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Research
Interests
I
am interested in plant ecology, especially aspects of seed ecology
that influence plant population and community dynamics and are
relevant to conservation in the Pacific region. I am increasingly
interested in studying how changes in Polynesian animal communities
(pollinators, seed dispersers, and seed predators) affect plant
recruitment from seed. Another area of interest is restoration
ecology, including investigation of ways that manipulating plant
recruitment from the soil seed bank can shift plant community
composition in favor of native species. |
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| Selected
Publications
| McConkey, K. R., and D. R. Drake. In press. Flying foxes
cease to function as seed dispersers long before they become
rare. Ecology. |
| Meehan, H. J., K. R. McConkey, and D. R. Drake. 2005.
Early fate of Myristica hypargyraea seeds dispersed by Ducula
pacifica in Tonga. Austral Ecology 30: 374-382. |
| McConkey, K. R., H. J. Meehan, and D. R. Drake. 2004.
Seed dispersal by Pacific Pigeons (Ducula pacifica) in Tonga,
Western Polynesia. Emu 104: 369-376. |
| McConkey, K. R., D. R. Drake, J. Franklin, and F. Tonga.
2004. Effects of Cyclone Waka on flying fox populations in
Tonga. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20: 555-561. |
| Franklin, J.,
D. R. Drake, K. McConkey, F. Tonga, and L. B. Smith. 2004.
The effects of Tropical Cyclone Waka on
the structure of lowland rain forest in Vava’u, Tonga.
Journal of Tropical Ecology 20: 409-420. |
| McAlpine, K. G., and D. R. Drake. 2003. The effects of
small-scale environmental heterogeneity on seed germination
in treefall gaps. Plant Ecology 165: 207-215 |
| McConkey,
K. R., D. R. Drake, H. J. Meehan, and N. Parsons. 2003. Husking
stations provide evidence of seed predation by introduced rodents
in Tongan rain forests. Biological Conservation 109: 221-225.
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| Drake,
D. R., C. P. H. Mulder, D. R. Towns, and C. H. Daugherty. 2002.
The biology of insularity: an introduction. Journal of Biogeography
29: 563-569. |
| Meehan,
H. J., K. R. McConkey, and D. R. Drake. 2002. Potential disruptions
to seed dispersal mutualisms in Tonga, Western Polynesia. Journal
of Biogeography 29: 695-712. |
| Wiser,
S. K., D. R. Drake, L. E. Burrows, and W. R. Sykes. 2002. The
potential for long-term persistence of forest fragments on a
large island in western Polynesia. Journal of Biogeography 29:
767-787. |
| McAlpine,
K. G., and D. R. Drake. 2002. The effects of small-scale environmental
heterogeneity on seed germination in treefall gaps. Plant Ecology
165: 207-215. |
| Drake,
D. R., and L. W. Pratt. 2001. Seedling mortality in Hawaiian
rain forest: the role of small-scale physical disturbance. Biotropica
33: 319-323. |
| Steadman,
D. W, J. Franklin, D. R. Drake, H. B. Freifeld, L. A. Bolick,
D. S. Smith, and T. J. Motley. 1999. Conservation status of
forests and vertebrate communities in the Vava’u Island
Group, Tonga. Pacific Conservation Biology 5: 191-207. |
| Moles,
A. T., and D. R. Drake. 1999. Post-dispersal seed predation
on eleven large-seeded species from the New Zealand flora: a
preliminary study in secondary forest. New Zealand Journal of
Botany 37: 679-685. |
| Ferguson,
R., and D. R. Drake. 1999. Influence of vegetation structure
on spatial patterns of bird-dispersed seeds. New Zealand Journal
of Botany 37: 671-677. |
| Franklin,
J., D. R. Drake, L. A. Bolick, D. S. Smith, and T. J. Motley.
1999. Rain forest composition and patterns of secondary succession
in the Vava’u Island Group, Kingdom of Tonga. Journal
of Vegetation Science 10: 51-64. |
| Moles,
A. T., and D. R. Drake. 1999. Potential contributions of the
seed rain and seed bank to regeneration of native forest beneath
plantation pine. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 83-93. |
| Drake,
D. R. 1998. Relationships among the seed rain, seed bank, and
vegetation of a Hawaiian forest. Journal of Vegetation Science.
9: 103-112. |
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