I am a biogeographer whose research interests focus on both natural disturbances and anthropogenic impacts on forest and woodland plant communities. These disturbances include natural phenomena such as fire, insect outbreaks, windthrow, and treefalls as well as human-induced disturbance such as climate change, exotic species introductions, habitat fragmentation, and alteration of natural disturbance regimes (e.g. fire suppression). Techniques include plant carbon assimilation measurements, tree-ring analysis (dendroecology), forest stand analysis, and multivariate statistics.
