I am an ecologist and my work focuses on understanding the processes that control patterns in biodiversity. This includes visiting and collecting data from diverse ecosystems as well using computer models to simulate and predict how metacommunity dynamics can be linked to diversity outcomes.
Eric Sokol, Barrett, J. E., Kohler, T. J., Diane M. McKnight, Salvatore, M. R., Stanish, L. F. 2020: Evaluating alternative metacommunity hypotheses for diatoms in the McMurdo Dry Valleys using simulations and remote sensing data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8: 521668. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.521668
Hughey, M. C., Eric Sokol, Walke, J. B., Becker, M. H., Belden, L. K. 2019: Ecological correlates of large-scale turnover in the dominant members of Pseudacris crucifer skin bacterial communities. Microbial Ecology, 78(4): 832-842. DOI: 10.1007/s00248-019-01372-0
Eric Sokol, Brown, B. L., Barrett, J. E. 2017: A simulation-based approach to understand how metacommunity characteristics influence emergent biodiversity patterns. Oikos, 126(5): 723-737. DOI: 10.1111/oik.03690
Joel Singley, Adam Wlostowski, Anna Bergstrom, Eric Sokol, Torrens, C. L., Jaros, C., Wilson, C. E., Hendrickson, P. J., Michael Gooseff 2017: Characterizing hyporheic exchange processes using high frequency electrical conductivity-discharge relationships on sub-hourly to interannual timescales. Water Resources Research, 53(5): 4124-4141. DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019739
Michael Gooseff, Barrett, J. E., Adams, B. J., Doran, P. T., Andrew G. Fountain, Lyons, W. B., Diane M. McKnight, Priscu, J. C., Eric Sokol, Takacs-Vesbach, C., Vandegehuchte, M. L., Virginia, R. A., Wall, D. H. 2017: Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1: 1334-1338. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0253-0
Aneliya Sakaeva, Eric Sokol, Tyler Kohler, Stanish, L., Sarah A. Spaulding, Howkins, A., Welch, K. A., Lyons, W. B., Barrett, J. E., Diane M. McKnight 2016: Evidence for dispersal and habitat controls on pond diatom communities from the McMurdo Sound Region of Antarctica. Polar Biology, 39(12): 2441-2456. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-016-1901-6