Area(s) of Specialization
- Community Ecology, Fire, Grasslands & Savannas, and Resilience Theory
Subject areas: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
I am an ecologist, with most of my experience in community ecology, global change biology, and theoretical ecology.
I am also focused on advancing ecological theory to incorporate many of the messier issues we run into real-life situations in the field.
Some of the questions we are working on are:
- What types of climate extremes are more likely to exceed ecological resilience?
- Do ecosystems have tipping points, where small changes in management, like fire or grazing, have large ecological consequences?
- And can we identify climate and management tipping points before we cross them?
- How does the reintroduction of extirpated animals and disturbances (e.g. fire) affect the resilience to projected changes in climate?
