The Ecology of Biodiversity

I am a quantitative ecologist and biogeographer who works on a wide variety of organisms and ecosystems. The threads that run through my work are: the rigorous documentation and modeling of ecological patterns and the formulation and testing of hypotheses about the processes that underlie those patterns. My work has ranged from butterflies to forests and from human disease systems to animal metapopulation models. I use empirical data, remote sensing, and simulation models. I am keenly interested in the scale-dependence of biodiversity, dynamic species distribution modeling, and sampling theory for ecological inference. My work has strong statistical and GIS components, and much of my research requires developing novel inferential models using combinations of frequentist, Bayesian, machine learning, and agent-based modeling approaches.