Trager, Matthew D.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
US ecologist. Son of Kim (Wieck) Trager and (myrmecologist) James C. Trager, born 9 April 1980. Educated Grinnell College (B.S. 2000), University of Florida (M.S. 2005, Ph. D. 2009). Matthew Trager is an ecologist and statistician with broad interests in conservation policy, biology of endangered species, ecology of birds, and natural history, generally, who developed these interests and a knack for ants at a rather young age (8 or 9), while accompanying his father on collecting excursions. Matthew now works for the US Forest Service as a forest management policy analyst, currently (2010) in Pennsylvania. In addition to the preparing and writing the analytic part of his co-authored paper on the Formica pallidefulva group with his father and Joseph MacGown, Matthew has published or has in press several works on the interaction of ants with tropical myrmecophytes and with larvae of an endangered lycaenid butterfly, as well as several non-ant-related works.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Trager, J.C., MacGown, J.A. & Trager, M.D. 2007. Revision of the Nearctic endemic Formica pallidefulva group (pp. 610-636). In Snelling, R.R., Fisher, B.L. & Ward, P.S. (eds). Advances in ant systematics: homage to E.O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80: 690 pp.