Post-Doctoral Research Associate
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
735 State Street
Suite 300
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
USA
email
I am a plant ecologist, and study the spatial, temporal and phylogenetic relationships between individuals and species.
News
1 June 1020
CNN report on Yasuni
26 April 2010
A special issue of Tropical Conservation Science will synthesis data on the Myristicaceae
7-9 April 2010
BESTEG Early Career Researcher Meeting - fabulous meeting with 45+ delegates, Anne Chao, Owen Lewis & Francis Gilbert
12 Feb 2010
REGISTRATION OPEN FOR BESTEG MEETING 7-9 APRIL 2010
27 Jan 10
I moved to NCEAS, Santa Barbara
22 Jan 10
A paper on the global biodiversity significance of Yasuni, and associated NY Times article
15 Sept 09
I am the new Secretary of the BES Tropical Ecology Group! Thanks to Will Gosling for all his hard work
Note new website address: http:www.britishecologicalsociety.org/tropical
A very successful BES meeting, with a good session in functional traits
My papers on Taxonomic scale of niche partitioning published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B; and breeding systems and altitudinal transects accepted in Journal of Biogeography
23 April 09
A new film about oil exploration in the Amazon: http://www.crudethemovie.com/
23 Jan 09
'Life History and Functional Trait Variation in Tropical Systems' Thematic Topic at the BES Annual Meeting 8-10th Sept 09. Keynote: Ian Wright (Macquarie University)... [more]
9 Jan 09
Breeding systems and seed mass paper accepted in Journal of Ecology!
7 Jan 09
Socio-economics and ecology modelling review accepted by Journal of Applied Ecology
26 Oct 08
Early Career Researcher Tropical Ecology meeting, Manchester University 30-31st March 2009
15 Oct 08
An article on the oil exploration of my field site in Ecuador; Yasuni National Park.
US electoral projections done in a proper statistical fashion!