Mark Davis

Saint Paul

Mark Davis is Dewitt Wallace Professor and Chair of Biology at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, where he has taught since 1981. He has researched and written extensively on the topic of invasive species. His 2000 paper in the Journal of Ecology, in which he and colleagues proposed the fluctuating resource availability hypothesis to account for changes in invasibility in space and time has been cited more than 1800 times. He is the author of book Invasion Biology, published in 2009 (Oxford U Press) and was the lead author of the 2011 Nature essay urging conservationists to pay less attention to origins of species and much more attention to their effects. With his Macalester students and colleagues, he is currently conducting research on garlic mustard at the Macalester field station.