Dr. Martin Cody Professor, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution UC Los Angeles Education: Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1966 Research Interests: Community structure, determinants of diversity, density and distribution, interspecific interactions and adaptive morphology. Dr. Cody's research is concerned with questions that he regards as central in ecology: What controls species' distributions and densities, and what are the determinants of the various components of species diversity? What are the factors that regulate community organization and structure, and what is the relative importance of biotic versus nonbiotic interactions in governing the limits of e.g. species' habitat ranges, foraging patterns, morphological attributes and other niche parameters? He tries to answer these questions in four main areas of research. 1. In describing and interpreting the patterns of species diversity in continental bird faunas. Dr. Cody has worked most recently in NW Mexico, S Africa, and in SW Australia, and has been particularly concerned with elucidating the affects of the areal extent and contiguity of different habitat types in contributing to patterns of a- and b- diversity. 2. In investigating the statics and dynamics of plant populations on small continental islands off the British Columbia coast, he attempts to separate the constraints of specific habitat requirements from the biotic influences of competitors in contributing to species' incidence on and turnover within islands of various sizes. 3. In examining the structure of desert vegetation, Dr. Cody has studied the spacing patterns within and among the shrub species, and the extent to which plant growth form diversity is regulated by climate and contributes to diversity patterns within the vegetation. 4. In measuring interspecific competition, he has quantified direct interactions within and among bird species via territoriality, and has studied interspecific territoriality particularly among European sylviine warblers by relating species numbers to the habitatís resources. Dr. Cody also studies the behavioral aspects of territoriality, including such products as convergently similar songs and plumage. Selected Publications: Cody, M.L. 1974 Competition and the structure of bird communities Princeton Univ. Press:. Cody, M.L. and J.M. Diamond (1975) Ecology and Evolution of communities Harvard Univ. Press.:. Cody, M.L. (1983) Biogeography of Islands in the Sea of Cortez Univ. Calif. Press: Berkeley & Los Angeles 508. Cody, M.L. (1984) Habitat Selection in Birds Academic Press: Orlando, FLA. " 558. Cody, M.L (1991) Niche theory and plant growth form Vegetatio 97: 39-55.. Cody, M.L (1992) Birds of Australian Heathlands. In: Plant-Animal Interactions in Mediterranean Type Ecosystems. Medecos Maleme, Crete" VI 1991: 110-116.. Cody, M.L (1992) Population and Community Aspects of Jackson Hole Bird Communities: A Twenty-five Year Comparison Ann.Rep UW-NPS Research Station: "Laramie, WY" 32:. Cody, M.L. (1993) Do cylindropuntia cacti need or use nurse plants in the Mojave Desert? J. Arid Envts. 24:. Cody, M.L (1993) Bird diversity patterns and components across Australia Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives. R.E. Ricklefs Univ. Chi. Press. (1993).: Ch. 13; 147-158:. Cody, M.L. and J.M. Overton. (1995) Short-term evolution of reduced dispersal in island plant populations Journal of Ecology 83: 1-xxx.. Cody, M.L. and J. A. Smallwood (1996) Longterm studies of vertebrate communities Academic Press.:. Cody, M.L. (1997) An Introduction to Neotropical Species Diversity Diversity and Conservation in the Neotropics. A Gibson (ed.), 1-20. Cody, M.L (1998) California thrasher Toxostoma redivivum Birds of North America(A. Poole & F. Gill, eds.). Birds of North America Inc: Philadelphia, PA 323:. Cody, M.L (1999) Assembly rules in plant and bird communities. Ecological Assembly Rules E. Wieher & Keddy, P. (eds), Cambridge Univ. Press.: Ch. 6, pp. 165-205.. Cody, M.L (1999) Crissal thrasher Toxostoma crissale Birds of North America(A. Poole & F. Gill, eds.). Birds of North America Inc: Philadelphia, PA 419:. Cody, M.L (2000) Slow-motion population dynamics in Mojave Desert perennial plants. J. Veg. Sci. 11: 351-58.. Cody, M.L (2000) Gorwth form variations in columnar cacti (Cactaceae: Pachycereeae) within and between North American habitats. Biology of the Columnar Cacti (T. Fleming and E. Valiente-Banuet, eds.) Univ. Arizona Press.:. Cody, M.L (2000) Antbird guilds in the lowland Caribbean rainforest of SE Nicaragua. Condor.