Research

Research Areas

My research resides at the intersection of conservation, urban ecology, animal behavior and communication, landscape ecology, and community ecology. I want to know how wildlife responds to a changing landscape, social systems, coupled human-natural systems, and management, and how these responses are mediated by community interactions and animal behavior. Utilizing experimental, comparative and modeling approaches, we can develop an understanding of the patterns and processes that underlie wildlife response to landscape change.

Avian nesting ecology, plasticity, and evolutionary life history strategies
Community interactions, composition, and biodiversity
Environmental justice, systemic racism, and inequities in access to biodiversity
Mammalian populations and communities, camera trap research
Social drivers of landscape and habitat change
Noise pollution effects on animal communication
Trophic interactions and habitat use across urbanization gradients
Spatio-temporal trends in species abundance, richness, and composition in response to landscape change
Research design in applied ecology, employing experimental methods in an active adaptive management framework