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- Email Address
- [email protected]
- Research Areas
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- Research Description
I started out as an freshwater ecologist focusing on the interaction between local environmental processes and regional dispersal processes. I developed a strong interest in the applications of statistical (multivariate) analyses and R which led me to focus on analysing existing data sets and meta-analyses. This "forced" me to collaborate on a wide variety of systems, from bacteria to mammals.
- Research Summary
In the next 5 years, I will shift my research strategy by consolidating 4 streams of my past research: temporal dynamics, host-symbiont interactions, small mammal metacommunity dynamics, and DNA-based species identification and bioinformatics. I will focus on a study system that combines my past strengths in metacommunity ecology at multiple scales, but will apply them to a novel system: microbial metacommunities nested within a matrix of metacommunity of different host species.
- Techniques Used
Multivariate analysis, meta-analysis, molecular identification, computational ecology.
- Lab Equipment
Stereomicroscope, microscope.
- Locations of international collaborators
Texas (USA)
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