Professor and Principal Investigator

Dr. Amanda Bates

The global redistribution of species is leading to large-scale community change. Gaining a process-based understanding for what factors create species and community resilience under environmental variability is an important research objective for our time.

My research aims to address this theme by linking physiological thresholds of organisms to the environment they experience to quantify changes in species distributions, the outcome of species interactions, and community patterns. My approach is to link spatial and temporal trends in abiotic variables at biologically relevant scales using standardized experimental protocols, complementary laboratory and field approaches, meta-analytic approaches, and modern statistical tools.

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Dr. Joan Alfaro-Lucas

Joan is a biologist interested in the patterns of multiple facets of biodiversity and their drivers, and how human activities may change them. This includes not only species but functional diversity and their change along space and time.