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I’m a landscape ecologist interested in the development and application of theory that improves our understanding of biological diversity
Please see my research and publications sections to see what I’ve been up to.
My current research foci:
News:
(04/18/12) – my new Ecology manuscript is in press!
(01/04/12) – Vario, my first R package, is launched and is now publicly available. See my post about the package here.
(11/10/11) – Off to NESCent for the second meeting of Tempo and mode of plant trait evolution: synthesizing data from extant and extinct taxa. Thanks to GBIF and WorldClim I’ve got lots of species distribution and climate data to examine.
(10/22/11) – I got married!
(8/04/11) – Heading out to Austin, TX for the ESA Meeting, come to my talk on Tuesday on community assembly (pdf)!
(7/18/11) – Our paper on the scaling of species turnover has been accepted in Ecology (preprint)!
(7/11/11) – Our paper on spectral rarefaction methods appears in a special issue on ecoinformatics of JVS (see Publications page for a copy)
(4/01/11) – I will joining Ethan White’s Weecology research group as a postdoc next year at Utah State University!
(2/28/11) – I am currently participating in a NESCent working group: Tempo and mode of plant trait evolution: synthesizing data from extant and extinct taxa
(11/25/10) – Our paper on species richness relationships was accepted at Ecological Monographs (see Publications page for a copy)
(11/04/10) – A copy of my talk to the UNC Ecology curriculum on “Disentangling spatial structure in ecological communities” can be found here
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