Temporal metacommunity dynamics

我的研究项目考察了水生和陆地环境下生物群落的结构和动态。我的研究是围绕元群落动力学的概念组织的，它探讨了当地社区之间的分散如何影响当地的非生物和生物环境过程。我相信，有了这个非常普遍的概念，生态学家将能够提供一个非常有力的框架，来解释我们在周围的群落中发现的分类学组成的时空结构差异。此外，它将为研究与保护和气候变化有关的应用问题提供一个预测框架，因为它侧重于可以量化的机制。我综合运用观察、实验、建模和综合技术，从解释过渡到预测。

My research program examines the structure and dynamics of biological communities in both aquatic and terrestrial contexts. My research is organized around the concept of metacommunity dynamics which explores how dispersal between local communities influences local abiotic and biotic environmental processes. I believe that with this very general concept, ecologists will be able to provide a very powerful framework to explain the differences in spatial and temporal structure in taxonomic composition we detect in communities around us. Moreover it will provide a predictive framework to study applied problems related to conservation and climate change since it focuses on mechanisms that can be quantified. I use a combination of observational, experimental, modelling, and synthesizing techniques to make this transition from explanation to prediction.