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The major goal of my research is to determine the demographic and life history consequences of trait-mediated variation in species interactions. In particular, I emphasize the scale-dependence of species interactions and other biological processes in my work, leveraging empirical and theoretical approaches to address how processes occurring at different scales combine to shape population-level outcomes.

CURRENT PROJECTS

  • Using integral projection models to assess how local density dependence affects the eco-evolutionary dynamics of patchy populations

  • Modeling non-consumptive effects of predators on Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) populations

  • Quantifying the pattern and drivers of hierarchical variation in autumn phenology

  • Investigating how spatial variation in host flowering phenology affects oviposition and larval survival of an imperiled butterfly (Callophrys irus) in North Florida

  • Testing key assumptions of plant-herbivore theory, including quantifying the distribution of constitutive and plastic resistance to herbivory across individual plants in the field

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