aquatic insects). Undergraduates play a central role in my research, and I am always happy to discuss research opportunities with motivated students!Department
Biology
Position
Assistant Professor
Publications
- Limnology and oceanography, methods
Ives Anthony R., Einarsson Árni, Adler Emily L., Book K. Riley, Botsch Jamieson C., McCormick Amanda R., Hart Ian S., Ives Colin H., Jin Ian, Phillips Joseph, Inferring microalgae density and net ecosystem production on soft sediments using infrared imaging
23:3, p. 176 - 190 2025 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS
Strickland Kasha, Einarsson Árni, Räsänen Katja, Kristjánsson Bjarni K., Matthews Blake, Jónsson Zophonías O., Phillips Joseph, Microevolutionary change in wild stickleback: Using integrative time-series data to infer responses to selection
121:37, p. e2410324121 - 2024 - Oecologia
McCormick Amanda R., Olafsson Jon S., Phillips Joseph, Botsch Jamieson C., Ives Anthony R., Resource use differences of two coexisting chironomid species at localized scales
205:3-4, p. 473 - 485 2024 - Ecology and evolution
Kristjánsson Bjarni K., Combot Doriane, Reilent Anett, Phillips Joseph, Leblanc Camille A.L., Invertebrate diversity in groundwater-filled lava caves is influenced by both neutral- and niche-based processes
14:6, p. e11560 - n/a 2024 - Genome biology and evolution
Nell Lucas A, Weng Yi-Ming, Phillips Joseph, Botsch Jamieson C., Book K. Riley, Einarsson Árni, Ives Anthony R., Schoville Sean D, Shared Features Underlying Compact Genomes and Extreme Habitat Use in Chironomid Midges
16:5, p. - 2024 - Global change biology
Botsch Jamieson C., Zaveri Aayush N., Nell Lucas A, Einarsson Árni, McCormick Amanda R., Book K. Riley, Phillips Joseph, Ives Anthony R., Disentangling the drivers of decadal body size decline in an insect population
30:1, p. e17014 - n/a 2024 - Oikos
Botsch Jamieson C., Book K. Riley, Phillips Joseph, Ives Anthony R., Aquatic insects balance growth with future supply of algal food resources
2023:12, p. n/a - 2023 - Ecology and evolution
Beukeboom Rosanne, Phillips Joseph, Olafsdottir Guobjorg Asta, Benhaim David, Personality in juvenile Atlantic cod ecotypes and implications for fisheries management
13:4, p. e9952 - n/a 2023 - Molecular ecology
Strickland Kasha, Räsänen Katja, Bartrons Mireia, Kristjánsson Bjarni K., Snorradóttir Ragna G., Phillips Joseph, Einarsson Árni, Jónsson Zophonías O., Genome-phenotype-environment associations identify signatures of selection in a panmictic population of threespine stickleback
32:7, p. 1708 - 1725 2023 - The American naturalist
Phillips Joseph, Strickland Kasha, Einarsson Árni, Ives Anthony R., Kristjansson Bjarni K. K., Räsänen Katja, Demographic Basis of Spatially Structured Fluctuations in a Threespine Stickleback Metapopulation
201:3, p. E41 - E55 2023 - Ecology
McCormick Amanda R., Botsch Jamieson C., Einarsson Árni, Gardarsson Arnthor, Ives Anthony R., Phillips Joseph, Reconstructing midge consumer–resource dynamics using carbon stable isotope signatures of archived specimens
104:2, p. 1 - 11 2023 - Behavioural processes
Phillips Joseph, Ólafsdóttir Guðbjörg Ásta, Beukeboom Rosanne, Morel Antoine, Phillips Joseph S., Benhaim David, Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)
202, p. 104736 - 2022 - Canadian journal of fisheries and aquatic sciences
Phillips Joseph, Ives Anthony R., Gudbergsson Gudni, Opposing trends in survival and recruitment slow the recovery of a historically overexploited fishery
79:7, p. 1138 - 1144 2022 - Limnology and oceanography, methods / ASLO
Phillips Joseph, Lottig Noah R., Phillips Joseph S., Batt Ryan D., Scordo Facundo, Williamson Tanner J., Carpenter Stephen R., Chandra Sudeep, Hanson Paul C., Solomon Chistopher T., Vanni Michael J., Zwart Jacob, Estimating pelagic primary production in lakes: Comparison of 14C incubation and free-water O2 approaches
20:1, p. 34 - 45 2022
Grants
Tracing Impacts of Invasive Woody Plants on Lake Food Webs in the Loess Hills Using Stable Isotopes/Sponsor: Dr. George F. Haddix President's Faculty Research Grant
BRC-BIO: Tracing Impacts of Invasive Woody Plants on Lake Food Webs/Sponsor: National Science Foundation/NSF