Research

My research studies how insects respond to global change with a focus on urbanization. I’m interested in exploring the sociological and ecological intersections in urban environments.

List of publications

*=undergraduate researcher **=high school student researcher ^=graduate student

McCarragher, S., C. Acuff, C. Cowden, and Beasley, D. E. A Bibliometric Analysis of Urban Greenway Literature: Implications for Interdisciplinary Research on Urban Systems. Submitted to Plos One.

Jarvis, C.^, and Beasley, D.E. The effects of urbanization on disease prevalence in managed honey bee hives in Hamilton County, TN. In review (Urban Naturalist).

Lafferty, D. J., E. A. McKenney, T. Hubbard^, S. Trujillo^, and D. E. Beasley. 2023. A Path Forward: Creating an Academic Culture of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Bull Ecol Soc Am 00(00):e2117. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2117

Brooks, H.B.*, Guzman-Hernandez, I.*, and Beasley, D.E. (2023). Ant diversity in a temperate urban environment. BIOS. 93 (4): 117 – 123. https://doi.org/10.1654/BIOS-D-20-00018

Beasley, D.E., M. Monsur, J. Hu, R.R. Dunn, and A.A. Madden. (2022). The bacterial community of childcare centers: Potential implications for microbial dispersal and child exposure. Environmental Microbiome. 17(1): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-022-00404-6

Sealey, B.A., Beasley, D.E., Halsey, S.J., Schell, C.J., Leggett, Z., Yitbarek, S., and Harris, N.C. (2020). Human Dimensions: Raising black excellence by elevating Black ecologists through collaboration, celebration, and promotion. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. e01765.

Beasley, D.E., Fitzgerald, J.L*, Fowler, A.*, Keheler, K.**, Uribe-Lopez, M.M. and Dunn, R.R. (2019). Do bee wings adapt for flight in urban environments? Southeastern Naturalist. 18 (2): 183-191.

Beasley, D.E., Penick, C.A., Boateng, N.S.*, Menninger, H.L. and Dunn, R.R. (2018). Urbanization disrupts latitude-size rule in 17-year cicadas. Ecol. Evol. 00: 1 – 8 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3879.

Bonisoli-Alquati, A., Ostermiller, S., Beasley, D.E., Welch, S.M., Møller, A.P. and Mousseau, T.A. (2017). Faster development covaries with higher DNA damage in grasshoppers (Chorthippus albomarginatus) from Chernobyl. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 91(2): 776 – 787.

Dunn, R.R. and Beasley, D.E. (2016). Democratizing evolutionary biology, lessons from insects. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 18: 89 – 92.

Miller, E.A., Beasley, D.E., Dunn, R.R. and Archie, E.A. (2016). Lactobacilli dominance and vaginal pH: Why is the human vaginal microbiome unique? Front. Microbiol. 7. doi: 10.3389%2Ffmicb.2016.01936.

Li, H., Li, T., Beasley, D.E., Hedĕnec, P., Xiao, Z. et. al. (2016). Diet diversity is associated with beta but not alpha diversity of pika gut microbiota. Front. Microbiol. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01169.

Beasley, D.E., Koltz, A.M., Lambert, J.E., Fierer, N. and Dunn, R.R. (2015). The evolution of stomach acidity and its relevance to human microbiome. PLOS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134116.

Beasley, D.E., Bonisoli-Alquati, A. and Mousseau, T.A. (2013). The use of fluctuating asymmetry as a measure of environmentally induced developmental instability: A meta-analysis. Ecological Indicators. 30: 218-226.

Beasley, D.E., Bonisoli-Alquati, A., Welch, S.M., Møller, A.P. and Mousseau, T.A. (2012). Effects of parental radiation exposure on developmental instability in grasshoppers. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 25(6): 1149-1162.

Beasley, D.E., Benson, E.P., Welch, S.M., Reid, L.S. and Mousseau, T.A. (2012). The use of citizen scientists to record and map 13-Year periodical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada) in South Carolina. Florida Entomologist. 95(2): 486-488.

Student research posters from the Integrative Ecology Lab