Robert J. Warren II, PhD

Robert J. Warren II, PhD

SUNY Buffalo State University

Associate Professor

Expertise: Climate ChangeClimate Change

Robert Warren's research focuses on how species interact in a changing climate. He is not only interested in how habitat drives individual species distributions, but how habitat drives the interactions between species within and across these distributions. Such endeavors include niche theory, dispersal, community ecology, climate change and inferential statistics. Some of his current interests include how the mutualism between plants and seed-dispersing ants changes with climate; how humans facilitation exotic invasive plants; how Native Americans dispersed trees; how habitat facilitates plant pathogens and how ants and termites interact and impact forest decomposition.

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Buffalo State Researchers Examine Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields in Great Lakes ‘Fruit Belt’

A new paper published in January by Buffalo State College’s Robert J. Warren II, associate professor of biology, and Stephen Vermette, professor of geography and planning, puts a spotlight on how climate change is affecting fruit growers in the Great Lakes refugia, and what it may mean for the growers going forward. The paper, titled “Laurentian Great Lakes Warming Threatens Northern Fruit Belt Refugia,” was published in the International Journal of Biometeorology.
10-Feb-2022 12:50:44 PM EST

Warren recently spoke about how fire ants are moving north. “We’re kind of shocked,” he said. “As you go up the mountains in the southern Appalachians, they are showing higher and higher tolerance for cold temperature. So they are absolutely adjusting physiologically to these colder temperatures.”

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