Peter Stiling

[from McGraw-Hill Education website]
Peter Stiling obtained his PhD from University College, Cardiff, Wales, in 1979. Subsequently, he became a postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University and later spent two years as a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Dr. Stiling is currently a Professor of Biology at the University of South Florida at Tampa. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ecology and environmental science as well as introductory biology. He has published over 120 scientific papers in journals such as Ecology, Oecologia, Oikos, Global Change Biology, Biological Invasions, and Science, and has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Global Environmental Change, and others. He is also a co-author of Biology, a text for biology majors also published by McGraw-Hill. Dr. Stiling's research interests include plant-insect relationships, parasite-host relationships, biological control, restoration ecology, coastal biology, and the effects of elevated carbon dioxide levels on plant-herbivore interactions. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2013 he was awarded the Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award for the University of South Florida.