Life in 2.5 D: Animal Movement in the Trees
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2022)
vertical tracking
can find new relations of
plants and animals
Recent Articles
Ecological and Social Pressures on Sleep in the Wild
eLife (2022)
Baboons sacrifice
sleep quality in favor
of safe sleep with friends
Baboons sacrifice
sleep quality in favor
of safe sleep with friends
Whole Community Responses to Climate Change in the Afrotropics
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2022)
unique responses
to climate change are informed
by past selection
unique responses
to climate change are informed
by past selection
Balancing Selection For Foliar Herbivore Defenses
Nature Ecology and Evolution (2021)
glucosinolates
are selected by both drought
and herbivory.
Global Seed Data Provide Evidence of Tree Senescence
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021)
Trees age, like us all —
slowly making fewer seeds
over centuries.
Trees age, like us all —
slowly making fewer seeds
over centuries.
Determinants of Forest Elephant Seed Dispersal Distance
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2021)
forest elephant
seed dispersal distances
increase with boldness
forest elephant
seed dispersal distances
increase with boldness
Seed Production Driven by Indirect Climate Effects
Nature Communications (2021)
tree seeds now number
fewer in West, more in East.
climate / size effects.
Biodiversity Recovery in Neotropical Dung Beetle Communities
Insect Conservation and Diversity (2021)
after disturbance,
dung beetles can recover
if humans let them.
after disturbance,
dung beetles can recover
if humans let them.
The Importance of Large Trees for Carbon Estimation
Global Ecology and Biogeography (2020)
Gabon's forests hold
twice the global average of
above-ground carbon.
Gabon's forests hold
twice the global average of
above-ground carbon.
A Method for Integrating Heterogeneous Animal Community Data
Ecosphere (2019)
better censuses
when dung, sight, and camera traps
are used togeather.
better censuses
when dung, sight, and camera traps
are used togeather.
Online Tools
The Future of America's Ecological Communities
Field Perspectives: Stories About Identity, Fieldwork, and Inclusion
Censusing America's Consumers
The Future of America's Forest Carbon
Ongoing Grants, Projects, and Collaborations
Dispersal Dynamics and Masting Events
- Joining seed rain data from the Eastern US and Google Earth Engine environmental covariates to describe ecological causes and consequences of masting events. (NASA)
- Integrating animal behavior, evolutionary ecology, and life history theory to understand how pulsed resources mediate the spatio-temporal structure of consumer populations. (NSF)
- Comparing ecological and climatological predictors of mast seeding in different biomes. (NSF)
Collective Behavior and Conservation
- Assessing the social and ecological determinants of collective behavior, movement, and dispersal in Baboons (Max Planck Institute, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, Uni Konstanz)
- Assessing social, ecological, and economic drivers of bushmeat market species composition in Gabon. (US Fish and Wildlife/Parcs Gabon)
- Modelling forest elephant seed dispersal and evaluating the consequences of differential dispersal by animal sex, site and homerange. (Duke Bass Connections)
Community Composition and Global Change
- Creating an open-source workflow providing predicted species distributions for plants, small mammals, and beetles at all sites in the National Ecological Observatory Network. (NASA)
- Modelling tropical tree community composition using climate records, remote sensing, and future climate predictions. (NSF GRF)
- Comparing community resilience to climate change in ecologically analogous, but evolutionarily distinct communities in Europe and North America. (NSF)
