Landscape Ecology, Global Change, Biogeochemistry & Sustainable Ecosystem Management
My research investigates the ecology of
anthropogenic landscapes
and their changes at local and global scales. My early work
studied nitrogen cycling and sustainable agroecosystem
management in China's ancient village ecosystems, and later
measured long-term changes in carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus
storage and flux across China's village landscapes caused by the
transition from traditional to industrially-based agricultural
systems. At present, my research has three main foci:
understanding the global ecology of anthropogenic landscapes (anthropogenic
biomes), the development of global synthesis tools that link
human and ecological change processes at landscape scales with
their global causes and consequences (GLOBE), and developing inexpensive
tools for measuring and managing ecological pattern, process and
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 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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