Our lab aims to understand the mechanisms promoting the emergence of biodiversity patterns and to identify the dimensions of biodiversity that hold the most information for predicting outcomes of global change. The work in the Lab spans a range of invertebrate and vertebrate taxonomic groups and traverses multiple spatial, temporal, and biological scales.
The general themes of our research are:
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Evidence of biodiversity change
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Effects of global change on biodiversity
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Scale dependence of biodiversity and its change
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Trait-based ecology and biogeography
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Ecological informatics and big data