University of Tennessee Knoxville

Post-Doc, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis

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I am a plant population ecologist. I am interested in basic ecological questions with implications for conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

My research focuses on how plant-human interactions respond to environmental stochasticity. I am particularly interested in two components:

1) the ecological and evolutionary consequences of human activities (e.g., harvest, fire, fragmentation), especially the effects of harvesting culturally and economically important plants by indigenous people; and

2) how responses of plant populations to harvest affect future harvesting decision-making and practices.

My work is interdisciplinary and combines stochastic demographic models, field studies, and ethnographic methods. For the past years, I have been working on integrating recent conceptual advances in matrix and integral projection modeling (age-from-stage models, Markov chain, transient dynamics in stochastic environments, stochastic LTRE) to the field of non-timber forest products (NTFP) harvest impact assessment.

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