
About
I am an ecologist, and my research aims to advance our fundamental understanding of the drivers of biodiversity change and the consequences of these changes for human well-being. My research advances a solution to this research challenge by studying the processes that unite all of life on Earth – the metabolic processes by which living systems uptake, store and convert energy, matter and information from their environments to grow and persist. I combine theory, experiments and synthesis to study how living systems change as the environment changes, and what these changes mean for human well-being.
News
June 2021: New paper on nutritional diversity, and the evolutionary ecology of fatty acid variation, out now in Ecology Letters! A collaboration with Lily Twining, Blake Matthews and others.
April 2021: New paper out in PNAS! “Aquatic biodiversity enhances multiple nutritional benefits to humans”, work with Mary O’Connor.
March 2021: New paper out”Whole-organism responses to constant temperatures do not predict responses to variable temperatures in the ecosystem engineer Mytilus trossulus” with Katie Marshall and members of the Harley lab at UBC
