Landscape Ecology, Global Change, Biogeochemistry & Sustainable Ecosystem Management
My research investigates the ecology of
anthropogenic landscapes
and their changes at local to global scales. Current work in my
lab has three main foci:
the global ecology and history of human landscapes (anthropogenic
biomes), tools for global synthesis of local knowledge of
landscape change (GLOBE), and
inexpensive
tools for measuring and managing ecological
change across anthropogenic landscapes (Ecosynth,
Anthropogenic Ecotope Mapping). All of these come
together in my main goal: informing sustainable stewardship of
the biosphere in the
Anthropocene.
My earlier work investigated ecological changes in ancient
village landscapes across China in the transition from
traditional to industrially-based agricultural systems.
My teaching includes
Environmental Science & Conservation (120), Landscape Ecology (305), Applied
Landscape Ecology (405/605), Biogeochemical Cycles in the Global Environment
(412/612) and Field Methods in Geography: Environmental
Mapping (485/685).
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Keywords: landscape ecology,
biogeochemistry, ecosystem management, resource management, sustainable
agriculture, traditional agriculture, agroecosystems, agroecology, village-scale
ecosystems, anthropogenic ecosystems, anthropogenic landscapes, human dominated
landscapes, ecological history, agricultural history, ecotope, human ecology,
China, observational uncertainty analysis, data quality, integration, ecological
synthesis.
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