William E. Grant

About

Dr. William E. Grant is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology at Texas A&M University. He joined the department, formerly known as Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, in 1976. His research is conducted through the Ecological Systems Laboratory, focusing on animal ecology and ecological modeling. Dr. Grant teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to ecology, conservation, and ecological modeling. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Ecological Modelling, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, contributing to the advancement of ecological research and modeling.

Research topics

• Ecology
• Biology
• Geography
• Agronomy
• Medicine
• Artificial Intelligence
• Virology
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Engineering

Selected publications

• Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach

  Environmental Modelling & Software · 2020 · 83 citations

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• Natural Enemies, Mediated by Landscape and Weather Conditions, Shape Response of the Sorghum Agroecosystem of North America to the Invasive Aphid Melanaphis sorghi

  Frontiers in Insect Science · 2022 · 27 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  abundance was highest in the South E region (~136 aphids/leaf) where natural enemy activity was low and influenced by weather. The AE/LW risk scenario appeared suited, and essential in the South region, in assessing risk on a regional scale, and sets the stage for further modeling to generate estimates of the degree of influence of natural enemies under varying agro-landscape and weather conditions considered in the AE/LW risk scenario. Broadly, these findings are relevant in understanding agroe…

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• Increased Incidence of <i>Ehrlichia chaffeensis</i> Infections in the United States, 2012 Through 2016

  Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases · 2020 · 23 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  infections reported by the NNDSS from 2012 through 2016. There were 6786 cases and the incidence rate was 4.46 cases per million persons per year. The demographic group most commonly infected was white males between the ages of 40 and 64. Infections were most abundant in the southeast and midwest, particularly in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, as well as much of the east coast. The number of cases reported each year from 2012 through 2016 was higher than the number reported in any…

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• Recruitment of Natural Enemies of the Invasive Sugarcane Aphid Vary Spatially and Temporally in Sorghum Fields in the Southern Great Plains of the USA

  Southwestern Entomologist · 2021 · 18 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is an important summer grain crop in the U.S. Southern Great Plains because it is one of the few crops that consistently produces acceptable yields in the harsh summer weather that characterizes the region. Damaging infestations of the sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner), occur commonly in sorghum throughout Texas and Oklahoma, two of the leading sorghum producing states. Grain sorghum fields were sampled at two locations in Texas and three locat…

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• Setting a pluralist agenda for water governance: Why power and scale matter

  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · 2024-05-21 · 15 citations

  articleOpen access

  Abstract Global water systems are facing unprecedented pressures, including climate change‐driven drought and escalating flood risk, environmental contamination, and over allocation. Water management and governance typically lack integration across spatial scales, including relationships between surface and ground water systems. They also routinely ignore connectivity across temporal scales, including the need for intergenerational water planning. As a global and interdisciplinary group of scien…

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Frequent coauthors

• Hsiao‐Hsuan Wang

  Texas A&M University

  101 shared

• Bernhard Fleischer

  52 shared

• C Götting

  University of Bern

  52 shared

• Fredrick Banting

  Literaturarchiv

  52 shared

• W. Stöcker

  52 shared

• K Kleesiek

  Literaturarchiv

  52 shared

• J Diekmann

  52 shared

• J Dreier

  52 shared

Education

• B.S., Fisheries and Wildlife

  Michigan State University

• Ph.D., Systems Ecology

  Colorado State University

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