Alex Baranowski

M.S. 2021 (2018 B.S. in Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island)

Currently: Ph.D. student, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins CO

URI-related publications

  • Lee, Z.A., Baranowski, A.K., Cohen, C.B., Pelletier, T.S., and E.L. Preisser. 2024. Domestication reduces caterpillar response to auditory predator cues. Environmental Entomology 53(4) 587-593 [PDF]
  • Lee, Z.A., Baranowski, A.K., and E.L. Preisser. 2021. Auditory predator cues affect monarch (Danaus plexippus; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) development time and pupal weight. Acta Oecologica 111: 103740. [PDF]
  • Lee, Z.A., Cohen, C.B., Baranowski, A.K., Berry, K.N., McGuire, M.R., Pelletier, T.S., Peck, B.P., Blundell, J.J., and E.L. Preisser. 2023. Auditory predator cues decrease herbivore survival and plant damage. Ecology 104(4): e4007 [PDF]
  • Baranowski, A.K., Alm, S.R., and E.L. Preisser. 2020. Datana drexelii (Lepidoptera: Notododontidae) oviposition and larval survival on highbush blueberry cultivars. Journal of Economic Entomology 113(3): 568-571. [PDF]
  • Kinahan, I.G., Baranowski, A.K., Whitney, E.R., Savage, S.K., Rigsby, C.M., Shoemaker, E.E., Orians, C.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2020. Facilitation between invasive herbivores: hemlock woolly adelgid increases gypsy moth preference for and performance on eastern hemlock. Ecological Entomology 45(3): 416-422. [PDF]
  • †*Baranowski, A.K., Conroy, C., Boettner, G., Elkinton, J.S., and E.L. Preisser. 2019. Reduced Compsilura concinnata parasitism of New England saturniid larvae. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 21(3): 346-349. [PDF]
  • *Baranowski, A.K., and E.L. Preisser. 2018. Predator cues increase silkmoth mortality. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6: 220. [PDF]
  • *Baranowski, A.K., and E.L. Preisser. 2018. Can Darapsa myron (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) successfully use the invasive plant Ampelopsis brevipedunculata as a food resource? Journal of the Lepidopterist’s Society 72(2): 152-154. [PDF]