Explore some of my research as I continue my PhD in the Yang Lab at UC Davis!

EPHEMERAL RESOURCE PATCHES

I am interested in organisms that rely on resource patches that are rare in space and time. These ephemeral resource patches often act as ecological epicenters, or what Charles Elton referred to as “centers of action,” where species interactions, niche partitioning, and behavioral/morphological adaptations are intensified. Particularly, I am using carrion beetles to study the effects of ephemeral resource patches on reproductive output and population characteristics.

PREVIOUS PROJECTS:

The synchrony of flowering phenology within clusters depends on the spatial scale at which clusters are defined
See this blog post and link to a downloadable pdf of my poster that I presented at the Ecological Society of America Meeting in 2018.

The effects of temperature and greenup on the timing of arthropod abundance and avian migration
See and download our methods paper about Caterpillars Count!
See and download my undergraduate honors thesis.

Temperature and body mass affects the locomotor performance of Radix balthica in a geothermal stream system in Iceland
See our related paper out in Journal of Animal Ecology!