Robert Stephen Cantrell

Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33124

Tel: (305) 284-2297
Fax: (305) 284-2848
Email:
Web page: http://www.math.miami.edu/~rsc/

Education
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Utah, 1981
B.Sc., Mathematics, Furman University, 1976

Research Interests
Stephen Cantrell, an applied mathematician / mathematical ecologist, is interested in the impact of spatial heterogeneity on population dynamics and the structure of ecological communities. He serves as part of the modeling group for The Bahamas Biocomplexity Project. The group is incorporating socio-economic aspects of fisheries into dynamical systems models for focal species in marine protected areas.

Selected Publications
Olson, D., C. Cosner, S. Cantrell, A. Hastings. 2005. Persistence of fish populations in time and space as a key to sustainable fisheries. Bulletin of Marine Science 76(2): 213-231. [PDF]

Cantrell, R.S. and C. Cosner. 2003. Spatial Ecology via Reaction-Diffusion Equations. Series In: Mathematical and Computational Biology, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, Sussex UK.

Cantrell, R.S. and C. Cosner. 2001. Effects of domain size on the persistence of populations in a diffusive food chain model with DeAngelis-Beddington functional response. Natural Resource Modeling 14: 335-367.

Cantrell, R.S. and C. Cosner. 1999. Diffusion models for population dynamics incorporating individual behavior at boundaries. Theoretical Population Biology 55: 189-207.

Fagan, W.F., R.S. Cantrell, and C. Cosner. 1999. How habitat edges change species interactions: a synthesis of data and theory. The American Naturalist 153: 165-182.

Cantrell,R.S., C. Cosner, and W.F. Fagan. 1998. Competitive reversals inside ecological preserves: the role of external habitat degradation. Journal of Mathematical Biology 37: 491-533.