Temporal metacommunity dynamics

我的研究项目研究水生和陆生环境中生物群落的结构和动态。我的研究是围绕着元生态动态的概念，探讨当地社区之间的传播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强大的框架来解释我们在周围社区中发现的分类组成的时空结构差异。此外，它将提供一个预测框架，研究与保护和气候变化有关的应用问题，因为它侧重于可以量化的机制。我使用观察，实验，建模和综合技术的组合来实现从解释到预测的过渡。

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.