Community Ecology & Biodiversity

I am an ecologist with broad interests, but focusing on elucidating the ecological and evolutionary forces that generate and maintain biodiversity. I received my PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee in 2010, where I worked on the community ecology of ants with Nate Sanders. I then went on to work as a postdoctoral fellow with Carsten Rahbek at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, based at the University of Copenhagen. I am now a postdoctoral fellow at the Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science, based at McGill University, where my work focuses on assembly dynamics of tree communities. I conduct much of my current work at the Centre de la Nature du Mont Saint-Hilaire and in close collaboration with Mark Vellend and Jonathan Davies.