Katriona Shea
Professor of Biology; Alumni Professor in the Biological Sciences

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415A Mueller
University Park, PA 16802 - k-shea@psu.edu
- 814-865-7910
Research Summary
The use of ecological theory in population management.
Huck Graduate Students
Huck Affiliations
- Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
- Ecology
- Ecology Institute
- Center for Pollinator Research
- Plant Institute
- Center for Mathematical Biology
- Insect Biodiversity Center
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Publication Tags
Epidemiology Uncertainty Decision Making Apoidea Climate Change Invasive Species Learning Pollinator Disease Outbreaks Ecology Foot And Mouth Disease Pollen Prediction Species Diversity Seed Seeds Resource Plant Species Population Flowers Lipids Carduus Food Chain Bee Information ManagementMost Recent Papers
The Total Dispersal Kernel: A Review and Future Directions
H Rogers, N Beckman, F Hartig, J Johnson, G Pufal, Katriona Shea, D Zurell, J Bullock, S Cantrell, B Loiselle, L Pejchar, O Razafindratsima, M Sandor, E.W. Schupp, C Strickland, J Zambrano, AoB Plants on p. plz042
Oviposition response of the biocontrol agent Rhinocyllus conicus to resource distribution in its invasive host, Carduus nutans
Zeynep Sezen, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Katriona Shea, 2021, Biological Control
Political economy of renewable resource federalism
James Sanchirico, Julie Blackwood, Ben Fitzpatrick, David Kling, Suzanne Lenhart, Michael Neubert, Katriona Shea, Charles Sims, Michael Springborn, 2020, Ecological Applications
Anticipating future learning affects current control decisions: a comparison between passive and active adaptive management in an epidemiological setting
Benjamin D. Atkins, Chris P. Jewell, Michael C. Runge, Matthew J. Ferrari, Katriona Shea, William J.M. Probert, Michael J. Tildesley, 2020, Journal of Theoretical Biology
Warming and shifting phenology accelerate an invasive plant life cycle
Joseph Keller, Katriona Shea, 2020, Ecology
Uncertainty and the management of epidemics
Katriona Shea, Ottar Bjørnstad, Martin Krzywinski, Naomi Altman, 2020, Nature Methods on p. 867-868
The SEIRS model for infectious disease dynamics
Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Katriona Shea, Martin Krzywinski, Naomi Altman, 2020, Nature methods on p. 557-558
Modeling infectious epidemics
Ottar Bjørnstad, Katriona Shea, Martin Krzywinski, Naomi Altman, 2020, Nature Methods on p. 455-456
Disentangling the mechanisms underpinning disturbance-mediated invasion
Luke Lear, Elze Hesse, Katriona Shea, Angus Buckling, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Warming increases pollen lipid concentration in an invasive thistle, with minor effects on the associated floral-visitor community
Laura Russo, Joseph Keller, Anthony D. Vaudo, Christina M. Grozinger, Katriona Shea, 2020, Insects
Most-Cited Papers
How frequency and intensity shape diversity-disturbance relationships
Adam D. Miller, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Katriona Shea, 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 5643-5648
A network model for plant-pollinator community assembly
Colin Campbell, Suann Yang, Reka Z. Albert, Katriona Shea, 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 197-202
Supporting crop pollinators with floral resources
Laura Russo, Nelson Debarros, Suann Yang, Katriona Shea, David Mortensen, 2013, Ecology and Evolution on p. 3125-3140
Adaptive Management and the Value of Information
Katriona Shea, Michael J. Tildesley, Michael C. Runge, Christopher J. Fonnesbeck, Matthew Joseph Ferrari, 2014, PLoS Biology on p. e1001970
Pollinator behavior mediates negative interactions between two congeneric invasive plant species
Suann Yang, Matthew J. Ferrari, Katriona Shea, 2011, American Naturalist on p. 110-118
Importance of individual and environmental variation for invasive species spread
Eelke Jongejans, Katriona Shea, Olav Skarpaas, Dave Kelly, Stephen P. Ellner, 2011, Ecology on p. 86-97
Diversity-disturbance relationships
Alex R. Hall, Adam D. Miller, Helen C. Leggett, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Angus Buckling, Katriona Shea, 2012, Biology Letters on p. 768-771
Are the best dispersers the best colonizers? Seed mass, dispersal and establishment in Carduus thistles
Olav Skarpaas, Edward J. Silverman, Eelke Jongejans, Katriona Shea, 2011, Evolutionary Ecology on p. 155-169
Decision-making for foot-and-mouth disease control: Objectives matter
William J.M. Probert, Katriona Shea, Christopher J. Fonnesbeck, Michael C. Runge, Tim E. Carpenter, Salome Dürr, M. Graeme Garner, Neil Harvey, Mark A. Stevenson, Colleen T. Webb, Marleen Werkman, Michael J. Tildesley, Matthew J. Ferrari, 2016, Epidemics on p. 10-19
Movement, impacts and management of plant distributions in response to climate change
P. Caplat, P. O. Cheptou, J. Diez, A. Guisan, B. M.H. Larson, A. S. Macdougall, D. A. Peltzer, D. M. Richardson, K. Shea, M. van Kleunen, R. Zhang, Y. M. Buckley, 2013, Oikos on p. 1265-1274
News Articles Featuring Katriona Shea
May 07, 2020
Which COVID-19 models should we use to make policy decisions?
With so many COVID-19 models being developed, how do policymakers know which ones to use? A new process to harness multiple disease models for outbreak management has been developed by an international team of researchers.
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Apr 11, 2020
'The reason we do this is to save lives’: An inside look at coronavirus research efforts at Penn State
As cases of the coronavirus began spreading globally and increasing in numbers, scientists have been racing to the forefront to attempt to understand and combat the virus.
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Mar 23, 2020
Penn State funds first round of COVID-19 research proposals
One week after launching a rapid-fire call for proposals, awards are granted to six projects that address the global pandemic, with more to follow
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May 02, 2019
Alumna Laura Russo receives Robert May Prize from the British Ecological Society
PSU alumna Laura Russo has been selected to receive the Robert May Prize from the British Ecological Society, the oldest ecological society in the world. The prize recognizes the best paper by an early career researcher in the society’s scientific journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
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Apr 02, 2019
Shea recognized with 2019 Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award
Katriona Shea, alumni professor of biology in the Eberly College of Science, is the recipient of Penn State's 2019 Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award. The award honors and recognizes outstanding achievement by a faculty member with at least five years of service who effectively guides junior faculty.
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