Research
interest
My research is centred on spatial,
quantitative, and geographic aspects of ecology and conservation,
with a taxonomic focus on terrestrial vertebrates and plants. I
am fascinated by the tremendous diversity of species and life forms
on Earth, and my research seeks to explain and understand why species
are where they are. In most of my work, I use
a quantitative ecoinformatics approach, taking advantage of
recent developments in computing, statistics, data availability and
environmental modelling. I am particularly interested in the way how
environmental factors, biotic interactions, human impacts, and evolutionary
history influence species distribution and the structure and assembly
of biological communities. This basic ecological research is often
linked to applied issues such as global change and biodiversity
conservation, and thus of fundamental importance for developing
solutions to cross-scale environmental problems in global change biology
and conservation management. More information on current and past
projects is listed below.
Keywords:
biodiversity, biogeography, community assembly, conservation, ecoinformatics,
macroecology, plant-animal interactions, spatial modeling
Current
projects
- Macroecology
and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates [More]
