David Hoekman

 

437 Russell Labs
1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706

608-263-0964 (Office)
608-262-3322 (Fax)
dhoekman@wisc.edu

 

Education and Background
B.S. Biology and Archaeology, magna cum laude. Wheaton College, Wheaton IL, May 2002.

Ph.D. Ecology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, May 2008. Advisor Gary E. Belovsky.

Research Interests
I am a community ecologist especially interested in food webs.  My research within community ecology focuses on species interactions, top-down and bottom-up effects and the effect of allochthonous subsidies on communities.  I’m also interested in the connections between adjacent ecosystems, e.g., aquatic and terrestrial systems.

Personal Interests
Ice hockey, cross-country skiing, biking, hiking, bread baking and gaming.

Selected Publications

  • Hoekman, D., M. Bartrons, C. Gratton. 2012. Ecosystem linkages revealed by experimental lake-derived isotope signal in heathland food webs. Oecologia (in press).
  • Dreyer, J., D. Hoekman, and C. Gratton. 2012. Lake‐derived midges increase abundance of shoreline terrestrial arthropods via multiple trophic pathways. Oikos 121:252–258. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19588.x.
  • Hoekman, David, Jamin Dreyer, Randall D. Jackson, Philip A. Townsend, Claudio Gratton.  2011.  Lake to land subsidies: experimentally simulating aquatic insect deposition.  Ecology 92:2063-2072.
  • Hoekman, D.(2011) Sarracenia purpurea pitcher communities at disparate latitudes: a field study of the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up forces in food webs. Oecologia. 165(4): 1073-1082.
  • Hoekman, D. (2010)  The effect of temperature on the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up effects. Ecology. 91(10): 2819-2825.
  • Hoekman, D.R. Winston, and N. Mitchell. (2009)  Top-down and bottom-up effects of a processing detritivore. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 28(3): 552-559.
  • Hoekman, D., C. Terhorst, A. Bauer, S. Braun, P. Gignac, R. Hopkins, S. Joshi, K. Laskis, N. Sanscrainte, J. Travis, and T.E. Miller. (2007) Oviposition decreased in response to enriched water:  a field study of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Ecological Entomology 32:92-96.

  • Hoekman, D. (2007) Top-down and bottom-up regulation in a detritus-based aquatic food web: a repeated field experiment using the pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) inquiline community. American Midland Naturalist157: 52-62.