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Climate change is now a real ecological threat. Understanding community and ecosystem process level responses to changes in climate are crucial to protecting biodiversity and productivity of landscapes. Using a combination of approaches ranging from molecular ecology to nutrient dynamics I study the effects of changes in climate on ecosystems.
Research themes:
Interacting effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on biodiversity
Working with Dr. Paul Sunnucks, we are exploring the ways in which climate change may affect the movement of organisms under scenarios of habitat fragmentation. This work uses micro landscapes and applies molecular techniques in combination with classical ecological approaches to study community assembly in microarthropods.
Projects:
- PhD Giselle Perdomo (with Paul Sunnucks) ‘Climate change and habitat fragmentation effects on a moss-microarthropod ecosystem)
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