Research Projects

Please see below a thematic list of past and current research. Some have multiple manuscripts associated with them, while others may still be in prep.

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Fisheries Research

Fished ecosystems as networks

Foodweb based analysis of fisheries' bio-economics.




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Organismal phenology in plant-pollinator networks

Testing pollinator networks with empirical data

Integrating time into dynamic plant-pollinator network.




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Labeled small scale network motifs in larger network

Testing how local dynamics scale with network connectivity

Assembling real world networks to understand diffuse influences on local dynamics.




nestScatter

Effects of urban development on pollinators

Spatial analysis of effects of urban development

Investigating how wild bees inteface with urban development.




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Chemical defenses limiting plant fitness by repelling pollinators.

Integrating chemical and theoretical ecology

How do plants' chemical defenses affect plant fitness and broader community dynamics?




syrphidLifeCycle

Diagram showing unique ecological interactions between different ontogenetic stages in syrphid flies.

Integrating organismal ontogeny into broader ecological theory

Investigating the effects of ontgeny on dynamics and developing methods to study this complexity.




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Transgenes are taken from bacteria and integrated into different crop lines. Pic from pmfias.com.

Transgenic Research

Studying the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of introduced transgenic organisms.