Kathryn Amatangelo

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Kathryn Amatangelo, Ph.D

(She/Her/Hers)

Associate Professor

(585) 395-5743
kamatang@brockport.edu
Office: Lennon Hall 119
Website

Education

• PhD, Stanford
• BS, University of Michigan

Courses Taught

• Plant Diversity (ENV 400/500)
• Plant and Ecosystem Ecology (ENV 444/544)
• Conservation Biology (ENV 439/539)
• Ecology (ENV 303/BIO 303)
• Biostatistics (ENV 337/537)
• Experimental Design (ENV 706)
• Scientific Writing (ENV 707)
• Professional Development (ENV 708)

Research Interests

• Plant community change
• Global change ecology
• Species invasions
• Functional traits
• Ecosystem function
• Terrestrial biogeochemistry
• Plant-animal interactions

• Recent Publications
  • Berend, K., K.L. Amatangelo, D. Weihrauch and C. Norment. 2020. Effects of snow and temperature on the phenology of alpine snowbank plants on Mt. Washington, NH. Rhodora 122:1-22, 2021
  • Pineda-Munoz, S., A.M. Jukar, A.B. Toth, D. Fraser, A. Du, W.A. Barr, K.L. Amatangelo, M.A. Balk, A.K. Behrensmeyer, J. Blois, M. Davis, J.T. Eronen, N.J. Gotelli, C. Looy, J.H. Miller, A.B. Shupinski, L.C. Soul, A. Villasenor, S. Wing, and S.K. Lyons. 2020. Body mass-related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America. Ecography 144(1): 56-66, 2021
  • Ward, S. and K.L. Amatangelo. 2018. Suburban gardening in Rochester, New York: exotic plant preference and risk of invasion. Landscape and Urban Planning 180:161-165, 2021
  • Amatangelo, K.L., L. Stevens, D.A. Wilcox, S.T. Jackson and D.F. Sax. 2018. Provenance of invaders has scale-dependent impacts in a changing wetland ecosystem. NeoBiota 40:51-72.
  • Ward, S. and K.L. Amatangelo. 2018. Suburban gardening in Rochester, New York: exotic plant preference and risk of invasion. Landscape and Urban Planning 180:161-165.
  • Drew, J. and K.L. Amatangelo. 2017. Community assembly of coral reef fishes along the Melanesian biodiversity gradient. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0186123.
    Waller, D.M, E. Mudrak, K.L. Amatangelo, S.M. Klionsky and D.A. Rodgers. 2016. Do associations between native and invasive plants provide signals of invasive impacts? Biological Invasions 18(12):3465-3480.
  • Johnson, S.E., K.L. Amatangelo, P.A.Townsend and D.M. Waller. 2016. Large, connected floodplain forests prone to flooding best sustain plant diversity. Ecology 97(11):3019-3030.
  • Lyons, S. Kathleen, K.L. Amatangelo, A.K. Behrensmeyer, A. Bercovici, J. Blois, M. Davis, W. DiMichele, A. Du, J. Eronen, T. Faith, G. Graves, N. Jud, C. Labandiera, C. Looy, B. Micgill, J. Miller, D. Patterson, S. Pineda-Munoz, R. Potts, B. Riddles, R. Terry, A. Toth, W. Ulrich, A. Villasenor, A. Wing and S. Gotelli. 2016. Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts. Nature 529:80-83.
  • Drew, J., K.L. Amatangelo and R. Hufbauer 2015. Quantifying the human impacts on Papua New Guinea reef fish communities across space and time. PLOS ONE 10(10): e0140682.
  • Amatangelo, K.L., S. Johnson, D. Rogers and D. Waller 2014. Trait-environment relationships remain strong despite fifty years of trait compositional change in temperate forests. Ecology95:1780-1791.