Here are links to the webpages of the wonderful people I am working or have worked with.
Miguel Araújo – my current post-doctoral mentor. If you’ve ever read a paper on species range shifts under climate change, historical species distributions, or nature reserves in a changing world, there’s a good chance he’s on it.
NCEAS - I’m part of a working group at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in California. The centre exists to bring together diverse researchers to look at an old or emerging question in a new way. Our group is addressing the effects of climate change on invasive species.
Dov Sax – my former post-doctoral mentor. Dov looks to explain the patterns of species distribution around the world and how climate contributes to these patterns. I think his most exciting work is using information on invasive species to question fundamental principles of ecology.
Managed Relocation Working Group – managed relocation is the controversial action of taking populations of species that are threatened by climate change and moving them to new locations. In 2008/2009 about 40 scientists, conservationists, ethicists, lawyers, social scientists, economists and policy makers gathered to evaluate the need for managed relocation, weigh the risks against the benefits, and develop a framework for enacting it where appropriate.
Oscar Godoy – studies the effects of phenology on how well-suited plants are to their environment and whether introduced plants can invade native communities.
Amity Wilczek – does research on how plants use information from their environment to optimize their performance. We have worked together to conceptualize how phenology should be incorporated into models of species distributions.
Annie Schmitt – figures out the genetic mechanisms that underlie how plants adapt to variation in climate throughout the year and throughout the plant’s range.
Chris Thomas – my PhD supervisor. Studies the calamitous effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on biological systems, but never fails to come up with a useful conservation solution to our problems.
Atte Moilanen – writes very clever computer algorithms to decide the best places to put nature reserves. I was involved in the development of his software ‘Zonation’, which designs reserve networks that maximize the survival of many species at once.
Robert Wilson – designs innovative field experiments to tease apart the effects of climate, biotic interactions and intrinsic population traits on species’ range margins.
Owen Lewis – studies how habitat fragmentation and climate change damages biological communities. We worked together (and with Robert Wilson) on a project to look at whether the Black-veined White butterfly will be able to live higher up mountains in Spain. It seems unlikely that they will, which is concerning because lower down the mountains the butterflies are disappearing due to parasitism and predators.
