• Kenyon College, A.B. Biology, 1994
• University of Connecticut, Ph.D Ecology, 1999
• University of Maryland: Postdoctoral fellow

• BIOL 102: The Organism
• BIOL 203: Ecology
• BIOL 207: Biology of Conservation and Extinction
• BIOL 402T: Current Topics in Ecology
• ENVI 102: Introduction to Environmental Science

• Brooke Ray Smith, '02
• Jennifer Barone, '03
• Angus Beal, '03
• Nathan Briggs, '03

The goal of my research program is to link empirical results and theory to develop and expand a framework for understanding the population and community dynamics of mutualism. My past and current research addresses this goal using a variety of natural systems, but focuses on ant-based mutualisms.

Find out more about my research!

• Morales M. A. 2002. Ant-dependent oviposition in the membracid Publilia concava. Ecological Entomology 27: 247-250.
• Inouye, D. W., M. A. Morales, and G. J. Dodge. 2002. Variation in timing and abundance of flowering by Delphinium barbeyi Huth (Ranunculaceae): the roles of snowpack, frost, and La Niña, in the context of climate change. Oecologia 130: 543-550.
• Morales, M. A. 2000. Survivorship of an ant-tended membracid as a function of ant recruitment. Oikos 90: 469-476.
• Morales, M.A. 2000. Mechanisms and density-dependence of benefit in an ant-membracid mutualism. Ecology 81: 482-489.
• Morales, M.A., and E.R. Heithaus. 1998. Seed dispersal mutualism shifts sex ratios in colonies of the ant, Aphaenogaster rudis. Ecology 79:734-739.