Associate Professor, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
My research considers the causes and consequences of changes in biodiversity, partly by remotely sensing plant diversity and ecosystem productivity with sensors (hyperspectral, LiDAR) carried onboard unmanned aircraft. This research is helping bridge the gap between the large spatial scales at which we currently understand how people are driving species extinctions and the smaller spatial scales at which local experiments have shown that species losses decrease ecosystem productivity and stability (the invariability of ecosystem productivity across a period of years).