A5046322842- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Plant and animal studies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
University of California, Davis
2020-2025
Scripps College
2018-2019
Abstract Contributory science—including citizen and community science—allows scientists to leverage participant‐generated data while providing an opportunity for engaging with local members. Data yielded by biodiversity platforms allow professional answer ecological evolutionary questions across both geographic temporal scales, which is incredibly valuable conservation efforts. The reported contributory platforms, such as eBird iNaturalist, can be driven social variables, leading biased...
The metacommunity framework has rapidly become a dominant concept used by ecologists to understand community assembly. By emphasizing extinction-colonization dynamics, dispersal, and species' niche requirements in determining structure, theory unifies local regional processes as integral species distributions across landscapes. Metacommunity structure traditionally been treated static. However, habitat characteristics composition can shift through time because of factors like seasonal...
Abstract In the past decade, studies have demonstrated that urban and nonurban wildlife populations exhibit differences in foraging behavior diet. However, little is known about how environmental heterogeneity shapes dietary variation of organisms within cities. We examined vertebrate prey components diets coyotes ( Canis latrans ) San Francisco to quantify territory‐ individual‐level determine within‐city land cover use affects coyote genotyped fecal samples for individual identification...
Abstract Global change is increasing the frequency and severity of human‐wildlife interactions by pushing people wildlife into increasingly resource‐limited shared spaces. To understand dynamics what may constitute coexistence in Anthropocene, there a critical need to explore spatial, temporal, sociocultural ecological variables that contribute conflicts urban areas. Due their opportunistic foraging behavioural flexibility, coyotes ( Canis latrans ) frequently interact with environments. San...
Non-native plant invasions can alter nutrient cycling processes and contribute to global climate change. In southern California, California sage scrub (hereafter scrub), a native shrub-dominated habitat type in lowland areas, has decreased <10% of its original distribution. Postdisturbance type-conversion non-native annual grassland, increasingly mustard-dominated invasive forbland, is key contributor loss. To better understand how by common annuals impacts carbon (C) nitrogen (N) storage...