Jamie Botsch

Dr. Botsch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology. His research seeks to understand the fundamental forces that drive spatial and temporal variation in insect dynamics. Conducted both locally and abroad, his work integrates long-term monitoring, targeted experiments, and ecological modeling to understand how the environment and species interactions shape population, community, and ecosystem dynamics. With an active interest in mentorship, Dr. Botsch encourages students participation in all aspects of his research.

Population dynamics, community ecology, freshwater biology, entomology, ecophysiology, insect conservation

• McCormick, A.R., J.S. Phillips, J.C. Botsch, J.S. Ólafsson, and A.R. Ives. 2024. “Resource use differences of two coexisting chironomid species at localized scales.” Oecologia. 205: 473-485.

• Botsch, J.C., J.D. Daniels, J. Bujan and K.A. Roeder. 2024. “Temperature influences desiccation resistance of bumble bees.” Journal of Insect Physiology. 155: 104647. Featured in Outside JEB: Glass, J.R. 2024. Bumble bees lose more water when it's drier and hotter. Journal Experimental Biology. 227 (13): JEB246610.

• Nell, L.A., Y.M. Weng, J.S. Phillips, J.C. Botsch, K.R. Book, Á. Einarsson, A.R. Ives, and S.D. Schoville. 2024. “Shared features underlying compact genomes and extreme habitat use in chironomid midges” Genome Biology and Evolution. 16 (5): evae086.
  

• Botsch, J.C., A.N. Zaveri**, L.A. Nell, A.R. McCormick, K.R. Book, J.S. Phillips, Á. Einarsson, and A.R. Ives. 2024. “Disentangling the drivers of decadal body size decline in an insect population.” Global Change Biology. 30 (1): e17014.

• Botsch, J.C., K.R. Book, J.S. Phillips, and A.R. Ives. 2023. “Aquatic insects balance growth with future supply of algal food resources.” Oikos. 2023 (12): e09902.

• McCormick, A.R., J.S. Phillips, J.C. Botsch, Á. Einarsson, A. Gardarsson, and A.R. Ives. 2022. “Reconstructing midge consumer-resource dynamics using carbon stable isotope signatures of archived specimens.” Ecology. 104 (2): e3901.

• Phillips, J. S.,  A. R. McCormick, J.C. Botsch, and A.R. Ives. 2021. “Ecosystem engineering alters density-dependent feedbacks in an aquatic insect population.” Ecology. 102 (11): e03513.

• McCary, M.A., M.D. Karsprzak, J.C. Botsch, D. Hoekman, R.D. Jackson, and C. Gratton. 2021. “Aquatic insect subsidies influence microbial composition and processing of detritus in near-shore subarctic heathland.” Oikos. 130:1523-1534.

• McCormick A.R., J.S. Phillips, J.C. Botsch, and A.R. Ives. 2021. “Shifts in the partitioning of benthic and pelagic primary production within and across summers in Lake Mývatn, Iceland.” Inland Waters. 11 (1):13-28.

• McCary, M., J. Phillips, T. Ramiadantsoa, L. Nell, A. McCormick, and J. Botsch. 2021. “Transient top-down and bottom-up effects of resources pulsed to multiple trophic levels.” Ecology. 102 (1): e03197.

• Loy, X., D. Gruenewald, I.G.W. Gottlieb, E.K. Dobbs, A. Miljanic, J.C. Botsch, B.E. Lawley, H. Ober, L. Smith, R.J. Fletcher Jr., and B.J. Brosi. 2020.“The impacts of bioenergy pine plantation management practices on bee communities.” Journal of Applied Ecology. 57 (5): 952-966.

• Bell, K.L., K. Burgess, E.K. Dobbs, J.C. Botsch, T. Read, and B.J. Brosi. 2018. “Quantitative and qualitative and assessment of pollen DNA metabarcoding using constructed species mixtures." Molecular Ecology. 28 (2): 431–455.

• Botsch, J.C., S.T. Walter, J. Karubian, N. González, E. Dobbs, and B.J. Brosi. 2017. “Impacts of Forest Fragmentation on Species Diversity of Orchid Bees (Apidae: Euglossini) in the Chocó Biodiversity Hotspot of Northwest Ecuador.” Journal of Insect Conservation. 21(4): 633-643.