Judith Lee Bronstein is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist who researchesmutualisms, or positive species interactions.[1] She has edited multiple books and volumes, includingMutualism, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.[2]
Bronstein received a Bachelor of Arts fromBrown University in 1979 as an independent major focused on the use of ecological theory in environmental policymaking. She received her Masters and Doctorate degrees in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at theUniversity of Michigan in 1986. Her doctoral dissertation research examined coevolution and constraints in a Neotropicalfig-pollinator wasp mutualism.[3]
Bronstein received additional training as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow in Evolutionary Genetics at Centre Louis Emberger in Montpellier, France, in 1987.[4] She then worked as an Isaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Alberta in 1988.[1][5]
Since 2012 Judith Bronstein has been a University Distinguished Professor at theUniversity of Arizona.[1] She has worked in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Arizona since 1989, when she was hired as an assistant professor.[6] Bronstein also worked as an adjunct professor at University of Miami from 1995 to 2010 and as a Visiting Professor at Duke University from 1999 to 2002, University of Puerto Rico in 1998, and University of Paris in 1989. In 2007-2008, Bronstein was a Program Director in the Division of Environmental Biology of theNational Science Foundation.[1]
Research in her Lab focuses on the ecology and evolution ofmutualisms. She uses both field and laboratory experiments to examine topics including conflicts of interest in mutualisms, context-dependent outcomes in mutualisms and antagonisms, and the causes and consequences of "cheating" in mutualisms.[6] Her research is both theoretical[7] and empirical, and much of her recent studies have focused on exploitation inpollination mutualisms[8][9] and variation in the outcomes of ant-plant protection mutualisms.[10][11]
^BRONSTEIN, JUDITH LEE (1986).COEVOLUTION AND CONSTRAINTS IN A NEOTROPICAL FIG - POLLINATOR WASP MUTUALISM (COSTA RICA) (Thesis).ProQuest303488435.[non-primary source needed]
