Professor & Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Dept. of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
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Center for Latin American Studies
University of Florida
I use field experiments, long-term demographic studies, mathematical models, and computational approaches to study (1) how the demography and population dynamics of tropical plants are influenced by human activities such as deforestation and climate change, and (2) factors influencing geographic disparities in the production and spread of knowledge, with an emphasis on scholarship from Latin America.
I have previously served as President of the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biotropica, and I am currently the Secretary of the Ecological Society of America.
- Tropical ecology and conservation
- Plant population ecology
- Plant-animal interactions
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Amazonia & The Cerrado
- Scientometrics, Science of Science
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Ph.D. in Population Biology, 2001
University of California, Davis
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M.S. in Biology, 1995
University of California, San Diego
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B.S. in Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution with a Minor in Literature, 1994
Revelle College, University of California, San Diego