I am a broadly trained community and landscape ecologist with a particular interest in understanding how environmental variability influences plant-insect interactions and biodiversity patterns. I use this basic knowledge about environmental variability to better manage insects and plants for conservation and sustainable agriculture, and to understand and predict how land-use and land-cover change influence insect biodiversity patterns and the provisioning of ecosystem services in agricultural and natural landscapes.
Research:
- Plant-insect interactions across spatial scales
- Disturbance effects on biodiversity
- Spatio-temporal effects of resource availability on insect population dynamics
- Benefits of conservation strips for biological control
Research:
- Environmental Stewardship
Specialization:
- Environmental variability influences
- Plant-insect interactions
- Bio-diversity pattern
