A5071702482- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Research Data Management Practices
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
University of Montana
2024-2025
Rice University
2020-2024
Google (United States)
2021
University of Otago
2021
Food webs influence ecosystem diversity and functioning. Contemporary defaunation has reduced food web complexity, but simplification caused by past is difficult to reconstruct given the sparse paleorecord of predator-prey interactions. We identified changes terrestrial mammal globally over ~130,000 years using extinct extant traits, geographic ranges, observed interactions, deep learning models. underwent steep regional declines in complexity through loss links after arrival expansion human...
A variety of factors can affect the biodiversity tropical mammal communities, but their relative importance and directionality remain uncertain. Previous global investigations functional diversity have relied on range maps instead observational data to determine community composition. We test effects species pools, habitat heterogeneity, primary productivity human disturbance (dispersion richness) communities using largest standardized forest camera trap monitoring system, Tropical Ecology...
Many animal-environment interactions are mediated by the physical forms of environment, especially in tropical forests, where habitats structurally complex and highly diverse. Higher structural complexity, measured as habitat surface area, may provide increased resource availability for animals, leading to higher animal diversity. Greater area supports diversity other systems, such coral reefs forest canopies, but it is uncertain how this relationship translates communities mobile,...
The spatial aggregation of species pairs often increases with the ecological similarity involved. However, way in which environmental conditions and anthropogenic activity affect relationship between remains unknown despite potential for associations to interactions, ecosystem function, extinction risk. Given that human disturbance has been shown both increase decrease among pairs, may have a role mediating these patterns. Here, we test influences habitat diversity, primary productivity,...
Tropical forests hold most of Earth’s biodiversity and a higher concentration threatened mammals than other biomes. As result, some mammal species persist almost exclusively in protected areas, often within extensively transformed heavily populated landscapes. Other depend on remaining remote forested areas with sparse human populations. However, it remains unclear how mammalian communities tropical respond to anthropogenic pressures the broader landscape which they are embedded. governments...
Abstract Globally, tropical rain forests comprise some of the most diverse and functionally rich ecosystems but are increasingly degraded by human impacts. Protected areas have been shown to conserve species diversity, their effectiveness at maintaining functional diversity over time is less well known, despite fact that likely reveals more ecological information than taxonomic diversity. By extension, degree which loss decreases within protected also unknown; redundancy may buffer...
Abstract Most ecological studies of vegetation structure have relied on manual field measurements that are labour‐intensive and time‐consuming. Many current alternatives to classical expensive or difficult transport settings. Here we evaluated a new method for measuring understorey with novel mixed‐reality, remote sensing device, the Microsoft HoloLens. We developed application called VegSense allows HoloLens user control device's environmental scanners measure vegetation. Using VegSense,...
Abstract Aim Tropical regions harbour over half of the world's mammals and birds, but how their communities have assembled evolutionary timescales remains unclear. To compare eco‐evolutionary assembly processes between tropical we tested hypotheses concerning niche conservatism, environmental stability, heterogeneity time‐for‐speciation relate to vertebrate community phylogenetic functional structure. Location rainforests worldwide. Time period Present. Major taxa studied Ground‐dwelling...
Abstract Understanding variation in food web structure over large spatial scales is an emerging research agenda ecology. The density of predator–prey links a (i.e., connectance) key measure network complexity that describes the mean proportional dietary breadth species within web. Connectance critical component robustness to loss: webs with lower connectance have been shown be more susceptible secondary extinctions. Identifying geographic and its drivers may provide insight into community...
The impact of stroke is lifelong; affecting independence and quality life. Stroke survivors need support to manage their recovery. Bridges self-management approach (Bridges) empowers facilitates within usual rehabilitation. We implemented into a New Zealand service, aiming identify context-specific delivery factors long-term sustainability strategies. Using case study design, data were collected from multiple sources, including meeting training notes, researcher observations, workshop...