Evan Economo

Portrait of Evan Economo

Evan Economo

Department of Entomology Chair
economo@umd.edu 4108 Plant Sciences Building
301 405 1913

Graduate Program Affiliations

Biological Sciences (BISI): Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES)
Biological Sciences (BISI): Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics (CBBG)
Entomology

Research

The Economo lab aims to understand how ecological and evolutionary processes interact to regulate biodiversity across spatiotemporal scales.  We integrate a variety of approaches in our work including quantitative theory, phylogenetics, high-performance computing, ecoinformatics, 3D imaging and modeling, field sampling, and systematics.

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2009
B.S., University of Arizona, 2002

Latest Papers

Comparison of Environmental DNA and Bulk DNA Metabarcoding for Assessing Terrestrial Arthropod Diversity Across Three Habitat Types on Guam

| Molecular Ecology Resources
Author(s): Pritam Banerjee, Samantha Al‐Bayer, Jerilyn Calaor, et. al


Phylogenetic Diversity and Dispersion of Ants Worldwide: Geographic Variation and Climatic Correlates

| Global Ecology and Biogeography
Author(s): Hong Qian, Runxi Wang, Michael Kessler, et. al


The evolution of cheaper workers facilitated larger societies and accelerated diversification in ants

| Science Advances
Author(s): Arthur Matte, Benoit Guénard, Shubham Gautam, et. al


Genomic signatures indicate biodiversity loss in an endemic island ant fauna

| Science
Author(s): Cong Liu, Eli Sarnat, Jo Ann Tan, et. al


Pumping Venom: Valvilli Architecture and Implications for Stinger Functionality


Author(s): Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira, Johan Billen, Sebastian Büsse, et. al


The evolution of novel mouthpart interlocking mechanisms in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

| Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Author(s): Adrian Richter, Roberto A Keller, Francisco Hita Garcia, et. al


Citizen-science Supplements Species Inventories and Reveals the Invasion of Monomorium exiguum and Pheidole parva (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cyprus

| Sociobiology
Author(s): Jakovos Demetriou, Lech Borowiec, Christos Georgiadis, et. al


Forecasting alien species establishment and source regions: Quantitative assessment of potential ant invasions in Japan

| Ecological Applications
Author(s): Yazmín Zurápiti, Jamie M. Kass, Benoit Guénard, et. al


Climate Change Can Exacerbate Ant Invasion Impacts by Unleashing Indoor Populations Into Outdoor Environments

| Diversity and Distributions
Author(s): Toby P. N. Tsang, Mark K. L. Wong, Marc W. Cadotte, et. al


Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools

| Global Ecology and Biogeography
Author(s): Marta A. Jarzyna, Leo Ohyama, Evan P. Economo, et. al