Welcome to my webpage. My research focuses on understanding the processes that shape and maintain biodiversity at the landscape scale, where different ecological and evolutionary forces interact. I am particularly interested in working at the interface between different organizational levels (e.g. genes, life-history traits, communities) and characterize their dynamics, and potential connections, at various temporal and spatial scales. Hence, I am wearing multiple hats as I could describe myself as either a population geneticist, an evolutionary ecologist or a community ecologist, but I believe useful insights can be gained by referring to both ecological and evolutionary forces, especially when it comes to understand the dynamics of species exhibiting very short life cycles (e.g. freshwater invertebrates). My work is a mix of statistical modeling, experimental approaches and long-term surveys applied to tropical freshwater ecosystems (Guadeloupe, West Indies), coral reefs (French Polynesia) and kelp forests (Santa Barbara Channel). Visit my research page to learn more about my research and these ecosystems.
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I am currently a postdoctoral researcher for the Santa Barbara Channel Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (SBC MBON) where my research focuses on giant kelp forests in the Santa Barbara Channel off southern California, which are highly productive ecosystems supporting diverse communities of species. My research seeks to understand the complex and multiscale nature of the processes underlying the dynamics of these communities.
Keywords: population genetics, metapopulation, metacommunity, community assembly, biodiversity, scale dependence, multi-scale patterns, spatial ecology.
Contact: [email protected]
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Marine Science Institute (UCSB)
Bldg 520 Rm 3407 Fl 3L, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Marine Science Institute (UCSB)
Bldg 520 Rm 3407 Fl 3L, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150