Science
Conservation
Education
About
News & Media
Visit
Contact
Careers
Internships
People
Datasets
Donate

People

Joshua Daskin, PhD

Joshua Daskin, Ph.D.

Director of Conservation, Research Biologist

Josh leads Archbold’s application of science to our four Conservation Pillars. He developed Archbold’s protocol for tracking our impacts, and helps secure conservation of species and ecosystems statewide through collaborations with dozens of agencies, landowners, NGOs, and researchers. Josh also oversees our land management on the Station and Reserve’s to maintain our natural laboratories.

Email:

jdaskin@archbold-station.org

Josh earned a B.S. in Biology and Environmental Studies from Brandeis University, a M.Sc. in Zoology while a Fulbright Scholar at James Cook University in Australia, and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. Prior to his current position at Archbold, Josh was a Donnelly Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow at Yale University, and helped reestablish post-war scientific capacity in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, while researching how civil war affects wildlife Africa-wide. He was also a biologist in the US Fish and Wildlife Service headquarters leading Species Status Assessments under the Endangered Species Act.

Josh’s current research includes (1) modeling statewide habitat connectivity and the impacts to it from conservation and development, (2) integrating conservation priority setting and land use planning data to improve development forecast models, and (3) understanding climate impacts on fire management.


Recent publications:

  • David, AS, Barve, Sahas, Boughton, EH, Daskin, JH, Swain, HM. 2025. The ingredients for impactful science: Lessons from a biological field station. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
  • Daskin JH, Meeks A, Sclater VL, Sorfleet JM, Oetting J, Hoctor TS, Guthrie JM, Swain HM. 2024. Marshaling science to advance large landscape conservation. Conservation Science and Practice 6:e13225.
  • Becker JA, Daskin JH, Pringle RM, Long RA. 2023. How Body Size Shapes Behavior and Ecological Niche Differences in African Ungulates. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 104:1–6. Wiley, Ecological Society of America.
  • Daskin JH, Becker JA, Kartzinel TR, Potter AB, Walker RH, Eriksson FA, Buoncore C, Getraer A, Long RA, Pringle RM. 2023. Allometry of behavior and niche differentiation among congeneric African antelopes. Ecological Monographs:e1549. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Daskin J. 2022, December 20. What if we cared for the wildlife out of sight? Orlando Sentinel. Available from https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-wildlife-unseen-care-20221220-edzhfaxwyza2hfvwrctfpnaqf4-story.html.
  • Daskin JH, Pringle RM. 2022. Ecological effects of warfare on wildlife. Pages 41–53 Animals in the International Law of Armed Conflict. Cambridge University Press.
  • Daskin JH, Tilman AR. 2022. Alternative restocking strategy could reverse declines of a critically endangered sturgeon. Environmental Conservation 49:53–58. Cambridge University Press.
  • Gaynor K, Daskin J, Rich L, Brashares J. 2021. Postwar wildlife recovery in an African savanna: evaluating patterns and drivers of species occupancy and richness. Animal Conservation 24:510–522.
  • Guyton JA et al. 2020. Trophic rewilding revives biotic resistance to shrub invasion. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4:712–724. Nature Publishing Group UK London.
  • Atkins JL, Long RA, Pansu J, Daskin JH, Potter AB, Stalmans ME, Tarnita CE, Pringle RM. 2019. Cascading impacts of large-carnivore extirpation in an African ecosystem. Science 364:173–177. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • Daskin JH, Aires F, Staver AC. 2019. Determinants of tree cover in tropical floodplains. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286:20191755. The Royal Society.
  • Pansu J, Guyton JA, Potter AB, Atkins JL, Daskin JH, Wursten B, Kartzinel TR, Pringle RM. 2019. Trophic ecology of large herbivores in a reassembling African ecosystem. Journal of Ecology 107:1355–1376.
  • Pringle RM et al. 2019. Predator-induced collapse of niche structure and species coexistence. Nature 570:58–64. Nature Publishing Group UK London.
  • Atkins JL, Long RA, Pansu J, Daskin JH, Potter AB, Stalmans M, Tarnita CE, Pringle RM. 2018. Life in a landscape of fearlessness: Cascading impacts of large-carnivore removal in an African savanna. Page 2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5–10). ESA.
  • Daskin JH, Pringle RM. 2018. Warfare and wildlife declines in Africa’s protected areas. Nature 553:328–332. Nature Publishing Group UK London.
  • Tucker RC, Rothermel BB, Daskin JH. 2017. Preparing Florida pasture for grassland restoration: seedling establishment after herbiciding and tilling. Natural Areas Journal 37:39–48. Natural Areas Association.
  • Daskin JH, Stalmans M, Pringle RM. 2016. Ecological legacies of civil war: 35-year increase in savanna tree cover following wholesale large-mammal declines. Journal of Ecology 104:79–89.


    • Curriculum Vitae