Plant community ecology, ecophysiology and phylogenetics

I am interested in understanding the ecological and evolutionary forces that structure communities, particularly the highly diverse forests of lowland Amazonia. In my research I use a variety of approaches derrived from community ecology, ecophysiology, and community phylogenetics.

News

I am a Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada

Recent updates

    Our research in Yasuni, Ecuador was described in a Science magazine essay on the origins of ecological structure
  • I've just made the move to UBC from UC Berkeley as of Oct 1! Come visit!
  • I filed my diseration in December and started a 9-month postdoc working on Climate Change and the California flora with David Ackerly
  • My paper "Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest" with Renato Valencia and David Ackerly has been published in the Oct 24th issue of Science online abstract
  • Our 2007 paper in AmNat was awarded the 2008 President's Award by the American Society of Naturalists