I am a quantitative ecologist working at the intersections of population, community and landscape ecology. Working largely through a lens of life history and demography, I study how the abiotic and biotic environments come together to shape population dynamics and species distributions. I’m interested in how effects of the environment integrate across an organism’s life cycle to affect population growth and life history, and how these effects interact with landscape context and dispersal to determine species’ distributions.
I work with multiple taxa (primarily plants and bees) at range of scales, using a combination of observational field studies, manipulative experiments, and modern quantitative tools.
Population ecology
At the root of all broader patterns in landscape or community ecology is demography - that is, births and deaths. I am interested how demographic processes change through time and space, what this means for population viability and life history.
Landscape ecology
Populations inhabit heterogeneous landscapes, but how demographic processes play out in this spatial context is not always clear. I am interested to bridge population and landscape ecology, to connect landscape-scale patterns with underlying demographic processes.
Research methods and other interests
My academic journey has covered a lot of ground, a throughline of which is the robust and creative use of quantitative tools. Here I describe the tools I use and some lingering interests from prior work.