Joe with a song-sparrow (Melospiza melodia) egg, Tyson Research Center, Missouri.
The goal of my research program is to integrate concepts from population, community, and disease ecology to understand how environmental change interacts with antagonistic and mutualistic species interactions to shape the abundances, distributions, and diversity of plant and animal species as well as ecosystem function. My research focuses on these questions in forest ecosystems The following three sections highlight my current research interests.
Current research projects:
Natural enemy effects on defensive traits and the ‘costs of fear‘
Novel pathogens and climate effects on continental populations