Research
interest
My interest is centred on spatial,
quantitative, and geographic aspects of ecology and conservation,
with a focus on terrestrial vertebrates and vascular plants. I
am fascinated by the tremendous diversity of species and life forms
on Earth, and my work seeks to explain and understand the determinants
and drivers of species distributions and biodiversity patterns from
local to global spatial scales. In most of my
work, I use a quantitative approach, taking advantage of recent
developments in technology, computing, statistics, data availability,
and ecological 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.
Keywords:
biodiversity, biogeography, community assembly, conservation, ecoinformatics,
geographical ecology, macroecology, plant-animal interactions, spatial
modeling
Current
projects
- Macroecology
and biogeography [More]
