Heidi Liere

Heidi Liere
Ph.D.student

B.S.Biology (Licenciatura), Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Masters, University of Michigan

U-M affiliation
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Contact information
University of Michigan
2081 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Phone: (734) 764-1446
Fax: (734) 763-0544
Email: hliere@umich.edu

Research interests
I am interested in the interaction of insect pests and their natural enemies in agroecosystems in the tropics. Specifically, I am interested in how complex community interactions affect species distribution and abundance patterns in this ecosystems, and how to make use of this knowledge to develop more sustainable and less harmful pest control strategies

Advisor
John Vandermeer

Lab Website
Vandermeer Lab

News
EEB bragging rights

Hearty congratulations to Heidi Liere for receiving a Graham Institute Fellowship for 2007 of $50,000 over two years. Liere works with Professor John Vandermeer on the interaction of insect pests and their natural enemies in agroecosystems in the tropics.

Recent Publications

Heidi Liere and Ivette Perfecto. 2008. Cheating on a Mutualism: Indirect Benefits of Ant Attendance to a Coccidophagous Coccinellid. Environmental Entomology 37: 1, 143-149.