My research interests include investigating the effect of spatial and temporal arrangement of habitats on ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes and the use of this information to inform conservation and management policy. At a landscape scale, I examine how landscape- and local-level factors influence patterns of habitat use by animals, with particular interest in bridging the gap between landscape and behavioral ecology. These two fields are generally approached from completely different scales, resulting in a lack of empirical landscape-oriented behavioral information from which to develop a broad perspective on fragmentation effects. At a regional scale, I am taking a bioinformatics
approach to integrate existing data sources such as museum informatics, remote-sensing data, and phylogenetic hypotheses in order to examine patterns of species’ distributions. Once understood, these species distribution data can be used to evaluate historical processes that may have influenced currently observed distributional patterns. Although my current research is mainly approached from a biogeographic scale,
I am initiating a research program in the Ecuadorian Andes that will address questions in a tropical system from a landscape-level.
My research interests include investigating the effect of spatial and temporal arrangement of habitats on ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes and the use of this information to inform conservation and management policy. At a landscape scale, I examine how landscape- and local-level factors influence patterns of habitat use by animals, with particular interest in bridging the gap between landscape and behavioral ecology. These two fields are generally approached from completely different scales, resulting in a lack of empirical landscape-oriented behavioral information from which to develop a broad perspective on fragmentation effects. At a regional scale, I am taking a bioinformatics
approach to integrate existing data sources such as museum informatics, remote-sensing data, and phylogenetic hypotheses in order to examine patterns of species’ distributions. Once understood, these species distribution data can be used to evaluate historical processes that may have influenced currently observed distributional patterns. Although my current research is mainly approached from a biogeographic scale,
I am initiating a research program in the Ecuadorian Andes that will address questions in a tropical system from a landscape-level.