DAVID GOEHRING
dgoehrin@princeton.edu
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1003

EDUCATION: 

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2001-present
Ph.D. candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. 

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1997-2001
B.S. degree with honors and distinction in Biological Sciences, June 2001. 

HONORS AND FUNDING: 

National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Ecology, 2001-present
Pew Program in Biocomplexity Fellow, Princeton University, 2001-2002
Firestone Medal for Excellence in Honors Thesis, Stanford University, 2001
Goldman Interdisciplinary Honors Recipient (Environmental Policy), 2000-2001
Bing Fellow in Field Ecology, Stanford University, 1998, 1999
Stanford University President’s Scholar, 1997-2001

RESEARCH PROJECTS: 

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2002, indicator capabilities of butterfly and beetle communities in central Kenya.

Institute for International Studies, Stanford, CA
2000-2001, the theoretical and political obstacles to applying the keystone species concept to preservation of ecosystem function.

Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford, CA
2000, the role of matrix habitats in population persistence.

Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford, CA
1999, countryside biogeography and the insect and bird diversity (including an independent project on diversity of arthropods) at the Wilson Botanical Garden in southern Costa Rica.

Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford, CA
1998, spatial patterns of butterfly diversity at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado.

PUBLICATIONS: 

Goehring, D. M., Daily, G. C., and Sekercioglu, C. H. 2002. Distribution of ground-dwelling arthropods in tropical countryside habitats. Journal of Insect Conservation. 6: 83-91

Sekercioglu, C. H., Ehrlich, P. R., Daily, G. C., Aygen, D., Goehring, D. and Sandi, R. F. 2002. Disappearance of insectivorous birds from tropical forest fragments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99: 263-267.

Goehring, D. M., Daily, G. C., Dasgupta, S., and Ehrlich, P. E. 2007. Range Occupancy and Endangerment: A test with a butterfly community. American Midland Naturalist 157: 106-120.