Daniel Katz
Senior Research Associate, School of Integrative Plant Science
My goal is to generate the ecological knowledge necessary to address plant-related public health problems. To do so, I measure ecological processes using field studies, scale from individual plants to landscapes with remote sensing, and combine these into models related to ecosystem services and disservices.
My current research focuses on modeling airborne pollen concentrations by quantifying plant location and size, pollen production, flowering phenology, and atmospheric dispersion. Specific projects include assessing allergenic pollen concentrations at local scales in Detroit, creating a regional model of Ashe juniper pollen (the cause of 'cedar fever') in Texas, and developing airborne pollen models at national scales. This interdisciplinary work includes methods from ecology, remote sensing, Bayesian statistics, citizen science, engineering (for custom-built sensors), and epidemiology.
Interests
Plant ecology
Ecosystem services and disservices
Aerobiology
See more at Google Scholar page.
- D.S.W. Katz and S.A. Batterman. 2020. Urban-scale variation in pollen concentrations: A single station is insufficient to characterize daily exposure. Aerobiologia.
- D.S.W. Katz, J. Morris, and S.A. Batterman. 2020. Pollen production of 13 species of common North American street trees. Aerobiologia.
- D.S.W. Katz and S.A. Batterman. 2019. Allergenic pollen production across a large city for common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia). Landscape and Urban Planning 190: 103615.
- D.S.W. Katz, A. Dzul, A. Kendel, and S.A. Batterman. 2019. Effect of intra-urban temperature variation on tree flowering phenology, airborne pollen, and measurement error in epidemiological studies of allergenic pollen. Science of the Total Environment 653: 1213-1222.
- I. Ibáñez, D.S.W. Katz, and B. Lee. 2017. The contrasting effects of short-term climate change on the early recruitment of tree species. Oecologia 184(3): 701-713.
- Katz, D.S.W. and I. Ibáñez. 2017. Differences in biotic interactions across range edges have only minor effects on plant performance. Journal of Ecology 105: 321-331.
- Katz, D.S.W. and I. Ibáñez. 2016. Distance dependent escape from natural enemies within plant species distributions explains differences in biotic interactions across range edges. Ecology 97.9: 2331-2341.
- Katz, D.S.W. 2016. The impact of invertebrate herbivores on plant population growth: a quantitative review. Oecologia 182.1: 43-53.
- Katz, D.S.W. and I. Ibáñez. 2016. Biotic interactions with natural enemies do not affect potential range expansion of two invasive plants in response to climate change. Biological Invasions 18: 3351-3363.
- Katz, D.S.W. and T.S. Carey. 2014. Heterogeneity in ragweed pollen exposure is determined by local and neighborhood plant composition. Science of the Total Environment 485: 435-440.
- Katz, D.S.W., B. Connor-Barrie, and T.S. Carey. 2014. Urban ragweed populations in vacant lots: An ecological perspective on management. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 13: 756-760.
- I. Ibáñez, Katz, D.S.W., B. Connor-Barrie, S. Wolf, D. Peltier. 2014. Assessing the integrated effects of landscape fragmentation on plants and plant communities: the challenge of multiprocess - multiresponse dynamics. Journal of Ecology 102: 882-895.
- Katz, D.S.W., G.M. Lovett, C.M. O’Reilly, and C.D. Canham. 2010. Legacies of land use diminish over 22 years in a forest in southeastern New York. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 137(2): 236-251.
Contact Information
Bradfield 1018
Ithaca, NY 14853
dsk273 [at] cornell.edu
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Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan 2015
- B.A., Bard College 2007