Claudio Gratton

Claudio at field sites in Iceland

University of Wisconsin
Department of Entomology
444 Russell Labs
1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706

608-265-3762 (Office)
608-263-0964 (Lab)
608-262-3322 (Fax)
cgratton@wisc.edu

Education and Background

B.S. Honors Biology summa cum laude. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988 – 1991
Ph.D. Entomology. University of California at Berkeley, 1991 – 1997
Post-Doc. University of Maryland, College Park, 1997 – 2003

Research Interests

Food web ecology, landscape ecology, ecosystem services, natural pest-suppression, pollination ecology, invasive species, biological control, soil food webs.

Personal Interests

Selected Publications (Full list here)

Agroecosystems:

Werling, B. P., T. D. Meehan, C. Gratton, and D. A. Landis. 2011. Influence of habitat and landscape perenniality on insect natural enemies in three candidate biofuel crops. Biological Control 59:304-312. doi: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2011.06.014.
Werling, B., T. Meehan, B. Robertson, C. Gratton, and D. A. Landis. 2011. Biocontrol potential varies with changes in biofuel–crop plant communities and landscape perenniality. Global Change Biology Bioenergy. doi: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01092.x.
Meehan, T. D., B. P. Werling, D. A. Landis, and C. Gratton. 2011. Agricultural landscape simplification and insecticide use in the Midwestern United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:11500 -11505. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1100751108.
Meehan, T. D., A. H. Hurlbert, and C. Gratton. 2010. Bird communities in future bioenergy landscapes of the Upper Midwest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:18533 -18538. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1008475107.
Werling, B. P., and C. Gratton. 2010. Local and broadscale landscape structure differentially impact predation of two potato pests. Ecological Applications 20:1114-1125. doi: 10.1890/09-0597.1.
Gaines, H. R., and C. Gratton. 2010. Seed predation increases with ground beetle diversity in a Wisconsin (USA) potato agroecosystem. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 137:329-336. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.03.003.

Lake-Land linkages:

Hoekman, D., J. Dreyer, R. Jackson, P. Townsend, and C. Gratton. 2011. Lake to land subsidies: experimental addition of aquatic insects increases terrestrial arthropod densities. Ecology 92:2063-2072. doi: 10.1890/11-0160.1.
Vander Zanden, M. J., and C. Gratton. 2011. Blowin’ in the wind: Reciprocal airborne carbon fluxes between lakes and land. Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences 68:170-182. doi: 10.1139/F10-157
Gratton, C., and M. J. Vander Zanden. 2009. Flux of aquatic insect productivity to land: comparison of lentic and lotic ecosystems. Ecology 90:2689-2699. doi: 10.1890/08-1546.1.
Gratton, C., J. Donaldson, and M. J. Vander Zanden. 2008. Ecosystem linkages between lakes and the surrounding terrestrial landscape in northeast Iceland. Ecosystems 11:764-774. doi: 10.1007/s10021-008-9158-8.

Other:

Forbes, K. J., and C. Gratton. 2011. Stable isotopes reveal different patterns of inter‐crop dispersal in two ladybeetle species. Ecological Entomology 36:396-400. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01268.x.
Straub, C. S., A. R. Ives, and C. Gratton. 2011. Evidence for a trade-off between host-range breadth and host-use efficiency in aphid parasitoids. American Naturalist 177:389-395.
Gratton, C., and A. Forbes. 2006. Changes in δ13C stable isotopes in multiple tissues of insect predators fed isotopically distinct prey. Oecologia 147:615-624.
Gratton, C., and R. F. Denno. 2003. Inter-year carryover effects of a nutrient pulse on Spartina plants, herbivores, and natural enemies. Ecology 84:2692-2707.
Gratton, C., and S. Welter. 1999. Does “enemy-free space” exist? Experimental host shifts of an herbivorous fly. Ecology 80:773-785.