A5011146804- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Research Data Management Practices
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant and animal studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Forest Management and Policy
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Study of Mite Species
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Marine and fisheries research
Yale University
2024-2025
Université de Montréal
2025
University of Alberta
2020-2024
University of Toronto
2019-2020
Emerging infectious diseases, biodiversity loss, and anthropogenic environmental change are interconnected crises with massive social ecological costs. In this Review, we discuss how pathogens parasites responding to global change, the implications for pandemic prevention conservation. Ecological evolutionary principles help explain why both pandemics wildlife die-offs becoming more common; land-use loss often followed by an increase in zoonotic vector-borne diseases; some species, such as...
Abstract Ecological forecasting provides a powerful set of methods for predicting short‐ and long‐term change in living systems. Forecasts are now widely produced, enabling proactive management many applied ecological problems. However, despite numerous calls an increased emphasis on prediction ecology, the potential to accelerate theory development remains underrealized. Here, we provide conceptual framework describing how forecasts can energize advance theory. We emphasize opportunities...
Abstract Researchers in ecology and evolutionary biology are increasingly dependent on computational code to conduct research. Hence, the use of efficient methods share, reproduce, collaborate as well document research is fundamental. GitHub an online, cloud‐based service that can help researchers track, organize, discuss, software other materials related production, including data, for analyses, protocols. Despite these benefits, evolution not widespread. To adopt useful features from...
Abstract Trait-based frameworks are increasingly used for predicting how ecological communities respond to ongoing global change. As species range shifts result in novel encounters between predators and prey, identifying prey ‘guilds’, based on a suite of shared traits, can distill complex interactions, aid food web dynamics. To support advances trait-based research open-ocean systems, we present the Pelagic Species Trait Database, an extensive resource documenting functional traits 529...
Anthropogenic debris, namely plastic, is a concern across aquatic ecosystems worldwide, with freshwater systems being understudied relative to marine systems. In this study, we quantified and characterized debris in the diet of double-crested cormorant chicks (Phalacrocorax auritus) from three sites two Laurentian Great Lakes (i) determine whether or not cormorants includes anthropogenic (ii) characterize size, shape, type incorporated, (iii) examine relationships between amount ingested...
Abstract The rate of human‐induced environmental change continues to accelerate, stimulating the need for rapid and science‐based decision making. recent availability cyberinfrastructure, open‐source data novel techniques has increased opportunities use ecological forecasts predict change. But effectively inform making, should not only be reliable, but also designed address needs makers with their assumptions, uncertainties, results clearly communicated. To help researchers better integrate...
Abstract Predation from the invasive Indo‐Pacific lionfish is likely to amplify declines in marine fishes observed multiple ocean basins. As invasion intensifies and expands, there an urgent need identify species that are most at risk for extirpation—and possible extinction—from this added threat. To address gap inform conservation plans, we develop apply a quantitative framework classifying relative vulnerability of based on morphological behavioural traits known influence susceptibility...
1.Researchers in ecology and evolutionary biology are increasingly dependent on computational code to conduct research. Hence, the use of efficient methods share, reproduce, collaborate as well document research is fundamental. GitHub an online, cloud-based service that can help researchers track, organize, discuss, software other materials related production, including data, for analyses, protocols. Despite these benefits, evolution not widespread. 2.To adopt useful features from improve...
Fraser River Pacific salmon have declined in recent decades, possibly from parasitism by sea lice (Caligus clemensi and Lepeophtheirus salmonis). We describe the abundance of both louse species infesting co-migrating juvenile pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), chum keta), sockeye nerka) over 5 years Discovery Islands Johnstone Strait, British Columbia. The generalist louse, C. clemensi, was 5, 7, 39 times more abundant than salmonid specialist, L. salmonis, on pink, chum, salmon, respectively....
Coral reefs are threatened by interacting local (fishing, coastal development) and global (climate change) stressors that degrade coral-cover. Restoration is gaining prominence as a management strategy, however it unclear whether restoration alone can ensure self-sustaining high coral-cover under stressors. We assess how much needed for reef using mathematical model real-world case studies. find with low macroalgal-cover coral recruitment requires but nutrient enrichment fishing increase,...
As global change forces species’ ranges and abundances into novel configurations, traits-based approaches could allow predictions of community re-assembly. We present a quantitative review research globally to (1) evaluate the extent which this approach has been applied, (2) moving from description prediction. highlight application frameworks describe ecological patterns; terrestrial plant morphology comprises >30% literature alone. But fewer than 3% studies predict effects change, mostly in...